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  1. Designs on Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane · · Score: 1

    Planes are designed to soar as high as possible with the least amount of energy and to be very aerodynamic. Underwater craft are not designed to soar, or to go deep in order to achieve the best performance.

  2. By definition on Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane · · Score: 1

    Airplane is in the air, this should be called a Submersible craft.

  3. If you really... on How Kernel Hackers Boosted the Speed of Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    must spend so much time and effrot researching on reducing the boot process on any OS, you must have some serious issue with your box, and you should be looking at that instead. For Windows, I can understand, as rebooting is very common when installing certain software and drivers, but for Linux? I've updated hundreds of Linux boxes without the need for a reboot.

  4. Just because on Ultrasound Machine Ages Wine · · Score: 1

    wine is aged, does not make it a good wine. One of the most important contributor to fine wine, is the grape itself along with the weather soil.

  5. Why on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    didn't he call the police in the first place? If he was able to remote connect to his laptop. Investigation would have led to the remote IP address, and therefore his ISP and then the thief.

  6. Re:Hello! on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    I might not have explained myself properly, but without going into too much detail, I can tell you, I know what I'm talking about.

  7. The only good captcha on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    The goal here is to differentiate between a bot and humans and prevent automated registrations. I think we've gone too far and need to take a step back and ask ourselves "What are the differences between bots and humans?" If you think about it, there aren't many. Both humans and bots interface with the registration page for example, using the HTTP protocol, anything can really be simulated. A good way to prevent automated registrations would be to use different page name everytime a new visitor needs to register, once that page has been visited, it must be deleted by the server, the same would be for the script called by that page. This will prevent a bot from re-using the same page and script. So index.htm would contain a link that points to /registerxyz1.htm, registerxyz1's form points to /cgi-bin/regab9.pl once index.htm has been visited once, the new link would point to /register47g.htm and register47g.htm's form would point to /cgi-bin/rego90.pl. The previous one would get deleted by the system. This would have to be a feature or module in the HTTP server in order to prevent simultaneous multiple uses of the index.htm page.

  8. Re:Wait, what? on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Well in that case, you didn't really die from the flu, but from the symptoms. We can go down that route if you'd like. The root cause of death is the AIDS virus. It's a virus, what it does and how it does it, doesn't really matter. That virus caused your death.

  9. Something ... on New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer · · Score: 1

    ... doesn't make sense here. The interviewee states that they don't want to reproduce the DOS attack because other systems along the way will become affected as well (I'm assuming he is talking about routers). Well if those systems get affected (and stop being responsive), then how in the heck can they forward any traffic to the intended system?

  10. Simple on Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 5, Informative

    because most African networks are being created and not migrated.

  11. I wonder ... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    ... if you attached two devices in series, do you get even more fuel efficiency? How about in parallel?

  12. I always wondered, on SGI Releases OpenGL As Free Software · · Score: 1

    when a company releases code to the open source community, how do the original developers feel?

  13. Pump it on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    Now I know where all those underground fumes come from in New Yok city.

  14. I could have... on A Look At the Tools Used To Make Metal Gear Solid 4 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... easily done that on MS paint

  15. I wonder .. on University Brings Charges Against White Hat Hacker · · Score: 1

    ... what would have happened had the white hacker stumble upon very sensitive data, banking information or student's private information. At that point, the word 'white' is irrelevant. That person should be prosecuted. A true white hacker in my humble opinion is a paid consultant whose job is to find security vulnerabilities and point them out.

  16. Please... on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    ... bugs were not limited to GPU drivers and such, the whole Os is full of bugs.

  17. So .. on Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls On User Lines · · Score: 1

    that's what the guy on the pole was doing all day! I was wondering what the rubbing was all about...

  18. Can we on CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry · · Score: 1

    use the tunnel for rollerblading once they've completed the experiment?

  19. How on earth on San Fran Hunts For Mystery Device On City Network · · Score: 1

    are they not able to find the physical location? Using MAC and tracerouting, it should be fairly simple to find a router.

  20. Re:Holy crap. on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 1

    Really now... So you're saying that because people are dumb they should lose money. Dumb people invest in stocks as well, this is totally Google's responsibility. I wouldn't be surprised to see a law suit sometime very soon.

  21. Re:Make product on MIT Secretly Built Mega-Efficient Nano Batteries · · Score: 1

    1) For one, MIT is an institute. 2) MIT is state AND governent funded in many projects. 3) Research projects at MIT, CalTech, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and the like, are probably closely linked to governement and private sector projects.

  22. Now all ... on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 1

    ... they need is a way to secure those "Notaries"...

  23. If microbes ... on Could There Be Life On Titan? · · Score: 1

    .. really existed on Titan, they would have contacted us a long time ago!

  24. And the .. on DNA Bar Coding Finds Mislabeled Sushi · · Score: 1

    .. albacore I had last night turned out to be seared liver.... ewww

  25. I don't even... on Interview Update With Bjarne Stroustrup On C++0x · · Score: 0, Troll

    .. want to read this article. The name says it all. I for one, am sticking to C. If I need to write using a higher level language, I'll go with Perl. People who need to write *fast* code, need to stay away from C altogether and need to stop adding ascii characters to C.