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  1. Re:Erm on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    It's not real-time, far from it. But it is cool to switch back and forth from street maps to sat maps, just with a click.

  2. Re:The actual article on Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, I saw The Black Hole. Maximillian was the robot, and there was an evil scientist too. The black hole itself was totally visible from their space ship. Intense movie (for a 7 year old).

  3. Re:Either way. on Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End · · Score: 1

    There's new technology all the time with both hard drives and optical storage. Think DVD's will never expand? C'mon. Here's one of many articles on expanding DVD capacities. DVD's expanding to 250GB

  4. Re:Bit of ASCII art on Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End · · Score: 1
    Hey, could you send me a copy of that Lameness filter? That'd be pretty handy.

    What type of encoding does it use? (big fat setup)

  5. Re:Finally! on Caltech Researchers Weigh Individual Molecules · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and Newscientist doesn't post April Fools stories. Do they? Neanderthal extinction explanation

  6. Re:Well on Brain-Implanted Chips Allow Control of Technology · · Score: 1

    Think of it from a different point of view though. It's now moments after your untimely death from falling into a meat grinder, and they transplant your brain into the body of a person who had mental illness and suffocated himself.

    You now have a new body, and they can enable you to fully move, if they can just hook up this brain-body interface device. That takes sending and receiving. A major I/O bandwidth sucker.

    This has major potential.

    The example is overly dramatic, but you get my point.

  7. Re:Hmmm... on Brain-Implanted Chips Allow Control of Technology · · Score: 2, Funny

    Two more words: The Matrix

    I'm quite sure no one else thought of that parallel. Dang, I'm so original.

  8. Re:Works in reverse on Brain-Implanted Chips Allow Control of Technology · · Score: 1

    Someone else's finger (in your chili) can already affect your thinking. (and make you filthy rich)

  9. Re:no more TLDs, please on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1

    The first thing pr0n companies would do is try to bypass that restriction.

    And how would you enforce that in foreign countries? The US government (I'm using the US as the example.) can't even regulate sites within its own borders. Furthermore, many of the pr0n sites are off US soil already.

    Yours is an ideal solution on paper, but reality is a very different thing.

  10. Re:no more TLDs, please on Government Finishes Internet Study -- 7 years late · · Score: 1


    Because <CTRL> + <Enter> fills in the http://www. and .com. There is no simple Firefox shortcut for .aero.
    New Firefox hotkey suggestion: a + e + r + o + <Enter>.
    </dumbhumor>

    <Insightful>
    Another thought that contributes toward your suggestion - with Google caching every site anyway, it would load faster for the prospective site visitors if they go through Google.
    </Insightful>

  11. Re:Nah on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But Jobs would've scrapped the whole project if capacity was projected at 18. He'd have demanded more.

    How many times have you seen a realistic bid lose out to a lower budget, quicker timeline bid that ends up late and over budget, often worse than the bid you had to pass on (but that was realistic from the get-go. In a bid situation, you're often times rewarded for your empty promises with an accepted bid.

    Doesn't make it right. It just explains it.

  12. Re:Hit F5 on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1

    And owned by AOL too. What a bonus! Stability guaranteed!

  13. No more Slashdot effect? on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 0

    Could this be the end of the slashdot effect (as long as people use Google as their portal-entry tool)?

  14. Re:she didn't compromise the system on UCSB Student Engineers Grade Hack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't have any mod points here, so I just logged in to the UCSB grading system and gave you a 100.

  15. Re:How far behind on Space Shuttle Goes Back to Work · · Score: 1

    I don't care who you are. That's funny right there. -Larry

  16. Re:What Space Station? on Space Shuttle Goes Back to Work · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sweet! Do you have any pictures? And is that fission or fusion? I wouldn't buy a fission-powered nuclear flying car. They suck. Wait for the '06 models. They have bigger cupholders too.

    I know what you're thinking. Fission vs fusion. Classic flamebait/troll. All I have to say is, "Judge not, lest yer sense of humor be absent."

