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  1. Re:exaust on Jet Engine on a Chip · · Score: 1

    Here is an idea. Instead of nitrogen, just have a tank of compressed air that you could pump up manually via a foot/hand pump. My idea would be that this turbine would be a suppliment for a battery in the laptop, so when you started to run low on pressure just give it a couple of pumps and off you go again. I can't imagine that you'd need anything more than 20lbs/in^2 (which is easily achievable with a hand pump) and this thing would last a very long time.

  2. Excellent! on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suspect that the mozilla developers will be busy using this same tool to vigorously debug their application...

    *shrugs*

    So, if you feed IE random crap it doesn't crash? Too bad when you feed it stuff you'd like it to crash on (auto execution of malicous code, etc, it works just fine...)

    When all is said and done, I still feel 100% safer surfing the web with some Gecko deriviative...

  3. Re:I get countless dozens of these every week on "Phishing" Attacks to Increase · · Score: 1

    Hey, we never said he was good at "jaogrufy"...

    It could have also been that when he was supposed to be at Air Force Reserves Map reading class he was at his buddies house snorting coke off the ass of a hooker, thus he gave the cooridinates for the airstrikes all ass backwards...

    As a side note, some general somewhere was quoted as saying something to the effect of,

    "The difference between my policy on North Korea and his is that with his policy, North Korea is an issue. My policy would be such that South Korea would be an Island."

  4. Oh well... on Rob Pike Responds · · Score: 1

    I guess listening to David Cassidy while I write this comment seems so appropiate!

  5. Re:More secure than AIM, no fucking way! on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google? · · Score: 2, Informative
  6. Re:More secure than AIM, no fucking way! on Could IM Be The Next Step For Google? · · Score: 1

    I and all my friends use this: ;

    It works great. I highly doubt it'll stand up to an assault by a suffiently determined government agency, but *shrugs* if they really want my conversations they're logged in plain text on my machine anyway...

  7. Re: indymedia server raid on The Empires Strike Back · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the US Government has the capacity to disable and/or shoot down objects in orbit.

    Not to mention if your site ever gets slashdotted, the resulting radio energy being fired from all the different transmitter would have the same effect...

  8. Re:This is fine and well, but... on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 4, Informative

    We have three moons.

    The first moon is the largest, aka Luna.

    The second moon is named Cruithne and has roughly a 5km diameter.

    The third moon hasn't gotten a cool latin/celtic name name and is known as 2002AA29. It's only about 100m in diameter.

    My thinking is that we could move Cruithne into an orbit that would suit our needs for a space elevator.

  9. Re:Sounds kinda nifty on Search By.... Email? · · Score: 1

    The other side is that not only do they have to answer the question, but they have to answer it honestly.

    I could see a situation where a whole shit load of people could just put all kinds of erroronous information into the database just to screw with people.

    i.e. "How do I get to the Bostom Museum of Science from Alewife". and they get back an answer something like "Take the Blue line to Fenway, then take the Red line to government center". Granted, you'd think people would just use the mbta's website or look at maps, but these are sheeple... you know, the people who'll drive the wrong way done a one way because that's the instructions that mapquest gave them...

  10. Re:This is fine and well, but... on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 1

    Well, two things.

    Firstly, built a space dock and built your ship in orbit and use SSO type vehicles to get the materialsl up there.

    Then, once you've got a sufficently established space dock, then use that to spool down the wire for our space elevator. This planets got three moons, we obviously can't move the big one, but we should see aboug maybe hauling one of the smaller ones into the right spot and using it as a ballast!

  11. Re:What does Captain Pike think? on Brain Controlled Computing a Reality · · Score: 1

    you should create your daughter an account on the mandrake side and install "gyach" for her.

    My wife uses it and it works like a charm.

  12. Re:Heh on Russian Mock Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    Okay, so I wasn't the only person who read that story as "Russians mock mars mission"

  13. Re:What does Captain Pike think? on Brain Controlled Computing a Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think I'd be a late adopter after all the kinks have been worked out of the wetware/software interface. You know, the terrible seizures, adware/spyware being uploaded into your ceriberal cortex so your driving along and suddenly you get a big popup right in your field of vision and you crash your car, etc.

