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  1. Just use email account... on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    Most email has spell-check, html format ability, cut-and-paste almost anything like pictures, etc. Printer-friendly options as well... plus it's faster when I am lazy and don't want to open a new ap-- email account is always open, usually.

  2. Marketing psychology on Another Format War: DVD -R9 v. +R9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    +R9 has a simple advantage..... This format uses "+" symbol. Naive Consumers think automatic "+ == GOOD". Likewise they assume minus sign, "-", is somehow inferior.

  3. Fiction Vs Non on Locus Interviews Neal Stephenson · · Score: -1, Troll
    The Non-fiction writer is frequently accused of lies, and that her work is truely a phony baloney piece of black crap.

    Should the same scornful penalty apply to Fiction writer, who actually LIED to the reader by saying the work is all false and made-up, when in fact his book is 100% accurate?

  4. Re:Exploding shoe bombs? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    You are both correct, but you ignore the problem of exploding fanny packs placed around unsuspeted old men and women.

  5. But Some elderly need security check on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1
    A person with almost no capacities could easily be fitted with, say, exploding shoe bombs and they wont know it.

    I knew an aunt, her name was Judy, and her mind was gone around the time she was 90 years old. She could not know if terrorist gave her a fanny pack to wear on a plane. Ass could have explode at any moment, sending crew and passengers into LETHAL nose-dive.

  6. What's in a name? on More On The International Linear Collider · · Score: 1

    This is so fantastic, they should be calling it a Super Linear Colliding machine. That seems some what more accurate, I believe.

  7. More correct than you know on Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing Algorithms · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Funny how some people develop more and more sophisticated stuffs to fight against something that is just as simple as sending out emails to random address...

    This is just like your own immune system, which uses such things as "V-D-J" recombination (and other tricks) to create billions of some what random different epitope to attack potential unknown pathogens. Cells they must further educate not to attack "self" in your own body.

    If only computer geeks took some lesson from biologist, perhaps they could get a grip on principles to stop SPAM.

  8. Do not be sad - you are brave on First Plasma on the Levitated Dipole Experiment · · Score: 1
    Indeed, those who profess to spit on spirit of great achivement and satisfactory are subhuman, in my opinion. Why else do we work hard every day, and most weekend when we could be out partying with chicks, instead we chose to be in the lab hard at work.

    I want to help Humanity. I want others to help Humanity. I want to help OTHERS to help to help Humanity. That is what Slashdot is for, supposedly, and I think we have stated most clearly this tonight.

  9. WHO TOLD? on The Pentagon's Ultimate Home Theater · · Score: 1

    Such sophisticated system should be TOP SECRET computer operation by the armys. Who ordered details of location and super-capability should be punished severely.

  10. A stunning set back on South Pole Research Station Hacked Twice · · Score: 1

    What kind of some monsters would do this to serious research project? Our shock should turn to anger, and we should learn to deal with internet bandits. They will know that to break scientist's back is to cultivate Disaster on themselve.

  11. Many workplace smell on Hardware That Literally Doesn't Stink? · · Score: 1
    I work with agar mediums, used for bacteria and yeast. The smell make me want to drink from out supply of 70% ethanol, some days, and 200 proof alcohol on other days.

    Also smells are the putrid undergrads I have to work with, who don't change their "BULLHEAD" brand sweatshirts for week straight. Their work is sloppy and I hate all of them. They should get "F" for too much party all the time, if you take my class.

  12. Sounds very important on Sampling Short Sequences From Long MP3 Recordings? · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is an excellent research field. I may convert section of my recombinant lab to this study. I will urge the head of Oncoproteomics department to do the same thing and cut budget to other projects for this.

