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  1. Re:Outside Looking In on Framerates Matter · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Startup Programs on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spybot-S&D does come with a program called TeaTimer (yes, another startup program, but it's small) that monitors registry changes including startup entries, popping up a dialog asking whether to allow the change, so if a program decides it wants to run at startup, you can block that right there.

  3. Re:A port-able solution. on Dreamworks and Carmack Discuss 3D and Threading At IDF · · Score: 2, Informative

    iD didn't make UT2004; Epic Games did.

  4. Nightly Tester Tools on Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This addon lets you selectively override addons' compatibility, among other things.

    This extension adds a few extras useful to those that regularly test nightly builds of Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and Toolkit Seamonkey (Suiterunner).

    The following is a brief list of the extension's features, for the full set of features please visit the extension home page.

    • Extension compatibility fixing
    • Titlebar customisation
    • Build ID retrieval
    • Screenshots
    • Breakpad information
    • Restoring tabs from previous session
    • Leak log analysis
  5. Re:An information universe on Teleportation — Fact and Fiction · · Score: 1

    In fact it wouldn't be anywhere near the speed of light; assuming you're not pushing too hard, the effect will only propagate at the speed of sound of the material of the stick. (For instance, steel is roughly 5 km/s, which is about 0.0017% the speed of light)

  6. Re:Jolt? on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The numbers work out perfectly. One shot of espresso is used in a tall latte, whereas two are used in a grande. A tall is 12oz, a grande is 16oz - only 1/3 more but twice the caffeine.

    4.83 * 2 / (16/12) = 7.25.

  7. Re:I have the solution! on DoD Offers $1 Million for Wearable Power Supply · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, as you probably noticed, said generator only generates power on the order of microwatts. Definitely not enough to power lots of military equipment.

    The obvious solution is this.

  8. Re:Check my math on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    About 99.9997%, according to TFA.

  9. Damn, beaten, somewhat. on A Mighty Number Falls · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are actually three prime factors; the two you listed, and the small factor 5080711. Thus:

    2^1039-1 = 5080711 * 55853666619936291260749204658315944968646527018488 637648010052346319853288374753 * 20758181946442382764570481370359469516293970800739 52098812083870379272909032467938234314388414483488 25340533447691122230281583276965253760914101891052 41993899334109711624358962065972167481161749004803 659735573409253205425523689

    is the correct factorization, as can be readily verified.

    Also:
    http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90031

  10. Re:Then again... on Brown Dwarf Stars May Be Missing Cosmic Link · · Score: 1

    Indeed, my brown dwarf stars don't seem to have any trouble finding theirs.

  11. Re:For Energy-Efficient LIGHTING? on Reflectivity Reaches a New Low · · Score: 1

    From what I understand this coating doesn't absorb light; it's a transparent material that simply reflects less, and therefore transmits more.

  12. Re:Technology is moving so fast... on Researchers Developing Single-Pixel Camera · · Score: 1

    I suppose after that some clever guy would come up with a 0.0000001-megapixel camera.

  13. Re:Misread on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    They are, after all, anagrams.

  14. Recognizes chemicals on Blue Crab Nanosensor to Fight Terrorism · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm detecting trace amounts of dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all

  15. Re:Question for the masses. on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    FreeBSD is not Linux.

  16. Re:Bonsai Kitten on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1

    But can it do tricks?

  17. Re:Thank you! on Antarctic Blast Made Australia, Room For Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    More like 125 times.

  18. Caffeine++ on Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars? · · Score: 1
    Virtual Java Machine
    Is that like a coffee machine that runs on my computer?
  19. Re:That's what happens on Science Ability Down in U.S. High Schools · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, the first kid has to think for a while (and might not get it), while the second produces 483 in a few seconds?

  20. Re:this is funny. on MPAA Being Sued For Allegedly Hacking Torrentspy · · Score: 1

    If you steal some root beer from a store, the store directly loses, in this case, a case of root beer. If you're downloading, whoever you are downloading from doesn't lose anything at all, per what DoctorDyna said.

  21. Re:Gentoo on X.Org Releases First Modular Source Roll-Up · · Score: 1

    They already are. Portage has the kde-meta package which can install the roughly-300 separate components individually.

  22. Re:Holy Storage Area Network Batman! on New Wide-Angle Telescope to Capture Night Sky · · Score: 1

    No problem. You just need to buy a bunch of hard drives. If you get a hundred 300GB drives (that's 30 TB) per day at retail price it would only be around $10,000/day.

  23. Re:*shrug* on Open Source is 'Not Reliable or Dependable' · · Score: 1
    Firefox crashes more often, on every environment on which I run it (4 different OS's) than any other application I have.
    It's probably all those extensions you probably have. Firefox crashed a lot on me too, until I disabled/removed about 20 extensions that I didn't really need.
  24. Re:Not necessarily... on Trojan Deletes Your Porn, Music & Warez · · Score: 1

    Smart people have them done automatically.

  25. Re:This was bound to happen. on Wal-mart's Wikipedia War · · Score: 1

    Perhaps NPOV is better described as an objective point of view.