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  1. Re:The moral of the story... on Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Appeal · · Score: 1

    See my sig.

  2. Re:Better X-Prize on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    ..Or people didn't have the energy to drive this thing,unless their were athletes.
    The same thing apparently is with bikes,even thought they are thousands time easier to drive.
    avg bike speed is less then 30kmh while cars reach 60-90kmh
    resilience to flat tires:substantially better with car tires
    weather protection:non-existant with bikes
    transported mass:car -ten to five times more then bike,trucks x100

    I propose they make a prize for a bike thats competitive with a car(which would be really useful unlike the kremer prize).

  3. No. on Can Large Corporations Buy "Cool?" · · Score: 1

    Quality is attributed not bought.An advertised product does not become cool automatically ."cool" is what people
    think now,and what was cool 10 years ago is not cool today.Cool is synonymous to fashion trend,it not "cool"
    for everyone. You can't force something to be cool,it must be special,unique,uncommon and original .
    To sum it:Money doesn't buys hearts.Trying to be cool without being cool in the first place by itself is like your grandma singing self-made rap(which she could think is cool).Replace your grandma with corporation and you get the picture.

  4. Re:What's the point? on Protests Move From the Streets To YouTube · · Score: 1

    Street protests are not described from protesters side.TV and Media can redact and change whatever they don't like.
    YouTube videos are creations of the protesters.
    Besides real life street protest does not automatically mean coverage and air time.
    If you were living in a country like China,the only people watching you protest would be the police.

  5. Re:THE most important question related to this top on Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human · · Score: 1

    Humans and animals are made of the same building blocks.
    Think about this,next time.

  6. The Microsoft game on MS No Cathedral, Open Source No Bazaar? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1.Embrace.

  7. Re:640k remark on Bill Gates Talk From 1989 Surfaces · · Score: 1

    1gb ram should be enough for everyone.

  8. Re:Supply and demand on Coldwell Banker To Sell Second Life Properties · · Score: 1

    Reification > value creation > marketing
    Your MUD probably had some powerful items,which only elite did have(Virtual items,Reification)
    They are very useful in the context of the MUD (Value creation)
    Imagine that someone offered you that items for measly 10$(Marketing)?

  9. Re:Self selected sample on Many Americans Still Don't Have Home Net Access · · Score: 1

    The poster above you doesn't take into account cost of living.
    So while poor americans may seem living in luxury to chinese or indians,they are poor.
    If you can't use money efficiently you're poor.

  10. My results. on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    I just shutdown and turned on my comp,then timed how much it takes to get win98 running.
    result is 24 seconds(from pressing Power on to MSDOS console windows).
    windows boots into MSDOS console window(shell=command.com).

  11. Re:Here goes my karma, I guess on Voters Vote Yes, County Says No · · Score: 1

    Slashdot was stuff for nerds,but in last several years it become just another industry blog aggregator.
    Like wired news.The ratio of signal-to-noise is fluctuating between 1:5 to 1:10 .

  12. Re:You tried to parod a humorous commercial? on Novell/Linux Parody on Apple's Mac vs PC Ads · · Score: 1

    There cannot be an argument,it definitely Lunix.

  13. Re:That's funny on NBC, News Corp Join to Create YouTube Clone · · Score: 1

    by getting you mean entering their perverted(In the other meaning) minds?

  14. Re:Which Comes First? on Multi-Threaded Programming Without the Pain · · Score: 1

    Depends on the scheduler.

  15. Hybrid functino of morality on Morality — Biological or Philosophical? · · Score: 1

    The capacity and mechanisms exist,but
    need society(with precomposed rules) to functions.A man isn't a man by himself.
    See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
    Morality is on the OS level while capacity/ability is on the hardware level.
    Different cultures install their own flavors of OS.

  16. cross-operating system runtime on Adobe Releases Cross-Operating System Runtime · · Score: 1

    Available for XP only.Irony.

  17. newest speculations on Robotic Telescope Unravels Cosmic Blast Mystery · · Score: 1

    Its a magnetar burp. Google magnetar+GRB

  18. Re:Another victim of wikiality... on Sinbad Rises From Wikipedia Grave · · Score: 1

    That would be Original Research.

  19. Naked PC on Why You Can't Buy a Naked PC · · Score: 1

    If you can't buy a naked PC,you can just buy the components and assemble it yourself.
    There is not Microsoft tax on CPUs and motherboards IIRC.

  20. Re:Horizon on Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano Nuclear winter and destruction of whole ecosystems would be catastrophic.

  21. I think hes completely wrong on Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing · · Score: 1

    Nothing does not have energy,or dimensions stashed in his pocket.
    Its just absence of anything.Universe started from the same causes which created time/3-d space bubble,but these causes are something,and likely been a natural process(bursting from unknown dimensions).

  22. Re:Linux discovers the trash can on Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops · · Score: 1

    Intelligence nothing to do with it.Its specific knowledge.A complete moron given enough time will memorize it.
    Its the difference between Vi and Notepad(or its replacements).Vi is more powerful,notepad is easier to use.
    More people would use Notepad because there is zero learning time,and interface is extremely simple and self-documenting.VI requires reading manuals,memorizing dozens of shortcut keys,etc: all that to edit a text file.
    Linux is composed of things like this.Graphical,user-friendly programs? They don't repair the flaws(e.g.Gimp).
    Its a design philosophy which won't get popular outside the enthusiast camp.
    If you needed to learn C++ to use a computer,internet as we know it would not exist.

  23. Dark what? on The Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    majority of material of the Universe.Yet was never Observed on earth?
    Its like having invisible elephants fly trough the buildings.

  24. How long before it becomes self-aware? on British Military Deploys Skynet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When someone designs an autonomous implementation,equipped with AI.

  25. Re:Apostate! Heretic! on Game Theory Computer Model Backs Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Language itself has such ability(to be able to discern meaning from mispelled words),and thats exactly how we manage to read through mistakes.Built-in redundancy,while lowering information density,adds reliability.
    (english uses 5bits to 8bits,depending on system used.And if it was lower mistakes would garble the meanings)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy
    The entropy rate of a data source means the average number of bits per symbol needed to encode it. Empirically, it seems that entropy of English text is between .6 and 1.3 bits per character, though clearly that will vary from one source of text to another. Shannon's experiments with human predictors show an information rate of between .6 and 1.3 bits per character, depending on the experimental setup; the PPM compression algorithm can achieve a compression ratio of 1.5 bits per character.