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  1. Interesting... on Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble · · Score: 0
    The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation.

    Why are the scientists sure that the Kuiper Belt holds reminants of the big bang? Comets are made of ice, but they aren't considered building blocks. This is interesting nonetheless and I hope we can use this to help prove(or disprove) a theory or two.

  2. Awesome News!!! on Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just got DSL and I am switching over to Linux. I am going to give this a test in penguin.

  3. Re:Might be a good game... on GTA Creators Push Limits With Manhunt · · Score: 0

    IMO, the reason these parents aren't caring is that they are afraid their children would go and party like they did when they were younger and when the kid is absorbed in the game the worry level goes to 0%.

  4. In Soviet Mars... on Russia Plans Martian Nuclear Station · · Score: -1, Troll

    Man DESTROYS radiation... Couldn't resist seriously..

  5. Re:Windows rules..... on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 0

    Guess what, windows has an AUTOMATIC update feature.

  6. Re:Windows rules..... on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 0

    Mainly because a large majority of computer users aren't /. material. Face it, people want ease of use, even at the cost of an inferior product.

  7. ISP logs on Kiddie Porn - The Virus Did It · · Score: 1, Funny

    Couldn't the courts just use these logs? If it shows him visting goatse.cx then downloading kiddy pr0n then going to google.com to search for lawyers, I'd say that's good evidence.

  8. Pricing... on Retail Game Advertising Rises Sharply · · Score: 1

    I think there is some reasoning behind this. It costs the same to manufacture a $19.99 game as a $49.99 game. However, the $49.99 games bring more profits and count as two $19.99 games. So when they sell say 100 copies at $49.99 they make $5000 while selling a 100 copies at $19.99 only yeilds $2000. The ratio of production cost to sales is greatly different.

  9. Middle Earth... on On Visualizing A Virtual Middle-Earth · · Score: 2, Funny

    The possibilities of this game are endless. Ents, Orcs, goblins, hobbits, trolls, humans, elves, and dwarves would be the starting species. You could farm potatoes or craft rings(at max level) or even go looking for loot. Imagine farming potatoes for some cash, then being invited by a group of elves to hunt for loot.

  10. PENTAGON AXES TERROR BETS on Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism? · · Score: 1
    Pentagon axes online terror bets.

    The Pentagon has abandoned plans to set up an online trading market to help predict terrorist attacks.

    The rest of the story can be found HERE

  11. Re:That's exactly how it works! on Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism? · · Score: 1
    For any given attack, there are going to be a lot of people who know about it beforehand. Some of those people are going to be stupid enough to try to profit on it.

    Actually, I'd say it's just the opposite. The people who knew about the hijackings in September would just shrug off money. Not everyone in the world thinks money is special. To a Saudi/* hijacker, what would a few thousand USD get you? A car? Osama would've been found long ago if money was important. Osama has the money to fund his operations by himself because of his father's construction business.

  12. Re:I just ate some cake. on Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Thunderbird HAS skins...
    http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showcat&cat_name=thun derbird
    You can find better skins by using Thunderbird and going to the themes section and clicking the link to get more themes.

  13. Civ 3 on Call to Power 2 To Get Open Sourced? · · Score: 1

    I will be the first to download Ctp2 if they can port it to Linux. FreeCiv owns, it even plays better on my system than Civ 2 on Windows. If only Civ 3 could be ported... I wouldn't come back to windows.
    Great day for fans of Civ and open source.

  14. What exactly is UNIX anymore... on Why SCO UNIX Is A Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    "An OS can contain no UNIX System V source code and still be a trademarked UNIX."

  15. Re: Sharing...and record sales on House Bill to Make File-Sharing an Automatic Felony · · Score: 1
    It's called "doing without"... something that folks these days seem to not be able to understand.

    Because the less fortunate don't deserve to listen to music right? In fact, you might say the poor shouldn't be allowed to drink water because they didn't pay for bottled water. If you knew what it was like to be poor, you wouldn't want to do without.

  16. Arcades Revival! on F-Zero Draws Console Gamers To Arcades? · · Score: 1

    I think this is the first step towards arcades making a comeback. The next step is more games with high scores. The best case scenario is that this will lead to legendary highscores in games like Starship Runner 3D or Pac Man: The Next Frontier...

    Note, the games mentioned above are not real and are figments of my imagination

  17. If anyone knows fun... on Miyamoto Lecture On Design, Career · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If anyone knows fun, it is Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the creator Donkey Kong, the Legend of Zelda, and Mario Bros. This man practically invented the modern video game. He is the Spielburg of video games. If he wants to comment on American video games, the American game makers should listen out of respect.

  18. Re:$3.4M dollars for the test on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 0

    They paid that money to get the evidence.

  19. My thoughts... on Grad Student's Work Reveals National Infrastructure · · Score: 0

    If this information can be collected by a student, it should be possible to get by anyone. SURE, it may take a while, but if someone is determined, it can be done. Now the problem is that this information can be used against us by Al Qaeda or an angry h4x0r. Should this info be classified, no even though it could be deadly if used the wrong way. Should nuclear reactors be banned too, they can be just as deadly?

  20. Re:*sigh* Google link on Hardware-Based Commute-Map Gadget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks a bunch! IIS complain? No... it is the best product Microsoft has ever released. Oh wait, that says a lot.:)

  21. SARS Contained? on SARS Contained · · Score: 0

    From what I know, SARS was similar to a virus that infects rabbits when they overpopulate so some scientists felt SARS was due to the overpopulation of China... I think it should really say we were contained.

  22. We'll wonder why... on Water Basketball Robot · · Score: 2, Funny

    the machines will attack us when we won't allow their basketball team in our olympics. Neo (Wooden Plank, not Reeves) will be our only hope!

  23. Re:hack' proof on Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes · · Score: 0, Troll

    Especially if it's running a Microsoft OS!!!!

  24. I have got bad news for you Bill on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 1

    Linux betted on a secure, open source OS. I think the people will go with that over your bloaty OS X wannabe. Sorry Bill.

  25. I hope they don't pass the rules on EU Parliament to Vote on New Patent Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this passes, it could slow or even halt the development of the open source community. SCO and Microsoft could claim an open source OS like SuSE stole something from their OSes. We'd like to make the defendent pay all the court costs and we'd like to sue them for their use of the MS logo. - A prosucutor in a Berlin Court