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  1. Re:Inertia & Momentum on Star Flung From Milky Way at High Speed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You are missing the point. It is leaving the galaxy. Everything else we have seen in our Galaxy is gravitationally bound to it thus it cannot leave, this is amazing because it moving above the escape velocity of the galaxy.

  2. Re:Here's the problem on Can-Spam Increased Spam · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is why it is moded "funny" and not "insightful" as most other statements of the predominate feelings seem to be.

  3. Re:MSN? What!?! on Google Still Ahead In Search Competition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unfortunatly the same people who click on banner ads. I would agree that I don't know anyone who would use MSN by choice but how many people just use the page that comes up after someone installed the OS or upgrade for them? Those are the same people who are much more likily to click on ads.

  4. Re:Mystery Science Theater 3000 on MGM's DVD Class Action Settlement · · Score: 1

    Those are NOT the MST3K titles those are the title of the real movies that MST3K did something with, all are horrible movies unless you have Joel and the gang to make them funny.

    Huf huf huf Mitchel the fat detective, hahaha I loved that one.

  5. Re:Uh, what? on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    Except that neither "K" nor "C" is a unit. Both indicated the system NOT the unit.

  6. Re:Codec w/ most market penetration on Video Formats for non-Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um isn't Quicktime a 3rd party codec? You even say it is proprietary in your post. So if people can download and install Quicktime(which you can't do anymore on XP unless you also get iTunes) why can't they install xvid? Seriously it is even simpler than installing iTunes/Quicktime given the correct link.

  7. No more "Unlimited Internet Access" on AOL Kills Usenet Access · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So I guess this means they won't be advertising their service as Unlimited Internet Access? Why is it that ISPs no longer actually provide a connection to the Internet but just a connection to port 80? Sorry this is slightly off topic.

  8. Re:What Skype is missing though... Skype IN on Google Plans Free VoIP In the UK · · Score: 1

    While I realize that most of Slashdot doesn't ever leave their computer one must realize that Skype is not in anyway the way in which VoIP will become broadly useful or popular. I am living in Italy right now and we have a phone number for Woodside California USA sitting right next to the router. It can call any real phone in the world. Skype is for people who live at their computer; Vonage, VoicePulse, etc. are for the people who just want to use the phone.

  9. Re:What's a green security clearance? on Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available · · Score: 1

    That was one amazingly stupid and amazingly fun game, I wish I was 15 again.

  10. Re:No fact of the matter prior to measurement on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    The reason that you need to interpret the state as having been in a defined state is that otherwise you get action at a distance. Specifically if I setup a system that produces a positron electrion pair and measure one the other MUST be the oposite. Thus if I measure one right after the pair creation the other is depermined and the universe will have to act as if it where the oposite particle. If we view it with your method you must assume that by measuring the particle it changes the other particle faster than light because it will ALWAYS be the opposite.

  11. Re:Coverage obligations! on Wireless Carriers looking for Elbow Room · · Score: 1

    While, I know Italy is not the same as the UK, their cell systems are owned by the same major players. What I have found is that you get great reception in the Cities but once you go outside the cities you are screwed. In the US you get some coverage even in the middle of nowhere if enough people are traveling through that area. Population coverage at 80% is probably already avaliable here in the US but you don't realize that when you lose signal you are not in a high population area. Just my 2 cents.

  12. Re:Private Industry could do this better. on President Bush's Money For Space Cometh · · Score: 1

    What reason would private industry do this? They aren't going to make money in the foreseeable future. It will cost billions to develop and then the only people that will be able to go will be the government so now instead of having all this technology in government hands we have to pay a company to get there and we can't use the techonolgy. Why would this be good?

  13. Re:Norway real estate on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    Yeah the problem with that that we have TWO polar ice caps! Which is MOSTLY on land but still had miles of ice on top.

  14. Re:WWFD? on Better Nuclear Waste Storage Plans than Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    France also has a pact with the US to store a large percentage of its nuclear waste, i.e. the US is not only responsible for the nuclear waste we are creating but also that of almost all of Europe. If you don't already know France is a power exporter, as everyone else seems to point out no one wants a power plant in the backyard well now they are all in France and the money keeps flowing in.

  15. Question on FCC Rules States Can't Regulate VoIP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And in your system how do we pay for things like law enforcement, military, science, etc. i.e. things that we don't directly use but expect our government to provide?

  16. Re:Any examples of errors in Kerry's favor? on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This would mean a lot more if you had some form of evidence other than your anicdotal stories. Did ANYONE report on this? If not then how are we to believe you?

  17. Misleading header on Origin of Cosmic Rays Revealed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is NOT the first gamma-ray image. I work on Glast which is the second generation of gammay observation satelites. EGRET was the most recent satelite to provide gamma-ray skymaps. Googled

  18. Sorry . . . on Hacking the RFID Network · · Score: 1

    it already exists: /. and we all know how well that works at solving even the most basic problem

  19. And she still married you?! on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 1

    I commend your attempt to save money by sending out notices via email but I am amazed that your partner let you. When I got engaged it had to be on nice paper with handwritten notes to too many people.

  20. Stupid Me on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    Okay I am an idiot. So be it.

  21. Re:Oh, it gets better! on Tanenbaum Rebuts Ken Brown · · Score: 1

    They took it down! Anyone have a mirror?

  22. Re:Just how do you setup WEP anyway? on CNN Notices that WiFi is Insecure · · Score: 1

    So I do have this problem but I can't not use Windows connection crap, because it is the the only way I can use WPA with the usb 2 802.11g dongle I have. Why? Cause Dlink, hasn't bothered to make their connection software support WPA. Perhaps you are using the configuration utilty that came with the card but I can't and I get the same intermitten connection problems the parent of your post mentions. I DON'T get this problem on any of the other machines I use over wireless or if I connect via a wire. Just because you don't experience a problem doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Perhaps we both have hardware that isn't well supported in windows and you do, but it really isn't hard to setup so you shouldn't say he doesn't know what he is doing. Perhaps there are just things in his and my setup that you are not familar with.

  23. And then poof it was gone! on EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003 · · Score: 1

    I read the first page then it was gone, anyone have a mirror?

  24. It isn't just the broadcaster on The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it is not just the broadcaster being told by the copyright holder how they can treat their music, which I agree should be the right of the copyright holder. The problem is that the RIAA wants to make all electronics manufacturers who make digital radios, run code to limit the users ablibties to manipulate the data once it has been sent to you. Thus the problem is not that they want to make the broadcaster include this bit it is that they want to make it illegal for me to make my own digital radio which ignores this digital bit. Thus placing electronics manufacturers in the place of having to enforce someone elses copyright, that isn't right, just like my DVD player shouldn't HAVE to only play DVDs from my region. I bought the DVD player and the DVD why can't I use them together? Same thing here I bought a digital radio but now I can't stream the music to my computer so I can listen to it throughout my house, or record my favorite radio show to listen as I go to work.

  25. Re:easy to bypass on The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that the RIAA is trying to just make it harder. They thought that tapes were the end of the world too but in the end they realized that it was just too time consuming to make copies of all your records. They worry about it now if you can make 10k copies in just a few minutes, this bit flag would only be on US electronics and not universal so the problem will still be there just harder for people in the US. Also it will mean that electronics will cost, however slightly, more due to being forced to include analysis of this bit.

    I don't think anyone would care if the RIAA wanted to make all broadcasts have a bit that says it is copyrighted, what makes us mad is that they want to force all the electronics makers to not allow the owner of the electron device to use all aspects of the device on media with this bit set.