  14. Re:Hmmm... on Linus Pooh-Pooh's Real-Time Patch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because it's not.

    It's not just adding support for a filesystem. It's fundimentally changing how the kernel creates and schedules userland processes and kernel threads, prioritizes I/O, allocates memory and handles interupts. This in turn has a ripple effect on how applications work.

  15. Re:And just like that, on Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation · · Score: 1

    I agree.

    I don't think that Congress needs to get involved.

    1. Any vechile that's intended for "Space Tourism" should have to pass the same guidelines as SSO.

    2. Depending on the type of vehicle, mandate it that all passengers have to pass some type of flight physical.

  16. Re:Why? on Leisure Suit Larry Banned · · Score: 1

    Now that you speak of it. I was watching this movie the other day and this woman went to the door wearing practically nothing and in walks a "plumber" who doesn't look like any plumber I've ever seen.

    He then proceeded to have sex with her all over the house and he never even fixed her toilet although he made several comments about checking out her pipes.

    *shrugs*

  17. Re:Which toolkit, though? on Chimps Use Tool Kit · · Score: 1

    Qt.

    The chimp starts off by taking his raw tool and inheriting the "Stick Class". If he wants to dig with it (I/O) he has to inherit the "Dig" class and communications are through the "Wave") class. It's also got hooks for Security via the "Poke" and "Swing" classes.

  18. Re:Yeah... on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 1

    When I read this the first thing I thought was

    This guy chouldn't shift the car into neutral and coast to the median?

    Every car I've ever driven will disengage the cruise control if you put the car in neutral.

  19. Re:Fable on Mac please... on Mac OS X Running On Xbox · · Score: 1

    The next question would be... Is running a Mac in fable a good action or a bad action?

  20. Re:This is so awesome. on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your liver grows back after a while, so..

    10 sell portion of liver, put money in back
    20 let livel grow back to normal
    30 if $bank_total > $amount_for trip then goto 50
    40 goto 10
    50 goto "space"

  21. Oh great... on Caffeinated Beer Becomes a Reality · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So, now when some beligerant jackass gets drunk at the bar, he would just pass out, he'll stay away and make a real nuisance of himself...

    What's next? Caffinated cigarettes?

  22. Re:Buck Passers on Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Software · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I used to worry about that until my company tried an experiement and outsourced a project to india.

    They fucked it up so horribly and it cost so much money that in the end they threw up their hands, wrote off about a million dollars worth of expenses and developed the app internally.

    The internal developers (several of which were Indian might I add) finished the app on schedule.

    Our company then passed an internal policy that we would insource (bring programmers in to work on a project) but that outsourcing was out of the question.

  23. Re:Really... on Air Force Researching Antimatter Weapons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's the thing.

    We've got the bomb. In fact we've got nuclear submarines so fucking quiet you wouldn't even know their in your harbor just chuck full of the little bastards. However, much like spitting into the wind, using said weapons means we get to glow in the dark as well.

    Anti-matter weapons don't have this spit in face problem. We could drop a anti-matter bomb on Iran and flatten the whole country to within an inch of sea level and nobody is going to be dying of cancer from the nuclear fallout.

    It's like the bomb, only much better.

  24. What to do. on Stolen SSN, Credit Bureaus Alerted , Now What? · · Score: 1

    1. Get a new SSN number. Seriously.
    2. Goto the bank and have them transfer your money into new accounts and have them issue you new a ATM/debit card and checks.
    3. Also have your bank restrict the types of EFT's that can be done to your account.
    4. Have a new credit card issued and ask that your account be assigned a password.
    5. Contact the company that your 401k and have modify your account so that only in person can any withdrawls or wiring of money can occur.

  25. Re:Can I trust my computer? on IBM Shipping More PCs with Trust Chips · · Score: 1

    My only fear is that by putting the computer into that mode, it'll significantly cripple the capacities of the machine. The people writing the BIOS will say "Well, if they're putting the machine into this mode, it must be todo some neferious, so we'll turn off this and this, oh and we'll turn of this as well.. You'l have a functional machine, but the firewire and USB ports will only run at half speed and you'll find that your BLU-RAY drive will only read non encrypted data media only.