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  1. Re:Um... What? on Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave · · Score: 1

    I read that as "[looks around for mod points and finds nose]" which is far, far funnier. And they're bombarding the photon beam with electrons, not photons. Similar questions still apply.

  2. Re:Great on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would turn the whole planet into a Disaster Area!

  3. Re:Say what?!? on Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM · · Score: 1

    It's more compliant with standard SQL. MySQL is the IE of RDBMSes, Postgres thus requires different optimizations, but can be much, much faster when used correctly (optimizations that don't follow the standard don't work so well, unlike MySQL. Those that do work excellently, since the devs know what sort of things to expect and can code for them.) It's like Firefox vs IE.

  4. Re:Games just aren't reality. on Real Racing In the Virtual World · · Score: 1

    That's what Guitar Rising looks to be for: Guitar hero with a real guitar.

  5. Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    But firefox broke the birds theme. Firebird, Thunderbird, Sunbird. They should have called it something consistent.

  6. Re:opera is faster on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    It's called prefetching. You can enable it in pretty much all modern browsers. (In Firefox, go to about:config, change the network.prefetch-next setting to true.)

  7. Re:Not Impressed ... Yet on Warhammer Online Information by the Truckload · · Score: 1

    I find the "2 sides" thing horrid as well, but for a different reason.
    This is WARHAMMER! Everyone hates everyone else. Why have these stupid "alliances" when you can KILL THEM? Any guild/player should be able to group with any other, but should also be able to kill any other. This would also solve the population imbalance problem.

  8. Re:No, jobs are defined by publication record on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Paper academic journals may be obsolete. Simply posting their content online would decrease the costs of publication. The service the journals provide is needed, regardless of the medium of publication.

  9. Re:Easy question on Are Academic Journals Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    People who use lots of mathematics tend to go with LaTeX. Biomedical stuff isn't nearly as math-heavy as Physics or computer science/mathematics, and therefore has less use for LaTeX.

  10. Re:Case 08OV003345 on How To Frame a Printer For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 2, Funny

    Baby bones lose the satisfying crunch after a few days, and the flesh is just not nearly as flavourful. Selling expired babies should be a crime.

  11. Re:Hofstadter on Rubik's Cube Algorithm Cut Again, Down to 23 Moves · · Score: 1

    Douglas Richard Hofstadter is his name. Not Scott. No idea where pez got that.

  12. Re:I would rather buy MS Office than use OOo for f on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    If you want to help an office suite, help Koffice. It's a massive project, but much cleaner.

  13. Re:OpenOffice just isn't very good. on Why Google Should Embrace OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    It may not be a java gui program, but it loads java for those plugins. That is just as bad, since the whole "java is slow" thing comes mostly from loading the jvm. Java itself is fast, starting the jvm is slow. If you already have the jvm running, OO.o isn't nearly as bad. If you turn off all java plugins, it's also not as bad. Still slow, but closer to acceptable. That said, Emacs + LaTeX.

  14. Re:Good ridance on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    It still does. Sure, they have the "smart start" and such, but the actual app is still called Nero Burning Rom, and the icon is still a burning building.

  15. Re:Wake up! Domestic spying is bad news. on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do I read every line? No. Do I randomly, check submitted patches? Yes. Not all the time, not really that often, but enough that, with enough people like me, the "many eyes" system will work. Not everyone has to check everything, just a bunch of independent people have to check a bunch of things.

  16. Re:It will fall down on Does Antimatter Fall Up Or Down? · · Score: 1

    "Possibly no" has been shown rather convincingly to be false, given that neutrinos can change type.

  17. Re:Oh sweet, MS Free! on Microsoft Free, One Year Later · · Score: 1

    Lots of people don't want to run an ethernet cable through their walls.

  18. Re:And the winning viewer is... on Spitzer's 5-Gigapixel Milky Way · · Score: 1

    That's actually good. The images are about a gigabyte, so that would be about the minimum possible.

  19. Re:Accessibility on Spitzer's 5-Gigapixel Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Also, it would be pretty useless for google sky: it is IR, not visible.

  20. The flat rate is worse than the overage rate! on Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use · · Score: 1

    $55/40GB = $1.375/GB. The overage rate is $1/GB, according to the summary. This means you get a better deal for exceeding your cap.

  21. Re:They do accept scanned signatures on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    A Notary.

  22. Re:Actually, I LOVE the CC sig. on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    Because Visa charges the merchant about a dollar per transaction, plus a percentage of the transaction. Small items bought by credit card make the merchant lose money.

  23. Re:define your acronyms on Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story · · Score: 1

    The Titanic wasn't sunk by an iceberg, it was sunk by an Iceweasel.

  24. Re:wikileaks, followed by cryptome.org on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    It is also not a sourceforge project. This is a sourceforge contest, about projects hosted there.

  25. Re:Software radio... on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    It's not difficult to build, but you need a bunch of antennas to get good reception. These tend to be rather obvious, since they are often quite large and/or need to be up high. So if you have an unauthorized broadcaster, triangulate the general location, then look for the guy with a ton of antennas and a computer.