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  1. Keyboard nor Touchscreen on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    I like to think that someday I'll have a drafting table style display. Touch typing on a flat surface doesn't pass muster and interacting with both a large display and a keyboard simultaneously seems clunky. So, somewhere between the standard keyboard and a touchscreen lives something better. Have you given any thought to what that might be?

  2. Re:Hah! on China Calls Out US On Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    A USA-free Internet is what the world needs since Americans can't stand up to their own government.

    yes they can, and they do: http://freestateproject.org/

  3. Re:its a dated suggestion on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Israelis have discovered a drug which combats radiation sickness. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3748014,00.html

  4. Re:hmm... on Researchers Discover That Sand Behaves Like Water · · Score: 1

    Wind resistance. Like a car riding behind a big rig. There's not as much drag for the following particle.

  5. Embed a torrent client on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 1

    Embed a modified-for-streaming torrent client into the youtube flash app?

  6. start a band on Successful Moonlighting For Geeks? · · Score: 1

    rock and roll, man.

  7. Re:http://www.barackobama.com/robots.txt on McCain Campaign Uses Spider/Diff Against Obama · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

  8. VT has cows. on Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network? · · Score: 1

    Cowbell

  9. At End Of Road on What Was Your First Gaming Experience? · · Score: 1

    You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully.

  10. Filesystem Checking on Beyond Nobel, Hard Drives Get Smart · · Score: 2, Funny

    this filesystem has been mounted 32 time, checking filesystem.
    634 Hours Remaining.

  11. Re:Mobius strip on Möbius Strip Riddle Solved · · Score: 1

    You're talking about friction, something Feynman studied with some fervor. Maybe the Journal of Friction and Wear [http://www.allertonpress.com/journals/faw.htm] would be a good place to start. Best of luck!

  12. Possible infringement on RealPlayer to Support One-Click Video Ripping · · Score: 1

    I thought one-click was Amazon's bag. Get on the stick IP lawyers, sheesh.

  13. A fence built on troubled borders on How to Stop Digg-cheating, Forever · · Score: 1

    My humans will thwart your thing, Build a wall, build three, My diggers and climbers won, Before you've begun.

  14. From the FAQ on Intel Calls $100 Laptops Undesired Gadgets · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://laptop.media.mit.edu/faq.html

    WiFi-enabled
    "USB ports galore".
    Its current specifications are: 500MHz, 1GB, 1 Megapixel.

  15. 16 GB Ramdrive : $698.25 on The State of Solid State Storage · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Amazing computer. on Macintosh's 1984 Debut · · Score: 1

    The Maze game was called "Amazing"

  17. Tattoo on Passenger Risk Database to be Implemented in U.S. · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should get a color code tattoo indicating out terror threat level. Sheesh.

  18. Good but end was lacking on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 1

    The mini-series seemed truncated. There was no resolution to the story!