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  1. Re:Vocera calling Apple... on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 0

    With the minor caveat that the first must actually work in the real world, while the latter only has to be sewn onto a zipperless jumpsuit.

    if you've watched enough startrek you'll have seen that the communicators are actually pinned on, they have removed them before, i don't have exact episodes on my head, anyone else care to help out with that?

    And where's my damn holodeck anyway?

    i dont know but i definately do not want to be cleaning those things... esp after commander riker has been in there...

  2. Re:Next Logical Step... on Trekkie Communicators Now a Reality · · Score: 0

    Now if they can just make people's heads explode by staring at them they'll have a marketable product.

    i can see a great market for this! with so many phones (i believe) having bluetooth you could just call someone up and give them a shock! Plus if they are near a WIFI AP too you could do it over the internet! Voila i'm a freaking millionare because now you can give people something close to a punch (albeit not the exact samething) over the internet!

  3. Re:Minimal info on SpaceShipOne Back in Action · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This might seem like flamebait or a troll but i think i recall hearing rumors about SSO being partially funded by an MS co-founder. (e.g. Paul Allen)

    http://www.space.com/news/allen_rutan_031217.htm l

    i doubt microsoft has a whole lot to do with it, i think its just probably him trying to get some fame by getting them into space.

  4. Re:UIs are learned on Star Trek's Design Influence On Palm, New Tech · · Score: 0

    actually i started off like that myself, i didn't know how to switch slackware into anything else because mostly i didn't have a whole lot installed for a period of about 3 weeks, i didn't have a very good net connection then to get at anything, since then i've always prefered that kind of thing, but the gnome panels sure are convinient.

  5. Re:What happened to the naming convetion? on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 2, Funny

    i for one will refuse to call it sedna, instead i'll be calling it Rupert...

  6. Re:Of course there is on Spam Solutions from an Expert · · Score: -1

    ummm your math is WAY off there, learn to check your units

    1000000emails/5min = 200000 emails/minute; now this is not going in the right direction

    if it takes 5 minutes to send an email this way, to send 1000000 emails it'd take 5000000 minutes.

  7. Re:Suburbia on Contour Crafting - Extrude-a-House · · Score: -1

    good thing spiro agnew didn't design this building then...

    for those that don't notice spiro agnew is an anagram for "Grow a Penis"

  8. Re:What about us Windows users?! on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: -1

    MS seems to have changed their site, this one doesn't work :( care to explain?

  9. Re:Boggle? on Zelda Master Sword Forged For Fan · · Score: -1

    the problem with the special powers is that you have to be in PERFECT health and since we can't seem to find those pesky hearts anywhere (and you're neighbors really don't like it when you take out their bushes) we're kinda out of luck :(

  10. Re:Build Your Own, It's Cheaper on Own Your Own (Replica) ISS Module · · Score: -1

    a web server hosted on a DSL line for /. to link to and take down, along with a digital camera for the pictures. and i'd go with a bread table! do they make those? an entire table like that could be very useful!

  11. Re:Difficult? on 'They Can Sue, But They Can't Hide' · · Score: -1

    well if you are a lawyer then the doctor might be assuming that he can only check the back of your throught after finding your head....

    sorry to the lawyers

  12. Elevator? on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: -1

    i'd be much happier with a ladder, then we could take some pictures and prove that Saddam Hussein had his WMD up there!!

  13. Re:Bosh on Superflu Being Brewed in the Lab · · Score: 3, Funny

    no but i say we keep the telephone sanitizers this time

  14. Re:Microsoft breaking monopoly laws? on Japanese Government Raids Microsoft Offices · · Score: 0

    i guess that lego hotel on park place really tipped the authorities off that something was going on.

