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  1. Re:Join the navy.... on Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel · · Score: 1

    World War One damn near ruined everybody's economy.
    Also, 2004 America has a lot more to lose than 1914 Germany. :)

  2. Re:Join the navy.... on Insider's Look at High-Tech High-Speed Navy Vessel · · Score: 1

    That's why I'm not worried about going to war with China or India. We're allies at least economically. I remember when the USSR dissolved a lot of people were convinced China was next on our list, but have you looked at the bottom of a toy recently? $5 it says 'Made in China', or 'Made in Taiwan' which is the same thing now anyways. Swiss banks, Chinese sweatshops, and cheap Indian contractors are all enough to keep the sword pointed at someone else.

  3. Magic 8 Ball on How Will We Get Around Near-Future Earth? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I predict higher population density, growing urbanization and the increase of public transportation and pedestrians.

  4. Re:How? on RIAA To Subpoena Univ. of Michigan Names · · Score: 1
    (if they are, I want to know what horrible OS vulnerability is allowing THAT)

    I didn't know Kazaa was an OS.

  5. Re:Finally! on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Christopher Walken? :)

  6. Chocolate on Can Software Kill? · · Score: 1
    This reminds me of this melodramatic story we had to watch in junior high where this kid was a "hacker" and he hacked into a hospital for fun, and then his cat jumped on the keyboard. The result? Some guy in the ICU ended up with an IV line full of chocolate. Fucking hell.

    I think the other show was about software piracy on the TRS-80.

  7. Re:How smart u are.. on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 1
    I would carry your analysis a step further and note that chip and drive manufacturers don't make money by downgrading their product.

    Ahh, but the trouble of testing and labeling each drive is much greater than crippling it in software.

    As far as giving you less than advertised, it's false advertising

    As far as giving you more than advertised it's considered an unfair business practice

  8. Re:It could be true! on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 1
    Close but no cigar. Let me show you what you should have written. [...]

    I think that quotes from this comment were taken without a sense of humor. Not that I would expect anything different from MrPink2U. :)

  9. Re:New tests for gravity. on Weighing An Attogram · · Score: 1

    I think his experiment was in regards to interact between 'particles' on that small of a scale, now that we have a better means of 'seeing' them, but not necessarily how very small objects are affected by planetary forces.

  10. It could be true! on MS Security Chief: Windows Never Exploited Until Patch Available · · Score: 3, Funny

    It could be true!
    After all, I've never had a cavity until I went to the dentist!

  11. University of Toledo on Copyrights, Videogames, and LAN Parties? · · Score: 1

    UT-BASH, the gaming society at the University of Toledo, although nemisis may be, has had some experience with this problem. Try contacting this guy: dfriess3@utnet.utoledo.edu

  12. Re:Implications on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, you know...
    ...this would be really good for VOIP!

  13. Re:Windows OpenSource??? on Microsoft's Platform Strategist Speaks On Linux · · Score: 1

    I think at this point, that MS is trying to spin its source code being out in the wild by pointing out how viewable code == safer systems. Although I'm sure that doesn't mean we'll be seeing much else being 'released' in the name of security :)

  14. Re:voice recognition on The Future PC as a Set of Pens? · · Score: 1
    Frankly I think that Dragon can understand my accent about as well as anybody in my department.

    Anyways, people often mishear other people or think they say very strange things. The best engines do that well.

    I suppose the largest difference is that we know well enough to ask "Did you just say you're going to take a dyke through the woods?!", or to infer from context what the other person probably met.

    Then again, do I want a computer guessing what I said? If I need precision, I suppose it's time to dust off the old keyboard...

  15. Well, gee... on New Method of Spam Filtering · · Score: 1
    The method works for only about half of all e-mails received - but in all of those cases, it sorts the mail into the right category.

    I would hope that once you root out all the cases where it doesn't work, that all you have left is cases where it does work.

  16. Dammit! on Morse Code Enters The 21st Century · · Score: 1
    The new sign, which will be known as a "commat,"

    Dammit! It's called an emphora!

  17. Re:Can't we just go cashless? on 27 Central Banks Push Anti-Counterfeit Software · · Score: 1
    It goes without saying, that I wouldn't buy such a card if it weren't anonymous...

    Just use cash to get one!

  18. Re:Only so much carbon... on Space Burial · · Score: 1
    I think this is where he was going with this:
    Assuming the average human is 1.7m, then the volume
    becomes 9.0E8m^2 * 1.7m = 1.5E9m^3.
    If we then take this very approximate volume, and
    arrange it in a metaphor optimized cube, then
    it's dimension would be 1152.3m on each side,
    or 0.716003137 miles.

    I think that's close enough to three quarters of a mile given our assumptions.

    (BTW, that's about 3.4e12 kg)

  19. Re:PC or console? on Who is Responsible for Advice Labels on Games? · · Score: 1

    So, I spent the day in the local hospital with my son after he suffered a seizure while we played a computer game (that shall remain nameless).

    I'd go with PC.

    Also, the company might be willing to patch, as some companies still care about their customers.

  20. Re:Adios, Disney on Pixar Drops Disney To Find a New Studio Partner · · Score: 1

    Just five minutes ago, I saw an advert for The Lion King: 1 1/2.

  21. Re:Interesting. on Warspying in San Francisco · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I remember correctly, he owned consecutive properties and rented out one to his friends. There was sound, but since it was his house/equipment it was illegal. They did end up busting him, but it was for secretly recording the woman and her daughter changing at his house when they were invited over to use the hot tub. Because the girl was 15, they got him for kiddie porn.

  22. Let me get out my tinfoil hat on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 1
    Time for the tinfoil hat,

    But weren't those DDOS highly suspect?

    Maybe this is Phase II

    Fnord!

  23. Re:shot down? on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Anyway, the statement Today, that plane would be shot down. to me is a bit absolute... is this really true?

    Yes.

    Additionally, I have a problem accepting that jets would scramble fast enough to be able to do so...

    Modern surface-to-air-missles (SAM) (In fact, even the older ones) are launched from the surface in to the air. So, no jets.

  24. How enlightened. on Second Life MMO Update Creates Virtual Eviction Notices · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Wasn't there a story recently about how these guys were acting like the progressive bunch and telling their users that they own, as property, the objects they create in the game?

    So all the creative types show up and invest a month or two where they know their efforts won't be wasted by their forward-thinking hosts, then BAM! all those objects, that they really own? Start coughing up rent for it!

    Clever, clever bastards.

  25. Re:What I'd like to see on Distributed Computing "Advances" · · Score: 1

    One of the nice things about BOINC is that anybody can develop an app based on its architecture, and anybody who wants to can run it. So then, maybe we will see something like 'DistributedprojectForge' spring up soon.