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  1. Re:WTF!!?!! on SpaceShipOne Captures the X Prize · · Score: 1
    Although I've marked you as 'Friend', I have to weigh in here - if Rutan doesn't have initimate access to the NASA data, and NASA does, why can't they get stuff to orbit for the same price as Rutan?

    Considering that Rutan has yet to put anything in orbit, this isn't really a valid question.

  2. In other news.... on Caffeine Withdrawal Recognized As Real · · Score: 4, Funny

    Water is wet.

  3. Paris Business Review on Daily Show's Viewers Best O'Reilly's In Political Quiz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone should ask Bill O'Reilly abount the Paris Business Review.

  4. Re:Answer: Anyone Who Supports Free Markets on Congressional Elections - Who's Good for IT Folks? · · Score: 3, Informative
    president: Bill O'Reilly

    This Bill O'Reilly? Why would anyone want to vote for a clown with such skewed view of reality?

  5. Re: Troll Feeding on Congressional Elections - Who's Good for IT Folks? · · Score: 1

    I don't remember who said this:

    If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

  6. I'm going for the money... on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?"

    From The World's Shortest Blog.

  7. Re:Bush's website referral on Inside Kerry and Bush's Technology Agendas · · Score: 1
    Well, Bush has a MBA, Vs Kerry's Bachelors in law

    WTF is a "Bachelors in law"? Kerry has a JD (Juris Doctor or Doctor of Law). BTW, Bush couldn't even get into law school.

  8. Re:The other way 'round... on Swimming As Easy In Syrup As In Water · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, would it be possible to try this the other way around with a fluid less viscous /a>than water? Like, say, ethyl alcohol or acetone or methanol...

    Theoretically, yes. But I can think of some practical reasons not to attempt swimming in a pool filled with any of these liquids...

  9. I used Google to find the answer... on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 3, Informative

    Math : Google Labs Problems

    When do I start?

  10. Armageddon on What's the Worst Movie You've Ever Seen? · · Score: 1
    Armageddon is the worst movie I paid money to see.

    Anything directed by Michael Bay pretty much sucks.

  11. Re:Remove need for patching...by removing IE. on Microsoft to Issue Out-of-Cycle Patch for IE · · Score: 1
    The vulnerability is in the MS-HTML control not in the Internet Explorer executable. Any application that uses the MS-HTML control is vulnerable.

    The answer is obvious, remove Windows. Then there sould be no possibility of accidently using an app that relies on the MS-HTML control (unless you run some kind of emulation).

  12. Re:Original Star Wars reviews... on Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954 · · Score: 1
    I remember reading that the original Star Wars reviews were themselves pretty scathing. Anyone have links to the originals?

    Maybe, but I remember Time proclaiming it the best movie of the year (in May, IIRC).

  13. I guess they are getting better on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 1

    Here's one I got a while back. It wasn't quite taken in buy it.

  14. Re:room temp? on NASA Set To Launch Probe To Mercury · · Score: 4, Funny

    It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
    -- Steven Wright

  15. It's about time on Microsoft Plans News Aggregator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally a news service uncluttered with
    anti-Microsoft stories. :)

  16. Re:LOTR as film noir? on Celebrity Casting For LOTR · · Score: 1

    already done

    i wish i had the url, but it was bascially old film clips with new dialouge over it, Bogart was Frodo, Peter Lorre was Gollum, Sydney Greenstreet as Gandalf (a clip of him in a grey business suit in the beginning, later scenes in white)

    anyone have the url?


    Try this.

  17. Re:A dissapointment on I, Robot Hits the Theaters · · Score: 2, Informative
    Has anybody who has seen the movie ALSO read the script that IASFM printed back in 1984?

    FWIW, there's no relationship between Harlan Ellison's script and the current I, Robot movie.

  18. Re:Life was inevitable on Ammonia Could Indicate Life On Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting
    if all rocks of earth origin contain bacteria and rocks from Mars can reach earth I would *expect* that life had travelled from earth to Mars via the same mechanism in reverse.

    Possible, but if there was an exchange of biological material, it is more like to be bacteria from Mars making it to earth (do to the relative depth's of their gravity wells).

  19. Re:Sirens! on Titan's Surface Revealed · · Score: 1

    Crap! I thought I was going to beat everyone to the punch posting about Sirens, only to find someone else did it and it was the first post.

  20. Re:oh wonderful on "A Sound of Thunder" Movie This Summer · · Score: 1
    Seriously folks, has there *ever* in the history of Hollywood been a movie-from-a-scifi-novel which didn't actually rape-and-pillage the story in some way or other?

    How about A Clockwork Orange?

  21. Re:Does Lucas Know? on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 1
    It won't happen. Frankly, I'm more keyed to see the next Harry Potter movie than Star Wars Ep 3 at this point, and that's a sad, sad thing to say about a new Star Wars movie.

    I more keyed to see Lord of the Rings IV. :)

  22. Wow! They also make voting machines? on Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold · · Score: 1

    I actually worked with BEL many years ago. I worked for a company that developed this with BEL (we did the simulator part, they did everything else).

  23. Re:Elegant on Indian Voting Machines Compared with Diebold · · Score: 2, Insightful
    At the same time, can that many people in India afford equipment that would let them crack the system? Considering how much one makes there on average, I would probably say no.

    Why? With over a billion people, even if a small percentage can "afford equipment that would let them crack the system", that's still a lot of people.

  24. Re:What about us Windows users?! on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just use cygwin.

  25. Re:"First"? on Celebrating Spam's Ten-Year Anniversary · · Score: 1
    This is the first non-crossposted mass-spamming I remember.

    Not only non-crossposted, but apparently manually posted to each newsgroup.