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  1. Re:Auroras reported in Northern Canada on Solar Flare Interferes With Radio, But No Big Auroras · · Score: 1

    The site records the aurora each night

    No, not abnormal

  2. Re:Throw their weight around on South Park's Episode 201 — the Expurgated Version · · Score: 1

    "Canada on Strike" was about internet fads. Chocolate rain, Numa Numa, Star Wars Kid != South Park.

  3. Hell ya! on Shuttle Reentry Over the Continental US · · Score: 1

    Looking at the map, it's going to be flying right about over my head. I know what I'm going to be doing tomorrow morning.

  4. Re:Goody! on C-Span Posts Full Archives Online · · Score: 1

    They have some of the days of the Iran-Contra hearings. I don't know if it was all of them, but some was up there. I don't know what particular day the OP was referencing, I was trying to find what he's talking about.

  5. Re:Suicide? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    1. ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.

    -- NRA Gun Safety Rules

    By your rule, a gun is never in control if you're firing it, or if it's even loaded. If I load my shotgun, then yell "pull", my firearm's not under control, even if I'm aimed at the flying clay pigeon. Good to know that you've never safely operated a firearm.

  6. Re:You're looking at it wrong. on Should I Take Toyota's Software Update? · · Score: 1

    The Prius does have a decent amount of power, until the battery runs out. Then you're sitting on the tiny little 76HP waiting til you reach the top of the mountain so you can get some regenerative braking.

  7. Re:Bad examples on Triumph of the Cyborg Composer · · Score: 1

    It's going very slowly, but here are a couple of examples

  8. Re:What, no E75 love? Huh? on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    My E71 can use Ovi Maps, but the only problem is that as of now you have to use a subscription, over the air system to get navigation (just like Google maps, sans subscription). What this new update does is allow offline navigation, but that new option hasn't been released (yet?) for the E71.

  9. Re:What, no E75 love? on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    That's for Ovi Maps, not "Ovi Maps - with free navigation".

  10. Re:What, no E75 love? on Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Available for E72, but not E71. Grrr.... Nokia!

  11. Re:What's this 'we' thing ? on Did the US Take the Back Seat In Science In 2009? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast plurality of our readership is in the U.S.

    Does that make you feel better?

  12. Re:"You thought we would mess it up?" on US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's kinda clear, actually. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries".
    If Congress wants to regulate patents in a way that helps big business, then they can.

  13. Re:So what? on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the first time ever in a new Windows installation I didn't feel compelled to immediately set up my video drivers. Everything worked smoothly enough. Of course, I did eventually load them up, but it didn't even require a reboot. Needless to say, I'm very pleased with Windows 7 so far.

  14. Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    Sure, we can turn our cellphones off ... but the slippery slope leads to the idea that we shouldn't expect privacy in our homes because they have windows and doors

    Actually, you don't have a right to privacy to anything that can be seen through your windows. It's called plain sight. It's the reason you should never just let a cop inside your house (anything illegal sitting around is fair game) or just leave the baggy of weed in your car on the front seat. Because it's plainly visible and anyone can see it.

  15. Re:Entitlement ... what is with it? on How Long Should Companies Make E-Bills Available? · · Score: 1

    And you think that the time and straight up costs of court will be greater than your one lost day chasing around a bill? Yeah, lemme know how that goes

  16. Don't do it! on The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    from the don't-we-post-this-every-few-months dept.

    Then why do you keep posting them?

  17. Nokia does it just fine on Using Your BlackBerry As a Modem On Linux · · Score: 1

    I plugged in my shiny new Nokia E71 into my Ubuntu 8.10 machine and it automatically started configuring it. I have no need to use it in this manner so I stopped it, but it seemed like it would work fine.

  18. Re:Why is this a surprise? on The Exact Cause of the Zune Meltdown · · Score: 1

    But none of the devices that use Windows Mobile also use this driver.

  19. Re:I don't get it on Crackpot Scandal In Mathematics · · Score: 1

    Ok, so it destroys the credibility of the journal, as well as the credibility of any papers coauthored by this individual, and destroys the credibility of anyone who decided that getting published (by allowing El Naschie to get his name on the paper) was more important than academic rigor. I don't see the long term, lasting harm.

  20. Re:Microsoft OneNote is worth looking at on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 1

    OneNote is a horrible document creator. It's good for taking notes, what it's designed for, but is definitely not useful for writing something the length of a book. It could be good for outlining and prepwork for writing, but for the actual document, use something else.

  21. Re:LaTeX on Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Over break I've been learning LaTeX and certainly it's going to be everything a burgeoning author needs.

    I've also been learning LyX and it's a WYSIWYM(ean) front-end for LaTeX. I suggest you try it.

  22. Re:FAAAAAKKKEE on Denver Couple Unveils Homemade Service Robot · · Score: 1

    Differences in the sound reflected in your example are because of the differences in frequency in the originating sound. The sound rangefinding they're using uses one specific frequency and is going to be pretty darn close. Unless they're also using laser rangefinding as well to compare the difference, I don't think there's anyway to distinguish what sort've material an object is made of with just sound.

  23. Re:... And Yet Very Lacking From a Security Angle on Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, they recently created a "go-between" page for all external links, I believe. It repeats what URL is being requested and then has a button that says "go there anyway". The ones that are known viruses are completely blocked.
    That sounds pretty proactive to me

  24. Re:No matter how deluded, the poster has a point on US Has Been In Recession Since December 2007 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The system as it existed^W exists works on faith.

    Our entire economy, since we've moved from the gold standard in the 70's to a pure fiat based monetary system is still entirely, 100% based on faith. Your money has no value other than what other people think it's worth.

  25. Re:What a tool... on Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict · · Score: 1

    That's pretty close to saying that cigarette companies have nothing to do with smokers dying of cancers and other smoking related illness.

    The difference being that they were found to be civilly negligent, not criminally.