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  1. Re:About Flying on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1

    it would actually be MORE PAINFUL for Lois to be caught by Superman than to simply fall to her death. I don't know why
    Imagine a speeding bullet. That HURTS.
    Now imagine if it goes faster. And is the weight of Superman.

  2. Re:Good to hear this on FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent · · Score: 1

    FreeDOS on Bochs
    You may want to consider DOSBox instead.

  3. Re:"Real" world record on New Human-Powered World Hour Record · · Score: 1

    Just imagine how fast he could have finished if he was chased by dogs.
    At that speed, no dog could have followed him.

  4. Re:Great Idea in Theory on Own the Last Mile · · Score: 1

    expresses the American dream in the digital age
    I would have thought the american dream was rather to direct of one of those monopolistic telcos :)

  5. Re:Even that's not that simple on Interview With John Romero · · Score: 1

    It sounds like John Romero made you his bitch.

  6. Re:What about Windows Update on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Client-Server is also Peer-to-Peer, just differently labelled.
    No, that's wrong. p2p is the opposite of client-server. If one is the server, and the other the client, then they're definitely not "peers".

  7. Re:Ah! on Frozen Chip from IBM hits 500 GHz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    500 Ghz (500 x 10^9) is a LONG WAY away from even the beginning of Infrared 3 TeraHz (3x10^12)
    So a 6x factor is a LONG WAY?

  8. Re:Oh crap. . . on Why Apple Backed out from India? · · Score: 1

    Bangledesh
    Do you mean Bangalore?
    Bangladesh is a country.

  9. Re:so there ya go... on Smithsonian Removes EV1 Exhibit · · Score: 1

    home recharge solar station
    I really wish that was possible.
    If it was, people would probably already use them for regular electricity generation.
    Not to mention the fact that cars are mostly used/parked at work/etc during the day, and could only be recharged at home at night.

  10. Changes to the current Silicon Valley on Is Silicon Valley Reproducible? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you would like some changes to the current Silicon Valley, what would those be?
    More women. WAY more.

  11. Re:The most worrying part... on Reporter Phone Records Being Used to Find Leaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Without reading the article, it's not obvious at first glance which country the summary's referring to...
    Well, any country with a New-York and a Washington.

  12. Re:Good Idea/Bad Idea on Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure · · Score: 3, Informative

    If so, wouldn't that make them an evolutionary dead end? Cancer, while bad, is a by-product of evolution. If cells weren't allowed to ever mutate again, would that spell the end of mice evolution?
    Mutations during meiosis are not cancer, so no cancer doesn't mean no evolution.

  13. Re:Invisible... or black?!?? on Cloak of Invisibility Coming Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless that device works directly on your brain (which I doubt), what you say is complete nonsense. The absence of light is perceived as black.

  14. Re:but they didn't use HIS art on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 1

    Manet's later works were of an impressionist style. According the article, Manet's work bridged the gap between realism and impressionism. Also, Manet lived before Monet, making it more plausible for him (Manet) to have copyrighted impressionism.
    Monet and Manet were both impressionists; but the movement was named after Impression, soleil levant, which is a work by Monet. Manet was older than Monet, but they lived at around the same time.

  15. Re:but they didn't use HIS art on Google Violates Miro's Copyright? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    imagine if Manet had been able to copyright French Impressionism
    You mean Monet, not Manet (I know, it's confusing)

  16. Re:Bottleneck Slide on Paint-on Laser Brings Optical Computing Closer · · Score: 1

    We're wasting the vast majority of processing/memory/transmission capacity with linear programming, rather than parallel programs
    You probably don't mean linear programming but sequential programs.

  17. Re:But it does... on The End of Naked PCs in China? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Sony's viability on Another Sony Format Bites the Dust · · Score: 1

    I don't see Nintendo trying to sell movies on Gameboy cartridges
    You're not looking hard enough

  19. Re:The only problem on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    There goes my karma :(
    I only meant "English pigs" as a joke, it's sort of traditional for the French to call the English that way since the 100 year war (I apologize to the English who might have been offended, I don't want to be mean to the people who brought monty python :))
    This doesn't make the point about the absence of nuclear power any less valid though.

  20. Re:The only problem on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    I was only guessing about diesel, this seems to imply it's going to be gas turbines.

  21. The only problem on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is that those English pigs don't want them to be nuclear powered, so they'll have to use diesel, mitigating those savings (especially 50 years down the road I would assume)

  22. Re:ALL of the oxygen? on New Jet Engine Tested · · Score: 1

    2. Jet engines do not work at very high speed not because of stresses in the compressors/turbines but rather because of the problems with supersonic flow. For supersonic aircraft the airflow into the engine is slowed to subsonic speeds using inlet geometry to control the oblique and normal shocks in the flow. Yes, theoretically you could spin the compressor faster than its mechanical stress limits but that would occur a lot longer after the engine stopped working due to the flow.
    That's not right. Otherwise why would ramjets exist?

  23. Re:Not Quite New on Idea Stock Exchange · · Score: 1

    through collaboration, called C&D.
    A Cease & Desist is usually not considered "collaboration"

  24. Re:Caps go sometimes. on Philips Recalls Almost 12,000 Flat Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    You're probably referring to this;

  25. Re:Don't Use Automatix!!! on Automatix Kicks Ubuntu into Gear · · Score: 4, Informative

    From your link:
    To start a root shell (i.e. a command window where you can run root commands) use:
    sudo -i

    How is that more secure than enabling the root account?