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  1. Re:Okay. But... on Surgical Tools to Include RFID · · Score: 2, Informative
    But the sponges won't be getting RFID chips anyway, so you still have the same problem.
    Huh? TFA was about sponges with RFID chips!
  2. Re:Grammar Nazi... on Walmart Tries to Emulate MySpace · · Score: 1
    They cut and pasted the title, yet still managed to insert a new spelling error anyway!
    Well, the editors have to do something to earn their keep.
  3. Re:Comparison Pricing: on Beginning GIMP · · Score: 2, Informative
    Beginning Gimp (book) - $40
    Photoshop Elements 4.0 (software) - $80
    Curves tool - priceless!
  4. In related news... on ABC Wants DVR Fast Forwarding Disabled · · Score: 1

    I want a pony.

  5. Re:Couldn't resist... on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 1
    Hmm. where is the time that the only requirement was that you could get your car down the track as fast as possible? I think they overregulated formula 1. Too many restrictions on engine, fuel type, gearbox type, wing type, tire type, everything.
    Yeah... it's almost like the cars are expected to conform to some sort of... formula.
  6. Re:Punctuation! on NASA Finds 4-5" Crack in Shuttle Insulation · · Score: 4, Funny
    Punctuation is your friend, I had to read that last sentence 4-5 times before I could parse it correctly.
    Choose your friends wisely. May I introduce you to my friend, the semicolon?
  7. Re:Why an Interstate Highway in Hawaii? on Interstate Highway System: 50th Anniversary · · Score: 4, Informative
    It also has. just barely, but has the 2 mile straight length that was demanded in each highway every so often for landing endangered aircraft.
    Nope.
  8. Re:Halograms on Projecting Data on a Sphere · · Score: 1

    You misspelled "hagiographic."

  9. Re:Mice. Always. on Japanese Scientists Make Alzheimers Progress · · Score: 1

    The mice need more help than we do. Everything causes cancer in mice.

  10. Re:Yes... on Fast File Encryption for Windows? · · Score: 1
    So that plane carries 1.392 ZiB in ~4.5 hours (16200 seconds) for a total of 85.9PiB per second.
    Yeah, but I'd still hate to ssh over that link.
  11. On the Enterprise? on Password Complexity in the Enterprise? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know a few...

    "Theta alpha two seven three seven blue"

    "One one A"
    "One one A two B"
    "One B two B 3"
    "Zero zero zero destruct zero"

    But usually, voice identification is enough.

  12. Re:Which one? on Ajax Back, Forward, Reload and PHP · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, C. Most people think it was named after C. Everett Koop, but they're mistaken.

  13. Re:Time to drag out this old chestnut: on Ajax Back, Forward, Reload and PHP · · Score: 1
    Perl Buck, 1843
    It may be an old chestnut, but it's not that old! (And it's not widely known that, like Ada Lovelace, Ms. Buck would later give her name to a programming language.)
  14. Re:Great pickup line on Verified: Record-breaking Pitfall! Run · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hmm... I guess I'll stick with "I make almost 6 digits a year".
    So that would be... six minus one... uh... carry the eleventeen... 5 digits?
  15. Re:That would be negligent right there on U.S. Service Personnel Data Stolen · · Score: 1
    If there was enough to rise to the level of "electronic Protected Health Information" then the big guns of HIPAA swivel in the VA's direction.
    What big guns?
  16. Re:DNS record is removed? That's all? So what? on Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech · · Score: 1
    The vast majority of sites, I'm afraid, require a host header - that's how shared hosting works.
    That's only one way that shared hosting works. You can also have multiple IP addresses for a single machine, and have the webserver for each virtual host bind to the IP for that virtual host.

    That's how it was done before HTTP/1.1, and some providers continue to do it that way. My hosting is from pair.com, and is the cheapest service they offer (I think). I can access my web page by IP address, and I'm sure not paying for a whole server!

  17. Re:one experience on Running Windows Without Administrator Privs? · · Score: 1
    ...don't want to sound like a Windows fanboy at all but there are many *NIX apps that expect to have root - ethereal for example.
    I'm not at my FreeBSD machine now, but I think programs like tcpdump and ethereal only need access to a bpf* device in order to capture packets. You could (as root) adjust the permissions on /dev/bpf* to let a user run ethereal without being root.
  18. Re:Haha! on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1

    May the Scheimpflug principle be with you!

  19. Re:Haha! on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1
    f/32 and MAYBE f/45 if you have a good camera is usually about the limit before diffraction starts to affect a picture.
    It depends on the size of the film or sensor. At f/32 and 550 nm light, the circle of confusion from diffraction will always be ~42 microns. But a 42 micron CoC on 8x10 inch sheet film is a lot more tolerable than on 35 mm film, which in turn is a lot more tolerable than on a sensor the size of my pinky fingernail.

    That's why Ansel Adams and colleagues who shot on large-format camera formed "Group f/64", but you'll rarely see a 35 mm camera lens that goes that far. Mine bottom out at f/16 to f/32.

  20. Re:Too much animated media? on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1
    You wouldn't happen to be an Anime character would you? :)
    No--I'm a squid, you insensitive clod!
  21. Re:Haha! on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1
    Of course your pupil is only 1.5 mm
    Uh, my pupils are usually larger than 1.5 mm in diameter. Maybe you meant 15 mm (1.5 cm)? That seems a bit large, except maybe in very dark conditions.
  22. Re:Haha! on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1
    Actually, the clearest shots you can take (depth of field wise) are from extremely small holes (ideally infinitely small). It just takes a heck of a lot of light to get a good exposure.
    You're ignoring diffraction.
  23. Cue the shot of cooing, queuing kewpie dolls! on Spacecraft Crashes Into Satellite · · Score: 1
    Queue the obligatory unit conversion jokes.
    Dear grammar fascist,

    The word you're looking for is "cue," not "queue."

  24. Re:Who shot first? on Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD · · Score: 1
    if they claimed it was the original and didn't have that, they would just be shooting themselves in the foot.
    The foot shot first.
  25. Re:FCC Rules on Kernel Trap Interview with Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1
    As for the size of US "defence": It uses more than even at the coldest of the cold war. And to what ends?
    Do you have a citation for this claim? It looks to me like current US defense spending, in relation to GDP, is lower than during the cold war.

    http://www.truthandpolitics.org/military-relative- size.php