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  1. Re:Darwin in action on Unpleasant Surprises for Online Real Estate Buyers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about used cars, but I have a used bridge located on East coast of USA, which I can sell to you for mere $2999.95

  2. Re:Did the source go with him? on Gentoo Founder Quits Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Or Gendows. Oh wait, Genspire.

  3. Re:Welcome... on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1

    our parasitic overlords.

    mind controlling and changing behavior parasitic overlords. Similar to these

  4. different!=weird on Acquittal of German Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    ehough said

  5. Re:5 million doesn't seem like alot. on NASA Planning Six More Centennial Challenges · · Score: 1

    It is not technology they want, it is the proof of the concept. I believe they can develop/mimick anything if they knew it was possible.

  6. More benchmarking on ATI vs. Nvidia in a Video Shootout · · Score: 4, Informative

    Russian web-site www.ixbt.com has monthly 3d video report featuring the newest NVidia and ATI cards as well as the newest drivers. See here. Although the text is in Russian you can still read the diagrams (like this) which they provide. They compare quality in games (provide screenshots showing bugs), performance and price.

  7. Re:Congressional Trolls on Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers [Update] · · Score: 1

    Clearly, the issues in Soviet Russia and the old people in North Korea should get their attention.

  8. I am confused on WMF Vulnerability is an Intentional Backdoor? · · Score: 1
    Frome the text
    So it makes no sense to set an abort proc in a metafile. But even so, there would presumably be no reason for not allowing an abort proc to be set. However, this is NOT at all what the WMF processing code does.


    what?
  9. Re:Sleeptracker on Study: Waking Up Like Being Drunk · · Score: 1

    it just monitors your movement,

    But what if I don't want to wake up during sex?

  10. Re:MIT natural alarm clock on Study: Waking Up Like Being Drunk · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that a typical sleep consists of cycles with approximate period of 3-4 hours (depends on a person, and there are of course outliers). And indeed I noticed that 1. if I wake up in the middle of the night after 3-4 hours of sleep, I feel well rested 2. when an alarm clock wakes me up after ~5-6 ( or 9-10) hours I don't feel that well. The empirical data showed that the cycle for me is about 4 hours. I always try to go to sleep and set up the alarm according to this knowledge. My usual thought every evening is, ok I will sleep 2 cycles tonight and set the alarm 8 hours from now. When I wake up in the middle of the night, I usually think "oh great I have 1 more cycle to sleep." It did not always work this way especially near deadlines, but I would say I used to have a good sleep. Having a girlfriend have screwed my sleep up.

  11. Re:Round this! on Rounding Algorithms · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I and my friend once talked about how to own half of a penny. We came to a solution to use randomness, you flip a penny, and depending on the outcome my friend has the penny or I have it. The problem was that uncertainty is removed after the flip, and I either have it or not, and it is not quite the same as owning 1/2 penny. So for a while we flipped the penny every time we discussed the penny to keep the uncertainty.

  12. Linux Boots Stats on Linux Boots on Treo 650 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The submission does not provide any stats on the aforementioned boots. I just assume these boots are unique and likely give some bonus to stamina, though I doubt they are for faster run/walk. I also expect can not be frozen bonus. Could anyone elaborate on other bonuses?

  13. Re:Coool! on The New Air Force Mission? · · Score: 1

    No, Iraq is the Banach space, and AFAIK, Hilbert spaces are only considered for the next statement.

  14. Re:PATENT APPLICATION #1588003 on USPTO Unable to Find Top Ten Patent Holders · · Score: 1

    By "Summary" you meant summary of your patent application or name of the system?

  15. Re:Is Kliper technically superior? on Russian Kliper not Funded by ESA · · Score: 1

    Don't you see that you are comparing two fantasies? In reality, everything may be different.

  16. Re:Yes on A Look at the US Patent System · · Score: 1

    How about a recent patent of antigravitation?

  17. Re:Is there a limit? on Nanotechnology Gets Finer · · Score: 1

    It's not about maths, it's about physics.

    Clearly, he is no rocket scientist either.

  18. Re:show me the money! on ICANN/Verisign Sued For Monopoly Abuse · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, when a government issues more money, this causes inflation and the currency drops in value. Here we see ICANN issues more and more domains with growth of internet, yet it has a right to increase the rate. Yes it is clearly a monopoly, the rates should be determined by market.

  19. Re:Why not als invent a few exclusive new protocol on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    FTP is actually "Free The Porn!"

  20. Re:Ouch. on Zero-Day IE Exploit Takes Control of PCs · · Score: 1
  21. Re:guilty as charged on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 1

    So it's standard enough, I think.

    In real life, this is more complex than that. After all, the indexes are imaginary.

  22. Re:Bundled with spyware? on Keystroke Logging Increases · · Score: 2
    protect your computer, use Firefox, Ad-Aware and Spybot.

    I am using Mac OS X, is there any danger for me? I mean, I don't have any antispyware tools, and several times I had to use sudo to install some open source software... I am too lazy and incompetent to check the source (or even Makefile) to be sure it is safe. Certain closed source software asked for admin privileges upon installation as well... How can I be sure I am safe from keyloggers? Yes, Mac zealots claim Macs are safe, but it may be false.

    <paranoid>Could my Mac be the only Mac which is infected???</paranoid>
  23. Re:Recycled versign? on Consumer Friendly Downloads? · · Score: 1

    "sers i encounter think you only get trojans from visitiing porn sites and spyware from the same.

    Does it mean I can now send nudejlo.exe to AOL for certification?

  24. Re:The real question is: on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Not Over Yet · · Score: 1

    Can't you soften the digital content of the DVDs by using some Adobe Pornshop or PornCAD or something? No? Then I guess it is time to write HD porn editing tools and make millions.

  25. Re:It's getting pulled anyhow on Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software · · Score: 1

    But we can help the untold numbers of lawyers by spreading the infection.