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  1. inflight... on NASA Plan to Read Brainwaves at Airports · · Score: 5, Funny

    used on the planes:

    Pilot: Could a Mr. Smith please stop thinking about our stewardess'. It's frightening them.

  2. yes!!! on Fragfest · · Score: 5, Funny

    exciting! its friday night and I'm reading about LAN parties on Slashdot... it couldn't get any better

  3. translation... on Linux Kernel Module For Nintendo Powerglove · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if you can get it to read in the different ways you wave your hands around, then voila! a great method for 'printing' sign language. even if you didn't need sign language, you can still learn it and type papers by the motions of your hands and now know how to communicate to a whole world of people...

  4. give them money... on Japanese Cry Foul on New ID System · · Score: 1

    just give them a little bit of money, but keep it in a bank so they think it's valuable. If they want the money, the are going to need a 'claim' number for their money, and everyone can have their own unique 'claim' number to use at their discgresion. now they won't have a problem with the ID number. hmmm... I love SS....

  5. better luck... on Interview with LGames' Michael Speck · · Score: 1

    Hopefully he doesn't waste any support money on frivolous expenses or personal gains...

    unlike this place

  6. why? on John Carmack, Rocket Boy · · Score: 2

    because he secretly knows that the story line in Quake(II mostly) isn't fake, and that he knows we need a to hurry up with any kind of space flight systems development for hope of beating the aliens many years from now

  7. my code... on Does Your Debugger Sing to You? · · Score: 2

    if i ran this kind of debugger, it would go thru the effort to say "stop programming!!"

  8. Re:Cheaper, easier and on Tilting at Asteroids · · Score: 1

    I agree fully on your point. Being that we might as well start tagging asteroids with our 'extra' satillites and probes. This would help with tracking the asteriod, and who knows, some day it just might be on a course for Earth, but with the tag we'd know exactly what its doing and if we'd need to do anything about the impending doom.

  9. mirrors... on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 2

    does someone have a mirror of the movie they had on their site or did the just remember to remove the movie before the onslaught of slashdotters

  10. mobile? on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 2

    The control system and power transformer together tip the scales at roughly three thousand pounds.
    Makes this a little difficult on the mobility side, but hey, with one of these, the world is your playground (or you'll just be really lonely)

  11. nice... on HP Marries Inkjet and Robotic Technology to Cool Chips · · Score: 1

    this is nice and all, but where are the pictures? it can only be so cool until there are pictures

  12. mp3's on Atomic Scale Memory · · Score: 1

    So much for needing mp3's, we could just keep everything ripped at the 320 kbps wav with room to spare

    or

    we're going to need an mp3 style for the dvd audio songs (if that ever catches on)

  13. unlike... on More on the Effect of Digital TV · · Score: 1

    don't want viewers to record 'perfect copies' of movies

    unlike we are already doing now with TiVo and the ppv channels or HBO, etc... Which I am wondering, if we are paying for the viewing(ppv), why can't we keep the movie then? Like some movies only shown at times I'm not available, why can't I let the newer HD Tivo's record that for me and I can watch it at some decent time

  14. not quite flawless on Iowa College Goes Paperless · · Score: 2

    so much for anything to actually happen when the power goes...

    yeah the Ipaq's have batteries but not the network they would connect to for the libraries of info

    that would be a great place to get a contract for UPS systems

  15. technological advances on The Continuing Death of Pinball · · Score: 5, Funny

    for me, the graphics just don't cut it anymore

  16. money and laws are needed (maybe) on 80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam · · Score: 1

    lets see here, each account is allowed 2 mb, so we could say 80% of 2 mb is 1.6 mb
    saying there's only 10 million users on Hotmail, thats 16 terabytes of spam, which in my accounts, tend to fill every day so i'll say around 16 TB a day. At Compusa I can get 100 GB drives for about $200, so thats $32000 a day of wasted storage. Most of us know that that is usually not permanent over the course of time, but we could say that it is because Hotmail doesn't know what you want to keep and don't want to keep. So $32000 a day over a year would be $11.86 million on wasted storage. Its one of those few times I just might encourage Micro$ofts lawyers to find a way to handle this in a sensible manner, without of course infringing on free speech.

  17. waiting... on Amateur Mars Satellite · · Score: 0

    I'm still browsing through all of NASA's satillite imagry of Mars hoping, waiting to see if they've noticed the probe I sent there many years ago.

    but you ask how do I know it got there ok? Well I put a camera on it and it has sent back some pretty interesting pictures, I'm just waiting for society to be more able to handle knowing that there is life more advanced than ours out there...

    hmm... so much for that secret, anyways...

  18. pre-crime on Scientists Discover 'Crime Gene' · · Score: 1

    Sounds like this is good stuff for the sequal to Minority Report

  19. internet... on Do You Know Where You Live? · · Score: 1

    like i'd tell you where I live on slashdot...
    you'll just have to track me down by user #

  20. yet more press on Defcon X - Live in Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    Here is somemore press by a small local shop, which after reading I find to be kind of funny

  21. judgemental on U.S. Computer Security Advisor Encourages Hackers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    system only works when the hackers show 'good faith'

    who gets to decide what a hacker did was in 'good faith'? These proposed laws mixed with the DMCA should make the credibiliy of the system less than it is currently treading at...

  22. bond on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1

    "All for Queen and Country, right James?"

    damn police state

  23. probing on Brookhaven Probing Unknown Form of Matter (Maybe) · · Score: 1

    Brookhaven Probing Unknown Form of Matter(Maybe)

    i remember my doctor saying something about this at my last appointment

  24. why is it named matchbox... on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager · · Score: 2, Funny

    because in developement the software would still overwork the processors causing them to flare up and make the PDA's burn away like burning Matchbox

    ha.....ha.....ha.....
    hmm....

  25. geography... on Radio Propagation and Unexpected Loss of Signal? · · Score: 1

    the terrain of the area is another possibility for making radio in the area difficult or easy, depending on what you have to do..
    what I'm talking about is the Flatirons, which you've probably seen by now (or your blind). And they're just that, huge massive chunks of iron on the mountain faces, which I've heard work the same way mirrors work with light beams. So possibly the radio signal is being slightly reflected out of the valley, but thats just my guess