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  1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki on China to Build World's First "Artificial Sun" · · Score: 1

    Didn't the US build the world's first artificial sun over Japan during WWII?

  2. Re:Unusual? on Mars Swings Unusually Close to Earth · · Score: 0
    usual (y'zh-l) pronunciation
    adj.

    1. Commonly encountered, experienced, or observed
    2. Regularly or customarily used
    3. In conformity with regular practice or procedure

    Since 'Un' means 'Not', you are correct. Nothing to see here, grandparent is overrated.
  3. Re:Oblig on IE Flaw Exposes Users To Spoof-Based Attacks · · Score: 1

    Hey, mod interesting. I actually found that link to be useful.

  4. Re:Crank Up The Flamethrowers on IE Flaw Exposes Users To Spoof-Based Attacks · · Score: 1

    The same can be said about any political party discussion or FEMA, Louisiana, Missisippi, and Hurricane Katrina. None of this stuff will ever end as long as people continue to harbor opinions. Opinions are like a$$holes. They both squirt $hit.

    But you're right. I'm sure everything below will turn out just like you predicted.

  5. Re:Terrible Article on Magnetic Computing Takes a Step Forward · · Score: 1

    Author is Bikram Lamba. He learned his English for cheap.

  6. Spaceballs on First modernized GPS satellite Launched · · Score: 5, Funny
  7. Re:Let's blame Congress on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    But it happens. There was a story about it in our local newspaper here in Melbourne, FL (Florida Today -- gave up looking for it). So it continues to really bug me.

  8. Re:Let's blame Congress on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't have a problem funding the emergency relief, or subsidizing the state to rebuild infrastructure like roads, power, and telecomms, but it really bugs me when the federal government gives relief to people to rebuild in the same spot that got demolished.

    I live in Florida and had some damage to my house. Guess what? After I paid my deductible, the insurance company forked over the rest. Now my premium has doubled and I am spreading out the cost of my own repairs. I don't like having my tax dollars pay for what the homeowners should be paying in insurance. If you can't afford it, live somewhere safer.

  9. Re:Give my regards to the Earth's core... on Earth's Core Spins Faster than Earth · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you read about Intelligent Falling Theory.

  10. Exhaust trail on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 1

    I can see the exhaust trail from my office in Jacksonville, FL. It's quite hazy today, though. Wish I had a camera, of course it's not that impressive looking.

    See the distance

  11. Re:Other Eerie sounds on Eerie Sounds from Saturn · · Score: 1

    Mod this up as interesting.

  12. Re:why is this under hardware? on Rate Your IM Popularity · · Score: 1

    I have two: one for work and one personal. My work name creamed my personal name: 58,295 vs 33,709.

    I can't say I really AIM all that much anymore, though.

  13. Re:Who read the page? lol on Public Transit Reality Game · · Score: 1

    In the real Scotland Yard boardgame, knowing exactly where Mr. X was ever few turns was hard enough. Also, playing Mr. X was the only real fun part of the game. The rest of it was trying to catch Mr. X quickly so that you could finally be Mr. X. Still, it is a family favorite of mine.

  14. Re:Wrong Question on Liquid Hydrogen UAV · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you expect it to run for a week without rebooting it will have to run *nix.

  15. Re:anti virus on Eclipse 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Umm, make that decreases... doh

  16. Re:anti virus on Eclipse 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    This also works with IBMs Rational Application Developer 6.0 (WSAD 5.1++). It is Eclipse based and turning off the virus scanner greatly increases load time.

  17. 120 Minutes on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1
    He asked one of his test pilots to demonstrate it for 60 Minutes on a hilltop outside San Diego, California. It can fly for 2 hours
    Did anyone else have to read that twice?
  18. Re:not anymore on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 1
    Most other animals, and protozoa, don't give a tinkers cuss about memes, otherwise they would build tiny pyramids to worship us with.
    Just because you can't perceive their form of the pyramid, it doesn't mean they didn't make it. My point is not that I think protozoans are really intelligent, but that we only believe what our limited perception shows us. I cannot conceive that a protozoan can be part of a social culture, but I cannot irrefutably prove it, either.

    Sometimes it's best to just say, "it seems very unlikely."
  19. Re:Scary Stuff - Child rearing on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's worse now is that people self-medicate to reduce the same stresses that people experienced in prehistoric times. Used to be that if you couldn't handle the stress your carcass was quickly eaten by carrion birds. Now we have all these weak genes flowing rampantly through our pools, simply because we are 'civilized.' The thought of it leads me to drink. Now where's my Prozac?

  20. Re:not anymore on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the context of spreading genes, what makes humans so different from animals, or protozoans? Do they not count simply because we cannot perceive their desire to procreate?

    Further, are human morals, theories, and ideas more important to spread than those of protozoans? And before you answer that they do not have any of those, I challenge you to irrefutably prove it.

    Now that you realize you are a miniscule and insignificant creature (like the rest of us), go home and cry and welcome your gamma-ray overlords.

  21. Re:Evidence is pretty overwhelming on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, he does brandish the *. I wouldn't think it would give you that much time to write, though.

  22. Re:The typical things Slashdot users will say: on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't have made me laugh as hard as it did.

  23. Re:Gee, I hope ... on NASA Announces De-Orbit Mission For Hubble · · Score: 1

    I agree with your sympathy, but you are comparing apples and oranges. The shuttle was not terribly oppressive and a symbol of communism. Most people did not rejoice at the failing of the shuttle, but many people did rejoice and the falling of the wall.

  24. Re:Size matters on Saturn V Preservation Efforts · · Score: 1

    Very cool. I used to live by KSC (Port St. John specifically) and your link to terraserver prompted me to find the Kennedy Space Center.

  25. Re:Almost - it's the world maps that are upside do on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1
    Gravity pulls inward, not downward. Looking at a map, other than a topographical map, would be useless to prove this. And mountains are not being pulled inward, they are diwndled away by erosion and reformed by tectonic plates colliding and jutting upward (e.g. volcano).
    Gravity:
    The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.
    The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition