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  1. Boom! It's a trap... on Google Envisions Free Cell Phones For All · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From TFA: "Schmidt acknowledged that mobile phones may never become totally free to the consumer. Newspapers are still not completely free a hundred years after they started relying on advertising, but they certainly are inexpensive, he noted."

  2. Re:Huh? on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    To be used to confusion. Install this https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/31/

  3. Re:Orbital Traffic Jam... on NASA Struggles To Contact Lost Mars Probe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ahem.. TFA said they only passed each other within 100km several times a week. It's almost incomparable to the ~1000 functioning artificial satellites that are orbiting Earth (plus a few more thousand old satellites that are now classified as space debris) If you track the most notable ones with tools like http://www.heavens-above.com/ then you would see that they pass each other several times a day...

  4. Re:Synonym Myths. on The Information Factories Are Here · · Score: 1

    I believe he just wants more oil for his SUV.

  5. Re:lame on Computer Date Glitch May Limit Next Shuttle Launch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well we know that programmers get confused with numbers one time or another since we're used to start things at index 0. The shuttle's programmer must have left an extra ctr++ there :)

    (or maybe he watched too much Star Trek that he thought he should follow the intergalactical star dates)

  6. Re:Sounds bad, but cool 1rst step to Dyson sphere on A Sunshade In Space To Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    yah.. It's like making a complex solution to a simple problem.

    I don't know where L1 is but I doubt that thing would last a few years without being torn apart by small rocks and space debris.

  7. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Community Patent Review Project Announced · · Score: 1

    You're breaking the trend. No matter how corny it is it should be. "In Soviet Russia Patents announce the Review the Community Project"

  8. Re:Time for a new alarm clock on Prepared for Next Year's Time Change? · · Score: 1

    lucky me, I only had to buy a few more jars to hold the additional daylight.

  9. Re:Slashdot 'em! Quick! on Windows Media Player 11 Released · · Score: 1

    I think we're getting there.. I'm only getting a very slow 10KB/s download speed. M$ should be releasing the .torrent versions right now.

  10. Re:Save even more money, ditch the project on Alternative Launcher For Returning To the Moon · · Score: 1

    or they could put advertisements on the shuttle like this..

    (see the first result)

    Space Shuttle Advertisements

    (sorry, it's just in the google cache.. source site seems to be down already)

  11. Re:For comparison .... on First Hutter Prize Awarded · · Score: 1

    and surely you could do the compression in less than 5 hours...

  12. Re:subvocalization on 'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development · · Score: 1

    okay.. it's easy now

  13. just... on Donating Software? · · Score: 1

    give them to me, I won't tell anyone.. promise!!

    Anyway, I don't have an idea how to donate a licensed software. Is the software licensed to you? your company? What kind of licensing is it? If there would be any transfer, just be sure you got the supporting documents you need or any sort of written agreement. Wouldn't it be wise to inquire Microsoft with regards to this issue? my $0.02.

  14. Re:What happened? on IE7 Released and Available for Download · · Score: 2, Insightful

    even if we don't like IE 7 (I use Opera), it is much better than IE 6 and for us who work in a company where some previous systems were tweaked to work on IE better, this new version would certainly be a welcome change. (or a welcome headache, whichever comes first)

  15. Meteor Freaks? on Kansas Soil Yields Massive Meteorite · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So many questions. Is Smallville, Kansas really true? Is there a consipiracy happening? Are they meteor freaks? Where do the government hide them? Belreave? Why are there no green glowing things on those meteor rocks?

  16. Re:Flickr Retrievr on Flickr Search Hack Powered by Mouse-Made Doodles · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's powered by "mouse-made doodles" and apparently you're not doodling enough. :)

  17. obligatory... on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated."

  18. It's not down yet... on uTube.com Business Stalled by YouTube Purchase Hype · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems they added more tubes to their internets...

  19. Re:Virtual Dimension on Virtual Desktops on Windows? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link! I learn something new from you people each day. (Well except for exploding radioactive bunnies)

  20. Re:riiiiiight.... on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it will have all of that in the future. Does anyone know a more "detailed" discussion on the differences and how it really works?

  21. Re:obligatory sharks comment on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1

    at last! a comment about sharks. The article waited 17 minutes for that one.

  22. Could I still count??? on AMD Unveils Barcelona Quad-Core Details · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "AMD claims that its quad core is true quad core, while Intel's is two dual-cores grafted together."

    So a Siamese twin is not really a true twin because they are two persons grafted together? :)

  23. Re:One reason is disk space on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I believe for current installations of Windows SP1, they only had provided a Windows XP SP2 Update CD. I agree with you that it is huge and takes a lot of disk space and time to install. But all the "new" OEM and retail Windows XP CDs now contains the SP2 already.

    You could basically just make one. It is called slipstreaming and don't ask me why it is called like that :).

    http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2 _slipstream.asp

    It is basically putting all the updates of SP2 and joining it with your Windows XP Installer. Afterwards, viola! You have a Windows XP SP2 Installer (Burn into a new cd). It won't take that much space when you do a clean install compared to doing an SP2 update of an exisiting XP installation.

    just my 2 centavos

  24. Re:Lame! on Linux Cell Phones Coming Q1 2007 · · Score: 1

    I doubt the wireless part... but considering the current driver support for wireless devices in linux, it might be possible that all your statement is true :)

  25. Re:Keep advertising out of regular games... on Burger King's Disturbing Games · · Score: 1

    or at least they should use Google Ads, it takes little space and is hardly noticeable.

    I wonder how many ads it would take to make the game free :)