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  1. Maybe time travel is the easy part on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But since the universe is expanding at such an incredible rate, when somebody goes back in time, it is not to the same place on earth, which is moving at something like 300,000 kps along with the universe, but they stayed right where they were. Just a thought. Everybody always assumes time travel is always tied to a relative location not an absolute one.

  2. Re:Rogers Wireless Customer on Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning · · Score: 1

    Either way it is Joe Consumer who pays the bill. CC Companies and Merchants have to make up those losses somewhere.

  3. Re:Oh well if I have to then on Ingredients in Beer as a Cancer Treatment? · · Score: 1

    I have been self medicating myself for years!!

  4. Re:"varying" speeds of light on PBS Features Einstein's Famous Equation · · Score: 1

    So if the nuclear reactor core was in a vacuum, would the Cerenkov radiation go faster then C or does it just move through water faster then light?

  5. Re:Don't think so on Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU · · Score: 1

    I thought the illegal part was forcing vendors to bundle their software with the OS by using bully tacticts. Is just including free software with the OS illegal?

  6. Re:Filters on New System to Counter Photo and Video Devices · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would think that an IR filter would increse the chance of getting picked up by the detector. The filter prevents the ir light from getting to the lens so the ir light must be reflected back out again. Some kind of IR difuser that could absorbe the IR light and not reflect it back out would needed. I am sure there is a way to do it, but an IR filter seems to me to be the opposite approach.

  7. Re:yahoo's answer to gmail. on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    Oh please. First off, I get free POP access, cool tags (lables) for sorting, ability to have a different send from addy, and fast searching on and off line. And my mailbox is at 90% (2351MB) now. Who needs more then a gig? Plenty of people do.

  8. Re:Units on Microrobot Developed at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    oops, missed the ^

      Using the surface area of the earth.... (509 600 000 (square kilometers)) / ((60 micrometers) * 250 micrometers) = 3.39733333 × 10^22

  9. Re:Units on Microrobot Developed at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    Using the surface area of the earth.... (509 600 000 (square kilometers)) / ((60 micrometers) * 250 micrometers) = 3.39733333 × 1022

  10. Re:Micorobots on Microrobot Developed at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    "Not quite nanomachines, but we are getting closer!"

    I think they should have called them MicroMachines. Oh, wait, that name is already taken.

  11. What if? on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    What if they actually found two seperate objects? Stranger things have happend.

  12. Re:Mirroring TV.com? on A New Replacement for TV Tome · · Score: 1

    I admit I did not read the contract and I can't find a copy now. Can you post one?

    What I don't understand is what is cnet doing differntly with your content then tvtome did that it now violates the terms in your contract with them?

    And one other question, what did they say when you asked them to remove your content?

  13. Re:yahoo's answer to gmail. on Yahoo To Update Mail Service · · Score: 1

    My gmail account is at 2594MB and growing every day.

  14. Re:It's all about design on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 1

    Choose...Settle for... very similar meanings.

  15. Set Top Boxes on Panasonic Forms Embedded Linux Incubator · · Score: 2, Informative

    Panasonic has been using Linux for a while with their set top boxes. I found this old cnet story here. http://news.com.com/2102-1016_3-996984.html?tag=st .util.print

  16. Re:G? on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 0

    Palm went through this a few years ago. After loosing the Pilot name, they fought MS for the Palm name (Palm PC's) then started going after any website with PALM in the name claiming they had to protect their brand name so competitors could not use it as a common word. They allowed you to apply for a license to use the name (like with Palmgear.com). Now of course there are thousands of palm sights (well at least hundreds) and MS is probably not interested in using the Palm PC name anyway.

  17. Re:Mirroring TV.com? on A New Replacement for TV Tome · · Score: 0

    How can you sue Cnet becuase they bough tvtome and continued to use that informaton? Did /. posters sue OSTG after the sale? After all, comments are owned by the poster, right? I don't think you have a case.

  18. Re:Already done on New Legal Threat To GMail · · Score: 0

    the porn and spy ware sites will grab 99 zeros and 101 zeros for get the traffic for those who type it incorrectly.

  19. Re:It's all about design on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 0

    How many guys, when given a choice between an average-looking woman, (specifically one that is much less likely to cheat on them or dump them) and a hot saucepot (who'll probably get bored by next month), would honestly choose the former "non-idiotic from our technical viewpoint" option?

    So how exactly does the average guy like myself get to be offered this choice? My choices have alwayws been between the two average looking women. :)

  20. Re:Truth be told. on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 1, Funny

    That must be similar to my pornographic memory.

  21. Re:Software is easy. Re:Chick and Egg problem on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 0

    I have always tried to get my data off old technology and move it to new technology before unpluging the old system. I think as newer technology comes out, designers are making it easier to move data. Now days since everything connects to eachother or the internet it is a piece of cake to accomplish this. Every time I move to a new system with a harddrive 5 to 1o times larger, I always have room to completely back up all the old data. For my life time, I am not worried.

  22. I always suspected... on Titan Occupies A Solar System Sweet Spot · · Score: 0

    My old roommate was must have been from Titan.

  23. Re:Top Ten on Das Keyboard: Hit Any Key · · Score: 0

    2. If you make your own you won't have that white label reading 'Das Keyboard' ruining your otherwise all black beauty.

    That is nothing a black sharpie can't fix. Or better yet, a small square of black duct tape.

  24. Re:6 months off on their estimates - excusable on Katrina Delays Shuttle · · Score: 0

    As much as I want to see the space program moving forward, I would much rather they take their time and get it right.

    It is like having a delayed flight at the airport. Sure it is a pain in the butt, however, I would rather they find and fix a problem before I get on board then to rush things and take the chance.

    If they make a "promise" and then re-evaulate and set a new target date, that is fine with me. Just get it right.

  25. A good start... on Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market · · Score: 0

    It would be great if Intel would grow into a company that could compete with Microsoft on the software front. After all, if Microsoft makes money selling hardware, then hardware companies should have no problem selling software.