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  1. Is this finished on A Look Inside Virginia Tech's New Super Computer · · Score: 0

    YOu know we heard about this 6 months ago, and I'm quite excited about it I'm just curious whether or not it has enough Mips to make the top 10 list or if bandwidth degradation hurt it more than expected.

  2. Re:A Game Is Freedom of Speech on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    Context is so key in these scenarios...

    FOr example is there any circumstance where it would be legal to set of a smoke grenade and shout fire in a crowded theatre

    Hint: Yes

  3. Re:A Game Is Freedom of Speech on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    Just like burning a cross on someone else's yard is illegal and burning a cross on your front yard is only illegal if burning something on your front yard is illegal.

  4. Re:A Game Is Freedom of Speech on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    Yes. Depending on the state Impeding the flow of traffic is considered more dangerous than speeding and riding next to someone in the "passing/acceleration" lane is illegal.

  5. Re:A Game Is Freedom of Speech on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 1

    Clue
    RISK
    Politika
    Axis and Allies

  6. Underclocking on AMD Aircooling Round-Up of 2003 · · Score: 1

    If you are looking for a quiet system you must buy a quality heatsink and underclock or go with a VIA

  7. Re:Seven colors to choose from on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    fair enough, perhaps I am an exception in that We do most of the shopping together.

    and the only product I don't think she would trust me to buy are the "feminine hygiene" products.

  8. Re:Ahh human hubris as usual on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 2, Funny

    No it is logical

    Given:

    1. God exists
    2. God is high order infinite(Gamma) {knowledge space time}
    3. The Afterlife is low order infite(Beta) {time future}
    4. God will extrude into the afterlife
    5. God will participate with those in the afterlife

    Assumption:

    1. Based on my beliefs I will also be in the afterlife.
    BR Looks like just one Assumption...Of course you could put all the givens as also assumptions, but ...

  9. Re:Seven colors to choose from on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    And you don't know your wife's size and wear preference???

  10. Re:Durable Material on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1
    That's why it sucks everything in.


    You mean like a slashdot troll? or a usenet troll?
  11. Re:where is the peer review? on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    And this is what is known as the exception that proves the rule. ie there are over 50000 people who dropped out of school that are either un-employed or living on the "poverty line" so your two examples do not disprove the rule. It is not Normative for a respected scientist or engineer to not graduate and be certified and an exception in this case proves the rule.

  12. Re:Belongs on America's Dumbest on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    You left out

    5. Walk into a gun store at 1730 and demand that the owner empty the register, and then when the uniformed police officers tell you to drop your weapon. DON'T.

  13. Re:Well, ironic isn't it? on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 1

    Simple, e-mail them(anonymously if prefered) and if there are e-mail addresses attached to the spreadsheet, CC them... Check back in 1-2 weeks and then contact the press(again anonymously). Check back again.. post on slashdot, etc.

  14. Re:What have we forgotten? Microsoft on SCO - What have WE Forgotten? · · Score: 1

    Who cares about Apple and SCO. If the real issue is IBM and microsoft, what we have on the one hand is an oak tree(IBM) grown from and acorn which has weathered lightning, wind and rain, It will grow slowly, but steadily and the loss of a brand does not kill the root. OTOH we have a bamboo(MS) Quick growing, high growing, but without the depth of root system to weather lightning wind and rain, and as it grows taller the more strain is put on the root until it falls over and collapses.

    Why is this? well IBM sells "solutions" and for over 100 years this has worked. in the 80s they attempted to sell a product(OS/2 and the PC) and got hit hard for it. Now they sell solutions again and they have returned to their former glory. That mistake cost some branches and leaves but the trunk at root remain.

    How is this difference manifest ... one word

    support

    IBM still supports every product they have made that can possibly be used. I can go to IBM.com and download drivers, diagnostics and bios upgrade tools for 20+ year old products. OTOH windows 98 is no longer supported.

  15. Re:SCO on SCO - What have WE Forgotten? · · Score: 1

    That wise man was either Arthur Clarke or Robert Anson Heinlein, It is unclear which originated the statement.

  16. Re:New email protocol? on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    not pretentious, Lazy.

  17. Re:Compiler optimtizations??? on Athlon 64 3400+ Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Why not just go with a network boot and a massive ram disk of some sort ... esp since with gigabit and a fast fileserver you should be gtg. 4 giga ram 3 dedicated to "local" 512 to some sort of smart network cache and keep userspace remotely... then all you have locally is system and open files...

  18. Re:Tilda vs. minus on Athlon 64 3400+ Reviewed · · Score: 1

    What is an on-off cycle. Is that like rebooting. Or is that when you turn the computer off for upgrading... Or are there still people who think that the power savings is worth the wear on the hard-drive bearings?

  19. Re:Violence has an effect on children. on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    Why is it then that the students at columbine weren't spanked... ditto for the other major headline school shootings???

  20. Re:Violence has an effect on children. on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    Mass murder is a contemporary problem... particularly public random mass murder. We don't have records of some student in the 16th century taking his father's sword and killing 25 of his classmates because they didn't like his lisp.

  21. Re:simulated dawn on Alarm Clocks for Heavy Sleepers? · · Score: 1

    look toward the bottom of the page... at the 80 and 100 dollar models that include an alarm. I saw an infomercial(now I know about infomercials but) on these things and they seemed fairly interesting The only problem is that if you have an SO on a different schedule than you are...

  22. Re:Turn on the light on Alarm Clocks for Heavy Sleepers? · · Score: 1

    there is such a device

  23. Re:Violence has an effect on children. on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    NO, you don't understand the point. The students involved in violence with no notable exceptions were NOT "violently punished".

  24. Re:Violence has an effect on children. on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    For over 6000 years of recorded history parents have used love and measured corporal punishment in raising their children. In the last 60+ years some people have guessed that this is a bad system. In the 30 years since that system of pretending that children are little adults has been implemented, delinquency is up and we have begun having shootings at school... Of course other contributing factors are the two car garage and "career mothers" Children NEED discipline and a parent at home. They don't need a gamecube and a 27 inch tv in their bedroom.

  25. Re:The Penny Arcade campaign was stupid on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they care about children?