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  1. Re:But I thought on Face Recognition - Real or Science Fiction? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I thought they used chips in the eyes of people in minority report, not face recognition.
    Retina recognition, I think.
  2. Re:Interesting on Judge Clears Bully For Publishing · · Score: 1

    Whoosh

    You've no right to claim that you speak for all "thinking men", thereby implying that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. Your post might or might not be wrong, but it was certainly arrogant and inflammatory.

  3. Re:RTGs are not dangerous on Are Nuclear Powered Mars Rovers a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    It was a Radar-equipped Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite (RORSAT) - for monitoring NATO and merchant vessels using active radar. I imagine active radar work from orbit is fairly power intensive, but it's just a guess TBH.

  4. Re:Why I'm running Linux on this PC on WGA — Too Many False Positives · · Score: 1
    So, yeah, 3 sales/upgrades they won't get from me, and no pirated versions either- I have legit copies of Win98se (4), so I'm covered there.

    Are those licences transferable though? The last time I bought a PC, I was told at activation that I couldn't transfer the licence of XP from my toasted box to the new one.

    I installed Ubuntu instead.

  5. Re:In Soviet Russia Petrov saves you? on The Man Who Literally Saved the World · · Score: 1
    You know, people keep saying "the TFA" and I'm thinking: what if we shorten it to TTFA? Then it becomes "the TTFA" ... oh damn.. ok let me try again, "TTTFA"?
    It's called RAS syndrome.
  6. Re:Predicted response on Another ATM Maker Pwned by Googling · · Score: 1

    With the recent problems google had with some Belgian newspapers, problems that wouldn't have existed if the newspapers had just added a noarchive command to their page template, that wouldn't surprise me one bit.

  7. Re:Firefly - good call on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    Indeed. He can kill you with his brain.

  8. Re:more THAN on OpenOffice.org Design Contest · · Score: 1

    Good spot. Another fine example of Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation - "any statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at least one eror".

  9. Re:anti-cheating engine on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1

    Thanks, didn't know he hadn't come up with it himself. While his turle swims, I think he used the phrase "turtles all the way down" in one of the books.

  10. Re:Really lame interview on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1

    I don't think these words "can be" mean what you think they mean.

  11. Re:anti-cheating engine on An Interview with a Cheater · · Score: 1
    "turtles, all the way down"
    HA! Mod parent up - informative and a Pratchett reference!
  12. Re:Flawed on Analyzing 20,000 MySpace Passwords · · Score: 1

    You also need to remember that having a relatively low IQ doesn't make someone a moron. IQ tests aren't the be all and end all of intelligence. I've a fairly high IQ before anyone thinks I'm saying this out of self-interest!

  13. Re:So... on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1

    Interesting. I tried that, but found that many buttons within the mail stopped working. Like Delete, and Compose. I wound up having to whitelist the dang inbox.

  14. Re:But does it block spam? on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 1

    I've found Yahoo's spam blocker to be comparable with Gmail's. I'm not 100% happy with either, but they both work okay for me. I'm surprised to hear that you had that big an issue with it.

  15. Re:So... on Yahoo! Mail Beta Goes Public · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hated Yahoo's Beta too. Yahoo mail (not just the beta) is so swamped with ads that I'm considering dropping it altogether.

  16. Re:Tangent on Answers From Lawyers Who Defend Against RIAA Suits · · Score: 1

    Quite likely, I would think.

  17. Re:IE not so important... on Slashdot Discussion2 In Beta · · Score: 1

    What version of IE?

  18. Re:^ Mod parent up on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    My apologies. The sentence "I have no problem with this at all" referred to TFA rather than the punishment for missing lectures.

    I did once see the cute comment that the lecture system is the best method yet discovered for teaching people who can't read. Rather to the point, I'd say.

    That's probably fair. However, many drivers would be safe drivers even if there were no legal, enforced speed limits. We keep them regardless. Sometimes we just pander to the lowest common denominator.

  19. Re:F/S on Royal Society Opens Free Online Archive · · Score: 1

    Actually, German speakers might recognise it from the origins of the scharfes s.

  20. Re:^ Mod parent up on Professor Sells Lectures Online · · Score: 1

    The students have fair access. This is not suplimentary material, it is the material available if you bother going to class. When I was an undergrad, you could be failed for missing enough lectures. I have no problem with this at all.

  21. Re:Memory leaks on 611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's what he gets for using a pirated version of Firefox! ;)
    Is that the new Fi-arr-fox I keep hearing about?
  22. Re:They couldn't have come up with a better name.. on Humanity Gene Found? · · Score: 1

    Duf, Duf that wonderful stuff...

  23. Duh on Humanity Gene Found? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Apparently the current thinking is that this gene is responsible for coding important areas of brain function.

    Fantastic. Unfortunately, that seems to come from the same school of thought as my suggestion here: this gene is responsible for male pattern balding and fully erect bipedal motion.

  24. Re:Too Late on Continued Opposition To Laptops in Schools · · Score: 1
    A fair test would be one where students were exposed to the chess program, and not allowed to drop out.
    I've certainly read some of those. There does seem to be some benefit to it. Of course, driving kids through any course of mental work generally helps somehow. The brain's a little like a muscle in that use builds it up.
  25. Re:Horrible idea, but thats par for the course for on Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory? · · Score: 1

    I make five! And we're done.