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  1. Re:Early warning on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    Actually its about 500 billion tons of rock. I don't have the details, but I'm assuming is fairly thick rock too. Due to its dimensions and composition, excavating would be impossible. Likewise, explosions would most likely be ineffective, or if they are effective, might set off the entire thing.

    It comes down to our own inability to affect land masses on a significant scale. Building breaks out in the water would be more practical.

  2. Re:Early warning on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    It's a significant land mass, it's not a tree. If we had the power to move it, we could just as easily hold it in place.

  3. Re:For me it's a non-issue: on How Do You Drown Out the Office Noise? · · Score: 0

    Hey, what a coincidence, somebody else is being forced to develop in .NET too!!!

  4. Re:King on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just to clarify, I run a high school alumni site for my old school. I'm not posting the name here cause the site is "bandwidth-challenged".

    The url is [smalltown]alumni.com, where [smalltown] is a unique name for a town. The title of the document is "[Small Town] Alumni", and the first H1 tag is "Welcome to the [Small Town] Alumni Website". Despite this, if you enter Small Town Alumni in Google (without quotes), my site comes up 7th. With quotes, my site is still 3rd. The one and only site that links to mine is listed first in the search results, and that site happens to be the school districts website. The other 5 that are before me are a link to reunion.com, a cache of the school districts websitesite, and a couple news sites related to schools.

    All of those sites only have the [Small Town] text in their site, with the exception of the school districts site, who's link text is "[Small Town] Alumni".

    For comparison, entering [Small Town] Alumni into Yahoo, with or without quotes, lists my site first.

  5. Re:King on What's Next For Google? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yahoo is beating them right now in terms of appropriate search results, as well as faster crawling and indexing.

  6. Re:Madness on Nintendo to Drop D-pad · · Score: 1

    Power Glove, end of discussion. I never had more fun with that thing than when I first opened the box.

  7. Re:One page? on Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 · · Score: 1

    Right click -> Open in New Window

    You should be ashamed of yourself for not realizing that was a valid path. Your obviously failed to completely evaluate the scenario.

    You're fired!!!(tm)

  8. Re:One page? on Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 · · Score: 1

    Quit complaining, I'm still waiting for the first page to completely load =P

  9. Re:The answer... on Secret Agents Hold Code-Breaking Contest · · Score: 1

    There were classmates of mine with last names of D'abracci and D'angelo

  10. Re:Well... realistically.... on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1

    Somebody could die the safest car in the world, and
    it would still be the safest car in the world as long as more people died in other cars.

  11. Re:Not useful on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    Type "shi" into it? Look at the second result you get. Type in the full word and you get some really strange results that I don't want to click on for fear of seeing tubgirl again.

  12. Re:666? on GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited · · Score: 1

    Actually, you cannot see more than the first 8 thumbnails since they are broken up into separate pages.

  13. Re:Perfect! on Buy a Piece of Acclaim · · Score: 1

    1.) Use old game cartridges to construct furniture
    2.) Sell it on eBay as a geek collectible
    3.) Profit

  14. Re:like saying... on Doom 3 vs. Half Life 2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I rented "Dude, Where's My Car" and only watched the first 10 minutes of it. Do you think I even care how the ending was???

  15. Re:none here on Failing Grades For Most Anti-Spyware Tools · · Score: 1

    Personally I find that only granting read permission on the Run & RunOnce registry keys prevents a lot of problems, as if doesn't seem that any malware I've come across is smart enough to reset the permissions.

  16. Specs on card? on How Good are the DNA-Drivers for ATI Cards? · · Score: 1

    Is it a Radeon Pro? How much ram? What resolution and quality settings are you using? What's the speed of your CPU? Any idea how many fps you're getting? Have you downloaded any tweak utilities to overclock it?

  17. Re:Not just a glitch, it's failure on E-Voting Glitch Alters Election Outcome · · Score: 1

    Please define the basic function of an OS. Then point out an OS that is capable of performing that function without suffering from "glitches".

    I'm actually on your side, but software fails. I know it sounds simple enough to count votes, but you need a communication layer, customizable forms, user input, authentication, storage system, graphic interface, etc. It's much more than iterating through a collection and incrementing totals.

  18. Re:Why are people pissed off about steam? on Developers vs. Publishers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How ya gonna steal it without an internet connection?

  19. Re:Well I'll be damned... on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only one.

  20. Re:Radeon, eh? on Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken · · Score: 1

    I got a Radeon 9700 Pro. Works great on high settings in both Doom 3 and FarCry. I would expect it would run HL2 reasonably well also.

  21. Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug on Kerry Concedes Election To Bush · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's because it conceded to a superior operating system... emacs.

  22. Re:Screw fraud, what about bugs? on More on the Dangers of eVoting · · Score: 1

    That's ok, they'll catch it in the recount when they tally all the paper receipts. ;)

  23. Re:You read it here first! on New Apple iPod with Photo Capabilities · · Score: 1

    You are? Is it this one...

    / \ ( O )( O ) --- --- Oh yeah, I loved that one too!

  24. Re:Geek Vote? on Would John Kerry Defang the DMCA? · · Score: 1

    No, Clinton got in for playing the saxaphone on Arsenio Hall.

  25. Re:Mod down that troll on Google Desktop Search Under Fire · · Score: 2, Informative

    The second point - you're right. I was thinking of something else and made an innacurate statement.

    As for your first point - you're trying to turn what I said into saying that Google has a business deal with MS to help MS take of the world. Google made a choice to use those formats, and made a choice to release it for one platform, and they forgot to address security properly on that platform.