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  1. Re:So what happened? on Maps Show Mars Was Once More Like Earth · · Score: 1

    No, no. The martians never had oil. That's why it's a cold desert now.
     
    Now Venus . . . . that place probably had a shit-ton of oil. Just look at that greenhouse effect!

  2. Re:IPOD nano needs this stuff on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 1

    Or maybe not. According to TFA this stuff is "virtually scratch resistant." Whatever that means . . .. . .

  3. Re:Its pure babel on Magnetic Field Thruster Developed · · Score: 1

    Um, it's off, but not that bad. A fluent english speaker should really have no problem making sense of it.

  4. Re:If you hate religion, sure on NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Lays Off 300 Engineers · · Score: 1

    You're just as valid/invalid as the advocates of religious states.

    No, he's not. A theocracy bases its laws on the (always quite baseless) religious texts of its rulers and will oppress those of other/no faith. A secular government is (theoretically) based on what is rationally best for its citizens.

  5. Re:Region Coding on PS2 Mod Chips Legal In Australia · · Score: 1

    The CSS license requires that you impliment region locks as part of the deal. Legitimate hardware makers have to comply if they want their players to be able to play all DVDs.

    What this does mean is that Joe the electronics shop guy can legally chip players to ignore region flags and sell them as region-free. (Although to hack out Macrovision would probably still be illegal.)

  6. Re:Play once ? on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why bother? Conventional DVD technology is already quite hacked. Rent those conventionally and do the same thing without the bother of hacking a new DRM scheme or giving MS money.

  7. Re:Well... on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Past performance does not guarantee future results. The modern "Republican" party has gotten very good at a lot of very underhanded things. Given that I'd not be quick to write them off on this one . . . . . .

  8. Re:Look out now for the FUD on SpreadFirefox Security Breached (again) · · Score: 1

    I would have thought somebody who actually knows what Opera is would know the difference between that thing and that other thing . . . . . . .

  9. Re:Well... on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    That's the point. Stealth nomination. No track record == nothing to bite on in confirmation hearings.
     
    Given these tactics it's probably safe to assume that she'll rule on the side of corporate feudalism and theocracy. Shrubby wouldn't have nominated her otherwise . . . . . . .

  10. Re:OpenBSD at the cutting edge on security on Heap Protection Mechanism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Won't this crutch actually tempt people to write sloppy memory management because "the heap manager will catch it?"
     
    Doesn't seem so. The new malloc and mmap behavior will tend to cause buggy memory allocation code to segfault rather than allowing various sorts of stupiness or nastiness.

  11. Oh, gotta control this too . . . . . . on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fine. We'll build our own internet. With blackjack, and hookers! It'll . . . . . .

    It'll be just like the old one!

  12. Re:Local law on Playing CDs a Privilege Not A Right · · Score: 1

    As does whether selling a thing that's not 100% CDDA compatible as a CD constitutes fraud.

  13. Re:Why it won't. on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unlikley. Linux, even now, is too deeply imbedded in our IT infrastructure. Banning it would cause billions worth of disruption.

  14. The plan: on Mini-Microsoft Shakes Things Up · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Get your thorn's blog posted on slashdot.

    2) Have them annihilate one of blogspot's servers.

    3) Hope blogspot cancels his account out of frustration.

    4) ???

    5) Profit!

  15. Re:Power??? on Intel Developing Ultra-Low Power Chips · · Score: 1

    There is current going through the traces in the data busses, so technically not all of it leaves as heat.

  16. Re:Power??? on Intel Developing Ultra-Low Power Chips · · Score: 1

    Thermo anyone? Every watt you put in that chip goes somewhere. What do you think most of it leaves as?
     
    Less power == Less heat.

  17. Re:From the illustration... on NASA's New Shuttle · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but if we went back then we'd also have to be fighting Vietnam again. Oh wait . . . . .

    Sherman, set the wayback!

  18. Re:Great. on NASA's New Shuttle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, that's only like, 20 times more dangerous than a car. Pretty good considering you're basically riding a bomb to orbit.

  19. Re:Deadly? on Missing Lab Mice Infected With Plague · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it probably helps that, unlike in the middle ages, people tend to bathe more than semi-anually and don't sleep with their sheep. Therefore fleas don't like us much.

    Well, most bathe and don't sleep with sheep . . . . .

  20. Making me a Slacker again . . . . . on Slackware Linux 10.2 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could:
    a) Get some work done tonight so I don't fail classes.
    or
    b) Install some new Slackware on my primary beast.

    I think I hear the torrent's call . . . . .

  21. Other costs. on Intel's Per-Chip Cost Averages $40 · · Score: 1

    Does that $40 per chip include fixed costs or development? I'd suspect it's rather pricy to design a microprocessor and set up for producing it.

    (I don't work for Intel or anything. They probably are pulling a huge profit margin anyway, but I do suspect that this is more /. sensationalism.)

  22. Re:Times have changed on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1

    except the brain washed commies and religious zelots.

    And who's the president at the moment. (Hint: he's sure not a commie.)

  23. Re:hmm, mutually assured destruction... on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably. It's never a good idea to give people who think the end of the world would be a good thing the means to end the world.

    We all very well may die because a fucking cult wants to bring about the events in their "revalations." AN ACID TRIP IN A BOOK FULL OF FAIRY TALES.

    Although, if we go like that then our extinction may well be for the best . . . . .

  24. Silly question but . . . . on Old Airlift Vehicle Concept Made New · · Score: 1

    Why are there so many "I Am The Walrus" references associated with this thing?

    (Don't shoot me. I'm 22.)

  25. Re:256MB of video memory? on Bulky System Requirements for Windows Vista · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait until you see what clippy looks like at 30 FPS. :)

    As long as I can take a rocket-launcher to him at 30fps it's all good . . . . .