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  1. Mac OS X? on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is MacOS X available for PCs now, or is it still only for Apple hardware?

  2. Blue-Staters? on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1

    What is a blue-stater?

  3. You've answered your own question on The Nonphotorealistic Camera · · Score: 1

    The reason stereo photography hasn't caught on is that it requires special viewing aparatus, whether it be a Viewmaster, special glasses (red/blue, polarized, or shutter) or a special monitor. As far as equipment, check out this site.

  4. Feathers on Da Vinci's Ornithopter Prepares For a Test Flight · · Score: 1

    I think the main problem is that this craft has no feathers. On a bird's wing, the feathers act like a one way valve, letting air through the wing on the upstroke, and blocking it on the downstroke. Without some sort of mechanism for letting the air through, the wing will push the craft down on the upstroke by as much as it pushes it up on the downstroke.

  5. Re:Did you miss the scale? on Lunar Helium 3 Could Meet Earth's Energy Demands · · Score: 1

    Scraping together 200 million tonnes of lunar surface will be be detectable, probably even in the dark. However, since the lunar day is two weeks long, you have plenty of time to detect any mining.

  6. Re:ING Direct's changing logon on Gone Phishing? · · Score: 1

    You must be getting phished, cause it clearly doesn't have anything beyond client number and PIN.

  7. Physics Buttons on Robert Zubrin's Mars Gashopper Airplane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gravity's a real bitch.

    The physics club at the local university used to sell buttons that read "Friction is a drag", and "Gravity is a downer".

  8. Razor Phone? on 7 Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you call a lot of people while shaving?

  9. Maybe on New LCD Flatscreen Concept: A Wedge of Plastic · · Score: 1

    Maybe they forgot that they've got the "melting screen" screensaver on their computer.

  10. My Amazing Nephew on Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record · · Score: 1

    My brother taught is toddler how to spell.

    Tom: Hayden, can you spell "encyclopedia"?
    Hayden: Yes
    Tom: Can you spell "chrysanthemum"?
    Hayden: Yes

  11. Quick! on Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the 13'th root of 2^13?

  12. Eliza's lame on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 1

    You should check out the "In Soviet Russia" or "Imagine a beowolf cluster" bots that inhabit Slashdot.

  13. Re:Sounds dangerous on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    Who's the true nerd, the one posting about a tv show, or the one who's reading Slashdot articles that are close to a week old?

  14. Re:how about a general kit? on Electronics Projects for 12-Year-Olds? · · Score: 1

    I started with a 50-in-one kit, then moved up to a 100-in-one, and finally a 200-in-one. I was in an electronics store the other day and saw a 500-in-one kit. I almost started drooling. It had an LCD display, a microprocessor, and a keyboard.

    Actually, I would love to find the manual for my 50-in-one kit. I remember it talking about "biasing the transistor" and stuff like that. It was beyond me at the time. The later kits didn't explain how the circuits work.

  15. Rental? on The VHS is Dead · · Score: 1

    Some rental stores are not ordering VHS tapes anymore. New movies are only available on DVD.

  16. It does make sense. on Point and Click Linux · · Score: 1

    You are starting the shutdown procedure

  17. Command Line? on Best Live Linux For Christmas Giving? · · Score: 1

    go with something that has a simple GUI interface. All that fancy commandline stuff scares people.

    The 90's called. They want their joke back.

    Gnome and KDE are two of the many GUIs available and they have been included in most distributions for years.

  18. Re:Sounds dangerous on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    Not an expert, merely a fan (with a small collection of often read paperbacks).

    Actually, the low rank Cylons were robots in the TV show. ( Glen Larson originally planned for the Cylons to be living aliens underneath their armor, but ABC vetoed the idea due to its non-violence standards. Their reasoning was that it would be too violent to have the Colonial warriors killing living beings so it was decided that the Cylons would be machines. Battlestar Galactica Trivia site)

  19. Re:Sounds dangerous on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the books "The Cylon Death Machine" and "Battlestar Galactica", Cylons are a reptilian race and they wear body armour. As they progress through the ranks, some of them would be augmented with second brains. If they had the right body type, they would be awarded a third brain, and rise to the rank of Imperious Leader.

  20. Re:I made a cloud chamber once... on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    Actually fog really is a low cloud.

  21. Re:Sounds dangerous on Build Your Own Cyclotron · · Score: 1

    If you think they built the Cylons, then you haven't really seen Battlestar Galactica, but a similar show by the same name.

  22. Re:The reason for Three on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    I think that they meant a software tether. In other words the second car is programmed to follow the first.

  23. So it becomes self aware... on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    Oh, what's it gonna do? Arrange the cars to spell a nasty word?

  24. Re:Why Sky*Web*? on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    Nitpicking the Nitpick:

    You are assuming that you are starting and ending along the transit line. If you are halfway between two transit lines, then you have to walk half a mile to a transit line, then half a mile to a station on that line. That makes one mile from home to station, and possibly one mile from station to destination.

  25. Re:Why Sky*Web*? on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1


    ...And I don't know why
    He invented the fly.
    Perhaps he'll die...
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