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  1. Re:No emoticons? on Culture Determines Which Emoticon You Use · · Score: 1

    Anime tends to show emotion through the eyes. And that's only because it saves them from the need to draw lots'o frames. I hate Anime for that. Only 5% of frames are actualy animated. Q_Q
  2. Re:Keeping Hubble on NASA Unveils Hubble's Successor · · Score: 1

    An servicing the Hubble is judged to be so risky that NASA originally did not plan to do it. Now they intend to do it, but with a backup shuttle in orbit in case the first one gets into trouble. Wouldn't that just double the risk?
  3. Re:Neato on A Tablecloth to Charge Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Thats what i like about slashdot a lot (versus digg)
    (almost) no dupes. :)

  4. Re:Everyone repeat after me: on Cell Phones Aren't Killing Bees After All · · Score: 1
    "Correlation does not necessarily equate to causality"

    Yes it does. Observe:

    "You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature." (see graph) - from http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/
  5. Re:At what point? on Microsoft Responds to EU With Another Question · · Score: 1

    would we be the first to try?

  6. Re:Cool on New Theory Links Biodiversity to the Stars · · Score: 1

    Everytime i see God capitalized, i remember how to write the Internet.

  7. Brain, Ants, sand+weather = Earth tought -pattern? on Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere · · Score: 1
    First of all; I'm not a environmentalist or anything. Actualy i dont even like them.

    There are many unproven forms that life can exist in, however we probably wouldn't recognize them if we saw them so we naturally stick with what we know. Building upon above statement, I wanted to drop this note;

    Brain - Braincells each perform a specific function. One cell isn't smart. Lots of them together exhibit a behavour.
    Ants - A single ant performs a specific funtion. One ant isn't smart. Lots of them together exhibit a behavour.
    Earth - A single grain of sand performs a specific function. One grain isn't smart at all. Lots of them together exhibit a behavour.

    Now, taken into account how much grains of sand the earth has, and all the other interactions it exhibits (like weather) is it valid to say, maybe - just maybe, it could even have a thought-pattern?
    However when existing it would be mostly chaos to our comprehension, but i beleive that thought-patterns are just something that comes foreward though lots of interactions and accompanying mutations/algoritms/interpretations.

    It would exist outside of our realm of understanding and so we would not get to communicate with it. Except digging mines or changing the weather. It made me think.

    There are many unproven forms that life can exist in, however we probably wouldn't recognize them if we saw them so we naturally stick with what we know.

    (I'm not talking about a consciousness, selve-awareness is something different.) And i'm not trying to make an environmentalist point. Im looking at it technicaly. What are the odds?
  8. Re:Have You Seen This Boy? on DARPA Planning Liquid Robots · · Score: 1

    1) I for one welcome our liquid overlords.
    2) ..
    3) Profit!

  9. Re:In other news... on Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial · · Score: 1

    Sorry for commentabuse;

    I found this listed under 'Known Issues'
    - "Forgetting to put your partner's blog in SD1 can have dramatic consequences"

    lol :) and it has a simpson smiley next to it. 3

  10. Exactly what i was thinking.. on NASA Fires Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Ready?

    3... 2... 1... Ignition!

    Yay! NASA Fires Astronaut!

  11. Re:Contact them on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    Heh i just copy'd & pasted it.
    I guess 'Exchange' is not very 'trademarkable', or MS made an error in the Exchange® helpfiles.

  12. Re:Contact them on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you're getting at -- Outlook Web Access (Exchange's webmail) works fine in other browsers. Yes, it is better in Internet Explorer, but it's usable in most other browsers.

    I'm talking about forwarding.
    Our college uses Microsoft® Office Outlook® Web Access for Exchange Server 2003.

    The filter feature (e.g. send a copy of all mails in inbox to foo@bar.com) is not available in Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, or Opera. We've tried.
    Exchage does a browserdetect, lots of things in the interface are different.

    See the difference for yourself: (i made screenshots)
    http://aardappelsap.nl/tmp/ms-exchange-screenshots /
  13. Re:Contact them on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    If you use Internet Explorer. Won't work in anything else.

    Remember: A lot of colleges use webbased email. No IMAP or POP3 available.

    My college uses Exchange: it sucks. We could not forward anything for 2 years. Now its enabled, but won't work with Firefox. Let me end the rage here, cause there are lots of things i dont like about MS Exchange and Hotmail/Windows Live Mail.

  14. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    Sorry for my bad english, its friday.

  15. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    Problem would arrise when it involves legit customers who have a OEM/volume licence. (like Dell or HP)

    These customers must contact OEM vendor, and do not (!) receive any service from Microsoft. Been there myself (Acer system with WMCE2005) and it sucks, they wouldn't help me!
    Especially the case with WMCE2003 and ~2005, i assume same procedure for WV.

  16. Re:Obligatory on 67-Kilowatt Laser Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Cue the frickin' lasers jokes in 3...2...1... lasers?

    *making quote gesture*

    It is "Laser" .. you insensitive clod!
  17. Re:I'm an idiot! on Regrowing Lost Body Parts Getting Closer All the Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    i knew that

  18. Re:Is his true birth name 'Bruce Banner'? on How A "Superbaby" Is Helping To Find Muscular Dystrophy Treatments · · Score: 1

    A later study will find that Gamma rays somehow affected the myostatin mutations.

    2 new breeds of super-cow await... German Grey and Georgian Green...
    Green? That'd be the Georgian Hulk.
  19. Re:TTY? on Sign Language Via Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    I've got MSN on my phone. Great!
    (also T-Mobile, on a 10/month flatfee subscription. Speed: 8kb down 2kb up, thats max GPRS)

  20. Re:AJAX? stop the web 2.0 buzzword bullshit on Bosworth On Why AJAX Failed, Then Succeeded · · Score: 1

    Niiiiice. I'm pretty sure that is NOT how you spell nice! ;) Wrong: he most positively spelled nice as 'Niiiiice.'. ;)

    Also i beleive 'NOT' is not how i spell not. And that technicaly is a double negative, i guess.
  21. Re:Windows installer requires them on Farewell To the Floppy Disk · · Score: 1

    I would, really, but i don't know how to ask this naughty.

  22. Re:Wait a minute! on Open Project to Develop Renewable Energy System · · Score: 1

    How does the Heisenberg compensator work?!

    (Fishing for Okuda's stock response here) answer: snippet from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_compensato r :

    When asked "How do the Heisenberg compensators work?" by Time magazine on 28th November 1994, Michael Okuda, technical advisor on Star Trek, famously responded, "They work just fine, thank you."
  23. Re:You'll need these on Free Guide to Naked-Eye Astronomy · · Score: 1

    www.astrosurf.com/astropc/cartes Smurfs rule.
  24. Re:Milgram's own follow-ups explored this a little on Computer Characters Tortured for Science · · Score: 1

    it makes it easier to kill the other guy when you don't see him as being the same as you. Reminds me of the USA's projection of 'not the USA'?
  25. mod parent up on Google Releases Customized IE 7 · · Score: 1

    That is a most logical possibility.