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  1. Would be EMACS++ then on A Mozilla Desktop Environment? · · Score: 1

    FMACS = Fivehundred Megs And Continously Swapping

  2. Re:Voltage? on Diodes Could Drive Swimming Micro-Robots · · Score: 1

    You don't need to be hooked up to AC to have an AC electric field applied to you. Just stand between the plates of a big enough capacitor.

  3. Flowers? on 3D Martian Flyover Movies · · Score: 1

    Who read that "3D Martian Flowers Movies, too?

  4. Re:So when a tazer hits you on Scientists Say Nerves Use Sound, Not Electricity · · Score: 1

    And what about EM waves?

  5. Re:Worst video? on Tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · · Score: 1

    Oh, and I also resent Bebo's comparison of chemistry to postage stamp collecting. Uhm... why?
  6. Re:Worlds straightest OBJECT? on Tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center · · Score: 1

    somebody get me a 3 mile long piece of thread somebody get me a laser pointer.
  7. No. on First Dynamically Balancing Biped Robot · · Score: 1

    That would be flying...

  8. Department of Defense? on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    ..uh.. no. DrinkOrDie. Heh.

  9. Re:But from where... on Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food · · Score: 3, Informative

    It has just been kept around much longer than it should have, and has been used in much higher quantities than it should.

    I think that's the "foresight" part...

  10. Re:Revolution on MPAA and FBI Help To Train Swedish Police · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Destroy Power
    Not People.

  11. Re:Sure on Chinese Hack Attacks on DoD Networks Coordinated · · Score: 1

    Great idea. Let's go nuclear again! I always wanted to know how nuclear war feels like...

  12. Now I can see... on Camera Phones Read Hidden Messages in Print · · Score: 1

    ...all the "Fnord!"'s. 12 bytes of UTF-16 in BMP = 6 chars. Perfect. I knew it...

  13. Re:Oh, oh, oh - pick me! I know! on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1

    Or you could just freeze it in-place, maybe just plug in a freezer, open the door and sink it into the ocean. Oh my bad, that would be adding something to the ocean and making the level rise again. Never mind. Or you could actually learn, how a refrigerator works. And then answer the question: "If you open a fridge in a room, will the mean temperature of the air in this room get lowered?" (no, it wont...)
  14. Re:Pretty amusing superbowl announcement on Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those of you outside of Germany: Bavaria is a state of Germany. It even contains more beer than any brewery conglomerate...

  15. Re:Hmm... on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1

    BTW, couldn't find any communists there, though.
    Maybe you weren't looking hard enough. Let's take a look at who supports their findings, and the approaches suggested.

    http://www.marxist.com/global-warming-socialism050 400.htm

    http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2003/323/index.ht ml?id=pp6.htm

    With Comrades like these, who needs enemies?

    So some marxists wrote an article about global warming. How does this tangent the neutrality of the IPCC or the science community?

    Incidentally, the IPCC is largely funded through UNEP, an ostensibly neutral international organization staffed and led by socialists.

    Surely you can name some facts that support your claim...

    So despite the fact that the IPCC website says nothing directly about socialism, the prescriptions required to implement their fixes would naturally have to be socialistic.

    If some programming problem is best solved by using $language, the use of $language for solving that problem doesn't make the developer in question a $language evangelist.

  16. MOD PARENT UP! on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1

    That was definitely some informative post!

  17. Re:Hmm... on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 1
    http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/online.htm

    The big problem with the whole "Global Warming" hysteria is that is doesn't take into account natural processes. It just looks at our Earth from a static viewpoint and assumes nothing ever changes, while adding in massivley inflated numbers of Human pollution. The models that the scientists are using are so primitive that they can't accurately predict real climate change.

    Especially:

    http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/308.htm

    And this was 2001.

    It has become a political point of view, co-opted by socialists and communists who are attempting to force a consensus in the scientific community through control of government and private foundation grant funds.

    BTW, couldn't find any communists there, though.

  18. Re:Politics = Terrorism on Congress Hears From Muzzled Scientists · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if it is due to humans, it's still natural since we are part of nature. Humans don't live outside of nature simply because of our technology.

    Extinction of the human species, which couldn't adapt to it's fast changing environment successfully, would be natural, too. Same goes for using our brains to prevent that.

  19. Re:PDA? on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    I would agree, except for the fact that mine kept locking up at inopportune moments (like during exams when I was an undergrad), forcing me to to complete system resets and lose all my data and programs.

    Happy one. In most states of Germany, programmable and/or graphing calculators are not allowed for tests, exams and the like in university and all types of school. Though, i think it's a good training. Who want's to carry a clunky calculator to lunch instead of a pencil and an envelope anyway? :)

  20. Re:yes! on Publicly-Funded Research Data is Public? · · Score: 1

    However, in the last 3-5 years,some very respectable and highly cited open access journals have come up - check out www.plos.org or Biomedcentral http://www.biomedcentral.com/ - they are open access publishers who don't charge for access - instead, they charge the authors for the publication costs.

    For Physics, Mathematics, CS and Quantitative Biology:

    Arxiv

  21. Re:Well.. on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1


    It actually says (Gen1:27-28):
    27
    God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
    28
    God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.(...)".

    Too bad, later editing removed the criteria for determining when it's been subdued ;-)

    -chris This only matters if you have a stingy definition of "filled" :). Later, i found this one:

    ProphB, Hos 3:1

    "The number of the Israelites shall be like the sand of the sea, which can be neither measured nor counted."

    /me agnostic (just to be sure ;)).

  22. Re:Well.. on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1
    It actually says (Gen1:27-28):

    27
    God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
    28
    God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.(...)".

  23. Re:Yay!!! on NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon · · Score: 1

    1 ml = 1*10^(-3) l

  24. Re:you say ncurses. . . on Which Text-Based UI Do You Code With? · · Score: 1

    That's exactly the reason why i hate Web 2.0. No shortcuts.

  25. Tell them. on Wal-Mart Is Pushing Compact Fluorescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    Or ask if they realize that. Then you'll know. Simple as that.