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  1. Re:Was that my IP? on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In hexadecimal, that address is eight digits. 8D.9E.68.5E

  2. Great. on File-sharing and AOL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only are all the tech jobs going overseas, but now the US is going to lose it's warez site superiority too.

  3. Re:Can see through clothing... on Terahertz Imagery Progresses · · Score: 1
    Here's some terahertz boobie action for you.

    http://www.startiger.org/media/STmmwave.avi

  4. Inkjet fabrication instead of photolithography? on Terahertz Imagery Progresses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems like it would be a much easier and cheaper way of producing the Thz waveguide antennae.

  5. If the human species hadn't been wiped out... on Mining Asteroids@Home · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    cockroaches may never have evolved to the vast interstellar empire we have today.

  6. Great Impact Debate I: Benefits of Hard Bodies on Mining Asteroids@Home · · Score: 4, Funny

    For a minute, I thought this would be pr0n.

  7. It will make Star Wars location shots cheaper. on New Lucasfilm Campus Breaks Ground at Presidio · · Score: 5, Funny

    San Francisco has the only bars stranger than a Mos Eisley cantina.

  8. Letter to subscribers. on UK ISP Imposes Download Limits · · Score: 4, Funny
    Encrypted VPN traffic is hard for us to read.

    Plus we're only able to log 1GB/day or less of your traffic.

    So don't use VPN's and don't use more than a gig/day of traffic.

    Thank you.

    NTL World Total Information Awareness Division

  9. Future of Money Summit on The Future of Money · · Score: 5, Funny
    Cost:

    $995 per person before April 15, 2003

    $1,195 after April 15, 2003 up to the day of the event.

    That's not the future of my money.

  10. I'd rather see Will Farrell interview them. on Simpson's Cast On Bravo This Sunday · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think his impersonation of James Lipton is much more entertaining than Lipton himself.

  11. Poetry? on Pyromaniac Cosplay · · Score: 5, Informative

    Translated from the box at the bottom of the page, entitled "Today's Damage"

    A burn slight to a face
    Some hair burned.
    A burn slight in both hands
    A burn slight to the bosom
    Both hands are burned.
    Costume play clothes ... In both, every place burned.
    Fire-resistant glove ... Both are total losses
    Costume play clothes ... In both, every place burned.
    Fire-resistant glove ... Both are total losses

  12. Of course... on UK Parliament Domain Without Registrar · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is well known that parliament.uk is rightfully the property of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

  13. Steve Westly really wants to be governor. on California Considering More Internet Taxes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think he might be making noises about adding an internet access and download tax in order to appear more fiscally conservative than Gray Davis. If he actually implements such a tax, it would probably sink his chance at winning the election.

  14. Re:quid pro quo on Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site · · Score: 1

    I think people should be able to bid money for my vote. If it's good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

  15. Vote exchange, and often. on Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see...

    A few thousand bogus email addresses, check.

    Form letter requesting vote swap, check.

    A simple script to automate it all, check.

    Wow, one person can make a difference.

  16. I wish... on Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site · · Score: 4, Funny

    The court would uphold wife-swapping as well.

  17. Hmmmm... on Review of PCV-W10 Desktop by Sony · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd hate to hit the snooze button and crash the server.

  18. This is not off-topic, mods. on Benford on Space Exploration · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main part of the Benford's article is that the primary problem of space travel is dealing with the lack of gravity to maintain human bone and organ health.

    Cats spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping and yet still manage to stay fitter than most human gymnasts.

    Purring creates vibrations through the cat's body helping to maintain muscle and bone density.

    Transducers in an astronaut's suit could produce similar resonant vibrations. These vibrations could simulate the stresses of g-forces by rapidly moving the astronaut a very small distance back and forth.

    Sorry I didn't connect the dots for you in the original post.

  19. Maybe we can take a lesson from cats? on Benford on Space Exploration · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_246696.html Scientists say they've discovered that cats purr to help them get better when they're injured. The researchers at the Fauna Communications Research Institute in North Carolina call the purr a natural healing mechanism. They say the purr helps their bones and organs to heal and grow. It works in a similar way to ultrasound on humans. Exposure to similar sound frequencies are known to improve bone density. Dr Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, the president of the institute, said: "Old wives' tales usually have a grain of truth behind them and cats do heal very quickly. The healing power of purring seems to explain their 'nine lives'." She told The Sunday Telegraph: "We are starting to solve a 3,000-year-old mystery as to why cats purr. The next phase will be to explain the mechanics of the process." Story filed: 15:49 Sunday 18th March 2001

  20. For a good time... on Mid-Air Messages To Your Mobile · · Score: 3, Funny

    Be at this street corner between 10 and 11pm. Major credit cards accepted.

  21. Yet another... on Linux Based IP Videophone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Overhyped, overpriced videophone that won't sell.

    If you have a broadband connection and a laptop, why on earth would you need this? The thing doesn't even use encryption.

    I've seen a lot of videophones come and go. Just because it uses Linux, doesn't make it better.

    Ok, it does make it better, but would you buy one?

  22. Whatever you do... on 1st Episode Of Animatrix Released · · Score: 1

    Don't show that trailer to your Wakamaru. The things are uppity enough as it is.

  23. Re:Use Anti-Matter drive on Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here? · · Score: 1

    Mass destruction is two words.

  24. Wait a minute. on Mitsubishi Robot - Watchdog, Nurse, Annoying Friend · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can nag without tiring and yet it doesn't have a mouth? Talk about the worst of both worlds.

  25. Use their tools against them. on Digital Celebrities · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What's to stop some enterprising folk from making their own, highly subversive versions of Carson Daly from recordings of his show?

    What's to stop those recordings from being either broadcast locally from pirate rigs, or injected into a Clear Channel satellite feed?

    Ok, maybe state and federal laws and the wrath of the FCC, if you care about that kind of thing.