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  1. Re:How about Antarctica? on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    The last probes NASA sent to Venus (made out of diamond) were crushed in less than an hour by the pressure.

  2. Re:Covering all bases... on Russians Invade with Flying Saucer · · Score: 1

    You forgot "you insensitive clod," you insensitive clod!

  3. Sweet! on 40th Mersenne Prime Found · · Score: 1

    With this new Mersenne prime one can also form a new largest perfect number. Euclid proved that if 2^k-1 is prime, then 2^(k-1)*(2^k-1) is a perfect number. Anyone care to put this together?

  4. Ouch. on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 1

    Trust -- Devices serving as network endpoints can be integrated into to an easy to implement "trustworthy computing" model that leverages secure, digitally signed core system software.

    I'm worried when even the technology-pushers put "trustworthy computing" in quotes.

  5. Re:Huffman coding is not minimaly redundant on Swedish Student Partly Solves 16th Hilbert Problem · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Arithmetic coding?

  6. Re:Circular logic on Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music · · Score: 1

    I think it's more like mathematical induction. Assume song x is popular. If we change x around some and make it x + 1, then x + 1 will also be popular.

    Plug in your old popular song from 5 years ago and you can make a popular song from this one, and a new popular song from that one, and so on. Since your old song is popular, and the popularity of x implies the popularity of x + 1, you can keep making popular songs forever.

    It would only be circular logic if the induction chain looped back onto itself, so that you would get x -> x + 1 -> x + 2 -> ... -> x.

  7. Re:Pilot G-2 07 on When Word Processors Are Out: What's The Best Pen? · · Score: 1

    One time a fellow debate team member put blueberry muffin in all of my G2s. That said, G2s rock!

  8. Maybe they were right. on Justice Department Proud of Patriot Act Slippery Slope · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe they weren't exagerating when they said drugs fund terrorism.

  9. Re:Utah the source of hoaxes? on 14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder · · Score: 1

    Sorry. Joseph Smith created Mormonism back east. I think it was New York. Only later they were persecuted and moved to Utah.

    Of course... maybe he just moved the BS there?

  10. Re:This GTA is fraud. on Kids Kill, Victim Sues Game Maker · · Score: 1

    I doubt you'd be around to sue them.

  11. Re:ObRef on RPC DCOM Cleanup Worm Appears · · Score: 1

    It should be "ALL YOUR WORM ARE BELONG TO...," otherwise your verb and subject actually agree! Ahhh!!!!!!

  12. Re:su with wheel group on RMS on SCO, Distributions, DRM · · Score: 1

    Back when he worked at MIT he refused to have a password on his account. Quite a character.

  13. Re:Unsigned code... on PS2 Exploit Allows Running of Unsigned Code · · Score: 1

    It's easy.

    In Soviet Russia SCO overlords welcome YOU.

  14. Re:Military used as a last resort on Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons · · Score: 1

    And as far as Afghanistan... I supported that war and was pissed that we stopped before we were finished

    Yup, the best ones are always planned.

  15. Give SCO a chance! on SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid · · Score: 1

    Don't be so judgemental guys! Let's wait until the other 9,999 SCO lawyers give their opinions before we form ours.

  16. Noooo! on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    I guess the number of "Lookout!" jokes will be significantly reduced. :(

  17. Re:bundling a mail client in windows? on Microsoft Stops Development Of Outlook Express · · Score: 1

    Billy did learn his lesson. He learned that you can make a deal with the Bush administration and do whatever anti-trust shit you can come up with.

    Why doesn't Billy learn.

    OMG! I think we found the writer of the RPC worm! :p

  18. Re:Geek note: most modems are still at 2400 baud on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    crap, i'm an idiot. :)

  19. Re:Geek note: most modems are still at 2400 baud on Computer Expectations of Today, and a Decade Hence? · · Score: 1

    baud != bps.
    According to my A+ cert book, all present-day modems run at 2400 baud, but they push more data each cycle. So you can have a 56Kbps modem that runs at 2400 baud. Find me a modem that says it runs at 56kilobaud and i'll give you a cookie :P

  20. Re:Ha! on The Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points :( This is basically cloning an existing product, but eventually we'll move into the age where anything can be represented as data and reproduced on a whim. What'll happen next will be interesting.

  21. Re:Photo of Alleged Perp on Acxiom Hacking Details Made Public · · Score: 1

    Looks like someone already made him their bitch.

  22. Re:I hate it.. on Building a Better Bomb · · Score: 1

    Think about it, newspapers and cable news make money when more people read/watch their news. If 6,000 dead Iraqi civilians were as newsworthy as you think, wouldn't it be plastered all over the news?

    As opposed to what? The media frenzy over an LA Lakers basketball player? Think about it. Popular != Important. In America mainstream news in entertainment, not informational.

  23. Re:Building a better bomb? on Building a Better Bomb · · Score: 1
  24. Attention! on SCO Calls IBM Countersuit "Unsubstantiated Allegations" · · Score: 1

    To all of those people saying SCO is the pot calling the kettle black, I have one thing to say: Who better than SCO to know unsubstantiated claims? It takes one to know one!

  25. Re:Heat vs. Light on An Enlightened Look at an Over-Lighted World · · Score: 1

    Anyone flying in a plane at night knows there are a lot of billboards and lit buildings pointing their beams inefficiently into the night sky.

    You mean like this?