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  1. 7500 songs * $1/song on Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod · · Score: 1

    Now you can carry $7500 worth of music in your pocket.

  2. Re:How about misplaced equipment? on Phone Companies Bill Public for Nonexistent Equipment · · Score: 1

    1) Haul it all off one night to a storage area.
    2) Claim ignorance when the van shows up next time.
    3) Wait until they bring in more equipement or house it elsewhere
    4) sell or destroy the equipment.

    You could move step 4 to 1 if you were so inclined.

  3. Re:Oh no. on Bombing the Moon for Water · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Any pieces that head toward Earth will be burnt up by the atmosphere and the pieces that remain will be no bigger than than the head of a Chiuaua. And if I'm wrong may we all be smashed horribly from above somehow.

  4. Re:hmm on Bombing the Moon for Water · · Score: 1
    they will use bunker busting bombs..

    No they won't. They're suggesting getting instruments into the ground with methods that are similar to those bombs.

    the point is that these bombs are used against man-made structures.. and they are much easier to penetrate than solid ground.

    Do you mean that that is your point? I don't know if concrete bunkers are easier to penetrate than the surface of the Moon, do you? I imagine that these guys have probably thought of that.

    The bomb might have to be a nuclear one.

    No, it won't.

    Another question is about the delivery capability. Moon does'nt have oxygen. Therefore this bomb will need to have its own oxygen system.

    Most bombs do. That's kind of one point of explosives. But again, this is not a bomb.

    The place they bomb and the place where the spacecraft is located has to be some distance apart.

    Yeah. The lunar orbiter that fires these missles will probably still be in orbit. I guess that's where they get the name "orbiter."

    The dust(?) created from this bomb will linger far longer than earth because of moon's gravity.

    Possibly.


    It sounds like you need to read the referenced article a little more closely.

  5. Re:Yea... so... on No ID Cards in the Future · · Score: 2, Funny
    Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant. The population is growing.

    Cole's Law: Chopped cabbage and mayo.
  6. florida startup on No ID Cards in the Future · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From the article:
    A Florida start-up is working on a 15,000-processor supercomputer than can essentially reconstruct the timeline of your entire life in minutes.

    Does anyone know what company he may be referring to here?
  7. google mirror on The Rutan SpaceShipOne Revealed · · Score: 1

    well, we pretty much wrecked this guy's webserver for the day, so here's all google knows about scaled.com.

    Naturally, there are no pictures, but you can read all about some of the other projects over there.

  8. Re:Amusing examples on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah - I was thinking you were referring to the Mitnick book originally when you mentioned that. Good point.

  9. Re:Amusing examples on Social Engineering Still Best Way to Crack Security · · Score: 1
    I'm in the middle of reading "Hacking Linux Exposed" second edition right now...

    I've been thinking of grabbing that myself. Is it anywhere as good as Frank Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can?
  10. I'll never understand this on Real-time PC access on your PDA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems to me that if you have a device with a large enough display that you can effectively use complex applications that it will be big enough that it ought to have plenty of disk, CPU, and memory (like a laptop). Otherwise, it's just a phone or a pager kind of deal and who the hell wants to poke little buttons and look at a postage stamp-sized display when they're authoring a document? The entire industry built around handlheld computers has left me bewildered.

  11. missing manual on "Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    He must have left his copy of Securities Law: Insider Trading in the glovebox of his DeLorean.

  12. Brian D. Westby of St. Louis on FTC vs Spammers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The FTC accused Brian D. Westby, of suburban St. Louis, of using the e-mail spam operation to drive business to an adult Web site called ``Married But Lonely.''
    Would anyone in St. Louis like to ask this guy what his take on it is?