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  1. Re:They will keep trying on Supreme Court to Hear CIPA Case · · Score: 3, Funny

    you know what? schools and libraries dont carry "Jugs" magazine, so why should they allow porno to be displayed on the machines?

    When I was in college, the reason the college library didn't have Playboy was because they tended to get stolen, it had nothing to do with content. Maybe this is true for some public libraries, too.

  2. Re:Why don't they... on NASA Cancels Moon Hoax Book · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...just use the freekin' Hubble to take pictures of the landing sites and shut these idiots up? There has to be enough resolution

    The reflected light from the moon is strong enough to fry Hubble's optics.

    If the moon landings were a hoax, don't you think the Soviet Union would have exposed it for propaganda purposes (they were able to track the spacecraft, IIRC) ?

  3. Maybe things are going to change... on EMI Customer Relations Tells It Like It Is · · Score: 2

    At one time (for most of history), musicians primarily made their performing live. Composers made money by having their music published (for musicians to perfom live...).

    Anyway, maybe cheap digital recording, file sharing, etc. will bring about the end of the recording industry and the music industry will go back to the old model.

    Maybe the last hundred years will be seen as an anomaly in music history and the music industry will primarily be considered a live performance and publishing business.

  4. Re:Card's agenda on Empire of Dreams and Miracles · · Score: 2

    I stopped reading stuff associated with OSC because of his obvious creationist agenda, and his less than subtle hints about what is right and what is wrong in his view of things.

    I stopped reading him because stopped having anything interesting to say (I think Ender's Game is overrated).

    I don't remember reading anything overtly creationist in his writings, though I do remember some LDS overtones. Come to think of it, doesn't the Book of Mormon come off as a really bad fantasy epic? (oh great, now the Mormons are going to hate me...)

  5. Re:Avon?! on Ten-in-1 Atari Joystick Available · · Score: 5, Funny
    It seems a little less scammy than Amway

    The mafia is a little less scammy than Amway...

  6. Re:Yeah, but the important question is... on The Fermionic Version of Bose-Einstein Condensates · · Score: 1
    ...will any of this allow me to reverse the polarity of my deflector array, sending a tachyon pulse through subspace?

    Only if you change the chronaton polarity in the freen flux modulator.

  7. Re:BioMetric User Identification on Secure PDAs · · Score: 2
    If microsoft did "biometric user identification", we'd be screaming bloody 1984. Instead, it's linux-based. Neat-o.

    That's because Microsoft will likely want to control the "biometric user identification" information in some way (like keeping it in a centralized DB that they control and requiring net access to use biometric ID).

  8. I'm going to try... on "Red is Dead" Optical Mice LED Change · · Score: 1

    an octarine LED!

  9. Re:Where are the religious science fiction writers on Empire of Dreams and Miracles · · Score: 2

    Howard Fast has written science fiction from a Buddhist perspective.

  10. Re:Where are the religious science fiction writers on Empire of Dreams and Miracles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Adrew Greeley (a Catholic priest) has writen some science fiction. One that I've read is: Final Planet .

    I suspect that your not so much interested in religious science fiction writers as much as science fiction writers religious in the same way you are

  11. Re:Wow, what a scary thought on Just One Page a Day · · Score: 2, Funny
    |-|uc||_3b3rry F1|\||\|.

    I must get out more - I was actually able to figure that out!

  12. Re:This isn't "censorship" on Academic Network Censorship? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately this argument can be abused. "Since tuition can't possibly pay for X, students can't complain about how X is run."

  13. Re:This isn't "censorship" on Academic Network Censorship? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's their network, not yours.

    True, but the students' tuition is in part financing at least some of the network. Can't it be argued that network access is something the students are paying for?. It's not exectly like a corporate internet connection.

  14. Re:Rocket Science on Shuttle Main Engine Test to be Webcast · · Score: 2
    However, since this really is rocket science, times are approximate

    Then again, it's not like they have launch window to reach a specific orbit.

  15. Re:Which one? on Shuttle Main Engine Test to be Webcast · · Score: 2
    Does anyone know which shuttle's engines will be tested?

    I'm not sure, but aren't they interchangable?

  16. Re:Can tinkering from the outside help on UN Secretary-General Asks for Help · · Score: 3, Interesting

    India has a 52% literacy. I would hardly call that 'high.'

    But that means about 500 million people in India are literate. More than in the USA.

  17. Re:What's everyone doing? on Howl-o-ween · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do what I do...

    I usually spend the day dressed up as my evil twin (at leat it's cheap!).

  18. Re:Is it a Sin... on Vatican/HP To Put Library Online · · Score: 3, Informative
    isn't ".va" the TLD for the state of Virginia? I thought the Vatican was at vatican.it, or vatican.org, or something...

    Nope (try the link), the Vatican is a country. I think Virginia might be something like .va.us (I don't feel like looking it up).

  19. Re:Is it a Sin... on Vatican/HP To Put Library Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    Try it:
    Vatican: the Holy See
    See you in hell?

  20. Re:masters on Returning to School for a Better Degree? · · Score: 2

    You should be able to find a terminal masters program that would let you take undergraduate courses (especially if you're paying).

  21. Re:What a mess on Returning to School for a Better Degree? · · Score: 2

    If you want to do a PhD in physics, believe me, you WANT to get an underdraduate title first... after all, physics is hard!

    Or at least get some sort of exposer to the math involved in seeking a physics degree. A lot of people with a casual knowledge of physics are shocked by how much physics is really applied mathematics.

  22. Try this... on Returning to School for a Better Degree? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rather than trying to get an undergraduate degree, just take the physics and math courses that an undergraduate would take. Find out from a graduate program what they think are the most important courses. FWIW, I knew a guy with a BA in English who eventually got a PHD in physics.

  23. Ministry of Silly Walks on ID'ing People By How They Walk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory Monty Python reference...

  24. Re:Redundancy on How Many CPUs for Microsoft's SQL Server? · · Score: -1, Redundant
    There's one obvious benefit (depending on your architecture/manufacturer) with running 4 instead of 2: if one blows out, you aren't fried.

    There's one obvious benefit (depending on your architecture/manufacturer) with running 4 instead of 2: if one blows out, you aren't fried.

  25. Re:system requirements? on How Many CPUs for Microsoft's SQL Server? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the benefit of shelling out the big bucks for Microsoft software was that this sort of thing was supposed to be easy to figure out.