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  1. Re:King Snake? on Volcano May Have Killed Off New Bioluminescent Cockroach · · Score: 2

    King snakes don't have rattles on their tail, but will shake their tails in the same manner. In a pile of dry leaves, it sounds pretty convincing.

  2. Re:600GB drives? on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    Depends on the type of drive. Current 15k RPM SAS drives don't go much bigger than that... Also, (as TFA mentions) once you factor in some kind of overhead for redundancy, you're probably talking about 1TB drives. (Assuming this is 120 PB of *usable* capacity.)

  3. Re:dont hold much hope regardless on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or there's this one from E3 in 1998: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omOPjBoClw0

  4. Re:That and toplessness.... on Google May Blur Canadian Faces and License Plates · · Score: 1

    I dunno, from what I hear there is no shortage of topless women in Windsor, Ontario.

    Er... you said "in public"... nevermind.

  5. Propane is odorless on Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills · · Score: 1

    Propane is naturally odorless.

    The smell that commercial propane has is something that is added so you can tell if there's a leak.

  6. Re:Mano-a-mano? on No Winner In NASA's Moon-Dirt Digging Competition · · Score: 2, Informative

    As pointed out in one of the other posts, "mano" is hand.
    "Mono" is spanish for monkey. =)

  7. Re:Dictionary mistakes. on Google Admits to Using Sohu Database · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points today, you would have just won all of them.

  8. Re:Or it's a joke... on Bugged Canadian Coins? · · Score: 1

    We tried that once with the "Young Man's Guide to Sex" in somebody's backpack.

    Strangely, he made it out the door without triggering the alarm... Wonder if he still has that?

  9. Re:Migration to IM on Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself · · Score: 1

    Where I work, this is more like 9.8 or 9.9 out of 10.

    Only ~2% of email we recieve makes it through the spam filter... and even some of that is spam.

  10. Re:Not for "your web pages". on Google Gadgets Come to You · · Score: 1

    Reading. Comprehension. From TFA: "Google Gadgets, which have previously been available for users to add to a Web user's personalized Google homepage or their own computers via Google Desktop software, are now available for Web page owners to add to their own sites." (Emphasis mine.)

  11. Re:Rather not on Cleaning Electronics with Sugar · · Score: 1

    Agreed... I have some aluminum baking sheets and the scrubby side of the sponge will visibly scratch and/or scuff those without any effort.

  12. Re:Setting the bar too high? on Tepid Results from Google's New Product Process · · Score: 1

    Additionally, much like Gmail, Google Maps has raised the bar and forced the competition to play catch-up.
    You can't look at the the Yahoo Maps Beta and tell me it isn't a direct "borrowing" of Google Maps/Google Local.

  13. Re:when will they learn... on 'Destroyed' Hard Drive Found At Flea Market · · Score: 1

    Even worse, I've seen those same unencrypted text files being shared out to the world via various P2P programs.

  14. Beating the Anti-Scalping laws? on Ticketmaster to Start Online Ticket Auction · · Score: 1

    How does this work in states where it is illegal to sell a ticket for more than its face value? Although I guess if you're the one printing the tickets, you can make the "face value" whatever you want it to be.

  15. Re:Documentation for 'Budget' models.... on Budget Graphics Cards Compared · · Score: 1

    Fair enough...

    The original poster seemed to be more interested in getting drivers to work on other OS's, not so much with the security aspect of it.

  16. Re:Documentation for 'Budget' models.... on Budget Graphics Cards Compared · · Score: 1

    In addition to 97 different versions of Windows, there are drivers for:

    Linux IA32
    Linux IA64
    Linux AMD64/EM64T

    FreeBSD x86

    Solaris x64/x86

    Not sure what OS people are running that is so unrepresented.
    What am I missing?

  17. Re:Documentation for 'Budget' models.... on Budget Graphics Cards Compared · · Score: 1

    What's wrong w/ the existing nVidia drivers?

    So it's not open source, but they've been pretty good about providing drivers for Linux for quite some time now.

  18. Re:Cyber* on Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist · · Score: 1

    Do you prefer the lowercase 'e' prefix? (Ooh, eMonday!) Although I suppose that one's a bit outdated as well. Maybe they can paint it white and throw an 'i' in front of it. That's pretty trendy these days. At least they didn't mention the Information Superhighway.

  19. Re:Free song of the week on New iPods on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    And the Apple online store currently says "We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour."