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  1. Re:so lest get this straight on The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook · · Score: 2, Funny

    ummm... you mean you translated "uhhh uhhhh ahhhh!" into various Eastern European languages ?? You are a cunning linguist, my friend !

  2. Re:Nuclear submarines on Small Nuclear Power Plants To Dot the Arctic Circle · · Score: 1
    "In other words, this sort of thing has been operating safely for about 50 years now."

    Sure, unless you count: K-19, K-11, K-27, K-140, K-429, K-222, K-123, K-314, K-431, K-192, K-8, K-386, TK-208, K-279, K-447, K-508, K-208, K-210, K-216, K-316, K-462, K-38, K-37, K-371, and K-367.

    Those are submarines which experienced nuclear accidents from just the Northern Fleet of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Too lazy to look for the Pacific fleet accidents..

    The Russian Northern Fleet Nuclear submarine accidents

  3. Depends on Future of Financial Mathematics? · · Score: 1

    "how advisable it is to pursue a PhD in this topic?" What is your tolerance level for torches and pitchforks ?

  4. Earth First ! (We'll mine the other planets later...) --poster seen at a mining operation

  5. Re:Anti-vaccine crowd? on Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun · · Score: 1

    You're mixing up 'yer virii. HSV vice HPV.

  6. Re:Quantifying risk? on Replacing Metal Detectors With Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    He pulled it out of his a$$. Actually, since this story refers to Israel, let's use their numbers. With a population of 7.2 million, of which 75.6% are Jewish (i.e. targets of terrorism), and 3123 deaths by terrorism since 1947, there is a roughly .05% chance of death by terrorism. Still only about 1/10th the chance of death by homicide in the U.S.

  7. Worst case on Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? · · Score: 1

    I think the worst case ( yet still in the running ) is Hilary Rosen. She's been a big Obama supporter and arguably has copyright 'experience'. Change you *will* believe in !

  8. Re:However, the only emotions are hate and anger on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh come on. The major market is going to be for anthropomorphic anatomically correct robots. Most will want that Stepford Wife to exhibit certain faux emotion, now won't they ?

  9. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because the term Fascist has become utterly misused in the United States. It pretty much has devolved to mean "bully", rather than a political-economic system.

  10. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand on Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net · · Score: 1

    East Yemen ? Is that anywhere near the former "South Yemen", aka People's Democratic Republic of Yemen ? Before reunification with North Yemen (formerly Arab Yemen Republic ) it was in fact, a Marxist dictatorship. There is no "East Yemen".

  11. Re:It Never Ends on RIAA Litigation May Be Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Informative

    The DoJ or Supreme Court certainly could.

    That's not going to happen during an Obama administration, with Hilary Rosen as the new 'Copyright Czar', though, is it? If anything RIAA/MPAA will be the new "Big Oil".

  12. RoboCup on Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans · · Score: 1

    I expect massive progress in the RoboCup competitions !

  13. Re:Peace on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    The remedy for this tort is that the man must give her social status and support her financially for the rest of her life. Sure, she gets a rough deal, but it's better than she would have got otherwise.

    Now I understand where my ex's lawyer was coming from.

  14. Re:To all the "Guitar Heros" out there.... on Introducing Classical Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    You know what you call a guitar player without a girlfriend ? Homeless !

  15. hardware firewall on A DVR Security System That Isn't Based on Windows? · · Score: 1

    I am assuming from your comments that the cameras are analog NTSC, and need to be controlled with D, P, or coaxitron protocols, and the DVR is running a server app for remote monitoring and control. Get a hardware firewall and only allow inbound connections from your secured client machines.

  16. Change schools on Tulane University to Reduce Engineering School · · Score: 1

    I think you should transfer ASAP. It's not just your program being cut back, Tulane as a whole is being drastically cut for at least a year due to Katrina. What is it, 250 staff, including 50-60 tenured professors being let go ? Not a good year to attend that school ! Are you already doing the new mandatory community service ?

  17. Re:Good lord on Google Transit Now In Beta · · Score: 1

    This sounds like such a great idea... I do hope I can avoid the slash-dotted commutes.

  18. Re:this country is strange on Driving Away Teens With High Frequency Noise · · Score: 1

    If by "this country" you meant Wales, then I guess I'll agree, though I've never been there. You were talking about the country in the article, yes ?

  19. 3D GoogleMap of SF on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    I've been told by Motorola project engineers that SF is the most difficult city in the US to do RF propogation surveys in ( basically wardriving every street in the city measuring uhf and 800 MHz coverage), due to the terrain, stucture and especially the one way streets. A clever person who integrates accurate RF propogation prediction algorithms with this 3D GoogleMap feature could make a pretty penny! (oh wait, Google would C&D them, right ? )