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  1. I found this useful on NASA's Earth Observatory Shows Solar Flare · · Score: 4, Informative
    I was visiting http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_ 031028.html earlier today. According to that site, the storm should hit full-force sometime around Noon EST Wednesday (1700 UT).
    That would put the arrival at about Noon EST Wednesday (1700 UT).

    "That's when it starts," Kunches said. But the storm will blow through over several hours, he said, and won't be done for up to two days.

    "We may be in for some great aurora," Brekke said.
  2. Well Said on House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  3. Re:Aurora watching on X17 Solar Flare Sends 2B Tons of Plasma at Earth · · Score: 1

    Same, except for northern Washington. Lemme know if you find any good resources.

  4. Re:Morons. on Star Trek Enterprise Tested to Mach 5 · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that once you left the solar system, there was something like 1 hydrogen atom per square meter. How 'windy' could this be, even at, say, 1/2 the speed of light?

  5. Re:Direct link to video on Red vs Blue Sweeps Machinima Awards · · Score: 1

    I have videos 1-17, but the server seems to be down lately and I get "connection refused" errors every time I try the bittorrent links. Does anyone have these files up on their server?

  6. Re:Other, arguably more reasonable explanations on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 1

    What's your point? I was copying that out of robots.txt. If I wanted to copy and paste information that wasn't in robots.txt, I would have removed /text.

  7. Re:Probably not practical due to power consumption on Digital Art For Your Wall-Mounted TV · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you have ~$3-5k for a plasma TV, I doubt you'll be worrying about electricity costs.

  8. Re:Other, arguably more reasonable explanations on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 1

    Disallow: /firstlady/recipes/text

    Interesting. I'm sure there are plenty of jokes that can be made about this...

    In any case, I wonder how much of whitehouse.gov is actually disallowed?

  9. Re:Evil Logo on Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX · · Score: 3, Funny
    What's a man have to do to get modded up around here?

    Impersonate a woman.
  10. Re:I remember... on Traffic Light Control For The Masses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sure, but would you if everyone else had one and kept cutting your green light off? Would you be tempted then?

  11. Re:There's /. for ya on Personal Submarine for 845k · · Score: 1

    Try the brochure, it has a few pictures. Bad ones, but pictures nonetheless.

  12. Re:beware the terrorists booohhooo! on Personal Submarine for 845k · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure a personal submarine will be completely undetectable by sonar/radar, of course.

  13. Of course, my first reaction was on Paterson's Worms Solved by Number-Crunching · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...how the hell did he have the patience to step through "a couple trillion" lines of code in a worm???

    Then I read the article. These worms, then - they're basically more complex versions of the Game of Life, right?

  14. Re:nyt sucks on Stealth Computers: NY Times on Mini ITX Modding · · Score: 1

    It's funny, though, since google links are IN THE ARTICLE.

  15. Re:Overly concerned? on Satellites Used to Stop Car Thieves in Pakistan · · Score: 1

    Wow. That seems like a lot for some cold air.

  16. Re:Overly concerned? on Satellites Used to Stop Car Thieves in Pakistan · · Score: 1

    it's A/C... how much gas can it use? It's a serious question, I'd like to know...

  17. Overly concerned? on Satellites Used to Stop Car Thieves in Pakistan · · Score: 1
    Trakker can record a vehicle's movements and even excessive engine idling -- an indication a driver may be using fuel-guzzling air-conditioning without permission.


    Are they seriously that concerned over gas there?
  18. Re:Good For competition on HP Launches New Calculators · · Score: 1

    Much faster, and now much cheaper. Gotta love what moore's law does to the cost of computing :)

  19. Re:Further applications on Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge · · Score: 1

    Yes the technology is out there - it's not currently tied together, though. This race will bring together all the technologies needed for a safe, autonomous vehicle.

    I agree with wanting to drive for fun, though. I'll take a stickshift over an autonomous car any day.

  20. Re:Who Do You Want to Shoot Today? on Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But some of it ends up benefiting the masses as well - like that little thing called the 'internet' that you used to post that comment detracting DARPA, for one ;)

  21. Further applications on Preparing for the DARPA Autonomous Vehicle Challenge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is really cool.. technology like this could be used in consumer cars to reduce rollover/tire spin/etc. Maybe even 'smart' cars that drive themselves, leaving the human passengers free to sleep or get work done.

  22. Re:Good For competition on HP Launches New Calculators · · Score: 1

    It's actually nearly the same processor - they both use z80's. The gameboy, iirc, has a few different instructions that the 83 does not - "swap" being one of them. It is also missing some useful repeating/load instructions that the 83 has. The real advantage that the gameboy has is it's hardware acceleration.

  23. Re:Yeah but........ on Dept. of Defense IPv6 Interoperabilty Test Begins · · Score: 1

    15, if you count the decimals.

  24. Re:Well, DUH on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 1

    And tape up the CD-ROM and Disk drives, of course.

  25. Re:Really? on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe he was talking about clippy. I bet clippy haunts old Bill's dreams at night.

    Bill: "WHY oh WHY did I ask for an animated paperclip????"
    Clippy: "It looks like you're suffering from a nervous breakdown. Press F2 for synonyms of 'nervous breakdown'."

    Clunkiest 'bug' I've ever seen in office.