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  1. Re:Latency on Shining a Light on Interplanetary Communication · · Score: 1

    We just need to build a Ring Collapsiter around the Sun!

  2. Re:No, id doesn't on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Dictionary.com refers directly to 'superman' from their 'overman' entry...

  3. Re:That would be true on Marvel and DC Enforce "Superhero" Trademark · · Score: 1

    Uh... the term 'super' denotes of a higher nature or kind, or of greater value, which makes it more or less synonymous with 'over', in usages like 'overman'.

  4. Re:Should help the disabled on Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles Developed · · Score: 1

    In case you haven't noticed, we are still arguing whether ours are evolved bodies or intelligently designed bodies.

    Not 'we'. Only the stupid people are arguing about this. Everyone else already knows the answer, more or less. :)

  5. Re:Geek progress on Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles Developed · · Score: 1

    Probably because you can turn off viewing of signatures?

  6. Re:Geek progress on Super-Strong Synthetic Muscles Developed · · Score: 1

    You think too small. Try Unicron. :)

  7. Re:Give me a break on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 1

    No, because there are specific laws governing that sort of racial discrimination.

  8. Re:What American has been incarcerated without tri on Google Avoids Surrendering Search Info · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Deprived of comfort", is that the new military euphemism for "tortured"? I'm finding it hard to keep up, but then I've been lost ever since "collateral damage".

  9. Re:Except... on ESA Wants Money From Illinois · · Score: 1

    So... you're arguing then that I have the right to break any and all laws at my own whim, and the courts have the right to try and convict me for these laws? You have a peculiar way of looking at things.

  10. Re:XIII and Starforce and my dead DVD drive on Galactic Civilizations II Breaks DRM Mold · · Score: 1

    If you're using Windows XP, you'll run into a problem where, if there are more than six read/write errors on a CDROM/DVD drive, Windows will (almost) irrevokably dump the drive into PIO mode. Removing and reinstalling the CDROM driver does nothing, and there are no registry entries to change to fix it.

    Oddly enough, however, removing and reinstalling the IDE Channel Controller driver for the channel the drive is located on will restore all drives on that channel back to DMA mode... at least until the next time it sees six errors on one of those drives.

  11. Re:Less than originally expected on Judge May Force Google to Submit to Feds · · Score: 1

    "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" - Dubya

  12. Re:hmm. on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1

    The US is the world, silly!

  13. Re:How to be popular on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1

    That's where you fail. They're a bittorrent tracker. They don't host any copyrighted material at all (other than what they generate themselves).

  14. Re:Not illegal on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1

    I guess TPB are lucky that they're not in some insane country like the United States, then.

  15. Re:Bans won't, can't, and never will work. on Defending Against Harmful Nanotech and Biotech · · Score: 1

    You DO realize that governments are immune to patent restrictions, right? If your side doesn't explore these technologies and exploit them, then someone else's side WILL. Fact of life.

  16. Re:Ray Calls it "The Singularity" on Defending Against Harmful Nanotech and Biotech · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, I believe Vernor Vinge first coined the term 'Singularity' (in the socio-technological sense), though I could be mistaken.

  17. Re:1st amendment smack down on Bill Could Restrict Freedom of the Press · · Score: 1

    "Last I checked, you're still not allowed to buy votes."

    Diebold...

    Sorry, I couldn't resist that one. :)

    Anyway, the whole problem with your "don't vote for him" argument is that everyone else is going to vote for him, since he has huge campaign funding and therefor a slick marketing... er, election campaign.

  18. Re:Bullshit! All men are the same! on The Twists of History and DNA · · Score: 1

    I don't suppose you've ever heard of trisomy-21, huh?

  19. Re:What Rights? on Deleting Files is a Crime? · · Score: 1

    No, he wouldn't. That would be destruction of evidence, would it not?

    The Fifth Amendment protects against being made to incriminate yourself directly (ie. answering a direct question that would incriminate you), I doubt it applies to property.

  20. Re:Of course, the furry fandom is all over that on The Creative Power of Second Life · · Score: 1

    Huh? What's wrong with Luskwood avatars? I thought they were rather nice, in a cartoony sort of way.

  21. Re:Power Of Nightmares on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... and that's still an awful lot of money. That's $3500 per person on top of all the taxes and expenses they're already paying.

  22. Re:...and some terrorists on Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down · · Score: 1

    I know the federal 3 letter agencies take a much broader definition.

    Yeah, like pretty much anyone they want to go after for some reason. :)

  23. Re:I had been looking forward to the B5 game. on Cut Down In Their Prime · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are my hero. I've been saying the same thing for ages. I'd love to see a sci-fi game, movie or tv-series based on 'realistic' space combat principles.

  24. Re:I had been looking forward to the B5 game. on Cut Down In Their Prime · · Score: 1

    Space combat in Frontier was easy. Just shut your engines off and use thrusters to stay out of the way of your opponent's laser. If you were flying between planets manually, you're insane; that's what autopilot is for. oO;

  25. Re:OUTGOING on U.S. Satellite Programs in Jeopardy of Collapse · · Score: 1

    Shoo, you pesky number station! Shoo!