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  1. Re:Perhaps by tying down the soccor moms on How Can Tech Help Fight Education Costs? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's those mindless SUV drivers that can afford the $10/gallon gas.

  2. My best personal experience on 10 Computer Mishaps · · Score: 1

    While going to school for my IS degree, I did some PC repair work on the side. I was called over to an accountant's house to retrieve data from her computer that had apparently crashed. I sat down at her computer and the first thing I noticed was a giant speaker magnet attached to the side of her case, right about where the hard drive was. Nothing was recoverable. She was lucky she had a backup of her accounting stuff from a few days prior on a floppy disk.

  3. Re:What if they are stupid? on How To Talk To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Our field of vision is not really rectangular, so I would think the most obvious way to represent an image would be a circular or eliptical image. The stream of data could represent a bitmap starting with the centre pixel and spiralling out.

    Clockwise or counterclockwise is the question.

  4. Re:What everyone wants to know.. on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. I have a VIA C3 1GHz mini-itx board. It ran Windows 2000 Advanced Server for awhile. It really hated Windows Media Services though.

  5. Very minor on Da Vinci Project Postpones X-Prize Attempt · · Score: 4, Informative

    I called Kindersley, where the launch is to take place. They assured me that the delay is "very minor" and the delay is likely to be only about a week. They will give about 7 days notice before the launch.

  6. Re:Easy: Neutrinos on Optical Cellphones · · Score: 1

    How is a chip-sized device going to detect nutrinos when it takes half a million gallons of water burried in a mountain to detect them at nutrino observatories?