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  1. Re:Older OS's?!?! on Lightest of the Light Linux · · Score: 3, Funny
    Win98 onto a 486/66 for my burglar alarm
    windows...security... that makes my brain hurt
  2. Re:From another angle on Phonelines: Not Just For POTS And High-Speed Internet? · · Score: 2

    through the power lines yes, but not through your house, radio shack has a thing that you plug between a fone line and an outlet then you plug the other piece into any outlet in your house to use as a fone line, you could have the data incoming through coax or whatever, but then network within your house through the electrical wiring

  3. Re:Mice not owned by DisneyCo on Pixar/Disney in "Monsters Inc" Ownership Scuffle · · Score: 2

    Actually IIRC, Disney did try to sue whoever over An American Tail. And i'm sure the people behind An American Tail have since sued soem pr0n company.

  4. Re:In other news... on Pixar/Disney in "Monsters Inc" Ownership Scuffle · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the only way Mighty Mouse could bang regular mice would be with a kryptonite condom, but that would kill him. Oh no, i just ripped off someone else...

  5. Re:A morbid, alcoholic, poet on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 1

    This is what i meant about absinthe, it has normal alcohol content, but true absinthe contains a neurotoxin which is a rumored halucinogen.

  6. Re:Poe Was Not an Alcoholic! on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 2
    there is little or no evidence he used opium, in any form.
    IIRC Poe once attempted suicide by ODing on laudanum, an opium derivitive.
  7. Re:Poe's Death... on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 2
  8. Re:A morbid, alcoholic, poet on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 2

    Drugs too, Poe was addicted to laudanum, lets not forget the drugs. Also he drank absinthe, which is a bit more than regular liquor.

  9. Re:In his idols footsteps... on Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing that sorta thing on an episode of the X Files, then i freaked when i found out there really are gigantic underground fungi.

  10. Applications on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 2
    I have no idea what kind of applications will come of it...
    I can think of quite a few aplications of sensors everywhere. Did you see Minority Report? Advertising, advertising, advertising.
  11. cone of silence on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember reading some short, asimov i think, where this guy invented this device that canceled all sound waves within like a 10 foot radius. He invented it so you could get a little peace and quiet, but the device ended up being banned after people went around using them to blow bank vaults without anyone hearing the explosion/alarm.

  12. Re:Scary implications.... ?? on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 2

    also any sort of system with two automated sensors placed some distance from each other might have problems if there were two of the same models of car near eachother on the road, there are a lot of cars that are very common

  13. TERRORIST!! on Sensors Gone Wild · · Score: 1

    You dont have a cell fone?!?!? TERRORIST!! j/k good for you for being a minimalist, wish i could do it

  14. Re:Imagine on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The current state of affairs in our county seems to me like a cross between the McCarthy era and pre-WWII germany. Mostly our witch hunts for terrorists and our plans to 'Preemtivly Strike' nations that pose no real threat to us *cough*Poland*cough*Iraq*cough*. Nowadays it seems Terrorists instead of Communists and Muslims instead of Jews. Same situations, different scapegoats. I really have to wonder if the rest of the world sees the US as we did Nazi-Germany in the late 30s/early 40s, a powerful expanding force that needs to be stopped. Makes ya wonder if we're leading ourselves down the path to WWIII, only this time we'll be the bad guys.

  15. Yelling Fire on EU Anti-Hate Laws On The Web · · Score: 1
    One can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, because people will probably get hurt trying to get out.
    I personally have yelled fire in a crowded theatre. People mostly tell me to shut up or give me strange looks.
  16. Re:Case-sensitivity police on Hard Drive of the Future: Ram Drive · · Score: 1

    What about the truck?

  17. Re:Picture from my home on How Looks Your Geekroom? · · Score: 1

    it's full of pr0n, duh

  18. Re:See we arent just redneck potatoe farmers anymo on Idaho Gets Serious About Broadband · · Score: 1

    duuuude

  19. Re:Building? on Idaho Gets Serious About Broadband · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not everyone can get even dial-up. My grandparents live in the northwoods of wisconsin, near rhinelander, and were thinking of getting a computer for e-mail. They looked around and there aren't any ISPs up there. Any internet connection they made would have to be a long distance fone call, which would get very expensive, very quickly. Especially if my grandpa found out he could check weather updates every five minutes.

  20. Re:Pocket Mulch on My Compost Bin And I · · Score: 1

    ooo, so decomposed...

  21. Roof? on My Compost Bin And I · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't get it. Why all the work on the tiles on top, why would you want to keep rain out of your compost heap? Doesn't the moisture help with the decomposition? Could someone enlighten me on this before i ask four questions in a row?

  22. Problems With Microsoft Mice on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 2

    I came acorss this mod one time and thought it would be incredibly cool with a blue LED instead, but I thought about it and the plexi used for the mouse wheel probably wouldn't be as grippy/nice feeling as the slightly rubbery surface of the wheel I had. I looked around and finally I found a mouse that came with a clear scroll wheel. it was the new m$ Blue Intellimouse. I bought it ($20 after a $10 rebate) and ordered some superbright blue LEDs. Once they came I hijacked voltage from the USB cable and put one directly behind the clear scroll wheel. It lights up quite nicely and looks awesome, Then I replaced the red LED in the back and the one for the sensor with blue ones. It worked fine and it was bright enough that the responsiveness didn't drop, but... all microsoft optical mice have the clear red plastic for the bottom. It glowed quite brightly when there were red LEDs in it, but i unfortunately discovered that the red plastic completely filters out the blue light. So the only light coming from it is out of the wheel, and of course the bottom if you pick it up. I attached some longer leads to the one in the back and and siliconed it directly too the little red oval in the butt of the mouse and managed to get a faint purple glow out of it. It still looks pretty cool, but it dissapointingly glows less. My TI-83+ Silver on the other hand glows very nicely with the 2 blue LEDs i put in it.

  23. Re:Another reason to bring our other 2 moons neare on Tidal Power a Reality · · Score: 1

    Weren't we gonna try to put that 3rd(4th?) one into a stable orbit?

  24. Maybe one under the Golden Gate someday? on Tidal Power a Reality · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't Kirk crash that stolen Bird of Prey into it when he comes back for the whales? (sorry, it was on last night, had to say it)

  25. Re:Where does the momentum go? on Laser Shoots Down Artillery Shell In Flight · · Score: 2
    Of course, if you do this to defend a city, you take a pretty good chance of knocking this missile away from the city and into the suburbs.
    Does anyone care if we blow up the suburbs?