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  1. Re:1. To survive. ... ? on The Top Three Reasons for Humans in Space · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most people won't to see their children and their children's children and so on survive.

    Then why do members of a family often live close together? According to the logic of the article they should spread to different continents to maximise their chance of survival. And they should not travel together. (Yes, I know that some parents actually do take different planes.)

    I really do not care if there are humans in space in case of a catastrophe on earth.

  2. Binary Drivers on The State of Laptop Linux In 2005 · · Score: 2, Informative

    If only binary-only drivers were fully functional. It seems that they often are not, because less time is devoted to them compared to the windows drivers. I was not a purist in this regard, but have become more and more suspicious of binary-only drivers. Plus they complicate upgrading my Debian installation.

  3. Embedded hardware reviewers? on Shortcomings Revealed in nForce4 SLI Redux · · Score: 1

    [...]being in on a 'sneak peak' makes a person feel like an insider... part of the team. [...] this feeling alone accounts for a lot of over positive reviews.

    Sounds like a familiar concept to me.

  4. Do not trust a single service on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    From a pragmatic point of view: I would not reject messages based on information from a single source. Spamassassin uses several criteria to detect spam, including, if you want to, several RBLs, and calculates a score based on all of these. Of course, this is computationally more expensive and happens at a later stage in mail processing so that it will usually be too late to reject a message, it may have to be only tagged or discarded.

  5. Re:what if, what if, what if an apple!=an apple on Math Awareness Month · · Score: 1

    Mathematics is based on the basic rules we have inferred from observing reality. If somehow reality changed, then we would infer other basic rules. While this may be true, I am not capable of imagining it. Are you?

  6. Re:Only in Math on Math Awareness Month · · Score: 1

    the idea that there are small infinities (like the sum of all real numbers between zero and one) and large infinities (like the sum of all real numbers.) Set theory deals with different orders of infities, ie there is the notion that even though two sets are infinite, one might be larger than the other. However, I have never heard of any way in which the sum of all reals between zero and one or the sum of all (positive? :-) real numbers could be assigned a useful value such that the latter would be greater.