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  1. Re:All I Want.. on Ford Pulls The Plug on Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    There's no friction on the moon?

  2. Slashdotting on Net Traffic Shocks Mimic Earthquakes · · Score: 2

    So what does a Slashdotting rank on the Richter Scale?

  3. Re:Perl Beginners on Ask Larry Wall · · Score: 2

    The point is that 99% of tasks, especially online, don't need the speed of C/C++, so you are better off saving developer time by using a higher level language.

  4. Re:Pennies... on Police Database Lists 'Future Criminals' · · Score: 1

    And how exactly does you dna get on a penny?

  5. Re:Kook-Aid? on Grubb for Congress. By Weblog. · · Score: 3, Informative

    'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test' Tom Wolfe

    In this case I think it just means buying into something, i.e. having her own weblog.

  6. Re:They're running out of book topics on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    Interesting mine is from a sourcemage box and the shutils package...

  7. Re:Geek uniform? on Interview With Shawn Gordon of TheKompany · · Score: 1

    Would you rather aphone worn internally?

  8. Re:spot the difference on Interview With Andreas Pour of KDE · · Score: 1

    If there are 9 desktops, and all but one have 10% usership, then the last one is the most used, even though the majority don't use it.

  9. Re:The only problem I see with this ... on Linux and Public Access Computing? · · Score: 2

    Can't you password protect lilo and/or have it not display a prompt?

  10. Challenge on Broadband To Hit The South Pole · · Score: 5, Funny

    This seems like an awefully expensive, challenging way to fix this problem. Are they going to need repeters to stretch fiber that distance?

  11. Re:They're running out of book topics on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 1

    What's possible worse is that on my system true is a 4k binary with dynamic links to two libraries!

  12. Re:They're running out of book topics on Vi IMproved -- Vim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, this one is the last on the list, ls has too many options...

  13. Re:Too Hot? on Watercooling Made Easy · · Score: 1

    1.7GHZ Celeron????????

  14. Too Hot? on Watercooling Made Easy · · Score: 2

    How hot is considered too hot? I'm not overclocking, so I guess I am very likely OK. But how hot is too hot of a 1.3Ghz Celeron? Intel only seems to care about ambient case temp.

  15. Re:Cool on 1-Kilometer Tower Of Power · · Score: 1

    Basically in comparison, it sucks. With regards to both land use and building cost(material and $) it is massively inefficient. Maybe if you had some enormous greenhouse it might make sense to tack a chimney onto it, but this is retarded.

  16. Re:The economics of region encoding on DVD Region Encoding on Verge of Collapse? · · Score: 2

    I believe this is also refered to as discriminatory pricing, which in most situations is illegal.

  17. Re:I'm going to pass on the mower on Internet-enabled Robot to Mow Lawns · · Score: 1

    No no no no. Combined with This!

  18. Re:Link.. on The Ultimate Gaming Table · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Interesting, so he just took the actual page down, the pictures are still there...

  19. Re:CUT THE HYPE. on Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC · · Score: 1

    $5-$10 for a floppy starts to get near 3-5% of the total cost at these level, that's a significant chunk. Besides, who uses floppies?

  20. Re:Slashdot effect / bad neighbor? on The Ultimate Gaming Table · · Score: 1

    I think it seems more likely that the content is just gone. All connections return a 404...

  21. Re:Perl DBI on Coding for Multiple Databases in C/C++? · · Score: 2

    If you want a totally cross-database app, you are going to have to give up little features of each database and rework your queries into standard SQL.

  22. Re:I vote for 100 year old designs on In Case of Armageddon, Break Out the GIS · · Score: 2

    Tae a read of "From Our House to Bauhaus" by Tom Wolfe, a great humourous overview of modern architechture.

  23. Re:tiredness on Gyroscopic Mouse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article says it has an optical sensor as well. So you can use it as a desk mouse, and then use it in the air if/when you want/need to.

  24. Re:Them MIT kids are SWUFT! on MIT vs. Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    Actually, with Blackjack at least it is good enough to know the relative counts of cards good for you to cards good for the dealer. So if you see an ace or ten, add one, small cards subtract 1. When you count is positive you bet higher, when it is negative you bet the minimum.

  25. Algorithm on Cute tricks with the Google API · · Score: 2

    Does any one know of open resources for graph visualization stuf like this? There solution is open source, but I would be very interested in just the algorithm for taking a graph of relations and plotting them.