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  1. Re:In case of slashdotting on Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By · · Score: 1

    1 football field = 120 yards (100 yards + 2 * 10 yard endzones) = 360 ft
    900 ft / 360 ft = 2.5
    On sale today for only 1.0 billion

  2. organism-like behavior on Company Denies Its Robots Feed On the Dead · · Score: 1

    engaging in biologically-inspired, organism-like, energy-harvesting behavior

    Aww, its never as much fun after I spit-take and then read it over again...

  3. Re:In a word... on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 2

    A thousand times yes.

  4. alpha on Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle · · Score: 1

    What a billowy article.
    I feel wronged.

  5. Re:Let me see... on A Look At Successful Game Mods · · Score: 1

    The OOO mod for Oblivion made it a FAR better game than the original Oblivion.

    ...and the topless mod, obviously.

  6. Re:Who would want that? on A Windows CE Shell For Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Those limitations were for WinCE 5.0 and earlier. WinCE 6.0 does not have those limitations.

  7. This makes more sense on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    I'm in search for one of your representatives, or National Security. I have been blocked from Slashdot. I have done nothing worthy of being banned and if you would take a few minutes of your time to think about this and then said "I hope he's not a "nigger" I was astounded that he had said something so lowlife in a letter. Apologize to my isp, I called at yelled at them yesterday thinking it was their fault. Finally, I want a written promise that you will soon see. I've even tried try to get the HAARP to tune into me, so they could see me which would see him. This is just the beginning of what I know I'm using the right password why won't you let me in the same Applebee's. The first time was about five years ago when I listen, I can hear him telling people he's playing God and to my knowledge he has never gone back. I have seen the fellow in other clubs where the clientele is more receptive to his modo di pensare. I didn't write that my little brother did but I really don't want to get into National Security. He helped himself into instruments and institutions, and began using them incorrectly and illegally. I am offering National Security or anyone else again. If you do not meet these demands in 10 business days, I will be forced to take drastic action, including but not limited to: emailing everyone I know. Eugene, Oregon's FBI seem to be full of idiots or his "Change Your mind Method" is working pretty damn good. Right now I can't! I'm mailing you from the library right now cause you won't let me on the internet!

    Your move asshole!

  8. Re:The shutdown of future learning on FCC Ends 700 MHz Auction · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since I can buy a microcontroller for $4US that has better specs than my original desktop computer, I hardly think that home electronic projects will go away any time soon, or indeed at all. They just might be different, just like everything else related to technology.

  9. Chupacabra on What's Your Favorite Monster? · · Score: 1

    Everything I know about the chupacabra I learned from Scooby-Doo.

  10. Re:Good on Identifying Manipulated Images · · Score: 4, Funny

    It just sounds wrong to say that an image has been "GIMPed".

    Actually, now that I think about it, I kinda like it...

  11. Re:This is why I backup my Gmail with G-Archiver on G-Archiver Harvesting Google Mail Passwords · · Score: 1

    Oh, now I get it! Thats what "You down wit' OPP?" meant...

  12. Re:Link covers several pages on The Dirty Jobs of IT · · Score: 1

    Big deal. There is no mod category: "helpful".

  13. Myth? on The Myth of the "Transparent Society" · · Score: 1

    Is it really a "myth" if nobody has ever heard of it until now?

  14. Re:Nasty Free Software People on Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market · · Score: 1

    (Like: Those D*mn hospital volunteers are keeping the pay down! Or: Those D*mn Habitat for Humanity volunteers, donating their labor, are making it impossible to charge people to build a house.)
    Actually, I have heard this just recently. Some golf coast residents are complaining that they can't find construction work because of all of the volunteers that are helping out (link). Which is of course total hog-crap, and goes to show you that just because somebody has a particular opinion doesn't make it valid.
  15. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 1

    Zu Chongzhi said it first.

    Maybe you knew him, you seem about the same age....

  16. Re:Blashphemy ! on 111 Years Ago, Indiana Almost Legislated Pi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Every time I try to do that I always get 8.675309...

  17. Re:Printing Press on The Gray Areas of Search-Engine Law · · Score: 1

    Google is the printing press and library of the digital age.
    I don't see it. If anything, Google is the card catalog.

    The rest was a little hard to follow, but ...preach it brother! (I guess)
  18. Thats pretty good on Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked · · Score: 1

    Now can they write some software to help us read their own spam? I mean, I would probably buy some of their V*|*Agra P3'N1$ EN1@R G3|M3N7 if I could only figure out what the heck they were talking about...

  19. Re:How far we've come in just 15 years on Ray Tracing for Gaming Explored · · Score: 1

    The next step: a truly 3D immersive peripheral video system, maybe a curved paper-thin monitor?
    I don't know about curved monitors or true 3D immersion, but I would expect in the near future to see PC games with support for 3 monitors, the main display screen and two others which you would arrange to give peripheral vision.
  20. Re:Full text of article on The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That keyboard has problems, but none of them are on this list. Who cares if it's from Microsoft. And if you don't like the split, you wouldn't be using the keyboard in the first place (duh...)

    a) The keyboard is a monster. Just forget about having desk space.
    b) The function keys aren't grouped in the usual sets of 4, so the correct key is harder to locate.
    c) The special keys above the function keys are largely useless, and don't always work
    d) The 'Sleep' key is large, raised, and right on the corner of the keyboard. What were they thinking? Disabling this key is essentially required to use the keyboard.

  21. Re:Some are so unangry that they have editcountiti on Sony's Idea of DRM-Free Music · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they would be livid to the point of tears if their work was copied and sold commercially.

    I can already hear the bellyaching...

  22. Re:Are you kidding? on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    What exactly is your point? That nobody should be using solar power just because you can't? Why should it be anybody else's problem how you get your power? Figure out for yourself how to turn narcissism into coal and let everyone else be happy they don't live in New Freakin Hampshire.

  23. Re:i'll go first on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the river was an 'O', Google wins with a full house.

  24. Re:for my own bid on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    how much for the color "blue"? Fifty dollars!!

    What, this isn't National Miss the Point Day?
  25. Hackfest '08 on The $10 Billion Poker Game Begins · · Score: 1

    Online bidding...

    Billions of dollars...

    The chance to mess with some powerful organizations of a very public stage...

    Who else smells a warm wind blowing?