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  1. Re:lots of things can lead to fluctuations in pool on Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's not life as such but life *with legs* that may have come about due to tidal forces.

  2. Re:Then STOP releasing the product! on Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft · · Score: 1

    That's funny, a 1 second search on google gives you http://www.publicip.net/
    Maybe the operator needs to wise up. Or perhaps the WiFi sharing was proprietary stuff that needed XP anyway. Who can say ?
    And why ditch FreeBSD, if it worked without a hitch ?
    Someones got issues ...

  3. readers on Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader · · Score: 1

    I use my HTC to read sometimes, and although my reader software is proprietary, it does have some nice features. I can read one handed (stop it at the back !) and "turn" pages with my thumb on the touch screen. Sometimes a small screen is better, if it was any wider, my thumb wouldn't reach both sides.
    More paperback reading than weighty tomes, but even those can be accomplished over time. Project Gutenburg already has some money from me and there will be more shortly. There is a VAST library of material there, not brand name stuff, but real authors from centuries of writing and experience. And it's all free.
    I'm currently reading a Sci-Fi story written in the 1800's - it's good to get perspective.

  4. Re:Really? on Law Profs File Friend-of-Court Brief Against RIAA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah right, so if I set the permissions on everything in my shared folder to 600 ,then they can still get me, because the titles are visible.

  5. retakes on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    Make him and the other 12 students retake the exams, and unless they all get A's give them jail time. If they do get A's, then a bit of community service will do.

  6. title ? on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 1

    NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs
    No, actually they are adding it to new editions of their cards. Not current cards already in machines. It is not a driver update.

  7. Re:Unlimited should mean unlimited on ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls · · Score: 1

    If the network is congested I expect an equal share of the available bandwidth. Actually, I should get a share of the available bandwidth that is proportionate to my max bandwidth. For example, in a congested network I should get four times as much bandwidth as the person paying for 1mbps connection. That's fine inside your ISPs network, what about the rest of the internet. How do you prioritise traffic between ISPs. Sounds like the opposite of net neutrality.
    People seem to forget that when the network is congested, they are part of the problem. You don't complain to Ford if your 150 mph car gets stuck on the freeway in a jam.
  8. Re:Where the ISP's are Wrong! on ISPs Experimenting With New P2P Controls · · Score: 1

    While what you say is true, consider the all you can eat analogy.
    If a restaurant offers an all you can eat buffet, then everybody hits one particular dish, it prevents people from getting to the other dishes, and causes congestion on the one dish every body wants.
    Surely it is up to the provider to try and organise demand to improve the traffic. Either that or get the users to change their habits (good luck with that).
    Too many users using p2p is not the issue, traffic congestion is. Notice how they want to store legal stuff in local caches. They can't really offer the illegal stuff, can they ? What more do you want ?
    What would you do to manage the demand to ensure reliability of the network ?

  9. Re:How about print on paper? on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    So you are going to give copies of your kids to family and friends through your DNA ?
    Eewwww !

  10. Re:Future press release. on Northrop Grumman To Develop Brain-Wave Binoculars · · Score: 1

    Defense department reevaluating binoculars. Followed patiently by Homeland Security, the IRS and a Walmart rep.
  11. Re:They Really Really Really Found Water (Almost) on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    Duke Nukem is already done, but it only runs on Herd. Is that like, ground beef ?
  12. Re:what they should do on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if you do that, you might destroy the environment for the existing life, who will suffer terribly, but in the end will survive. And 1000 years from now, when we have forgotten all about it

    they will come.

  13. Re:This is why robots aren't great for science on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    We should send the terrrrists. Need to kick start the Empire somehow.

  14. Re:The real question is... on Probable Water Ice Sighted On Mars · · Score: 1

    But the whole point of escape velocity is to like, escape. So I would think that pointing the device away from the surface would work well. It's all fuel while you're close to the surface, so get it over with quickly, ie. straight up.

  15. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Exactly. Chernobyl is already getting to habitable levels again, plants are growing, tours are being given, it's still far from safe enough to live in constantly, but it's getting closer. Yeah, fuck the thousands who've died or been crippled by that incident. We can afford to lose that many if the rest of us get cheaper power.</sarcasm>
  16. Re:Seriously, WTF? on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Whoosh !
    I hate to explain a whoosh, but I believe that was sarcasm.
    In that political parties will promise anything to get elected ...

  17. Re:Insensitive Clod on Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I prefer the soft keyboard. I can "type" more quickly and accurately using a stylus, than I can using both hands but only thumbs. If they implement a way to use a hardware button to shift, then it'll be golden.
    I'm tempted by a laser projected keyboard, with a piece of black foam rubber to hit for keys.

  18. Re:How to "rip" videos with your browser on Corporate Behemoth Keeps Ripping "Real" · · Score: 1

    I tend to just drag the link to the file to my desktop and it gets saved. If there's no visible link, the source is your friend. java is an issue but all the others get passed a file path.

  19. words on GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources · · Score: 1

    I hope they hurry up. Bush is running out of time to invade !

  20. Re:Meh on Intel Shows Off Quake Wars, Ray Traced · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine is an artist, and it surprised me one day when he said "if it looks right, it is right". Being particularly anal about attention to detail in almost anything I do, that just seemed wrong. But I've tried it out, and in the right circumstances, it's true. The world we see with living eyes doesn't get the same level of scrutiny that any artificial environment does. And I think we go over the top with the look rather than the feel too much these days. I still prefer UT before the flashy skins and fancy maps. Playing CTF in teams of 20 or 30, you didn't have *time* to notice the bloody reflections. A wall is a wall, and that's all it needs to be when you hide behind it. The rest is in your head.
    And you certainly don't need the *look* making the *feel* slower.
    I don't see that many people in the real world, studying puddles closely to see the ripple effects on the reflection from different angles. Unless they're stoned.

  21. Re:How About Just a Dozen? on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    I got a couple of these Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 chipset.
    Work out of the box under fedora (4+). I used them in conjunction with an Icy Dock sata backplane to fully equip my media server. The server runs FC4 and uses a lowly 40GB IDE drive for the os. the SATA ports have a Seagate 200GB, 250 GB, 500GB, and a Samsung 750GB attached. As the first 2 drives use the motherboard connectors, I have only used 2 of my 8 available card controlled connections. Can't get much cheaper really.

  22. Re:Amusing, but a problem for one in ten men? on Multicolored Keyless Entry System · · Score: 1

    Lose the colours.
    If a normal atm moved the numbers on the keys each time, then it would have the same effect. Most of them are touch screen anyway now.

  23. Example on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    You leave the bar late. You head for the bus stop knowing you have plenty of time, and then wait. And wait. And after a while you check your watch. 10 minutes, next time it's 20. If you subscribe to religious faith, then you believe the bus is just round the corner. If you are a skeptic then you don't want to rely on faith, you need evidence, solid evidence - like a bus.
    So the skeptic leaves and gets a taxi, while the believer waits.
    And then it rains.

  24. Re:I can prove that wrong (logically, of course) on How To Teach a Healthy Dose of Skepticism? · · Score: 1

    Watch out on that zebra crossing !

  25. Re:Two simple principles: on Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM · · Score: 1

    That of course, is true for both camps.