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  1. Re:i just got off the toilet on FCC To Probe Google Voice Over Call Blocking · · Score: -1, Troll

    How did it taste?

  2. Slashdot instabilities on Is Valve's Steam Anti-Competitive? · · Score: 1

    Wow, /. seems to be even more unstable tonight. Refresh pulls up different discussions, dropping some seemingly at random. Gud gob Earl.

  3. Re:Awesome. on London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source · · Score: 1

    Stupid perl developer.

  4. Re:Fine on FCC To Probe Google Voice Over Call Blocking · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparently AT&T misplaced or spent that cash on something other than rural service. I would guess 90% of the people in my county do not have access to any wired broadband. I talked to the telco reps and they stated they need at least 300 customers. That's difficult when the minimum lot size is 5 acres.

  5. Niquest != on FCC Chairman Warns of Wireless Spectrum Gap · · Score: 1

    If a signal is low-passed to 4 KHz, Yes it's a 4 KHz "audio signal", but it's still running at 64Kb and delivers 56Kb of data. Voice isn't random noise, but modems are.

  6. Re:huh on Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China · · Score: 1

    Never presume anything. I've lost a few jobs doing exactly that.

  7. Re:Copyright law IS a black hole...BANG! on The "Copyright Black Hole" Swallowing Our Culture · · Score: 1

    I agree with you opinion and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  8. Re:Can you spell Face Plant? on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    Is "life-spawn" some European derivation of the American "lifespan"?

  9. Controller blackmail, Was: RE: Rail Games on The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band · · Score: 1

    I didn't blame anyone, Esp Not the developers.
    I simple stated that the game runs on a rail, Nothing more.
    I didn't read the article. My daughter has a number of GH games. My disgust is the
    planned obsolescence and incompatibility of hardware from release to release.
    Having to pay $100> for a new controller+game for each release borders on extortion
    when your 14 YO daughter wants *only* that for xmas.
    Video Game CRACK.

  10. Re:Rail games on The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band · · Score: 1

    Didn't think I'd get a -1 troll for pointing out the obvious.

    Snort! /I'm drunker then you.

    If I have to listen to any more GH1 and GH2 I'll climb a clock tower.

  11. Rail games on The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Rock band and guitar hero are just piss poor rail games with better music.

  12. Re:You call that computational photography? on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 1

    Oops, I remember reading about white light / incoherent holography in SciAm in the 70's, but I think it still required a "point illumination source" to work.

    I may be incoherent too.

  13. Re:You call that computational photography? on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 1

    Is this possible without knowing the angle of incidence of the incoming photon? Even if you sort by photon frequency and have a huge temporal bandwidth?
    This works in holography, but the focal point and coherence of the light comes from the laser and not a lens.

  14. Re:Kg? on Big, Beautiful Boxes From Computer History · · Score: 1

    Only an experiment in natural language processing on one of those early 60's machines would parse that like you did.
    This is of course, before the card that patched the bug was added to the deck.
    Are you running with a full deck?

  15. Re:The CDC 6600 console on Big, Beautiful Boxes From Computer History · · Score: 2, Informative

    The CDC display was vector, not raster and I'm thinking it was 10 bits in both axis.
    It was refreshed by the I/O processor.
    It had a great lunar lander game.

  16. Re:Finally! on High-Speed Robot Hand Shows Dexterity and Speed · · Score: 1

    Every time I try a High-Five, I miss, or hit the other person with a force that cripples both of us for 10 minutes.

    Stupid robots.

  17. Re:Success! on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fenyman was making physics fun before Jamie and Adam were daddy's little squirt.

  18. Re:Why don't they hire men? on Robots Make the Coins Go 'Round, Down Under · · Score: 1

    2$ coin? You mean one of those brass, two faced chunk of pocket destruction?

  19. *SELL* shashdot at on First American Internet Addiction Treatment Center · · Score: 1

    Strange, I got a 404

  20. Re:the TWT is a 50-year-old technology on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 1

    I can't see anything short of a very close nuclear explosion that would be able to feed enough energy into a TWT that would blow the driver amps. IMHO, I think a TWT would require physical destruction to cease operation.

  21. Re:Vacuum Tube? on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 1

    TO-3 package made me laugh! Snort!

  22. Re:better bandwidth? on NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily · · Score: 1

    I like your vision and want to subscribe to your newsletter.

  23. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    How did he fit in the uniform? Since it's armor and not form fitting. Starwars is fun space opera. Anyone who argues the correctness is being silly.

  24. Re:You're missing the point. on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Yes. In that context, the manufacture of a needed and unavailable energy source, without consideration of energy expended, does make complete sense.
    Much like corn ethanol.

    Exactly NOT like.

  25. Instead of seawater, Use Seamen on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    If you think i'm going to sign that, you're crazy.