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  1. Re:Tough call on Efficiency Gains Could Prove Proposed Plasma Ban Shortsighted · · Score: 1

    I logged in for the first time in two years, and am posting for the first time in two years, just to point out that you're very, very, very, misguided in how you're approaching this. You're generalizing terms that the parent was using in specific economics-defined ways, which unfortunately have overlap into common English, where they mean much more general things.

  2. Re:UB on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ya ma nga
    doing it up in capen as i type

  3. I think you mean pseudo, not sudo on Dvorak Adores YouTube · · Score: 1

    Silly American schools. :o

  4. One important thing overlooked: on Future of Video Games Outside the Home, DisneyQuest · · Score: 5, Informative

    DisneyQuest has been a miserable failure. The last one in Orlando is closing in 2008.

  5. A million dollars? on Game Over's E3 Preview · · Score: 0

    That would be great if I had a million dollars actually. E3 could be a good place to use them.

  6. This has nothing to do with Heisenberg... on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 0

    ...Heisenberg deals with momentum and velocity, and by implication energy.

  7. Re:Astonishing development on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 0

    As far as PowerMacs/whatever they're called, supposedly in August/January depending on what Intel chip they want to use. Intel iMacs are out now if you weren't aware.

  8. Astonishing development on Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader · · Score: 0

    I thought this must have been some sort of belated April Fools joke, and I still find it hard to believe after seeing it with my own eyes. They must have gotten a hold of that marketing research data that suggested a majority of Windows users would buy a Mac if they could run Windows on it as well.

    This will go down as one of the most important developments in the history of Apple, and the various implications of it are astounding to contemplate. Will Windows end up doing more business through single-licenses? Will this further cripple beleagured PC builders? Could this be a ploy by Apple to force Microsoft in the short term to focus on single-user licenses, and in the long term they'll release OSX for manufacturers and completely push it out of the market?

    I think we will all be very surprised what the PC landscape looks like 10 years from now, regardless of what happens.

  9. How in the world are students obtaining data? on The Politically Incorrect Science Fair · · Score: 0, Interesting

    I'm a high school senior, and I've been astonished as the smartest kids I know (National Merit Scholars, high 90 average through high school, numerous internships, etc.) get denied by the top colleges. Now I know why.

    But, I want to know how these super-students find data to publish new and interesting research on freaking stem cells. It was my understanding that even top scientists had a hard time in the U.S. due to moral objections. How are high school students managing it?

  10. I'm tired of these ham-handed appeals to morality on Slashback: OpenOffice, SuitSat, Google Books · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google has no right to index all the books it wants and throw them online for anyone to browse. They are the property of the rightful owner, not Google.

    Their policy of having publishers request to not have their books scanned would be similar to the government forcing one to request not to have their phone tapped. Some fundamental rights should not be assumed to be given up until they actually are, and intellectual property is one of them.

    No matter how much they redact irrelavent text or try to keep users from gaining full access to the book, someone will. The Slashdot community, of all, should recognize this. Time and time again encryption schemes are hacked (DeCSS being the simplest example to point to).

  11. What idiot approves these headlines? on Cingular Patents the Emoticon? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article, even the summary, clearly indicates all they are patenting is the process of using a smiley on the phone/sending it. They are NOT patenting the smiley, that's just an inflammatory headline used to create negative response.

  12. Re:What about a 30-ton asteroid? on Using Gravity To Tow Asteroids · · Score: 0

    High school physics: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

    Gm1m2/r^2

  13. In before virus disables NX sector on Transmeta To Add 'NX' Antivirus Feature To Chips · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    btw, wasn't Transmeta played out after their big new technology was having Linux on chip?

  14. This seems redundant to me on Hardened PHP · · Score: 0

    I'm a administrator for a rather large PHP site, and most of these features have already been implemented by other third parties. The fact these people are implementing the same features used in open source projects makes me wary of exactly how original their code is.

  15. Ironically... on What's Being Done About Nuclear Security · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Atomic weapons storage being centralized will probably increase rather than decrease risk of terrorism.

  16. Bad idea on Cyber-Soap Returns From The Dead · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Particularly poor idea. My good friend is a program exec at NBC, and they're considering dropping soaps all together (not in the least due to they're only averaging 2.5 Nielsen points a week for all their soaps).
    In addition, soap opera viewership is 89% female. American females average 24 minutes a day online, men average 42. Essentially, they're transferring a female product to a male medium.

  17. Slashdot never fails to bitch about nothing on Microsoft Revenue Up, Tries to Hook Third World · · Score: -1

    God forbid Microsoft tries to help the market that everyone has been bitching doesn't have enough exposure.

  18. MOD PARENT DOWN, KNOWN TROLL on The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware · · Score: 0
  19. These nerds have nothing better to do than stay on Slashback: Unstranding, Xecurity, Spurning · · Score: 0

    home and write poems to some internet girl.

    Whoa.

  20. So why would you do this? on Build Your Own Electronic Key Card Lock · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Waste of time + money. Almost like women :D

  21. Are you a fucking idiot? on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: -1

    Since when isn't 94% of a market success?

    59 + 34 + 1 = 94

  22. GOATSE on Government Information Awareness · · Score: -1
  23. Maybe an ambitous filmmaker will give them both... on Yoda, Gollum Take MTV Awards · · Score: -1, Funny

    ...a porn flick role! IN THE SAME FILM!

    lol
    jk
    seriously, this should be +5,Funny

  24. Dumbest idea EVAR on Mission to Harpoon Comet is Back on Track · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a rudimentary physics student, even I can tell you that if we harpoon this asteroid from earth, the asteroid will exert just enough force to pull earth out of it's orbit!

    Very simple
    F = MxA
    F = 194251kg X 30000 kmh
    F = 5827530000 newtons ASTEROID

    F = MxA
    F = 252415kg x 1500 kmh
    F = 38122500 newtons EARTH

    5827530000 > 38122500
    Force of Asteroid > Force of Earth!!!

  25. LMAO on Underground DC Developers Strike Back: Feet of Fury · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Great new and innovative games!"

    Sir, you forgot to add: "That are copies of other games!".

    (for all of those who don't know what I mean, google Dance Dance Revolution)