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  1. Re:Haven't you ever seen a painting? on Color Photography with B&W Film · · Score: 2

    Well, a lot of great artists were insane, so were painting in color way back when. No no, it wasn't that the artists were insane. They painted in black and white, but the paintings turned color along with the rest of the world.

  2. Re:think about it on Napster Judge Groks Filename Variation · · Score: 1

    The fingerprint gets transmitted to the server. If it matches the ban list, the client doesn't let you transmit it. So someone patches the client to send a bogus fingerprint.

  3. ill gotten gains on Napster Judge Groks Filename Variation · · Score: 1

    So what is the difference between your two scenarios? The rioters didn't have the right to take the cash, but what stops them from giving you $20?

  4. CTS test accuracy on Burlington Northern to Stop Gene Tests for CTS · · Score: 1

    70%-80% accuracy is misleading. While it may be true that 80% of the tests administered give a correct result, that doesn't mean that the result means much. For instance, assume 20% of people have the CTS gene. Then .2*.8=.16 of the population will have CTS and test positive, while .8*.2=.16 will not have CTS but will still test positive.

  5. thou shalt not kill? on Yahoo! To Start Selling Porn · · Score: 1

    How are you going to stop your immune system from killing bacteria? And how would you survive if you did?
    I suppose your diet could consist entirely of fruits and the like, so you wouldn't have to kill plants.

  6. Re:Potatoes considered harmful on Can I See Your License for those Plants, Sir? · · Score: 1

    I thought it was only the potato sprouts that were poisonous.

  7. Re:Bring it on on Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild · · Score: 1

    It is perfectly OK and natural for an evil person to shoot me. It's also OK for me to try to stop him, and for me to support a government to the police will help me.

  8. Re:Auto Insurance on Auto-Suicide for Grey Market Electronics? · · Score: 1

    SO you can leave the GPS from you car at home and pay zero insurance?

  9. Re:Excellent Point! 1 G acc== MARS in 32 hours! on Nuclear Fuel For Superfast Interplanetary Travel · · Score: 1

    The problem with going at 1G for a week is special relativity. 30k times the distance to pluto is on the order of 100 light years, so there's no way you could get there in a week. However, this isn't a problem on the trip to mars, as you'll only be going .3% c

  10. Re:This is sad. on All Digital TVs To Include Copy Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Then they'll already have done the work of writing software that recognizes commercials, and I'll just reverse it's function and automatically remove ads from my recordings (that is, if I had a TV)

  11. sparse inhabitance doesn't matter on NASA's Odds For Iridium De-Orbit Casualties · · Score: 1

    As long as people don't overlap, it doesn't matter how uneven the population density is. If a sattelite falls somewhere in china, it's chance of hitting someone is (number of people)*(area of one person)/(area of china), and likewise for anywhere else.

  12. Re:Interesting, but... on Magnetic RAM from IBM · · Score: 1

    Magnetic charge? If turning on your monitor creates magnetic charge, I know a lot of people who would be very happy to meet you. They've been searching for magnetic monopoles for a long time, and haven't found any yet.

  13. Re:Turing was a fool on Turing Machine Implemented in Life · · Score: 1

    If a machine is clever enough to fake intelligence indefinitely and in all situations, doesn't that make it intelligent?

  14. Re:No black holes, but... on It's All About the Pentium (4) · · Score: 1

    When you strip all the electrons out of something, it doesn't turn into a glob of anything. It explodes from internal electric force. (And so does the glob of electrons you stripped from it.)

  15. Re:Look for the Union label on Linux Color Calibration? · · Score: 1

    There's a problem with their RGBS pallete: there's no place that contains squant and blue and nothing else.

  16. Tidal calculation on Fast-Moving Neutron Star From Hubble · · Score: 1

    After a few minutes with a calculator and a physics book, I find that the tide on the surface of your average neutron star is about 50g/m. If you don't insist on sending a manned probe, and you stay in orbit, you could compartmentalize the inside of the ship into 2cm cubes (using dividers made of the same material as the hull) and never face more than 1 g. I'm sure you could break up all your instruments into 2cm shunks, though i'm not so sure about the drives.

  17. Re:the power is not the search engine on A New Tack In Search Engine Formulation · · Score: 1

    I put all my links on my homepage, and bookmark that. Or I can just remember its address.