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  1. Re:And if it misses what will it eventually hit? on NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster · · Score: 1

    You see, objects have to obey this nice thing called gravity. No matter how many times you may have heard it, you could not throw a baseball to the moon from orbit (Though a big enough railgun could do it...). Things are not weightless in space, that is just an illusion created when falling. Throwing a baseball from the shuttle, for example, would give it a slightly diffrent orbit, but it wouldn't drift off into the unknown. It may even come back and hit you a few orbits later. If this thing missed, the impactor (which isn't a bomb) would likely drift around in solar orbit for all eternity (well, a few million years, at least).

  2. Re:I'm more worried about Mars. on Cassini Shows Close Up of Iapetus · · Score: 1

    You also have to remember that shadows can play tricks with your eyes in pictures like this. Craters can look like buldges, etc.

  3. Re:Scientists are big kids on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 1

    Giant flower robot: A few thousand dollars. New space shuttle: Several billion dollars. Watching idiots make fools of themselves on slashdot: Priceless.

  4. Re:Water on Mars on One Year on Mars · · Score: 1

    Looks like dust thats collected between the cracks to me. I don't now where you got shiny and clear from, but it certainly isn't.

  5. Re:i'll concede your point on Arthur C. Clarke Reports From Sri Lanka · · Score: 1

    This becomes a major problem in areas with lots of warnings. The costal areas are evacuated, lots of money is lost, and then a 8 inch wave washes up the beach, almost indistigusable from normal waves.

    People start to ignore them, so when something like this happens again, they ignore it too, a possibly fatal mistake.

  6. Re:Impact energy on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1

    'Impact' tsunamis (we've seen them from landslides) are much, much larger than even the most powerful earthquakes.

  7. Re:Why bother doing all this work? on AOL Plans A Standalone Browser · · Score: 0

    Netscape 8 or whatever they plan to call it is based on Firefox, rather than the Mozilla Suite.

  8. Re:*banging head against a wall* on ACS Sues Google Over Use of 'Scholar' · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that Trademarks are already limited to a certain industry.

  9. Re:FINALLY! on Inflatable Spaceship Ready for Test · · Score: 1

    'starting to use it again'

    You mean like the Russians have been using for years now?

    Those guys who go up in Soyuz do come back, ya know.

  10. Re:Might be a good thing... on Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    The farther you are from the equator, the more restricted your launch inclinations are, and it takes a LOT of fuel to make any sizeable inclination change once your in orbit.

  11. Re:Or you could go the MasterCard approach... on Logitech Gives A Mouse A Laser · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ive got a MX-700, and I didn't have to do anything to use those, the only ones that need work are the side buttons.

    You could try this:
    http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/arti cle.php?articleid=46

    After glancing over your post again in preview, I think you mean remap them to do something else, which I don't think is possible. It looks as if those buttons send the same signal as the mouse wheel, so there is no way to remap them.

  12. Re:Branding on Intel Discontinues Extreme Edition P4 · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the piece-of-crap HPs with Pentiums in them?

    Don't judge a processor by its packaging.

  13. Re:The latest SP2 fixes it. on CERT Warns Of Multiple Vulnerabilities In Libpng · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try This image

    I got it from the bugzilla entry about the libpng issues.

    Actully, that image and the one above produce 2 diffrent effects in IE now that ive tested both, maybe its a diffrent issue that got mixed in the same bugzilla entry.

  14. Re:Where did you get the example PNG ? on CERT Warns Of Multiple Vulnerabilities In Libpng · · Score: 1

    http://www.graphicsmagick.org/libpng/beta/samples/ bigw.png Got it from bugzilla.

  15. Re:Ah-ha! on CERT Warns Of Multiple Vulnerabilities In Libpng · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know its a joke, but it seems to work in IE as well, or at least an example PNG crashes it, i suppose one could be crafted for IE to exploit it.

  16. Re:The actual vulnerabilities on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 1

    Don't blame them, blame the libpng devs. IE crashes with the exact same exploit, just like Moz did.

    http://www.graphicsmagick.org/libpng/beta/samples/ bigw.png

    9.3: "This image cannot be displayed because it contains errors."

    IE 6: Internet Explorer has encounted a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

    Bah, properly formatted version, and a link while i'm at it.

  17. Re:The actual vulnerabilities on Security-Updated Versions Of Mozilla Released · · Score: 1

    Don't blame them, blame the libpng devs. IE crashes with the exact same exploit, just like Moz did. http://www.graphicsmagick.org/libpng/beta/samples/ bigw.png 9.3: "This image cannot be displayed because it contains errors." IE 6: Internet Explorer has encounted a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

  18. Re:HL2 not different? on Counter-Strike For Source Engine Shown In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Well, they didn't want it to be diffrent, they wanted to port CS to the source engine, as it is. Players HATE when anything changes, generally. Those who want a diffrent game will play CS2 instead.

  19. Re:see, this is why people use windows on Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code · · Score: 1

    And if you read the replies to that, you will see that it won't work in this case.

    These aren't plain music cds, they have an autorun.ini launched executable, which will still run and install the driver.

  20. Re:And a plant explosion... on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll add that the reason a star can sustain fusion is because of the immense gravity involved, it keeps the hydrogen (well, there are others, but those are later in a stars lifetime) compacted, and the force compressing them generates the heat needed for fusion.

    As we can't create miniature stars at the moment, we have to compensate by supplying the heat and containment ourselves. One of the major barriers to a useful fusion reactor is getting it to produce more power than it draws.

  21. Re:why not right click? on Firefox/Thunderbird Plugins: Is Less More? · · Score: 1

    You seem to be forgetting that right-click is used already. If you think people get confused when switching from IE now, just try replacing the context menu with something completely diffrent.

  22. Re:Dishonest list? on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    Which is why no one had morals before Christans showed up...oh wait, they did.

  23. Re:Life of Brian... also rereleased on Original Godzilla In U.S. Theaters · · Score: 1

    Its a direct quote from a transcript of Bush speaking somewhere (Don't remember), where he makes a rather sad attempt at the famous quote:
    "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

    The quote in full is "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."

    I saw a recording of it, imagine him studdering at each of the '-'s to get a better idea of what it sounded like.

    How or why he tried to say that is beyond me, but I'd at least hope he was ad-libbing, surely they found someone smarter than he is to write his speaches...

  24. Re:419? on Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers · · Score: 3, Informative

    The "419" scams take thousands of $ from people who fall for them, and there have also been reported murders involved when the unfortunate scamee (Is that a word?) goes to another country to meet the scammer, and is then mugged.

    Wikipedia Article

  25. Re:why on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 1

    Ive watched someone click one of those for five minutes before they gave up..I even explained that it was just an ad, but they refused to stop clicking on it.