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Solar Impulse is fielding the single-pilot plane, which will be capable of taking off under its own power and flying all night.

If you're flying around the world, couldn't you arrange it so it's always daytime?

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I always loved the Sade Mode dialog box. They couldn't just have a button for "safe mode" and one for System Restore.

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I disagree. I run a Web site with a similar name, Tubespot.com (purely coincidental--I came up with it before I heard of Youtube.) I showcase funny television commercials that I record off of TV. I use what I consider to be a reasonable bitrate: 600 kbps Quicktime h.264 or Windows Media. And the ad revenue that I get from Google ads covers the bandwidth costs. It doesn't turn a big profit or anything, but at the current rate it would scale up indefinitely to pay for the bandwidth.

Sure Google preempted my web site with a link to their "Google Video" ads from their homepage (bastards!). But if you want to view the ads in high-bitrate h.264, transcoded from my DirecTV stream, and even download them, Google can't help you. You have to get the spots from my Web site.

The only good thing about the Super Bowl is the commercials.

And you can download them from this site, too.

Here in Austin, we've had the Green Choice Program available for a while. There's a huge farm of windmills out in west Texas by El Paso. I've driven past them--it's really amazing how many there are. I remember last summer getting a flier in the mail touting this program. They said that for a typical household that used 1000 kilowatt hours/month, it would cost about an additional $5 to know that all of your power came from these sustainable sources. I kept meaning to sign up but never got around to it.

After Katrina and Rita, I heard predictions that the price of natural gas (which is what most of the electricity is made with around here) was going to skyrocket. I figured that I'd better sign up for Green Choice immediately, because if the predictions were true, then Green Choice would be cheaper than regular energy. Plus, the Green Choice program locks in a 10 or 15 year contract with the energy providers, so the price doesn't go up.

I wish I had signed up, becuase come October it was too late and the program was full. Now if you look at the Green Choice site you'll see that Green Choice energy is in fact cheaper than regular energy, and they're having a drawing to sign up a relatively small number of additional customers.

I think this is fantastic--it's bound to cause expansion of wind and other sustainable energy production methods.

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Well, according to this site that lists lots of customer service numbers, you *can* call Ebay's customer service at 1-888-749-3229. Ebay just doesn't advertise the fact.

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It's not too tough to do with the DirecTivo. The standalone Tivo incorporates a function called "TiVo To Go" that lets you copy DRMed recordings to a PC. But DirecTV wouldn't allow that in their version of the TiVo because of contracts with content providers.

The community over at DealDataBase has figured out how to hack the 6.2 software on the DirecTivo. You can login to get a bash shell and install software that lets you copy the MPEG-2 files over the network (USB2 NIC) to your computer.

This is particularly nice with the DirecTivo because it doesn't re-encode the video; it writes the MPEG2 stream to the hard drive exactly as it receives it from the satellite, so I get super-high quality, non-DRMed video to my PC. I use it on my adcritic-style website called Tubespot where I showcase funny commercials.

It's easiser than that. All the major US carriers (at least) have email-to-SMS gateways. For example, on my Sprint PCS phone, you can text message me by sending an email to (myphonenumber)@messaging.sprintpcs.com. So really a shell script like

while 1=1
echo 'j00 r fux0red' | mail xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.sprintpcs.com

would screw someone pretty hard if they had to pay for incoming messages.

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Does anyone think it's odd that of the last seven stories, not a single one has a comment modded higher than 3? What's up?

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British Intel shuts Down al-Qaeda Sites
Did anyone else think it was strange that Intel was fighting terrorism? Did they use a backdoor in the server processors, or what?

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Bud-light bot?

This could be good for our energy situation 'cuz that extra hour of sun each day will let us produce more corn, which we can turn into ethanol.

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But can you find dual layer blanks for less than five bucks a piece anywhere?

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And, in the true spirit of Slashdot (Thinkgeek and Slashdot being owned by the same), they misspell the work mourn in the shirt's description.

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My cable modem gets exactly 6 mbit/sec down, not because of technology limitations, but because the service provider caps it there. Roadrunner does this too. And they cap the upstream bandwidth significantly lower. If they're already artificially capping the speed below the technological limitations, what's the point of a system that's capable of being faster?

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No, silly, you need a different beverage to make your girlfriend instantly hot.

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I've been doing this for years using DynDNS's free dynamic DNS service. I run a client on all my machines that updates their IPs with dyndns's database. If my laptop disappears, I just look to see what mylaptop.dyndns.org resolves to.

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Now where's my Oxytocin....

I've got your oxytocin right here.

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A couple of years ago (about a year after 9/11) I was travelling home after visiting a friend. I had a little bottle of rum in my backpack to enjoy on the plane. After passing through airport security I went to the bathroom. I hung the (very full) backpack on the hook on the toilet stall. It fell and I heard the bottle shatter.

