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  1. Re:Try feeding your damn dog asshole on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1

    I remember also reading somewhere that rabbits will also eachothers' poop because the nutitional needs vary among rabbit species. I believe iron was one nutrients mentioned. I guess one rabbit's shit is another rabbit's food.

  2. Not a big deal.... yet on Mabir.A Virus Targets Symbian Phones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of people already have to update their roaming info. Why cant this stuff be updated at the same time? Current phones wouldnt be able to, but Im sure cellular providers would rather do that than suffer the wireless version of a DOS attack (you know it will happen).

  3. Cool but bad idea on Homemade Mecha Walks in Japan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do we really want autonomous vehicles honing their destructive skills?

  4. This is one that Linux really badly needs on AutoPackaging for Linux · · Score: 1

    Im sure its been said elsewhere, but I think this is one of the big hurdles that Linux faces. I use Windows almost exclusively. Ive tried a few Linux distros in the past, but there were two things that always sent me back.

    First was the games. All the popular games, therefore more money and time dumped into them, are for Windows. I know what Transgaming is doing, Ive even had a subscription there before too. But its too slow. I think OpenGL is partially to blame for this. Theyve always been slower to adapt than Microsoft is with DirectX. DirectX has done a good job of becoming all encompassing too, with video, audio, network play, etc.

    Second, is the pain that it is to install almost anything. Skipping over figuring out which version of the file you need (distro, version), now you have to download these packed files which you have to unpackage first, whose instructions are written for a command line. Whens the last time you had to bust out pkunzip to install a program in Windows? The youd have to use Notepad to edit a file. Youd be lucky to find 1 in 10 computer users that even know of a program that will compile C ("What the hell is 'C'?"). RPM is merely OK.

  5. Re:Make solar cells like leaves not like guts ! on Carbon Nanotube Towers Could Increase Solar Power · · Score: 1

    No actually, not at all. What he was talking about was to make a thin fairly transparent one, and then layer them. Similar to the many layers of semitransparent, light absorbing cells in a leaf. Cant get it any more descriptive. Yours is just panels on both sides to catch the direct sunlight, and its reflection behind it, like pointing a panel at a mirror pointed at the sun.

  6. Need a better view on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Things like this dont happen too often. Surely someone can sacrifice a few bucks to set up a camera in the front row. Maybe it could be some inspiration for those CGI effects in Hollywood.

  7. Re:I'm against this.. take three guesses why? on Single Government ID Moves Closer to Reality · · Score: 1

    Ill bet Tim McVeigh wouldnt have needed to use an access card for the Oklahoma City Federal Building either.

    This isnt about fending on terrorists, its about information control. Its about knowing who is looking at what, and where they were at what time, and who is with them.

  8. Re:hmmm... on 'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    So what youre trying to say is that the best way to amend this problem is to do nothing at all? Let it run its course and cripple the rover?

    I can think of a couple small, low power solution that could be easily attempted. They are looking at the soil very close. It wouldnt be very hard to find soil or make soil similar to what is on Mars. Its absolutely amazing that they can softly drop a remote controlled robotic science lab on a rock 34 million miles away but they cant figure out how do make a small Martian windshield wiper. The benefits are undeniable.

  9. Re:Yeah, right. on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1

    "HEY GRANDMA!!! Try the NEW and _improved_ internet! It's called Firefox, blazing hot internet!!"

    I thought it was amazing to find out that my grandma had somehow not only found out about Firefox, but also installed it on her home and all of computers in her office, including ones that were not hers, deleting IE icons along the way. I think a tear may have welled up in my eye.

    The point is that it is spreading, even in unlikely places. I made my aunt and uncle switch after I got tired of showing them how to run Adaware (which kinda makes them enemies in a way). None of my family is leaving at Christmas till I tell them that I wont fix their computers unless they only use Firefox.

  10. Re:This isn't cutting edge. on 400,000 Additional DSs Available by Year's End · · Score: 1

    Being someone that reads slashdot only occasionally (1-3 times a week, usually briefly on those occasions). I had no idea what simply "DS" meant. It should be DmS for "dont mean shit." "Nintendo DS" tells me that its the name of a console platform.

    I just might venture to guess that "video cassette recorder" just seems too damn long. Plus you add in that VCRs have been around for 20 years and the Nintendo DS is making the news. DS is also a proprietary name so it wont spread in usage like names that are necessary to describe the machine (VCR, DVD, CD, SUV, POS).

    Now click the last link in the summary, the very first sentence:
    "the Nintendo DS, is enjoying global sales figures broadly in line with its predecessor, the Game Boy Advance
    You cant blame people when you cant trust the linked article. While Nintendo calls it a separate line from the Gamboy Advance, the article says and everyone will naturally assume that it is the succesor. Just compare the two, one is a much cooler version of the other.

  11. Re:What's special about human communication on Blending Mice and Men · · Score: 1

    Id give you a + mod point if I had one.

    Another thing Ill point out. As some one who has had pets across generations instead of as replacements for dead ones (ie, they have time to interact), you can see personality quicks jump from one to another.

    I had a cat that my family picked up as a stray. One of the weird things it would do was to chirp (like a very brief meow, and sometimes a meow that it sounded like it was whispering) at bugs, they loved the Miller Moth season in Co. Springs. Sure enough the next two generations (more like new young strays now that other is getting old) did the same thing. We never had more than two cats at a time so it was being passed. Ive never seen another cat do the same thing.

    I see human speech more along those lines. Those who could articulate the words/grunts somehow survived better.

