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  1. Search Space Size on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't just *allowing* the use of numbers and special characters automatically increase the search space size, regardless of whether the user takes advantage of them? It's the fact that cracking systems will focus on all letters first which makes them weaker, right?

  2. Re:Was this TMBG? on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    If that's TMBG, I'll eat an eggplant (and I really don't like eggplant).

  3. Re:Was this TMBG? on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    I'm not John, John, any of the Dans, or Marty, but to answer your question, you probably heard On the Drag, from the Working Undercover for the Man EP. Info here: http://tmbw.net/wiki/On_The_Drag

  4. Disney on Robots Draw Faces and Doodle For London Gallery Goers · · Score: 1

    Weren't there Disney robots that did this in EPCOT Center, back in the 80s?

  5. Helium shortage? on Crew Builds a Flying House Modeled After UP! · · Score: 1

    So *this* is why we have a pending helium shortage?

  6. Just ask Sir Bedevir on IBM Says New Software Will Help Predict Natural Disasters · · Score: 1

    "Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes."

  7. Re:Kinf of Funny as News on AI Pushing the Boundaries of Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    This would be news to the command crew of the Enterprise D, who couldn't come to grips with the idea of turning more flight control over to the computer in Booby Trap.

  8. Re:It astounds me on Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's what I've always called it. And a T is a three-way intersection.

  9. Re:Digital Watches are Good on Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor · · Score: 1

    I still think they are a pretty neat idea.

  10. Re:Drumbeat? on Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking. I hope it doesn't turn the Mozilla project into a mad super-villain, which in turn changes all other software on Earth into copies of itself.

  11. Re:Houston Has Similar Plans on Vermont City Almost Encased In a 1-Mile Dome · · Score: 1

    And two victory points!

  12. Re:Not a threat on Dad Builds 700 Pound Cannon for Son's Birthday · · Score: 1

    Hey, if the guys with cannons say Baltimore is a state, who's going to argue?

  13. Re:Passes Acid3 on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    I get, alternately, 97/100 or 100/100, with a "LINKTEST FAILED" message in red regardless of the score. According to an unsubstantiated statement on Wikipedia's Acid3 page, "The testing report claims that test 26 took too long and thus is not within the 30fps criteria."

  14. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Only if you have an inexhaustible supply of 50 year periods.

  15. Re:Interface Design on FAA Gets a Big-Screen Touch Table · · Score: 2, Informative

    The video in TFA clearly shows people moving their fingers apart to zoom in, and together to zoom out. The article got it wrong. In fact, it looks like that part of the article is from a press release, so that would mean than NG got their own damn system wrong. Idiots.

  16. Re:Just wrote to my Congresswoman on Spy Act of 2007 = "Vendors Can Spy Act" · · Score: 1

    I just called my Congressman's office (Ed Markey) since he's on the full Energy and Commerce Committee, and voice my concern and general opposition to the bill as written, citing specifically the Limitations section. Then I saw the link to the list of sponsors, and much to my dismay he's one of 'em. Time to fire off an email.

  17. Why bother with a manned mission.... on NASA Proposes Manned Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    We should be aspiring to send an intelligent squid, instead. Maybe it can find some artificial wormhole device embedded in an NEO, and its progeny will go on to conquer to Trojan asteroids...

  18. Re:Monty Python on "Xena" To Be Named Eris · · Score: 1
    This isn't a planet license; this is a Kuiper Belt object license with the words "Kuiper Belt" crossed out and the word "planet" written in in crayon.
    The man didn't have the right form.
    What man?
    The man from the International Astronomical Union van.
    The International Looney van, you mean.
  19. Re:Monty Python on "Xena" To Be Named Eris · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Are all your planets called Eris?"

  20. Re:What a Confusing Article on Net Neutrality a Threat to Online OSes? · · Score: 1

    I agree--this "article" is shit. I thought he was arguing that the passage of the bill *without* net neutrality would hurt the development of "online OSes", but since I can't really follow the rambling text, I could be wrong. The site's editor(s) should be ensuring that poorly written material like this gets revised before we have to suffer through it.

  21. Re:Aluminium? on A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium · · Score: 2, Funny
    I think Bender put it best:


          Bender: I'll miss you, Leela. I know you're just a carbon-based
                      life-form, but I'll always think of you as a big pile of
                      titanium. [Sniffles]
              Fry: What Bender means is, you're really brave, and smart and
                      beautiful and a great friend.
          Bender: Just like titanium. [Sobs]
            Leela: This is all a big load. I was the one trying to save
                      the Popplers. You [Points at Fry] were sucking them
                      down like the fat hog you are, and you [Points at
                      Bender] were stepping on them for fun. You both should
                      be in here instead of me.
          Bender: Someone's acting awfully aluminum.
  22. Re:Stop the presses! on 'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    I'll feed the ignorant foul-mouthed troll... Want QuickTime without iTunes? Go to the QuickTime download page (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/) and discover the link labeled "QuickTime Standalone Installer" right in the lower-middle part of the page. They don't shout it from the rooftops, but they're not doing anything to hide it. So STFU.

  23. Re:Viiv? on Intel Branding Media Center PCs as "Viiv" · · Score: 1
    YES WE'VE GOT A BLOODY VIDEO!!!

    I think that's the only The Young Ones I've seen.

  24. Re:weight on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 1
    A number of other people have addressed the posed question of how do they determine a planet's mass. What I figured people would be baffled by is the question I had: How do they determine the planet's diameter? TFA to the rescue!
    This planet also passes in front of its star and dims the starlight. "When that happens, we are able to calculate the physical size of the planet, whether it has a solid core, and even what its atmosphere is like," said Debra Fischer. She is consortium team leader and professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University, California.
    Pretty straighforward. I know they've used this technique in the past for more massive objects (like binary star companions) but I was surprised they could use it for something this "small".
  25. Re:MUST STOP THEM! on Drilling to the Center of the Earth · · Score: 1

    Well, if that's what it takes to motivate a serious Mars program... Utopia Planitia, here we come!

    Meanwhile, it's too bad that serious scientific projects only make us (myself included) think of sci-fi consequences.