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  1. Ignore this. on USB EVDO Modem Without PCMCIA · · Score: 1

    Ignore this. Made a mistake in moderation, replying to undo mods.

  2. Re:Stenography Encryption on VoIP Numbers Stations were Social Experiment · · Score: 1

    If the pen is mightier than the sword, I'll wager that the typewriter is mightier than the steamshovel!

  3. YTMND already had a say on Matt Damon as Kirk in Star Trek XI? · · Score: 2, Funny

    on this subject. Look here.

  4. Desperation. on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 1

    You know your OS is crap when you resort to making someone spiff up the external ediface.

  5. Good News for... on Congress Passes Energy Efficient Server Initiative · · Score: 1

    Transmeta, no?

  6. Perhaps this would make a good tool: on Software Turns Google into a Virus Scanner · · Score: 1

    A database of sites comprimised, using this binary Google scanner, to keep an accurate up-to-date record. Plug that record into a Firefox plugin, that will show if the website has been compromised in any way.

    (My apologies if this doesn't make much sense, I just had wisdom teeth dug out of my skull, and I'm on lortabs.)

  7. Experimental... on MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt · · Score: 1

    So in other words, it'll be called Aragorn when it becomes master?

  8. Here's why. F&R vs. GTA. on Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GTA never had celeb endorsement, it was just a good game. Fun, with lots of humor, and a not-so-subtle parody of the world we live in. Fear and Respect, for all apperences, has endorsement from two people the average person could care less about. Snoop Dog (aka P. Diddy) is a laughingstock when he's not making halfway decent music. GTA was never about the "hood vibe" and it likely never will be. You don't go around as a black youth by default, you don't go around tagging, you don't sit on a stretcorner singing in monotone. You don't even threaten to "bust a cap". Besides, what has Midway been behind in the past 10 years that was a thundering success?

  9. Stress? on When Wikipedia Fails · · Score: 1

    "...or the stress from his trial had caused the heart attack." Actually, most sources I've read online and on paper have surmised this. How is this "radical blogging" when even some family members have suggested this? I smell FUD.

  10. Having the sail in the water works too... on Wind Powered Freighters Return · · Score: 1

    Fishing it out of the waves? That's a whole 'nother idea entirely. You can have a sail underwater to catch currents to pull you along as well.

  11. Well, don't forget the third "GPS" on Cracking the GPS Galileo Satellite · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not many people remember it, but there was a third competing system for Global Positioning.
    GLObal NAvigation Satellite System
    Started by the Soviets, cont. by the Russian Federation, and now with India on board,it is expected to be fully operational again in 2008. (Like all things expected to be complete in 1991, the money situation made them push it back further than Vista.)

  12. Ebay can make you rich... on Can eBay Make You Rich? · · Score: 1

    In the same way the Lottery can make you rich.
    It's possible, albiet HIGHLY unlikely.

  13. Re:an amazing promise on WinFS Gets the Axe · · Score: 1

    "In fact, if you trim down Vista to match a trimmed down XP, I think Vista actually runs faster."
    Show me an average user who trims down their OS. Remember, Microsoft aims at the average user, not us Admin/Poweruser types.

    "the new WiFi networking model that can remember which security settings for which network"
    Gee. 'Lets fix the WiFi dialog box so it remembers what the user sets for each network. We can call it a whole new model!' Right. A) How is fixing a bleedingly obvious oversight a 'new model'? For that matter, will Average Joe's Vista Laptop autoload the same 'no security' settings for HIS 'linksys' SSID, and the hundreds of thousands of identical ones?

    Parent: if you were serious about what you said, you MUST be delusional. Otherwise, a fine troll you did. Really top notch getting us all stirred up.

  14. Stable? on Mixing brain cells and nanodots · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "New Scientist reports that these neural networks are remarkably stable, surviving for almost three months in the lab." NS must run Windows... only thing that can explain that remark.

  15. Re: The simple answer is... on String Theory a Disaster for Physics? · · Score: 2, Funny

    >> There exists a universe in which major advances in Phyics would have been made if so many smart scientists were not distracted by String Theory.

    > Of course, there also exists a universe in which string theory is correct.

    In that case, there's also a universe where Bush is smart, where Iraq is a democracy, where the US is not being held hostage by corporations, and where oil is irrelevant.

    But I don't see it happening or affecting me any time soon.

  16. Tags and the FUD troll on Earth's Temperature at Highest Levels in 400 Years · · Score: 1

    [-] fud, climatechange, globalwarming, notfud, duh (tagging beta)
    Okay, who gave Big Oil/NeoCons the rights to post tags?

  17. Re:Wrong word? on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I do believe the Protoss Dragoons say the line "Our enemies are legion" if clicked on several times.

  18. Re:Wrong word? on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Definitions of legion on the Web: * host: archaic terms for army * association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion" * a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion" * horde: a vast multitude" via Google's "define" search

  19. Thermite... on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    What 'standard' required? Are you trying to tell me that you might be able to read some data from the molten aluminium?

  20. Re:Project for blind people on Scientists Couple Nerve Tissues With Computer Chip · · Score: 1

    If it worked, would the person be able to switch camera inputs? Imagine a person able to see through the outputs of wireless security cameras floating around.. able to see a fuzzy grey image as if through their own eyes.

  21. What should have made the list: on Stupid Engineering Mistakes · · Score: 1

    * The Soviet Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, in the town of Chelyabinsk.
    * The Bhopal Disaster.
    * The GM Pinto.
    * The John Hancock Building.
    * The Silver Bridge collapse, in West Virginia.
    * The Teton Dam.
    Now arguably, they had to pick the top ten, but it is very hard to imagine a top ten without at least Bhopal.

  22. Lada's looks better. on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    Yuck. Why did they go with the blocky? Lada's entry looks smooth, polished, and like the current generation of Mac/Windows!

  23. Re:Durability is an issue on Portables as Servers? · · Score: 1

    Like another poster said: Boot from Compact Flash/USB thumb drive/CD. It's do-able.

  24. The RIAA often make me wish... on RIAA Sues XM Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    The RIAA often make me wish we lived in times where bands of Indians and mass quantites of gold were still common in this country. Having molten gold poured into Cary Sherman's orafices would be suitably karmic, no?

    Link to History.

    /Sorry for the slight OT-ness of this post. But RIAA greed tactics make me wish that Karma would actually work against them for once.

  25. Oblig: It's People! on Bio-Engineered Rice Uses Human Genes · · Score: 1

    Soylent Green is PEOPLE! /Obligatory