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  1. Less energy into the system, good plan. on Scientists Plan "Artificial Volcano" Climate Experiment · · Score: 1

    Umm, nothing can go wrong if you intentionally try to reduce the amount of energy that reaches the surface. Nothing at all.

  2. Re:TCP/IP stack on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 1

    to add or subtract one unit at random from the least significant digit of the timestamp.

    Now you can be identified as one of those that has a random timestamper. So you can be placed on a watch list. What are you trying to hide?

  3. Re:Monthly Subscription on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 1

    I would so pay a monthly subscription to download my TV shows off the respective channels.

    I do this already, it's called tivo. I've already made a DVD of episodes 1-6 that I pulled off my tivo.

  4. Duh. on U.S. Kids Don't Understand First Amendment · · Score: 1

    The students are answering based on their experience. School newspapers, School internet access, School society is not the same as that outside of school.

  5. Re:What ethical problems? on Decompiling Java · · Score: 1

    You have done a fantastic job of explaining exactly what the current situation is and why the "well my box says..." arguments are incorrect. Cheers to you! Anybody that has confusions about the issues should read your thread. I owe you one beer.

  6. Scientists aren't painters? on Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters · · Score: 1

    How are these different?

    Scientists start out doing work that's perfect, in the sense that they're just trying to reproduce work someone else has already done for them.

    For hundreds of years it has been part of the traditional education of painters to copy the works of the great masters

    He's wrong in thinking that scientists (Physicists at least) don't learn science by hacking science. He seems to know as much about traditional science as the average person knows about hacking. His examples of the 'makers' can be applied directly to most scientific research. Perhaps science should be replaced with engineering in the article. Although I know as little about engineering as he does about research scientists.