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  1. Re:War on iPod, war on PS2, was on Nokia on Microsoft's Music Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Hmm, got some numbers to back that up?

  2. Re:Getting Google Takedowns with Google... on First Google Maps Hack Takedown · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. Re:Firefox 1.1 on Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available · · Score: 1

    No, Deer Park is 1.1, unless things like built-in SVG rendering and the new options window got bumped up to the 1.0x line.

  4. Re:LOL on Electricity Outage Puts Routing to a Tough Test · · Score: 1

    How about good old fashion Russian titanium? If its good enough to build SR-71s, it ought to be good enough for him.

  5. Re:Calculator key? on Blank Keyboard · · Score: 1

    The swaped caps lock and control keys I might be able to adjust too. It the fact that that keyboard moved has the tilda\grave key where the bak`ckspace kee`y should bee` that lee`ads me to find itr` almosr`t completlie``y unuss`able.

  6. The jaguar? on Really Remote Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Mind the jaguar.

    Forget the jaguar, beware of the leopard/p

  7. Re:Best of luck to him... on Kevin Rose Leaving G4 to start Internet Only Show · · Score: 1

    X-Play has (had) a bad habit of pulling TSS tallent into its once a week show. First pull was Kate Botello. Went from an hour a day, five days a week, to a half hour every week. Sad.

  8. Re:And if you want something really cool on FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance · · Score: 1

    Stopwatch, actually, but yeah.

  9. Re:exe crashes explorer when viewed accross SMB sh on Firefox Updated to 1.0.4 · · Score: 1

    While I have had crashes, when I browse to the samba shared folder with the FireFox or Thunderbird installers, Explorer will show the default program icon (the empty window) and lock the folder window up for a while before showing the actuall installer icon (the box and CD) and becoming interactive again. Tis anoying. It also takes an unusual amount of time to get the first window of the installer after I double click the icon.

  10. Re:Rotten tomatoes on Initial ROTS Reviews Hit the Internet · · Score: 1

    100% so far, out of seven reviews. Who will be the first reviewer to break the perfect record?

  11. Re:Well on Kernel, Shell Boots on DS Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Its also been done on Opie, but that of course primarily targets PDAs. Though, other then the fact that the DS has two screens, prioprietary memory cards, and no on-board ROM, I don't think there is too much difference.

  12. Re:Embrace the green glow... on Wireless Everything at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    Why do you think they call themselves the "Big Green?"

  13. Re:Brilliant! on Wireless Everything at Dartmouth · · Score: 1

    Well, living in the area, I can tell you that "wireless television" arround here usually involves A. Getting two fuzzy chanels, an NBC affiliate that is mostly run out of Burlington, on the other side of Vermont, and the local PBS station or B. a satellite dish.

  14. Re:Easier way is, "Time is an illusion" on Time Travelers' Convention · · Score: 1

    I think "Time is an illusion"...

    Lunchtime doubly so.

  15. Re:Older but on Last Titan Launch from Florida · · Score: 1

    The shuttle requires a crew of two, not seven. The other five are just along for the ride, as far as flight operations are concerned. And the reason it costs more to launch then a Soyuz is because you are launching more. Over twice the number of people, plus a schoolbus-sized load of equipment in the cargo bay. Plus, it can bring BACK schoolbus sized loads in the cargo bay. Space in a Soyuz reentry module is very limited.

  16. Re:WRONG on Snails Edge Out ADSL · · Score: 1

    Though even that may be beeten by an A380. Hard to say; wikipedia didn't provide any easily-comparable numbers, and I am not sure if it is weight or volume is the limiting factor. (I'm guessing the latter, but lust guessing.) Also consider the Super Guppy, which probably wins the volume wars.

  17. Re:Screw the whale... on HHG2G Exec. Producer Robbie Stamp Answers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh no, not again.

    (If you insist, go refer to Life, the Universe, and Everything and/or the Tertiary Phase radio series.)

  18. Re:It just won't work on Microsoft's New Mantra - It Just Works · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly how all symlinks used to be implemented, and how they still are done if the path to the target file is too big to fit into the filesystem table. See wikipedia.

  19. Re:True geek! on Moore's Law Original Issue Found · · Score: 1

    the real expense is the bride and then their is not much one can do about that.

    Get married in someplace like Massachusetts or Canada or Holand?

  20. Re:What about the engineer... on Apollo 13 Engineers to be Honored · · Score: 1

    The problem is the oxygen tank was made by a sub-subcontractor. NASA's original CSM specs called for 12 volt electrics. They latter changed the specs to a higher voltage, and informed North American. The problem is North American never told the folks making the O2 tanks, so they only built with 12 volts in mind.

  21. Re:Possible? Yeah on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    Plus (at least for BitTorrent) have each of the segemnts of the file come out to the correct hash. Yeah, you could waste time pulling a bad block from a bogus seed, but, after reciving it you'd notice the block hash dosn't match and you'd throw it away and try again (hopefully from a different seed), not retransmit it to others.

  22. Re:I just got a new job in London \o/ on WiMax Hits 100 mph on Rails to Brighton · · Score: 1

    The car itself, though, is a one time expense that should (hopefully) last you a few years of commutes, at least if you wern't putting 500 miles a week on the thing.

  23. Re:And so ends the meetup.com dream on Meetup.com Ends Free Meetups · · Score: 1

    Say, meetup.com?

  24. Re:.pro? on Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, your not alone, but you've given me an idea. /me goes to buy a spam.pro subdomain.

  25. Re:double dock and share? on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, I suppose in the worst-case scenario, assuming the shuttle can get to IIS but life support or something is damaged, you can get rid of three mouths to feed by sending them home in the Soyuz lifeboat docked at the station. Of course, that means everyone else will have to ride home on the second shuttle, as you've just used up your last contingency plan for the station crew, so you'll be leaving the station completly unmaned, something that hasn't been done since the early construction phases. And heaven help them if the second shuttle runs into problems.