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  1. Re:Carnegie Mellon gets ignored... on MIT Leads in Revolutionary Science, Harvard Declines · · Score: 1

    Washington University in St. Louis . . .
    1947-1966: 2
    1967-1986: 8
    1987-2006: 4

  2. Re:easy one on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    pull out your scientific calculator and take the log(0^0) and see what happens. especially when you say its equal to 0*log(0) and things like that which prove that 0^0 != 1

    actually I'm just bullshitting that

    Anyways, since you're participating in this argument, you clearly don't get the joke and are therefore not a fan of mathematic research

  3. Re:why should I care? on Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday · · Score: 1
    2x as many

    why wouldn't it be 2^32 more address spaces. you're doubling the bits, right?

  4. Re:damn.. have to download it again !?!? on Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm running Firefox 1.03 with IEView working just fine. I don't know what you're talking about.

  5. Re:Interesting logic on Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants · · Score: 1

    Whether this makes you happy or not, the majority of Americans are not amenable to the idea of killing undeveloped babies for medical research. Then why do so many people fight for legislation against things such as Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer when it is the technology that could replace the need to use human embryos to create stem cells? It still makes no sense to me.

  6. Re:Interesting logic on Stem Cells Cultivated Free of Animal Contaminants · · Score: 1

    But wait, stem cells made using this technology can't be funded by federal money. Nor could even the development of this be funded by federal money because it involves the creation of new lines. The restrictions may not be limiting, but the funding for existing lines as of some random point in history most definitely did not contribute to this.

  7. Re:Sure... on Legal Torrent Sites Help Legitimize BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    etree.org has been popular for a long time as it holds concert footage of a number of bands that are well liked by a portion of America. While they may not have the popularity of pop music, noone is going to argue with downloading legal Dave Matthews, Grateful Dead, Phish, and other bands. The bands on that site are quite akin to the ones that one sees at Bonaroo each year, which has been a bigger success than many people imagined. I don't know much about the others, but as a long-time etree user, I can attest to its popularity.

  8. Re:Software as a Subscription Service on Microsoft to Buy Anti-Virus Software Firm · · Score: 1

    You pay once for the software, and pay more for updates Isn't that what they already do with Windows?

  9. Re:What are they going to do on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    uh, I think your account would be cancelled pretty quickly if you were doing credit card fraud.

  10. Newton proved that wrong on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    Every force has an equal and opposite reaction. The force applied on it had an exactly opposite force applied on us . . .

  11. Re:From a Harvard Student... -- patently false on Pharmacare, Harvard Try To Shut Down Security Hole · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Choosing your classes isn't a critical system????

    Or even just seeing what classes someone is taking and where??????

    Imagnine this was NYU and it was people hacking in to see what classes Mary Kate & Ashley are taking so they can stalk them. Or worse, these people under FERPA being kidnapped for money. That's why they keep their info private, having that stuff out there is a major security risk for a lot of people.

  12. Re:I agree ... on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 0

    Actually, the relevant question is how much spyware IE will give you on your way to getting firefox. On average it takes about 5 clicks to get spyware in IE, so unless they reduce the clicks, Microsoft knows that downloading firefox must result in you being compromised.

  13. Re:Oww the ironey! on Linux To Ring Up $35B By 2008 · · Score: 1

    yet, what you saw in Russia, and what you see in North Korea are what most Americans are opposed to, thus invalidating your argument. Rule Number 1 in arguing about communism: When someone is opposed to communism, but misdefines it, they are opposed to what they define it as, not the correct definition.

  14. Re:Can someone fill me in? on Comment Spams Straining Servers Running MT · · Score: 1

    except they have totally different purposes, emails don't increase the page rank of a site, blog spam (in theory) does.

  15. Re:African Market? on OpenOffice.org In Swahili · · Score: 1

    It probably isn't a market because the people can't afford to pay Microsoft prices. Its a market for open source, but not for Microsofts products. Its a noneconomic demand, and thus OO is apprpriate.

  16. Re:If they have skills, they'll find jobs in NoVA on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 1

    Just to emphasize, Loudon where AOL is has 1.7% and Fairfax which is next door has 1.8% There was an article in the Washington Post about companies not being able to find construction workers cause everyone already had jobs in Loudon County. Work is not hard to find.

  17. Re:Link is incorrect on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    Wired isn't typically susceptible to the slashdot effect the last time I checked

  18. Re:What I want to know is... on Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD · · Score: 1

    well, they all do say "appears courtesy of " so as you said, the record company must have agreed to this shindig. and the Beastie Boys one is under that noncommercial shindig, so it can only be used for pet projects in your room, you can't make money off it. . . And I think the Beastie Boys had the most input out of all the bands because there's is the only one that has the band name in the courtesy line in addition to the record company.

  19. Re:What About Espresso/Cappuchino PCs? on AMD's Personal Internet Communicator · · Score: 1

    its cheaper ???? to get comparable prices from the cappuccinos, you have to buy a system without a cpu, which the last time i checked is worse than a geode. Plus no memory and no hard drive. Really, I think the barebone cappuccino might run slightly slower