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  1. Re:CO2 is not a substance on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    Actually, you are both crude with your comment and wrong. The comma after teacher is not grammatically necessary. Deduction: your English is substandard like your comment.

  2. Re:CO2 is not a substance on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1

    Well, "carbon dioxide" is easily understood as well. I was mainly pointing out how (1) sloppy people are with symbols [Our school had someone post signs asking for H2O bottled water for Gulf region people. Later it was correctly redone with the subscript.] (2) little advanced we are in information presentation in such a high tech forum as slashdot.

  3. CO2 is not a substance on Earth Releasing More CO2 Than Originally Thought · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I am a Chemistry teacher and it is frustrating to see subscripts not supported in headlines.

    CO(sub)2(/sub) is the correct formula.

    where I let ( be a substitute for std. notation

    But slashdot does not support it.

  4. drive is finally more powerful than my brain on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 3, Funny

    This drive is finally more powerful than my brain which can store exactly 487 GB of information per lifetime. Wait, did I already post this message??

  5. Sounds good, I'll buy one but.... on Half-Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 1

    ...how many 5.25 inch floppies do I need for my backup. I'm using the 160 K single side ones.

  6. About time on X-15 Pilots Finally Get Astronaut Wings · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those guys risk their lives more than any current astronauts. I recall putting together a plastic model of the X-15 in 1958. I was in second grade and very, very keen on the space program. I still am, but think that robots should be used much more now.

  7. Real Player vs MS Media Player on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 1

    From the NASA TV page http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

    Real Player had much better audio but the MS Media Player had better sharpness and shadow detail in video. This was over Comcast broadband in Chicago.

    I assume the video feed was the same from NASA.

  8. Well He|| I'm not even 95% compatible on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 2, Funny

    with old Windows hardware!

  9. hey dude, like where can i buy Windows 2000? on Win2000 Still Performs on 8-year-old Hardware · · Score: 1

    I need like maybe 25 for some old hardware in my basement.

    Love and Peace to all!

    ++

  10. do it as a stop-gap measure on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    DDOS is messy but necessary at this point.

    Perhaps it could be "tuned" to more agressively hit the ISPs that allow spam to freely be sent. Then the ISP would have to filter out spam to provide adequate service levels.

    Ultimately spam must die from lack of interest. People must not respond to spam.

  11. Re:QWERTY not QWERY on Back and Forth Between Qwerty and Dvorak? · · Score: 1

    when i evaluate your slashdot name
    exp(pi*sqrt(163))

    i get 2.62537E+17

    am i doing something wrong? should I also mulitply by user number (613870)?

    i like your tag line and i am a liberal evangelical christian

  12. Re:How is this information of significance on Nuclear Fuel How-To · · Score: 2, Insightful

    to anyone reading slashdot?

  13. How is this information of significance on Nuclear Fuel How-To · · Score: 1

    to any normal person?

  14. So now a major US export is Job Losses. on IBM Europe Workers Strike · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can this rescue our economy?

    Perhaps if it reaches India and China.

    ---We don't need no stinking unions.---

  15. Future Astounding Headline #1: on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dateline 2009 Google buys Microsoft.

  16. More likely that Ballmer will disappear... on Google Might Disappear in Five Years · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...in less than 5 years.
    Many would like to "disappear" him even now.

  17. Re:First Rainbow Colored FABRICATED Diamond wins on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Maybe a Gay Pride endorsement would sell more?

  18. First Rainbow Colored FABRICATED Diamond wins on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    Can you imagine how many rainbow layered 3 ct. diamonds would sell for $19.95 with a Britany Spears endorsement? Wow.

  19. Real reason: Job security on The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space · · Score: 2, Funny

    Real reason: Job security for space scientists.

    Robotic exploration of space is the only kind we should ever do.

  20. Re:Thought experiment on gravity... on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 1

    Eventually all orbits decay.

  21. Thought experiment on gravity... on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 1

    Two masses (let's say BB's as in BB gun ammo) are all that exist in the universe and they are located 100 million light years apart.

    Would they eventually speed toward each other at near the speed of light?

    Can we say anything about the collision? Would it produce a white hole or a black hole?

  22. Very limited use; SQL vocabulary is already used on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 1

    This program will allow you to program Pac Man in OOP languages (as in the example) but not much else.

    SQL with Select, Insert, Sort, et. al. is already pretty English-like.

  23. Bill Gates is using a robot net to on Over a Million Zombie PCs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bill Gates is using a robot net in building a spacecraft to return to his solar system.

  24. Solve the Social Security Problem... on MIT Certifies Biological Engineering Major · · Score: 1

    by making it a cloning class project that each geek makes 100,000 TAX PAYING copies of himself. Of course these geek clones would need high paying tech jobs. So they would need to engineer a virus that would kill offshore engineers....OK let's forget this idea

  25. Symantic owes us money for a broken product. on Symantec Antivirus May Execute Virus Code · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I gave up on NAV. Always wanting subscription cash. Always wanting you to upgrade.

    AVG for free is for me.