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  1. Re:Best viewing point? on Venus/Jupiter Conjunction Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Informative

    How so? From Venus you would not see Jupiter and Venus line up, but rather Jupiter on one side, and Earth on the other.

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    Perspective is everything.

  2. Re:AOL, are you listening. on New Blu-ray Disc to be Made of Corn · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, your food will BE a virus.

  3. Re:Best viewing point? on Venus/Jupiter Conjunction Tomorrow · · Score: 3, Informative

    Probably either NASA TV or behind the lens of a telescope or large telephoto camera lens.

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    My manual camera (Minolta X-370s or SRT-202 depending on my mood) should have a great view [260mm lens with 2x multiplier]

  4. Re:Licensing? WTF? on Dell Infringes on Patent by Selling Overseas? · · Score: 1

    You could just use slashdot. Just make sure neither end uses a standard POTS modem.

  5. Re:What have you done?????? on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Bush has not won yet. Votes have yet to be counted.

  6. Re:Not just Democrats on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bush has yet to win. There are 11 more days for provisional ballots to be counted, and then the Electoral College votes. Ohio is not done counting.

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    Provisional votes COUNT!

  7. Re:The calls were traced!? on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 1

    All of the calls I got from any party or group trying to get people to vote [be it for a particular person/party or just vote] were from '000-000-0000' or 'Unknown Number' according to the caller ID, so I doubt this is it.

  8. Re:traced? on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems more like they monitor them. With some of these VoIP agreements, you let them not only track your calls, but monitor them. Read your agreements. This has changed for many of them since they started, but some still do have a monitoring provision.

  9. Re:Give it up Kerry on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    90% of Ohio's provisional ballots were valid last time [2000]. Also, even with Ohio, if Kerry wins the rest of the unpredicted states, its 269 to 269 and goes to the house.

  10. Re:Give it up Kerry on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    11 more days. Remember that.

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    Provisional Ballots COUNT!

  11. Re:The calls were traced!? on U.S. Election Gives VoIP Traffic A Bump · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell, not really, except for the fact that both involve the US.

  12. Re:The future.. on An Exhaustive 16X DVD Burner Roundup · · Score: 1

    Sony already has started releasing its XDCam Technology, a Blu-Ray disc Based video system. Look at their Broadcast/Pro site for details:
    Search for XDCam on Sony's Site

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    NAB Rocked!

  13. Re:No on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Undecisive votes are votes like absentee ballots and possible rejected cards from automatic counting machines. These are only counted usually if the #2 person's decisive votes + all the indecisive votes is greater than or equal to the #1 person's.

  14. Re:Football? on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1

    Ya, you're right, thats football, this is Americant Football.

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    Football? Soccer? Baseball? Who cares?!?! Interrobang still isn't in ASCII!

  15. Re:No on Does Redskins Loss Presage A Kerry Win? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They never counted the undecisive votes.

  16. Re:Corporate shill on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: 1

    It was working about 5 minutes ago. One more slashdotted, by the way, your school's admins might be kinda pissed in the morning, try bringing them something to make up.

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    What would happen if /. felt the /. effect?

  17. Re:Idea for Apple? on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Good thing, because that site is serverely slowed.

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    What would happen if /. felt the /. effect?

  18. Re:Like many firsts .. this one's been DONE BEFORE on Physicists Finally Solve the Falling-Paper Problem · · Score: 3, Informative

    That report you cite is based upon chaotic motion, the new one seems to be based upon truely predictable motion.

  19. Wink Murder anyone? on Precursor to Doom Racks Up 30 years of Fragging · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wink at you, you die. Muhahaha.

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    /me looks for an Amiga port

  20. Re:Howard Stern pulling down the USA's ratings on Press freedom · · Score: 1

    Plain old fashioned word-based censorship is much older than the 'obscene view' censorship. This became a hot topic back in 1972...

    The FCC has been actively censoring Radio and TV since FCC vs. Pacifica Corporation, 1978, where George Carlin performed his famous "Seven Dirty Words" (also known as "Filty Words") monologue on WBAI.

    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin

  21. Howard Stern pulling down the USA's ratings on Press freedom · · Score: 1

    This is what happens when you get a 'FCC' sending out fines for things 3 years later, and they are finally 'catching up', so even more fines are being given -- Makes you wonder what happened to the First Ammendment.........

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    Amiga OS for President!

  22. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember, all websites start with 'dubya'.
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    Yea, Right, like I can't type in http://froogle.google.com/froogle ? there isn't even a http://www.froogle.google.com/ -- People need to get a clue.

  23. Re:Someone explain to me how this is news on Bush Website Blocked Outside N. America · · Score: 1

    What about people overseas voting by absentee ballot?? Don't they want to market to them?

  24. Re:Network wierdness on Cingular-AT&T Wireless Merger Complete · · Score: 1

    All of the area code I live in [Bergen County, NJ] and surrounding area codes always have to dial 10 digits, 11 digits for out of the region.
    That being said, any cellphone I used here (even old analog ones before digital networks were popular) requires/-ed the area code to be dialed.

  25. Re:Should have happened sooner on Cingular-AT&T Wireless Merger Complete · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had Voicestream/T-Mobile in a densly populated area in the East (Bergen County, NJ -- I live 10 or 15 miles from NYC, Paramus is here [I have been told it has the largest shopper to citizen ratio of any town/city in the US, and most of the stores are closed Sundays due to blue laws], and T-Mobile gave me the crappiest coverage I've seen. I stood in the middle of a major area highway (Route 4, it leads directly to the George Washington Bridge) and got nothing. Cingular used to use T-Mobile for east coast coverage, but they may be moving to AT&Ts towers. Also, AT&T Wireless was planning to move the whole system to GSM even before the announcement of the Cingular merger.