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  1. Re:The bigger question... on Motorola Unveils Phone Vending Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, you will have to use them up before you board the plane. Because, the phones in a vending machine inside the secure area of an airport could hold explosives, like a battery.

  2. Re:Sex vs Violence on ' Naughty Bits' Decision Not So Nice · · Score: 1

    So, if a model were to wear a latex body suit that is 0.03 inches thick and was a skin tone, with colored nipples and such, that would be ok? After the model would be wearing a full-body suit, just that it would be painted.

    Although the violence in movies may be fake, nudity and sex is a more natural state/behavior than violence with modern weapons. Almost every person on this planet is the direct result of sex.

  3. Re:What about punctuation? on Ask.com's Rising Star · · Score: 1

    (Using / as a search string delimiter)

    Yes, circle is a generic term, but "\circle*" isn't. When you search for printf, do you have to search for /C Dennis Ritchie printf/?
    Why can't I just search for /\circle \cicle*/ to get documents that contain both "\circle" and "\circle*", instead of having to name the language and the creator of that language.

    Yes, searching for /latex circle/ is hard to disambiguate, but /latex \circle*/ isn't hard at all, unless you throw away the punctuation, which is meaningful in this case.

    (The difference between those 2 commands is that \circle is a hollow circle character, and \circle* is a filled circle character, for the person who asked.)

  4. What about punctuation? on Ask.com's Rising Star · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The next thing I want in a search engine is for punctuation to be a part of the search.
    For example, how do you search for the difference between the following 2 LaTeX commands:
    \circle
    \circle*
    (I know the answer now, but I had to look it up in my reference book, as google was just about worthless for my "latex star" query)
  5. DRM= Digital Restrictions Management on Pact Not to Use Image Constraint Token Until 2010? · · Score: 1

    DRM has NEVER been about protecting the consumers rights under copyright law. DRM has all been about limiting what a consumer can do with a purchacsed media.

    The **AA groups don't care about consumers, they only care about money, and any way to make people buy multiple copies is a good thing, from their prospective.

  6. Re:Ignored? on Gamers Don't Care About In-Game Ads · · Score: 5, Funny

    heh, like the following hypothetical conversation in a mmorpg?

      Get ready to attack!
      OK.
      Did I mention that Mountain Dew is refreshing?
      WTF!?
      I didn't say anything

  7. Re:Wii controller--speaker built-in? on 27 Playable Wii Games At E3 · · Score: 1

    Now, if only the Wii supports DD 5.1 or DDex 6.1, then the sound could be blended with the other 6/7 speakers in the room.

  8. Re:What about the advertising? on eBay Looking for Allies Against Google · · Score: 1

    Perpetual Motion Machine
    Whatever you're looking for
    you can get it on eBay.
    www.eBay.com

  9. Re:This is sad on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    Well, they are using units of "Number of cars on a quarter," so it isn't surprising that they wouldn't try to explain tension and shear. Unfortunatly, that means that this article is just about useless to anyone who does know about the subject.

    I guess it is just really hard to write an article that a layperson can understand, and yet have the critical information for someone who is informed. (Probably because the journalists are usually in the layperson category?)

  10. Compression, tension, shear? on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How strong is this glue under tension and shear?

    I have an invisible glue here that can withstand an infinite amount of force under compression, and it is massless. Tension is a while 'nother matter.

  11. Re:What doe this mean for SPAM? on Australian Parliament Approves Email Snooping · · Score: 1

    What if the SPAMmer is the person being investigated?

    Then everyone would be the B-person.

    That would mean that Australian police could monitor just about everyone in the country.

  12. Re:the one that gets me on Is There a Solution for Focus-Hungry Apps? · · Score: 1

    Acrobat does that quite often. You open a PDF in a tab, and go on to other tabs, and then Acrobat's "Hello! I am acrobat" dialog box gets put under all of your other windows, sometimes freezing the browser, but definitly freezing acrobat.

    That is really annoying, especially when the dialog box contains absolutly no useful information.

  13. Re:Sample Google Searches: China vs. USA on Tangible Impact of Censorship on Search Engines · · Score: 1

    It looks like the USA search for "xxx" is done with safe-search on, because the words it gives are "0 1 2 2002 3 30 acclaim account activity bmx boards cheats comments cyberspace dave features fileplanet game gamecube games gba gcn governance guides icann icann's icannwatch ign info insider michael mirra new news november october pc playstation post posted ps2 ratings review reviews rumors search sports user write xbox ", which look like they are all getting bmx XXX.

  14. Re:History of the World? on Google to Digitize National Archives Footage · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wait, there are countries outside of the US?

    Does that mean that China isn't a state near Alaska?

  15. Re:Bye Microsoft. on Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus · · Score: 1

    : coresc@ps2 Sat Feb 11 17:27:15 ~] ; uname -a
    Linux ps2 2.2.26-xr1 #3 Sat Jan 15 11:46:26 MST 2005 mips unknown
    : corsec@ps2 Sat Feb 11 17:27:41 ~] ;


    Wow, you are running the 2.4 series of kernel already?

    (Yes this is supposed to be a joke, but that computer is really running 2.2.26)

  16. Re:Easy solution !?!? on Standby Electronics a Waste? · · Score: 1

    In American (the language), that would be called a "power strip".

  17. Re:*evil grin* on RIAA Bullies Witnesses Into Perjury · · Score: 1

    Let's call it the "Protect the Children Act"

    With a name like that, who could vote against it?

  18. What about LCD monitors? on Digital Content Security Act · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since Analog VGA is, well, analog, then would all LCD monitors that have an input other than DVI be outlawed?

    They do take an analog signal, and digitize it.

    What about LCD TVs that take something other than DVI / HDMI in?

    I am pretty sure that the signal coming in from the sattelite isn't (purely) digital, so somewhere the video has to be converted to a digital form.

    And, at a basic level, even computers aren't fully digital. There is a rising edge of the clock, it isn't instantaneous. Does that mean that a certain slope of rising or falling edge makes a signal "analog"?

    I would like to see the debate on that in congress.

  19. Re:"Ballistic Trajectory" is NOT a good thing! on Five Reasons Why Web 2.0 Matters · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about on Earth, in our atmosphere?
    What if the "ballistic trajectory" is in LEO?

  20. Re:He and I should hook up on Firefox 3D Canvas FPS Engine · · Score: 1

    I must say, that is pretty cool for just some javascript.

    I rember having to fine tune config.sys and autoexec.bat just to have enough free memory to run a 3D game.

    That has a lot of promise, and already looks cool.

  21. Re:premature optimization on Microsoft Reports OSS Unix Beats Windows XP · · Score: 1

    I run gentoo on all of my main computers.

    If you want to complain about install times, look at OO.org, where it takes me a minimum of 10 hours to install OO.org from source.

  22. Re:One nasty idea on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    and, when they don't take the opened return, complain using the EULA, stating that you don't agree to the terms.

  23. Re:I would pay for free TV programming now. on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 1

    When you download the TV shows from the Apple store, do you get ADs with it, or is it just the TV show?

    If it doesn't have the ADs, then instead of having the ADs sponser the show, you would just pay for it directly.

  24. Jack of all trades on Flock, the New Browser on the Block · · Score: 0

    Jack of all trades, master of none.

    This is probably going to be a huge VB program that doesn't do anything very well.

  25. Re:A better $299 AMD PC on AMD Geode Internet Appliance · · Score: 1

    The selling point is that you don't have to build a PC with Athlon 2800+, DVD-RW, 512MB Ram for $300.