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  1. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    I'd recommend Greg Egan's "Axiomatic" and some other novels from him... they seem to cover what you are looking for.

  2. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    The Iphone in particular, and smartphones in general, are getting more and more similar to tricorders - think augmented reality.

  3. Re:And why should they care? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    I consider your reply an improvement over your first post.

  4. Re:And why should they care? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    She could have written "I'm aware of the world outside my chosen field, capable of ignoring rules and aware of consequences".

    Shorter and more to the point.

  5. Re:And why should they care? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    Not really - if you have something interesting to say, that is.

  6. Re:And why should they care? on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    too verbose.
    (2)

  7. Re:Obligatory Car Analogy... on AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    yeah. and who pays for that?

  8. brevity on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    I like.

  9. Completely unrelated genres on What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class? · · Score: 1

    Even if they often appear on the same shelves at your local supermarket, Fantasy and Science Fiction are unrelated genres.

    You might as well consider teaching the children how to make strawberry jelly on that same class.

  10. anonymously?? on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 1

    I expected more from the BBC guys.

    This guy isn't posting anonymously, he's posting under a fake name, or impersonating another person. But definetly not anonymously - since his posts do have a name.

    See reply to this comment as an example.

  11. This requires a big... on Japan's Cell Phones May Get DRM, At Music Industry Behest · · Score: 1
  12. me too on Developer Explains Clone/Transhumanist RPG · · Score: 1

    sick of elves and barbarians, not wanting to enter EVE.

  13. Re:Its been done for years already on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    Or for more better example, 405GB to MB's?

    Easy!

    405GB = 1024 MB, 405 times.

  14. ETC... on Opera Dominates CNET Survey of "Underdog" Web Browsers · · Score: 1

    Firefox, Safari, IE, etc

    I consider Safari an underdog one too. And there's no "etc"

  15. Re:breaking my heart on Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 1

    Scamming nigerian scammers by selling them voodoo. That is so great.

  16. publish it on sf or github or freshmeat on Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? · · Score: 1

    Just put it the code there with the right license, and referals to the previous work that you used as a base. If your changes are significant enough, they will get ported to the mainstream version; or your version could become the mainstream one by its own merits.

  17. 10 times the size of Alaska... yeah right on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 1

    pictures, google maps link or i don't believe it exists.

  18. Re:They better not go there... on How Wolfram Alpha's Copyright Claims Could Change Software · · Score: 1

    The difference is that in Wolfram's case it would be the piano maker who is claiming copyright of the improvised song.

  19. The simplest solution I can think of is.. on Integrating Wikipedia With a Local Intranet Wiki · · Score: 1

    1. On your personal wiki server, have a copy of each page of the wikipedia you want to apply modifications to, and add whatever you want on those.

    2. Have a modified http proxy on the intranet that detects queries to the wikipedia about items that you have on the server and re-route them.

    For example, let's say you want custom information on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks. You copy it to http//yourintranetserver/wiki/Socks, and make your changes.

    Then, if someone from inside your network tries to get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socks, they get yours instead.

    At the same time, the proxy needs to be intelligent enough to redirect back to the wikipedia page if your server doesn't have a page. Ideally the http redirect rules should be put automatically in place when a new page is added to yourintranetserver.

  20. Re:This is not a bad idea on Want a Science Degree In Creationism? · · Score: 1

    You can at least learn how wrong people can be by studying creationism.

  21. Re:We can't talk to Dolphins on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Bees also have "a sophisticated and elaborate social construct" (queens, workers, drones, etc) that "requires exacting communication to maintain" (like "there flowers to the east"). You may also want to suppose that they "have the corner on intelligence".

  22. Re:The First Ones on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    Who do you trust?

  23. Re:Solved? on New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox · · Score: 1

    We would kill any other species capable of making complex machines. Cro-magnon was probably one of them.

  24. LT doesn't like KDE any more on Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows · · Score: 1

    Partially related: Linus Torvalds has recently switched from kde to gnome.

  25. The life of Bryan on South Carolina Seeking To Outlaw Profanity · · Score: 1

    If this gets approved it will provoke "pythonesque" situations -- "Stop! Stop, will you?! Stop that! Stop it! Now, look! No one is to stone anyone until I blow this whistle! Do you understand?! Even, and I want to make this absolutely clear, even if they do say 'fuck'!"