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  1. Re:Is this even legal? on ABC Ads Target Answering Machines? · · Score: 1
    2.that is made for a commercial purpose but does not include the transmission of any unsolicited advertisement,
    Doesn't this make it exempt, for at least the hanging up part? If they just hang up, they don't transmit any message...
  2. Re:Wow, on The Myth Of The Borg · · Score: 1
    The cat plays with the grasshopper because the cat is having fun practicing its hunting skills - and doesn't really have enough of a concept about another creature's "pain" to feel any empathy toward the grasshopper. That's NOT evil. You have to be able to conceive that you are actually CAUSING another creature pain, before you can enjoy it. Most non-human animals don't meet this criteria.
    From what he wrote, I got the impression that he was saying that a person who watched this would be evil -- for enjoying watching the cat inflict pain on the grasshopper. I don't think that he meant that the cat was evil.
  3. Re:How can it be 25 years since the last new moon. on New Jovian Moon Discovered · · Score: 1

    Why? 11000 Mm (like you said in your table) is 11x10^9 m, or 11x10^6 km, or 11 million km.

  4. Re:I don't get it... on NASA Demonstrates Space Sails (In The Lab) · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, why do you use hbar? I always thought hbar = h/(2*pi)

  5. Re:I don't get it... on NASA Demonstrates Space Sails (In The Lab) · · Score: 1

    The momentum of a photon is given by p = h/lambda, or hc/f (where lambda is the wavelength). This can be derived using E=mc^2 (from Einstein), E=hf (the energy of a photon, where h is Planck's constant) and p=mv (or mc) and doing some algebra. This will also give you a variable mass depending on the wavelength, but I've heard that that's only valid relativistically.

  6. Re:There must be some mistake.. on Cleartype In Depth · · Score: 1

    Of course, I'm sure that the Apple types didn't use Fourier analysis to dynamically generate the images. I'd be willing to bet that they just statically tweaked the images until the 'looked' right.

  7. Re:Don't bother going... on Cleartype In Depth · · Score: 1

    If you take a quick look at the article, they said iBook, not iMac.

  8. Re:What are the specific incompatabilities? on Red Hat Is Not Linux (dot org) · · Score: 1

    There is another program, rpm2cpio, that comes with rpm itself. An rpm is really just a cpio file with some extra headers on it, and this program simply strips them off. Then you can use cpio to unpack it.

  9. Re:Australia on On DDoS, SPAM, Telemarketing And Harrasment? · · Score: 1

    Canada has a similar organisation that offers the same service: the Canadian Marketing Association...

  10. Re:You asked for bugs? You've got'em! on BeOS For Linux! · · Score: 1

    CRC errors don't indicate a hardware problem if it's the driver that's broken...