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  1. Re:Jokes from car land... on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    Fix It Alla' Time

  2. Re:About time America left the stone age on Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem · · Score: 1

    Vi tajpas QWERTY?

  3. Re:great, I wonder if they'll piss on the floor on Players Dress As Their Sims For Convention · · Score: 1

    But did you d/l the guinea pig add-on, then not take care of it?

  4. Re:If this were the computer world on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    It's a bitch and a half re-rolling 120 onto 620 reels [and back] but worth it for some cameras.

  5. Re:Rats on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    I have one I'm considering selling off...with cutter and blanks even.

  6. Re:Not much of a change actually. on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Which Brownie do you mean? I like the Stereo #2 Brownie with red bellows, myself. Others may prefer a later-era Brownie with flash capabilities that shot on 127 film.

  7. Re:Rats on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    And better-still to use a ViewMaster camera to make VM reels!

  8. everybody's a comedian on Inner Workings of High-Gain Mars Rover Antennas? · · Score: 1

    What it will do is to start sending its ID signal whenever the sun is overhead. Provided it made it down to the surface in one piece. Mars Global Surveyor should have seen evidence of its parachute near the landing ellipse. And they should probably make those 'chutes out of something nice and shiny so MGS and its successors can find 'em easier. "Brightest three pixels on Mars!"

  9. Re:The Beagle on Inner Workings of High-Gain Mars Rover Antennas? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Beagle2 hasn't reported back. They're now trying silence to try to get it to go into "CSM2". In February, it's scheduled to go into broadcast mode [e.g. "Help! Can't hear you at all!"] on Groundhog Day or thereabouts.

  10. Re:happy it didn't auger on Columbia Memorial Station · · Score: 1

    My guess is that the second is a more generic memorial to our lost astronauts - perhaps for ours and the ones the Soviets lost, too.

  11. happy it didn't auger on Columbia Memorial Station · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Consider the mega-bummer had they pre-announced and it had ended up augering into Mars like the last probe did.

    Bets on whether or not there's a plaque on Opportunity as well?

  12. Re:post-xmas releases on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1

    I got a 40Gib iPod for xmas and sad to say it's already maxed out. My [legal!] music collection is an easy 110Gib and growing...

  13. Re:Get used to it. on Wasting Time Fixing Computers · · Score: 1

    Does he have any FireWire devices [e.g. iPod] attached on a semi-permanent basis? If so, he needs the latest updates - it would freeze the Finder and ultimately the machine [bad finder!].

  14. Re:What about Channuka? on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    a harmonica for channuka!

    (is there any other choice?)

    (beside socks...)

  15. lego! on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Lego Technic is just the thing, perhaps a MindStorms kit. Use it to make a robotic typist.

  16. Re:Sound? on New Battlestar Galactica - Worth a Series? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Muted sounds, sorry to say, but at least they were muted and the Vipers used maneuvering jets and "hello, I'm flying backwards now" tactics rather than Star Wars-ish "a spaceship flies just like a Spitfire" swoopy stuff.

  17. Mars curse claims another probe on Nozomi Abandoned by Japan Space Agency · · Score: 3, Informative
    One down, a few more to go:
    • January 2004: two US rovers
    • EASA's Mars Express arrives in about 15 days with British Beagle 2 due to land in 14-15 days

  18. Re:And why not? on California Bans Genegineered Fish · · Score: 1

    Nah, just a result of better breeding during the mid-20th century and better steroid therapy during the latter half of the last century.

  19. Re:Ferrets on California Bans Genegineered Fish · · Score: 1

    Gerbils are banned as well. However, we seem to get along OK with mice, rats and hamsters.

  20. Re:Son of Tsarkon Reports Major Tom's Greased Up Y on Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    And that would be a prolapsed prostate lying prostrate.

  21. idjits working in English units on Why Mars May Be Difficult · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And let's not forget dumb-ass contractors doing science in English units when everyone else is metric.

  22. Re:Old magazine articles... on Radiofrequency Weapons · · Score: 1

    Nah, too sci-fi. Better to manipulate energy prices to suck the boom-money out of California, and at the same time generate random blackouts to screw the companies still in operation.

  23. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    Wars 1000 years ago? Let's start with the Crusades, and work backwards. There were the wars waged against Rome by the Goths, the Visigoths, the Vandals and of course the Huns. Lots of examples, fellah.

  24. Re:In other news.... on Mac OS X 10.3 Defrags Automatically · · Score: 1

    It is and has been taken seriously - it's called "the registry" by our pals up in Redmond.

  25. Re:Some other ideas on Should Hackers Get Their Own Logo? · · Score: 1

    Dude, watch some Westerns. White hat == good. Black hat == bad.