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  1. Re:ooops, we just lost Titan.. on Sea Gliders for Other Worlds · · Score: 1

    who knows, I didn't know that there was even methane there, much less a sea of it.

  2. ooops, we just lost Titan.. on Sea Gliders for Other Worlds · · Score: 1

    "and even diving into the methane/ethane seas of Titan"
    large body of methane/ethane + nasa + battery & sparks = a whole new meaning to "umm Houston we have a problem..."

  3. Re:web site? on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    nope, pagemill. "META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Mac"

  4. Re:better deal on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    mission = million. dam, negative karma

  5. better deal on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    Juliette would have been a better deal. As posted here, it was only a cool mission on ebay. Besides, you'll always win the "my sub can kick you sub's ass" contest.

  6. web site? on Your Own Luxury Submarine! · · Score: 1

    sub, $78 million, web hosting, $15/month, adobe page mill $95.00, getting /.'d , priceless.

  7. Re:Einsteins defined on Managing Einsteins · · Score: 1

    I'm scared that i actually understood what you said.

  8. Re:Celine Dion, eh? on Sony Intentionally Crashes Customers' Computers · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and a beowulf cluster would smash it to bits first then eject it immediately for you.

  9. Re:how can they be close? on Earth to...Earth? Are you there? · · Score: 1

    very good points, you've made your agrument =) However, in my apt, the sock blends in with all the other stinky socks.

  10. how can they be close? on Earth to...Earth? Are you there? · · Score: 1

    I dont see how you can be close to finding anything. Its like my car keys, or that odd sock. I know its in my apt someplace, but i've either found them or i haven't. Maybe i should take a hint from them, look for an exact duplicate of my car keys!

  11. not bad on Point, Shoot and Translate into English · · Score: 1

    But why not just have a bluetooth type chip embeded into all signs and landmarks? Walk up to it with some type of reciever/pda/device and wha-la. Even embed a gps etc.

  12. Re:Now it's time.. on Netscape 6 is Spyware? · · Score: 1

    Now is the time to launch that ipo with backing from AOL's data showing "Cross Dressing Monkey" porn is in such high demand!

  13. /. the magazine--another solution? on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Why not slahdot.org the magazine? I'll subscribe to that, I'll give you $50/year. It'll look nice when my geek friends come over, a pile of them sitting on the coffee table.

    Load it with adds, I dont care. A magazine I can read it anytime I want, as long as I want to, where ever I want to, hell I can even display it anywhere I want to. If an add bothers me I'll just rip that sucker out and chunk it in the direction of the nearest garbage can. I can't do any of this with slashdot.org the "online" magazine.

  14. the irony is killing me on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    First off, wow what a flame fest. How many people does it take to get you to reconsider?
    And now...on with the show.

    Slashdot in its operation collects stories, submitted by users. These stories are either re-written/edited etc and passed on as "News for nerds. Stuff that matters"
    Slashdot runs on the back end using "slashcode", which is freely available to anyone and promotes the notion of open development/software thru said community that supports slashdot in the first place.
    Now /. wishes to run presumably annoying/interrupting adds to further the goals of a return on their invested time and management.

    Now let me get to my "what if" senario...where the irony comes in. What if slashcode...wasn't free? How many sites use slashcode, um alot. How many people post to slashdot and submit stories, hmm alot. So the code must be open, yet the content must be pay-per-view? The pain of the irony is just too much to bare.
    All they've gotten with this new subscription plan is the biggest, or what will be the biggest, flamefest in /. history...along with a very loyal yet currently irate user base.

  15. Re:what made the web work on W3C Recommends XML Signature Syntax · · Score: 1

    doh, correction "XML 'can' be simpler than HTML". Typing, however, will remain difficult for the forseable future.

  16. Re:what made the web work on W3C Recommends XML Signature Syntax · · Score: 1

    Nothing has really changed. A soon-to-be webmaster would start at html before they started on perl, or python wouldn't they? Its the same, learn html, then move on to the more complicated technologies(asp/php/jsp/cgi/db's etc) XML "can" be simpler than XML. There really isn't anything to worry about tho. If you have an html background and are familiar with it, you'll pick up xml/xsl/dtd fairly quickly.

  17. i know what its doing on 2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That 2.5m scorpion is under there harvesting cod sperm for beauty products.
    No really, it is!

  18. Fish food on Will Barry White Songs Help Sharks Get Down? · · Score: 1

    Well taken from the report on sharks at seaworld here, I dont think it will work very well.
    Since sharks seem to be attracted to sounds from 20hz to 100hz as reported here(humans hear~20hz-20,000hz), because it associates it with prey or a fish in distress. What they do "hear" of Barry would probably only make them want to gobble him up. Sharks can also hear sounds in that ragne from up to 2km away, reported here. Hope they turn ole Barry down baby.

    So it seems to me that they will achieve bunch of pissed off hungry sharks.

  19. I would expect the same reaction on What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...that i got from the college bookstore owner the other day when i said, "Man, all these engineering books are heavy. Are they available in pdf?"
    He about had me arrested for even thinking such a thing.

  20. turn about seems fair play on SourceForge Terms of Service Change, Users Unhappy · · Score: 1

    A user can change the focus, methods, or anything else about their projects...
    So why can't SF?

  21. how would the be able to tell? on States Demand Windows Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gov't coder: "We'll we removed the IE source from the o/s and it crashes"
    Gov't manager flunky: "O, so what about the original compiled source?"
    Gov't coder: "Um, well it crashes too"

  22. amazing on FTC Goes After Spammers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok follow along, I'll go slowing for the gov't FTC workers... FTC: "you spammes are thieves and liers! Quit pulling these scams." spammer: "You are right, we are liers." FTC: "So does this mean you'll stop?" spammer: "Sure"

  23. maybe if it cut costs on Product Placement in Video Games · · Score: 1

    It might work if it cut costs for the consumer or done in a different manner. If RTCW was $30 the day it came out because it was sponsored by Brand X, I might be more open to product placement inside the game. In certain games its just not appropriate due to the genre or settings. Could it be they just aren't doing it right?

  24. Re:Sorry Alabama on Space Tourist Standards · · Score: 1, Informative

    I see, that rules out mission controll(marshal space flight center). I guess people in Alabama will stick to building space stations(aka freedom/r-alpha) and controlling missions.

  25. here's a story on LWCE Reports Continue · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,50143,00.ht ml The Free Standards Group released two tools on Thursday intended to ensure that all Linux applications can run on any Linux Standard Base-compliant version of the open source operating system: LSB 1.1 and Li18nux 1.0.