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  1. Socket-A Chipset? on Socket-A Chipset Roundup · · Score: 2


    Sounds like a cool carnival game... with the big oversize mallet and all, right?

  2. Re:Creation vs. Evolution debate at my university on Still More Evidence for Evolution · · Score: 2
    Creationsts may get slandered a lot.


    But they have hip comicx...


    Obviously the lack of Darwinian comics means that evolutionists are afraid of being exposed for the frauds they are. ;)

  3. I'd like to nomiate my proxy... on Name The MySql Dolphin · · Score: 1

    this guy.

    please don't kill me!

  4. Re:Why is a proton beam like a nova? on Canadian Researchers Create Supernova In-lab · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The DRAGON experiment is concerned with trying to acquire data about the transmutation reaction of Na(11,21) into Mg(12,22). The reactions occur quite infrequently and result in only a very small momentum change in the particle, so the two bending magnets and electric dipoles are required to isolate the stream of Mg particles and feed them into a detector.


    I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but you can probably find them on the ISAC webpage.

  5. Another good link on Canadian Researchers Create Supernova In-lab · · Score: 3, Interesting
    is here at the Toronto Star. It's a bit older, but hey, it's got more background information about the facility.


    I can't believe that the 3D View of the Experimental Hall (which I worked two weeks on as a summer student) is actually posted on Slashdot! Fame and fortune, here I come!

  6. Re:EverQuest Widows? on Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    Touche.

  7. EverQuest Widows? on Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good place to pick up chicks...

  8. Re:I think it would be better to call the installe on Interview with Adam Di Carlo (Debian Boot) · · Score: 4, Funny

    More like the breasts... it's hard to get started in life without access to some.

  9. Re:TROLL A MINUTE!!! on Tuxracer 1.0 Retail Version Finished · · Score: 1

    Bu - Bu - But... Bill Gates said it was like a virus!

  10. Re:Stallman is right on Stallman Responds To GNOME Questionaire · · Score: 1
    Bang on my friend.


    License choice is entirely up to the author of the code, and that's that.

  11. Wireless everything on Concept PC 2001 · · Score: 1
    So, assuming this thing has a wireless monitor, doesn't this mean that now a moderately bright hacker with an aerial and a laptop can not only read my keystrokes and mouse movement, but my screen display too?


    Luuvely! With a strong enough transmitter I bet you could overpower the base unit... AYBABTU!

  12. Re:Lame Names on Buses and Interconnects: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    Would it have Magnetic Alloy Gallium InterConnects?

  13. Re:And so it begins on First Review of Halo · · Score: 1

    Any chance that NetBSD will run on these suckers, d'yethink?

  14. Re:I See Movies Going Down Hill on Drive-By Hacking in London · · Score: 1

    Only if he's getting a blowjob at the same time with a gun held up to his head...

  15. Re:Disappointment... on GNU Carnivore With Perl Data Lookup · · Score: 1

    So write one! That's the beauty of open source, innit?

  16. My favorite take on the matter... on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 1
    ...has to be here.


    Noam Chomsky pointed out in a very interesting lecture at MIT a few days ago, the codename "Enduring Freedom" is a bit funny if you look at it the right way. See, the word 'enduring' has two meanings in the english language...

  17. So.... on GNU Emacs 21 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... does it include a flight simulator yet?

  18. Re:NSA Backdoors on German Parliament Considers Linux · · Score: 1

    You would have thought they'd be running Windows for Dummies...

  19. Re:Learn from the prostitutes on Jedi Knight Now (Not) Officially a Religion · · Score: 1
    You can not create a religion that violates the law without a lot of precedent.


    You mean there's a lot of precedent for Scientology?

  20. Re:It is time... on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1
    You saw an interview on Fox news.... wait, stop there.


    See, there's your problem.

  21. How to teach belligerent navy chiefs on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Insightful
    1) Let him punch you


    2) Get up


    3) Let him punch you again


    4) Have him arrested for assault


    Seriously, it's a shitty metaphor.


    The UN exists for a reason.

  22. Queen's University on How Many Domains Does Your School Own? · · Score: 1
    Well, my school at least got on the ball early.


    While they have a standard webpage, the engineering society also managed to snag the quite sought-after www.campusbookstore.com domain name. Not bad, huh?

  23. Re:Not ready for primetime on Consumer Hydrogen Fuel Cells · · Score: 1
    I'd like to direct you to General Hydrogen's web site. One of the real benefits of a hydrogen based infrastructure is common energy currency. To run a car, you need oil, plain and simple. But, if your car ran off hydrogen, you could make that hydrogen with whatever was available at hand! Coal(if that's whatcha got), Hydroelectric, wind, solar (if you live in Nevada), tidal, geothermal (Iceland is running their fishing fleet on hydrogen beginning in 2006 or so) or whatever else comes along next! No need to upgrade your hydrogen powered car to the next new thing, just use whatever energy source is at hand to make electricity to hydrolyze water.


    They're even backwards compatible, as you point out. Use a converter and fuel your car on rectified gas. No NO2.

  24. Re:Here's an Idea on AMD To Close Plants, Lay off 2300, Lose Gateway · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, smart people constitute a very small demographic.


    Plus they don't go out and buy things they can't afford on credit they shouldn't be using. Or at least not as often. ;)

  25. Re:Implications are many and large on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen · · Score: 1
    From the 1999 US State Department human rights report:


    And you trust the State Department's opinion on the Taliban? A faction that the CIA helped gain power in the 80s?


    Methinks that in 1999, the State Department was feeling a little more friendly towards the rulers of Afghanistan. UN and independant human rights groups (like Amnesty International) are usually a little more trustworthy when it comes to countries that the US has ties to of one form or another.


    Read Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" with an open mind, criticize it as much as you like afterwards, but just read it.