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  1. Re:Electricity travels slower than the speed of li on IBM Develops Transistor Capable of 210GHz · · Score: 1
    If these things could handle faster than electricity could possibly travel, that's a great reason to switch to light.

    A fiber-optic bus would be l33t.

    I don't think if it would actually work, since electricity would power the light . . . but I am no physicist.

  2. Maybe There's No Reason on Compaq Transfers Alpha to Intel · · Score: 2
    If you ROT-13 the word "intel" you get "vagry" . . . .

    From dictionary.com:

    vagary n : a sudden desire; "he bought it on impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim]

  3. Warp Zone on Google Plans an IPO · · Score: 1
    This will be a very good thing as long as Google doesn't:

    a) become a portal
    b) shove ads everywhere (I left metacrawler as soon as they started having popup windows)

  4. Re:What was wrong with arcade FPS on Midway Quits Coin-Operated Business · · Score: 1

    Actually, you could duck and hide in Namco's Time Crisis, but it was simply with a footswitch. You were hiding or not hiding. Hardly the depth of UT.

  5. Hacker Effort on Ogle Does CSS and DVD Menus · · Score: 2
    Does a DVD player for Linux have to be a subversive mission against the MPAA?

    If writing one without permission violates the DMCA, why won't someone (I dunno, Redhat has money now) just write a DVD player and pay the license fee. Free OS + Free Software + $30 DVD Player Software still makes for a pretty inexpensive package.

    After all, it's DVD, so why settle for less than 100% faithful reproduction in playback?

  6. Re:Interesting... on Military Grade Gaming · · Score: 1

    Yes, but when you're playing Counter Strike (I refuse to call it CS), you don't have to imagine that the game you're playing could soon be real, with no extra lives or rematches.

  7. Re:Difference between "adjusted" and "reported"? on Red Hat In The Black · · Score: 1

    I don't really know much about Wall Street, but I read Microserfs . Don't the options have to sit for a while to vest? Since it's uncashed money, wouldn't they still be in the positive?

  8. Re:Southern Accent on Review: Tomb Raider · · Score: 1
    I've never been to Europe, but I still believe you because of how I hear Southern (US) accents bastardized in movies like The Legend of Bagger Vance.

    The truth is, wee don't reeaally tawlk like thaayut, and from what I've been told by friends who have been all over the world, the Southern accent in America is considered the sexiest accent in the world.

  9. Anonymous Review on Speak Up On Software Patents And WIPO Rules · · Score: 3

    Either some tech-savvy people should be assigned to these review these patent applications, or we should have a Geek Jury Duty that randomly chooses professional techies to do reviews for either prior art or just plain idiocy (i.e. one click patent), and force them to swear to secrecy lest they lost all bandwidth for life.

  10. Get Local (and Personal) on Searching for Real Estate Using the 'Net? · · Score: 1
    Your best bet would be to search the classified ads in the local paper. Most areas have a website for their newspaper, including the classified ads.

    Another good thing to do is to get on AIM (or whatever you chat with) and search for people from that area. Then you can find out what parts of town are nice to live in (i.e. low violence, stuff to do, proximity to the good ISPs, etc).

    The only way you could get a complete view of a city through an agent would be if that agent had a complete monopoly.

  11. Get Local (and Personal) on Searching for Real Estate Using the 'Net? · · Score: 1
    Your best bet would be to search the classified ads in the local paper. Most areas have a website for their newspaper, including the classified ads.

    Another good thing to do is to get on AIM (or whatever you chat with) and search for people from that area. Then you can find out what parts of town are nice to live in (i.e. low violence, stuff to do, proximity to DSL switches, etc).

    The only way you could get a complete view of a city through an agent would be if that agent had a complete monopoly.

  12. Electronic Unbiased Polls on Ask Dan Kusnetzky About Linux Server Counts · · Score: 1

    Does anyone (or would anyone consider) writing a really w1ck3d shell script to run like, say, a search engine's spider and figure out what servers are being run (by checking a couple of ports unique to each OS, etc) on servers, and run it nonstop for a month or two or three in a widely distributed environment?

  13. Re:Wrong Direction on Java as a CS Introductory Language? · · Score: 1

    Teaching assembly from the beginning could be very nice if you know that you'll only be teaching to CS or CPE (Computer Engineering) majors. I taught an intro class to C Programming, and the biggest headache is dealing with people that don't get what an int is, who are baffled by #include, and whose knowledge of compilers is "click the exclamation point (or lightning bolt in borland) and your program will pop up".

  14. all your tech support are belong to us! on Covad Faked DSL Trouble For Verizon? · · Score: 1

    well, there's one.

  15. Fun for Sony on "Cplant" Parallel Computing Tool · · Score: 1

    With the PS2 Linux Kit this could result in some interesting games.

  16. Re:Top 500 Supercomputers can be found... on "Cplant" Parallel Computing Tool · · Score: 1

    I didn't notice SETI on the list . . . .

  17. Re:They were just testing the waters... on TiVo Response to 2.0.1 Upgrade Issues · · Score: 1

    Even if they are, at least they care what their customers think.

  18. The Big Six Payday on Beyond Napster, a Free Culture · · Score: 1

    If this could work (that is, if Microsoft doesn't sue since they own Firefly . . . or if they do, if the FSF can take them on), it could give a big cash break to the major labels spending money on research. Then maybe Britney can get off welfare.

  19. Quality of Service on Napster Going Legit · · Score: 2

    Does this mean that Napster may start hosting songs on their servers, so that paying users won't have to worry about people signing off in the middle of uploads?

  20. Re:Such a site at the U. of U. is asking for troub on Intellectual Property and a Censored Slash Site? · · Score: 1

    I thought the lameness filters were supposed to eliminate these types of redundancies.

  21. Re:What happens when he dies? on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but who's going to sue you for violating the copyright? Not the dead man.

  22. Re:Anonymous Coward Dead at IQ 58 on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    this is retarded. my apologies to all who have to read this junk

  23. Re:acronyms on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    just like ICUP

  24. Re:My scorecard on this: hits and misses on Miracles Of The Next Fifty Years, As Of 1950 · · Score: 1

    there's a really weird one i've been seeing on FX lately that lets you just spray it over hair (like a hairy check) and then wipe the hair away with a towel. it's kind of gross looking on the commercials

  25. Re:Skipped over Gnutella, and Freenet on RIAA Trains Legal Sights On Aimster · · Score: 1
    They wouldn't have an easy time complaining to ISPs if we used Freenet, since it encrypts everything that goes through. It's none of their business if it looks like I'm downloading line noise.

    Actually, (and I'm scared to say this because they might do it) they could possibly fight back for getting on the services (i.e. Napster, Gnutella, etc) and clogging them up with fakes. Average people would quit using p2p trading services rather quickly if every search for Limp Bizkit gave them Kermit the Frog (though I personally wouldn't mind that).