User: mikeophile

I'm already doing it.

On: Burnt Coffee and Burnt CDs

I'm using my T-Mobile wireless connection right now to burn a music CD in Starbucks.

Maybe I'll low-ball them on the price for a music CD.

Hmmm

On: Hardware Review Sites and Vendor Relationships

We're not too concerned about our "uniques" a day, but rather our "bookmarks" and "returns".

That's an odd thing to say before posting to Slashdot.

Re:I'm surprised this even made Wired.

On: Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up

So it's more like reality than we thought?

This seems very similar to heat pipes

On: Bell Labs Plants Nanograss to Cool Mobile Chips

Just lots of them on a microscopic scale.

Re:Other ISPs start to do this?

On: Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections

Take a look at this site and you will be able to imagine it quite easily.

Re:Other ISPs start to do this?

On: Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections

It seems like it would be pretty trivial for a virus to re-write the modem CFG file to get back on the network.

Hell, it might as well uncap the modem while it's at it too.

That would be Linux.

On: A Motherboard That Doesn't Require An OS

This link shows Linux on a chip.

Re:yes!!

On: Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works

You mean Smaug al la Pete's Dragon wasn't what you had in mind?

Let's hope Jackson keeps his movies straight.

On: Peter Jackson Says "Hobbit" Movie In The Works

While the thought of Bilbo climbing the Empire State Building holding Fay Wray is rather entertaining, I think it might disturb the purists.

Sponsored by...

On: The Memory Masters

The Vegas Casino Consortium. All winners will receive lifetime bans in every casino in the world.

Specialty Recipes

On: Cooking with the Internet?

You just don't see enough recipes along these lines.

Re:Harlan Ellison is a nut case.

On: Harlan Ellison vs. AOL Judgment Reversed

The term is 'speculative fiction'.

A fly on the wall of Ellison's attorney's office..

On: Harlan Ellison vs. AOL Judgment Reversed

"No, Mr Ellison, I don't think the term motherfucker is appropriate to use in the lawsuit. Yes, even if it's fitting."

Love you Harley.

Gimmie your wallet!

On: The Universal Card

and your thumb!

Re:Stuck in the middle...

On: Adding Background Noise To Your Phone Call

I was thinking along the same lines.

Background noise by itself is of questionable usefullness.

If you encode steganographic text messaging into the noise, then you have something potentially very handy.

Ok, very handy if you are either a terrorist, a drug dealer, or just generally paranoid.

Military applications? What about students?

On: Powered Exoskeleton Legs

I sure could have used one of those in school.

Lockers? I don't need no steeking lockers!

Re:An order of magnitude?

On: Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO

If you read further, there is mention of an additional $16-20 million that is assumed to have been accquired.

Good for photography...maybe

On: Philips Develops Fluid Lenses

Modern photographic lenses have special coatings to reduce reflections from the air gap between two lenses.

For single lens cameras, no coatings are not that big a problem.

For multiple lens cameras, it can lead to a lot of chromatic aberations.

If these oil lenses can accept liquid optical layers, look out Karl Zeiss.

I think Frank Herbert beat them to it.

On: Philips Develops Fluid Lenses

His novel Dune mentions oil lenses.

I wouldn't be surprised if any authors pre-date Herbert with coming up with liquid lenses. Mr. Herbert is just the one that came to mind.

Question

On: Zones are in Solaris Express (Solaris 10)

Is this similar to running multiple instances of VMWare or Bochs?

That's what you get...

On: How The CIA Duped The Soviets' Line X Network

When you don't read the EULA.

23c. In no way do the authors of this software take responsibility or blame for any pipeline explosions that may or may not occur through the normal use of this software.

Anallee Newitz?

On: CodeCon, Placebos, Fear, Yoyo-hacking, Dune, etc.

Ummm, put down the porn for two seconds to spell check, ok?

There is a graphic novel in there somewhere.

On: Astronauts Attach Mannequin to Outside of ISS

This just sounds too much like a supervillan origin story.

Bombarded by radiation, the manniquin of bone and synthetic flesh became imbued with a kind of life...and a malevolent intelligence.

Of course they can

On: AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection

The question will be whether their PR department can spin this into a big enough story to sell to the Average Joe.

Sure, AMD just has to write a buffer-overflow exploit into a worm that carries the pop-up window message, "If you had and AMD processor, you're hard drive wouldn't be erasing right now."

Re:Yeah right

On: Girls in the Gaming World

If she's so bad, get another girlfriend.