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  1. small form factor on Pentium M Goes SFF · · Score: 1

    By small form factor...do you mean, laptop?
    Score: -1, Redundant; that's for the machine boys, not the comment.

  2. FASA Studios on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this will inspire FASA's next brainchild... Mechwarrior 5: Flowering Fafnirs

  3. love you long time on Half-Life 2 Ship Date Confirmed · · Score: 5, Funny
    Half-Life 2 Collector's Edition which includes Half-Life 2 in DVD-ROM format, Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source, a free limited edition t-shirt, and a Half-Life 2 strategy guide from Prima.

    No wonder it took so long to release. They have a marketing woody.

  4. Quake Depths on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: 2, Informative
    Here are a few plots that show the recent earthquakes vs. depth and location.

    I think they color the recent quakes red to scare the bejesus out of everyone, but the average depth over the past month is still much closer to the surface than normal.

  5. hyper-locution on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 2, Funny
    This book is intended to be a real-world, no-nonsense, thoroughly documented collection of easy-to-implement recommendations to help the average thoughtful person to pick the 'low-hanging fruit' of conservation and renewable energy.

    With sentences like this, no wonder it's a 5MB article.

  6. This is fantastic! on Wheat Field Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why? Networked tractors of course!

  7. SCO - The axis of drivel on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    I'm continually amazed by how much SCO leadership reminds me of guys like Kim Jong Il. Cut off from the rest of the world and entirely impervious to reason. I don't know much about Darl as a person, but I wouldn't be surprised if he lived in a bunker 200 feet below the surface with a horde of castrated slaves that spend their days chanting "Your stock is up!" and "There is no linux!".

  8. Re:Actually, no... on XP2 Spotted In The Wild · · Score: 1

    Why 'sploits? Are you just trying to sound cool? 'cause the last time I checked exploits was easier to type and had the same number of characters.

    I'm not trying to be a dick. It just comes naturally.

  9. Re:Useful tip for the NASA engineers .... on Messenger En Route To Mercury · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's no joke kids.

    At an AAS (American Astronomical Society) meeting two years ago,I picked up a neat little reference card from the NGST (now the James Web space telescope) booth. I still have it. There's this great image of the telescope with Ball Aerospace, Northrup Grumman, and Kodak corporate logos plastered around it. On the back was a reference table with star magnitudes, colors, etc as well as some useful distance conversions; including the distance from the earth to the sun:

    "AU - Astronomical Unit - Mean distance between the Sun and Earth: 149,599,000km. 190,236,576 miles."

    Take a good hard look. Now look again with the knowledge that there are about .62 miles per kilometer! Whoops!

    Now I'm not saying that this is an apples to apples comparison. I'm sure (I hope, for the love of god) that they do a few more checks on a spacecraft propulsion system than a cheap promo. But still!