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  1. Re:Sweet. on NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust · · Score: 1

    "I don't know what this means really, but I am enjoying the slow march towards science fiction."

    there are some science fiction scenarios that i'm sure very few of us want to march toward.

  2. Re:viva la bittorrent on Completing BitTorrent Decentralization · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as funny as that is, if you think about it, the program was intelligently designed. perhaps improve is a better word in this case than evolve

  3. Re:Turnabout is fair play... on U.S. Firms Take on Australia's CSIRO Over Patents · · Score: 1

    hopefully this wakes at least one influential person in the listed companies to the patent problems.
    if it doesn't, i sincerely hope they get what they deserve...

    and then fix the patent system :)

  4. Re:The heat is on... on Xbox 360 Gets Backwards Compatible, Final Fantasy · · Score: 1

    did he just rehash a past-election retort?

  5. Re:Mmmm yes... on 25 Years After DOS - Lessons for Linux? · · Score: 1

    well played :)

  6. Re:Mmmm yes... on 25 Years After DOS - Lessons for Linux? · · Score: 2

    My UID is prime... is your's?

    the apostrophe does not belong

  7. Re:Non-Free on Engine for Collaborative Science Education MMOG? · · Score: 1

    "In Soviet Russia, the Fnords can see you!"

    shouldn't it be:
    In Soviet Russia, the Fnords can't see you!
    ?

  8. Re:The kid pierced the Li Ion battery with a screw on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    are you saying you posted them?

  9. Re:you could try... on Better Scheduler Than Cron? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's also a brand of dish soap

  10. Re:Fix the Game on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 1

    people are imperfect, and people with power are more given to corruption than people without it. it's not so much the government system as the people in charge of said system, although it would be nice to have one that anticipates corrupt leaders (do they have that already?).

  11. Re:Something is fishy on Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    they'd never get around to making a cynical moderation, and if they did it would be abused.

  12. /proc/cpuinfo on 32-bit to 64-bit - Obsolesence Pains Again? · · Score: 1

    vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
    cpu family : 15
    model : 4
    model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+
    stepping : 8
    *snip*
    TLB size : 1024 4K pages
    clflush size : 64
    cache_alignment : 64
    address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

  13. Re:infinitely improbable on Pi: Less Random Than We Thought · · Score: 1

    it didn't find 11210410511510946111114103

  14. Re:American trains VS. other trains: on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 1

    oh, sorry. i meant that the county bus system was being advertised, it was a tv commercial. although advertising for amtrak on a bus and vice versa is a pretty good idea

  15. Re:American trains VS. other trains: on High-Speed Trains in the US? · · Score: 1

    it must be special funds; they were advertising the county bus system around where i live maybe a year ago.

  16. Re:"Unhackable Code"? on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 1

    i think it was ww1, the british sent one signal wire along for transmission, using the ground as, well, the ground. so the germans found a way to position spikes in such a way to get the british signal (albeit weakly... they had tube amplifiers to make it usable) from the ground current their communications equipment produced.
    that ^^ was listed as an example of van eck phreaking somewhere...

  17. Re:Tigger.. on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    it's still copying.

  18. Re:Tigger.. on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 1

    Good thing they didn't actually copy OS features, or UI designs from anybody! Then they'd be in real trouble!

    i thought it was based off of bsd... and i'm pretty sure safari is based on the khtml engine.

  19. Re:Blog? on The Darth Vader Blog · · Score: 1

    "I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. "

    is that from the movie or the oakenfold track? (i'm listening to the one after it right now)

  20. Re:Not soldering-related but... on Soldering For Non-Solderers? · · Score: 1

    *click* -- that allows you to highlight a word and right-click it to find the meaning. i don't know if it works in textareas

  21. Re:FP on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    it might even be 2 bits depending who you ask

    (i don't think so, but it's a possibility that someone might)

  22. Re:Harley what? on Streaming Audio 10 Years Old · · Score: 1

    i think tepples was joking

  23. Re:wow. progress. on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    wow, a person on slashdot with a level head regarding microsoft.
    you're a rarity; please don't leave

  24. Re:Unbelievable on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "(Or can they?)"

    i'm sorry, but doesn't bolding a parenthetical statement defeat some of its purpose?

  25. Re:The great thing about SATA2 on Hitachi's SATA-II Drive Tested · · Score: 1

    i just use pata for optical drives and sata for hard drives, a nice compromise so far as i'm concerned