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  1. Re:looks cool, YES worry about the laser on Logitech Bluetooth Cordless Presenter Review · · Score: 2

    Lasers are harmful the the eyes, but it is not cancer that they cause. They scorch the retina with their high energy radiation, rendering you blind. Cancer is cell over growth, but lasers cause cell death by cooking them much as the Sun can.

  2. Re:Battlebots is cancelled on Mathematica and BattleBots · · Score: 1

    I too heard is has been canned. It seems strange, since it has replaced WWF as the dorm's TV of choice for the male-soap-opera.
    Now what are they going to do? Build things with Mathematica?

  3. Web site brings up this question for me... on Pogo No Longer Vaporware · · Score: 1

    Practical because they do so by using content, services and applications that already exist...
    So what was stopping us from doing this POGO stuff before?

  4. Re:Load test is inverted on Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test! · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't even see why they need a live load test. They should be able to tell from the stats on the main slashdot page how much bandwidth they will need to run the new site.
    In fact I've wondered just how /. avoids the "effect" while, sites they link to go down. Is /. the only decent server on the planet?

    What are you doing posting here anyway? Get over to the new site and help break it with everyone else. ;-)

  5. Re:OLED Clothes on Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    There are people very interested in this kind of technology. For one thing, human body heat could be the power source for the clothes, so your clothes don't "power down" when a battery dies.
    Then your shirt, pants, and underwear will need an IP address, so your girlfriend can display her face on your shirt to see why you are still sitting at the bar instead of going home. Your underwear will be receiving DOS attacks, and your pants will get Spam from Coke who will say, "Can't beat the real thing" on your butt.
    This technology could be cool, but look for major annoyances too.

  6. Re:how much is $600CDN? 50 bucks in real money? on DivX DVD Players Arrive · · Score: 1

    http://www.tdcanadatrust.com
    Go here you troll, and use your big brain [backed by Coke and Nachos] to run a currency conversion.

    DivX is good.

  7. Re:Spam Lite Hotmail? on New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs · · Score: 1

    Spam to Hotmail has decreased the past few days. I have 5 different accounts, and each one is getting about 70% less spam per day. The stuff I do get is more likely to get by my custom filters though because Hotmail has restricted the number of custom filters to only 10, unlike the previous 30something.

  8. This is a minor problem. on New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs · · Score: 1

    I don't browse the blogs, but I make my own. In fact my Slashdot journal is a blog of a sort, and I haven't seen this type of spam activity, because as my journal clearly states I have a life elsewhere and don't care who looks at my journal.
    Now please look at my journal and reply to me so my life has meaning.
    Thank you for your time,
    saskboy

  9. Re:Dust clouds - minor correction on Bigger Galaxy Eats Smaller Neighbor · · Score: 1

    k is the Boltzman constant. The SB constant is for another calculation.

  10. Re:Dust clouds on Bigger Galaxy Eats Smaller Neighbor · · Score: 1

    See that is the tough part that Astronomy hasn't answered yet. We don't know what triggers Fusion.
    The perfect gas law
    P=nkT says that the pressure equals the number density times constant k [Stefan-Boltzman] times Temperature [Kelvin].
    There are Giant Molecular clouds that have huge number densities, but very low temperatures. It must be some strange circumstance indeed that triggers star formations.

  11. Re:Missing option: BLOG definition on Blogger Hacked · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A Blog is a online jounal or diary where lamers [like me] write their daily thoughts and routines so family, friends, strangers, and enemies can garner my life's work, and benefit from my ideas.
    1. Write in blog
    2. ...
    3. Profit!

  12. Re:A question - answered. on Bigger Galaxy Eats Smaller Neighbor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As an Anonymous person here said, the stars interact because of gravity, so even though there is some space between the stars, the two [?] galaxies that come out of the collision will look nothing like they did when they entered it.
    For a smaller scale comparision, imagine 2 solar systems colliding. The odds of the planets, and stars hitting are not 100%, but you can bet the orbits are going to be drastically changed.

  13. Re:Old news - NOT on Bigger Galaxy Eats Smaller Neighbor · · Score: 1

    This is live news:
    CNN reporters on the scene are saying:
    "Oh the humanity!"
    Who'd of thought CNN would be around to capture this event live, 200-400 million years ago. We all knew Ted Turner was old, but not that old.

