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  1. Now I'm glad on Suggesting Innovative Uses For Retired Space Shuttles · · Score: 1

    they are going to museums. Damn, that slideshow was shitty.

  2. Re:I couldn't wait either on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Me too, and since the Archos 101 is fairly inexpensive he could just buy it now and if he really uses the tablet a lot buy himself a Honeycomb tablet in 6-8 months. I plan to do the same if Honeycomb really can't run on the Archos 101 and the prices for Honeycomb tablets are good. I think with all the competition coming up you could get an Archos 101 now and a Honeycomb tablet in 8 months for a similar price you would pay for the Galaxy Tab now.

  3. Re:That's no moon on Double Eclipse Photographed, Sun, Moon, and ISS · · Score: 1

    ...it's a space station.

    So apropos for once.

    Actually it is a moon AND a space station.

    Actually it's THE Moon and THE Space Station.

    We definitely need more space stations!

  4. one power more than Google on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1

    So Microsoft wants to compute 2^2^2^2^2 because Google can only do 2^2^2^2? Yeah right, that will help them get more users.

  5. hardware acceleration on YouTube, HTML5, and Comparing H.264 With Theora · · Score: 1

    Isn't h.264 the only one of those two that has hardware acceleration. When you want to deliver high quality video on a website for many and even smaller devices it makes a lot of sense to use the format that can be decoded by available hardware decoders. Modern mobile phones can decode h264 in hardware, so can even low-end CPU Netbooks. H264 sounds like the obvious choice for internet video to me.

  6. undersea progress on Research Vehicle Reaches the Bottom of the Ocean · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, that is great. Hope they find some interesting stuff down there. Maybe some animals we didn't even know existed. Next up: Building the Seaquest

  7. Re:They should get... on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    Summer Glau would be better. Market to geeks who like Firefly and the geeks who like her in the Terminator TV show.

    She was in a Big Bang Theory episode so they could do it together ;)

  8. this should work ... on Tricked Into Buying OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    IANAL but I had about two or three cases where friends got into that trap as well. Well, although this is legally binding in Germany there is something called the "Widerrufsrecht". Your friend should send them a formal letter (by e-mail, fax or postal mail) in which she says that she is using here right of the "Widerrufsrecht". The nice things about these scam sites is that while they make use of the EULA and legal agreement they posted on their page they also have to respect these laws as well. This worked for all my friends that had this issue. Should work for your friend as well!

  9. Re:Personality on Octopuses Have No Personalities and Enjoy HDTV · · Score: 5, Funny

    So octopus are like women?

  10. Re:anti-MS already? on Microsoft To Offer Free Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Exactly. As long as Microsoft makes it easy to uninstall and switch to other tools and for OEMs to install an alternative there is no problem.

  11. lost or stolen on 12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports · · Score: 1

    Now are they really lost as in "don't know where I put it" or lost as in "somebody took it". I guess the title would say "stolen" and not "lost" if that were the case but how do you lose that many laptops ?

  12. step in right direction on RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI · · Score: 1

    With more and more widescreen displays it makes sense to move from the menubar to a sidebar-like approach. I think RedOffice might be on to something here. It still has some quirks in the interface but maybe OpenOffice.org 3 will move more functionality in a stylish sidebar. When you look at Impress there is already some stuff moved to a sidebar. The way RedOffice currently has it implemented is a bit crude and doesn't look that well but I like the idea ...

  13. question ... on Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... if a stealth bomber crashes and nobody sees it does it make a sound?

  14. Re:IE6 IS 100% OF THE STANDARDS!!!!1111 on First Look At the ACID3 Browser Test · · Score: 1

    well it runs all tests but looks nothing like the reference - typical IE6

  15. Re:Really? on Mars Rovers Threatened By Dust Storms · · Score: 1

    They cool the processor itself not all the electronics. If they would push these -75C on the mainboard they would break it. Also the computer is usually running and creating heat. If the computer would be off these -75C you speak of would probably do some damage to the processor too.

  16. Re:huh on Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google simply wants to be able to replace the desktop search with the google equivalent. The idea is to give the user a choice which desktop search he wants to use - this doesn't mean just MS or Google but also others like Yahoo would benefit from this. AFAIK the indexing of vista can be disabled but there is currently no way to replace the feature with another application. I personally like the way it is working right now. It's like the old story with the browser and the media player. I wonder why Microsoft doesn't make more of these features as seperate applications that integrate into the system using public apis. It would give them a lot less trouble with the competition and anti-trust battles and it would be easier for them to enhance such features because they aren't integrated so deeply into the system. well, just my 2 cents.

  17. missleading news title on Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Image Hosting · · Score: 1

    It should have read "Pirate Bay Launches Worlds Largest Porn Archive"

  18. attention whore on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well she doesn't want a pretty low res picture of her cat in Street View but has a high-res picture of her, her cat and the room on the nytimes.com ...

  19. Re:Verification? on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://recaptcha.net/security.html the words are additionally distorted and they add lines and warps so that a computer cannot read it.

  20. Re:This idea is stupid (tld goldrush?) on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    AFAIK the limit of 3 letters was added after the tlds were introduced so there are still several 2 letter domains. there are even 1 letter domains such as x.com (which seems to redirect to paypal) or z.com.

  21. Re:Posted notice? on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    I totally agree. I hope the judge sees it the same way.

  22. Re:Which CSU? on College Freshmen Struggle With Tech Literacy · · Score: 1

    And why would he search for California ? There is no mention of California in the summary. He would search for CSU university which brings Colorade State University before California State University for me!

  23. Re:Argh!!! on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1

    Didn't you just say that Zero divided by Zero is Zero on your calculator? This means your if 0/0=14 is actually a if 0/0=0 which makes it eventually just: if 0/0=0 then 0*0 must = 0 which it does therefore 0/0=0 and we are successfully entering the looooooop

  24. Re:Netcraft confirms it on The Internet Now has Over 100 Million Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Could you explain your math equation to me again - just out of curiousity...

  25. Re:Don't you read Slashdot? on Google's Internal Company Goals · · Score: 1

    The only Google Services that (may) run on ASP.NET and SQL Server are those, that Google bought. And those Services probably won't run on ASP.NET forever but will be ported or recreated for the Google infrastructure.