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  1. Re:I think everyone is missing the big picture her on Flying the Wiretapped Skies · · Score: 0
    While I'm not arguing your other points, you are a bit mistaken about this

    They didn't use any high-tech emailing or chat system or anything else to coordinate the attacks

    They used cell phones gto communicate between planes when they were on the ground.

  2. Re:Yet again no *nix version. on Google Earth Launching For Free · · Score: 0

    Nah, for UNIX/Linux they're releasing the version that displays the images as ASCII text pics...

  3. Re:Digital isn't always better on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 0

    Eh, young man, whats that in floppies? " we would instead only had to deal with 130 CDRs, 20 DVDs"

  4. Re:HA! on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 0

    So go to the fridge and get a scoop of butter. But then you have to find the salt shaker... Sorry, maybe I'm deprived, but I've never been in a movie theater where the popcorn tasted better than quality microwave stuff. As for the jumbo drinks, just keep a suply of 2-liter bottles...

  5. Re:HA! on Consumers Prefer Movies At Home · · Score: 0

    Ha! Wait until your kid hits 13 - then you have to pay adult prices for the kid.

  6. Re:Google = next IBM = Google University on Google Scholar: Not Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 0

    Google sat maps not useful? Standard maps leave out information - such as physical layout of the streets. I just used Google sat map to save 10 min crossing a bridge on my commute in the morning. Everyone goes out exit 2 to get onto the bridge (hence the backup), and from regular map it is not clear if exit 1 links to the roadway. The sat image shows it clearly and very few people go that way, so I save a critical amount of time (10 min is critical since I am not able to leave earlier and traffic increases exponentially each additional minute)

  7. Re:Ain't nothin' goin' on but the rent on Google Scholar: Not Ready for Prime Time? · · Score: 0

    Don't forget this nice feature - for some papers it will tell you how many times it was cited. So look up your paper and find out how popular and useful your research really was...

  8. Re:Could be a disaster.... on Apple/Intel Speculation Running Rampant · · Score: 0
    Oh my goodness, it's been so long ago I even forgot:

    Yes the switch was very successful and transparent.

    Most of the games even worked.

    Heck, I STILL use Word 5.1a - under classic mode. Word 5.1 was a 68K program from the early 90's which made ME switch back then to Mac. (actually switched at Word 4)

    Back then Word on the PC totally sucked and Word Perfect was king. But Word on the Mac was much much better that WordPerfect.

  9. Re:Article is an excerpt... on Nuclear Fuel How-To · · Score: 0
    Personally I prefer the book

    "How to be the first on your block to be the last on your block"

  10. Well... on 2 Firefox Security Flaws Lead to Exploit Potential · · Score: 0
    "no known cases have yet emerged where an attacker took advantage of the public exploit code"

    Not yet. Been looking for an opening. Thanks for the tip!

    {code code code}

    :-) :-)

  11. Re:Buy Dry Ice? Can't I make it? on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 0
    p.s. compress a gas to "freeze" it?

    PV=nRT - decrease pressure P and T decreases. It's easier and more fun that way.

  12. Re:Buy Dry Ice? Can't I make it? on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 0
    Not really hard to make dry ice - the hardest part is getting enough CO2. There is a neat gadget that you can attach to a 'T' tank which is simply an expansion nozzle and a bag to catch the stuff. Expand the CO2 rapidly and you get a bunch of nice dry ice powder. ALL of it goes to Dry Ice. Only problem is the volume ratio from gas to solid kills you - that one tank only makes a few small bags (I think it's a half cubic foot, but I might be off.

    (A 'T' tank is one of those long skinny tanks that, in science clourses, they tell you if you lop off the top it turns into a missle)

  13. Re:Blank Reg on U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law · · Score: 0
    So the matter was...choice?

    You mean Lincoln was there to *unbalance* the equations?

    I feel a slo-mo coming on...

  14. Re:Religion will continue to lose... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 0

    You are so right, but, Spell Alert! biblethumpers do not spell it "evomoluzhun", they spell "evillooshun" :-) "larnin' evomoluzhun in ar skools"

  15. Re:2041 on IBM Gives SCO the Works · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, does that mean that SCO is now hiring? :-)

  16. Re:Or... on New York Times Exploring how to Charge for Content · · Score: 0

    Hello, I saw the best example in the PBS documentary on Cuba & Castro - the part where Castro was just some relatively *unknown* rebel hiding in the mountains. After NYT & CBS News he was no longer inknown and I think you can guess the rest.

  17. Re:Why pay for inacccurate, biased news? on New York Times Exploring how to Charge for Content · · Score: 0

    What do you mean? NYT is excellent! I mean, when I walk my dog, Daily News & NY Post are a bit too small to catch all the details - the NYT has a great spread and you don't miss a thing! (same for WSJ) :-)

  18. Re:Library? on New York Times Exploring how to Charge for Content · · Score: 0

    That is sad. As a few old timers told me, quite often the electronic version is not equivalent to the print.

  19. But But on Will America's Favorite Technology Go Dark? · · Score: 0

    but they stop broadcasting analog and do it in digitial, how will the space aliens watch TV?

  20. It's been a long time on Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End · · Score: 0

    Sure took a long time. The concept of perpendicular recording is relatively old - I remember work being done on it back in days when Microsoft was a cute little monkey. Here is a nice link that explains the process: http://www.wtec.org/loyola/hdmem/02_03.htm/ Intel has a note on it - no date, but this is for floppies... http://support.intel.com/design/archives/periphrl/ docs/7281.htm Toshiba is working on this technology: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1214toshitous.ht ml/ The technology was used in tapes in 2002: http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/15 01631

  21. Re:Gloating? on SCO Possibly Delisted from NASDAQ · · Score: 2, Funny

    >"When it gets so bad NASDAQ delists you, it means that you are about to get sued, and get sued hard."
    Next we'll see an anouncement from SCO complaining about the litigious nature of society today.

    Maybe they'll take out a full page ad in NY Times..

    To a chemist it's Fe-y, to everyone else it's iron-y...

  22. Re:Also... on Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010 · · Score: 0

    >"Or, retrieve it, dig out the debris and sell the toothbrushes and other random bits."
    Yo!
    Considering all the $$ that earth junk gets nowadays on e-bay, selling space junk should fetch enough to pay for the trip!
    (figure *100 premium if a religious figure is impressed on the object...)

  23. Re:orbital farms on Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010 · · Score: 0

    ..so instead of free range chickens we'll have free floating chickens?

  24. Re:Appropriate use on GPS-Enabled Criminals In Massachusetts · · Score: 2, Funny

    :-) >When you start subjecting the entire population to the same kind of treatment you've got a MAJOR due process violation. ..And we all know that major due process violations cause major due core dumps (geez, on Slashdot and no one thought of that one? Or no one likes my flavor of UNIX?)

  25. Re:I don't understand....... on Mac mini Dissection · · Score: 1, Funny
    Obviously these (presumably - Americans) have never listened to the Beatles song "Penny Lane":


    "ON THE CORNER IS A BANKER WITH A MOTOR CAR
    THE LITTLE CHILDREN LAUGH AT HIM BEHIND HIS BACK
    AND THE BANKER NEVER WEARS A MAC
    IN THE POURING RAIN
    VERY STRANGE"

    http://the-beatles.lyrics-songs.com/lyrics/187/

    Heck now that part of the song makes sense to me now... after all these years too... :-)