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  1. Re:Diverse? REALLY??? on Blogspace vs. NPR · · Score: 1

    Hey, I recognize that voice...

    Admit it! You're Ira Glass, aren't you?

  2. Re:Where would it have hit? on 120,000 km Is Still Too Close · · Score: 1

    Where exactly it would hit the earth depends on it's orbit. Based on my calculations of it's orbit, and the exact position of the earth at the moment of closes approach... it wouldn't hit the earth anywhere.

  3. Re:Erm on The Wayback Machine, Friend or Foe? · · Score: 1
    Why do webmasters have to "opt-out" rather than "opt-in" to be cached?
    Shouldn't the default be "don't allow spiders and caching" ? And if I want it then I should specifically allow it.

    I would have to say that the reason is because the internet is a public medium. No one should need you permission to read your webpage. That goes for users as well as spiders. Of course, if you disagree, then you can deny spiders access via the spiders.txt file, and most spiders are kind enough to respect your wishes.
  4. Re:Fake operating systems on Physics in the Movies · · Score: 1

    Interesting, except for the fact that she is using an actual 3D file browser. It's available for IRIX machines.

  5. Re:Misprint on Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block? · · Score: 1
    Point this out and we get the endless choruses of "but that's not IMPORTANT"--funny how they'll criticize some poor journalist for getting a minor technical detail incorrect, but see no problem with themselves mixing up "who's" and "whose".

    The difference is of course, that if someone makes a grammatical or speling error, then the original intent of the messages is almost always still understood by the reader based on the context. Most of the time this is automatic, without the reader even noticing the error.

    However, if a technical mistake is made in an article, then no such built in error correction is possible, as the messages is syntactically correct, though wrong. That is why it is a much graver error to make a technical mistake then to make a spelling or grammar mistake.
  6. Re:Australian Cane Toads on The Plague of Frogs · · Score: 1

    I saw that film in my humanities class on Australia. The name is Cane Toads: An Unnatural History. I absolutly loved that movie, it was bloody hilarious :)

  7. Re:Don't feed the scientologists on Google Relists Operation Clambake · · Score: 1

    Well, it said "added link", so maybe you should try following the link. It's near the bottom of the page, or just go here for the lazy folks.

  8. Re:This is.... useless on Universe Pale Turquoise, On Average · · Score: 1
    woo, it's what humans can see, it must be important
    Visible light is important to us. Tell me, who is it not important to?
  9. Re:Computers are going to change (for the better) on 20 Factors That Will Change PCs In 2002 · · Score: 1
    MRAM Don't put that speaker near it !
    Sure MRAM will primarily replace RAM at first, and RAM isn't magnetic, but it will also eventually replace disks too. Those of us who don't accidentally degauss our hard drives on a regular basis should be able to handle MRAM.
  10. Re:Where are the compilers? on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    It would be nice if the dev tools came with all copies of OS X, but they don't. If you ordered the 10.1 update from Apple (the $20 one), it came with the cd's, i think.

    Also, if your dad just wants to connect to a SMB share, that support is built into 10.1. Just type the url in the Connect To.. item in the Go menu.

    It is supposed to work well, but i have personally had troubles with it connecting to some networks.

  11. Re:And Apple never "borrowed" from MS? on Aqua Mozilla OK with Apple · · Score: 1

    I still think that despite what Steve says, MS did have previous access to Aqua when they designed IE 5.

    IE 5 was a complete design, and it suddenly became far to much like Aqua before they supposedly had access to it. When OS Public Beta was finally released, the carbonized IE fit in perfectly with the new interface without changing at all from it's OS 9 design. No way that was just a coincidence.

  12. Re:I'm all for it! on Robots Go To War · · Score: 1

    Don't be stupid, the "victims" as you call them are the terrorist groups. They can all eat lead so far as I'm concerned.

    It's not like the military is deploying these things to go hunt down Afghanistan school buses (as if they had such a thing).

  13. Re:Not hard sci-fi, but on Man-Made Black Holes Looming? · · Score: 1

    That certainly sound reasonable, but then what does happen if an electron makes contact with a smaller singularity?

    I am now stuck with the picture in my head of an electron running around helplessly with a little black hole clinging to its side

  14. Re:OS X isn't unreliable... on Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 review · · Score: 1
    Embarrassing, as it is something that many poke fun at win2k users about
    Quicktime may be fairly low level, but it's not in the kernel. I believe the criticism towards NT/2k is due to MS putting windowing routines in the kernel, which is IMHO, an entirely inappropriate place for them.