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  1. If the gum is not sticking on Virtually Non-Stick Gum Created · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While according to TFA its taste and texture is similiar to normal gum, if this gum is not sticking to surfaces as hard - will it still clean up all the plaque from your teeth? I mean if its not sticking to a wall, it might as well not stick to the dirt in between your teeth.

  2. Re:Actually on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    Its the cosmic constant, not relativity - (See http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~jpl/cosmo/blunder.html) And with the discovery of an exanding universe it seems it wasnt a blunder but he was right.

  3. Re:quantum spin on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 1

    With quantum teleportation you are still using a light beam to move the information from A to B. Thus its not instantaneous.

  4. Re:186,000 miles per second on German Physicists Claim Speed of Light Broken · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Laws are there to be broken :)

  5. Re:Please tell me why I should run Windows? on FBI Used Spyware for Online Search · · Score: 1

    > I suspect that getting such a tool installed on my Linux box would be much harder. Do you verify everything you download? Did you get the certificates from a trusted store? How do you know your ISP (cooperating with the gov) or the certificate authority (verisign? trust them?) did not mess with whatever you are downloading. It might just come attached to your latest firefox binaries :/

  6. Re:GPL3 not practical for Linux kernel on Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases · · Score: 1

    Search for "Revised Versions of this License." in this document http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html

  7. Re:Start your biding... on Verifiable Elections Via Cryptography · · Score: 1
    > And I have seen postal services in other first world countries (Germany, Italy, England, Spain) where the level of reliability doesn't even compare because the penalties/enforcement is laughable.

    I'm living in germany, they are pretty stiff. Never heard of a lost letter or package.

    If you open a letter not addressed to you, you will get up to 5 years prison time and/or cash penalty.

    Heres the original law text.
    (1) Wer unbefugt einer anderen Person eine Mitteilung über Tatsachen macht, die dem Post- oder Fernmeldegeheimnis unterliegen und die ihm als Inhaber oder Beschäftigtem eines Unternehmens bekanntgeworden sind, das geschäftsmäßig Post- oder Telekommunikationsdienste erbringt, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu fünf Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.
    from http://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/206.html
  8. Re:Of course the real question is on GeForce 8800GTX Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    DirectX 10, unlike DX9 is an all or nothing thing. Either it supports all of DX10 or it doesnt.

    The only question remains - how fast?

  9. Re:The 'X' is the key (to failure) on The State of Gaming in Japan · · Score: 1

    And I thought japanese are big on XXX stuff ;)

  10. Broad iron K line on Black Hole Observed by X-Ray Satellite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In case you're interested in what the K-Iron broad line is check out http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212065 and http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/spacetime.html

  11. Re:Quantum post on First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network · · Score: 0

    Come on! Everyone knows you have to look first!

  12. Re:I don't want yet another opaque software layer on Hardware Headaches Inevitable? · · Score: 0

    > MY programs have zero bugs, thanks to testing each and every possible and impossible case for everything.

    Then you havent written multithreaded software with more than 1000 lines of code.

  13. i know i'm gonna get flamed for this... on Galactic Civilizations II Breaks DRM Mold · · Score: 0

    > Personally I almost bought it purely for this enlightened attitude but it's also a really good game so..
    ME TOO

    But I liked MOO and Civ so I'm prolly gonna like this one too!
    The thing I dont like, the "box sent to you & download" cost as much as the "download only" option.

  14. !erohwknil on 2005 Good Year for Power Architecture · · Score: -1

    linkwhore!

  15. Re:Why buy an Xbox 360? on Under the Hood of the Xbox 360 · · Score: 0

    > Any of the modern gaming consoles could implement such a controller. If it's that big a deal, expect MS and Sony to have their own versions by the end of 2006.

    Stop me if you heard this one before...

    1.) Invent new controller
    2.) PATENT
    3.) Profit

  16. I dont know on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 0

    about ur anus, but I sure am not letting any ink near mine.

  17. Re:That's nice on Xbox 360 Hardware Disassembled and Analyzed · · Score: 0

    Look at this picture, on the top left corner right above the chip with a silver circle and xbox360 on it you can see 13 silver dots - they look exactly like the place where you'd install the modchip in the xbox1 :)

    So there is still hope, even if MS said one mod will work only on one xbox.

  18. Re:Wikipedia article question on IBM Releases Cell SDK · · Score: 0

    Because the author of the wikipedia article doesnt know better.

    The CELL is not made for general purpose computing.

  19. You can use the Sony rootkit itself to bypass on Sony Rootkit Phones Home · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ... their own DRM!"

    <Nelson>HAHA</Nelson>

  20. So instead of on Google-NASA Partnership Backlash · · Score: 0

    ... Santa Clara County, Nasa gets the money.
    I think NASA should get the money. At least there is future in what they are doing!

  21. Re:What's wrong with DVD anyway? on Blu Ray Drive Will Cost $100 Per PlayStation 3 · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I might have missed it, but how much space would this require given current compression technology?

    Also some of the cannon parts could be described very efficient with nurbs or fractal generation - as could some of the textures.

    Theres your use for one of the two other cores on an xbox360

  22. hmm on A $100 Million Trip to the Moon · · Score: 1

    Just checked - I'm only 99 Million 999 thousand and 999 U$ short. Someone here willing to lend me some? Will pay it back within a few thousand years :)

  23. Re:Not necessarily on Qbits unstable: May Limit Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    You never know!