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  1. Re:Proximity to a star? on SETI@Home Publishes Skymap · · Score: 1

    It could be argued that toilet paper is bette rthan the last two movies that Lucas has made, too. Pretty accurately, as well.

  2. Re:Thoughts on Philip K. Dick, The Matrix, Mystici on Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with "negative ions". Ever heard of salt water? Chloride is a negative ion...

  3. Re:Thoughts on Philip K. Dick, The Matrix, Mystici on Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    You too?

    Lots of people around me where laughing at it after for that reason. Mind you, I was seeing it with a bunch of people with brains...

  4. Re:Dude, posting his cell? Thats cold. on CD Duplicator Refuses Linux Job, Citing MS Contract · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not that bad - it's not like he'll be paying to receive the calls...

  5. Re:No remote control? on World's Deepest-Diving Unmanned Submarine Lost · · Score: 0

    Nice troll.

    Either that, or you need to think about how well radio works in water (think ELF, for example).

  6. Re:Does that mean they finally released the keyboa on Intellivision Operating System Revealed · · Score: 1

    That's one of the keyboards. What I saw was, IIRC, this:

    http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/media/ 83 catalog.html#ecs

  7. Re:They also had the 1st RTS game on Intellivision Operating System Revealed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Err, the text-based game? How is that Real-Time? Or, for that matter, Strategic?

    Utopia was a two-player real-time game with graphics.

  8. Re:Does that mean they finally released the keyboa on Intellivision Operating System Revealed · · Score: 1

    Err, I'm pretty sure I played with the keyboard years ago in a shop.

    I had a C64 by then, so it was only of passing interest, but I'm sure I actually touched one.

  9. I doubt it on Telstra Denies Selling BigPond Customers' Data · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have a Telstra Bigpond address (from having a cable modem).

    I never get any mail at it at all, except for official notices from Telstra.

    I've had it for about 4 years. I've mailed from it or given it out.

  10. Re:This is hilarious! on USB 1.1 Renumbered To USB 2? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not the Gareth Powell who was sacked from the Sydney Morning Herald for stealing other peoples work and passing it off as his own?

    Not the one who had aus.flame.gareth-powell created to celebrate his incredible incompetence as a tech writer?

    If it's him then you can safely ignore this entire article.

  11. Re:Mmmm Hmmm Sure on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    Even earlier, IIRC. When I was a PhD student in OS development I read some really early NT papers that talked about how NT was going to have orthogonal persistence (that was the field I was working in).

    It didn't, of course, make it in in the end. Mind you, I don't think it would make NT any better... The state of the art in OP is pretty sad.

  12. Re:shameful on Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn · · Score: 1
    > Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith

    Huh? Is this part 2 of your troll, or are you just not very good at reading?

  13. Re:Worry Free Software on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 1

    It's not there when I look at it. Maybe I've got a cached version...

  14. Re:True on Cable TV Ruins Bhutan · · Score: 1
    No, with a sample of 1, correlation means very little. There may be no connection at all; there may be a direct causal relationship. There's no way to know.

    What we need is another 100 countries without TV, and we keep 50 as controls...

  15. Re:This man needs help on Profile of a Hard-Core Gamer · · Score: 1

    > "The more you deal with people, the more you hate people"

    You've clearly never worked in tech support.

  16. Re:Am we finally allowed... on Novak Loses petswarehouse.com, Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Why _wouldn't_ learnt be a past tense verb? Isn't that a common word?

  17. Re:Hotmail use on Spammers Exploiting Hotmail Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    This is true.

    It's also completely unrelated to the article, which you didn't read.

    The article is about spammers _sending_ email via hotmail. Not _to_ hotmail (well, some of it may be), but _from_ it.

    Sheesh - 5, Insightful?

  18. Salt bush? on Salt From Plants · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's an Australian plant called Salt Bush that does this - the leaves actually have salt crystals on them.

    They can be used to reclaim over-irrigated soil...

  19. Re:Right back at ya on Dr. Dre to pay $1.5 mil for "Illegal Sample" · · Score: 1

    Sword dancing? I imagine the not-very-good ones don't last long...

  20. 3 minutes after posting... on NVIDIA's Latest CineFX Card Under Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    and the site is down.

  21. Re:Raw file? on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    What? Any image that comes out of a digital camera is going to be a dump of the CCD sensor.

    Any file format that can be decoded to be displayed can be edited.

    I think you deserve a refund of your 2.

  22. Re:Another example from Time on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    It was Australia, a few years ago, Rugby League. It was the Sydney Dialy Telegraph newspaper.

    Your description is correct, they did leave the thumb behind which rather gave it away. I think it was Mediawatch that found it, but I can't find a reference to it on that site.

  23. Re:What about Bert? on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1

    That's just crazy-talk. Of course he's evil.

    The black helicopters are en-route to your location now for your free, er, tour. That's it. A tour.

  24. Re:Here is a quick image analysis quiz on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    See http://king.fn.com.au/~srn/tank_diff.jpg one image minus the other. There's clearly been some work done around the boy, which indicates he was removed and some blending done to cover the gap.

    The shadows around his feet (of him) are unchanged in the shot without him, which implies also that he was in the original shot.

  25. Re:Propelants / Re:Danger??? on New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test · · Score: 1

    And you certainly don't want to be around a liquid fluorine leak. LOX is as safe as water by comparison.