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  1. Re:Are they hiring...? on United Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Thats cool and all, but does it look like a Phaser?

  2. Re:Sony wants ubiquitous wifi on New Sony Clie PEG-UX50 · · Score: 1
    Talking to a wireless engineer at Sony, they are really interested in finding a way of having ubiquitous 802.11 access everywhere. With devices like this, who can blame them.

    Hmmm... downloading Sony music off a Sony WiFi point onto a Sony computer then burning Sony brand CD-Rs for all your friends with a Sony CD-RW driver sounds like fun.
  3. Re:Ummm ... they left some stuff out here ... on The Best Of Planetary Explorers · · Score: 1

    Wow, some people are completely clueless of the situation.

    Columbia survived the same thing a half dozen times before, this was nothing different according to information available to the engineers.

    Additionally, theres no logistics for two shuttles in space. Houston cannot physically handle the information.

  4. Re:New Meaning on Isn't It Ironic? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I dont know about you, but i learnt the meaning of irony from alanis morisets song.


    Even sadder, my English teacher used that song as an example of irony.

    Now THATS ironic. I think.
  5. Re:One thing that is missing from "the spoof" on Biometric Face Recognition Exploit · · Score: 1
    A local company to me, has a biometric scan + retina and thumbprint scan, but it also takes your body temp average/signature


    So if you catch a cold you can't even get into the building?
  6. Re:The devil you know on Microsoft Pulls Plug for Support on NT4 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Heres a tip to avoid most all of those problems:
    NEVER upgrade a Microsoft OS! Install from SCRATCH!

  7. Re:Never woulda thunk it on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 1

    So, do you advocate getting rid of gallop polls then?

  8. Re:It's a shame they didn't name it... on Solar Powered Helios Plane Destroyed in Test Flight · · Score: 1
    all planes break up when they get too close to the ground


    That is unless they're coming in at a shallow approach with landing gear down flying close to their stall speed.
  9. Re:One thing I never understood on Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Ships · · Score: 1

    Well, my current RPG, Earth and Beyond lets you download the entire client (a 1GB download) and then give you a free trial for 5 days before asking you to start a subcription.

    IMHO, this is how all MMORPGs should work. Of course, EA didn't start doing that until January (game launched in October).

  10. Re:It explains one thing on Law Professor Examines SCO Case · · Score: 1
    I really wonder if IBM knows this and as such is keeping quiet. To show the image of the "good quiety" student.


    But in reality they're still laughing at the lawsuit.
  11. Re:Heres some ideas on GNU/Linux bootable CD on XBOX: dyne:bolic · · Score: 4, Funny
    Why would you want to mod the XBox to run Linux so you can run Windows and play games the games you could without the MOD?


    You must be new here.
  12. Re:Making money? on The Return Of Shareware Games · · Score: 1

    After seeing the text "TiGCC" I just thought of what the average secondary school teacher would do if they saw
    root@ti#
    On a calculator screen... That reaction alone would be a good reason to build minux/linux for those things, if theres enough room on the calculator that is. (Ti-83+ is out surely..)

  13. Re:DMCA on Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking? · · Score: 1

    In other words: Watch out adobe! Acrobat is now illegal in Sweden!

  14. Re:DMCA on Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking? · · Score: 1

    "...copy books, and as I understand it, use software that is designed to help with any of these tasks, and many other things"

    Hmmm... Mental note to not bring this laptop containing an entire book (my dad's) in QuarkXpress anywhere near Sweden.

  15. Re:safe? on Lockheed Martin to Build Nuclear Powered Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Considering that this has already happened three times, I'm not too worried.

  16. Re:Well on Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness · · Score: 1

    Of course this is irrelevant because the grandparent post specifically stated "Convicted criminal"

  17. Re:Video games don't breed violence... on Violent Video Game Restriction Struck Down · · Score: 1
    Think about it: has playing too much Quake 3 (or CS in my case) caused you to have ANY stirrings of spontaneous violence?
    Well, there was this one time when I was at a LAN party and this guy was using an aim bot...
  18. Re:Mozilla beware!! on IE6 SP1 Will Be Last Standalone Version · · Score: 1

    This folks is why the Sherman Anti-trust act was passed. If your attorney general doesn't file suit, impeach them for incompetance.

  19. Re:SCO is out of control. on Today's SCO News · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, the AC-130 that is IBM has its howitzer trained on SCO, just waiting for a decent opportunity to hit the fire button.

  20. Re:CIA Humint - Sigint - Remote Sensing on IT at the CIA · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps they didn't miss all those things and just didn't feel the need to tell/have the time to make the decision to tell the general population about the events.

    Now obviously they must have missed 9-11...

  21. Re:Junk Food for the Mind on Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Heh you should rethink your premise.. that the Matrix is the same level of art as Shakespeare... Beethoven, JS Bach, Plato, Aristotle, ... etc. Sure I love the Matrix, its a great movie but I think its pop-culture art not art like Shakespeare.
    But Shakespeare's plays, Beethoven's Symphonies, JS Bach's masses, etc. were pop culture art, just as The Matrix is pop culture art today. Now whether The Matrix will be viewed as profound in the future will determine whether its truely on the same level. Its just something to think about.
  22. Re:Junk Food for the Mind on Philosophy, Reality and The Matrix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shakespeare wrote to entertain his audiences. The famous greek philosophers and playwrights wrote to entertain their audiences. Beethoven, JS Bach, Mozart, etc wrote their music to entertain his audience.

    Why can't a modern movie designed to entertain this modern audience not be at the same level? Will secondary school English classes 200 years from now be analyzing 'The Matrix' as current students analyze 'Romeo and Juliet'? Its something to think about...

  23. Re:Everyone assumed too much on NASA says Columbia Rescue was Possible · · Score: 1
    For sure. On top of that you have to include the Russians and the Chinese
    Beijing: "Sorry about hitting Washington with that nuke, we thought we replaced the warhead and was sending it to Columbia"
  24. Re:Soldier Skills. on The Internet and The War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't that somewhat saying that you don't need guns because you already have bayonets? And when your gun jams, you're going for that bayonet anyway so lets just skip the guns.

    And then centralized command and control; knock that out and theres nobody to control the armies! So lets just throw everyone out there and say "conquer the nation" and it'll all work out!

    More or less the same line of reasoning. I'd expect a squad to react to losing his GPS the same way he'd react to losing their comms or running out of ammunition....

    Anyway, when did using faulty technology stop the military in the past? I seem to recall an absurd rate of duds in USN torpedos during WWII...

  25. Re:More universes than atoms on Martin Rees On The Multiverse, Scientific Research & Reality · · Score: 1

    Now, to find how to get into that universe...