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  1. Re:even more reason to wait for the dvd on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. Forget modern movies - if you want to see a well-made classic, try "Dirty Dancing". Pinnacle of movie making.

  2. Chauncy Gardiner on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    "I like to watch" (from Being There).

  3. Better... on First Chrome OS Notebooks Due This Month · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I for one welcome a 4th operating system on the market. Sure took long enough. (I know I know, some people are going to say "what about VMS? I still use it", etc.)

  4. Re:question on Drupal 7 · · Score: 1

    And it sounds sort of like "vorpal" and "druid" combined...

  5. question on Drupal 7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a new kind of sword based on black silicon.

  6. Re:Right now? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually you might say we've been running out of them since the moment the first one was assigned...

  7. Re:Reading the meter on Real-Time Power Monitoring Options? · · Score: 1

    And if you want to automate it, but a little wireless camera on it, stream it into matlab, track the image of the spinning disk and count its rotation rate.

  8. Re:Reading the meter on Real-Time Power Monitoring Options? · · Score: 1

    Are you referring the Mana? That's an old story if you are referring is what I am thinking of.

  9. Go round the side of your house on Real-Time Power Monitoring Options? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And check how fast the dial in the electric meter is spinning.

  10. Re:Another one bites the dust on How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim · · Score: 1

    Well, the author hasn't been convinced by the crowd:

    "Deolalikar hasn't withdrawn his article. He claims to have fixed the errors and will be submitting the revised article to a journal to go through an ordinary peer review process."

  11. Re:One additional improvement on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. But throw in a little GPS and you could do it.

  12. Re:One additional improvement on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why bother with all the infrastructure? Just install a monitor in the car and when the speedometer goes too high, charge his/her credit card.

  13. Re:The analogy is all wrong on The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple · · Score: 4, Funny

    "That's no moon - it's an aging round of cheese."

    "An aging round of cheese? No one could make an aging round ..... wait a minute...Chewie quick, get out the crackers..."

  14. General problem on The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags · · Score: 1

    Even if I create a pdf now, I have to wonder what sort of hidden meta data crap it contains.

  15. Re:Oxygen fuel and water aren't critical? on Russia's Unmanned Capsule Misses Space Station · · Score: 1

    Whatever, but no matter how you look at it they lost whatever it cost them to shoot it up, which was no doubt a huge amount of $$$.

  16. Re:Wait... They want them to dumb things down... on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but not all truths are simple. That's what makes some people so mad about certain scientists and science and MATH esp. To simplify them is to change them.

    I've always found the whole "a" concept in F=ma confusing. Let's make it "F=mv" for the congressional report on K-12 science, since v makes sense - I see it in my car dashboard every day!!

  17. Re:we should study this on Do Scientists Understand the Public? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems ridiculously broad, since it contains all of those topics. Better to focus on one issue that is not being understood by the public, and find out the cause.

  18. Re:Yay! on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even better - I go with my mug and just fill it with half-and-half and drink that all morning. Then by lunch time I so full I don't need to eat. Free dairy! mmmm.....

  19. Simple solution on PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies · · Score: 4, Funny

    The school district should just give these kids laptops with cameras that the school admin can activate anytime! Viola! Problem solved.

  20. Re:mod parent up on Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're right. I should have said "follow the quatloos".

  21. Don't follow the water on Water Not a Good Enough Guide To Find Alien Life · · Score: 3, Funny

    To find aliens, follow the latinum!

  22. Breaking news! on Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked · · Score: 0, Troll

    The primary application, which was preventing first posters, has been compromised.

  23. Re:Python for Scientific use on Matplotlib For Python Developers · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think Matlab survives a lot based on urban legend and another strange thing - it is easy to make plots. Like Maple and mathematica, the simple environment is really what keeps it going. Try writing some basic linear algebra operations in C++ with some not too fancy methods and you will find Matlab is no faster, or even slower. If you are already functional in C or Python or whatever, steer clear of Matlab. Unless perhaps there is some reason you want to use it to design hardware controllers. In that sense it is pretty cool.

  24. Re:don't forget squeezebox on When Internet Radios Get Affordable · · Score: 1

    When it gets affordable, I'll still be happy with analog.

  25. Wait... on FCC Allows Blocking of Set-Top Box Outputs · · Score: 1

    are they saying "All your TV belong to us?"