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  1. Re:Size? on Visual Depiction of Who Is Suing Who in Mobile · · Score: 1

    Ditto. Mark me redundant, but thanks all the same for the work.

  2. Re:What's with the humongous bezels? on RIM Announces BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet · · Score: 1

    Could the software ignore _gestures_ near the edges of a small-bezeled device? Just a thought. I'm sure it would be more difficult than just making the bezel bigger. but if you are always having to move your fingers out of the way, you may crave a bigger bezel.

  3. Re:hmm... 7 inches on RIM Announces BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet · · Score: 2, Funny

    7 inches should be enough for anybody.

  4. Dusty Rhoads on Why Warriors, Not Geeks, Run US Cyber Command Posts · · Score: 1

    --voice of Stewie-- You are going to name the Rhoads Baby Dusty? I say! Why in the Devil would you do that? Oh, I get it: Dusty refers to Rhoads (or should I say Roads [but when I say it, it is the same word! Marvellous!]). That is so clever! It makes one think of an unpaved lane in the summertime. D-u-s-t-y...Why, yes, I quite like it. You have two incompatible thoughts that when put together form an entirely new and different idea. D-u-s-t-y.... --end Stewie--

  5. Re:Important limitations in the Model... on Peer Review Highly Sensitive To Poor Refereeing · · Score: 1

    ...'mythantropes'...

    Google has three hits for this word, and one of the hits is the parent posting.

  6. Dude, you need a lawyer on Defending Self In a Case of On-Line Identity Theft? · · Score: 1

    Thread closed.

  7. Re:It's true, he considered Africans to be sub-hum on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you are trying to say. I guess you are positing poverty and religion as evidence of the inverse of intelligence? Now I don't know what I'm saying.

  8. It's like having a second (oh, what's the word?) on Foursquare-Style Checking In For Couch Potatoes · · Score: 1

    ...existence. Call it Second Existence. Maybe there is something more more catchy you could call it.

  9. Re:What momentum may that fork have? on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 1

    FreeBSD appears to be in decline as a project.

    Has Netcraft confirmed it?

  10. Re:This is real science. on Rare Sharing of Data Led To Results In Alzheimer's Research · · Score: 1

    After reading David Goodstein's take on the Millikan affair, I find it hard to consider him a scientific forger: pdf of his American Scientist essay Perhaps you will explain what Millikan should have done differently.

  11. Mac Mini on Creative Uses For Extra Drive Bays? · · Score: 1

    Should fit, right?

  12. How many SUV trunks per LoC? on New Spacecraft Set For Dangerous Jupiter Trip · · Score: 1

    And isn't an SUV _trunk_ about 1 m x 1 m x 1 m, anyway?

  13. Re:Obviously a fraud on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They just took the number 3.14159 and added a load of random digits to the end - let's face it, nobody's going to check!

    Reminds me of the MAX light rail station in the zoo tunnel in Portland, Oregon. Apparently there is the first 100 (1000?) digits of pi chiseled into one of the walls. A writer noticed that the first digits were correct, but quickly went astray. But later in the sequence, there was a recognizable early string of digits. The writer sleuthed that the sculptor had used the Book of Pi, which has the numbers in blocks of ten digits in five (or so) columns. In the book, you read the first row and then the next row.* The sculptor had read the first column, then the next column...

    * or the other way around

  14. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Here is a typical such article from Newsweek in 1995:

    And today that publication was sold for $1.00.

  15. We only have 171 years... on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 1

    ...will Perl 6 be ready?

  16. We only have 171 years... on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 1

    ...to put a high-def camera and an 802.11o wifi transmitter on the asteroid.

  17. Re:But you can't trust wikileaks either on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Presumably a government tells the really good secrets to the smallest number of people necessary. If they don't want to see the secret on the front page of the {{whatever newspapers and tv become}}, they won't spread it around.

    I wouldn't question the political motives of the person who prints the secrets as much as question the agencies that hire the people to keep the secrets.

    I would expect that the number of people with access to good secrets AND are leakers is much smaller than the number of people with access to not-so-secret secrets AND are leakers. In both cases, the political motives of the publisher should be presumed to be the opposite of the motives of the secret-keepers.

  18. Re:some amount of secrecy is warranted on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    There are double crosses, triple crosses, and probably triangular crosses. What if the Taliban were easier to penetrate via Pakistanis than via Afghans.

    In that case, because of publicizing the leak, there may be a purge that kills some people who trusted U.S.

    I'm not saying that applies in this case. I would like to think that information of such nature would be in the hands of a few people and that those people would not leak such information.

  19. Re:Slashdot Had the Option to Interview Him in Mar on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    If someone were to upload some Taliban documents, and he could read them, maybe he would post them. My question, is, if your sources are anonymous, would it be easy for someone to use you as a propaganda conduit? Probably covered in some of the 300+ posts, but I still had to ask.

  20. Re:Two Separate Problems on Sonic Skydive's Real Aim Is To Help Astronauts Survive · · Score: 1

    The squirrel-suit altitude record is 30,000 feet. I wonder if a squirrel-suit could be designed to work for the other 90,000 feet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJzTwgsz4s

  21. Worst summary ever? on Two ESA Craft To Observe Asteroid 21 Lutetia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From the summary I cannot determine the name of the asteroid or the two spaceships. I can guess, but then why would I need a summary?

  22. Re:escalators too on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 1

    Just the opposite of how a Right Hand Drive country's roads work.

  23. Re:Not statistically significant on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 1

    Excuse justinlee37, he's getting old and forgets.

  24. Re:Not statistically significant on Reading E-Books Takes Longer Than Reading Paper Books · · Score: 1

    Now get off my lawn!

  25. Re:Find project you like or use on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 1

    I don't think that is the answer the OP is looking for. What he wants is for someone to mention the site somewhere that has classifieds where open source project maintainers post 'job' listings that was mentioned on slashdot not so long ago.