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  1. Re:Fuel cells, anyone? Alt power sources? on New Sharp AQUOS Cordless LCD TVs · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Nikola Tesla working on wireless power? I'm pretty sure it had something to do with using microwaves to transmit power

  2. Re:Price on New Sharp AQUOS Cordless LCD TVs · · Score: 1

    I probably make less money than you, and I bought a 27" FD Wega, cost me $1000CDN (About 600US?). That was for a low end Wega too, btw.

    Had I more money at the time i would have bought LCD or bigscreen projection.

  3. Re:Scroll wheel click on 3-button Optical Mice? · · Score: 1

    I love my Logitech MouseMan+Scroll
    two buttons + one middle button/scroll wheel, plus one button at the thumb, great when mapped to 'Back' for browsing the internet...

  4. Re:Place your bets! on Building ATA RAID and SMP Support into Slackware 9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's 7:08 PM.
    9 minues
    It is easier/better/more difficut BUT more rewarding in Gentoo.

  5. Obligatory... on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 1

    "My favorite sci-fi series' starship is bigger than your favorite sci-fi series' starship..."

  6. Re:Robotics? on Need a Way to Use 225m of Blue Duct Tape? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure most of the students would eat the 'pills' themselves... I went to a comp & netwroking colllege in Toronto here, and by the 6th week of school, half of the students I started with were pretty much addicted to e.

  7. As long as they don't give out... on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1

    bush.iq

    Such a paradox could destroy the fabric of cyberspace as we know it...

  8. Re:And the GPL requires you to release your source on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    Aren't both of those references to the borg? You continually pay for Windows for the rest of your forseeable future AND it gives you tons of nasty viruses (unless you use protection, but even that isn't 100%)

  9. Re:Newborn License on Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses · · Score: 1

    you're required to purchase a Windows 2014 license for your new child, along with lifetime maintenance.

    And when your child dies in a car accident when he's 4, you have to continue paying for the lifetime maintenance up to and including the average life expectancy of said child (I believe we're well over 80 years in Canada, your geolocation may vary).
    Hooray! I get to pay for my dead child to use Windows for another 76 years!!

  10. Re:Choice of names... on Hypernova Erupts as Global Telescopes Scramble · · Score: 1

    And perhaps you might have gotten modded higher had you realized that it's actually just "Global Optical Automatic Transient Search Experiment", in CX (Christmas Island), of course

  11. Re:Yes, Microsoft is pirating their own software. on Microsoft Pirating Their Own Software? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget... the makers of vi and Emacs coordinate to make a uber-editor and there are no more vi/emacs flame wars...

  12. Re:Please. on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    Written by no one

    They could have been at least a little clever and given the ccredit to not one...

  13. Re:Burn broadcast to DVD? on New Sony PVR/DVR and DVD Recorder · · Score: 1

    My Sony DVD player plays VCDs and SVCDs on either CD-R or CD-RW dics. Most of my friends players play at least VCDs.
    The only people I know who can't play VCDs on their DVD players are the very early adopters... as early DVD players didn't play VCDs.
    Most now do.

  14. Re:brand confusion on Beige Box Apple Clone? · · Score: 1

    So if he were to clone an Xserve-Raid would it be a "Big Mac in a Box"?

  15. Re:It was Mentioned THREE times... on GTA: Sin City Announced · · Score: 1

    I think that's his point... they (from grandparent) haven't said ONE WORD, they've said a few hundred...

  16. Re:What I really would like to see (and play)... on GTA: Sin City Announced · · Score: 1

    GTA: Coruscant
    ohhh yeah!!! Just think of the possible scenarios.


    "Want to buy some deathsticks?"
    *pulling out the flamethrower...
    "No, but since I'm such a nice guy... I'll light yours for ya..."

    Your Jedi Mind Tricks aint got shit on me...

  17. Re:Why is everyone so pissed? on George Foreman USB iGrill · · Score: 1

    Sometimes it's the "Find the fake story", others it's the "Find the real story" game

    And this year it's "Find the Non-Dupe Story"...

  18. Re:Just one question on George Foreman USB iGrill · · Score: 1

    Has anybody made the seemingly-obligatory 'Cult of the Dead Cow' joke in relationship to this thing yet?

    No, of course not.
    Are you stupid? Just give me one reason I don't take one of those iGrills and shove it up your BackOrifice...

  19. Re:Not much on Last-Mile Fiber Optic · · Score: 1

    I would hope your primary firewall & router, along with your primary webserver, dns, pop, etc (even if you run them on separate boxes) and your primary switch, which connects to all the jacks you installed hroughout the house would fit in a closet.
    Store your secondary servers in your computer/server room.

    As a side note, noone mentioned anything about size. The wiring 'closet' you get built into your house could be large rnough for 4 7' racks that you cold walk around and still be a closet.

  20. Re:The meaning of Profeesional Engineer in Texas on Are Programmers Engineers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, what's the Software Engineering Exam in Texas like? Hard?

    I'm guessing its almost as difficult as the exam that allows you to run for governor.

  21. Re:Not one but two !!! on Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs · · Score: 1

    They'll buy & bury the technology soon enough.

    Because it is the rotational energy from Orwell's, Franklin's, and Jefferson's graves that is to be harnessed for energy, is the technology not already buried?

  22. Re:What will *really* happen... on Michigan First With A Law That Could Outlaw VPNs · · Score: 1

    "Kid, I'm giving you express authority to send you all the packets you want. Get the hell off the support line." ...
    "Blanket approval. Go for it."

    Just make sure you record those calls and document them appropriately.
    Oh, and don't change ISPs, those statements of exemption only apply to that ISP.
    While i'm on it, i doubt the employees at the callcenter have the authority to govern what does and doesn't go on their network, so this doesn't work.
    Maybe a call to the management, or a few thousand calls until they say yes.

    "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN", "Bell, can I have a VPN"... [ad infinitum]

  23. Re:RUN FOR THE HILLS! on The World's Largest Really Small Thing · · Score: 1

    The problem with that logic is as follows:
    /. editors post duplicates, therefore they don't actually read /.
    Since they don't read /., why would they see an article on duplicate detection algorithms?

    As well, since it is commonly known that noone actualy reads the articles, why should the /. editors?

    Between these two points, a discussion on dupe detection would be trite.

  24. Re:G.O.D. on Games on Demand · · Score: 1

    Walking down a path, you see two tombstones, side by side.
    On one is engraved: 'God Is Dead ...Nietzsche'.
    On the other; 'Nietzsche is Dead ...God'

    Which one do you tip over?
    [Left] [Right]

  25. Re:Cheating IS fun.... on Cheating Online Gamers · · Score: 1

    ahh... good ol' "Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris"

    Anyone else ever play that game?