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  1. Re:No, the orignal source... on Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you could forward your correction along to UCLA's law school...

  2. Re:I predict on Students Sue Anti-Plagiarism Service · · Score: 1

    Benjamin Franklin thought "that it is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer."

    http://www.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm

  3. Re:Chili? Russion? on Space Debris Narrowly Misses Airliner · · Score: 1

    What they doo-doo is what we read. Sometimes. When we're really bored.

  4. Re:One show stopper on Can Apple Penetrate the Corporation? · · Score: 1

    And the functional difference between a rational anarchist and a patriot would be what, exactly? (Thomas Jefferson was a very enlightened man for his time)

  5. WAMPR-S on MIT Scientists Reach Fiber-Optic Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Wide Area MultiPRocessing-Symmetric - a slight re-arrange for a more palatable acronym. Not too far from womprats, not easily bullseyed due to their ~2-meter length and propensity for hiding in canyons...

  6. Re:Copyright issues? on Red vs. Blue Makes Green · · Score: 1

    Thank you!

  7. Re:Copyright issues? on Red vs. Blue Makes Green · · Score: 1

    How would one go about getting voice work in this field? (Where would I send a demo tape or ten?)

  8. Re:now, yes, but why maintain it? on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 1

    Where's the "+1, wake-up call" mod when we need it?

  9. Re:I for one ... (revised) on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    Yay - I'm tall and intelligent - makes for not as much as wealthy and good-looking - maybe I just need to visit the place that study was done...

  10. Re:I for one ... (revised) on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    Tall only works if you're also considered handsome or wealthy (voice of experience).

  11. reflected? on Battlefield 2142 to Bundle Spyware? · · Score: 1

    One would think the stock market would react to this (ERTS) - a fun game in itself!

  12. Re:Ok, let's analyze this a bit, shall we? on Swiss to Use Spyware to Listen to VoIP · · Score: 1

    When has judicial oversight ever been sufficient to protecting citizen's rights?

  13. hunh? on Swiss to Use Spyware to Listen to VoIP · · Score: 1

    Installwatch + a firewall with a solid logging facility might not present *problems* for this software, but should provide enough info to entertain folks for a while...

  14. Re:"Moon is a Harsh Mistress" anybody?? on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    I admit my ignorance of any structure that will stand up to the accelerations/velocities applied to the kinds of masses they're talking about launching, whether straight-line or circular, for the time needed to achieve said velocities: Granted, 2 up to even 9 or 10 g is doable for awhile (see NASA's training centrifuge, for example) but is it scalable to escape velocities?

  15. Re:"Moon is a Harsh Mistress" anybody?? on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 1

    Long line understood, but still, that ring is going to have to stand up to stresses involved in a mass moving at high speed under continuous acceleration... How many G did the article say? Keep in mind, arc means the entire thing enjoys the stress of the entire acceleration for the entire time the mass is being ramped up to escape velocity - rather like spinning a bullet in a circular rifle barrel for x-thousand revolutions before being released...

  16. Re:"Moon is a Harsh Mistress" anybody?? on Magnetic Ring Could Launch Satellites, Weapons · · Score: 2

    I saw it - my question is, if they can't build a straight rail line that'll handle the stresses involved, how will they manage it with a ring??

  17. analogy on Does File-Sharing Really Hurt the Music Biz? · · Score: 1

    File sharing is to music sales as VHS and DVDs are to theater ticket sales.. oh, wait, they've posted new records? Nevermind. Nothing to see here...

  18. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    I work with XP at my job, because I have to in order to remain employed. No, thank you. Not for my home machines.

  19. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    Thank you very much: That particular sticking point was the last reason not to switch over...

  20. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    Has it occurred to you at all that I'd like the opportunity to *learn* on my own terms? That maybe, just maybe in the mysterious future (a year or two down the road), I want to upgrade the hardware to one of those super-cool 64 bit multi-core whiz-bang machines and be able to run it Linux only? I also enjoy making noise, but in this case, there's a bit more to it.

  21. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

  22. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 1

    Thank you.
    Will look into it.

  23. Re:Upgrading boxes on Can Linux Pick Up Users Abandoning Win98? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The individual who comes out with a same-drive conversion guide from 98se to (distro) with losing no functions of the MSOffice software (The wife uses Access and Publisher and can NOT afford the time/learning curve to switch) will get me purchasing it: I am happy with the k7m AMD 700 hardware I've got and do NOT want to be forced to buy more Microsoft product just to maintain the status quo...

  24. Re:You're kidding, right? on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    Troll-feeding time!

              They pay for the *availability* of the lecture during the class time scheduled, for which they still need to contribute their presence to complete the transaction/receive what they've paid for. Nobody's forcing anybody to pay again for the content: Consider rather that they're offered an additional convenience. As the professor is doing these on his time (above and beyond scheduled class work hours), he should be allowed to charge for them, and personally, I'm surprised more profs don't do this and that he lets the students get away so cheaply.

  25. Re:Money on ESA Pushing for Gamers to Vote · · Score: 1

    Virtual mod point!