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  1. Re:Dangers of nanotech on The Nanotech Nose: Towards A Smaller Future · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We already have this. They're called "bacteria" or "viruses." I don't see how human-made stuff will be that much better.

  2. Re:Verisign in big trouble on Sex.com Case Finally 'Over' · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that you trust Fox News? Come on now!

  3. Re:Faking out Palladium? on Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium · · Score: 1

    How does it find out what the key is in the first place? Does it come preinstalled on the computer (I haven't checked out exactly how it works)? If not, it's going to be installed somewhere, and you can intercept it there. Even if it is preinstalled in a "black box" on the motherboard, unless it's extremely tightly integrated with the CPU then the instructions must be decrypted into RAM at some point.
    If you bypass the operating system, you can bypass any level above the operating system.

  4. Re:Faking out Palladium? on Researchers Looking at Alternatives to Palladium · · Score: 1

    Is it? Can't you just replace the key it checks the package against with your public key, and sign your new package with your private key?

  5. Re:how about loss of vision? on Video Games Boost Visual Skills · · Score: 1

    What? Looking at the computer screen and reading books doesn't cause nearsightedness (seemingly despite what my eyedoctor says)? If so, I seem to be a good case in in correlation v. causation.

  6. Re:Revival of a Program on Nucular Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1

    >>A nuclear plant meltdown makes way less radiation than any nuclear weapon.

    >Please support this comment with some references.
    The bomb is designed to explode(and thus throw out fissile matter and radiation). Nuclear plants are designed to do the exact opposite, keep the radioactive material in. Shouldn't that change a little about what happens?

    >>There are nuclear plant designs which are inherently safer. They shutdown automatically without outside control when there is a problem.

    >Try 3mile island and chernobyl.
    That's why he said safer: safer than those old designs. Here's one design that works, or how about another.

    >>Regarding Plutonium being poisonous do you know Caffeine is more poisonous than Plutonium?

    >Plutonium emits nice high energy particles that will kill you. Caffeine don't.Poison is not the question here.

    It doesn't matter if you don't expose yourself to the radiation

  7. Re:More universes than atoms on Martin Rees On The Multiverse, Scientific Research & Reality · · Score: 2, Funny

    He meant with other people physically involved, you dolt.

  8. Re:My vision of "the perfect desktop" on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    Have you heard of this amazong new invention called the "theme"? It lets you change the appearance of the widgets to suit your taste.

  9. Re:SPOILER WARNING! DON'T READ THIS! on Review: Matrix: Reloaded · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter what the humans in Zion see. If that is another level of the matrix, then the sky doesn't need to be cloudy, and the stars could be set randomly, with fake star charts created in the matrix to make the year seem like whatever they wanted.

  10. Re:controll on Slashback: Hippocampus, Matter, Blogs · · Score: 1

    But MS didn't stifle their own product by preventing it from being used, and not selling it.
    If McCarthy wouldn't work on it and just got a patent, then no one would work on it, and it wouldn't change the world-his goal. Only by working on it he would be able to change the world. Therefore, he should develop this to change the world. QED.

  11. Re:Time-Delayed Dupe on Internet Based Attacks in a Physical World · · Score: 1

    ..white paper detailing ways to get Slashdot to post dupes...
    That's about as useless as writing a paper teaching people how to beat their heart.

  12. Re:If true, will it be relevant? on Diamonds As Room-Temperature Superconductors · · Score: 1

    I don't think it means that. Since V=IR, and for a superconducting material, R=0, then V=0, and so it would have no voltage across it.

  13. Re:Oh really? on New Whitespace-Only Programming Language · · Score: 1

    A 1 could be a 00000000, 11 would be 00000001, 111 would be for 00000010, 256 1's(or whatever, haven't checked) would be 00000000 00000000, and 257 1's would be 00000000 00000001. Programs would be quite long.

  14. Re:Doublespeak on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    We could always Balkanize it....

  15. Re:The Molniya Space Company? on NASA To Try To Resume Flights By Fall · · Score: 1

    Could that last be converted now? They said that it could not have been converted in time to save Columbia, but what about over the course of a few years? Of course, having only one Buran would be a waste of time/money as you could only launch it from Russia (the U.S. not having the special facilities for it).

  16. Re:Microwave on Technologies that Have Exceeded Their Expectations? · · Score: 1

    Part of the reason for this is that the microwave sucks for the old foods. It's great and all, but it was necessary to make different foods that wouldn't be like rubber when they came out. In that way, it had a much smaller effect than expected. How many homes(non-space-limited at the least) only have microwaves?

  17. Re:Developer's Track Record on LOTR: War of the Ring Real-Time Strategy Game · · Score: 1

    Homeworld was made by Relic. Baldur's Gate was made by BioWare. The Caesar series seems to be made by Impressions Software.

  18. Re:Antipersonnel on Battlefield Medkits Improve · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? Why don't we just ban the use of any guns on infantry?

  19. Re:Extreme high pressure... on Personal Submarine Cruises SF Bay · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that the cockpit could sustain the pressure. The Trieste, the only manned vessel to go down that far, had a pressure sphere of 6.5 feet in diameter, which isn't that much larger than this's minimum size.

    Also, the pressure compartment was a perfect sphere, to make it work better, and that's not the most conducive form for this type of submersible, but it's also possible to have free-flooding compartments on the outside to make the shape better. The Trieste had a pressure sphere 3 inches thick, so that increases the weight and makes the buoyancy (expecially when you try to make the full sub small) harder to get right.
  20. Re:Please take my advice on SVG On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Has anyone ever considered "Display SVG," like "Display Postscript?"

  21. Re:Other computer components speeding up on Moore's Law Disputed · · Score: 1

    Besides that, who says that you need to have only 1 CPU?

  22. Re:Right. on Linux to Become #2 on the Desktop? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last time I checked, most macs still fit on a desk. You might be confusing 'desktop' and 'PC.'

  23. Re:Portable mp3's? on LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives · · Score: 1

    It'll only take 4 years to fill up with my dial-up modem! Only 1 year to listen to all the music! W00t! Too bad they'll probably have 5 TB drives out by then...

  24. Re:Why not an air cushion? on Transrapid (MagLev) Test Successful In China: 405 · · Score: 1

    In a way, it could. It could use regular wheels(or blowers) at slow speeds, and use scoops to ram air underneath at high speeds. You wouldn't need a messy cushion or anything, and so you could just have a flat area on the bottom and flanges around the sides to keep it on course and reduce air spillage.
    This is quite like a hovercraft, but WIG-craft and hovercraft use the same general principles, with the WIG using forward motion and the hovercraft using blowers to provide lift.

  25. Re:No kidding! on Slashback: Circumvention, AOLandfill, Scoffing · · Score: 1

    Did you skip over the "with mod-chip disabled?" You still can't use a modchip while playing online. This just lets you play even if you forget to disable your modhip before going online before.