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  1. Re:You haven't been, obviously. on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 1

    Your comment raises a question, what if water could be electrolyzed, then fused, then that energy being used? Kinda like nuclear fission power plants but the opposite.

  2. Re:Question on SCO Group Lawsuit Q&A · · Score: 1

    "Exaggerate" their accounting records?

  3. Re:``Piracy'' good for MS? on Slashback: India, Kartoo, Orbs · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he just means that his parents and girlfriend are from India (that is, lived there / are old enough to remember living there) and know first-hand what it is like there (wage, lifestyle).

  4. WHAT?!? It's a JOKE!!! on FSF Debuts "Shared Source" Initiative · · Score: 1

    Looks like we're back to the August 15, 2120 target date for GNU/Hurd 1.0 again...

  5. It's still March on the west coast. on Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System · · Score: 1

    Besides, didn't fool me for two seconds. Gentoo is all about sources.

  6. Re:It could be good. on Rick Berman: Enterprise May Not Suck Next Year · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I was thinking. Though IIRC they signed a treaty with the Romulans remotely before that, but they hadn't really met and didn't know what they looked like.

  7. Re:Looks like it's only usable in Europe for now . on Slashback: Privacy, Spectrum, Location · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You've obviously never tried to find a geocache hidden in a field of boulders and rocks. Look for an hour or so and you get pretty mad.

  8. While I do very much enjoy CGI TV shows... on A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now · · Score: 2, Funny

    I much prefer the mod_perl and ASP ones.

  9. Re:useless on Building a Better Motorized Bicycle · · Score: 1

    1) probably less expensive than motorbike 2) like a moped, you can pedal too 3) licensing / use issues? maybe the cops will think it's just a normal bike ;) 4) you don't have to pedal, thus you can go further. 5) we don't all live where it's flat... this could save you from walking your bike up a big hill, like I said, especially if motorcycles aren't allowed on some trail...

  10. Re:It is not stealing on Swapping Clock Cycles for Free Music? · · Score: 1

    copyright infringment == honest graft

  11. Re:logo comparisons... on Yet Another Perl Conference: North America · · Score: 1

    Not really, one is lowercase, one upper. one is an outline 'y' connected with the (part) circle, one is in black solid Y on top of a red circle. The only similarities are a Serif font and a circle.

  12. Slightly OT, but if I were you... on Geek Roadtrips Through the Heartland · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd see some geocaches along the trip. Not only are they fun, they often bring you to cool places to see that only locals would know about.

  13. Shut Up! on Back to the Trees · · Score: 1

    I just spent the whole day trying to get one 2x6x10 beam up in a tree for my treehouse. All I have to show for it are bruises and scratches. Those things are heavy.

  14. Re:what the? on Another Garbage Patent · · Score: 1

    It's Apple. Welcome to the new /.

  15. Re:/. effect on Barebones Notebook · · Score: 1

    how do we know this article really exists? If it was slashdotted before anyone could read it , maybe slashdot is making this sory up. How is this news if we dont really know its there?
    Exactly what I was thinking, it's still down, has ANYONE seen the site? Maybe the editor forgot to check the link.

  16. Re:I live in the North East on Build Your Own Snow Gun · · Score: 1

    Can you send some of it to LA? We don't have snow (or a heater, for that matter.)

  17. coord precision? on Abandoned & Little Used Airfields · · Score: 1

    How the heck are you supposed to find them with only two digits (hundredths) of a degree precision?

  18. Re:I don't believe there is anonymous sftp... on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    SCP also has never been implemented in a browser for file transfers.

    Actually, I think KDE 3.1 one has a KIOSlave component (or whatever) for SFTP/SCP so it should be possible with Konqueror 3.1. Haven't tried it yet though.

  19. eh? on Shell Simulation Via CGI · · Score: 1

    My program is, uh, very similar!!! WWWSH is a program written in C to give a remote shell. I have some features CGI-shell does, such as history (although I didn't get around to tab completion), and file uploading. It can also remotely edit files with an editor on your computer. It listens to see if the file has changed, and uploads the file just as you save it! Mine is also password protected, though not with the web server but in the CGI itself. Also, I have server CGIs written in Perl and C, so if compiled, it is impossible to tell what it does.

  20. Re: A better Tribute on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    We'll also go bankrupt in 2014.

  21. Re:Soyuz vs. Shuttle on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    Feinman's estimate of one catastrophe per 100 launches still stands. Then it is "disposable." Unforunately it disposes of the people, too.

  22. Re:God rest their souls on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    After all, what good has ever come out of things like 4 Billion Dollar particle accelerators and...

    You'll be talking out of the other side of your mouth once they invent the antimatter engine ... right ...

  23. Another use for transporter... on Improvements in Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Even with the light particles, photons, about one in a thousand were received at the other side.

    "You're not very sure to arrive," a researcher, Dr. Hugo Zbinden, said about human teleportation.


    Well then the transporter can still be used for turning people into piles of goop.

  24. language / platform? on iCommune Retools Itself as Standalone Open Source App · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The iCommune page says it will not depend on any Apple proprietary interfaces or libraries, and it mentions CPAN. So does this mean it will be in Perl and usable with any kind of Unix?

  25. Smart move on MS's part. on Microsoft to Buy Vivendi Games Division? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Vivendi gamed divison includes Universal Interactive, Sierra, and Dynamix, and Blizzard. MS NEEDS to buy these divisions to show more support for its XB console. Rockstar slipped through MS's fingers, and this should NOT be allowed to happen again. Purchasing these companies would not only improve MS's PC content, but would provide great new, EXCLUSIVE content for the XB console. Crash Bandicoot could become an XB exclusive. Tribes for the PS2 could be cancelled and ported over for XB Live. Sierra's SWAT series could be put on XB as an alternative to the Red Storm games based on Tom Clancy materials. It would also be a major boon to have Warcraft and Diablo exclusive to PC and XB, and to have the World of Warcraft for XB Live. This is a chance to own some of the world's top studios and licenses, and should not be passed up. MS needs to take this opportunity, along with others that may arise, to put the hurt on Sony and Nintendo. Imagine if Sony purchased the Vivendi games division instead...would you really want the PS2 or PS3 to have an exclusive on World of Warcraft, regain their exclusive on Crash Bandicoot, and own the worlds of Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft, Tribes, SWAT, and all the other titles of these companies? Perhaps even Blizzard and Sierra would be diverted primarily to console development, further hurting MS's power in the home PC arena. Buying Vivendi's games division is in the best interests of MS and XB owners around the world, to say nothing of PC gamers. Do it, MS...it's the smart move to make.