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  1. Re:Martian Surface Radiation on Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars · · Score: 1
    So Jr. Bush wants some astronauts to spend 2-4 years of their lives for 15 minutes of fame.

    Hey, most americans spend their entire lives trying to get their 15 minutes. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me...

  2. Re:Workaround on Photoshop CS Adds Banknote Image Detection, Blocking? · · Score: 1

    6) Profit!

  3. Re:Well.. on Decoding the Algorithm for Pop Music · · Score: 1
    Maybe it could compose the chant melody by recognizing actual chords in the samples, and applying known hamonic rules to end up with a melody to put on top of it...

    Yes. Much like if I were to tell you that the sum of 10 numbers was 100, you'd be able to accurately determine which 10 numbers I added together.

    Yeah, that could work...

  4. Re:My predictions for 2004 on Linux in 2004? · · Score: 1
  5. Re:More to the point on What Could You Do With 120 Laser Pointers? · · Score: 1

    What couldn't you do with 120 lasers? Run Linux?

  6. Re:Unix, Linux, BSD... on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 1
    "IP is our IP!" Darl will declare.

    ...and paraphrased to "our IP is our IP!", that statement will be really hard to counter...

  7. Re:You're looking at this the wrong way . . . on The Rise of Cyber Bullying · · Score: 1

    > Bullies use Fear as an intimidator...

    Um... As opposed to what?

  8. Re:the persistence of boners on The Rise of Cyber Bullying · · Score: 1
    Heh, I just had this horrible image of someone taking the time to create an templated, automatic bully-site. You could include pictures, etc. It would be kind of like Scott Pakin's automatic complaint generator, but I think not really in a spirit of fun, but with more ill will.

    Just wait... Some day your kids, falling victims of this exact concept, will schmoogle the topic and suddenly realise who originally invented the concept... At that exact point you'll understand the meaning of true poetry...

  9. Re:I wonder... on Microsoft Word Document ML Schemas Published · · Score: 1
    Internet Explorer clearly dominates the browser market, but is it the best browser?

    In some regards, yes. MSIE had for a long time and to the best of my knowledge (though I may be wrong here) still has, the best CSS support around. This is really something that most users will notice because lacking CSS support make pages look like crap.

    Is it the most standards-compliant? No.

    Do 95% of the surfers out there care? Not by a long shot.

    Do they just want fancy pages rendered correctly? Yes.

    Microsoft's dominanace of the browser market means that it isn't important to Microsoft that Internet Explorer is the best.

    To a certain extent true, but that doesn't

    Obviously, the fact that it is readily available (i.e. included in windows) has a BIG influence as wel but there's more to it...

    For a lot people, IE is, hands down and like it or not, the best browser.

  10. Re:Stolen car on The Computer Owner - Guilty or Not Guilty? · · Score: 1
    (I'm not sure what the legal term is)

    Ah... Criminal negligence, of course...

  11. Re:Stolen car on The Computer Owner - Guilty or Not Guilty? · · Score: 1
    Somebody steals your car because you left the car unlocked and proceeds to run down pedestrians. Is it the owner's fault for leaving the car unlocked? No way. Yes, the car can be a dangerous weapon, but in no way would anybody consider the owner is to blame.

    Actually, yes... In (at least) some countries it is against the law to leave your unattended in public with the keys in. It is considered encouraging criminal behaviour (I'm not sure what the legal term is) and is a (theoretically) prosecutable offense...