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  1. Well there's your problem on MIT Sues Frank Gehry Over Buggy $300M CS Building · · Score: 1

    It was built a bit crooked.

  2. Yes. Ars. on Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? · · Score: 1

    The Ars science journal, Nobel Intent provides me with my daily science geek fix. Perhaps it isn't dumbed down enough for most folks?

  3. Diesel? on Spider-Like Catamaran Travels 5,000 Miles On One Tank · · Score: 1

    Looks like it might run on dilithium crystals instead.

  4. Still don't get it. on Appeals Court Tosses $11M Spamhaus Judgement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shouldn't I be able to list any domain or IP in any database I please? Isn't it the responsibility of the people using the database to determine whether it's a bad idea? Isn't the real issue between the people blocking email and their customers who are missing email?

  5. Re:Maybe its because... on Playing Music Slows Vista Network Performance? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the OS is comparing all the packet data to the sound output to see if you're using playback to decrypt your DRMed audio and then sending the decrypted audio over the network.

  6. Re:Not ALL gambling banned on Second Life Shuts Down Gambling · · Score: 1

    ...rely on chance or random number generation...

    Seems like any unpredictable or probabilistic event falls under "chance"?

  7. Fair game on TimeWarner DNS Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Anything goes on the Eris Free Network.

  8. Re:What about tic-tac-toe? on Checkers Solved, Unbeatable Database Created · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. I've written a brute-force tic-tac-toe solver (in PROLOG...ugh) for an undergraduate programming assignment. It's pretty trivial.

  9. Re:So.... on Germany Declares Hacking Tools Illegal · · Score: 1

    Right, so we just add a disclaimer to our scanning tools, "for authorized use only" and we can distribute them as we wish? That renders the law completely useless other than a means of putting haxors (to avoid either overloaded term "hacker" and "cracker") in double jeopardy, since haxing is already illegal.

  10. Re:Belonging to a vigilant pack IS selfish. on The Drive For Altruism Is Hardwired · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right! What we perceive as altruism is actually spreading goodwill, whether we realize it or not. When we're in trouble it helps to be thought of as a nice person.

    It also makes sense on a genetic level...genes cooperating to maintain a large gene pool in which to replicate. (DNA itself is a series of cooperating "altruistic" genes, many of which are even freeloaders!)

    On the flipside, sometimes one needs a scarce resource to survive and propagate, and you end up with the classical form of selfishness.

  11. Re:Major Nerd issue : H-1b on Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds? · · Score: 1

    Many of my best tech coworkers are immigrants and we'd be screwed without them. The US isn't producing enough domestic talent, so businesses will either (a) hire immigrants or (b) outsource to remain competitive. Otherwise foreign companies will simply beat us. I'll vote for them to come here and pay American taxes.

  12. species nitpick on Female Sharks Can Reproduce Alone · · Score: 1

    Unless modern sharks can reproduce with the earliest sharks, I don't think they'd be classified as the same species. I think you mean that the Selachimorpha superorder is ancient.

  13. Patents? on Google Pushes Open Source OCR · · Score: 1

    One would assume that OCR is a heavily patented space, and a patent search seems to agree. Caere could make things difficult for the competition.

  14. Actually, it does sound strangely familiar. on Bad Math Causes Explosion at CERN Collider · · Score: 1

    The accelerator is designed to smash together protons, a kind of sub-atomic particle, at near light speed.

    The LHC itself comprises two pipes, each containing a beam of protons traveling at near-light speed that are steered around the circular tunnel by powerful magnets.

    No wonder there was an explosion! We have seen this before:

    Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
    Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
    Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
    Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

  15. 3D Martian Flyover Movies! on 3D Martian Flyover Movies · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, not only is there intelligent life on Mars, we've got 3D footage of them flying over us? Do they appear threatening? Any evidence of abduction?

  16. He didn't stand a chance. on 'Gates for President' Group Gives Up · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gates: I'm not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I'm a huge believer in. There's a lot of merit in the moral aspects of religion. I think it can have a very very positive impact.

  17. Furry for president? on John Edwards' Campaign Enters Second Life · · Score: 1

    John Edwards just officially lost whatever chance he had at my vote. Next, please.

  18. Why just ad hoc? on "Free Wi-Fi" Scam In the Wild · · Score: 4, Informative

    With Linux and the hostap driver I can set up a legitimate access point. Ad hoc isn't a necessary part of this scam, and I don't see how avoiding ad hoc networks will prevent anything.

  19. Two things on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    For folks saying "big deal":

    1. Wrong agency. This isn't the FBI here, or another domestic law enforcement agency, it's the armed forces. Protecting bases is a BS excuse.
    2. No warrants. The only reason you don't ask for a warrant is when the judge would likely say "no".

    This is the problem. This what makes it different from legal inquiries of your credit record by the government.

  20. Rovers are signs of intelligent life! on Mars Probe May Have Spotted Sojourner Rover · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Mars so boring now that we're just sending things there to look at other things we've sent there?

  21. That's just silly. on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    If you're that over-provisioned, you're just throwing away money, especially when you sell game consoles at a loss. If extra system resources are available, some game would use it if they could. That is, if some other aspect of the system design isn't bottlenecking performance.

  22. Let the cheats begin! on Last Chance to Help Free Ryzom · · Score: 1

    How's an open source MMORPG going to stop cheaters who have the source code to presumably both the client and server software?

  23. Re:Unfortunatley, I must side with the extremists. on Wal-Mart Asked to Drop Christian Video Game · · Score: 1

    *sigh*. The Constitution guarantees free speech under the law, not free speech at Wal-Mart. They aren't saying the game should be illegal; they're saying Wal-Mart should be ashamed to sell it and pull it off their shelves. Big difference.

  24. Good! on Any Prospect of Serenity Sequel Quashed · · Score: 1

    Don't go ruin it like Star Wars and The Matrix. Do something new and awesome.

  25. Shhhh. I'm hunting wabbits. on Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides · · Score: 1

    Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd taught me that if I stick my finger into the barrel then I can't get shot.