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  1. why not make bills harder to counterfeit on HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Australia the notes are made from plastic with a transparent section.

    It's not something you could make with a scanner and a printer

  2. that thermostat may be conscious on Mars Landers - Opportunity, Bedrock, Aerosmith? · · Score: 1

    there are actually some serious philisophical debates over whether thermostats are conscious

    http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/notes/lloyd-c om ments.html

  3. Re:Grand Canyon pictures on News from Mars · · Score: 1

    umm, i wasn't flame-baiting

    there is something very unnatural looking about the hi-res image

  4. Grand Canyon pictures on News from Mars · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    These don't look like pictures, they look like paintings. Take a look at the hi-res versions

    Have these been retouched?

  5. Re:Statistically on Lonely Planets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    statistics don't dictate anything on this

    all we know is intelligent life occurred once. there's no way to extrapolate from a sample group of 1

  6. 1 cent? on Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050 · · Score: 5, Funny

    is $.010 some 3133+ way of writing 1 cent?

  7. Re:perch and bass are NOT native on Australia To Use GM To Control Carp · · Score: 2, Informative

    the article says "Macquarie perch and Australian bass"
    these are native Australian fish!

  8. what is FLOSS on Free Software In Iran, KDE In Farsi · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml

  9. it's simple on OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think I've figured it out. The source code talks to the penguins and the little penguins hand the source code to the contributors and the fat penguins compile the source code and give it to the market place and somehow the market place gives the code back again

    whoever did that flow chart is insane

  10. listen to it here on Synthesized Singers · · Score: 1

    the have some samples here

    sounds synthetic to me

  11. Netcraft stats for Apache on Apache 2.0.48 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the new netcraft stats are posted.

    apache just keeps stealing more market share-

  12. Don't give anyone your mobile number on FCC Still Pushing for Number Portability on Nov. 24 · · Score: 1

    After 3 rings on my home phone it forwards to my mobile.
    I just give people my home phone number.

    Vonage forwarding is free and you can set the number of rings etc. on their web site

    This way I can change mobile numbers and no one knows

  13. Re:bluetooth? on New Treo Reviewed · · Score: 3, Informative

    you should be able to plug a bluetooth adapter in the expansion slot

    from treocentral.com-

    The Treo 600 family also adds an SD/SDIO/MMC slot. This slot, located on the top of the device was also found on the Treo 90, and on all current Palm models. It enables the use of SD and MMC media for storage of more programs and MP3 audio or video and SD content cards like dictionaries, or game packs. More importantly it also is SDIO enabled, meaning that it will work with hardware accessory cards like Veo's SD photo card, Margi's SD presenter-to-go, or Sandisk's upcoming Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards.

  14. no Red Hat on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 4, Informative

    look at the SCO pic. they cover up his Red Hat. hmm

  15. Macquariums with real fish! on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 5, Informative

    people have been doing this for years with old macs

  16. Download the full paper here- on There Is No Single Instant In Time · · Score: 1

    http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/

  17. Mobitopia on The Death of Bluetooth? · · Score: 1

    Mobitopia had an article about this

    I guess this guy doesn't own many gadgets.
    My desk is a tangle of wires for my phone/palm pilot/camera/midi keyboard/headphones and usb doodads.
    Bluetooth is perfect for sorting out this mess.

  18. Re:Hold your horses... on VoIP, WiFi and the Future of Traditional Telecom · · Score: 1

    Vonage has "a good implimentation of VoIP to the desktop"

    I'm using it now and it works great. Vonage supplies you with a cisco box and you just plug it into your router. free long distance in US and Canada.

    i can download files and talk at the same time. there's no bandwidth problems at all.

  19. Re:Other stuff on Ballmer Sells Part of his Stake in Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I think you are wrong. The shares were going down all week on large volume. The rumour was that Paul Allen was dumping shares.

    Ballmer announced Friday morning that he had been selling and there was a little relief rally because it was over.

  20. Future CPUs will use LESS power on Tiny Bubbles Key to Cooling Crazy Hot CPUs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought the whole emphasis on CPUs was changing from higher clock speed to lower power usage, even in servers. Google's number one requirement is low power usage in their servers.

    I'm sure the average PC in the future is going to be using LESS power than today.

  21. William "Luke" Stewart on Internet via the Power Grid, Again · · Score: 1

    that con-man William "Luke" Stewart, mentioned in the Wired article, still seems to have a company/web site pushing his snake oil-
    http://nicmedia.com/

  22. lessons learned on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    1) don't throw out the old code and start again.
    -if they had built on the old Netscape code things would have proceeded faster. an open source project needs at least something to build on, or tear apart.

    2) don't expand the scope of the project before you have something that works.
    -using the browser to also do the interface instead of using system widgets. who's idea was that?

    i like mozilla. i used it for over 2 years before Safari came along.

  23. Re:Refresh rates != response time on LCD Overtaking CRT · · Score: 1

    > Most modern LCDs operate at only 24 bit color.

    24 bit is a good as it gets. in 32 bit color, the 8 bits are used for other info, i.e. the alpha channel which is used to specify transparencies.

    LCD's just aren't as accurate yet at displaying those 24 bits.

  24. Dell is now the default PC maker on Dell Dropping The Floppy · · Score: 1

    The reason PC's have so many obsolete doodads is that none of the manufacturers would take the lead.

    Now that Dell has such a huge share of the market it's able to dictate what to include or drop from a standard PC.

  25. community on Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison · · Score: 3, Insightful

    of course macs are slower than pc's. they're comparing a 1GHz with 3GHz

    the reason you use macs for video and graphics (at least here in manhattan) is that most of the pros use them for that.

    if you need help with something, there are a bunch of people with similar mac setups you can call. If you use a PC you're on your own