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  1. Re:Sue 'em on Visual Studio .Net: Now with more Viruses · · Score: 1

    The virus was evenm poste4d on the MS website!

    To mash a simpsons quote:
    "The fingers you have used to [type] are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the key[board] with your palm now"

    No that snpp.com uses google as there search engine, simpsons quotes are soooo easy to find.

  2. Movie Revie wQuery Engine on Star Wars: AOTC Reviews Pour In · · Score: 1

    Check out this link [mrqe.com]. mrqe.com posts links to almost every review you can find for a movie on the internet. It is a very good site for getting diverse opinions of a movie.

  3. Re:A bit biased on Statistics of Deadly Quarrels · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, the US has been around just as long as Europe. It just did not used to be called the US until after the Europeans came here. While the native americans were here, there were no large scale wars.

    This map is not at all biased.

  4. six flags on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics · · Score: 1

    My entire high-school physics class took a trip to great adventure. They actually closed the park to public and kept it open only for a few schools. Everybody who went had a worksheet with a whole bunch of questions and a spring device that could measure g-forces.

    You basically spent the first two hours riding on rides and filling in all the data needed to do the calculations. The rest of the day was free for dicking around and going on as many rides as you could.

    Definitely the only physics experiment I remember from school.

  5. Re:What about the 1970's live action series? on Spider-Man 2002 vs. Spider-Man 1992 · · Score: 1

    is that 'tunk' as in trunk or stunk?

  6. rip off of dune? on Star Wars as Pulp Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    The first glimpse of Luke Skywalker's desert homeworld, Tatooine, evokes the setting of Frank Herbert's 1965 novel "Dune"

    The claim that Star Wars is influenced by Dune because it is set on a desert planet is the biggest crok of sh-t I have ever heard. By the same logic, is Lawrence of Arabia based off of the Dune series? They both take place in the desert...

    There is a good reason that tons of sci-fi takes place in the desert. And it is not because of the Dune series. Hollywood is very close to the desert. It is much cheaper for a film crew to recreate a desert planet (just go twenty miles down the road and make sure there are no discarded Bud cans in the shot) than making a jungle planet (fly down to S. America).

    sigs are for panzies...d'oh!

  7. Semi-Working Display at Museum on Re-Building the Wright Flyer · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you go to the Wright Brothers Museum in Kitty Hawk, NC, there is a life size replica of the exact machine that the brothers flew. I was there just last month so a bunch of the details are still fresh in my head.

    There replica was fully functional (minus the ability to fly). Basically, it had all the wiring hooked up to control the pitch, roll and yaw of the plane. To adjust the pitch, you pulled a lever in from of the pilot. To adjust the roll and yaw, you push the pilot's hips in a direction. To reduce the amount of controls, they had the roll and yaw hooked up to a single control.

    While there I learned some pretty neat stuff that I had never realized. In order to get off the ground they needed a really light engine, but at the time engines weighed about 500lbs. So they hired a machinest to build them an aluminum engine (the first ever built). It weighed about 150 lbs and was a perfect counter-balance to whomever was flying the plane (engine on one side, pilot on the other).

    The best part of there design was the safety devices they added. All they had was a wood bar in front of the pilot that he could grab onto in case of a crash.

  8. 21st Century Systems on Recommendations for Digital Security Systems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems that since Sept. 11, the issue of security systems in offices has become a pretty hot topic. The place where I work is now looking into some pretty neat digital systems.

    Like traditional systems, these systems pretty much record 24/7 whatever is going on. However, most of this data is useless. Unlike in traditional systems, all the data is not stored. The system can analyze when there was motion and then save what happened 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after motion occurred. At the end of the day, you are storing much less data that happens to be much more usable.