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  1. Re:I spy a new meme on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Soviet Russia, YOU control copyright!

  2. Re:From my super smart and beautiful girlfriend de on NASA Prepares to Launch Comet-Buster · · Score: 1

    Most of the ideas that I have heard for averting comets involve deflecting them, and not blowing them it.

  3. Re:White Elephant on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 5, Funny

    They were planning on studying the effects of starvation in space, but the Russians managed to screw up the experiment.

  4. Re:Because it actually works... on Don't Click Here For A Free iPod · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unfortunately, you seem to need to get 5 other people to also complete the offer. Makes it somewhat harder.

  5. Re:Here it comes. on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, that still doesn't work perfectly, as many programs use PInvoke to run native Win32 code on their graphics (due to inadequacies in SWF). Without wine, any code doing that will either be emulated (poorly) or it won't work.

  6. Re:Question on Revising the GPL · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but my post's parent stated that Linus specifically put in an exception for binary modules. Whether or not the GPL allows for the use of clsed-source, binary modules, I'm sure that Linus would know whether or not he typed in an exception to any possible rule forbidding them.

  7. Re:Definition of sourcecode of graphics files. on Revising the GPL · · Score: 1

    He was writing the graphics FOR A GPL'd PROGRAM. He was presumably GPLing the GRAPHICS. You seem to have MISSED that.

  8. Re:Question on Revising the GPL · · Score: 1

    Common misconception. No such exception exists.

  9. Re:Why are there two?? on Is Apache 2.0 Worth the Switch for PHP? · · Score: 1

    Linux kernel 2.0.* is still being being maintained, but almost no one uses it.

  10. Re:Sharpies are OK to use on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 1

    The ink includes solvent.

  11. Re:$650 is nothing if it's faster on GIMP 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    I think that professionals count as the "certain number of people." There exist such people as casual users, you know.

  12. Re:Geez, if only I had mod points... on NYTimes Reports on Firefox · · Score: 1

    So you opened up IE (no spyware on the computer at that moment), didn't even browse around, and still got 50 hits for spyware after 5 minutes? One component installed every 6 seconds, automatically? 14400 components installed for every day that IE is open? I've used IE for years and never got any spyware (not counting cookies, as even Firefox cannot easily and conveniently protect against these). What website did you go to?

  13. Re:Performance rateing on Intel Expands Core Concept for Chips · · Score: 1

    Isn't Intel using PR numbers (and not Ghz) now?

  14. Re:errrr.... on The Promise Of Transparent Circuits · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't need actual chips because this includes a transparent semiconductor.

  15. Re:This project needs to be put out of its misery. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 1

    I believe that it would be possible to dock 2 Soyuz, at least eventually. That doubles the possible capacity. Haven't they been using Progress vehicles for resupply since the beginning, though?

  16. Re:This project needs to be put out of its misery. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 1

    Without those "bells and whistles" the space station can't support more than three people - whose time is taken up almost completely with maintenance. Without more people, the station can do almost no science.

  17. Re:This is NOT news on Man Builds 7-foot Grandfather Clock from Lego · · Score: 1

    Would you rather they not submit something interesting, since they didn't find out about it until a week later, or would you rather pay a ton of money for them to hire tons of people to search the web for interesting things, and still find things too late for them to be news?

  18. Re:Limit download to new content on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    Just because the server wouldn't send old items every time, doesn't mean that the client can't cache them and display them anyway.

  19. Re:I know this is an oft repeated point but on Upbeat on E-books · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe electronic ink will help, at least with contrast problems.

  20. Re:Quick! on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    Based on that, the message on the website seems to be right: artofsense.com was only hosting pictures, and was not the website to which traffic was sent.

  21. Re:EROS - an orthogonally persistent OS on Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that you also have to save application state in between fs writes. I doubt that BeOS could do this (it wasn't that unconventional), but maybe EROS could.

  22. Re:Why does a game console need such a monster CPU on The Mystery of Cell Processors · · Score: 1

    You could always buy a console-like pad for the pc.

  23. Re:The basic circuit on WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup · · Score: 1

    Do they also detect 2.4 ghz phones and microwaves?

  24. Re:And you get it how? on Lunar Helium 3 Could Meet Earth's Energy Demands · · Score: 1

    How much of that would be actual He3 in a cargo design is a different question. So is how fast a load of He3 has to return to Earth - Apollo was designed for short travel times, largely because of consumables limits. A tank of He3 doesn't need to worry if it takes months to get across the system.

    Sounds like a job for a fusion-powered ion rocket.

  25. Re:Horrible Idea on Lycos Declares War on Spam Servers · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Lycos has a bigger pipe than most spammers do. Besides that, I believe that DNS caches IP addresses, so it's likely that Lycos could send out the stop command before most of the computers would retrieve its IP address and start hitting it.