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  1. Re:No cell phones on aircraft! on SETI Disrupted By Cell Phones in Airplanes? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cell phones only use enough power to make contact with their cell. If the cell is 20 feet away its going to put out a lot less signal than if the cell is 20 miles away.

  2. Re:No. on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    it no longer counts as a laptop if its too hot to hold in your lap, or too noisy to bring into a meeting.

  3. Re:High Gain Wireless Antenna? on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    it is not. plus no obscenity over the connection

  4. clearly.... on Eat Right, Earn an iPod · · Score: 2, Funny

    the way to encourage keeping trim is to give kids video games

  5. Re:80 Million Downloads...who cares! on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 1

    Because they'll pay well for the service.

  6. Re:80 Million Downloads...who cares! on Firefox Growth Slowing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    50ish? whenever I fix a spyware infested machine, first thing added is SP2, second is firefox

  7. Re:A simple solution on Hilary Rosen Gripes About iPod, iTMS · · Score: 1

    Well then she's free to buy cds and then rip them.. oh wait.

  8. Re:HAH! on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1

    yeah, except I'm getting tired of needing to endlessly customize linux to my needs. I spend 40 hours a week fixing XP, I'd rather stay away from it at home.

  9. Re:HAH! on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 1

    can you explain please? I want to buy a mac, but I'm wondering what you think it's lacking.

  10. Re:Qui Bono? on Microsoft Offers Compensation For Counterfeit OSes · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really now. You'd think your average consumer could tell the difference between a CPU and a ladder.

  11. Re:zerg on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    yeah. precisely what I want determining if I wind up stuck in a wall or not.

  12. Re:what about MS patents? on VLC & European Patents · · Score: 1

    Did you think something that awful took me longer than a minute to come up with and type? :)

  13. Re:what about MS patents? on VLC & European Patents · · Score: 1

    wait... you want someone @todo your ass? :(

  14. Re:Film on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 1

    Yes, the whole process of covering it in mounting oil would probably turn them off. And given the high profile of the metropolitan museum of art, I'm sure that the manufacturers of view cameras would like the extra exposure of building just such a camera for them.

  15. Re:Film on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 1

    Bingo

  16. Film on Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    rather than stich a bunch of digital photos, they should have simply photographed it with a very large format camera, and had the resulting negative drum scanned at 8000dpi. These folks do it that way, and if you take a look, the resolution is amazing.

  17. Re:It doesn't matter .... on RIAA Lawsuits from a John Doe's Perspective · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When (based on figures I've heard, but not checked) 20 percent of a nation's population does something, I'd say its illegal in theory only.

  18. clearly on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its in consumer's best interests to force them to upgrade lest they be left behind and forgotten.

  19. Re:crap on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    not when everyone else is driving to the mountains too

  20. Re: Time is money on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 1

    You don't need the birth certificates for them. YOu need the birth certificates to have credit cards in other names. They run a check to make sure that people don't use multiple cards for one person and cheat them.

  21. Re: Time is money on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 4, Funny

    yes, but the hard part is creating the 5 street addresses, birth certificates and credit cards.

  22. Re:Some parallels... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    No, just teach the kids metric heavily. Faced with an upcomign populous used to metric, market forces would take over and products would be increasingly metric focused. ie. Instead of being measured in Imperial units and having the metric equivalent next to it, things would be the other way around. This would get the rest of the populous familiar with metric measurement, and ease the transition.

  23. Re:Maybe useful for Flyover-country on Associated Press Not Impressed By MyFi · · Score: 1

    Sort of like the days where ads for Pepsi and iPods are inserted in-show by the actors themselves? oh wait...

  24. Re:Konqueror + kio_audiocd on Batch Converting Between Formats? · · Score: 1

    Buy two cd libraries and send one to me and I will.

  25. Re:Erm... on Will Open Source Solaris Kill Linux? · · Score: 1

    How should I know? My point is that the NSA won't be developing something similar because it already exists.