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  1. iFeel on MX700 Cordless Optical Mouse w/Charger · · Score: 1

    Now all they need is iFeel. This would go on record as the most feature-bloated mouse ever. I'd probably buy one.

  2. Re:GPL? on Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The GPL only applies when you distribute something. They haven't distributed it yet, so they don't need to release the source code(and they are only required to release the source code to people who actually bought it.

  3. Re:Creationists... on Questioning C-14 Dating · · Score: 1

    It's an attack against our intuition. Something like: "If our intuition could be so wrong about that, what makes you believe something just as far out of the human experience, based solely on your intuition?"

  4. Re:Area 51 on 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic · · Score: 1

    See that model spy plane on Scientific American Frontiers? It was just a few inches across, and almost silent. Of course, you would need to make it a little bigger to mount the electronics on, but it would still be almost impossible to hit.

    BTW: Ducted Fans can go faster than turbines in a lot of cases(about 250 mph rather than 190). Pulse Jets(IIRC) go even faster, at about 250-300 mph.

  5. Re:proof the RIAA is stupid. on SDMI Challenge Participants May Face DMCA Action · · Score: 1

    O is for Optical...

  6. Re:Design issues on When The PCI Bus Departs · · Score: 1

    What happened to the old interrupt chips? You could just chain together as many as you wanted and each would give 16 interrupts.

  7. It's not toooo new on Negative Index of Refraction Created · · Score: 1

    I saw this a few months ago in Popular Science.
    The have rows of microscopic tubes and other structures. It just is made in a way so that it reflects microwaves in a pattern opposite of normal.
    They're working on getting the components of it small enough to be used for visible light, with its smaller wavelengths.

  8. Re:Jeez on Promises And Pitfalls In Linux Game Development · · Score: 1

    I haven't been able to figure it out anywhere else, so I might as well ask here: Does Debian unstable support DRI with Xfree86 4.0? libgl.so only comes in mesa. If it doesn't that sucks, because I would have to compile XFree from scratch.

  9. Re:how can control increase freedom and independen on Slashback: Failure, Errors, Misery · · Score: 2

    The parents can trust that the kids won't be able to get on any bad channels, so they could give the kids the remote and let them decide what to watch, instead of keeping them from changing the channel for fear of hitting a channel the parents didn't like.

  10. Re:BAH! on Scientists And Engineers Say "Computers Suck!" · · Score: 1

    What should they be called? "General purpose programming language that can be used for systems and application programming" and "A programming language based on the former which also can be used in an object-oriented manner?" They are very general purpose(a relatively low-level) languages.

  11. Re:actually that's backwards.. on Violence's Niche In Cartoons · · Score: 1

    How would that work if one was a middle schooler?
    I guess I should stop watching TV.

  12. Re:Us Crazy Canucks on Space Diving · · Score: 1

    Woah! These remind me of the paratroopers in CivII, after you got . You could land them anywhere on the globe.

  13. Re:hydrogen, airships, & "non-flammable helium" on Ten Technologies That Shouldn't Have Died? · · Score: 1

    Check this out

    Oxidizer - Ammonium Perchlorate

    Fuel - Aluminum Powder

    Burn Rate Catalyst - Iron Oxide
    They sure do use that

  14. Re:And the answer is.... on Pioneer 6 -- Still Alive At 35 · · Score: 1

    "What's yellow and dangerous?"

    "No, no good, it doesn't fit the answer."

    "All right, What do you get if you multiply six by seven?"

    "No, no, too literal, too factual, wouldn't sustain the punters' interest."

    "Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?"

    "Ah! Aha, now that does sound promising! Yes, that's excellent! Sounds very significant without actually meaning anything at all. How many roads must a man walk down? Forty-two. Excellent, excellent, that'll fox 'em. Frankie, baby, we are made!"

    --excerpted(with pieces removed) from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

  15. Re:These seem like the "same old-same old" scams.. on FTC Names Top-10 "Dot-Con" Types · · Score: 1

    P.T. Barnum:
    And right this way for the amazing Egress!

  16. Re:what would you do? on NASA Tests Flying Scooter For Commercial Take-Off · · Score: 1

    Yes, the first helicopter-like machines (autogyros) were built to use autorotation. They had propellers and engines to move them forward, and they had blades that had been tilted back a little to catch the air and rotate, causing them to lift.

  17. Re:That is NOT true on Is Extinction Only Temporary? · · Score: 1

    Via Noah... ;)

  18. Re:This isn't really "lengthy" on Microsoft Proposes Lengthy Appeal Period · · Score: 1

    Remember, peers of both. The Jury consists of (among others)Russia, China, India, and AOL/Time Warner.

  19. Re:Kill Lobbying. on Electronic Signatures Now Legal? · · Score: 1

    Either that corporations would be given the right to vote....

  20. Re:Now, I'm No Scientist.. on Astronomers Find Black Hole At Milky Way's Center · · Score: 1

    Lucky for us that couldn't happen, because it either a) couldn't form or b) would've lost so much mass that the pressure pushing outward would be small enough to be contained. Afaik the only way I know to destroy a black hole is to evaporate it completely with the Hawking radiation coming out of it.

  21. Re:Detecting black holes on Astronomers Find Black Hole At Milky Way's Center · · Score: 1

    Technically, first, they aren't antiparticles, but particles with negative energy. The difference is, that when particles with negitive energy and regular particles collide, nothing comes out, whereas with a particle and an antiparticle, energy is produced.
    Anyway, judging from "A Brief History Of Time", negative particles are more likely to fall in the black hole because they need more energy to escape and not be sucked in(being as their energy's negative and the other's positive).

  22. Re:Don't get confused... Think for yourself. on Student Gets PC Confiscated For Distributing MP3s · · Score: 1

    But you are breaking a law, the DMCA. You aren't allowed to circumvent a copy protection mechanism, and DVDs use a copy protection mechanism(CSS).The only way you can use them is with a player that has the key, and only the people who make DVDs can give them to you. Therefor, you need an "authorized" player to legally play them.

  23. Re:Power doesn't come from information... on Sovereign Individual (Part One) · · Score: 1

    Because they have no real purpose, other than killing rival gangs(and showing off, which can also (indirectly) kill people)?

  24. Re:(Half OT)In 52001, what will we look like? on KEO Time Capsule To Remain In Orbit 'Til 52001 AD · · Score: 1

    You do have to consider the fact the natural selection doesn't take place near as much anymore. You don't have to have a big brain to succeed, only a good-looking body. Ditto larger eyes. Smaller bodies don't look as good.
    My theory: people will start looking more and more like the supermodels of today(with, as you mentioned, the vegitarian digestive system).

  25. Re:Windows History, and computer languages history on Visual Map of Unix history · · Score: 1

    Yes, at least QuickBasic, VB (and maybe PowerBasic) should be mentioned. Didn't BASIC evolve(in a way) off of Fortran.