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  1. Re:Star of Christian Mythology on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Very few people from two thousand years ago are better documented as having existed. If Jesus existed is not really an open question. If his claims are truthful is though. Not many imaginary people create religious movements.

    Yuri Geller actually exists, even if I don't believe that he can magically bend spoons.

  2. Re:Slashunits! on Mission Could Seek Out Spock's Home Planet · · Score: 1

    No, they are talking about a Vulcan nickel of course, which is EXACTLY 1/8 inch thick, because that is the only logical measure of length.

  3. Re:46 == post-menopausal on Julianne Moore to play Dana Scully · · Score: 1
  4. Re:In unrelated news... on 48% of Americans Reject Evolution · · Score: 1

    Any God that created all of existence would be outside of existence and necessarily not exist. Us trying to prove God's existence would be like this posting trying to prove my existence. The word just doesn't imply the correct meaning if it applied to humans as well as to God. If I exist then God doesn't; if God exists then I don't: the word can't adequately describe both conditions at the same time.

  5. Re:Software approaching the complexity of the orga on Are Unfinished Products Now the Norm? · · Score: 1

    The ones my company produces cost several times my yearly salary a piece, and I am not exactly living poor.

  6. Re:Will they actually do it? on AACS Device Key Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Someone needs to find the key for the PlayStation 3. That will really twist Sony's panties in a knot. Must protect BluRay ... Must protect PlayStation 3 ...

  7. Re:RPN Baby! on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    He meant to say "99% of the non-engineers, and 90% of the engineers under the age of 30".

  8. Re:Mod parent up, stay far away from their Taiwan on The Best Graphing Calculator on the Market? · · Score: 1

    Supposedly the new 50g is an okay machine again. I haven't used it yet though.

  9. Re:PHP, Perl, Ruby on Lisp and Ruby · · Score: 1

    ===? How long until ==== does something almost like numerical equality in some programming language too?

  10. Re:interesting... on Predicting the Internet in 1995 · · Score: 1

    I remember actually buying an "Internet Yellow Pages" sometime around 1994.

  11. Re:Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 1

    The book would have been written in Greek, not Latin, and the Greeks didn't use Roman numbers.

  12. Re:Simple answer: YES. on Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps · · Score: 1

    And the Windows after Vista will be stable, secure, and speedy.

  13. Re:This is not about 'potential'... on Lost Gmail Emails and the Future of Web Apps · · Score: 1

    I generally agree with you. I have been using computers long enough now to have been burned on several occasions from making the poor choice of going with options outside of my control. I have all of my email going back to around 1997 easily accessable, EXCEPT for the emails that were on Yahoo! Mail!, which! decided! to! delete! all! of! my! email! because! I! hadn't! logged! in! for! a! while! Google has a similar policy, but my hard drive doesn't. If I want to go three months without checking my email, so be it. In my mind, Google is just Yahoo, but done less wrong. And I see absolutely no reason why I should allow Google or anybody else to data mine my emails in order to "serve" me targeted ads.

  14. Re:Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs on 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year · · Score: 1

    The 666/616 thing is way older than 2005.

  15. Re:Legal age on Drinking Alcohol May Extend Your Life · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Port is candy goodness.

  16. Re:Sounds silly but ... on German Minister Seeks Jail Time For FPS Players · · Score: 2, Informative

    Playing cards online is perfectly legal. Gambling, on the other had, is not.

  17. Re:It's all about risk-reward on Hackers Not Afraid of Being Caught · · Score: 1

    Let's say you have a 10% chance of getting caught stealing that $100,000, which means a 90% chance of getting away with it. Let's say you have a 100% chance of keeping that $20,000 a year job for as long as you want it, or some other one of equal value. Let's say that you will get ten years in jail for getting caught. Ignoring interest, inflation, morality, etc., you have a 10% chance of losing $200,000, and a 90% chance of gaining $100,000. The expected return is therefore $90,000 - $20,000 = $70,000. Basic probability theory says you should try to steal the money. It will beak even if you are making $90,000 a year.

  18. Re:Vs. Mailinator on Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I think it was the Sims 2 that wouldn't recognize the dash "-" in my email address, which is valid on both the left and on the right.

  19. Re:Which makes it more expensive on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    I got my last RAZR in March, and I am not all that rough on it. The screen just zonked out completely one day about a month ago though. T-Mobile was really good about replacing it though, so I wasn't concerned. Now the new RAZR I have, about a month old, is having intermittent issues with the speaker. I will probably not get a Motorola again, but I suspect that T-Mobile will still be good about it. Perhaps I should wait for one of those iPhones?

  20. Re:Seems only reasonable... on Stock-Picking Computers · · Score: 1

    The problem with trading on news reports is that by the time you read about it in the Wall Street Journal, that is, by the time a newspaper reporter is aware of it, the news is already factored into the stock price.

  21. Re:This isn't a clash between science and religion on U.S. Classrooms Torn Between Science and Religion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Richard Dawkins is a troll and needs to be down-modded.

  22. Re:Yes on Game Industry Folks Siding With the Wii · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Wii is the first game console I have even been interested in since the Sega 32X expansion for the Genesis. And I want someone to figure out how to hook those controllers to the PC!

  23. Re:Tornado - oops messed up the wikilink on Warming a Tiny Piece of Mars For Terraforming · · Score: 1

    The demo model in Germany, which was huge and had the benefit of our very thick (relative to the Martian) atmosphere only produced 50 kW, or 67 bhp, about a third of a normal car engine. It doesn't sound viable to me.

  24. Re:my question on Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones · · Score: 1

    Apparently it was deleted back when it was just a rumor. Could some Wiki admin undelete it?

  25. Re:It's all about the interface on Apple Orders 12 Million iPhones · · Score: 1

    A redundant thank you. That was the primary thing I didn't care for with my RAZR, and now it is fixed. Motorola should send you a small check.