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  1. Hmmm.... by flyweight_of_fury · · Score: 5, Funny · on Day of the Robotic Tentacle

    Is that a Robotic tentacle or toothpase ?

    ...I smell a lawsuit coming...

  2. Re:Interesting by It'sYerMam · · Score: 2, Informative · on Scientists Make Water Run Uphill

    Ahem. Are you seriously suggesting the creation of a perpetual motion machine?? Something that gives out energy? Hehehe. Besides, if you'd RTFA (yes, I know, this is /.) you'd realise the water has to be pretty hot, in order to give the water molecules enough energy to do this.
    Incidentally, this science is months out of date: http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/dn861 6.html

  3. Re:Old news by Alicat1194 · · Score: 1 · on Scientists Make Water Run Uphill

    New Scientist reported on this one in January

  4. The NewScientist.com article is Inauthentic ;) by jerrry333 · · Score: 1 · on Fake Scientific Paper Detector

    If you cut and paste the New Scientist article about the Randomly-generated paper at http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg186 24963.700.html it will classify it as inauthentic...

  5. Consumer power and the /. effect by GhodMode · · Score: 1 · on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing

    I for one would like to remind Phillips that the customer is always right. I also think they should learn about the Slashdot effect.

    If you would like to join me, use the information below:

    Terry Fassburg
    Vice President
    Brand Communications
    Email: terry.fassburg@philips.com

    http://www.feedback.philips.com/dedicated/news/
    http://www.feedback.philips.com/consumer/?param1=N O_PRODUCT_SELECTED

    To whom it may concern:

    I have just learned about Phillips' recent application for a patent entitled "Apparatus and method for preventing switching from a channel during an advertisement display" numbered 20060070095.

    I'm writing to inform you and your company that, due to this patent, I have decided never to purchase a Phillips product again. While my family and I have bought many Phillips products in the past, we feel that this patent serves only to hinder my enjoyment of television programming.

    For your reference, I have found useful information at the following Web locations:
    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/ 18/2032219
    http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9011-inv ention-the-tvadvert-enforcer.html
    http://tinyurl.com/ostqn
    Regards,

    -- Ghodmode

  6. Re:Still fine by me by Mr.+Slippery · · Score: 4, Informative · on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing
    And if it prevents you from switching channels? Return it as defective.

    According to TFA, it does (or can be used to) stop a viewer from changing channels during commercials. (And if the show you want to watch starts during a commercial break in the one you're watching now? I guess that's tough luck.)

  7. OLED is not more efficient than current lighting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Organic LED Could Replace Light Bulbs?

    OLEDs are not going to replace light bulbs anytime soon. According to this article OLEDs are putting out about 25 lumens per watt of energy input. Compact fluorescent bulbs currently put out about 40 - 50 lumens per watt, and HID lighting (e.g., mercury vapor and metal halide) put out from 70 - 150 lumens per watt. So, if New Scientist is correct, HID lighting is up to 600% MORE efficient than OLED. The thing that makes OLED interesting is that it can be applied to any surface, but they are not more efficient than light sources we already have.