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  1. Re:A new kind of askjeeves... on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    Oh no! Timothy is turning into kdawson!

  2. Re:How many bones on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    melelaswe@localhost ~ $ python
    Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 11 2008, 09:55:54)
    [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> reduce(the,number)
    42

  3. Re:Security on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 1

    Thank the Lord, the NRA is a non-governmental organization. Unless you're talking about the National Recovery Administration, which has nothing to do with the CIA.

  4. Re:You can already do this ... on Windows 7 Lets You Uninstall IE8 · · Score: 1

    Apache and GPL are both licenses. :)

  5. Re:Next time . . . on Mars Winds Clean Spirit's Solar Panels Again · · Score: 4, Interesting

    90 days.

  6. Re:Name origin? on NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot · · Score: 1

    Axel!=axle.

  7. Name origin? on NASA Fashions Mountain-Climbing Robot · · Score: 1

    Is this robot named after Axel, the intrepid companion of his crackpot explorer uncle in Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth?

  8. Re:Sounds Good. on Google Unofficially Announces GDrive By Leaked Code · · Score: 1

    You obviously missed that the 4th Amendment was repealed recently.

  9. Re:US National Labs on Summer Research Programs? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:US National Labs on Summer Research Programs? · · Score: 1

    Sandia's high school programs are specifically for New Mexico residents, unfortunately. Two years ago they offered 25 students they selected from ISEF a 2-week "internship" [it's fun playing with computers for a week, not so fun playing with chemistry for a week or calling the play a job, but hey, it's money and job experience; who am I to complain?], but they haven't offered it since as far as I know. If you're a New Mexican, you should certainly try to intern at Sandia in high school.

  11. Re:Take a break on Summer Research Programs? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Especially since most science camps try really hard to encourage girls, so only about half the guys don't get paired up.

  12. Re:Cut out the middleman on Summer Research Programs? · · Score: 1

    While not research-related, may I suggest Mathcamp? It is truly high-level math, 5 weeks, international (not just Canada/USA: that's merely the geographical location). Alternately, try SUMaC at Stanford; more researchy and less high math, but very good from what I've heard from Mathcamp friends.

  13. Re:Actual screencast URL on SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses · · Score: 1

    I thought we had more KSlashers than gNoMeslashers. Aaah! There's a dragon behind me!

  14. Re:It's not the first time, it won't be the last. on Taxpayer Data At IRS Remains Vulnerable · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many game metaphors can one cram into one post?

  15. Re:Bedlam... on State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm · · Score: 5, Informative

    So he can just append a line to his users' .mozilla/thunderbird/chrome/userChrome.css and all works well.

  16. Re:why not just do this with solar. on Distributed "Nuclear Batteries" the New Infrastructure Answer? · · Score: 1

    The worst part of 'renewability' is the concept that we could get energy infinitely long from any one source. Sure, we have infinite sunshine, but we'll run out of silicon to replace that used in old circuitboards eventually. We'll run out of copper to transmit electricity, and later run out of silver; these are the two current best known conductors. For long-term survival, we will have to go into space, and we can't really know what is truly sustainable until we know more about what are practically unlimited cheap local resources in the universe.

  17. Re:mod doH3wn on NASA Mars Rovers Hit 5-Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    This message is a potential instance of steganography on Slashdot. Why is there an H3 in the word 'down'? Why the ill grammar and meaningless (to us) message? Such messages must be considered potential secret communications and analyzed.

  18. Re:It's true. on Apple Believes Someone Is Behind Psystar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm Spartacus!

  19. Re:In Putin's Russia on 'Greasemonkey' Malware Targets Firefox · · Score: 1

    Russia seems to be much larger than the United States?

  20. Prses? on James Boyle's New Book Under CC License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yale University Prses? are all /.'s editors lacking in both mechanical spellchecking and literacy simultaneously?

  21. Re:GL Tail on Suggestions For Cheap Metrics Eye Candy Software? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Seconded. Don't know if this is the same project, but Sandia Labs' Center for Cyber Defense has something like this; watching it run on their network is quite cool.

  22. Re:Two words on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1
    Argentina and Chile were democratic, but recently Chile elected a president just as liberal as Obama, and Argentina elected the wife of a previous president to evade term limits. Israel is decent politically, but when it comes to hate, more of the world hates Israel than ever hated the USA, and the USA will reduce its aid to Israel under Obama, thus making it less secure.

    Let me know if you find anywhere.

  23. Standard problems? on Exchanging Pictures To Generate Passwords · · Score: 1

    How does can this deal with the standard picture-comparison problems - different lighting, different makeup, different facial expressions? If this works, this will be big for image-search, not just passwords, but I am significantly skeptical that it works as advertised.

  24. Re:Actuallly on Recovering Moldy Electronics? · · Score: 1

    What I figure too, just somewhat amusing typo.

  25. Re:2+2 on Wikipedia's New Definition of Truth · · Score: 1