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  1. Re:Woo-hoo. Or not... on Download Your Brain · · Score: 1

    Or just shrink him down to 640k, because we all know NOBODY would ever....

    (yeah, i know fakequote, but whatever ;) )

  2. Attention, mods! on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 2, Interesting

    THe parent isnt funny, but really insightful.

    While the actors had to make their lines before the greenscreen, the voice actors for the dub could see the final mix, and so much better apreciate the situations the characters are in.

  3. Stop the shit on BusinessWeek on Hacker Hunters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, why not whine about that gay now mean homosexual and not jolly or that spam should only used to descripe some kind of food.

  4. Re:Poorly writtten story on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    You could make this even more funny by just locking in the inventors with some lunar soil amd their machinery in an airtight room and just wait a few days.
    If they are still alive, it obviously works :)

  5. Re:Pounds? on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    One kilo on the moon is the same as one kilo on a white dwarf is the same as one kilo on earth.
    Just one kilo.

    To get the force needed to lift, just multiply with your local gravity, e.g. 9.81 N/kg on earth.

    Is the concept of "mass" so difficult to grasp?

  6. Re:Dual Opteron 1U rack units.... on Linux Clustering Hardware? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not to mention that if you need more power, you can drop in the new dual core opterons without need for anything but eventually a bios upgrade.
    (not to mention that the dual core opterons acutally consume less power than some of the early steppings of the single core ones)

  7. Really.... on First Commercial Space Tourism Company · · Score: 1

    "Planetspace expects to fly almost 2,000 new astronauts in the first five years of flying"

    Those guys will be as much astronauts as i am a pilot when im flying to vacation.

  8. Re:Funny... on mod_perl 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    i guess the mods have just proven your point....

  9. Re:Last time... on VoIP Providers Given 120 Days to Provide 911 Service · · Score: 1

    At least with mobile phoned its that way here in germany, too.
    In fact even a locked cell phone will work for calling the 911 equivalent even if the user doesnt know the pin, as will a empty one without a sim card.

  10. Re:Competition on Wal-Mart Turns Over DVD Rentals to Netflix · · Score: 1

    of course he meant cheaper for the COMPANY.

  11. Re:why not use it on newer hardware then? on Microsoft Developing Windows for Low-End Machines · · Score: 1

    Because, contrary to much of the crap flung around here, there is no such thing as "bloat" thats just there to make windows fatter and slower.
    Every byte of memory contains something, every clockcycle is used for something.

    I wouldnt want a win95 or 3.1 alike on my cpu only to have average idle process time increase from 95% to 97%...

  12. Re:Diluting its strengths? on Trackerless BitTorrent Beta Posted · · Score: 1

    If you happen to have a static ip.
    A thing that at least here in germany less than a percent of all broadband users have.

  13. Re:My rights? on RFID Bracelets to Track Inmates in L.A. County · · Score: 1

    Er. Just one point. Thy jail gene is the "y" chromosome.
    Because just having it means that you are 15-20 times as likely to kill,mug or rob someone.

  14. Re:PC Gaming is dying, nVidia and ATI are killing on 512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Pc gaming got mouse control for FPS, real time strategy, and the option NOT to buy the 999$ gfx card...

  15. Re:Nukes are the way to go on NASA's Plans for the Future · · Score: 1

    Did i claim anything else?

    But its still an average of >0.1 megadeaths per plane/dropp, whereass the other bombings that killd half or less the people were coordinated attacks using 100s of bombers.

    I just want to dispell these "ah nukes arent really bad" myths in this thread. Yeah, you can kill 100.000s people with normal bombs just fine. You can also kill them with 1000 soldies with machetes.
    But never its as easy and quick to annihilate parts of the landscape as with nukes.

  16. Re:DUHH!!! on DIY High-Altitude Ballooning · · Score: 1

    than wait for winter :D

  17. Re:And? on The History of PDAs in Words and Pictures · · Score: 1

    Those 2 things arent identical, you know....

  18. Re:Nukes are the way to go on NASA's Plans for the Future · · Score: 1

    Not to forget that 6 years of conventional bombings killed more than a week of nuclear bombings, with only 2 drops in that time...
    Hardly a fair comparison, isnt it?

  19. Re:BtEfnet's torrents on ED2k on MPAA Cracking Down on TV Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    Of course you also need a tracker... ... Or azureus 2.3.0, which has a kdemlia based decentral tracker build in if the one from the torrent file doesnt work...

  20. Re:I want a room temp condensate on Exploring Superstrings in the Lab · · Score: 1

    What you want to show is superfluidity, like helium 4 has beneath 2.1 Kelvin (or so IIRC).

  21. Re:To Quote Suse on 25 Years After DOS - Lessons for Linux? · · Score: 1

    just a moment...
    "im not sure if you could qualify insects as animals..."
    WTF. I could understand such thinking about amöbae, or bacteria, but insects? What would YOU classify insects, if not animals?

  22. Re:laptop use? doubt it. on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dont be an idiot.
    Dont underestimate how much energy can be released by nuclear reactions. There is a reason why a few kg can level a city...

    There are a lot of atoms in a volume.
    Lets say you have a material with 10 years decay time.
    one Mole it.
    Thats roughly 6*10^23 atoms, so if half of them decays in 10 years, that means nearly 1000 TRILLION decays per second. Lets say each of the beta perticles has 100keV energy (a perfectly possible value).
    THis would mean about 15W average power during the first 10 years. Make it 1Mev, you got 150W.

  23. Re:Massive processor, not much for graphics though on The Xbox 360 Unveiled · · Score: 4, Informative

    How do you think its "now much in graphics"?

    The 10MB is EDRAM, (just call it cache:) ), and the gpu also has the 20GB/s access to the 512MB main memory.
    Plus it has 48 Shader pipelines (although not comparable with cureent GPU numbers because this are unified shaders), so it should be al least GF6800 level.

  24. Re:Roche limit? on Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Roche limit only works for large bodies, when you assume that the moon is only held together by its own gravity.

    For very small, rocky moons, the tensile strenght of the rock itselv enabls them to exist nearer than the roche limit. Its nothing extremely longtime-stable, but otoh, the tidal forces on a small moon arent very large.

    Also, the roche limit is only a contant (2.xxx*R_bigplanet or so) if the bodies have the same density. If the objects is, for example, a captured iron asteroid, its roche limit can be VERY close to a not very dense saturn.

  25. Re:Is he trying out for a new Jackass movie? on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, i actually came here after i got a REAL link from in the forum of storagereview.
    The forum still works, and he tells even in english how it works.

    Here is the forum:
    http://www.markusleonhardt.de/forum/viewforum.php? f=7&sid=406dcf24b6cfb74d63f7fe6342a98e1e