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  1. A clockwork... on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was going to say a witty pun related to "A Clockwork Orange," but I couldn't think of anything that rhymes with it...

  2. Re:A couple of thoughts on Linux Desktop Security for New Users? · · Score: 1

    "rm does not move a file to the trash; it's gone for real"
    Also, rm doesn't stand for rename. (oops)

  3. Re:Warning ! on Smart Cars to Save Stupid Drivers? · · Score: 1

    What kind of crazy new flux capacitor do you have that takes you through time AND space?

  4. Re:Economist Article on Task Force Finds Blackout Was Preventable · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Multicasting support would be great too.

  5. Maybe they should propose... on Future Directions Proposed For Mozilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    A way to view slides with the window maximized.

  6. Download Manager on Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name · · Score: 1

    Does anyone else not like their new Download Manager, or know of a way to switch it over to the old one-window-per-file layout? I've been using it for several weeks in the nightly builds, but I'm still not very fond of it.

  7. Lyrics on It's All About the Ununpentium · · Score: 1

    so what y'all wanna do
    gonna go do Dubna, in Russia
    use isotopes in the atom crusher
    find elements with a big atomic number
    stabilize the subatomic structure, what?

  8. Re:Seriously on Ripoff 101: Gouging Students for Textbooks · · Score: 1

    I'm in a C programming class at Purdue this semester, and my "textbook" is Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition." It was first published in 1988, and can be found for around $20 online. It's certainly cheaper to use books that aren't specifically designed for use in a class.

  9. Strangeberry on TiVo Buys Super Secret Strangeberry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Strangeberry is... PEOPLE!!!

  10. Re:Where is the redundancy? on Mars Rover Spirit Back Online · · Score: 1

    They do have redundancy. It's named "Opportunity"

  11. Re:It all depends... on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's why I modded my CPU to handle 0's and 8's instead. I call it the 8thlon XP.

  12. It all depends... on Are 64-bit Binaries Slower than 32-bit Binaries? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It all depends on how many of those 64 bits are 1's. 1's are a lot heavier than 0's, so too many of them will slow your program down a lot. If you compare a 32-bit program with all 1's, it will run significantly slower than a 64-bit program with only a few 1's. It's simple, really.

  13. Re:Not The End Of The World on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but is Pathfinder still working? Panicking may now resume.

  14. More importantly... on Martian Rock Found In Morocco · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they find Beagle 2 on it?

  15. Re:And I agree. on Linus Says 2004 is the Year for Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    with many distros going to be version 10.0 this year, this is going to be great.
    Yes, of course. Just like Star Trek movies...

  16. I say... on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Good riddance. Except for a few special cases, film just sucks.

  17. But... on No WMA for HP iPod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Jeez, whatever happened to WMA being superior?

  18. Bah on Apartment Lit Solely by LEDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    This "electric light" thing will never catch on.
    /lights a candle.

  19. Re:Just wondering . . . on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear it's a lot easier after the lake freezes over.

  20. Next up: on Stone Skipping the Scientific Way · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Loogie Hocking.

  21. Filters on Colorization of Mars Images? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The images they took are shot through near-infrared filters, and then digitally adjusted to compensate. The pan-cams each have about 16 different types of filters on a rotating wheel, but this near-infrared filter is the only color that's common to both lenses. Therefore, when they're taking stereo images, that's the best one to use. It's not a conspiracy, and they'll probably release images taken through the other filters eventually.

  22. Re:WTF? When was that released? on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    It's Photoshop Computer Science, duh.

  23. Re:What about the US? on Still No Contact from Beagle 2 · · Score: 1

    The rover has a top speed of 5 cm/sec. In 1000 years, it could go about 1.5 million kilometers. That's a lot bigger than the circumference of Mars.

  24. Re:Necessity? on First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit · · Score: 1

    Not 41 processors. I meant you'd need a 41-bit processor to address that much memory. As a previous poster stated, it's well within the reach of current 64-bit CPUs.

  25. Re:Necessity? on First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A Circuit · · Score: 4, Informative

    How many bit CPUs will we need to address 1,280,000MB of RAM?

    41.