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  1. Re:Einstein? on Eisenstadt's Analysis Of 8 Years' Worth Of Email · · Score: 1

    Filtering it of course! You think a genius wouldn't be running some sort of intelligent spam filter? Jeeze, don't knock the guy! He's dead for Bob's sake!

  2. Re:Zombies on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Well, then at least we could have a warning before something jumps out of a dark corner at us while on Mars.

  3. Re:You guys think way too small.. on Cloning License for Dolly's Doc · · Score: 1

    There already is a complete army of geeks. The fact of the matter is, we're too scared of being shoved in our lockers. And if there were millions of us being cloned...those lockers would get mighty crowded.

  4. Re:I wish a search engine would read my mind... on AskJeeves Steps Into RSS with Bloglines Acquisiton · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh...bloglines if just the title. If you RTFA at all, you know that BlogLines is simply (though quite handily) a service for reading your daily RSS feeds. I mean, really, who's gonna use it to publish anything? Or search? I go through dozens of headlines a day with this service. Don't knock it just because they originally bought the domain with weblogs as their primary function. Give them credit for moving so well into this rocking new age of informational RSS feeds.

  5. Re:I wish! on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 1

    All but enough money to spend on my girlfriend is sent directly to paying off my student loans. Otherwise, you'd better believe all this money would be going on an 800 gb RAID array w/ 2 BFG GeForce 6800s on a PCI express mobo and all that other stuff I wish I had :( Even mediocre univerities are expensive!

  6. Re:yeah, don't want to mess Mars up! on NASA Proposes Warming Mars · · Score: 1

    Well, we could make it too hospitable. And then we'll start an advanced alien race, whom will surpass us quickly technologically, and then they'll develop a crazy religion, determine we're sacriligious and start a war to destroy Earth and everything living on it, turning Earth into an inhospitable desert. In any case, you can live on inhospitable desert planets. Just give me a stillsuit.

  7. I wish! on The Economist On The Economics of Sharing · · Score: 2, Funny
    One reason why sharing is so commonplace is that there is enormous overcapacity in both computer memory and internet bandwidth
    I bloody wish. Over 160 gigs, I have less than 3 spanned through 3 drives. I deperately need an overcapacity of storage. And as for bandwitdth...my university's pipe is no where near adequate. I'd do better hooking up Comcast!
  8. Re:Take the recognition out of the loop on Making CAPTCHAs Even Harder With 3-D Models · · Score: 1

    Ah, yes, but unless you have multiple sets, there will one answer to this method, and it's quite capable of overwhelming with the one answer. Although...and I'm typing as I think here...you could put words inside the birds. Words that have nothing to do with the "which is the odd one out". and then that would be the answer...basically a combination of the current CAPTCHAs with your idea.

  9. Re:grampy on How Not to Write FORTRAN in Any Language · · Score: 1

    Only old people in Korea code FORTRAN

  10. Re:I dont understand on Exeem "Successor" to Suprnova Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    You don't lose the appeal of BitTorrent. The tracker/website approach the SN uses was the downside. The thing that truly makes BT great is the way that it shares, not in how the trackers are shared :P

  11. Re:About time on Relic Russian ICBM To the Rescue for Science · · Score: 1

    Oh, this is so old news, Zephran Cockran did it years ago.

    Oh, you say that'll happen in the future? But if I already saw it happen...then it's in the past...but warp technology isn't here yet...

    Damned temporal mechanics!

  12. Re:Now then... on Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT · · Score: 2, Informative

    Already done! And they're for wordpress! My favorite is Blacklist, and it works pretty well, long as I update the definitions every once and awhile.

  13. Star Wars MUDS on History of Star Wars Video Games · · Score: 1

    I can healthily say that SW, in an untouched-by-Lucas fashion have continued the SW legacy. I've played in several, but my current favorite is Rebellion in the Stars, as it's been highly modified from the original SWR mud that was put out so long ago. Just imagine sitting in the cockpit of a starfighter in the middle of space and putting in the exact vector you want to go. Or engaging in combat, firing your blasters, or lasers, or ion cannons, or torpedos, or missiles, or rockets at your target (each ship is unique in what it carries). Or give orders on the bridge of a capital ship, shouting to your crew to tractor in that escaping smuggler, or to lay waste to that Rebel frigate. So I might have got carried away...but really, what I've just described is a small part of the game. Other classes are there to choose from, my favorite being the slicer class (1337 h4x0rs from outer space ;)

  14. The Future on History of the First Internet · · Score: 1

    I think that it's the future of the internet, ie who's going to invent the next better thing for the internet, that really matters, as opposed to the back and forth left vs right arguments we've heard for the last 5 years. I would more say that the person/people who first developed, say, javascript or PHP, etc, should be rewarded more, since that is part of what's made the internet so grand. On the flip side, the inventor of the internet also, by connection, has helped create the hideous spam producers. I say we lynch him just for that!

  15. Re:Cheating on Nintendo DS Review and Internal Pictures · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just in English? We wormed them into our PE tests. Something about calculating distances between lines on a basketball court, whatever that is.