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  1. Re:This... on Baby Steps Toward Quantum Computers · · Score: 1

    nah, you cant use it for coms, you have to transport the information about the first entangled particle to the second entangled particle using normal communication mechanisms.

  2. Re:Copy protection sucks on StarForce Copy Protection Causing User Ire · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's just because StarForce is a piece of crap.

  3. Re:DMCA - Our gift to you, Australia! on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined · · Score: 0

    I made it up obviously! Still, what's the percentage of IP exports? Less than a 1%. Still a good trade.

  4. Re:DMCA - Our gift to you, Australia! on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined · · Score: 0

    hmm. let's think about this. Copyright imports, exports and infringements add up to less than a fraction of a percent of our GDP. Sugar, wheat and wool on the other hand makes up 90% of our GDP. So yeah, I kinda think that from a free trade perspective it's worth it.

  5. Re:Already failed once! on Mathematician Claims Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    Who says his formulation for general relativity is correct? In fact there's a number of people who claim otherwise and it's because of this attitude of "Einstein must be right" that we have concepts like dark matter.

  6. Re:New Slashdot Policy on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hate to tell you this, but Post-It notes are patented. So are the little bits of plastic on the end of your shoelaces. It's common and normal practice to patent things that are obvious because everything is obvious after someone else has done it.

  7. Re:Gee, I wonder why? on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    ummm no. Microsoft likes money and as much as people whine and complain about worms and viruses, there really aint too many people who blame Microsoft for these things so much so as to not buy their product. Trueth be told, Microsoft hasn't put up a reward because they hate worms and viruses, they've put up a reward because it's a cheap way to show that they're doing something about the security of their products. But the worm writers don't see it that way. They honestly think they've gotten under Bill Gates' skin.

  8. Re:Gee, I wonder why? on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 1

    begging to be hacked

    She was asking for it.

    if you leave your door open the thieves will come

    Thieves have something to gain, worm writers have nothing to gain except how their rebellious act makes them feel.

  9. Gee, I wonder why? on New Viruses Hit 30-Month High · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it freakin' obvious that computer viruses are written by rebellious and outcast youth who (like most youths) consider themselves invincible? Anyone with the slightest incling of the rebellious mind will recognise that arresting someone for an act will encourage others to commit the same act. German kids used to consider it "kinda wrong" to write and release worms, now the government has gone ahead re-enforced the wrongness of that act. The fact that Microsoft ponied up a cash reward just broadcasts the message that writing and distributing worms really pisses them off (whereas before worm writers had nothing but an assumption). That message is now clear. Hate Microsoft? Wanna rebel against society? Write a worm!

  10. Re:Are you nuts? on Homemade Heads Up Display For Bicycling? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jesus, did ya ever think that the poster might be a responsible cycler who rides in the suburbs instead of clogging up the streets in the city.

  11. Re:x-prize on Blimps... In... Space... · · Score: 1

    Can you supply us with links to this discussion (and in particular, the math). That's what shocked me most about their site, there's no whitepapers with graphs and figures, not even a primer on airships.

  12. Re:Hey, that's not cool. on Brent Bozell on Nudity in Upcoming Video Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    So if I don't want a family I can't be in a relationship. It would appear that the reach of Hugh Hefner did not extend to you. BTW - try not to get all your life experience from movies (especially ones with Woody Harelson in them).

  13. Hey, that's not cool. on Brent Bozell on Nudity in Upcoming Video Games · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You, too, can be a sleazy pornographer like Hugh Hefner, who in this game's vision is about 30 years younger and resembles Superman more than the dirty old man he is.

    Damn, nice unbiased article there. If Mr Bozell wasn't such an ignorant jerk he'd know that Hugh Hefner is anything but a sleazy pornographer. He not only affected the way people perceived nudity, but he also popularized a way of life that was hardly known in the fifties. Hefner showed society that it was ok to shun marriage, kids and the picket fence. That both men and women could be sexual creatures without the shackles of moral expectations such as the presumption of family. The equility of the working couple would never have been possible without Hefner.