  14. Re:still 2 permanent STDs you can catch with a con on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 3, Funny

    More...
    Fleas, Crabs - pubic lice, scabies. And that is just from the Dell servers. The Compaq servers are the really dirty sluts.

  15. Re:Server rooms can be safe, sure, yeah, right.. on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 1

    Unless your Dell has Hep C, you're safe then.

  16. Re:Server room? Luxury! on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 2, Informative

    The first place I worked at, the server room was a converted phone closet. It had a safe, 4 servers, and an air conditioner. Months before I got there, the servers weren't even in a rack, they were just sitting on the floor, in a basement, next to an airconditioner.
    You don't want to spend extra time in a server room with an old nearly broken air conditioner roaring behind you when you are on the phone with Microsoft trying to repair the Exchange server after a worm incident.

  17. Re:Server rooms can be safe -only for techs on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 3, Funny

    Statistics also show that "server room affairs" by non technical personal, are responsible for more than half of office place STD transmission.
    The "photo copy room trysts" follow in a close second place, while the "boss's office boinkings" are becoming more uncommon as more CEOs are of the female gender.

  18. I think because of this we need open source banks on Financial Institutions Balk at MS Licensing · · Score: 1

    Open Source mBanx. The Canadians will get it I hope.

    Seriously, I don't trust the banks all the much to begin with. I mean, the "Big 5" in Canada aren't all that big in a global sense, so why not support another country's bank, like ING Direct? I have an account with them now, and earn .75% more interest on my savings account than I can with the best GIC locked-in account with TD CTrust.
    Why bother with banks at all I'm starting to think. I've got a perfectly good matress I sleep on every night, and then I don't have to worry about my bank making direct deposits into MS coffers.

  19. Re:Preaching to the choir... singing here on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the world of Winblows users and Linux newbies, you don't have to have the most secure machine in the world, it just has to be more secure than 50% of the machines in the world.
    It is like the joke about 2 people running from a bear. You don't have to outrun the bear, you only have to outrun your friend.
    Why bother cracking an almost insecure machine, when you have thousands of completely insecure ones to do your bidding?

  20. Re:Not a paradox. on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 1

    OK, so how does your comment about my sig get an Insightful mod, but mine gets comment about the article gets an "overrated" when it is clearly funny?
    Sheesh. Some mod must have been offended by my joke.

  21. Re:Effect on Earth on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 1

    Look for the State to tumble in the year 2600.

  22. Re: SO WHAT??? I'll tell you what: on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 0

    Earth's little sister would be about (Earth's age ~ 4 billion years old) - (average planetary sibling age difference ~ 100,000 years). I guess you dig old chicks?

  23. Re:Brother? Yes, it is a minor planet on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any body of rock that is orbiting the Sun and not another planet, is a minor planet if it is not a major planet like Mercury, or Jupiter. Asteroids are also known as minor planets.

  24. Re:meters, miles... oops on Earth's Little Brother Found · · Score: 1

    I suppose the fine folks at JPL helped write the article, and now it will crash into the side of /. when it trys to enter /.'s orbit.

  25. Re:How often have they installed mandrake? on Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0 · · Score: 1

    When I rolled my wheel, it made the pointer jump around, until I did *something* that fixed it, and I was able to test my other buttons, and continue.
    I found the installation to be confusing at points, because when I went BACK to a previous step, I had to continue from there, and couldn't skip back to where I went back from.
    Also my sound card in my Dell OptiPlex worked with 9.0 but not with 8.2. I could have been a co-incidence, but it may have been an improvement to the driver or how a file was written when I installed the ISA card.
    The most confusing and annoying part about the installation was that I selected the same packages on 2 different computers, yet with one computer the games package never installed, and the same number of packages actually reported a smaller total size required than on the other one. It then proceeded to install less than I asked it to, and didn't prompt me to insert the 2nd disk which tipped me off that it was ignoring my request for the additional packages I had selected.
    Shoddy feedback. It is a big improvement over the Red Hat 6 I installed 2 years ago for a test, but it is not as easy as Windows. I installed Windows 98 on a separate partition on the same computers, and everything I need works right. My sound card AND my network card are not recognized by Mandrake 9.0 in my newer Celeron computer. I'm going to try Red Hat 8.3 [or so] and let you know how it goes by comparison.