  15. Re:nVidia Desktop Explorer does this on windows on Microsoft Seeks Patent On Virtual Desktop Pager · · Score: 0
    While I see a few apparently new (but not exactly non-obvious) features (a preview button is on one of the variants)


    Enlightenment had this around version 15, i don't know the date it was added or the date that microsoft added it but i believe it was before XP existed and i don't remember seeing it in any of the ME machines etc. that i've seen so i don't know, anyone got any better facts on this one?
  16. Re:Solution: cheap GPS on FCC: VoIP Providers Must Provide 911 Services · · Score: 0

    hows this for an idea, the user can turn it off, and when you dial 911 the cell phone automatically turns it on?

  17. Re:Martin Freeman on New Cast Information For 'Hitchhiker's' Movie · · Score: 0

    for those of you who don't know who he is, i found this site on google

    http://www.martinfreeman.com/

    his official site

  18. i know my karma... on An Introduction To Wireless USB (WUSB) · · Score: 0

    is shot to hell, (i hate that guy with the mod points you know who you are) so no one will ever see this in a million years but...

    doesn't USB stand for Universal Serial Bus?
    wouldn't this make WUSB stand for Wireless Universal Serial Bus? i can understand Wireless Universal and Bus in this context, but to me i don't get how exactly it would translate to be Serial? i mean with the fact that they want to use it for HDTV and streaming media and such if theres more than one device talking collisions will happen and i don't see a targeted frequency anywhere, i'd imagine probably somewhere in the possibly 5ghz range? thats 5000000000hz now assuming they can get a about 25% of the bits (which means it takes 4 times as long to send) at those frequencies for digital data that comes out to about 150MB per second, that might seem good, but if you remember thats half duplex unless they use more than one frequency, (in which case it wouldn't be serial would it) anyway, if there's only two devices, one sending one recieving you'll be fine, now if there are more than one, say you're in an apartment building and your neighbors have one, you'll end up cutting the bandwidth in half in a perfect world, which means 75mb/s (you could stream a dvd on that easily still) for the both of you from collisions and such, now as more of your neighbors say the 4 living (up down left right) around you get them, that'll bring it down to about 37.5mb for the first neighbor (they'd still get the 75 since they don't have anyone else to bother them) 18.75 for the third, and then 9.375mb/s for the 4th, now this is all assuming that things work perfectly during a collision and it sends the next one fine (which doesn't always work that way) and just because your neighbors got one your ends up having to send lower quality singals, and last i looked 9.375mb/s was no where near enough for uncompressed HDTV.

  19. Re:Hasn't this been done before? on Nerve Cells Successfully Grown on Silicon · · Score: -1

    three questions

    1. how long before i can call it joshua
    2. how long before the linux kernel will run on it
    3. how long before i can teach it that war is not they answer by playing tictac toe?

  20. Re:fun with vanity numbers on Ebay Suspends Phone Number Sales · · Score: 0

    hehe that'd be fun but what would be more fun is to get the number

    726-7857
    SCO-SUKS

    i bet that one would sell on ebay well if it got listed on /.

  21. Re:Sue ME!!! on Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux User · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh thats nothing i got errno.h tattooed on my back! i'm living their IP right now!

  22. Re:Prank Calls on Portable Phone Numbers = Market for Cool Numbers · · Score: 0

    well i've got a phone card with some extra minutes. the only problem is that i wouldn't want that phone number.

    i'd rather have

    726-7825 (SCO-SUCK for those without a phone)

  23. Some great new spam! on The Science of Love · · Score: 5, Funny

    (i am not trolling i don't think)

    Are you one of the 80% of men who has a lower than average ability to get your partner to fall in love? Well boy do we have a product for you! Liagra! With Liagra you can finally get both your secretary and your wife to love you and each other!! only 6 easy payments of $49.95!

    i wonder how long before we see this

  24. Re:WTFipedia... on Russian Rovers on the Moon · · Score: 0

    some idiotic troller edited the page on wikipedia, they did it to get a reaction, it'll get fixed by editors at wikipedia soon

  25. Re:Prosthetics on A New Face For Robotics · · Score: -1

    maybe we'll finally see something similar to what steven wright said, "I was walking down the street and saw a guy with wooden legs, and real feet"