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  1. Re:800 nm ??? on The Diagnostic 'Bugbot' · · Score: 1

    I think visible light is measured in angstroms (spelling?), which are 10^(-10)m, and nanometers are 10^(-6). So about 10,000 wavelengths of visible light (though I think one is about 5000 angstroms, so perhaps only 1600 wavelenghts, but that's still quite a bit more than one. Someone check my work, please.

  2. Re:I don't get the whole "wireless" thing on Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown · · Score: 1

    How is my post funny? The MX500 is wired, in case the mod didn't know.

  3. Re:I don't get the whole "wireless" thing on Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown · · Score: 1

    Er... I don't either, and my mouse doesn't die.

  4. I don't get the whole "wireless" thing on Logitech Cordless Desktop LX500 and LX700 Showdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you want to have to recharge it and pay extra? This written with an MX500 next to me.

  5. Re:Reminds me of something that just happened to m on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: 1

    So Linux saved the day for his poor broken Windows box, just a little ironic. Irony is when the opposite of what is expected occurs. This is completely expected, and therefore not irony. In case it wasn't clear, that wasn't intended as a grammar police thing, but rather a "Ha-ha, Linux will always prevail, that's obvious" sort of thing.

  6. Re:Google should help Slashdot with a technology on A Peek at Personalized Google · · Score: 1

    I hate to tell you, but your comment is a dupe.

  7. God dammit on Eat Right, Earn an iPod · · Score: 1

    I go to a private high school in Massachusetts. There are no fat kids here. Maybe one or two overweight ones per grade, but NOBODY "obese," certainly nobody "superobese." There is junk food sold on campus. How do they do it? Mandatory sports after classes. I get out of school at 3:05 and have sports at 3:30. They end at 5:30. Sometimes the time is juggled around a bit, but for the most part the sports last at least an hour and a half. This, my friends, is the way to do it. We sell junk food in campus, but the machines are in the basement. I have to go down and up a couple flights of stairs to eat a candy bar. It works, I'm fit, I'm not complaining.

  8. Re:There it is! on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 1

    Not particularly, at least not with me. I didn't notice the "ig" at the end, though. The real reason for my post is that when someone hears of Google, they check it out and say "Hey, nice and clean. Whoa... when I search for a movie, it gives me times! I wonder what else I can do?" I thought that this would ruin it, but they are still keeping the old homepage at the -ig location. So, in conclusion, go Google.

  9. There it is! on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The start of the cluttered Yahoo-like interface. the fact that Google is clean and white is the reason most people flocked to it at first. At least the customization means that I can make it what I want.

  10. Re:Interesting, but the author doesn't know that.. on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Wait, no, I found this: Individual keys can be removed and scrubbed with hot, soapy water for a more thorough cleaning.

  11. Interesting, but the author doesn't know that... on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 1

    The author doesn't know that you can pry up keys from the keyboard. Spaghetti is "almost impossible" to remove? Ha, just get a pen and pull up three keys.

  12. Re:NSFC? Try VerySFC. on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    As I write this, I am getting ready to go to church.

  13. Re:WARNING WARNING NSFC on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    I don't not believe in God because of my firm belief in something else, that would be ridiculous. We haven't firmly proved anything at this stage. I keep an open mind to everything until there is firm evidence against it. I just think that believing in a God because thousands of years ago some people wrote a book trying to explain the unexplainable by means of an all powerful being is more closed-minded. Can someone please tell me how I could have avoided that double negative? Language needs parentheses.

  14. WARNING WARNING NSFC on Next Step in Human Evolution · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why can't people EVER use the "Not Safe For Church" tag on these things?