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  1. Re:amazing. on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    This would be agood time to stock pile MREs, bullets, and bottled water, so when joe blow survivelist starts stocking the "bunker" with food and ammunition, you can make bank.

  2. Blow it up with a bomb on 2004 MN4, Even Higher Probability · · Score: 1

    Before everyone jumps on the "lets nuke it " bandwagon, take into consideration that this things impact velocity is 28,163.0279 mph. Mach 1 at sealevel is 761mph. This thing is running mach 37, and our best attempts at a rocket intercept have gone up in smoke ( if the damn thing even left the launch pad). Hitting this bad boy will be no simple feat. Especialy If NASA is involved. Hell, they did not see 2004 YD5 untill it was leaving our proximity, and it came in between us and some of our geosync satellites.

  3. Re:Yeah, uh, hopefully my passwords will die with on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    This was on the man show, before it went to shit. THe one with jimmy kimmel and adam corrola.

  4. A request from his friends/family? on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Why not use the blown up media attention you are getting, to give out the guys email address. Even if it gets spammed, there is the chance that some nice person would try to crack it, and if not, then just request that all his penpals, or whoever, forward their sent/recieved items dealing with this guy. I am certain quite a few people will get the news, it was on the CNN top news stories at 10:00 United States CST (16:00 GMT)

  5. Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 1

    Read it again. He posted amiWord.

  6. Re:Notebooks for $500.00? on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 1

    Hoof Hearted looks better.

  7. Re:Seems cheap for what you get ... on Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is targeted at the typical walmart costumer. They will buy the $499 laptop, if the 549 laptop was $500, because the $499 is cheaper.

  8. Re:Bring It on Mount Saint Helens Behaving Oddly · · Score: 1

    I am in corpus, and you can bet your ass the locals would be pissed at this "improvment", hell, they wanted to build sea world here, and they complained. So they built it in San Antonio, No where near the damn ocean. Bass Pro Shop now wants to build a super redneck center here, and they are bitching. Its a bunch of old codgers that dont want to lose their beatiful view of the refinerys, oh well.

  9. Latancy? on Internet-By-Airship Scheduled For Trial Next Month · · Score: 1

    What kind of latancy are we looking at? I assume this will have to be a low power transmitter, and there will not be a lot of throughput, due to the entire ship ( comm gear and electric motors) being solar powered. Will this have the same drawbacks as satellite based internet?

  10. Re:not just Strained Si, but DSL on Strained Silicon to Perpetuate Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Informative
    Moore's law stated that the number of transistors on in an integrated circuit would double every 18 months, and thus processing power. It did not state frequency.

    This is the quote, from Moore's paper in 1965 that started it all.

    The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000.
  11. Re:Drug Smugglers on Solar-Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles · · Score: 1

    This brings up a good point. A small submersible would be very manuverable, and thus able to follow terrain easily. It would be hard to detect with sonar, and I doubt some of the harbours have radar nice enough to detect this object. Im sure there are ways to detect metal, but it has been obvious in the past week that they are not used, or are ignored. Look at the Oil tanker that hit a peice of scrap pipe. You could equip said submerssible with a nice explosive payload, and detonate it below the SS super duper oil tanker, and like a depth charge, the resulting air cavity from the explosion will "break the back" of the tanker.

  12. Re:Perhaps someone should tell them on Solar-Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Surley it has slightly positive boyancy, just in case. It could go into low power mode, float to the surface, recharge in a few days, and start transmitting its location.

  13. Re:"Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet" on History of the First Internet · · Score: 1

    These are the same people that bitched about Kerry using "Big words" and being " hard to comprehend". They probaly understood: my,congress,created, and internet.

  14. Re:Weight Sensors on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    These are not weight sensors, but are induction coils. This is why motorcycles have trouble with them. Not because they are light weight, but because they do not contain enough steel mass to trigger the sensor.

    In citys with cameras to catch people that run redlights, you will find two. One before the crosswalk, and one just after. This is what triggers the camera.

  15. Re:MIT on Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers · · Score: 1

    I think you are speaking of the computers used by Ken Uston's black jack teams. This computer was named George. You can stil buy them from these guys Casey Computer

  16. Re:Sounds good to me. on Former CIA Head Calls for Limiting Access to the Internet · · Score: 1


    Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

    -Jesus Christ
    Matthew 10:34-36


    Sounds like a peaceful guy to me.
  17. Re:Bad? No way. on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    Well, this is not a browser, it is just telneting to port 80, issuing a GET whatever command, and aborting. Coding an entirely new browser that the user is not going to want to see would be pointless. Hell, if they wanted to look at the spam, they would not have downloaded the screensaver.

  18. Re:Bad? No way. on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    How is this wrong? It is possible, not sure if its legeal, but it is possible.

  19. Re:Experience is key... on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    My bad, you are correct. BG did attend Harvard, not Stanford.

    The building was named after Bill, and Steve Ballmer's mothers:Mary Maxwell Gates and Beatrice Dworkin Ballmer respectivly.

  20. Re:Was there any reason- on Half-Life 2 Deathmatch Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Half Life 2 No CD Patch Merry christmas.

  21. Re:Experience is key... on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But This can all be learned through books, and without college. Always remember this when you belive college is neccesary. At one point, the field did not exist, and the degree was not even a thought. This is not devine information given only to Professors. Some people are capable of learning this on their own. It is nice to have background in the subject, and to be brought up to current date, but if students stoped at what they learned in college, we would not have any advances. There are inventors, and tinkerers that have discoverd countless things without the help of college, or a degree. Look at gates. He did attend stanford, but not 4 years.

  22. Re:But that's all irrelivant/invalid on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 1

    That Kennedy is coming right for us!!!

  23. Highlighters on Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have recieved almost identical results with highlighters and a UV light sorce.

  24. Re:No, ignoring it won't make it go away on Better Nuclear Waste Storage Plans than Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the explination. Something else that has always puzzled me is what happens to the earth as we launch stuff into space? will the loss of mass ( very small, but a loss none the less) cause the earths orbit to change? I would assume given the spead, and a lighter mass, we would be expeled further away from the sun.

  25. Re:No, ignoring it won't make it go away on Better Nuclear Waste Storage Plans than Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    I dont quite understand. If you got it out of earths orbit, and then let the orbit decay, would gravity not pull it closer to the sun? If the velocity fallse below 7745 m/s then would it not start to "fall" toward the sun?