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  1. Those interested in Nanotech... on Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages · · Score: 4, Interesting

    should read Nanosystems by K. Eric Drexler. Roughly speaking, Drexler is the father of nanomanufacturing. I bought it on a whim when I read about him in the Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (of Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle, In the the Beginning was the Command Line, and Snow Crash fame). Interesting times ahead.

  2. "renders those links invisible to search engines"? on Wikipedia Adds No Follow to Links · · Score: 2, Informative

    How does the link="nofollow" attribute render links invisible to search engines? It's up to the search engines to ignore or to regard them.

    If you don't want search engines to follow links on your website(s), you could rely on them to give you a proper agent string so that you can serve pages that don't include hyperlinks. But that's ugly nonetheless.

  3. Re:How about... none? on What Tax Software Do You Use? · · Score: 1
    You claim they don't. I googled for 'lawsuit misplaced comma', which lead me to this page. Scroll down and you'll find
    A misplaced comma in a contract can give rise to a lawsuit. See, e.g., Crandon v. U.S., 494 U.S. 152, 110 S. Ct. 997, 108 L. Ed. 2d 132 (1990).
    There's also this. I'm not a lawyer. Punctuation is not the sole argument they're bringing forth.
  4. Re:How about... none? on What Tax Software Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    That reminds me of Aaron Russo's Income Tax movie. There's also a related article on this whole issue.

  5. Re:The one place Apple gets it right. on Sony and Universal Prohibit Sharing Via Zune · · Score: 1

    If every song is treated identically, won't everything be treated as the lowest common denominator, i.e. big label 'crap?'

  6. Re:Health concerns on Future Desks to Charge Gadgets Wirelessly · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I thought magnetic waves were supposed to heal injuries, not cause them! You are destroying my worldview -- you must be one of those scienti... I mean terrorists that are eradicating the American way of life!
    Shoo! SHOO!

  7. Re:So the pirate has to buy three copies now ... on Startup Tries Watermarking Instead of DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Buy three copies? Pirates pay their contacts at the recording presses once for the raw media.

    Also, if you have n bits missing from each file and you want to reconstruct the original, you will need at most n-1 records since at most n-1 bits that are missing could overlap.

  8. Re: 95 miles altitude is space..Way Cool on Navy Gets 8-Megajoule Rail Gun Working · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that in Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress?" As far as I can remember, they use the mass driver to shoot big rocks at Earth to make their point clear that a revolution is taking place on the Moon. :-)

  9. Oh geez! on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 1

    Come on. That wasn't intended as a troll, but a witty response. Don't you see? :/

  10. Re:Responsible? on Engineered Hens Lay Cancer-Fighting Eggs · · Score: 1

    Like a meme?

  11. WHAT?!? on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck you!

  12. I laughed on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 5, Insightful
    complaints of a parent: '"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven
    That explains all. Looks like intelligent design didn't quite work out for him!
  13. Re:Both. on Is DRM Intrinsically Distasteful? · · Score: 1
    I support the ability to use DRM.

    Does having liberty and acknowledging the other person's liberty mean to allow him to take away yours?
  14. Re:well... on Gates Foundation Revokes Pledge to Review Portfolio · · Score: 1
    Starting from basically nothing,

    Objection! He had rich parents. Quite rich, actually. That's not 'starting from basically nothing.' Dave Thomas started from basically nothing. But not Bill Gates.
  15. Re:You've got to be kidding! on Expensive U.S. Spy Satellite Not Working · · Score: 1

    No no no!

    It's a terrorist attack on your bowels! And rightly so. A turkey sandwich without delicious gravy is like a dry fart in the Sahara: not really pleasant.

  16. Re:Trademark info on Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Trademark · · Score: 1

    iCell?

  17. Re:That might be awesome on Gentoo on the PS3 - Full Install Instructions · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find my computers in the ditch, you insensitive clod!

  18. Underlying Problem on XXX Top Level Domain May Still See Use · · Score: 1

    Isn't the underlying problem of this really the centralized nature of DNS?

  19. Re:No need for Emacs vs vi arguments on The Birth of vi · · Score: 1
    Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor".

    But what about a Titor?

    Time travel jokes in 1... 0... -1...
  20. Let me get this straight... on Workarounds for Vista's Networking Problems? · · Score: 1

    There are four computers in your home. Three are running Windows XP, one is running Windows Vista. The computers running WinXP are fine, but your computer running WinVista is having problems, and you conclude that your router is broken and pester Linksys with your operating system issues?

  21. 2007... on Blue Origin Release Flight Videos · · Score: 1

    The year when space tourism goes big?

  22. But just the source code is not enough! on Source Code Access Denied in Disputed Race · · Score: 1

    Checking the source code for backdoors (and removing them) doesn't mean there aren't backdoors in the other software involved. It all comes down to trust:

    1. Can you trust the programmer to write bugfree code and not to insert hidden code or well-covered trapdoors?
    2. Can you trust the compiler not to insert malicious code independent of the code compiled? (See above paper.)
    3. What about the preprocessor, assembler, and linker (or interpreter)?

    That's a lot of trust to share.

  23. Re:Number of launches isn't important on Russia Tops With 45% of Spacecraft Launches in 2006 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I for one welcome our billions-of-dollar firework overlords.
    </black humour>

  24. Re:They still don't get it on Near-Future Fords to Feature Windows Automotive · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dear Prospective Ford Motorvehicle Buyer:

    We know what you want, but it's too expensive to compete. Congressmen are cheaper.

    Love,
        Ford

  25. Re:Sense of Direction More Likely to be Affected on Rotating Solar-Powered Skyscraper · · Score: 5, Funny
    The 90 degree change in orientation grossly affected my navigation sense for months.
    Lesson learned: don't park your trailer upright.