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  1. Note to self on Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't post ill-prepared, university hosted laboratory website on slashdot.

  2. Loading... on Using the Semantic Web to Enhance Search · · Score: 1

    As soon as you even begin to type it is loading something, it keeps loading with each character, guessing it is the autocomplete "feature" but it loads too slowly for me to tell. Anyone else have any luck?

  3. Re:Same flower? on Extinct Wildflower Found In California · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Somehow I don't see evolution doing the job in 70 years, that's pretty quick, even for a small plant and the odds of tracing the exact same evolutionary path twice are quite daunting. Especially in the case where apparently this flower had not much of an evolutionary advantage to begin with, as it was believed to be extinct

  4. Re:Does anyone use it? on Netscape 8 Breaks IE XML · · Score: 0

    Quite a few older users who have used netscape for a long time will update simply because it is something they know. Other than that, I don't see anyone "switching" from FF or IE to netscape.

  5. I think the title says it all on Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet · · Score: 1

    Little Interest In Next-Gen Internet

    Ain't that the truth.

  6. Brought to you by on New Pentium Chipsets Launched · · Score: 1

    ...the department of redundancy department.

    Additionally, they also cranked up the Pentium 4 6XX sequence line-up to include the new Pentium 4 670 at 3.8GHz.

    ...Additionally, Intel took their Pentium 4 6XX sequence processor, based on the Prescott 2M core, for a speed bump to 3.8Ghz."

  7. Re:Uh oh... on Mad as Hell, Switching to Mac · · Score: 1

    The primary reason is that Macs Just Work(TM)

    The problem is when Macs Just Don't Work, no one knows what the hell to do, because everything is so automagic that no one can find where to tweak the actual base processes. Macs are great when they work, which is, admittedly, most of the time, but if anything breaks, you've got a hell of a time fixing it.

  8. Re:Hmm... on The World of Blogebrities · · Score: 1

    Oh, you'd only waste them anyway...(see, another 3 seconds down the crapper)

  9. Re:Phishing! on Honeynet Revealing Actual Phishing Techniques · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up quick, I actually laughed out loud. Rush rules!

  10. Re:Copy Cat'ing on Home Made Star Wars Movie Injury · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, but those were children and thus supposed to not know the difference between real life and a movie. We're dealing with adults in this case, stupid adults, but adults nonetheless, so I don't think they'll be any sort of uproar, unless it is uproarious laughter.

  11. Re:Obligatory simpsons quote on Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor · · Score: 1

    Well, upon further review, at least one of the previous attempts at this quote failed...mod on!

  12. Re:Obligatory simpsons quote on Researchers Pinpoint Brain's Sarcasm Sensor · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't be modded redundant, as the previous post butchered this quote mercilessly.

  13. Can't be ruled out yet on Wormholes Unstable (BBC) · · Score: 1

    As Hawking, and several other authors are quick to point out, as we don't yet have a unified field theory, nothing can be ruled out completely, it may be unlikely, but nothing is impossible...yet.

  14. Re:Oblig Simpsons quote on Firefox Promo Videos · · Score: 1

    Actually, I am right, Burns mistakenly calls gabbo garbo. So suck on that.

  15. Re:Cool ads, but I don't think they promote Firefo on Firefox Promo Videos · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're probably both right. Some users (particularly the older market) prefer the hard sell, and some prefer something more mysterious, both are effective in their respective markets.

  16. Oblig Simpsons quote on Firefox Promo Videos · · Score: 1

    "Look Smithers, Garbo is coming!"

  17. Re:While it was rushed... on Congress to Revisit the Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    This would be hell for lawyers, not to mention the general populace. If you have a revolving system of laws, half the country wouldn't know what was legal and what wasn't, plus every time there was a switch in control of congress, laws would fluctuate even more than they do now. I think it's fine how it is, some laws have expirations and some don't.

  18. Re:Is it the general opinion of the public... on Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope · · Score: 1

    They did force the World Wrestling Federation to abandon their WWF moniker. That's evil enough in my book.

  19. Re:it's a war on Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope · · Score: 1

    They should've marklared there marklar before posting on marklar.

  20. Re:Is it the general opinion of the public... on Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course there is reason for concern, any company gets too big and powerful they become evil. Wal-mart, Microsoft, Disney, Intel, Lucasfilm, they're all evil, and I'm sure they didn't set out to become that way, it's just the power of the dark side. Power corrupts, it's the nature of the beast.

  21. Re:Concrete Roads on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    Isn't rubber one of those materials that (like water) expands when it freezes? This would seem to create a pretty big problem in a place like Wisconsin.

  22. Re:Turn Off the Idiot-Box! on FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let us turn to our computers, and that mecca of intellectual stimulation, slashdot.org!

  23. Re:Death to Television on FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Of course, the internet is the solution to everything! Phones, TV,electricity, commerce, books, newspapers. Lets make sure to put all our faith in the ubiquitous power of the internet.

  24. Re:Tell me this... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    The problem with an infinite universe is that everything isn't the same temperature. If the universe had existed forever, everything would have already reached thermal equilibrium, all the stars would have burned out,etc.; in short, everything that was going to happen would already have happened.

  25. Re:Tell me this... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Who (or what) created the singularity which exploded in the big bang? We still don't have that one figured out yet either.

    I'm a firm evolutionist, but the question of the first "cause" has been pondered since Empedocles' "big swerve", and since this realm is currently beyond the scope of science under current theory; any explanatory primary causation must be deemed equally valid.