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  1. Where Else Would This Be A Problem? on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    If I am using Ubuntu Feisty Faun, would the the DMCA even be applied here? Of course there is always the legal question of, "Who is responsible for keeping the Books of a Business?"

  2. This All Fine and Good, But on MIT Startup Unveils New 64-Core CPU · · Score: 1

    When I sit down to play World of Warcraft, what can I expect?

  3. Re:Just wondering? on Student Finds 5000-Year-Old Chewing Gum · · Score: 1

    I can not help but wonder what the Rookie Card that came with the gum would be worth today?

  4. Re:Wiretap law? on Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage · · Score: 1

    This is not good at all. If the staff at Skype does not want this to happen again, I could lend them my CD of Ubuntu Feisty Faun. Ubuntu's patch updates are little more friendly. Or, they could just down load it from the Ubuntu servers; once their system is back up.

  5. Potty Humor on University Taps Sewers for Internet Access · · Score: 1

    I am thinking that when a student wants to transmit a mouse event that the toilet will flush twice implies the user is working with Windows, and once for Linux. I am getting an "Overflow" thought about what the Beday does when the user clicks the Right Mouse Button.

  6. "Global" Warming on James Hansen on the Warmest Year Brouhaha · · Score: 1

    he shows maps of U.S. temperatures relative to the world in 1934 and 1998

    Just a thought, but the first word in "Global Warming" is "Global", would he be so kind as to show us "Global" maps? They do exist, and these temperatures were recorded back much further than 1934.

  7. Well, This is Rather Awkward on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    I can not help but think how quiet it is in the White House now. Evolution is not supposed to exist, but I guess the bacteria in question did not get the presidents memo on that straight forward subject. Maybe the bacteria is lying, and it is part of the "Axis of Evil?"

  8. What Causes "Solar Turbulance"? on NASA Finds Star With a Tail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While looking at the image of this "Wondering Star", I started to think, "Why such a predictable pattern?" It makes sense that the matter is being left behind because the star is hitting something, (dark matter?), and the resulting reaction is the leaving behind of atoms that will eventually be pulled by relatively nearby stars. What is most interesting, is that this trail is not in the visible, but in the UV bandwidth. In the UV band width, are we looking at the speed of atoms being "drained" off? Could it be that the Star is traveling "Up Stream?", or is it in the way of a "Dark Matter" current?

  9. Re:One big problem. on Perfect Crystals Grown by Cancelling Out Gravity on Earth · · Score: 1

    Could the process be used to create Very-Very-Long chains of carbon tubes? Also, by changing the support catalyst, could a Silicon Alloy be used instead of Carbon?

  10. Re:Benefit or detriment? on Why We Need to Expand into Space · · Score: 1

    The question of, "Should We Go Out Into Space?" Has been answered for us by the simplest of experiments. Place a new, plastic bagged, loaf of bread in your refrigerator. After awhile, one will see the fuzzy discolored population explosion take place. What happens next is beyond the control of the life forms in the bag, they have no choice. Personally, I think anyone saying, "do not to go out into space, because of ' />'", should start to think, "Green".

  11. Cool Project! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    Dawn, I wish could have worked on this project. Imagine, "Off Site Hand Held Software Development", while taking the automated transportation to the PHB's lear; Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet.

  12. Re:Canvas Tag? on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    I just about ready to setup a web site that uses it. But there is a major draw back to one of the methods, "drawImage", when it comes to processing the 9 argument method, it is a Time-Sink. I hope the Uber-Gods can find a way to speed it up.

  13. I AM a Traveling Salesman on Optical Solution For an NP-Complete Problem? · · Score: 1

    My work is in the Real Estate Industry. My FIRST tasking of the day is to visit the houses that have come on to the market. Sometimes it is 1 or 2, or it has gone as high as 30 to 40; And about 99% of the time, some place different than before. My current method is to screen scrape MapQuest for directions, and distances. It sure would be nice to use an algorithm that could get the job done; I also think the Web Master at MapQuest would like it to, so that the rest of my kind could use it.

  14. Canvas Tag? on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    Having this tag operational will cause some major enhancements to web surfing.

  15. Interesting Fact About Double Edge Swords on Judge Lets RIAA Subpoena Defendant's Employer · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is time for the masters of the RIAA to be invited to testify, at every hearing, that the RIAA brings to trial? And their major share holders also?

  16. Re:Two stories in one... on Case of the Great Hot-Site Swap · · Score: 1

    The warm fuzzy, feel good, parent article talks of 2 organizations able to share data files, something that has been going on for as long as "Off Site Storage" has been around. I am baffled, what is the point of this article?

  17. Dead or Alive, You're Coming with Me on First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Cool Project. I think the robot could use a speaker system so as communicate to the bad guy to give up. Maybe a thermal sensor, because not all Snipers are so willing to allow themselves to be seen. A night vision camera would be a good addition so as to not bump into things when moving in the dark. Also, could the engineers quiet that thing down? What is the heat signature of the robot? The bad guys have thermal sensors also. The foot prints are great way for the bad guys to collect robots. Finally, a robot goes into a market place and explodes. Al-Quida says to everyone, "the infidels did it."

  18. Movie Concept on Federal Agents Raid Homes for Modchips · · Score: 1

    Mod Chip Makers vs. bin laden, what a movie that would make.

  19. Re:Beowulf! on Supercomputer On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    I was trying to think of the configuration of a $800K Beowulf Cluster, what would the performance comparison be to the IBM Gene?

  20. Re:Wrong. on MIT Engineers World's First Schizophrenic Mice · · Score: 1

    I cannot help but think, "What if the personality cured, was the wrong one?"

  21. With Respect to the "Carbon Foot Print" on Small Electric Car May Usher In Big Changes · · Score: 1

    What Silicon compound could be used instead of Carbon?

  22. Prior Art Was Ignored! on Music From DNA Patented · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bag Pipes are the only instrument that comes to mind that could play the melodies of DNA.

  23. Re:BECAUSE THERE IS NO FREE ALTERNATIVE on School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007 · · Score: 1

    Before Microsoft, it was Apple. Before Apple, it was IBM's Selectric. Before the Selectric, it was the Ball Point Pen.

    To any parent reading this, "My children have used Open Office since Elementary School, and one child is in High School; Taking AP classes. She has had NO, I repeat, NO problems uploading her homework to be read by the Teacher's computer." Her major complaint is that Windows is maddenly slow. If Educators, and Parents are to busy to check into which computer software is cost effective; Ask yourself, "What am I getting for my money's worth?" $500 hundred dollars can buy a lot of things.

  24. Industiral Engineering Problem? on New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    About the water immersion problem, why not make the sheets like newspaper paper? By using giant rollers. As the Nano-paper is "created", roll the paper up above the water. Then move the roll of paper to some type of Anodizing tank and unroll it to coat the paper. I think this may be an excellent Robotics application. I am figuring the chemicals used here would be immediately lethal, but it could clean your carpet nicely.

  25. For Me, There Is Only One Issue on Wikipedia Infiltrated by Intelligence Agents? · · Score: 1

    Did she knowingly lie, or bend a fact? She could be Bin Laden's cloned brother, but did she lie to us all?