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  1. Hey, vikings! on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    What going on? Nothing in Sweden so far!

  2. Re:Historical Exhibit? on Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents · · Score: 1

    Jan 13th, 1998, the oldest index archive.org has

    It actually looked better back then. More modern.

  3. Thrilling story on Australia Cracked US Combat Aircraft Codes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    More cool spy stories, please! I once managed to figure out the code to a locked briefcase, bought second hand. That small feat was a thrill. I would have loved being part of this! Outsmarting somone is enormously satisfying.

  4. Re:Wrong country! on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily.

    Ah. I might actually go work there soon. Who knows, mabye that's where she is.

  5. Re:Wrong country! on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    You could still become a naturalized citizen....

    Yes, you are right. It would take quite a few years, though. Getting a green card takes apparently in itself a long time.

  6. Wrong country! on Your Chance to be an Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Doh! Born in the wrong country for this one. :-(

  7. Re:0-60 in less than a second on Electric Motorcycle Inventor Crashes at Wired Conference · · Score: 1

    full power full torque

    Apart from what have been said already, I'd like to add that power is not the same thing as torque.

  8. Human error on WGA Meltdown Blamed On Human Error · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...as opposed to an error in the actual WGA, which is not coded by humans, but by Microsoft's programmers.

  9. Sinking the U.S.S. Reagan on Virtual Earth Exposes Nuclear Sub's Secret · · Score: 1

    Just for the record.

    In an NBC4 news story (transcript and video) we hear about the Swedish submarine HMS Gotland, participating in a training exercise with the US Navy:

    According to Swedish newspapers, in training exercises the Gotland has sunk our most sophisticated nuclear submarines. But perhaps even more disconcerting, it reportedly sunk our largest aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Reagan.

    That's sinking by photographing, btw, if I'm correctly informed.

  10. Don't sink this low, Slashdot! on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    Mabye they aim to get an investor and run off with the money, laughing at how someone could fall for this, again!

  11. Re:What is an "R&D Architect"? on Pros/Cons of Working at Big R&D Consulting Firm? · · Score: 1

    OK, so what does the R&D Architect do? Is it research and development for internal use (whatever that would comprise) or is it for the clients needs?

  12. What is an "R&D Architect"? on Pros/Cons of Working at Big R&D Consulting Firm? · · Score: 1

    What does an R&D Architect do? Is it a technology consulting firm we are talking about or management consulting?

  13. Old knowledge on Black Hole Information Loss Paradox Solution Proposed · · Score: 1

    the clock for the objects falling into the black hole appears to slow down to zero

    I don't know as much about relativity as I would like to, but hasn't this been known since forever?

  14. Isn't that national? on YouTube Goes International · · Score: 1

    Hmm, it seems to me that the current page is international, because it is intended for use in any country. A page made specifically for one country would then be national

  15. SI horsepower on Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram · · Score: 5, Funny

    One horsepower is the power of the reference horse in an archive in Paris.

  16. What are the reasons for Sendmail? on Linux System Administration · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know why I would need it, so I probably don't, but it would be interesting to know.

  17. Version on Transit Method Reveals Many Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will we ever find Earth 2.0 candidates?

    How about making the current one stable first?

  18. Re:Let The Flamewars Begin on Anatomy of the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Whenever I hear the word microkernel, I reach for my revolver.

    Too late, my friend, too late. I already have mine (a very modular one, of course) pointed at your neck.

  19. The return! on Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl · · Score: 1

    I'm wild, I'm alive and I'm back!

  20. Re:"Electric ions"? on Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The propulsion is electric, as in the energy source being electricity, although some mass is still needed for the actual thrust, hence the ions.

    Exactly, human language needs more of parentheses, like in mathematics, so it's "electric (ion propulsion)" rathern than "(electric ion) propulsion". :-)

  21. Re:Well... on Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the interesting information. Now I wonder, isn't all this (mabye even converting to CMYK in the first place) a job for the printing press just as compensating for the peculiarities of my listening room is for me to do, rather than for the one making the record I listen to?

  22. Re:no alternative on Alternatives To Adobe's Creative Suite? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This one really is a no-brainer -- you get what you pay for. Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc. etc. are best-of-breed pieces of software. They're actually quite good, and probably worth the exorbitant license fees you will pay in productivity improvement, quality of output, employee frustration (lessened), support, usability, compatibility, you name it. They're standard for a reason, and Adobe is a fairly good company in that they haven't taken that for granted.

    Mabye they are the best, I wouldn't know, I don't use them, but "you get what you pay for" and "they're standard for a reason" are surely no good arguments for that. I think we all know that there are many counterexamples.

  23. Re:The Fascination with Encryption on Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, have you found the hidden message in the parent post yet?

  24. Re:The Fascination with Encryption on Encrypt and Sign Gmail messages with FireGPG · · Score: 5, Funny

    For me, I just like to use it, to make people think I am doing something. Keeps the snoops on their toes.

    I keep them on their toes by acting completely normal, having them looking for steganography.

  25. Re:So the market sure is promoting innovation on The Man Who Owns the Internet · · Score: 1

    Speaking of great domain names, I see you've got yourself a little gem in "fnarg.com" there. ;-)

    (I do appreciate your post, though.)