  14. Re:Defect on SETI@home Turns Five Today · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I too disagree with the "if we all work together we can make space travel happen". It's like saying that if we all work together we can eliminate hunger, yeah, we can, but it aint gunna happen. More likely some physics student will have a stroke of genius and the entrepreneurial spirit to turn it into something more than yet another theory of reality. Or a commercial entity will find something in space remotely valuable and lay down the ground work to get to it. The era of government commitment to long term space projects is dead. NASA is all about bang-for-buck small missions now. Consider a mission to the solar foci. This is not beyond our current technological means. If we all worked together we could up and build one of these and in about 25 years we'd have the best telescope ever (radio and optical). So where's the international committee with significant funding to get this happening? There isn't one, because there is no business case and there's a significant chance of failure. So even with the most stable GDP and the most peaceful and enlightened of people, why would there be international co-operation to get this done? Maybe if space technology was so damn cheap that you could build it yourself (like software for example) then maybe we could expect our species to become a space-faring one. But even then, we're making some assumptions about the kind of production available to individuals or even international groups. Yes, we may one day have nanotechnology that could conceivably make production of space technology as feasible as production of software but who is to say how available that technology will be.

  15. Re:Many Worlds Theory Invalidated on The Home Parallel Universe Test · · Score: 1

    maybe he ment essentially but how are we to know? Attempting to measure 't' may have actually resulted in a measurement of 'c' but had we left well alone the letter would have remained 't'. I think this is just more evidente of the transatcional interpretacion of quantum physics.

  16. What crime was committed? on Flash Mob Gang Warfare · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I wanna get together with my friends and beat the shit out of a bunch of other consenting adults why is that a police matter? If two teams were hanging out on #football, finally got sick of hearing the other team slag them and demanded a game, no-one would even blink an eyelid. Just because life and death brawling is not your thing doesn't mean others shouldn't be free to do it. If it's ok to arrest these "gangs" for fighting then please arrest every amature football player too.

  17. We have shit tools on First Commercial C++ Development Refactoring Tool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we know it, we get over it. There's no unix version so I guess I won't even try this tool. Seems pretty sad that we can write a compiler but not a simple refactoring tool, but hey, no-one ever said parsing C++ was easy.

  18. Re:Sigh. It's not a "feature" of other languages.. on A Glance At Garbage Collection In OO Languages · · Score: 0, Troll

    God this is crap.

  19. Re:please explain... on Synthetic Life In The Lab · · Score: 1

    It was a caption in the first 2 seconds of the movie. Also they talk about it a little when he finds the snake.

  20. What the hell is she going to do with that? on OO.org Selects Its Own Sea Bird · · Score: 5, Funny
    Andrea receives a great prize of a web-hosting service for one year, 200 Mb of web space on a Linux server, with 50 IMAP/POP3 mailboxes (protected from virus and spam), unlimited aliases, one IP address, PHP/MySQL/PostGreSQL support, and the registration of an .it .com .net or .org domain name.

    Uhhh.. she's 15. I guess we know why her sister's boyfriend talked her into contributing.

  21. Excuse me? Hyperspace, not light speed. on Star Wars Galaxies Takes Jump To Lightspeed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe I'm just an old fart and correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the Star Wars faster-than-light travel called Hyperspace? Where'd this light speed shit come from?

  22. Re:Song of the piracy apologist Repost on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Copyright infringment is arguably more accurate (since you're infringing on exclusivity granted to someone else), but violation or illegal is certainly nice and accurate.

    Maybe where you live but copyright infringement is not a crime in my country (yet), it's a civil matter. Therefore "illegal" is not accurate, it's flat out wrong and it serves the purpose of making people fear sharing with their neighbour because they think they could go to jail. The correct term is "unlawful". For example, slander can be unlawful but it cannot be illegal. You can be sued for slander but you can't go to jail (how obsurd would that be?) Copyright infringement is the same.

  23. Re:Basics tasks & understanding of the UI (on on Friedman on Linux Desktop Expectations · · Score: 1

    Windows users pull their hair out. Many of them say "damn it, this is just too hard" and go buy a Mac. Many Windows users say "good riddance".

  24. Re:Basics tasks & understanding of the UI (on on Friedman on Linux Desktop Expectations · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This just shows that Microsoft Windows and Linux .* are as unusable as each other. Put a Mac into the mix and you'll see a dramatic different in usability.

  25. Man this is pathetic reporting. on Bad News for Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1, Troll

    Article has next to nothing to do with the blurb.. maybe the Slashdot "editors" should RTFA before posting.