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  1. Re:"peer" review on The End of Mathematical Proofs by Humans? · · Score: 1

    Why not have it verrified by other computers?

    What if you have two "unverifiable" computer proofs proving the opposite? Which proof to publish then?

  2. Re:How about on Preview of Intel's Dual-Core Extreme Edition · · Score: 1

    I would say that it is a single die module. As opposite to dual-die-hard-core module.

  3. Re:Finally on NASA Schedules Robotic Spacecraft Launch · · Score: 1

    The Soyuz space capsules have three seats, one for a tourist and two for the crew. So no. You're thinking of Progress, which is unmanned, but still controlled by humans from the ground.

    Of course Russians controlled the automatic dockings. But how many times did they have to override the computer and go into manual mode?

    I believe NASA will also control their experiment, otherwise how will they know that it was successful?

  4. Re:Historian Publishes! on Windows XP X64 Goes Gold · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why did you choose to play French?

  5. expect... on Mac OS X Tiger Goes Gold · · Score: 5, Insightful

    shortage of mac minis in the coming weeks

  6. Re:Yeah right on Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant · · Score: 1

    ...is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't.

    Actually, you can opt out of the facial recognition with our patented tin foil ski mask.

  7. Rules on Metafor: Translating Natural Language to Code · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How hard is it to change rules of treating the sentences? Can Metaphor learn Chinese, for example?

  8. Re:Slashdotter finds flaw in This Article on Professor Finds Fault with MS Grammar Checker · · Score: 1
    How will you fix the following Gag Email
    Know sweat. I can due tomorrow, but I knead to leaf by 1pm. Due you want to due that? If sew, I'll just be hear and we can do it on the fly. Don't make eh special trip though - :)

    Run
  9. Re:Sound Idea on ISS Releases Baby Sputnik · · Score: 5, Funny
    'carried out a 1- foot-long, 1-pound satellite called Nano-sputnik,
    "Use either Metric or Imperial units consistently throughout."

    I think, lack of consistency is evident.
  10. Space beyond the edge of Universe on Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed · · Score: 1

    "It requires only a proper accounting of the physical effects of the ripples beyond our cosmic horizon,"

    Ripples of what? Is there space beyond the cosmic horizon? Or by horizon they meant observable part of Universe?

  11. What were they thinking? on Microsoft Tries to Patent the Internet Again · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is it really possible that such patents may be enforceable?

  12. Alternative ways on How the Spam Industry is Sustained · · Score: 1

    If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs.

    Alternatively, if we just buy everything they can offer, they will have nothing to sell no more, the spam will go extinct too.

  13. Re:OK, an example on Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed · · Score: 1

    But for the search "Strategic solutions for a complex world" *I* see some web hosting site as #1. Could you explain the discrepancy? Is it possible that the Google results differ from time to time or from location to location?

  14. Re:Can you break it down a little more, please? on Classic Math Puzzle Cracked · · Score: 1
    From summary: some patterns in how numbers can be created by adding other numbers Fucking genius!
    If you RTFA, it is much more than that. They discovered that p(n) may be divisible by 5,7,11 and other prime numbers.
  15. Re:As an IT person who is deploying OS X on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1

    Like download the virus, then enter your admin password to allow it to infect your machine.

    Why does Yahoo Messenger require admin password to get installed and what does it do with the password? How often do you check what is going on when you type sudo make install?

  16. Re:Great... on Towards Self-Replicating Rapid Prototypers · · Score: 1

    The Matrix even hints at this,

    I am currently writing a textbook "Introduction to the Elements of Matrix". It is based on all the hints given in the movie. The findings will revolutionize the science. Not possible? It is inevitable.

  17. Re:Is that shit running? :P on Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Are you sure it did not escape?

  18. Re:Pan wheel... on Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse · · Score: 4, Informative

    What is even funnier, OSX offers better support for Microsoft's Trackball Explorer than WinXP. I bought the mouse for gaming purposes several years ago, and Win2k had a nice feature of binding keys like pgup/dn to the mouse buttons and this worked great in Quake3. Now WinXP binds vague "Forward" and "Home page" to the buttons, so IE understands, and Quake3 does not. In OSX the buttons are just Mouse1-Mouse5 and you can bind whatever functions you like, Expose, Quake, UT04 work just great...

  19. Re:You submitted this... on 'Online Poker' Googlebomb · · Score: 1

    I would also suggest all slashdotters click the "Sponsored links" in Google when looking for "online poker". This way, these guys will pay some $.50 per click (or so) to Google, hooray!

  20. RTGs on ESA and NASA Consider Joint Mission To Europa · · Score: 3, Interesting
  21. Re:I guess on Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle · · Score: 1

    BOOM occurs at Mach 1.

  22. Re:The difference on Chess Master Kasparov To Retire · · Score: 1

    For instance, he doesn't believe there was 1000 years between the Roman empire and Newton, he thinks history has been artificially expanded by 1000 years.

    Sounds like Fomenko's mathematical (statistical?) proof that we should amend our history.

    A quote: Did the crusaders really wait for 1000 years to punish the tormentors of the Messiah? What if Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086 AD?

  23. Re:Upgrade on Chess Master Kasparov To Retire · · Score: 1

    yellow-blue ass

    Incindentally, "yellow-blue" sounds exactly like "I love" in Russian. (there is a well known phrase "Yellow-blue tabia" which sounds like "I love you" in Russian.

  24. Re:This is horrible... on Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination · · Score: 1

    Umm, are you saying that the information we've collected from these probes over the past 30 years has been worthless?

    This data is worthless if we want to know what is ahead, because we can not extrapolate this data even 1 AU further.

  25. Re:Useful contact info on Astronauts Face Bleak Odds For Spaceflight · · Score: 1

    The Mach number is ratio of speed to the speed of sound. So 1 Mach is the speed of sound. My question is what is the speed of sound at 500km up?