  13. #5,989,178: Immortality Device on Some Of The Lost X-Patents Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Magnetic Ring, Chiu 5,989,178

    November 23, 1999

    A magnetic ring adapted to be worn on the little finger of the hand. The magnetic ring includes a ring and a pair of permanent magnets that extend from the ring. When the magnetic ring is worn on the little finger of the right hand, the pair of permanent magnets are oriented on the top and bottom, respectively, of the little finger, with the South pole of the magnet that is oriented on the top of the little finger generally contacting the top of the little finger, with the North pole of the magnet that is oriented on the top of the little finger in opposition thereto, with the North pole of the magnet that is oriented on the bottom of the little finger generally contacting the bottom of the little finger, and with the South pole of the magnet that is oriented on the bottom of the little finger in opposition thereto. When the magnetic ring is worn on the little finger of the left hand, the position of the polarities of the pair of permanent magnets are reversed from that of the right hand. The magnetic ring can also be made to fit around all the fingers of the hand and all the toes of the foot.

  14. Not a documentary on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: -1, Troll

    Calling it a documentary doesn't make it one. Not if you say it a thousand times or more.

  15. Win-win for consumers on Commodore - Back In The Hardware Biz At Last? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Even if Commodor does poorly, it will keep pressure on Apple to innovate and have fair pricing.

    And if Commodor beats out Apple, then good for them.

  16. Best anti-spam code on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: -1, Troll

    We need a good code of law that puts SPAM bastards in jail for decade.

  17. Re:Future of armed infantry on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1
    This sounds like it's the future of what our soldiers will be wearing.

    What if cave-dwelling terroists develop this first? You know- in the same "R&D" cave where they discovered fire 50 years ago.

  18. Re:btw, on Infinite sets the reviewer talks about. on Metamath! The Quest for Omega · · Score: 1

    If CH is true, the entire plane can be divided into three disjoint sets S1, S2 and S3, such that S1 is horizontally finite, S2 is vertically finite and S3 is diagonally finite. If you look at glass of water with a straw, it goes half length down, jump, then goes all the way. 4 centimeter look like 3. Same thing that you say.

  19. Re:Uh, no... on Rowing the Pond Again · · Score: 3, Funny
    They're attracted to shapes too, which is why surfers get hit all the time. But you're right, the shark probably won't see the painted fish.

    Besides, it is Hollywood myth that shark can be dangerous. You may think that shark could mistake swimmer for baby seal, or find your fagile torso to be a tasty meal for the shark. You may also think your weak chemoelectric field in your muscle and nerve could be detected, and shark would take big bite out of you before figures out you are not good for food for it.

    This is all giant myth. Shark can make good friendship and companion for any man, woman, or youung child who swim in water's ocean.

  20. Man in Motion on Rowing the Pond Again · · Score: 1

    Thank you, John Parr.

  21. Cover for UFO on 2004 Venus Transit In Pictures · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not Venus, it's SWAMP GAS.

    This is a big desert, you could really get hurt out here. Now go away.... remember that you saw nothing.

  22. Re:Only apple... on Apple Previewing New Power Mac? · · Score: -1, Troll
    The pics are of the internal designs, many of which directly affect the operation of the computer.

    You are full of it this time, Monoke. Pictures do not affect how computers work.

  23. I'm NOT Lovin' It! on McDonald's and Sony Offer Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Why. So I can hear "Ba da bah bah baaaaah" 1 million times? Rather blow my brains out, thank you all.

  24. Dan Goldin would be proud on NASA's New 'Exploration' Insignia · · Score: 1
    For a man more concerned with stationary design than space station design, not to mention speech-making and apologizing for NASA's very existence.

    His next plan is to bring "Faster, Better, Cheaper" to the B.U. School of Medicine. What a great concept for providing health care... Let's hope it works better than it did for NASA under his watch.

  25. Re:No matter *what* on 2nd Multi-Format 128kbps Public Listening Test · · Score: 1
    0??? doesn't cut it. It's an absolute lossy, disgusting bitrate, no matter what it's in. They should test similar file sizes instead of by bitrate, to determine whether something is good or not- this gives a better impression of quality vs size, instead of a purely comparison based test.

    You are definitely on to something that is a good point, however your conclusion is wrong.

    You do want to test these songs in a slighly "bad" quality so one can say for certain which version is the LEAST bad. For this, sound quality (bit rate) is made a limiting factor. To illustrate- imagine if every format were tested in an extremely HIGH bit rate (ie, good quality). There would be nothing to compare then, because they would all seem nearly-perfect to listen to.