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  1. Re:x86 on A Look Into The Cell Architecture · · Score: 1

    What if Cell is fast enough to emulate x86 hardware with comparitively negligable slowdown compared with current x86 hardware using technology from Transmeta? Read the article, it's worth it.

  2. Re:We're gonna need a bigger boat on IBM Ordered to Show More Code to SCO · · Score: 1

    A question is whether SCO has to make sure they return all of this code after the the trial and everything is over. After all IBM owns AIX. SCO is asking for AIX code. So unless SCO pays up if they don't return it, IBM could sue them.

  3. Re:Good for blizzard for enforcing it... on The Basics of EULAs · · Score: 1

    What about that judge that ruled that privacy policies meant nothing because no-one actually read them (from /. a couple of months ago). Does that mean the EULAs mean nothing because no-reads them? It would be an interesting precedent to use as a defence against a lawsuit for breach of an EULA.

  4. Re:Baloney. on Scientific American on Quantum Encryption · · Score: 1

    The only problem is quantum entanglement is that the entangled state of the photon is inherently unpredictable (think cat in the box) and hence useless for communication.

    Also the quantum state of one entagled photon would be the opposite of the other one that was measured, not the same as the article states.

  5. Re:Easier to go insane, yes on We Pay Our Rent By Buying Coffee · · Score: 1

    At least they don't play Lite-FM ALL day at your office. I got home last Thursday and was untying my shoes and began to contemplate the music I've been subjected to 4 days a week, and I nearly cried. Such is the travesty of an auditory sensation I endure. I prefer the hum of the air ducts and the whine of my computer in it's relative silence...

  6. Re:Well on AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Try Rob's Amazing Movie Generator at http://cmdrtaco.net/moviemaker.cgi

  7. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 1

    I hear G13 does you in after one shot... Government Issued Industrial Strength Weed.

  8. Re:Well on AI Bots Pick The Hits of Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    Does it matter, the movies are all the same now anyway. Go watch a good French movie, you will be shocked by the difference. Or if you don't like subtitles watch Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman in Under Suspicion, it's an adaptation of a French movie Hackman saw and made Freeman watch, then made a remake.

    For a French romantic comedy try Jetlag with Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno, and for a regular romance try The Scream of Silk (don't know what the Translation is...).

    A word of warning though, French romances really are tear jerkers. During American romances you know they get together at the end and everything is happy and nice, at the end of a French romance the response is usually "Damn, that's... sad."

    I haven't really branched out farther than French English and Japanese films yet though.

  9. Re:Variability on Harvard Pres Says Females Naturally Bad at Math · · Score: 1

    "Just as there are both male and female math illiterates, there are female and male math geniuses."

    Like Lise Meitner. She discovered the element protactinium with Otto Hahn in 1918. She also discovered nuclear fission with her nephew physicist Otto Robert Frisch. She has an element named after her too, Meitnerium.

  10. Re:What? on Physicists Work on Physics' Uncool Image · · Score: 1

    Well have you ever listened to MC Hawking?

    You down with entropy?

    Yeah you know me!

    You down with entropy?

    Every last homie!

  11. Re:And here are the more interesting posts: on Apple Releases Mac Mini · · Score: 1

    Look at all the clips on that thing, it's going to take hours of careful work to get that open without breaking anything inside.

    I bet the authorized service centers have a little thing they can just push the Mac Mini down onto that pops it open in 3 seconds...

    Damn their RAM prices, damn them...

  12. Re:Newsflash! on Are Nanotube Monitors In Your Future? · · Score: 1

    I know! Just like Flying Cars!

  13. Re:Green with envy on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We might never know seeing as the FBI can now issue their own warrants and confiscate whatever they want and the person that is on the receiving end of this unconstitutional government rape will be forbidden from saying anything about it, all pursuant to the Patriot Act Part II that was recently passed as a late tag on to a larger security bill. Of course no-one had time to read what the attachment was before passing it...

  14. Re:Uses and mods for this laser. on Green Security Clearance Laser Pistol Available · · Score: 1

    You would have to worry about a small amount of atmospheric distortion in some conditions at long ranges.

  15. Re:Early warning on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 1

    Only problem with that is that no one would be able to afford one.

  16. Re:Already there? on The Media in 2014 · · Score: 1

    Damn, I shouldn't have spent my mod points to quickly...

  17. Re:Boring. on Comparative CPU Benchmarks From 1995 to 2004 · · Score: 1

    In the meantime the model in the holiday buying guide is hot.
    http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/2004111 5/inde x.html

  18. Re:Donations on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 1

    17000 is the rough number of Iraqi CIVILIANS killed, that does not count those in the Iraqi military killed in the initial invasion, who by the way didn't really fight back.

  19. Re:OS X on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    If he cleanses the world in fire and apples all we would be left with is unfinished apple cobler.
    Or unsweetened apple sauce...

  20. Re:I can't be the only one.... on ASUS Barebones: Multimedia Even Sans Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The should not have called it 'S-presso', I actually thought it was an espresso machine...

  21. Re:A question on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    For GPS guided bombs see this page http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/smart/index.html and scroll down about half way. There are at least 7 different weapons platforms listed there that use GPS. Although the GPS Guided Weapons Page they link to at the bottom in the Sources and Resources section is out of order.

  22. Re:That settles it on Futures Markets Face Trading Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Damn! Now there's prior art...

  23. Re:errrr.... on The Promise Of Transparent Circuits · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you thought having your regular windshield replaced was expensive...
    How much will it cost to replace these 'active' windshields after your ex bashes it in yet again...

  24. Re:Manned flight is unsafe on Astronauts Should Fix Hubble · · Score: 1

    Well it isn't safe as long as the management that was in charge during the Columbia mission is still in place. "They might burn up on re-entry!" "Oh well, nothing we can do about it..."

  25. Re:Oh joy, another upgrade treadmill on Studios Face Off in Next-Gen DVD Format War · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the law of diminishing returns has it's place somewhere here, but I definatly know the law of the diminishing wallet applies to the whole subject.