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  1. Re:Could this have other applications? on Pixar's Drawing Tool · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Come on, really? Man we're living in the future here!

  2. You've Got... on AOL Making Media Player, Music Store · · Score: 0

    "You've Got a cheap imitation of the iPod!"

  3. Re:It's been done, albeit with some manual steps on "Dream Team" to Create Gigapixel Photo System · · Score: 0

    site is starting to get /.'ed

  4. My hotmail on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 0

    Dummy accounts are basically required to use alot of the "sign-up" sites. My hotmail account gets about 4-500 spams a day. At least they provide the tools to delete them easily =\

  5. Re:I've had fillings that were far worse on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 0
    ...snip...

    I just squirmed around in my seat

  6. Re:Chinese Zero Tolerance On Taiwan on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 0

    Really, why don't they just get it over with. There's no way the Western world would allow a Communist country to wage war no matter how good their economy is growing.

  7. Gives new meaning on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 0

    I guess this search engine gives a new meaning to the Chinese Room

  8. Maybe on Profiting from Open Source Software · · Score: 0

    Even though he says he wants the open source community to feel they aren't being exploited, it's kinda hard to see how they aren't. He takes the software, slaps pretty wrapping on top, and sells it to make some cash.

  9. Re:IBM Rocks on IBM Claims World's Smallest SRAM Memory Cell · · Score: 1, Funny

    What are you talking about? Dell makes neat cases.

  10. Re:No, really, you -shouldn't- have. on President Bush's Money For Space Cometh · · Score: 0

    thank you

  11. my experience on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree? · · Score: 0
    I've found in the long run, the degree doesn't matter as much as what you bring to the table with your abilities. My dad has a bachelor's degree in CS from U of Utah, and 20 years later he's an executive at a major banking company -- just because so many people recognized his talents (and he wrote a little Unix app called TWM). I have a CS degree from U of Colorado, and a year later i'm working for a medical device company and they wouldn't care less if I got my degree from a cereal box -- they're happy with my work.

    getting your foot in the door is the first step. When people see what you can offer, they'll be coming to you.

  12. Re:RFID tags at my work on Innovative Uses of RFID Tags · · Score: 0

    Hi, the tag is outside the body at the base of the catheter where it plugs into the machine. They decided on radio communication for catheter ids instead of a physical metal contacts (for small memory reads/writes) because the other end of the catheter is inside the heart, and no current whatsoever can be present.

  13. In Korea on Are Blogs the Future of Journalism? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Korea, only old people use blogs

  14. Re:Oh, now it makes sense... on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you're getting a Zombie(tm)

  15. Re:Perfect Name for a Ripoff Artist on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 0
    many people DO need activex support

    to play midi's and install "X company's ub3r File downloader"

    but seriously, I thought active X was one (among many) of the big security holes that prompted the switch to firefox. It seems counterintuitive for one to download this new Netscape as a replacement for Firefox, which was a replacement for IE, which had Active X, which is now implemented in the new Netscape.

  16. Re:Adult stem cells on Paralyzed Woman Walks Again · · Score: 0
    zygote, embryo, fetus, newborn, infant, child, adolescent, adult and senior citizen


    you may as well regress to egg/sperm, proteins, atoms, protons/electrons, quarks, & strings. They all have the potential for life, so don't move or you might disturb them.

  17. Here's a q on India Debating Manned Space Flight · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Can a turban fit inside a space helmet?

  18. not likely on Open Source Biology Initiative · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even though DNA is 'open source', it's so hard to hack right now company's stand to make more money by hoarding ideas and insights.

  19. Re:(offtopic) jesus sig on New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination · · Score: 1

    It's a joke. He's making a stab at how the conservatives and right-wingers hijacked Jesus and Christianity even though the latter started out with liberal views.

  20. RFID tags at my work on Innovative Uses of RFID Tags · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work at a medical device company, and we're implanting RFID tags into the bases of our optical catheters so they aren't used for more than 72 hours. It's a liability thing, but it's just another instance of RFID. We track the product id of the catheter and the base station records the number and records how long it's been used in the body.

  21. Re:Paper trail not enough on Berkeley Researchers Analyze Florida Voting Patterns · · Score: 1

    Instead of physically giving them a receipt, just keep the paper behind glass and ask the user to verify the vote on the screen. If you accept, you might see your paper ballot slide into the accepted bin, or if it's rejected, goes into a shredder and you can vote again. Of course, you might need to limit each voter to 5 rejects to prevent hooligans from hitting the reject button until the paper runs out.

  22. Re:Microsoft patents ones and zeros... on Microsoft Patents 'IsNot', Enlists WTO · · Score: 1

    It really makes no sense. Even the patent officer stops short of calling her crazy.

  23. Re:This would be great on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Certain types of people are getting on/off at certain points in the drive. Like, the biggest culprit of my commute is the gigantic IBM complex. Imagine the average employee getting on/off there and compare it with the average employee of a mall or a fast food restaurant. There is a collective way people in certain professions drive. The same goes for neighborhoods. I know some exits go to rich neighborhoods, and some go to poor, and there is definitly a difference in how you deal with those sections of the road. Going home, at a certain section of the road you switch to the slow lane because a mile or so ahead, alot of people switch to the left lane to anticipate a left turn (to a rich neighborhood) but it's MILES ahead. this causes a huge slowdown way before the turn, and staying in the right lane you blow past everybody in the left lane. And they never learn their mistakes. Anyways, there are many quirks lurking in your drive, if you look.

  24. Re:This would be great on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1

    That traffic waves site is great. My commute is short, about 20-25 minutes each way, but travelling it so many times makes you almost obsessed with the politics of different sections of the road. I totally know the quirks and dog-eat-dog nature of my drive, and you can't help but try and minimize your time on the road by taking advantage of these. I think everyone to some degree is an amateur traffic engineer.

  25. Re:it's called the bus on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 1
    they are not equipped for the real world and they spend a lot of time going in and out of mental health organizations

    not that I don't agree with the gist of your post, it's not really fair to lump people with mental illnesses into the bottom wrung of society like it's somehow their fault. People that genuinely 'aren't equipped for the real world' and don't have mental illness usually have not been in a mental hospital. They're usually just lazy or dirty.