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  1. Re:Damn; nobody RFTA? on Two New Saturnian Moons · · Score: 1

    1) I have to muse, when did Boulder CO become a unit of astronomical significance

    When my computer was able to store 6 Libraries of congress!

  2. Re:Give them some credit! (Asians, not MS) on XP Starter Edition Examined · · Score: 1

    http://www.digital-ink.co.uk/teletubbiesXP.jpg

  3. Re:Are you sure there are no cell phones? on The Singularity Blinds Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    kinda reminds me of the joke about opinions, everyone has one but nobody wants to look at the othe guys. just like most people don't want to hear other peoples phone conversations

  4. Re:How fragile is stored data? on 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Optical Storage · · Score: 3, Informative

    well not just radiation, if it is just a single molocule, what prevents entropy from scrambling the data? all you'd have to do is heat it and boom its all scrambled

  5. Re:No More ugly colors on Shirky on Spectrum Ownership · · Score: 1

    holy shit thats cool! mod this guy up!

  6. Re:Worst movie I've seen on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Moving programs from OSS to ALSA on Introduction to Linux Sound Systems and APIs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would not be against taking some developer resources away from progress on the kernel, etc, and have them work on drivers and configuration applications for sound, video, modem, network, vpn, etc.

    the problem there is that lots of people ([i think] including myself) see this as a distro problem and beyond the scope of the kernel where most of this has moved (i think the vpn thing isn't though). And as you said making applications for configuring sound, video, etc. this is usually done at the distro level, i know that suse did it pretty well but i dont think they had autodetection.

    Take every know video card, sound card, network card out there and get them to work?
    the problem with this is that the manufactures of those cards are typically not very coopritave(sp?) and that means that you have to have the hardware and reverse engineer the whole thing to get it working.

  8. Re:Wrong-A "glowing" recommendation. on Japanese Deploy Solar Sail · · Score: 0

    the problem with shooting lasers at the sails would be that it wouldn't help much, just waste energy, everytime you gave off radiation pointed at the sails it would push the ship back when it went off and then push the sail the same amount, unless you meant that we should push it from earth.. in which case as you got farther away it'd get worse and worse with aim and you could veer off course since the light would take so much longer to get there it'd take longer to make a course correction.

  9. Re:Raid10? on Raid 0: Blessing or hype? · · Score: 1

    Woa, are pound signs working now? :o
    yea i think its the cause of all the 503's people keep wanting to use the Euro symbol now and it crashes /.

  10. Re:If I was going to post a LINUX STORY... on 10 Years of Beowulf Clustering · · Score: 1

    ok i know this is a troll but he's WRONG!

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/02/14 59211&tid=155&tid=106&tid=218

    it was on the front page on Monday August 2nd. at least when you troll make sure it wasn't actually on the front page?

  11. Re:Hopefully this.... on Farewell To Eyes Above And Below · · Score: 1

    the next generation is the James Webb Space Telescope

  12. Re:DUPE on Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards · · Score: 1

    i think they might want to pay to keep it from being mention, so the wireless servers can cool down

  13. Re:That's what my handwriting looks like... on Is Typing a Necessary Skill? · · Score: 1

    yea i never understood the need for cursive, they always said we'd only be able to use cursive in highschool, then when i get there, boom, every teacher my freshman year says to use print because the teachers didn't like cursive, boy what a waste of time that could have been spent teaching the kids to spell.

  14. Re:Alrighty then! on Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery · · Score: 1

    However, Job's cancer evolved from here.

    well what did you expect? it is dying you know.

  15. Re:What the hell? on Mozilla UI Spoofing Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    in my case when looking at the site, i see two status bars, i think it might have to do with javascript not being able to turn off the status bar or change it, that alone would indicate what is going on to me, now if i can keep it from turning off the other stuff

  16. Re:Tulsa Monorail on Transportation Retro-Futuristics · · Score: 1

    for those who want to skew the results, here you go
    http://student-voices.org/modules/index.php3?C ityI D=3

    i can't figure out how to vote cowboyneal yet, maybe someone else can

  17. Re:It's a no-win job on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    this is why you need a command prompt and emacs these two together and you could be playing nethack, while the boss thinks your tracking down spam and making sure everything is running fine :)

  18. Re:Sad news on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Changing the channel on TV during a commercial is stealing
    -- Ted Turner

  19. Re:No Tech is safe on RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think? · · Score: 1

    CSS is encryption, trying to hide data.

    well then i guess we'll just have to use encryption that tries to expose data!

  20. Re:New FS on The Linux Filesystem Challenge · · Score: 1

    i'm guessing what they do is that they use free space to hold the file until its finished, then change the tree to match the new location, and mark the old one as free.

    thats the simplest way i can think of, but this would require alot of free space to be taken advantage of effectivly

  21. Re:Good news on FAA Approves Sport Pilot License · · Score: 1

    i'd guess probably hundred meteres per second (just below mach 1 or something), since as it manages to speed up it will start to forcibly stay "sideways" not like O but | and then it will have much less resistance and speed up to a greater TV

  22. Re:Worldwide Aurora on The New York Times On Earth's Magnetic Flip-Flop · · Score: 2, Funny

    (this raises an intresting question - the increased particles from the sun might have resulted in more mutations and sparked those evolutionary giant leaps? - so this may be a good thing in the long run).

    as long as it doesn't result in those damn Morlocks, we don't have enough caves for them!

  23. Re:Just in Time on Antarctic Lake Actually Two in One · · Score: 1

    Stargate Atlantis is in another galaxy, not Antarctica

  24. Re:asdf on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    i guess i'm partly responsible.. hehe, i use asdf@asdf.com all the time, then some sites started blocking that one particularly so i'd use fdsa@asdf.com

  25. Re:Raimi and CGI on Spider-Man 2 Reviewed [updated] · · Score: 1

    you have to give any movie that kills off john travolta like that at the end SOME credit, that was just great, i know alot of people who would have loved to do that to him