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  1. Re:Telephony over TCP/IP over phone line on VoIP Predictions for 2005 · · Score: 1

    If your broadband connection is down how would you have access to any other services?

  2. Re:Must have been a classic "WTF?!" moment at the on Opportunity Rover Encounters Its Own Heat Shield · · Score: 0

    Let the alien spacecraft/civilization coverup conspiracy theories commence :)

  3. Re:No java 1.5 on Apple Offers Mac OS X 10.3.7 Update · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered if that was Apple's choice or Sun's. The Apple and the Sun folks are in reasonably close contact. There is a fair amount of 'shared' code for a JVM though, so at least Apple doesn't have to reinvent it each release.

  4. Re:Not a good true complexity issue. on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    You mean not everyone compiles the apache webserver into something that doesn't mention the product/project itself? Madness I tell you, madness! ;)

  5. Re:Best Sci Fi Ever? Nah! That would be: Firefly! on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    Question though. Wouldn't the 'cold of space' relieve the problems with overheating.

  6. Re:Congress on NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps before replying you should learn to RTFP

  7. Yeah, the sad part is on The Threat From Life on Mars · · Score: 1

    that is there was some form of microbial life on Mars, we could have inadvertently killed it a long time ago.

  8. Re:The Treo has disintegrated on More Problems for the Treo 650 · · Score: 1

    Since when did the Clie has phone functions?

  9. Re:Congress on NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes · · Score: 1

    Actually that's not really all that informative. You're comparing the price of building, launching, maintaining, and repairing a space station with a much smaller and infinitely more manageable 'module' project.

    Put out an RFP for a space station - something that no one has ever built and see what sort of response you get. Or, since that one has been done, a mining station on the moon. You build it, launch it, and have it getting H3 for rocket fuel and then we'll award you with a prize.

    I can't wait to see how fast people jump at that one :)

  10. Re:Captured robots on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    Don't believe everything you see in Grand Theft Auto :)

  11. Re:Mixed feeling on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    You are aware the people in monogamous relationships contract the HIV virus as well. many times people are with partners that don't even know they have HIV.

  12. The Martian counterattack begins... on Intelsat-7 Lost In Space · · Score: 1

    Payback for leaving trash on the surface of the planet.

  13. Re:Very, very hot water? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 1

    It can even prevent breathing in low quantities. A few drops of it taken into your system awkwardly can lead to violent choking. Is this enough to declare it as a WMD? :)

  14. Surely they knew this was a problem already on PalmOne Commits to Treo Fix · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder if they just decided that shipping it out and paying the $15 was a better option than actually making sure their marketing information was right the first time.

  15. Re:In which world? on LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? You can drop a JSP in a doc root just fine. You can call it index.jsp and have it be the default page of your site as well.

    I think your knowledge of J2EE programming may be insufficient.

  16. Re:Aww crap on Reviews Arrive For nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP · · Score: 1

    I dunno, maybe perhaps its an extra $100 or so bucks? :)

  17. SPIRNET anyone? on U.S. Military To Create Its Own Internet · · Score: 1

    The government had its own military classified internet years ago. What's different about this one?

  18. Interesting on Will Wind Power Change Earth's Climate? · · Score: 1

    Did they model the effects of large cities and skyscrapers as well because the type of impact seems to be the same - its just blocking/consuming wind.

  19. Re:Skype isn't the issue and civilization isn't fr on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    Its probably more accurate to say that Skype (not Skype-out which communicates with phones) is of limited utility to the mass market. Most people talk to people via a regular phone. Now if your dad is talking to other people while sitting in front of a computer (and they are as well), that's great - but that is far far from the norm.

  20. Re:What's in it for me? on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize transmitting packet data was under government regulation. So are they going to tax torrents, online games, etc? I already pay a tax on the line itself. Why am I being charged and ADDITIONAL tax on how I choose to use that line?

  21. This proves it.... on Titan's Smooth Surface Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    God uses Photoshop! A perfectly smooth surface? More like a Photoshop forgery.

  22. Re:Sprint Treo has crippled bluetooth on The Official Launch of the Treo 650 · · Score: 1

    Well since the AT&T/Cingular merger went through perhaps only TMobile will have $19.95 GPRS in the future or the Cingular folks are about to get it at $19.95. In any case the AT&C future is somewhat cloudy on pricing/features.

  23. Re:All machines are vulnerable to this on 'Opener' Malware Targets OS X · · Score: 1

    Unless you want us to all simply right you off as an anoymous troll, then perhaps you'd care to explain the methodology.

  24. The logic escapes me.... on Software Piracy Due to Expensive Hardware, Says Ballmer · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to get a copy of Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Maya, SoftImage, Dreamweaver Studio MX, Photoshop Suite,m etc. and I pirated it, it wouldn't be because the machine cost a lot of money - it would be because the SOFTWARE cost a lot of money. You wouldn't steal gas because the car cost too much. When will they realize that:

    a) some people will always pirate anything that's readily available

    b) some people will pirate software because they can't afford to purchase it

    c) the price of their software is too high for many people

    This is a question of whether or not people would reject 'free' (as in cost) software. Pirated software is most often cost-free or considerably cheap. Why would someone reject that? THAT is why people are pirating software.

  25. Re:With XBox 2 around the corner.... on Microsoft Bringing TV to Xbox · · Score: 1

    Last I checked, XBox2 (Xenon) was slated to NOT have a hard disk in it so if this is the first salvo - what's going to be the next one - streaming content to the Xbox2? Well slap my asteroids you can do that on the PS2 as well.