  17. Re:Adult Movies? on Your Face On the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    FYI - There's photo edits every day (labeled as Photoshop entries) at http://www.fark.com/ Fark.com. Granted, they're probably not as sophisticated as what you'll get here, since it's such a rarity here. Nevertheless, Fark's Photoshop entries are fun.

    P.S. If you already knew about Fark's Photoshop entries, you were not part of the "Y" in FYI.

  18. Re:Competition is good on Cable Equal Access Case Goes to Supreme Court · · Score: 1
    http://www.broadbandreports.com/faq/10373

    Get a router to do that for you, like the Xincom XC-DPG502.

    Quote from PCMall.com: Allows you to use both WAN ports simultaneously, increasing your available bandwidth. You can set load balance type by Packets, Bytes RX+TX and Sessions

  19. Re:Saving money on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    You don't think anyone from Netware got their palms greased with Microsoft money for trade secrets? Hell, much of the terminology is identical (heck, maybe the parent was right. maybe they did just steal it outright). If that's not how it happened, then they probably just stole some of the initial NDS developers, but I'm betting that money changed hands.

    Okay, with the Banyan thing, sure. You know what I meant though. (Companies that are still around)

  20. Re:Saving money on Brainshare Reports: NLD 10, Novell's Linux Switch · · Score: 1

    NDS was the model for ActiveDirectory. You think MS invented that? Heck, no. Novell sold that to them. Novell was the only Network OS in town way back when. MS bought Netware Directory Services from Novell, and thus bypassed infancy, toddlerhood, etc.

  21. special fx on Benioff and Weiss To Write Ender's Game Script · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to the web site, apparently this movie will have significant "special effects". That was definitely noteworthy, because most viewers of this film probably would never have known that going in.

    Sometimes, it's better NOT to read the friggin' article. The summary sufficed.

  22. From the "Who Cares" department on Benioff and Weiss To Write Ender's Game Script · · Score: 0, Troll

    and the list of who cares just keeps shrinking...

  23. Re:RSS feeds :-) on Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent · · Score: 1

    RSS is a standard form of XML that has been adopted. What it allows the parent site to do is publish and update an XML document that has article summaries that can include title, time, summary, link, etc. to their own web site.

    Then when someone like me comes along and enters the URL for the RSS document into either an RSS reader or site like My Yahoo, it will take the content of the RSS document and display it using the format of My Yahoo or the RSS reader. Unlike HTML, RSS (and XML) is strictly for the transfer of data, not for the display of data. The display of the data is handled by the end user's client app.

    When I go to My Yahoo, I now have 8-10 sections of RSS feeds. Each one has the site title, 5-10 article summaries, including the time of posting, a link to the real article, and a short summary. That way, I can view the news from my favorite sites all in one place and click on only the articles I actually feel like reading. It's a time saver, for sure. It keeps me from surfing and getting distracted. I have feeds from the likes of Slashdot, BoingBoing, Fark, Anandtech, Silicon.com, Wired, and various AP feeds. They all show up in My Yahoo, and they all have the same look and feel as any other module from My Yahoo (for better or worse). Anyone who has ever visited Fark or BoingBoing knows that their banner ads aren't good to have on your monitor during work.

    Too much typing. Fingers hurt. Gotta go.

  24. Re:RSS feeds :-) on Amazon Pursues Plogging Patent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    RSS is one of the greatest things to come out in recent history. (I daresay even better than "plogs")

    The whole purpose of RSS is so that you don't have to visit all of those sites, unless something catches your eye. XML kicks ass, even though it's a wee bit bloated. I have about 10 sites' RSS feeds on my MyYahoo page, and I cannot live without it now. If Google would give me an easy way to do it, I'd probably switch to that. Either way, my RSS content is what I WANT to view from sites that I WANT to monitor.

    If you were trolling, I fell for it. If you were being straight up, you're an idiot.

  25. Re:southpark on Lucas To Redo Star Wars In 3-D · · Score: 1

    One of my favorites. I hope you got to see the commercial after the show for the remake of South Park's first episode. "Free Hat" was the episode.