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  1. Pictures? on Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot · · Score: 1

    Anyone see any real pictures of the thing? There is a sketch on the floatcam page, but I want to see the real thing.

  2. Re:I wonder... on Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast · · Score: 1

    Stick him in the cockpit of an X-300 series vehicle and you could make an argument for typecasting.

  3. Re:HTTP? on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    In a perfect world, yes. However, there are problems. Not all clients are well behaved and include a if-modifed-since field in thier request header, probably do to programer laziness (You want me to store what I get? Why, bandwidth is cheap and I don't feal like writing the extra code), and not all RSS servers support look at the if-modifed-since field, espceially if they are generating the feed from a script thats called on demand, once again, due to laziness (You want me to store what I generate? Why, processing is cheap and I don't feal like writing the extra code.).

  4. More Firefox ammo on How Much Harm Can One Web Site Do? · · Score: 1

    Thats... wow. Makes me want to go arround to every machine I can get at and install FireFox and delete all the IE shortcuts. Of course, would that make me any better then those web sites?

  5. Re:No root privilege escalation on Cross-Platform Java Sandbox Exploit · · Score: 1

    Uhhhh, that's a fault of the user not the OS.

    It is somewhat the fault of XP Home. Microsoft, trying to get people who know what they are doing to shell out the extra $100 for Pro, left only two account types in XP Home, Administrator and Restricted User. Because the restricted user account is so, well, restricted, most people use admin. If they just left in the Power User type and made it the default, life would be so much easier.

  6. Small question on Mass Transit Meets The Incredibles · · Score: 1

    I am just a little unclear how three person cars count as mass transportation. How are these tree person train cars better then three people in a Focus in the HOV lane. I guess it is more convient for passengers, as you don't need to fill up or drive, but not sure where the savings comes from.

  7. Re:Google on Bringing the Library of Congress Newspapers Online · · Score: 1

    Seeing that Google has been searching on 8 billion pages, these 30 million seems pretty insignificant in terms of volume

    Yeah, but how many of those 30 million are junk like domain name registration placeholders or pages full of keywords trying to funel people to ebay auctions they arn't intersted in. Remember, quantity!=quality.

  8. Re:Question on Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth · · Score: 1

    I don't think its nessasary. Space missions tend to go for a nearly pure-oxygen enironment. It saves them the weight of gasses they arn't using, and means they can lower the cabin presure, as the partial presure of oxygen is really more important then the total presure of all the atmospheric gasses.

  9. Re:It's not a star gate on Stargate SG-1 & Atlantis Renewed · · Score: 1

    Its a reference to the Aqua Teen reference to Stargate. Circular references are circular, are they not?

  10. On Names on Ask Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Any good story behind the choice of Gabe and Tycho for pennames/gamertags/screennames/whatever you want to call them? Side question: Why is it always Gabe and Tycho and never Tycho and Gabe?

  11. Re:Plain-Jane Lego, of course! on Classic Toys For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    The one problem with the massive tubs is they tend to be a little short on some of the special pieces, like the turntables and hinges and wings you need to build a really awsome spaceship.

  12. Re:Please tell me on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    [...]
    Now, what I want (among other things) is:

    1. Clicking on bookmark link opens link in new tab.
    [...]
    Middle click on your bookmark. It works.

  13. Re:bittorrent rocks on Firefox 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine this could turn out to be be one of the highest-seeded torrents in history.

  14. Re:Good American Programmers? on So, Who Wrote Sobig? · · Score: 2, Funny
    There never seems to be any good American programmers who write malicious code and viruses like this.

    It all got outsourced to Asia.

  15. Re:Puzzle Pirates on Halloween Massive Gaming News · · Score: 1

    I perefered last years fun, where everyone was transformed into skeletons or zombies.