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  1. Re:Cleaning job on After 1 Year, Conficker Infects 7M Computers · · Score: 1

    Besides everyone knows that Seatec Astronomy will beat the pants off them in a year or so.

  2. Re:Perhaps a new mail header? on jQuery Dev Bemoans Overwhelming Spam On Google Groups · · Score: 2, Informative

    that's the whole point of public key cryptography so yes it would work.

  3. Re:Why the need to 'discover' the elements? on Element 114 Verified · · Score: 5, Informative

    mostly because the fun information these days isn't related to the number of electrons but how stable the atoms are, which helps theories that describe how stable the elements should be to be verified.

  4. Re:the god-awful truth on What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? · · Score: 1

    you might be interested in ack; http://search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack-1.90/ack-base ; it's written in perl, but it acts like grep for source code (it supports lots of languages); your command there would just be;

    ack damnfunctionname

    thats it, it'll print out the files and lines that match.

  5. Re:No quite yet. on VASIMR Ion Engine Could Cut Mars Trip To 39 Days · · Score: 1

    yes but if we use all the comets, where will we get the ice without bugs in it to cool the oceans to combat global warming?

  6. Re:Not all that bad! on An Electron Microscope For Your Home? · · Score: 1

    actually there could be a somewhat reasonable reason for this thing to be networked, even if its just a local one that has no outside access. So that students can transfer the data via email or some storage the college provides. This would also let the school control access to it so that students would need to apply for it, i can imagine this thing ought to have (in a school setting anyway) some kind of agreement to sign up for that they've been shown how to use it and that if they do something stupid with it then they'll be held responsible.

  7. Re:Hulu? on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    I too see some promise in the show, but after seeing the premier I have decided that it deserves another moniker; Stargate: The last delta flier. (i some someone can figure out both of the references there)

  8. Re:Well, my Excursion can cross the US on..... on First Algae Car Attempts To Cross the US On 25 Gallons of Fuel · · Score: 1

    well with $ dollars you've got square dollars, so just take the square root and you should get a decent approximation. sqrt(750) = 27.3861279 so about $27.39 in normal dollars

  9. Re:Listen up camera manufacturers on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 1

    well one and two there are really the same, and i'd love a camera that spoke wifi, or even just bluetooth to upload pictures (don't think this'd be fast enough though) to either a laptop or something else.

  10. Re:Well as long as I don't have to reverse polarit on Lego Blocks Simulate Microfluidic Filters · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yea but he didn't mention the replicator and transporter systems.

  11. Re:Savages on Strange New Objects Seen In Saturn's Rings · · Score: 3, Informative

    78.7877212121212 perches == 19.6969303030 chains == 1.96969303030303 furlongs

  12. Re:i for one ... on WebGL Standard To Bring 3D Acceleration To Browsers? · · Score: 1

    either that or an option in the browser to disallow it or allow it based on the site, ala noscript, just a little more fine grained.

  13. Re:Deju Vu? on NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, wrong telescope, wrong story, wrong mission.

  14. Re:To boost auto sales... on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    a 60 mile commute it also very hard to do on a bicycle! and before you naysayers go on about how you should live closer to work, etc. its rather hard to do that when realestate prices there make even renting a very small apartment cost upwards of 40,000 a year, and buying a reasonable sized place cost >300,000 (where reasonable here is somewhere around 750 to 900 sqft. [thats 83.6 m^2 to 69.6 m^2 to you metric types])

  15. Re:I'd love to be plagiarized like this... on 11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that's just it, most of them want that traffic, but they also want to be paid for the privilege of having a link to the article. it's just them being greedy.

  16. Re:Meh - black servers have been around for years. on Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Enters Beta Testing · · Score: 1

    the thing about that is, that EVERY other node on freenet is also acting as a relay for those chunks, you actually don't have a reasonable expectation that the node you are getting requests from is the actual node that wanted it.

  17. Re:The Absolute Minimum..." on CJKV Information Processing 2nd ed. · · Score: 1

    you could also always open the file for reading and writing with the utf8 encoding, that way it wouldn't matter what the user sets up for their environment.

  18. Re:Its not rocket surgery... on Staying In Shape vs. a Busy IT Job Schedule? · · Score: 1

    only problem with this is that it assumes you've got a door frame :/

  19. Re:He makes one excellent and crucial point on State of Sound Development On Linux Not So Sorry After All · · Score: 1

    the main problem with that though is the number of applications that THINK they need to be realtime/low latency audio but don't need to be

  20. Re:I disagree that Open Source is like Science on What Open Source Shares With Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Granted, your odds of getting peer reviewed is quite small without the requisite sheepskins hanging on your office wall. But there's nothing in the rule book that says science can't be done in one's garage.

    Except for the laws about civilian's having/using high explosives.....

  21. Re:So, what now? on Judge OK's MediaSentry Evidence, Limits Defendant's Expert · · Score: 2, Funny

    what if they do one right after the other?

  22. Re:Too many words in the story on A System For Handling 'Impostor' Complaints · · Score: 1

    It's like your neighbor pretending to be you in a classified ad, claiming you own a pinto when you've really got a volvo.

  23. Re:Only one way to be sure on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 1
  24. Re:King's Quest = hardcore on Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine · · Score: 1

    oh god i forgot all about that, i never did get to see the ending... i'm gonna have to dig up my disks and see if i can get it running in dos box...

  25. Re:Horsepower on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 4, Funny

    what do you mean a 500hp engine in a golf cart is pointless? how else will i beat my ball to the green to watch it land?