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  1. Re:Wiktionary != Wikipedia on Open Source Speech Recognition · · Score: 4, Funny

    Contrary to what the summary claims, Wiktionary is NOT a sub-project of Wikipedia; rather, both Wiktionary and Wikipedia are projects of the Wikimedia Foundation. They're not only distinct but also - as far as their status within the foundation's hierarchy of projects is concerned - totally equal, with none being a sub-project of or more important than the other.[Citation needed]
  2. Re:Real work. on Down Time At Work — What Do You Do? · · Score: 1

    Buddy, it's called Monsterboard. Use it.

  3. Re:Shouldn't that be... on Teleportation — Fact and Fiction · · Score: 1

    Will Wheaton, did you register a new account?

  4. Re:Where's *my* pity? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bro, you suck at your job.

  5. Re:These things happen on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    I humbly offer this two word rebuttal: Chuck Norris.

  6. Re:So... on Plastic Fiber Could Make Optical Networking a DIY Project · · Score: 1

    Unless _all_ VOIP phones and _all_ WAP's require PoE, your point is mute. The GP stated that CAT is better, because copper wire is more versatile. I responded that fiber can be versatile as well. If you have a point, please make it.

  7. Re:So... on Plastic Fiber Could Make Optical Networking a DIY Project · · Score: 1

    I also have used the White/Brown - Brown pair to run phones in a pinch Try googling for "VOIP" next time, it this new thing all the kids are talking about.

    Not to mention the fact that you can't run a tone generator over fiber to find a cable inside of a bundle on the other side of the building. That's true, but the fact that you'll be able to shine a light through it might help.
  8. Re:Stopped reading on PC Mag Slams Cheap Wal-Mart Linux Desktop · · Score: 1
    You shouldn't have, this one made me laugh out loud:

    Launching applications like Firefox was slow, even in the out-of-box state when a PC is expected to be at its fastest. Yeah, I reinstall Ubuntu from scratch every month, just so I can get that 'out-of-the-box' feel again.
  9. Angels on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    But 10, 20, 30 years from now, that crowd will be *everybody*. What will happen then? There will be no more heaven, because every time that a song or movie is downloaded an angel dies.
  10. Re:Could be... on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 1

    The whole question is stupid, temperature is determined by the average kinetic energy of a group of particles, relative to the observer. Since we don't even know what happens to time and space in the high energetic part of these situations, why would anyone state that you can integrate over it and calculate a temperature.

  11. Open source on NASA Ares Rocket Specs to Be Open Source · · Score: 1

    ... the system's specifications will be 'open-source and non-proprietary ... Ok, where can I send my patches?
  12. Re:In Other News... on Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...President Bush will give in a press conference tonight. In which he will give a detailed explanation of the incident in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947.

  13. Re:Great start on Kite-Powered Ship Launched · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a steerable airfoil kite (like in kite-surfing) the power is generated by making figures of eight, roughly in the point you want to be pulled to. They've developed a nice automated pilot for controlling the kite. In this way the kite can deliver power in any direction that has a down-wind component. (You are right in stating that it is not as effective in all directions.)

  14. Re:We're doing it wrong on Kite-Powered Ship Launched · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why you responded to my post, is beyond me. You certainly make a valid point, but you are using the wrong system boundaries. You're right that kites and the small horse used for the acceleration of sports cars (proposed below) do not solve the worlds problems. Indeed a paradigm shift is needed in order to fully solve our long term problems. We do not need to make transportation cheaper, we need to reduce transportation altogether.

    Developing technologies that save the shipping company $1600/day is a waste of time and effort. You fail to notice that the effort concerned with developing and marketing such a kite are not interchangeable with the efforts to find clean and reusable local power generation methods. Do you really think that the founders of the company in question (SkySails GmbH.), could have contributed anything on the scale you are suggesting? The funding they received from local and European governments might be contributed to the uses you describe, but in comparison with fusion research it would still be a drop on a hot plate. SkySails was funded for 10% by public institutions (related to governments in one way or another) of which the EU contributed EUR 1.200.000. I'll leave the comparison with fusion research up to your friend Google.
  15. Re:Wow. on Kite-Powered Ship Launched · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow. That's quick - we just discussed it last month and they have already done it?! It's amazing what the modern man is capable of. I propose daily stories and discussions on:
    - Cold fusion based power plants
    - Jet-packs
    - Mars terra forming and subsequent colonization
    - FTL travel
    and Duke Nukem Forever
  16. Re:It's called reinventing the... on Kite-Powered Ship Launched · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Because
    1. it can be used at these cargo ships normal cruise speed,
    2. it saves the shipping company $1600 per day
    3. and it utilizes higher altitude winds,
    I would say they have succeeded.
  17. Re:I've been watching too much Heroes lately... on Open Source Telephony Gives Customers Control · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When pull becomes push, there is no limit to what we can do.

  18. Re:In Communist America.. on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 1

    While it's very likely that you mentioned Oklahoma simply for its redneck stereotype No, I wanted to name "one of those states in the middle". Because (imho) both presidents Bush have shown that, the Christian-Heartland can win you the presidential elections.
  19. Re:To avoid NSA, use this method... on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry, I'm American, and I've got to ask: Who is Osama bin Laden?
    --
    Ron Paul [ronpaul2008.com]: Hope for America
    You can find more information on him here. Section "War and Foreign Policy" paragraph 5.
  20. Re:To avoid NSA, use this method... on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think Al-Jazeera is interested in broadcasting my taped message to my father.

  21. Re:In Communist America.. on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A democracy (ideally) follows the will of the majority. America is afraid. They are willing to trade liberty for security. Don't get me wrong, I still have high hopes for the next POTUS. But if the people do not change their mind and keep thinking that the mini-mall in a sleepy rural Oklahoman town is a "potential-terrorist-target", the terrorists have already won.

  22. Re:Better use of a botnet? on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    You should always change your password from the factory installed default of 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to something you can remember easily.

  23. Re:But Imagine This In The Hands of the People on Beamed Sonic Advertising Is Coming · · Score: 1

    "I am Barack Obama and on this day I promise you that I will INDEED raise taxes".

  24. Re:and the pedophiles rejoice on Encryption Passphrase Protected by the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    After they allowed digital cameras to be sold without buyers having to supply a DNA sample, things just went downhill.

  25. Re:It's Obvious......I should have waited on Toward On-Chip Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    Your previous comments might have been in state of Funny and !Funny at the same time, however when I looked they weren't.