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  1. Re:Well, that makes for a good sci fi book title on Outer Space has a Smell · · Score: 1

    It seems you have the reading comprehension of a modern christian.

  2. Re:Wrong country on Star Trek "DeMastered" Video Service to Launch · · Score: 1

    Bah! That's nothing compared to Russia's Cosmos Patrol.

  3. Link is a video on How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tag the story video or videolink to inform.

  4. Tag it ... on Speed of Light Exceeded? · · Score: 1

    blastfromthepast.

  5. Re:Fiji on Looking Beyond Vista To Fiji and Vienna · · Score: 1

    This completely disproves the notion that British comedy is is boring and longwinded.

  6. Re:Lemme get this straight on Professor 'Packetslinger' Assigns Questionable Task · · Score: 1

    In SUNY Binghamton's defense, the situation has gotten nearly an order of magnitude better over the last 18 months. The packetshaper has had most of its operator's wrinkles rubbed out and the new wireless system is an overlay into the general network registration system they have for all of the residential areas.

    Most downtime isn't measured in multiple hours anymore, and the only significant outage comes after power gets lost across the campus.

    (PS: Jon? Is that you?)

  7. Another Film on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1
    If you're interested in another Star Wars fan film, check out To Know A Jedi. It's a fan film, like Revelations, but it's different from Revelations and a good swath of other fan films in that it doesn't take place directly within the Star Wars universe. The plot is a college graduate and his quest to build a lightsaber, but the story is centered around his devotion to this project and how it affects the relationships with his friends. All that Star Wars does is give a catalyst for the characters to play out their parts.

    Give it a shot- all you've got to lose is the time it takes to download it +90 minutes to watch it.

    A trailer, so you can try before you watch.

    The full movie,if you feel so inclined to skip the website and just watch it.

    Links cached for your downloading pleasure.

  8. Re:How did the ripples get there? on Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed · · Score: 1
    When students first learn of Newton's third law, "for every action, there's an opposite and equal reaction", teachers often give as an example that when you push against a wall, the wall pushes against you. That gives the idea to students that there must be something to push back against you (don't feel bad, some early rocket scientists thought the same thing). That is, however, not true. You don't need something to push against, you just need to exert a force in one direction, and there will be a a force in the opposite direction.

    Because of this misconception, it was originally thought that rockets wouldn't work in space, because the exhaust they put out wouldn't be able to push against the atmosphere. But hey, they do!

    Uhmm ... rockets work due to conservation of momentum, not because of some mysterious reaction force.
    And you know why conservation of momentum holds true? It's because of Newton's Third Law! Welcome to Physics 101, here's the C you earned.
  9. Re:Terminator on Robot Hall of Fame 2004 Inductees Announced · · Score: 1

    Cyborg perhaps, but just barely. The only part of him that was organic was a thin layer of skin plus a face. Everything important with the T-101 was mechanical.

  10. Re:Power is the problem on Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario · · Score: 1

    Yup. The wheel sure ain't better than anything nature's got.

  11. Re:We need to pass laws and treaties NOW. on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    This issue becomes, what traits do we consider necessary and desirable and which do we expunge from our gene pool?

  12. Re:Not for home on New Internet Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Whoa whoa whoa ... we have to worry about the 50% that use higher than average speeds? Methinks we will never solve that problem :)

  13. Re:Wow, whats up with the NY Times? on 600 PowerMacs Make One DVD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know how inaccurate that article is because you have a familiarity with the subject? Most of the paper (any paper, actually) is like that; you just don't ever notice.

  14. Re:.hack on When Videogames Know They're Videogames · · Score: 1

    So wait ... I'm only allowed to judge a show after I've watched every single episode? That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. If a random sampling of 6 or 7 episodes of a show doesn't contain anything worth watching, then it's quite safe to say that the entire series shares the same attributes as those same attributes.

  15. Re:Car Ownership on Automobiles Evolve to Live Up to Their Name · · Score: 1

    What a great idea! I think I'll start a business around it. I'll call this type of vehicle "A cab".

  16. Re:Cheap! on Matchbox Sized Color Projectors? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure you can. Just not right now.

    You think computers were destined to be the size of houses?

  17. Re:I wonder if it will take off on Wal-Mart to Offer Wal-Mart Notebooks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ubertron Mega Wassus 90009

    Dammit! My 90008 is out of style!

  18. Ffdshow on Divx Now Adware Supported Only · · Score: 1

    The submitter's comment that you have to download their adware to view the movies encoded in DivX isn't entirely accurate. DivX and a few other video codecs (including Xvid) generate MPEG-4 compliant video streams. Ffdshow is a DirectShow filter that can process any MPEG-4 stream for display (it cannot, however, be used for encoding).

    Happy viewing your Fair Use movies!

  19. Re:Linux... on Desktop Linux Sliding in Under the Radar? · · Score: 1

    With AOL 9.0 Beta

  20. Dear God on The Beast of Brussels · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dear god...

    I can only imagine how many hybrid Soviet Russia/Beowulf cluster jokes this story will generate. :)

  21. Sig (Off Topic) on IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    Your signature has a typo. The prime factorization is 17923, not 17293, *29.

  22. Re:2004 results on Interview with Voting Machine Company Reps · · Score: 1

    What?!?!
    No CowboyNeal? :-D

  23. Re:Hrmm, I wonder how long... on Building a Bigger Search Engine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Grub's clients don'tcome up with a ranking for each website they crawl; rather, they check to see if this website has changed since the last time it was crawled. For any website that has changed, the client notifies the server. The search engine asks the server which sites in its index need to be updated, and the server gleefully replies.

    Clients artificially increasing their ranking isn't an issue, since the client has nothing to do with a site's ranking.

  24. fp on Red Hat Announces Enterprise Linux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  25. +1 Funny ... on Apache 2.0.44 Released · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    or +1 Spleen Bursting?