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  1. Re:How about supergun or space elevator? on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Generally, magma as we know it should be hot enough to melt any container that we can think up. Therefore, the radioactive material will spread throughout a large volume of magma, reducing it's effects. I think the best idea I've heard yet is to make it into glass and dump it. No fuss, no muss.

  2. Re:Are they purposely shooting their foot? on MS Releases License For Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    Care to list those sites? I'm getting, as the most requested sites by Netcraft, these sites running Windows/IIS:

    • https://www.microsoft.com
    • http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk
    • http://www.linuxworldexpo.com

    All of the rest in the top 10 are running Linux, FreeBSD, or in the case of Google, something custom.

  3. Re:Quick! Send in your prior art! on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    The diff command analyzes the two given files and prints the differences. Like most unix commands, it returns nothing if there is nothing to report.

  4. Re:Why do they even try? on Microsoft Patents sudo · · Score: 1

    Thus the original reason for the patent process.

  5. Re:V2G? on Around The Country Without Gasoline · · Score: 1

    One word:

    A-L-T-E-R-N-A-T-O-R

  6. Re:How are narrow-angle traffic-signals done? on Integrated Reflector Could Lead to Ubiquitous LEDs · · Score: 5, Informative

    These lights use a Fresnel Lens to direct the light from the bulb or LED cluster to only the lane for which it is intended.

    wikipedia link

  7. Re:Eat food? on TMBG on DRM · · Score: 1

    The Bush site had a WHOLE SECTION dedicated to Kerry.

  8. Re:So Lemme Get This Straight.... on Solar Winds to Protect Earth During Magnetic Pole Reversal · · Score: 2, Informative

    But when the magnetic field changes, your compass will be worth jack squat because you won't know whether it's pointing the right direction.

    GPS works regardless of the magnetic field, except in cases where a satilite goes out because of excess radiation, but thats why there's so many of them.

  9. Re:heh on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 1

    A Dane Cook reference. Excellent. I only wish I had mod points.

  10. Re:Just run Spybot on Spyware Becoming Worst Tech Support Problem · · Score: 1

    If I were you, I would put a *really* hard firewall between the line machines and the outside world. The cost of a generic pc and OpenBSD far outweighs the cost of lost production time.

  11. Re:But what is the price? on A Camaro That Leaves A Wake · · Score: 1

    In the Wisconsin Dells (northwest of Milwaukee), there are several DUKW's in use for water tours. linky

  12. This has been around for a *long* time on Windows XP 64-Bit Customer Preview Program · · Score: 1

    I have a relative that works at Microsoft, and as part of an internal promotion thing she has a bunch of three-disk sets. 1st disk is WinXP Home, 2nd is Pro, and the 3rd is XP 64bit. This has to have been at least a year ago.

  13. Re:XP's killed the glory... on Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to google up how to do this. Think you could share?

  14. Pssssst.... [Re:Tiny ... very tiny.] on Mars Express Sends Back First Photo of Mars · · Score: 1

    I think he was referring to the moon...

  15. Re:ATM Horror on Diebold ATMs hit by Nachi Worm · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Navy does use Windows NT. See here.

    Choice quote: The Navy selected NT 4.0 as the standard operating system aboard the Yorktown for its reliability, functionality, low cost and ease of integration, said Lt. Danny Bethel, Yorktown's electronics material officer. NT runs the Yorktown's integrated bridge, engineering, condition assessment and damage control systems.

  16. Re:Looks like they really had to stretch on 5 Reasons Not to Buy an iPod · · Score: 1, Informative

    The buffer *will* run out if you're playing AIFF files. The files are too big to completely fit in there and the harddrive has to spin up in the middle of the song to refill the buffer, hence the skip.

  17. Re:What are dongles on Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA Exemptions · · Score: 1

    I know a guy that works on telephony systems that run on "commodity" hardware (high end intel and telephony boards) and WinNT. They sell the box as a unit and include a dongle for the software. There are actually a lot of small niche applications that use these, not just graphics apps.

  18. Re:Did he get the bill from Customs yet? on For Americans, Imported Textbooks Can Be Cheaper · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You have to file a tax return if you make over USD 3500. However, it would be fairly easy to hide this income since he didn't pay any tax on it to begin with.

  19. Re:How about Stunts? on TrackMania Racing Construction Kit Revealed · · Score: 1

    Now there was a great game. I remember playing it on my stepdad's old black'n'white vga monitor back in the day. It was one of the first games I ever pirated. Floppy copied it and xeroxed the code sheet.

  20. PBS and National Geographic on Wanted: a Real Science Channel · · Score: 1

    Does nobody remember the program NOVA on PBS? That was/is hardcore science for the masses. Come to think of it, almost any scientific program thats on PBS is "real" science.

    National Geographic Channel is also composed of almost all real science stuff. I don't think I've ever seen a sensationalistic program on there.

  21. Re:My own experience from No Windows to XP... on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing is, the linux server has been doing the same thing, over and over, for the past year. I'm willing to bet that its config hasn't been changed in that year at all.

    With the Windows machines, they're probably unstable because of the very fact that they're being used for development purposes, having libraries, IDEs, and other software packages installed, uninstalled, upgraded, updated, patched, etc.

    You can't really compare the two when they're not being used for the same purpose.

  22. Re:Ummm ..... on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 2, Informative

    The only person in the entire congress to vote against the USA PATRIOT act was Senator Feingold of Wisconsin (my home state). If he ever runs for president he can count on my vote for that fact alone, never mind his excelent track record.

  23. pdfLaTeX and the Memoir class on Electronic Publishing Using Free Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would use pdfLaTeX to produce pdf directly from LaTeX source. It can generate hyperlinks automatically when it creates the table of contents and the index. Also, I would use the Memoir class to provide layout macros. This offers much more flexibility in layout than the generic LaTeX classes, and the first part of the manual is a great reference for typesetting in general.

    They're both in CTAN, which I assume you know about since you already use LaTeX.

  24. Re:Perhaps too obvious, but on Microsoft Wants to Take on Google · · Score: 1