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  1. Re:ugh. on Which Cell Phones & Networks for SSH? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Opinions and personal experience of hundreds of people on one page?

  2. Re:Already split... on Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Are all sporting events split up to accomodate athletes on steriods and those who are clean? I don't see why the enhanced/unenhanced would be any different.

  3. Re:Almost a reality on Engineered Enhancers Closer Than You Think · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I doubt that this will be possible without a major reworking of your brain. I am no psych major but I recall that your mind's eye is all you can see, which is the same as your regular eyes. Picture a building in your mind, now have it move towards you, the top of the building will be too tall for you to see and disappear out the top of the cavas that is your imagination, and to include the top of the building you will have to zoom out. And all of this is just in your brain and has nothing to do with your eyes.

  4. Re:browser security check on Microsoft Not Worried about FireFox · · Score: 1

    I think you may have jumped the gun and clicked on the first test that appeared, and not a vulnerability.

  5. Re:WTG Russia. on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 1

    Way to leave out the key word purification which i did spell incorrectly but I'm sure you could figure it out. And the large scale purification of water for say... a refugee camp is something that I'd say was a great scientific breakthrough that helps mankind (yes even the poor people)

  6. Re:WTG Russia. on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 5, Informative
    Spinoffs from NASA research. The list at the link above is about 10 pages. And I would have to say that yes, you personally and mankind have both benefitted from the work NASA has done.

    Here are some examples from the list

    Air Quality Monitor

    Virtual Reality

    Municiple Water prurification (So your tap water doesn't kill you.)

    Solar Energy

    Fire resistant material

    Digital Imagry Breast Biopsy

    Voice controlled wheel chair

    And here are a bunch from the above link that were easy to cut and paste:
    Advanced keyboards, Customer Service Software, Database Management System, Laser Surveying, Aircraft controls, Lightweight Compact Disc, Expert System Software, Microcomputers, and Design Graphics. Dustbuster, shock-absorbing helmets, home security systems, smoke detectors, flat panel televisions, high-density batteries, trash compactors, food packaging and freeze-dried technology, cool sportswear, sports bras, hair styling appliances, fogless ski goggles, self-adjusting sunglasses, composite golf clubs, hang gliders, art preservation, and quartz crystal timing equipment. Whale identification method, environmental analysis, noise abatement, pollution measuring devices, pollution control devices, smokestack monitor, radioactive leak detector, earthquake prediction system, sewage treatment, energy saving air conditioning, and air purification. Arteriosclerosis detection, ultrasound scanners, automatic insulin pump, portable x-ray device, invisible braces, dental arch wire, palate surgery technology, clean room apparel, implantable heart aid, MRI, bone analyzer, and cataract surgery tools. Gasoline vapor recovery, self-locking fasteners, machine tool software, laser wire stripper, lubricant coating process, wireless communications, engine coatings, and engine design. Storm warning services (Doppler radar), firefighters' radios, lead poison detection, fire detector, flame detector, corrosion protection coating, protective clothing, and robotic hands. So yeah, I'd say mankind has gained something from going to space. And to think all of this would have been developed in the timeframe without NASA and its goals is laughable.

  7. Re:Problem with Broadband on BBC Reports 38% Jump In U.S. Broadband Use · · Score: 1

    I think you missed what the grandparent was saying. He was saying that the US And the UK are not using FIOS and instead trying to squeeze the most use out of the current telephone and cable networks.

  8. Re:Oh. My. God. on Integrating Linux into a Windows Network? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You would have believed this was real? That 3D Gui from Jurassic Park runs on IRIX

  9. Re:Slashdot commentary on Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio · · Score: 1

    Used a wireless router lately? Or a walkie talkie with a 2-mile range? All recent products that have been developed to use frequencies that were not given to the highest bidder, but released to the general public. Please go post stupid somewhere else.

  10. Re:"The" Online News Site? on China Lights Pure IPv6 Network · · Score: 1

    No no no! China censors their population! I know this become there was a story about it! I didn't actually read the story, but from other people's comments chinese citizens have no idea what is going on in the world because the government has an Agent always standing in the room a computer is in use in making sure the chinese person never ever reads anything that would be counter to the governments opinions.

    And I got all that information from a very intelligent slashdot reader who has obviously never himself spoken with a person living in china nor ever researched the actual control the chinese goverment does have on its people.

    That all was a poorly worded rant. I'd like to point out the chinese censorship/ information control that slashdot readers always like to mention is mostly people here at the great slashdot.org believe their own propeganda.

  11. My favorite on Best Configuration for Linux Gaming? · · Score: 4, Informative

    www.xfce.org xfce is my favorite (of course this is an opinion). It doesn't seem as barebones are fluxbox yet is light and fast.

  12. Re:what!? on New Spoofing Vulnerability in IE · · Score: 1

    I can't remember how long ago but I think it was CowBoyNeal that was quoted and said that 85% of people that read slashdot are using IE. I'm not sure about that though and hopefully someone can clear that up.

  13. You are asking the wrong people on New Technologies for Colleges? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a question that should be posted to the students of your university. Just because it's cool doesn't mean it's needed. And if it isn't needed it won't be used. Implementing something that your school needs is a lot better than putting in a system that only you and the slashdot readers would care to use.

  14. Re:What's a dead virus? on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 1

    WikiPedia to the rescue!

    I think the issue of a virus being alive is open to debate. I personally think they are, but I am not a bio-chem major or anything that would give me any credibility.

  15. Can't use the shuttles so... on Scientists Debate Robotic Hubble Mission · · Score: 1

    Why don't we lease a Russian Spacecraft and blast some fixit guys up to hubble?

  16. Re:in canada on Buggy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    actually in the US I believe (I'm not entirely sure) that registering in a second state will invalidate your registration in the first state. I think. When i registered to vote in my college town the volunteer told me that I would have to vote at school because my registration in my home state would be no good.

  17. Re:What? on Buggy Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    would they be wrong?

  18. Mature RCS? on Interview: David Roundy of Darcs Revision Control · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When do you move to your own RCS ro support it's own code? Kinda like bootstrapping the RCS? I really have no idea what i mean, but yeah, you get the idea. Did ARCH start out in a CVS somewhere? and where was bitkeeper kept in its infant days?

  19. Re:I just learned that being a geek can be dangero on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    It doesn't NOT connect everytime you play if you set Steam to OFFLINE mode. If you do that you never have to connect to valve servers again, ever.

  20. Re: on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And you are the reason the democrats weren't able to win. Calling the otherside stupid isn't the best way to sway their opinion.

  21. Re:What if Kerry won? on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one is ever forced to concede. the only reason a person makes a speech is for show. the speech itself has no legal force. If kerry does indeed win Ohio then Bush would lose those electoral votes, lose the election and be on his way back to texas in Jan '05. Even with the recount though, Kerry winning is a longshot, no need to get the hopes up.

  22. Re:Aren't all lefties terrorists? on U.S. Goverment Responds to EFF's Indymedia Motion · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it just got dropped down to yellow everywhere in the country. (was orange in a few financial districts for about 3 months)

  23. Re:VoIP calls are a terrible burden on Government! on California Takes A Last Swing At VoIP · · Score: 1

    unless of course you buy something without ringing it into a cash register... then you don't pay any tax at all.

  24. Re:My satellite on Students Design A Satellite Via Internet · · Score: 1

    he never said it reached orbit.

  25. Re:Penny Henny on Plutonium Shipment to France on the Way · · Score: 1

    I second that. The French do have balls. How to beat terrorists? Use nuclear power! Kills two bird with one stone. No more dependency on oil plus less radio active matrial to go around!