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  1. Re:Precedent on Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Fossil · · Score: 1

    She's the one that wrote the paper cited in this article.

  2. Re:Lies, Damn Lies and Macrovision on Macrovision Releases DVD Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    Did you actually read the text that came directly after what you quoted? Here it is again, since you apparently didn't:

    4% out of $27B - expenses, assume a profit margin of 50%, and it's 8%

    The person you so sarcastically ridicule makes exactly your point. Dumbass.

  3. Re:Nervous on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Brad becomes SixApart's Chief Architect.

  4. Re:That's what you get... on Indymedia Seizures Initiated In Europe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What would encrypted disks solve? This seizure happened at a hosting company.. Which leads me to presume that the party under investigation had material on a website. If that material is on a website, then it must be served in decrypted form.

    Which means that either someone at the hosting company would have to have the key to decrypt the drive (so each time the machine was rebooted the html drive could be decrypted), or the key would have to be stored on the machine itself. Either way isn't very secure...

  5. Re:Not much competition to DVD though on Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July · · Score: 1

    Um, yeah, how's about that... :)

    What if I told you I used to work for NASA?

  6. Re:Not much competition to DVD though on Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July · · Score: 1

    Form factor? The form factor is the same as DVD (5cm disc). Sure, the early gen writers will be cartridge based, but the same was true for DVD-RAM. The consumer Blu-Ray discs will not be cartridge based.

  7. Re:Could this lead on Mobo for Vertically Challenged Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Being that the iMac can run Linux, I believe the iMac itself is a linux-y iMac.

  8. Re:Next project... on BYU Project to Silence Computer Fans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pfft... I'll take a Mormon coming to my door over a Jehovah's Witness any day. Every Mormon that has come to visit me has been very pleasant and polite, and they have no problem taking "No" for an answer....

    Just politely tell them you aren't interested and they will politely leave. Mormon missionaries are not pushy.

    I've practically had to call the cops to get rid of JW's.

  9. Re:IBM's LINUX Commitment on Kill Bill, IBM vs Microsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    That doesn't even make sense. Perhaps if you said "If IBM was really committed to PowerPC", your argument might have been interesting (but still unrealistic), but since x86 runs Linux wonderfully, I don't see what the lack of a PPC Thinkpad says about their commitment to Linux.

  10. Re:Uhm? on H2G2 Film Website · · Score: 1

    He/she may smoke crack, but they are also correct. The Radio Version came before the book.

  11. Re:Uhm? on H2G2 Film Website · · Score: 4, Funny

    What you saw a few years ago was a BBC TV miniseries. It had a budget of approximately 3 dollars (US).

    The new film is a hollywood production.

  12. Re:Interesting... on Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog · · Score: 1

    I don't really see why this is modded as "Insightful", being the first entry in the Google weblog (the entry quoted in the /. article) states:

    Oh well, it's not like we own a recently relaunched service where you can create a blog in two minutes or something. Okay, we do. (Sorry for the plug.) [...]
  13. Re:Michael Crichton on Nanotechnology: the Good, the Bad, the Hyperbole · · Score: 4, Funny

    Psst. It's fiction.

  14. Re:Cool! on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 1

    If you do, you could use it to build a videophone, so you could call your grandmother on the other coast.

  15. Re:We need to pass laws and treaties NOW. on Diamond Age Approaching? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ummm, why do we need special laws for this. Wouldn't the existing anti-genocide laws apply?

    There is no reason to create new laws when existing ones apply.

  16. Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    I found that when using Expose with CTVD, I was annoyed that when I invoked Expose it only showed me the windows on the current desktop. It would have been really cool (IMHO) if I could have used Expose as the Workspace switcher.

  17. Re:Apple Lossless encoding on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can play uncompressed AIFF files on your iPod, and it's a pretty easy, lossless conversion between WAV and AIFF.

  18. Re:Update shows iTMS needs more selection on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 1

    That's a good thing, it keeps the frat boys away from the nerds.

  19. Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog on Apple Releases Major iTunes Update · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have always been a Pager/Workspace fan, but a few months ago, after the release of Panther, I decided that I would give Expose a real fair shot as a replacement for the Pager. I uninstalled Codetek VirtualDesktop and forced myself to use Expose for two weeks, and at the end of that time I was going to "declare a victor".

    After about a week of Expose, however, I decided that it was terribly better than the Pager solution and decided to never go back... Now I just wish I had some Expose equivalent on the other platforms I use...

  20. Re:The iso download on Use x86 Boxes to Compile Mac OS X Binaries · · Score: 1

    Didn't do you any good, CSH is shithammered anyway.

    Thanks, ben, it's not like I needed to check my mail or anything... :P :)

  21. Re:Just one question? on New Darth Vader Costume Revealed in upcoming DVDs · · Score: 4, Informative

    In the original film "Star Wars" (nowadays referred to as "Star Wars: A New Hope: Episode 4: The Magical Beginning of an Epic Space Quest thru Time"), there was a sequence in which Han Solo and a character named Greedo are having a discussion, in the Mos Eisley Cantina, regarding Solo's debt to Jabba the Hutt. At the end of this conversation shots are fired.

    In the original version of the film, Han Solo shoots Greedo, but in the 1997 "Special Edition" re-release Lucas changed it so that Greedo shot first and Solo is simply defending himself.

  22. Suprise? on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 1

    How hard is it to run a spell checker before posting a story.. It is one thing for quoted material inside a posting to have misspelling, but the headline? That's just sad.

  23. Re:improvements on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    Many people refer to television's refresh rate as 30 frames per second, but the truth is that the refresh rate is 29.97 frames per second.

  24. Re:Directv beats cable on Cable TV Versus Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Not everyone has an unobstructed view of southern sky, hence the bit about needing to cut down trees.

    My aunt and uncle live in a very wooded part of Upstate NY, and the only reason they have a view of the southern sky (and therefore DirectTV) is because a tornado came through their back yard and cut a swath of trees out a few years ago. This swath of trees just-so-happened to be in a perfect position. If that didn't happen they would have had to cut the trees down themselves.

    Idiot.

  25. Re:What to expect.. on H2G2 Cast Finalized, Starts Shooting in April · · Score: 3, Funny
    Perhaps a Hitchiker Ride at Disney World if the movie proves very successful.
    Yeah, and then 20 years from now they will make a movie based on the ride.