I emptied all the shattered glass I could get to and soaked up the rum with paper towels. Then I stood in line to board the plane. Of course, I was singled out to be searched. I warned the agent that I had shattered a bottle so he should be careful of broken glass when he poked around in the bag (it could have cut him pretty badly). He took a look, and then, unsure what to do, went to talk to his supervisor.

The agent and his supervisor discussed the problem for a while and then the agent informed me that I could board the plane only after they ensured that all pieced of glass large enough to be used as a weapon had been removed from my backpack.

So, yeah, intact glass bottles are ok--but broken glass is absolutely not allowed. Just so you know.

I thought the Ameriquest ads were good this year, especially The one with the cat.. And the one with MC Hammer made me laugh. And watching PDaddy start a Diet Pepsi truck driving fad was pretty good, too.

I thought the Ameriquest ads were good this year, especially The one with the cat.. And the one with MC Hammer made me laugh. And watching PDaddy start a Diet Pepsi truck driving fad was pretty good, too.

I thought the Ameriquest ads were good this year, especially The one with the cat.. And the one with MC Hammer made me laugh. And watching PDaddy start a Diet Pepsi truck driving fad was pretty good, too.

Yeah, tritium is neat that way. While in US, "frivolous" uses of tritium are banned, in Europe, that's not the case. So, you get things like these neat glowing keyrings that stay bright for a decade.

They ship to the US. Cool. I just ordered one. For just 9 GBP, that's less than a pound per year of light! And shipping was only 2 GBP.
I hope the dept. of Homeland Security doesn't show up with my order.

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I don't see what the big deal is. People watch shows on TV, people watch commercials on TV. People download shows from the internet, people watch commercials on the internet.

Plus it must really confuse the people at TiVo when they track my usage stats and see that I fast forward through all the shows and only watch the commercials (to find the good ones for my site). Surely I cancel out several of you commercial-skipping fools.

When I threaten to extort someone by email and they don't answer, I usually just deface their homepage with a big blinking red message that screams

READ YOUR EMAIL, DUMBASS!

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You can watch Godaddy's Super Bowl Spot here along with all the other superbowl spots on my site which strives to shamelessly rip-off what AdCritic was before they started charging.

Go ahead and slashdot it. I've got like 100 gigs of bandwidth to use before the end of the month.

Someone might as well invite BillG to Gmail already.

You can't. GMail wont' freaking let me create an account name with less than six letters. ARGGH!

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The Wake Up Pro alarm program does just that. You can set it so you have to type in a code in the morning to shut it up.

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25K? That's really hard to believe. According to this article, CS and CS related degrees are some of the most lucrative to have, with a new CS graduate starting off at almost twice the salary you mention.

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Drug companies are not massively more profitable than everything else. People who think that they are should simply invest in them and benefit from the price-gouging which they are supposedly inflicting upon the public.

Gee, that's a fabulous idea for upper-middle-class people who have money burning a hole in their pockets to invest. But these aren't the people who are being screwed by the drug companies. It's the rest of us who can't afford health insurance. It's those of us whose budgets are destroyed by having to spend even just $200 a month on prescriptions. We aren't about to go out and buy shares of stock in a drug company.

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Of course I would! I really don't understand those who fear GM food. It's not like the cows, or even the corn we eat now, is "natural." Most of our food has been selectively bred for centuries. The result is the same mucking-with-genes, just much more slowly than genetic engineering promises.

If you refuse to eat beef because of moral reasons (I understand that there are lots of legitimate reasons not to eat beef--but I'm concentrating on the "oh, poor cow" reason), then would you be willing to eat beef grown in a cow body that was born with no brain whatsoever and kept alive by machines? You'd be eating beef, but it would've been grown like a vegetable. Most of the vegetarians I've asked say they would sooner eat a real cow than my genetically engineered monster. But why? How is it really any different from any of the food products we're created for ourselves over the centuries?

Personally, I'd much rather have GM food than beef that has been fllled to the brim with hormones to to make the "natural" animal perform better. And I'd be first in line to buy trees and grass.

The lameness filter is complaining about junk characters. What are junk characters? Did that question mark just count? Will this block of text make this message ok? ---------------------
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I thought I'd put together a site full of funny web commercials similar to what Ad Critic was a few years ago before they went out of business. This is a bit of a rough draft. The site interface still needs some work, and I plan to add a voting/rating script as well as a discussion script for each ad.

I'm also going to record the entire Superbowl on Sunday and hope to have all of those ads up by the following Monday. The ones I have up right now were recorded from a TV show (silly overlay graphics and all) that TBS aired a few weeks ago called "The funniest commercials of 2004." Several of the commercials weren't actually from 2004, though.

Anyway if you like funny commercials, it's probably worth checking out because some of them are really funny.