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  1. Re:Sweet! on Air Force Commits to Micro Air Vehicle · · Score: 1

    ...It would be great to have IR sensors on them as well to locate heat signatures as well.

    Most modern digital video cameras are sensitive to IR. Flash your TV's remote control at your web-cam to see this.

  2. Re:Ohloh? on HP Launches FOSSology Open Source Tracking Tool · · Score: 1

    Isn't this what http://www.ohloh.net/ does (and much more)? i don't think Ohloh knows what it wants to be.

  3. Lame-o on Mario Christmas Mural Video · · Score: 0, Troll

    Man, that is so ghey.

  4. Pumping Iron-- on Wii Can't Replace Actual Exercise · · Score: 1

    Not a bad article but they forgot to test with the top calorie burner for a Wii this holiday season: Trying to Find a Damn Unit to Buy. You will burn thousands and thousands of calories as you plod along from store-to-store in every mall and driving great distances in search of the elusive console. Be sure to practice your 100 m dash so you can be the first to get from the front door to the back of the store where there is only one box on the shelf. Remember the old children's jingle, "You Snooze, You Lose."

  5. Re:Watch the movie on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 1

    Is this it?

    Koyaanisqatsi or at Amazon.

  6. The Name... on Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software · · Score: 1

    Sage makes me think of traditional turkey dressing. Mmmmm!

  7. Re:Using c# on mission critical software on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 1

    Surely you were asking for it.

    C# is a propreitary language, written by *one* company.

    The only reason I can possibly think of for such an inane choice is that
    Microsoft might be a sponsor. What is even worse is using Windows for your development and deployment OS. That is as dumb as bending over in a prison shower to get the bar of soap you dropped.
  8. Airline Deregulation on China In the Habit of Copying and Redirecting US Sites? · · Score: 1

    ...foreign airlines fly in US airspace all the time but just aren't allowed to go between two US destinations. This restriction was removed 30 years ago when the industry was deregulated.
  9. Re:Better encoding doesn't imply better videos... on High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Wow, I didn't realise YouTube was so varied. I thought it was just for videos of kittens doing amusing or cute things. Kittens that look like Hitler?
  10. Y'all Know What They Say... on Picture Passwords More Secure than Text · · Score: 1

    A picture is worth a thousand passwords.

  11. Safety Last on Eleven Finalists in Pentagon's Robotic Rally · · Score: 1

    In the article Safety Last for Robo-Cars, Jefferson team member Janie Perrone said, "...I think he jinxed us." Well, with such medieval thinking, the Jefferson team should count their lucky stars that they weren't all burned as witches.

  12. Re:First on Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support? · · Score: 1

    ..of all, why are they excluding printers? The fact that Linux printing is done is userspace is not an excuse.
    When I want to print or scan on a Linux machine, I don't want to hear that technicality.
    I just want it to work. Crikey! So just click on the link given and bug the correct people. Sheesh!

  13. Re:Ay AY yay caramba! on Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria · · Score: 1

    Well he did use a Honda engine. So we know the engine won't die in mid flight.
    [...] I think that engine doesn't have enough power to rotate those blades at 150 RPM--let alone 300 RPM.

  14. Re:Online donations for Nigerian air safety on Home-made Helicopters in Nigeria · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we could create some sort of online mechanism to solicit donations to improve Nigerian air safety. An email campaign? ;-) I say we send our donations by Western Union.

  15. Re:Still on Mom Blasts Ballmer Over Kid's Vista Experience · · Score: 1

    ...The original poster said that it didn't have drivers for the network card. How would it manage to update itself without a connection to the outside world?

    A USB or serial connection could be used.
  16. Re:Yes, you're being silly on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    Liberal attitudes like that will get you nowhere in the computer world.

  17. Re:ATTN SLASHDOT ADMIN on STriDER, a Three-Legged Walking Robot · · Score: 1

    why can i only post twice a day and then it tells me to wait 24 hrs ... Are you registered? Do you meta-moderate regularly?
  18. Re:Its the return of the... on Mysterious Peruvian Meteor Disease Solved · · Score: 1

    You guys are so dense. Arsenic this and UFO that. Pffft! Just look at the pictrue in that article. Doesn't it remind of another very VERY famous picture of similar nature? Goddammit! Do you want me to actually explain it? On /.? Really? The link under that pic says "Enlarge this" How is that for a hint?

    HE IS BACK!!! Is it the Ty-D-Bol man?
  19. Re:OT: Curly & Shemp were in a short together? on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: 1

    I never knew that they ever appeared in the same short -- what's the name? ... That would be this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039468/trivia
  20. Re:Note to self: Back up server on Jatol.com Disappears, Stranding Customers · · Score: 1

    I really should do this more often. I don't know what I'd do if this would happen to me. Obviously, if it were to happen to you, you would be doing more backups.
  21. Re:Man I'm Old on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    XTree Gold. Those were the days. Yes it was for Dos.

    SmR ZTree is still available for Windows and Unixtree is for Linux.

  22. Re:Open source projects? on Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex · · Score: 1

    Ok, they rely on propietary products, but that doesn't mean they are useless to the Open Source Community.

    See, it's open source, so porting any of those projects to other systems is quite simple and it's nothing compared to having to reverse engineer everything. So far most of them are useful only to Microsoft customers. They seem to be little utilities to fix up or add value to Windows. Problems with the registry, libraries for Microsoft languages and missing utilities--Not useful for other OSes.
  23. Re:The Three R's of Portland on Netflix Makes It Easy To Reach a Human · · Score: 1



            The Three R's of Portland:

            Racial Sensitivity, Recycling and Reproductive Rights

            Or, Why Portland Sucks


            Dorchester, MA - August 12, 2003 ~ "Latte Town" was coined a few years back
    [...] Now that's funny. It reminds me of Boulder, Colorado.

  24. Alive - Shmalive on Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" · · Score: 1

    There is as much a chance of interstellar dust being alive as there is for Bill Gates being on the Vatican's short-list for possible sainthood.

  25. I Blame Microsoft on One Failed NIC Strands 20,000 At LAX · · Score: 1

    I blame Microsoft since they took Clippy out of Word. He was my only friend.