  12. Re:i'll take a remake on System Shock 2 Retrospect...and Possible Followup? · · Score: 1

    IDs games definently have the movement feeling more natural. I didnt notice anything after a short while, except trying to jump on or over anything. The character just seemed a little too floaty, like the gravity was low.

  13. Re:Some quotes, links, and facts from SS2... Co-op on System Shock 2 Retrospect...and Possible Followup? · · Score: 1

    I played a coop mode a few years ago in the dorms with another guy. Works well since each of you can specialize in something different with the cyber modules. Keys and logs were shared as were the cyber modules (if anyone picked them up, everyone got them). Traveling was weird since if anyone activated a door both were zipped to it instantly, which could be annoying and advantageous at the same time.

    We did tend to not stick together too much since I was the brawny uber-marine packmule with an assault rifle who could deliver death hand-to-hand better than the Grim Reaper. My friend was more of the hacker/psyboost junkie who could run (away) faster than a gazelle and pop me in the back of the head with a telekenetic fireball while I clobber the offending annelid worm to death.

  14. What about a movie? on System Shock 2 Retrospect...and Possible Followup? · · Score: 1

    Almost every movie based on a game sucks. SS2 is one of the few games made that has enough story to not need fight scene fillers. It would have to of course be altered somewhat. Maybe two people so there is more dialog than Polito/Shodan's orders (though her insults are to such a loathing that theyre down right funny) and logs. Of course it would have to be a man and a woman so we could get the obligatory boobie scene.

    Funny thing was I dug this game out a few weeks ago and Ive been slowly going through it again. Right now Im trying to get sim units under Shodan's control.

  15. Profit, inside a conspiracy on 100 GB Email Account · · Score: 1

    I wonder if their EULA allows certain people to look at emails or large files, or if this company is owned or funded by one of the various MPAA/RIAA companies.

    Then take said company and challenge people to fill up this enormous space. How do they expect you to do that? What kind of files take up that kind of space?

    Movies, Audio, CD Images, Data Backup (No one in their right mind would trust this one to an email account)

    Why get $10 on rental when you can pop someone for a couple thousand on copyright violation.

  16. Re:Why is no one going to jail? on NEC Admits To Ripping Off Schools Through E-Rate Program · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In all such cases that you make the persons were being abused for reasons entirely beyond their control. What a lot of these CEOs do is literally intentionally hurting a lot of people.

    If its money that they love so much than take that away. We need an interesting punishment. Never allow them to make more that $18,000 a year or accept handouts from anyone or have any accumulated value worth more than say $30,000. Any of his buddies found to be helping him cheat can have the same punishment (cause you know they wont help him then). Or at least something along these lines.

  17. Re:Here's a karma whore on NEC Admits To Ripping Off Schools Through E-Rate Program · · Score: 1

    Try it once. Adding that line does not work.

  18. Re:Stop drinking sugar! on The DDR Workout - It's Official · · Score: 1

    Im not an expert on phetoketonuria, but isnt that typically a problem only younger children suffer?

    If I remember correct one sign is a lack of much pigmentation. Phenylalanine is something that is eventually broken down to melanin by your body.

  19. Ive been planning this in my car for a while on Inexpensive Dashboard PC · · Score: 1

    Im in the process of completely overhauling my car. Ive opted to not use a reciever in lieu of a laptop. Why? For all the reason the site lists for theirs (compatibility with DVDs, mp3s, ECU interface...) but also so I can drive up next my house and download my songs off my computer. Plus I can use my cellphone for wireless internet. Who needs OnStar when I can download a map from Mapquest or another similar site.

    Who knows, maybe people will start sharing music in their cars via wireless networking. RIAA can try to ban automobiles next.

  20. Re:What are the specs? on Real 'Akira' Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    This isnt to flame you, but you are showing off your ignorance. Not all bikers are the fat, woolly, renegade, Hell's Angel's kind. Theres a good reason they often have a "%1" tattooed on themselves somewhere. A huge majority are along the lines of RUBbers, stands for "Rich Urban Biker".

    Besides that, the younger crowd tends to buy used crotch rockets. A Harley-Davidson (whose riders probably give you youre bad mental image of them) is an expensive bike, easily as much a new car.

  21. Re:Haaaahahahahaha on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    Ill peer into my magic ball.

    Its actually an SUV, and its the transmission thats all busted. 60 miles is a long way in first, right Hat?

  22. Re:Warranty on Mars Rover Spirit Back Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real question is: Can they get their flash RAM supplier to pay for shipping?

  23. Re:Methods used to obfuscate worm code on The Origin Of Sobig (And Its Next Phase) · · Score: 1

    I would assume that the new code was a separate executable. Or was it merely un unlock code of sorts? If it was an executable they couldve just put a patch on those address using the same name. The worm would then download its own death.

  24. No need for lead gloves on United Nuclear · · Score: 1

    I save my hands by carrying the uranium in my pockets. Like most /.ers I have more use of my hands than mid-level equipment.

  25. Re:There always something that dont fit? on Oldest Modern Humans Found · · Score: 1

    Arent they? All the books within it a supposedly written by people anyway. Im just saying that there is no reason to have DNA at all if God created all of us.

    Fine, how about this. When you go to heaven its a happy place right? Most people will assume they can remember their coporeal life (if you couldnt, youd be rewarded for things you cannot remember, or punished for that matter). Dont you think youd have sorrow or grief for people you knew that didnt make it? Thats not too happy, getting to witness people you love burn forever.

    And how is this any different than basing your beliefs on a book filled with provable facts?