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  1. Re:Winter and NASA on Failure Is Always an Option · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe that ice forms on the tanks as a result of the supercooled O2 in the rocket, not because of the weather. The launch could have happened anywhere any any time and the ice/foam problem would still exist.

  2. Re:I have used the promise and adaptec. on Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? · · Score: 1

    With four drives, you could also have a stripe set /w parity and have slightly more storage.(With a more $ raid card of course).

  3. Re:Ho, you think so? on Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park · · Score: 1

    I've heard worse than what is related below: HUAC: Can you name any other individuals that were active at the time of the strike that you believe in your opinion are Communists? WALT DISNEY: Well, I feel that there is one artist in my plant, that came in there, he came in about 1938, and he sort of stayed in the background, he wasn't too active, but he was the real brains of this, and I believe he is a Communist. His name is David Hilberman. HUAC: How is it spelled? WALT DISNEY: H-I-L-B-E-R-M-A-N, I believe. I looked into his record and I found that: number 1, that he had no religion, and number 2, that he had spent considerable time at the Moscow Art Theatre, studying art direction or something. FROM-http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/business/wa lt-disney/ Such were the times I guess.

  4. Re:Not surprising... on Man Learns To See Again After 40 Years Of Blindness · · Score: 1

    Language is an important componant of culteral understanding, identification etc. I went to a Uni with had a sizeable deaf population, they had plays where the actors signed and a narrator recited the dialogue. For my part I would find it amusing if this man's problems were not at all typical and he just happened to be a little slow on the uptake.

  5. Re:Not commercially available? on Home Biomass Power Generators · · Score: 1

    corncobs, sawdust pellets, and coconut shells to produce electricity You beat me to the punch but here are my runners up. 1)Sure, but they can't build a decent raft. 2)Isn't that that Charles Lindberg used to win the civil war? 3)PROFIT Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.

  6. Re:I'm scared... on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 1

    nuq ghaj SoH ghaj Daq tlhIngan (thanks to http://members.aol.com/JPKlingon/uta/)

  7. Re:US-centric - nonmetric again.. on 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again · · Score: 1

    I have to guess that the overwhelming majority of ./ readers are from the U.S. so I don't see anything arrogant in using native measurements. OTOH Mountain-Dew comes in two liter bottles so most of us should have a point of reference. I have nothing against the metric system, it is easy to learn, eminently logical, and provides no compelling reason to switch once you've learned the odd Imperial system that we take for granted. I looked on the site and couldn't find where they specify the amount of fuel stored. There is a good chance that these people themselves use the word gallon. There is no real arrogance here, just a little endian/big endian type disagreement. That said, you sir, are nothing but a dirty little endian.

  8. Re:start leading.. on Windows XP Edges Out KDE in Usability Test · · Score: 1

    Having absolutly no programming or user interface expierece, I would guess that devs would want the various desktops to be able to interact, or at least be aware of each other. If you have winamp and want only one instance to run and want that instance to run in desktop 4, when a user clicks the winamp icon on their no1 desktop they sould be using the same winamp process that was already started. This could be difficult with the TSvcs approach.

    Than again, maybe I shouldn't speculate since I can't keep xmms on kde desktop 2;)

  9. Re:SDTP on Replacing SMTP? · · Score: 1

    That is a great idea, I have a Pentium 200 that I am willing to donate to get it off the ground. It has 96 Mb of Ram though, so you may want to remove a dimm or 2.

  10. Re:Piondexter should have been canned for TIA not on Slashback: Blender, Paly, Dragon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think that this market could have been very effectively gamed by those very same self-serving agencies. Want extra money in the budget? Buy "V.P. assasination" futures. Similarly, wealthy terrorists could manipulate our "intel" by buying many, many shares of "everything will be fine". The market is fine for some things, but people have an irrational faith in it. It really boggles the mind (and pisses me off because these people are in charge).

