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  1. LaunchBar should have made the list. on The Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps · · Score: 4, Informative

    LaunchBar is Spotlight on crack. These guys managed to pack as much functionality as the finder itself into a little bar at the top of the screen. And it's fast.

  2. Oh yes! Yes! YESSSSS!! on 'Touching' The Brain · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coud this device perhaps be used in *ahem* other parts of the body with high neuron concentration?

  3. "Microcups Made of Nanopaper" on Fashion in Space? · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the ladies.... and the men, come to think of it!

  4. Re:In soviet russia... on Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room · · Score: 0

    Overrated? This is one of the funniest Soviet Russia jokes I've ever heard. Way to go, Anonymous Coward!

  5. Wow on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder what things will be like 200 million years from today, what adanced (or not so advanced) civilization will uncover the golden gate bridge, or statue of liberty. Entire continents submerged under thousands of feet of water and mud? This impetuous yet infinitesimal progression of gradualism really makes catastrophic events like Katrina seem like child's play. There's no greater force than time.

  6. Hemos, no respect. on It Does Little and Not Very Well · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I wish you and the other editors would stop posting such blatant slashvertisements. It's insulting, really.

    Oh, and that's a joke by the way...

  7. Re:That's the way it is... on China Bans Running Your Own Email Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Along those lines, does anybody know if there are public proxy servers in China that allow people in the rest of the world to see what the internet is like behind the great firewall?

  8. Re:Except at some negible points? on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 1

    It's ok :) I only knew this because I just had a problem set (also uncountable...) on this very thing.

  9. Re:Except at some negible points? on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 1

    I find it very ironc that you would say that, because one of the primary motivations behind Lebesgue integration and measure theory is their application to statistics. *shrug*

  10. Re:Except at some negible points? on Swedish Mathematician Lennart Carleson Wins Abel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Incorrect. A set of measure zero can be uncountable. (cf the Cantor set)

  11. Carcinogenic? on Nanotube Paint Blocks Cell Phones on Demand · · Score: 1

    I don't think copper by itself is carcinogenic, but what about nanotubes? What happens when you need to sand down the wall?

  12. Oh NO! on Patrick Curry's Snow Day · · Score: 1

    I foresee an Attack Of The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons!

  13. Re:Perpetual motion machines on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    Hell, even physicists are fascinated by action at a distance. It creeps them out, so they invented particles to carry the energy and information. "graviton", "photon", "gluon", etc.

  14. "Bug is Microsoft Issue" on Core Duo Power Sapping Bug is Microsoft Issue · · Score: -1, Troll

    That always seems to be the case, now, doesn't it?

  15. Bogus on Alzheimer's Progresses Faster in Educated People · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The findings are bogus: they cite a 0.3% difference between more highly educated Alzheimer's patients and their counterparts. The counterargument is that plenty of people who wound normally go to grad school insead choose to work in industry. This small lifestyle difference for four years in a subject's late twenties should not effect tests given at age 65+. More likely is that some other factor is introduced by lifestyle differences between the two major career paths.

  16. Re:Oh Hellz Yes! on Korea Plans to Choose Linux City, University · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahh but in Korea, the guys are prettier.

  17. Apple hasn't switched on Apple Switched Chips Too Soon? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is one subtle, yet important distinction. Apple has added the intel processor to their lineup, but they haven't abandoned the PPC architecture. Although Steve et al. have implied a complete switch through the various pr statements made on the subject, Apple could just as easily stick with both chips indefinitely. Or they could retreat back to PPC if intel suddenly died and IBM came out with a blockbuster. That is of course if Intel doesn't lift this technology from IBM for their own chips in the future. Which they will.

  18. Re:Less pay, more stimulation on Would You Take A Paycut for More Interesting Work? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep telling this to my wife, but she's still mad I see that hooker. :)

  19. Re:Just another point of view on Scientists Expand Knowledge of Dark Matter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *Ahem*. Dogs certainly do know calculus.

  20. Re:This is all rather moot on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's true you might need to radically alter the shape of the missile. It's also true that a vehicle with sharp angles wouldn't do so well at hypersonic speeds. But the Stealth Bomber does not have such angles. I conjecture that a warhead shaped in such a manner as the B-2 would be quite stealth.

  21. This is all rather moot on US Missile Shield already Defeated? · · Score: 1
    You don't need to do anything fancy to break the defense, like the Russian idea of a zig-zagging warhead. Regardless of the exact implementation, every missile defense system needs to rely on radar for targeting: considering the radar profile of the B-2 is that of a marble, I bet you could do the same thing for an ICBM warhead, but with the profile of a grain of sand. Now consider the fact that this warhead is moving at hypersonic speeds, that there would most likely be dozens if not hundreds of them in flight, ten times as many dummy warheads, and other clever countermeasures such as em jamming, simply locating the damn thing on radar would be out of the question. Tracking it with enough precision to allow a laser to tag it, or an intercept missile to blow it up is simply impossible.

    Of course, if we get to the point where a country is lobbing nukes at us, things are already very, very bad. The best way to prevent a nuclear strike is to stop it not while the warheads are already on their way down, but before it even launches in the first place. Unfortunately, diplomacy is something with which the current administration is not familiar. This thinly-veiled military complex kickback is more likley to start another Cold War arms race than save anybody's life.

  22. Re:about time for a new university... on Thirsty People Feel More Pain · · Score: 1

    Auschwitz...

  23. What's this SCSI you speak of? on SCSI vs. SATA In a File Server? · · Score: -1, Troll

    SATA. SCSI is soooo 1990s.

  24. Yikes! on 27 Unknown Species Discovered · · Score: 1
    "There was also a daddy long legs with jaws bigger than its body..."

    *RUNS* Aren't those deadly, but only aren't because their fangs are too small to pierece the skin?

  25. Re:Forced Sexual Relations on Sex and the Modern MMOG · · Score: 1

    If a game has violence and it has sex, why not the intersection of the two, sex AND violence?