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  1. Kirk Cameron is the Master! on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    http://www.wayofthemaster.com/ I guess he is going through some growing pains...

  2. Re:Slackware-esque numbering on WiMax Operator's Manual: Building 802.16 Wireless · · Score: 1

    What does the 802 stand for?

    Thanks in advance.

  3. video? on Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire · · Score: 1

    Can someone please explain how I use this bit torrent thing? I'm on a Linux machine, and I have root access, if need be. Is this the only way I can get a copy of the .avi for this Stewart Crossfire video? If I can get it elsewhere, where would that be

  4. Re:This is not a cover-up. I repeat – This is on SETI Researcher Quashes Signal Rumors · · Score: 1


    Do you notice that the text, as you displayed it here, takes the form of a signal plotted orthogonally?

    Stare at it, from afar to see what I mean.

  5. Re:The List (if you don;t wanna do the slideshow) on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    I think Ralph Nader built a name for himself exposing the problems with the Corvair in his publication "Unsafe at any Speed"...

    http://vintagecars.about.com/cs/americanclassics /a /corvair_nader.htm

  6. Re:Perens too good for Slashdot? on Perens on Patents · · Score: 1

    Slashdot shows its inadequacy sometimes...

  7. Re:Scottish law: When McDonald's sued McDonald on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    Interesting that you brought this up...

    Doesn't McDonald's run it's cash registers with SCO software...

    I heard that in a bar last night....
    that and something about generally all Pepsico has SCO software too...

    Can someone comfirm this?

    I found this, but it's old:
    http://www.linux.org/news/2001/07/30/0004.ht ml

  8. Re:Is this stock typical? on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pretty screwed up world, isn't it? Trust yourself, and your work. Don't trust the stock market farther than you can throw it.

  9. do this... on What is the Best Way to Handle a GPL Violation? · · Score: 2, Funny

    when in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!

  10. elasticity? on Scientists Create Supersolid From Helium · · Score: 1

    sounds like possible elasticity to me...

    sure normal elasticity theory doesn't involve quantum mechanics (it's a continuum theory), but maybe those two theories collide here.

    I'm imagining this material, the supersolid, but with no external force applied, yet it bends on its own, and possibly recoils, driven by quantum fluctuations.

    Surely at some point some argument in favor of keeping the object "crystalline" would keep the fluid together, and give the appearance of being elastic.

    maybe someone here would comment on this...

    is this supersolid theory bordering on quantum elasticity?

  11. I show you mine... on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    you show me yours.

  12. Re:What about supporting hardware? on Athlon 64 Debuts · · Score: 1

    Well, I just read this... http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030923/sftu101_1.html Sounds like raid arrays will be coming soon for the Athlon 64.

  13. Re:bad science, or just wierd science? on More on Lenses with a Negative Index of Refraction · · Score: 1

    I have to admit, your goatse.cx really makes you credible.

    I'm wondering though if you can prove that you are "real".

    Have you ever heard that electrons are real?

    Prove it. In your proof, the same arguments can be made for the existance of virtual particles and feynman diagrams.

    Please get your head out of the goatse.cx ass.

  14. Student Protection? on Talk To a European Patent Examiner · · Score: 1

    Can you tell any success stories about patent lawyers who have decided to fight for students instead of universities or companies that fund university research?

    Example: A startup that was funding my (university) group's research decided to take data from my group without explicit permission from the students that took it, then they proceeded to display that data on the company website without permission from the people that did the work and then attributed the work to the company's new product.

    Do IP lawyers ever go into private practice (or do pro bono) with the goal of protecting this kind of property theft? Or, are IP lawyers always working for big firms: writing patents, supporting big institutions and sometimes hurting the little student?

  15. Any chemists out there now about this? on Single-Photon LED: Key To Uncrackable Encryption? · · Score: 1

    What is the source of this LED? Quantum Dots? Single Molecule? Doped Buckies? SAMs? Anyone know how they do it?

  16. Help... on Broadband Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Can someone tell me what port 80 is, or its friend port 25? I am starting up a webserver at home. I don't know if it's going to be Linux or MS yet. I suspect that Code Red doesn't affect Linux...but you tell me... BTW, does anyone have an opinion about the DSL providers in the Chicago area? Sprint and Ameritech are hitting me with there plans and I am weary. Both are waving the installation fees.

  17. where have all the cowboys gone? on Microsoft and the U.S. School System · · Score: 2

    Why doesn't the Open Source community help those schools out? I'm guessing that if people from the open source community started writing code that made things easy for the educators, that this wouldn't be an issue. How about someone out there introducing them to WINE? How about showing educators how you can setup a network of terminals running UNIX? For all the squaking that the UNIX community does about how MS is the evil empire, you'd think they'd have a convincing alternative by now. Something that is there when you are in grade school would help. Something that you have to learn when you are little would be great. Does Mandrake or Red Hat really advertise in the public school system? Does any UNIX distributor realize the potential of teaching the kids what makes UNIX work? Get them hooked while they are young. It just doesn't seem like the UNIX community really believes in promoting it's cause... There is a whole community out there that would welcome Free software, and they would probably pay to have /. nerds teach them a little bit to get there systems running...

  18. Re:Not that new... on Tweezers Of Light · · Score: 1

    Indeed, this opens up many device possibilities ...of course the science that one can do is just as, if not more, interesting than the other 'applications'. We hope to continue to see our work primarily from that perspective.

    (Nonanonymous Coward trying to go through his cool phase from the University of Pizza, Polish, and Politics)

    Neomaxizoomdweebee!