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  1. If you can find it on The Making of the Atomic Bomb · · Score: 1

    "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons" from the AEC. Has a circular slide rule for calculating overpressures, firebal sizes, size of crater, etc.

  2. Now just calm down on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 1

    and sit in front of this wireless 802.11g transmitter. Take your foil lined hat off. Comfy now? Good. Now just sit there while we start the network traffic running with the messages from our media lords and masters. Just relax....

  3. Re:I'm in the money! on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mods on drugs. How the hell was that offtopic?

  4. You won't be able to on Buy Broadband From Your Neighbor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The TIA/RIAA/MPAA are putting Secret Coded Messages in the Kazaa traffic that's getting injected straight into your neurons allowing them to read and control your very thoughts to ensure that those thoughts are all in accordance with the accepted standards of the hard left freeper big government libertarian philosophy which they espouse!

  5. The Emmy's on Oscar Nominations (LotR, Spirited Away, and more) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IIRC, the Academy Awards have taken home a few Emmy's.

  6. Semi-embedded on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 1

    Industrial PC, but programmed embedded style. That is, lots of assembly, and C. Lots of homebrew device drivers. Trying to get everything to load into RAM to save time, thus trying to squeeze bytes out of the code and data size.

  7. Not so! on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 1
    I used to do motion control applications, controlled hoists, x/y tables, etc. They weren't real time, but did need every bit of calculating power they could get. Calculating what position to move to next, determining the resonant frequency of a part being scanned, various other calculations.

    Yes, a real time app wouldn't benefit, but other embedded/industrial apps would.

  8. 640kb on die cache on AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+ · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That could be useful in embedded applications. Running the entire app in the cache, at higher speed than in main memory, could be a Very Good Thing.

  9. Lots of id10t errors here on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The primary one being that cyberwar automatically equals, and is limited to, the internet. Many systems are networked, and/or acessible from outside, without being on the internet.

  10. My, You ARE parochial, aren't you. on Bush Orders Guidelines for Cyber-Warfare · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most countries have electronic switching systems and microwave links for the phone service. Those were targets that NATO hit in Serbia several years ago, and in Iraq in 1991. Even Afghanistan had some. Russia uses microwave links. China also. Actually, it's probably only countries like Somalia, which have almost no communications infrastructure, that wouldn't be vulnerable.

  11. Woo Hoo! on 300 Episodes of the Simpsons · · Score: 1

    *Runs around insanely.*

  12. The Shinning! on 300 Episodes of the Simpsons · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "The Shining"?

  13. No beer and no TV make Homer on 300 Episodes of the Simpsons · · Score: 1

    something something.

  14. I wonder how soon on Digital Celebrities · · Score: 1
    The NY TImes is going to start complaining about this sort of thing. Ripping the Times story without crediting the author, and barely crediting the Times.

    If you want to get slashdot sued for copyright violation, you're going about it the right way. Fair Use does not mean you can rip the entire thing.

  15. Can you say something funny about on Ask Internet Expert Dave Barry · · Score: -1, Troll

    the Space Shuttle?

  16. Surgery on Be Thankful If They Just Snore · · Score: 1
    My father had a trachestotomy (I think that's what it's called) where they cut a hole in his trach, put a plug in it, and he pulls the plug when he goes to bed. Fixed the apnea problem.

    Downside is he can't go into water above his shoulders.

  17. Re:Did you have to try? on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1
    WEll, this was in 1984. Coed dorms, in the days before AIDS, and alcohol allowed in the rooms. Also, I was on the crew team. Drinkingest sport in the NCAA.

    I didn't attend many classes...

  18. A few times? on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 3, Funny

    I pulled a straight 0.0 for 3 semesters before they kicked me out.

  19. Tennis balls instead of potatos on Potato Bazookas · · Score: 1

    Longer range, and great bounces.

  20. Cry me a river... on Evolution Of The Online Tax Debate · · Score: 1

    People who live in Washington DC pay federal income taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, and every other federal tax, and have no representation in Congress.

  21. Imagine understanding technology... on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1
    An iPod like device for receiving satellite transmissions? Where do you mount the antenna? On your head?

    There are portable receivers. Sony makes one. Carry it from the house to the car to the office.

  22. Because on Why (FM, Not XM) Radio Sucks · · Score: 1

    They are transmitting their signal from 25,000 miles away? Might be a bit far for standard 802.11x

  23. Love the sig on Brain Surgery Robot Running Linux · · Score: 1

    Very appropriate in the context of this story.

  24. It's exactly the same with computers. on Killing Others' Malicious Processes · · Score: 2

    Exactly what I'm saying! Some idiot l33t kid decided to root your box and use it to attack other people. But you were the one who didn't take reasonable measures to prevent the rooting, such as applying the appropriate patches. You were negligent and your negligence resulted in damage to other people. That's why you have insurance.

  25. Toaster Oven on Killing Others' Malicious Processes · · Score: 2
    You can start a fire with a toaster oven that takes out an entire row of condos, but nobody legislates that you have to clean your toaster oven every 30 hours of use.

    Sure they do. Through negligence lawsuits. It's why you have homeowners or renters insurance. So that when you negligently forget to clean your toaster oven and burn down the entire row of condos your insurance company pays for the damages. Unless you have insufficient insurance, in which case you pay the damages.