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  1. Fuel? on Japan Tests Reusable Rocket · · Score: 1

    I just want to know how it's going to carry enough fuel for takeoff AND landing, and still be able to lift its own weight.

  2. 30% improvement in yield?!? on Diagonal Design For Chips · · Score: 1

    They must've been getting some shitty yield numbers! Maybe they should work on their manufacturing discipline first.

  3. Ugh. on 2001 Book Author Responds · · Score: 1

    This guy should be smacked for being a drain on the resources of our society and contributing absolutely NOTHING.

    Then again, so should I, for having wasted so much time wading through this sh!t.

    Ugh.

  4. Re:California's Power Problems on Scientology Critic Flees U.S. Over Usenet Posts, Pickets · · Score: 1

    Why drive them? Make 'em walk. Less emissions that way.

  5. Re:Not fast enough on The DNA Bomb · · Score: 1

    You read "Rainbow Six", didn't you?

  6. How about a clear laptop? on Clear Computer Cases · · Score: 1

    ...so I don't have to send it through the damn X-Ray at the airport...

  7. This is idiotic on Clawhammer to be 1/2 size of P4 · · Score: 4

    They're comparing sizes of an in-production chip made on a .18 micron process to one that WILL be made on a .13 micron process. A P4 on the .13 process is approximately the same size as the Clawhammer.

    Sigh...

  8. Re:For those without reg... on Retinal Scanning Displays · · Score: 5

    Um, just replace "www" with "channel" and you don't have to reg.

  9. Duh on Back-Ordering Domain Names · · Score: 1

    That's easy--just patent back-ordering domain names.

    My first thought was 'What if someone competes with SnapNames and offers the same 'back-order' service?'

  10. Big Deal on 3DFX Motion Blur In Action · · Score: 1

    I can do this to the cursor in Winblows. Just turn on "Mouse Tails".

    Hah.

  11. Re:What about RSA now? on GPG vs. PGP? · · Score: 1

    Only if RSA ask RMS's forgiveness.

  12. Snarfvs Maximvs Announces Portable PlayStation on Sony Unveils Portable Playstation · · Score: 1

    "We ask you what kind of laptop you want. Before it ships we throw a copy of bleem! in the box."

    Film at 11....

  13. Re:Heh on Sun no Longer the "dot" in .com · · Score: 1

    No, it's IBM. Not Blaupunkt.

    Although I'm sure a Blaupunkt server would look better in a VW New Beetle.

  14. Can't they come up with... on Autonomous Robot Explores Antarctica · · Score: 2

    ...better names for these robots?

    Mars: Sojourner
    Antarctica: Nomad

    We get the point already!

    What about R2-D2? Or maybe Annihilator 9000? Ultron? Daneel Olivaw?



  15. Re:Here's the score card... on Lineo 1.0 Eor Embedded x86 Released · · Score: 1

    Y'all forgot LinuxCE, which aims for MIPS, SH3, etc. devices that in a previously deviant lifestyle ran WinblowsCE.

  16. FreeDOS? on Interview: Learn About the FreeDOS Project · · Score: 0

    So, do you like Fritos?

    What about Freedows?

  17. Contest entry on Smell Mail to Replace E-mail? · · Score: 1

    www.doodie.com. I don't think any more needs to be said.

  18. AZ Senatorial Platform vs. Presidential on "I Would Strongly Advocate Full Disclosure" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps my memory is getting hazy but I seem to remember McCain's AZ senatorial campaign commercials proclaiming that he "introduced legislation to protect our children from the evils of Internet pornography."

    There's something in the sensationalized wording of that phrase that makes me cringe.

    Perhaps McCain is more level-headed in the presentation of his ideas now, but that doesn't mean he's changed his viewpoint.

    On another note, requiring publicly funded services (libraries and schools) to purchase filters would only work if the requirement was at the federal level. If it was left up to local gov'ts to make the decision it would never happen--schools have little enough funding as it is, and they are pretty vocal about that!

  19. This $50 thing is a fallacy (was:Re:instead of you on Largest Online Credit Card Heist Ever? · · Score: 1

    My mother-in-law had her wallet lifted by a female pick-pocket (who, incidentally, looks NOTHING like my mother-in-law) who ran up a $5000 tab on it in about two hours. This was through a combination of cash advances and purchases. When my mother-in-law realized her wallet had been stolen she called the card companies and had her accounts frozen.

    For the past four months she's been fighting the card companies with police reports, video (from the ATM where the cash advances were made), and the obviously forged signatures. They claim the entire $5000 is her responsibility, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

    DON'T believe it when you hear that you're only responsible for $50--the CC companies are in the business of making MONEY, and they'd rather get their $5000 and lose you as a customer (and they can afford much better lawyers than you can, so forget lawsuits) than eat the $4950 worth of theft. They can always find more suckers to sign up.

  20. Two words... on Coppermine Bug Prevents... Booting? · · Score: 1

    FREE ADVERTISING.

    Every time there's a media extravaganza about some bug (or "errata", as they like to call it), Intel's sales go up. Hell, after the fdiv debacle Intel practically became a household word.

    Maybe AMD should try the same thing.

    Of course, then I wouldn't buy their products, either.

  21. Nothing new... on Your Next Pointer Device? · · Score: 1

    ...except that it's cordless.

    But my CalComp Creation Station is cordless, and batteryless, too (just like my old Wacom ArtPad II that croaked a few months back).

    And although I have severe RSI in my right wrist from past mousing, I get no pain from using the pen 10+ hours a day. My only complaint is that I have to keep putting down my pen to type on my shiny new Kinesis kbd (my employer likes to splurge on ergo stuff for me, I guess).

    Y'know, I still don't know why I can't get a workstation built like the helm on NCC1701D. The touchpanel tech is available...the screen tech is available...just drop a keyboard on the thing for tactile feedback and I'd be going to town. Instead, we seem to be stuck in this paradigm of keyboard/pointing device/monitor as separate units.

    Hell, I don't even need the tactile feedback, just a few "home row" depressions/bumps so I know where to start...

  22. Re:Also to Fastolfe on Cybernetics Prof to Attempt Computer Control of Own Limbs · · Score: 1
    Every time I hear news of this sort (or nontech or you name it) I'm reminded of the old Chinese blessing: "May you live in interesting times".


    I thought that was an old Chinese curse.

  23. This may make him sound good, but... on Sen. McCain Introduces Bill to Ban Internet Taxes Forever · · Score: 1
    I live in AZ and one of his senatorial platform slogans was "...Protect our children from the EVILS of Internet SMUT..."


    While that may sound like good intentions I'm unsure how he was planning on implementing it...


    Does anybody know how he voted on CDA/CDA2?


    SM

  24. Security... on Cool Linux-based web device · · Score: 2
    300 meters is serious range...I'd be more than a little concerned from a security standpoint. Just what we need is another path for the gub'mint to sniff around.


    Although I could see this being useful for corporate types who never get to sit down at their desks and are always lugging 8-lb laptops around, waiting for them to boot, and typing in a 15-word note.

  25. So what happens... on Internet Tax Moratorium Over? · · Score: 1

    ...when I check the price/availability on line, and then call in my order? Lots of those online "malls" have 800 #'s buried in their website somewhere...