  11. Re:yeah and Please forgive the lengthness of my re on Titania Nanotubes for Hydrogen Sensors? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine,Bona fide,Electrified, Titaniafied, Nanotube! What'd I say? Ned Flanders: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? Patty+Selma: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: That's right! Nanotube! Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud... Lyle Lanley: But tt detects hydrogen clouds. Apu: Is there a chance the tube could bend? Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend. Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs? Lyle Lanley: You'll be given cushy jobs. Abe: Were you sent here by the devil? Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level. Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can. Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man. I swear it's Springfield's only choice... Throw up your hands and raise your voice! All: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: What's it called? All: Nanotube! Lyle Lanley: Once again... All: Nanotube! Marge: But Main Street's still all cracked and broken... Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken! All: Nanotube! Nanotube! Nanotube! [big finish] Nanotube! Homer: Nano... D'oh!

  12. I haven't read the article on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I haven't read the article, but I assume that the Poster meant to type 95%. Its OK, we all make mistakes.

  13. Re:Why stop with Apple Stores? on Apple Store Fans Camp Out for 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    ...they'd be a bona fide homeless person. At that point they'd have to move to Santa Monica.

  14. Re:Why get binaries on Binary Package Formats Compared · · Score: 1

    Half an hour was a guess. It was less than 3 for sure though. I have XP1700+ with 512mb of ram, so don't get too jealous.

  15. Re:Why get binaries on Binary Package Formats Compared · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I love Gentoo, but I can entirely understand someone not wanting to spend 18 hours compiling OO.org or KDE. Or even half an hour getting Moz-Frirebird. All I know about the Gentoo reference binaries is that they exist. But they weren't covered and since they seem to be the (distant) second choice for the Gentoo devs, I doubt it is as easy to use as portage.

  16. Re:FireWire, USB on Switch On For Powered Data Networks · · Score: 1

    I am too lazy to look, but I'm sure that the CAT 5 has a better range (180m?) than USB (9m?). Also cat-5 cable is $50 for 1000' retail. USB is $20 for 6'. I'm sure that we are getting gouged for the USB, but some of that $ must go towards insulation for the couple volts of power that the thing delivers. For small local devices USB and Firewire will do the job fine. I think remote devices will need their own power supply for the forseeable future, and the notion of using the ethernet cable as an enterprise wide alternate power supply absurd. Now that I've said that, I'm sure that it will be successfully deployed within 6 months.

  17. Re:What is a "Central Module"? on SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan · · Score: 1

    Finding one can be tough, but once found you can reroute the shields though it into an inverted taycheon pulse and solve every conceivable problem.

  18. PSA on Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! · · Score: 1

    This contest soon to be followed by a FARK: "Photoshop this geek wearing the new SLASHDOT T-Shirt" contest.

  19. Re:Solution ask a question? on Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out The Blind · · Score: 1

    You could just keep the current test and add a Blind option that is more trouble to perform, but does not require sight. One of the many suggestions should work nicely. Upon reading the initial post, I was like 'well screw them, the world is imperfect' But with 3 min of thought I came up with my idea and with about the same amount of though everybody else came up with theirs. This doesn't seem to hard to impliment, and is almost a texbook definition of "Reasonable accomidation."

  20. Re:How I'd improve bookmarks on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead · · Score: 1

    DUDE, I don't want goastse.cx BOOKMARKED! Or Slashdot for that matter.

  21. Re:How to fix the problem on Biometric Face Recognition Exploit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or some face topography scheme (IR distance sensors etc...), or make people turn their head so that the computer has to validate x number of positions between a frontal and quarter profile. Thermal is too easy to fool. No doubt these methods also could be fooled and likely sucessfully reversed as well. But the more complicated the verification, the more complicated circumvention will have to be. It appears that the currenet scheme is easier to circumvent than impliment.

  22. Perpetual motion on Slashback: Transparency, USB, Europatents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Investigators from the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance raided the Tilley complex and wer head to say "In this state we obey the laws of PHYSICS!"

  23. Re:By the time Congress is through with it... on Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, I want to tack on a rider to that bill - $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts

  24. Re:If this guy's mom is like my mom... on Mom Meets Linux - A Lindows 4.0 Review · · Score: 1

    We all can relate: http://www.theonion.com/onion3822/getting_mom_onto _internet.html

  25. Re:Okay, for use Windows users.... on KnoppiXMAME 1.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, it is that simple. And if you want to install it on your HD, it is quite easy. Especially compared to getting MAME to work on my Linux box (ARGH). The only downside to Knoppix is that you don't know any more once you are using Linux than before you started. Then again, that could be a plus.