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  1. Re:And from the parent post... on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it wouldn't be at all out of character.

  2. Re:And from the parent post... on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1

    I think we can all agree that the real enemy is rabid nationalism and religious fanaticism, that's why Bush needs to be impeached.

  3. Re:And from the parent post... on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1

    No, the primary objective of this war is to keep a president with a weak mandate in office for another four years and fill Halliburton's coffers.

  4. Re:And from the parent post... on E-Bombs: Technology Update · · Score: 1

    The Palestine Liberation Front, Mujahedin, and Abu Nidal aren't attacking the United States I fail to see how attacking the enemies of the state of Israel is a high priority for the United States military.

  5. Re:so, when will we see GNU's version on Microsoft's new CLI · · Score: 1

    yeah, but Linux has balls that clank.

  6. Re:Gotta Love the spin on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1

    I wonder how resistant to radiation these things are. The reason the space shuttle is using older "proven" technology is due to it's exposure to ionizing radiation when a few electrons more or less at a gate can mean the difference between it switching on or off radiation has a big effect but the older processors require more electricity to cause them to switch so a few stray particles won't cause as much trouble. If these things are resistant to radiation they may well have a big application in the space program but not for the reasons given.

  7. Re:Gotta Love the spin on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1

    Bush used it to sell his tax cut before the bodys were cold or the fires were out.

  8. Re:Remember the copyright bit in SPDIF? on Broadcast Flag All But Approved · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily only cable channels that will use this, network TV would as well. Controlling the archiving of news, which is essentially the contemporary historical record. Consolidating the control of historical records into a few hands can never be a good thing. The ability to distribute information in this society is the tool that those in power use to control the citizens to guide them to allowing decisions to be made on their behalf even if those decisions are counter to their own best interest. Another Lock placed on information would hurt everyone. You forget archives of footage form the basis of documentary journalism. If those historical records which are essentially the property of the people in that it is their history are more than controlled through the use of copy right law but are presented in such a way as to prevent archiving and preservation by individuals and institutions then that is tantamount to a theft and is far more deplorable than the copying of a program by an individual to watch at a later date.

  9. Re:Wear Out on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1

    "especially in a vacuum" there you go by your own definition you admit it's electronic. :D

  10. Re:Cool Suit on New 3D CPU Water Cooling Method · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't reduce the size of the radiator because after the heat is transferred to the electrolyte solution it will still need to be transferred to the surrounding air otherwise it builds up in the system. All this system is a better way for the heat to get to the solution and a more efficient pump to carry the coolant to the radiator.

  11. Re:Cool Suit on New 3D CPU Water Cooling Method · · Score: 1

    That would be sweet. I can picture it clearly the soldiers now cool and comfortable in their new desert fatigues the ones with the huge cooling fins sticking out of the back. Yeah, that would rock. Oh, but the ambient temperature is higher than their body temp and all the fins are doing is gathering heat and efficiently moving it to the soldiers skin woops..

  12. Re:what? on Michigan To Purchase Record 130,000 Laptops · · Score: 1

    I have a girlfriend who reads Slashdot. Life is good.

  13. Re:ancient stuff? on Vanu Replacing Cell Tower Equipment With PCs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it posable that finland's population is more evenly distributed or that the density of rural finland alone is greater than say parts of oregon or west texas?

  14. Re:Indulging in paranoid speculation - tinfoil ale on Earthstation 5 Claimed to be Malware · · Score: 1

    It would be inconvenient trying to run our present society if Windows machines all went kablooey at once

    yeah not nearly as convenient as things are now when they go kablooey at random times.

  15. Re:Is this any surprise? on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    yeah and certenly paper media has nothing but acurate information. no op-ed activism or partisen spin at all. I can't think of a single book on the ny-times best seller list this week that contains anything even remotely questionable. ok, that was sarcasm but I have the feeling that frankens book may have some redeaming qualitys.

    My point is that what exists on the internet exists in other media.

  16. Re:Yeah, I've got a game too. on File-Sharing Ethics Taught In Classrooms? · · Score: 1

    You make an excellent point but unfortunately it's a point wasted on the vast majority of Americans and I hope only a small minority of /. Readers. (You know who you are) the fact that if you count the number of police cars that have pulled someone over, over the course of the month, you'd see that the numbers spike consistently at the end of the month why would this be do more people speed at the end of the month or is it that the speeding tickets are treated as nothing more than a additional revenue stream and the quotas are set, the police force that was charged with a mandate to serve and protect are being utilized as nothing more than a mechanism for fleecing the population. Hey why would the city counsel or state government spring for revenue loosing public transportation systems when they can hire more police and let the fines roll in.

  17. Re:Whats Next? on New Nano-ITX 12cm Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Zepto ATX will be 2.9cm

    can't wait for the Groucho-ATX, and the Harpo-ATX to come out.

  18. embeding on New Nano-ITX 12cm Motherboards · · Score: 1

    Ok, just wondering if I'm misunderstanding but I hear alot of talk about embeded applications for what is esentualy just a small form factor motherboard and I've also read some prety polerised debates over what constitutes an embeded application in regards to the mini-itx projects posted. What I realy want to know is at what point or what scale does a general computeing device start to be considered an embeded device for instance the seemingly endless posts of mini-itx amo canister pc's touted as embeded are universaly and I think rightfully discredited but if somone builds a vest housing processor, batery and some form of IO device such as a display and a small keyboard it's generaly agreed that it is a embeded or at least a wareable device. where is the line drawn?

  19. Re:and now juice on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 1

    yeah but if the power goes out at least the processor will maintain it's state.

  20. Re:Um, nope on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 1

    I find that unlikely considering the more chips they can fit on a wafer of silicone the less each chip costs to make. so biger chips = higher costs = smaller market share = less profit. I'm sure Intell and the other manufacturers will fight the adoption of alternative materials considering the investment they've made in silicone but ultimately consumer demand will win out, the cost of not adopting new technologys (meaning loss of revinue as other companys fill the neich market neich ) will be higher than the investment required to adopt the new material.

    much like biological evolution technological evolution isn't focused on makeing something that is better only in retaining resources in the case of technology those are in the form of capatal, resources are retained by seeking out market neiches areas of unmet demand there is a growing area of demand for high powered processers and high density storage that demand will continue if Intel can't fill it then some other company will.

  21. Re:Effect on programming and OS? on New Material for Spintronics Discovered · · Score: 1

    so python programers would have no problem adapting, file like objects are file like objects.

  22. Re:Remember Minority Report ? on Digital Ink On Billboards · · Score: 1

    Even better for those really dishonest retail chains packageing that changes it's use-by date when it's about to expire.

  23. Re:yeah... on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    >and I, for one, wlcemoe our new dslyxeic ovlrerdos! yuor obviuosly a Reupblcian.

  24. Re:AIBO AI Mind on New AIBO - Meet the ERS-7 · · Score: 1

    I went to those web sites they seem to make alot of unsuported claims about the nature of the mind. if I've missed somethign feel free to point that out I didn't see any reference to actual research.