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  1. Browser? on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    How can it eliminate the need for a browser if you can't look at pr0n?

    Seriously, I wouldn't say it replaces a browser until it stores favorites, which is the main thing I use in a browser.

  2. Re:Recommended reading for those with an interest. on Modern History of Cryptography Techniques · · Score: 1

    For the record, you're suggesting reading some 3000 pages... ;-)

  3. Re:IPod design? on Booting an x86 Virtual Machine from an iPod · · Score: 1

    I've installed linux (featherlinux) onto an iPod Mini (2G) before to switch a friend to linux (it was an PII that didn't have enough RAM for a liveCD). It took a floppy to boot since the BIOS did not support booting from USB drive.

    The point is that the iPod wouldn't function as a music player, and I'm not sure how I could have fixed that.

  4. Re:I have these drives in an array on High-End, High-Capacity SATA-150 Roundup · · Score: 1

    How much head?

  5. Re:What is Peat? on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Ignore that...

  6. Re:What is Peat? on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Remember that at some points we just had a big land mass, rather than the layout we have today.

    A map of Pangea (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001002.html) shows that Kamchatka was near the equator, and Finland in the middle of the n. hemisphere.

    Just how old is this peat?

  7. Re:We Have To Use The Moon on NASA Policy Includes Mars, Moon Missions · · Score: 1

    Apparently I wasn't clear enough in my sarcasm... I'm aware of the fact its not going to be this easy.

    However, it would be interesting if someone invented a fuel that burns into oxygen. I doubt its possible, but it could potentially fix a lot of problems, no?

  8. Re:We Have To Use The Moon on NASA Policy Includes Mars, Moon Missions · · Score: 1

    I fail to see what is so hard about reaching Mars. Once you're past the atmosphere its just a matter of pointing the shuttle in the right direction and reading /. for a long time.

    Why, here is a early (as in alpha) plan for reaching mars using today's equipment:

    0] send food and fuel to the ISS
    1] create a lander than can reach Mars and then go back to space
    2] Send the lander to the ISS (how is irrelevant: send it there in one shuttle, if it fits, or in a few and build it there)
    3] Send the crew in a shuttle to the ISS
    4] Stock food and fuel, connect the lander to the shuttle (towing cable? No air-resistance, so bulkiness doesn't matter)
    5] Send the shuttle in the right direction
    6] Wait a bit... (few months? Hopefully shorter)
    7] Once the shuttle reaches mars, keep it in orbit around mars with an astro managing systems
    8] stick some astros in the lander, send them down
    9] astros do their buisness
    10] Lander goes back to shuttle
    11] shuttle comes to earth
    12] astros are heroes, and the great United States of America whoops some commie ass in the race to space, again... /sarcasm

    Problems?

  9. Re:Does anybody else... on NASA Policy Includes Mars, Moon Missions · · Score: 1

    It's always better/easier to be the second to something: its not longer unknown territory so you can spend your resources on precisely what you want to do, rather than exploring the possibilties...

  10. Re:Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta on Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta · · Score: 1

    Searches of "computer","car", and "bicycle" on Yahoo! and Google show that Google uses less screen real-estate...

    Plus, what kind of a nut says they will "...Yahoo! it"?

  11. Re:Urban Legends on Google Moon Debuts · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like you had a radioactive waste spillage in the river... green AND blue! Rad.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Berrien+Springs,+MI& ll=41.936038,-86.335298&spn=0.007308,0.010131&t=k& hl=en