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  1. AP on AP reports on renewed "Browser War" · · Score: 1

    Since when does AOL own the Associated Press?

  2. hmm on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    I guess I didn't make my joke obvious enough. (What would you need an ID for?) should be (Drinking age? What's that?)

    :)

  3. Re:Keg tapper on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Geez, what college was this? Police at a party? What a bummer.

    BTW: University of Madison here. (What would you need an ID for?)

  4. Re:Land Speed Record on New Internet2 Land Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Yes, you're wrong.

    Next please.

    (Of course they send more than one packet at a time, everyone does. It's called a packet, and can be several hundred bytes long. Furthermore, of course they don't wait for one bit to arrive before they send the next. Not only would it be nearly impossible to control traffic one bit at a time, it'd be terribly inefficient. For TCP it's called flow control, and isn't byte for byte. For UDP you never get acknowledgment that your packet has been received.)

  5. double standard? on China Plans Moonbase · · Score: 2

    No, not really. We'd love to see the Japanese go to the moon because we trust them and have a great tradition of sharing technology with them.

    China, on the other hand, would like to watch us die in a cloud of radioactive fallout.

  6. profits? on Buy a Russian Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Imagine the profits

    Who cares about the profits, It would be a blast to ram satilites just for the hell of it.

    "Hey Jim- see that one over there? 15 points!"


    I think I just came up with a theme for a cheezy arcade game. :)

  7. Re:What part of FOAD don't they understand on EU Plans to Tax Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    Nope.

  8. Re:This reminds me ... on EU Plans to Tax Internet Sales · · Score: 2, Informative

    He put toilet paper all over the house, yard, trees, cars, bushes, fence, dog, etc. It's a common high school prank, usually done to teachers around graduation.

  9. Re:Sorry, one-time pad is not perfect on Quantum Cryptography In Action · · Score: 1

    (Score:3, Interesting) WTF?

    It's a joke people. Laugh.

  10. Re:How far can you lean forward? on Segway Getting Real-Life Tests · · Score: 5, Funny

    It senses you trying to do it the first time and lets you fall flat on your face. After you do it once the problem mysteriously goes away. (for some people it takes more than once though- these special cases are called "morons")

  11. Re:Solid State Disk? on Cray's New Solid State Storage · · Score: 1

    Duh, the chips are round.

  12. OPERATING on Build Your Own Monorail · · Score: 1

    Operating profit is fare - operating cost, ie. maintance, employees, etc. Notice that it does NOT include the initial investment.

  13. flash on JPEG2000 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Hmm, seems to me that a LOT of sites use flash animation. Which, btw, requires a plugin.

  14. no... on Exegesis 4 Out · · Score: 1

    Referencing somebody else's text or talking about the rules concerning VB, Perl and CS in one sentence completely legal. Using them to refer to oneself, however, is not.

    Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

  15. no need to run on Low-end Laptops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Once you're out the doors with something from Best Buy, it's yours. It's corporate policy that the loss prevention folk (the guy in yello by the door who checks your bags) are not to chase after you. Reason being is a few years back an employee got shot while chasing a guy on foot. Your biggest worry is that if it's something expensive they will notify the police and give them a tape of you doing it.

    I once watched a security tape that was distributed to all the stores of a guy stealing a laptop. Plain as day, he walked up to the thing, unbolted the lock and walked out of the store with it. The salesmen are supposed to watch the notebooks a bit better now.

  16. What university? on Greene's Grammy Speech Debunked · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, what university are you at? Wisconsin-Madison here, our resnet blows too. That's what they get though when they try to put 7500 bandwidth-hungry college students under a 40mbit cap. :(

  17. Atlantic on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Which side, pray tell, is your side?

  18. Re:Newsweek hasn't heard of KDE yet on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    NE = Non-Existant

    Just my 4 pages.

  19. Newsweek on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just a nitpick: the article was written by Newsweek. It gives credit at the top (just under the authors names) and has the copyright notice at the bottem.

    Just my 4 pages.

  20. Re:I totally agree... on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    I can get the full version of Visual Studio Pro from my university for $25.

    However, that would severly cut into this month's pizza budget.

    gcc, on the other hand, is free.

    Just my 4 pages.

  21. Re:Languages vs. concepts. on Will CS Students Switch From Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Theoretically speaking, that is. In a near-perfect world you could teach the conecpts and the students would remember them and then be able to apply what they've learned later.

    For example (albeit weak): it is possible to study spoken language structure without applying structure to an actual spoken language. You just don't get a whole lot out of it.

    Just my 4 pages. ($0.02)

  22. OT: $0.02 on Captain Crunch's New Boxes, Part II · · Score: 1, Funny

    I do believe that everyone who usually writes "just my $0.02" on slashdot should change their comment to something a bit more universally understood. Perhaps: "just my 4 pages" ?

    Just my 4 pages.

  23. Re:Keeping people away from Rx waste in 10000 year on 1086 Domesday Book Outlives 1986 Electronic Rival · · Score: 1

    Rx? Why do you want to keep people away from wasted perscription medicines for 10,000 years? :)

  24. IE on Impressive Homemade Aluminum Cube Case · · Score: 1

    IE did that for me too. Used opera, loads like a champ.

  25. Re:K.I.S.S. on What Makes a Good Web Design? · · Score: 1

    ditto! I've got to hear that. :)