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  1. Re:so the fire starter didn't have a home? on Internet2 Taken Out by Stray Cigarette · · Score: 1

    If the cig was tossed from a car window would we be hearing repeatedly

    Yes, if it was an SUV. An SUV using a cell phone.

  2. NO on Google, Intel, Microsoft Fund Robot Recipes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you think the "browser wars" were bad, just wait untill Microsoft and $POTENTIAL_COMPETITION fight over control of a household robot.

  3. Re:What does it mean for us to observe something? on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    So if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, not only does it not make a sound, it doesn't even exist!

  4. interpret on Six-Dimensional Space-Time Theory · · Score: 2

    Can anybody explain this in terms we can understand, like rubber sheets and spinning balls?

  5. Re:what? on New Way to Patch Defective Hardware · · Score: 1

    Maybe the professor's research budget is up for review shortly and he had to come up with something quick. You know, publish or perish!

  6. Re:Utah again. on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's just what I though when my senator (Byrd) proposed a constitutional amendment allowing school prayers - it a) Doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of passing, and 2) He gets brownie points for suggesting it. So in the end, nothing really changes except the good senators reputation amongst a certain constituency. Pure politics.

  7. Re:That pretty much nails it on the head. on Taxes, Second Life and Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Best thing to do - is not hold it past the end of the calendar year and dispose of it at a loss and take the full loss as a deduction against your WOW earnings.

    Actually, best thing to do would be to use the weapon to slay the local tax collector and take his gold.

  8. Re:It's a rich man's solar system on U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station · · Score: 1

    Not only that, a few weeks ago I had to upgrade my system with a new video card to be able to play WoW. Then Word® 2002 started complaining about "significant change in the system" so I had to drive out to a storage shed 5 miles away, dig the box of Office Suite out from the back, underneath everything, plop in the CD and 'reactivate' the software, which failed over the Internet (which works fine for everything else) so I had to call an 888 number and have an irritating conversation with an automated attendant complete with the abonimation of being requested to 'speak' the registration number into a phone even though it is MUCH easies to press the touch tone digits. After spending about an hour wasting my limited life time jumping through those hoops, now I can print envelope lables again and open business document communications from morons who don't know any better. So, enjoy the trip!

  9. Re:It's a rich man's solar system on U.S. Billionaire Heads to Space Station · · Score: 1

    You mean they're not doing this??

    Gasp.

  10. Re:Geeky stuff for the un-geek on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    Yea, but nothing beats watching a Monroe-matic CSA 10 calculate the decimal remainder of a division!

  11. Re:Bitch slap on Billions Face Risks From Climate Change · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    a few other capital cities had several inches of standing water from increased sea level, you can bet something would be getting done.

    Yeah, they would pack up and move to higher ground just like any sensible person would do in a flood. I'm sorry, but rasiing gasoline taxes or charging "carbon credits" isn't going to make the ocean waves stop, King Canute

    [ Getting modded troll/flamebait in 3...2...1... ]

  12. Re:I just switched... BACK on Survey Finds Few Intend to Upgrade to Vista · · Score: 1

    To show my IP-adress under XP, i doubleclick on the connection-icon in the systray and change to the second tab.

    Just open a browser and go to "whatismyip.com" - Vista friendly.

  13. Re:I'm sure I won't be the only one to ask on The Virtual Teacher · · Score: 1

    Um, they aren't constantly whinning about low pay?

  14. Re:The Tombstone on John W. Backus Dies at 82; Developed FORTRAN · · Score: 1

    That's a shame - he could have told us if GOD is real or integer.

  15. Re:I want more. on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it transparent?

    (sleep 15)

  16. Re:Embed a Wiimote on World's First Lego Autopilot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you mean like one of these ?

  17. Re:Why not just fudge the timezones permanently? on Microsoft Takes a 'Patch Tuesday' Break · · Score: 1

    It's all just a psychological game, anyway

    That's why my favorite time fudging clock is this one

  18. Re:Music on Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is good advice indeed.

  19. Re:A little OT... on Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site · · Score: 1

    those are improvements to living, but not really a 'brought to you by'. Dupont used to use "Better living through chemistry".

  20. Re:Lies and Statistics on Ohio University Leads U.S. Colleges in File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Throw in an Organisational Unit of Officially Sanctioned Users and it could really get confusing.

  21. Oh boo hoo on Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    M$ft made their company out of sabatoging competitors products and called it 'free market competition' - they will just have to eat it when others get the upper hand and give them a taste of their own medicine.

  22. Re:I just don't get it... on Kansas Adopts New Science Standards · · Score: 1

    Everything you need to know is in the Bible. Everything else is temptation and devilry. Remember that Gal[ae]lio was arrested for using a 'diabolical instrument' (the telescope) and claiming that the earth revolved about the sun (heresy!)

  23. Re:who knew on Carbon Nanotube-Based NVRAM In 2-3 Years? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think it did a lot of work as a serial processor. From this description:

    "The ENIAC was controlled through a train of electronic pulses."

    --and--

    "because the various units of the ENIAC could operate simultaneously, the ENIAC could perform calculations in parallel. (BUT!) ENIAC programmers tended to avoid this use because the impressive but limited reliability of the ENIAC favored the use of as few units as possible for a given application."

  24. Re:who knew on Carbon Nanotube-Based NVRAM In 2-3 Years? · · Score: 1

    That's what ENIAC was.

  25. radiation on Space Potato Hits the Streets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, Genetically Modified for taste, color, growth characteristics (immunity of insects instead of having to use pesticides, large yeild, etc) is BAD.

    Randomly irradiated by extraterrestrial radiation: GOOD.

    Actually it's probably a way for the average Chinese to participate in national pride - kinds of like kids in the 60's US drinking Tang and eating those small cubes of freeze dried ice cream.