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  1. Re:Asteroids/Comets - Terraforming on Terraforming - Human Destiny or Hubris? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Actually, you need to hollow out the walls, and then place an insulated airtight container inside (a thermos) so that the heat stays away from the asteroid.

    And plenty of reading material and lots of things to do.

  2. Re:Why not an OSS CMS? on Best Web Authoring Application? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Beginners might be better off making html in notepad or an HTML editor like the one that comes bundled with Mozilla than a big system.

    But I don't object to making them read the manual of such programs while they are thinking about which one to buy.

  3. Re:Mmm... yummy... on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 1

    For the record I prefer wind power.

  4. MOD PARENT UP EVEN FURTHER on Google's Site Ranking Secrets · · Score: 1
    Dear JRumney:

    Please apply to work at Google.

    Thank you.

    Sincerely,
    James Salsman

  5. Re:good idea? on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 1

    If only the people building the weapons had the intelligence to know what they have done to birth defect rates.

  6. Re:sigh... on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 1

    For one thing, the byproducts make a mess.

  7. Re:Mmm... yummy... on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Will the festival include a barbeque?
    You had better well hope not:
    I've been told they used to hold BBQ's with contaminated wood out in the contaminated areas at YPG in the 'old' days, YES TIMES HAVE CHANGED. What about the miners and fabricators of DU munitions and all the incidents that have occured there
    Please comment on my petition to prevent birth defects from uranium contamination.
  8. Re:wobble is the only way on Rocky Planet Discovered · · Score: 1

    by "microlensing" I think you mean "stellar occluding camera"

  9. Re:This may answer the question on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked? · · Score: 1
    The minute Apple does that is the instant Microsoft drops Office for OS/X.
    So what? OpenOffice is mature enough for that not to matter, and the native OSX AppleWorks tools can read and write most of MSO formats, anyway.
    Jobs has done it before with NeXT (make a nice O/S available for the x86). It pretty much killed the company. I can't see how Apple would fare any differently.
    The difference being that the installed user base and number of available applications were half a dozen orders of magnitude less for NeXT.

    I bet they open it all the way to commodity hardware in 9 months, after "allowing" cracker pirates to help them out with the torrents.

  10. Re:faster, how? on Rail Guns Closer to Reality · · Score: 4, Informative
    Obligatory Monty Python answer:
    Just remember that you're standing on a planet
    That's evolving
    And revolving
    At nine thousand miles an hour.
    It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second,
    so it's reckoned,
    'Round the sun that is the source of all our power.
    Now the sun, and you and me,
    and all the stars that we can see,
    Are moving at a million miles a day,
    In the outer spiral arm,
    at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
    Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

    Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
    It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
    It bulges in the middle
    sixteen thousand light-years thick,
    But out by us
    it's just three thousand light-years wide.
    We're thirty thousand light-years
    From Galactic Central Point,
    We go 'round every two hundred million years;
    And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
    In this amazing and expanding universe.

    Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
    In all of the directions it can whiz;
    As fast as it can go,
    that's the speed of light, you know,
    Twelve million miles a minute
    And that's the fastest speed there is.
    So remember,
    when you're feeling very small and insecure,
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
    And pray that there's intelligent life
    Somewhere out in space,
    'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
    The Sun circles the center of our Galaxy at about 250 km/s, but the Local Group of galaxies moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to the primordial radiation of the big bang.
  11. Re:Not in Duluth, Minnesota on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    Sad story, and honestly, your Minnesotan accent comes through in your writing style!

  12. Re:Titanium is a pain to weld or melt in the house on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 1

    Yeah, all the titanium I've ever seen looks only slightly lighter than lead. Those rings pictured must be plated with stainless steel, except for this one

  13. Re:Titanium is a pain to weld or melt in the house on Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard · · Score: 1

    Are those titanium rings plated or clad with some other metal? I thought titanium was significantly grayer and duller, even when polished. Is it just good photography?

  14. mod parent up on Stallman Unimpressed by Nokia Patent Pledge · · Score: 1

    This is exactly true: A promise without consideration is not a contract. Nokia should be offering a 1-euro license to all comers -- then they would prove that their stance is merely defensive.

  15. Re:Wow on Stallman Unimpressed by Nokia Patent Pledge · · Score: 3, Funny
    Godwin's Law is when you compare your opponents to Nazis, not use something the Nazis did as an example.
    Mussolini used to split hairs the exact same way.
  16. Re:/bin/sh is older on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ken Thompson's 1976 sh did not have any kind of control flow, but the 1977 Bourne shell had very sophisticated control flow: for/do/break/continue/done, case/esac (switch), if/then/elif/else/fi and while/do/break/continue/done. It also had subshells, command and parameter substitution, support for path searching and process-associated environment variables, redirectable standard error output, and signal trapping -- all three years before anyone outside IBM could get a copy of REXX.

  17. /bin/sh is older on O'Reilly on the Virtues of Rexx · · Score: 3, Informative
    ... Rexx, the first widely used scripting language concocted 25 years ago.
    Rexx v1 was released internal to IBM in 1979, and wasn't available to IBM cumstomers until 1982. Steve Bourne wrote /bin/sh at Bell Labs in 1974, and it was included in every Unix distribution from 1976 to the present.
  18. Re:So? on Nuclear Fuel How-To · · Score: 1
    You are absolutly right. Any administration which admits to beating several detainees to death while they are busy losing $9 billion would never have time to desecrate the Koran.

    What's the point of putting the Koran in the toilet when it's just as easy to give th prisoner a swirly?

    Why do these liberals hate America?

  19. good idea on A Coffeeshop's Weekends Without Wi-Fi · · Score: 1
    How about, allow connections from no more than N MAC addresses, bumping the N+1th oldest when someone new comes online, reseting banned MACs after an hour or so.

    The only problem is that it should give warning, somehow, which could be hard.

    Pass-codes on the register reciepts is probably a better solution.

  20. Re:Still need those eggs... on Stem Cells Derived from Human Clones · · Score: 1
    A truly significant advance would be to use these stem cells to grow a human ovary in the lab, and harvest eggs from that
    For that to work, one would need to have a better understanding of all the related glands' hormones and signalling peptides (pituitary hormone, for example) than what exists now, I believe.
  21. Re:Justices Vote Was Surprising on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: 1
    Scalia's respect for stare decisis is almost as flimsy and subordinate to his politics as his respect for original intent.

    Scalia and Thomas are both pathetic shills for their politics, one loudmouthed, the other introverted, but they are equally bad.

  22. Re:H202 on Hyper-Oxygenated Water Speeds Up Healing · · Score: 1

    Unless the 2nd guy ordered his H2O2 straight up, it is unlikely to kill him, but man, will it give you stomach gas!

  23. is this just hydrogen peroxide? on Hyper-Oxygenated Water Speeds Up Healing · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Hyper-oxygenated water" -- what a great name for H2O2 which releases oxygen when poured on wounds. Wikipedia article

  24. Re:"They do not fly, on Howto - Flying Snakes · · Score: 1

    Pretty true from what I can see, except this one plummets at a pretty good angle.

  25. mod parent up on HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks · · Score: 1

    I know for a fact that HP will ship FreeDOS if you ask them to, without the Microsoft tax. Just keep asking for supervisors until you get one who knows the order code. This worked a year ago.