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  1. My bad on SETI@Home Breaks 500,000 years · · Score: 1

    I should have turned on my brain before I write something. "The frequency of interesting work units goes down..." and "if it gets destroyed".
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  2. Re:Close calls? on SETI@Home Breaks 500,000 years · · Score: 1

    The close calls are generated from a broke telescope. It goes down after it was fixed (assuming that it was fixed). Now I wonder if it got destroyed, we can detect life out there... :)
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  3. Re:Eat Less, Live Longer? on Eat Less - Live Longer · · Score: 1

    Oh my... Imagine the world overrun by homeless people! Perhaps I should donate more for the food drive...
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  4. And if everybody takes your advice... on Eat Less - Live Longer · · Score: 1

    ...the buffet restaurants are going out of business.
    Or, people are still going to the buffet, and the managers will make big bucks.

    On another note, it's deja vu alllll over again. The world population goes up.
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  5. Late breaking news on IBMs CMOS 9S · · Score: 1

    We have just received word that Intel and Pringles are in league with one another. Apparently Pringles' motto: "Once you pop, you can't stop." and the x86 architecture assembly language command "pop [reg]" go hand in hand. There are reports from users that the new 386 instruction, "popad", actually displays Pringles ads on the display. We will have more at 11.
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    (due to the lack of time in writing this, I grabbed the first link containing the info I need from a search. It may or may not be the best ASM document, but that's not my point here :)
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  6. Re:Haven't you noticed? Faster CPU=Slower Boot on Intel Creates 30-Nanometer Transistors · · Score: 1

    You've forgotten the joke:
    Get a P2-266MHz to reboot faster.
    Of course, now it should be: Get a P4/AMD-2GHz to reboot faster.
    (I believe this originated from a certain computer newsgroup)
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  7. Re:Better than Hubble on Cassini Greets Jupiter · · Score: 1

    There's something called brightness and contrast control... oh wait... that's on a monitor.

    But your statement could be true. It's too bright, so the quality is really bad (seeing white?). Anything flying close by Jupiter should have better quality than from Earth. And how old is Hubble (last imaging upgrade)? Cassini? Are there any great enhancement between the two times?
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  8. Re:Had to say it... on Four New Moons For Saturn · · Score: 1

    After several weeks of agonizing and boring hand recount, the international team of eight "satellite hunters" finally announced that Saturn has been declared President of the Solar System. Wait a minute, that doesn't sound right... :)
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  9. Re:life on mars!! not!! on Testing For Life On Mars · · Score: 1

    first they take all my tax dollars and give them to some longhair running a screen saver so that they can scan for alien signals
    I think SETI@Home is a privately funded group. Now your government might be pumping money into one or more of the corporate sponsors found on the main page, but that is completely up to the corporates.
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  10. New browser dialog boxes. on Phone Numbers Instead of URLs? · · Score: 3

    "Your access is important to us. Please hold.", "We're sorry, the URL you are trying to reach is busy." and "We're sorry, the number you have typed is out of service. Please disconnect (from the Internet) and try your number again. This is a recording."
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  11. Re:Hacking Devices on Gamepro Talks About Indrema · · Score: 1

    Well... if you leave a really big capacitor, you can claim that it's part of the circuitry. It'll be their fault to open it up and zap themselves stupid. Oh wait, they *ARE* stupid to open it up in the first place...
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  12. Re:Hacking Devices on Gamepro Talks About Indrema · · Score: 1

    Here's two ideas, put "Warranty void if this label is broken." and "Warning: To avoid personal injury, please have a certified technician to service this product."
    Then again, it's just a label.
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  13. Furborg? on Furby Bounty Paid · · Score: 4

    That pic looks like a Furborg to me... I wonder if it does assimulation?
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  14. Re:OLD! on The Author of Ping is Reported Dead · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Buffalo's driving ban...
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  15. Re:Save the Earth, do our laundry somewhere else on On Asteroid Mining · · Score: 1

    So we should send our trash into space too?
    *Foom* I don't wanna hear your stupid logic, Vulcans! Logic this *foom*.
    *sigh* so much for First Contact...
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  16. Re:Hmmm... on On Asteroid Mining · · Score: 1

    I think Hemos has been watching too much Armageddon
    When are we sending Bruce to drill? :)
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  17. Some tech other than lizard's on A New Web Image Format · · Score: 1

    A little late in posting, but anybody browsing "old" news might want to know that LuraTech also has wavelet compression.
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  18. Re:Anoter case of ascii chars used in names ... on Black Holes May Promote Stellar Birth · · Score: 1

    Not to mention Divx ;-)
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  19. Re:erm on Upgrade Your Pentium's Microcode · · Score: 1

    Oh, cool! Never received an imaginary mod point before. Thanks fjordboy! :)
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  20. Re:erm on Upgrade Your Pentium's Microcode · · Score: 2

    Only the older bios need to cook in UV for a while.
    You make it sound like they're food or something. Oh wait, they are chips...
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  21. Starting a Linux monopoly on Upgrade Your Pentium's Microcode · · Score: 1

    if (OS = Windows) {
    printf "Please install Linux.\n";
    crash();
    }
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    Or it could be used by Microsoft as well, who knows?
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  22. Look on the bright side on NEAR skirts Eros surface · · Score: 1

    That'll teach the Erosians not to mess with us. By the way... what did they do to us?
    We should've told NASA that 3 miles is too far. We should be able to see the whites of the Erosians' eyes, as well as their surprised expressions.
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  23. A message from the fungus above on Mir Lives · · Score: 1

    People of Earth:
    No human had donated money to keep our space craft up here. We have deliberately hacked one of your servers and emailed a message to the Russian government that we are sending money to them. We needed some extra time so that we can complete the boosters we have been building. By the time you are reading this, we should pass by Mars. It has been a memorable 10 years with you. Thank you for your space craft.

    Kronos
    Leader of the Space Fungus race
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    Note before you reply: I can't remember if it was 10 years anymore... it's been waaaaay to long.
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  24. Re:Problem is.... on Internet Filter Plan Hits Snag · · Score: 1

    Filtering/blocking based on Domain names is fatally flawed.

    That's why there are software like Internet Junkbuster, or Guidescope.
    No matter what the domain name is, it's still blocks ads. (Oh, hello /. admin... sorry for blocking your ads :P)

    So, the same thing can be used to block porn sites. (Ok, at least Junkbuster will try to block every domain's ads. Don't know about Guidescope...)
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  25. Just in time! on Computer, Arise From Your Grave · · Score: 1

    Computer, Arise From Your Grave

    Just in time for Halloween! I wonder what it looks like, Frankinstein's monster?
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    dd if=/dev/random of=~/.ssh/authorized_keys bs=1 count=1024