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  1. Re:Meanwhile... on 19th Century Airship Technology for Port Security · · Score: 1

    How does this get modded insightful? Of course its security. What else could you use a huge airship like this for, as a government, that serves any purpose?

  2. Re:Cesium and Laser Beams on German Scientists Create 5 qubit Quantum Register · · Score: 1

    The issue though is that the humidity of the environment must be strictly controlled. Though this shouldn't present too much of a problem with the tiny scale (vacuum (minus the cesium), perhaps?).

  3. Re:sorta OT on House Passes Another Spyware Bill · · Score: 1

    At least until they start getting really nasty and hide themselves in bootsectors and whatnot.

  4. Re:And of course... on Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation · · Score: 1

    Services in general don't have associated taxes. Fees are more common, but still nowhere near universal. And especially with our current administration, in the event taxes are applied, they won't be a hindrance.

  5. Re:VIA willbeat INTEL on Via Will Join The 64-Bit Fray · · Score: 1

    heat dissapation is WAY less

    That's a reason not to buy one... unless you like having a hot processor.

    Also, and more on-topic, haven't we (being most posters in this thread) been forgetting Itaniums, which have been available for a long time (they're on their second iteration of Itaniums now)?

    The original poster is wildly incorrect.

  6. Re:Fox News on Gartner Says Linux PCs Just Used To Pirate Windows · · Score: 1

    The problem with Fox is sensationalism. They make everything and anything sound like a big deal, so that you'll watch their news.

  7. Re:EULA on Anatomy of a LAN Party? · · Score: 1

    That's what they are for. They say that the school can't be held responsible for anything that happens to the student (this tends to be while they're on a "field trip").

    They aren't legally binding in all situations, and if you can't sue the school you can still sue teachers or other people, but it tries to cast aside blame.

  8. Re:Open Source - With Source! on Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source · · Score: 1

    Its open source minus source, according to the summary. The title is misleading.

  9. Re:Real Life on Playing God in The Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    Where that wouldn't work is in families of more than one Sim. Though I suppose the speed could be relative to the selected Sim. This would be very annoying when they were at work though, as it would probably be a boring thing.

  10. Re:Not VGA resolution on 2.2 inch LCD Display featuring VGA Resolution · · Score: 1

    Are you able to tell this from the article, or an outside source? The article simply states that it is VGA resolution. It says it uses the same power as a QVGA device.

  11. Re:Of course Democrats are upset on Overseas ISPs Blocked From US Voting Website · · Score: 1

    If you'd bothered to look, you'd notice that the site is a way to get information about voting abroad. Not an alternative to the papers.

  12. Re:Huh? on Overseas ISPs Blocked From US Voting Website · · Score: 1

    Democrats Abroad is a group which spoke out against this action and is mentioned in the article. RTFA.

  13. Re:Conversely... on Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology? · · Score: 1

    The thing is, however, that most people want to see their "product," even if its a free one, become successful (this obviously isn't always the case, but not every developer just creates something because he wants it himself, lots of them want to increase their audience purely for the satisfaction and bragging rights). To get someone to download a program of any sort in the first place you have to explain why its going to be useful, you have to market it. (With relatively mature packages like Apache, this is a case in the past. It can rely on word-of-mouth and be "successful")

    I'm not disagreeing with you. Rather, I feel that you didn't leave enough gray area.

  14. Re:Not really... on Mock World Vote · · Score: 1

    When I looked at the site, the US data replicated the World data almost exactly. Kerry had about 3x the votes Bush did. (~3,000 and ~1,000).

    There's either a big fluctuation, or some misinformation (and I'm not saying it can't be on my part).

  15. Re:Security is always a problem.. on GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that the people without hats stop clicking on the damn things. "Ooh, more free porn"

  16. Re:What are you going to do? Mod me -1, flamebait? on GdkPixbuf Suffers Image Decoding Vulnerabilities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn Windows Zealots. Go back to your open areas and get out of our holes!

  17. Re:It is a bit disingenious really....... on Motherboard Design Process · · Score: 1

    You must not read AC comments.

  18. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's exactly what I meant. [sarcasm]Thank you for clarifying.[/sarcasm]

  19. Re:Intel secret plan on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    With that many digits after the dot, what number system are you using? That could be either 10 GHz or 10 Mhz, depending on what kind of audience is viewing...

  20. Re:One monopoly down on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    Intel hasn't been a "monopoly" for many many years.

  21. Re:Good to hear! on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    Even two way competition is good. In these markets, its not friendly, its bareknuckle. As it is, most of the big players are evenly matched, keeping our prices lower. More would be better, but its hardly a problem.

  22. Re:Including businesses? on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    HPs have a trend of using AMD chips in their lower-cost models. I can't speak of Dell though. But not everyone's custom-built PC uses an AMD. Intels still run faster, even if they don't crunch the big numbers all in one cycle.

  23. Re:Downhill battle? Or is it uphill? on Savebetamax.org National Call-in Day · · Score: 1

    I don't know why that got modded down, I would personally have left it be, because while its "insightful" its also "offtopic" but not "flamebait."

  24. Re:Vote Democrat on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 0

    Except that with Bush, the rich people, who don't get taxed much, just keep all their money in the bank anyways.

  25. Re:The best ideas are already stated on Home Defense, Geek Style? · · Score: 1

    In a city, you don't want to lock your car doors. If they're locked, the thief is going to break the windows and then take what he wants. If its unlocked, he'll just take what he wants, but won't break the window. The thing is just not to leave anything in the car, and not have a removable expensive car stereo.