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Chrysler Announces Hydrogen Fuel Cell Van

Juanfe writes: "Chrysler group announced a concept vehicle called the Natrium, powered by a sodium borohydride (NaBH4) engine developed by Millenium Cell. NaBH4 can be made from sodium borate -- basic borax, used in laundry detergent. MilleniumCell is a US Company that, not surprisingly, has made strategic agreements with major borax purveyors in the US (which just happens to be thought of as the largest borax reserve in the world). Could this be the start of the end of big oil and the start of the start of big Borax?" superflippy points out that Chrysler's press release is related to the Electric Vehicle Association of the Americas (EVAA) Electric Transportation Industry Conference 2001.

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  1. Fuel Cells kick ass. by AbbaZabba · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't wait until there's a Fuel Cell powered Segway. BTW, slashdot is run by cockslappy shitfuckers.

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    1. Re:Fuel Cells kick ass. by catbutt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You barely mentioned the one thing that people here should be drooling over about the segway: artificial balance. That is an incredible accomplishment. And, being digital technology (mostly just software, with pretty standard hardware running it) it will only get cheaper and cheaper.

  2. 1st? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YES!

  3. FIRST POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post bitches what is up with the retarded wait 20 seconds before posting crap? it needs to be GONE!

  4. You guys totally missed the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.

    I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.

    But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.

    Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.

    Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.

    So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.

  5. The Name by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If anyone's wondering, 'Natrium' is the latin word for sodium. That's what sodium is 'Na' on the periodic table.

  6. well, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    About fucking TIME!!!

  7. This is a good first step... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...for ending our ties with the arab nations in the middle east. They're basically pigs who are too hooked up with this islam shit. If someone can name me one decent arab nation then i will be suprised. saudi arabia=trash, iraq=trash, iran=trash, kuwait=trash, jordan=trash, oman=trash, uae=trash, bahrain=trash, yemen=trash, qatar=trash, pakistan=trash, afghanistan=pile of shit, libya=trash, sudan=trash, lebanon=trash, syria=trash, turkey=trash, egypt=trash, etc etc... this just shows how this stupid and worthless this islam shit truely is. feel free to criticize my classifications of these countries... if you can. fuel cells are a good first step in getting us away from these sick bastards.

  8. agreed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    we must do something with these sick fuckers in the middle east. personally i say carpet bomb them motherfuckers and take their land. make it like USA #2. we have the right to kill anyone we want simply because we can. fuck islam it's a sick fucking religion that only a shit for brains worthless loser would turn to. ISLAM IS A DISEASE

  9. Emergency CERT notice: AIX, Solaris wide open! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A security hole in software from Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW.O) and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) could allow malicious hackers to take control of powerful servers running in many corporations and universities, security experts said on Wednesday.

    Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISSX.O) researchers have uncovered evidence in Internet chat rooms that hackers have already started developing tools to take advantage of the vulnerability, said Dan Ingevaldson, a team leader at ISS' X-Force research and development lab.

    The vulnerability affects the latest release of Sun's operating system, Solaris 8, and earlier versions, as well as IBM's AIX versions 4.3 and 5.1, according to an advisory issued by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon University.

    The hole is located in the "login" program that allows people to sign on to the operating system remotely by entering a username and password, ISS said. The vulnerability can be exploited only if certain remote command protocols, such as Telnet, are enabled, which they usually are by default, the company said.

    ISS discovered the loophole in October and has been working with Sun and CERT on a fix, said Ingevaldson.

    "We're not aware of anyone experiencing a problem with this," said Sun spokesman Russ Castronovo.

    The security hole is very serious because there are so many computers in corporations and universities that run Solaris and because of the amount of harm someone could do if they were to gain complete control over a vulnerable machine, he said.

    "Once you have super-user access to a machine you can do anything you want, modify files, create them, sniff network traffic," Ingevaldson said.

    A temporary software patch is available for download from http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch and a fully supported and tested fix will be available next week, Ingevaldson said.

    Fixes are pending for AIX, according to CERT.

  10. Yippee! by spanky555 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's time for the U.S. to get out of relationships with countries that hate us, i.e, most of the Middle East - could this be part of the ticket?

    Then we can take a hands-off approach to everyone unless they pose an immediate threat (such as Iraq) or declare war, such as Afghanistan. For everything else, let them fight their own battles, use their own diplomacy, etc. I'm tired of giving these backwards countries excuses to label us "imperialists".

    Anyway, to (ab)use a pun: more power to the alternatives, I say.

  11. real sex magazine #11 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    The set up for this video isn't going to take long. The premise is simple, new girls, having sex with porn studs for the first time. Sure, we've seen it before, but hey, this one doesn't torture us by having the director ham it up for the camera. He stays behind the lens, capturing the newbies in all their erotic glory.

    First up is a cocoa skinned Panamanian born, Caramel. She's twenty one and has an infectious smile that brightens things right up as she answers questions about her sexuality. She has only been with one white guy before her meeting with Tony Tedeschi, but as she shows off her thin, all natural body, it's clear he's in for a ride he won't soon forget. Tony goes down for a taste of her sweet slit and soon has Caramel tweaking her nipples and panting like mad. He must have done a good job because Caramel is way eager to get his prick in her mouth. Great close ups here as she uses her full, soft lips to make his cock throb. Before she can take him past the point of no return, Tony slides on a condom (See, WHEN I notice them, I will mention them.) and welcomes Caramel to the wonderful world of on camera fucking. Good close ups during the mish and even nicer full body shots while he fucks her from behind. This enthusiastic young woman has a nice body, a little thin to me, but wonderfully proportioned with a killer butt. I love the way she plays with her thick, dark nipples while riding Tony's cock, highly erotic. After giving her a good pounding, Tony pulls out, whips off his condom and drops a nice load right into her mouth. Caramel happily sucks every drop out and smiles a cum streaked grin.

    Sexy Amy is a blonde from Brisbane Australia who is nineteen, with just a hint of an accent and again, a smile that will melt your heart. She says she has never masturbated and is willing to try that out just for us to watch. She seems a little unsure of herself at first, but soon, the little vibrator is humming away and Amy is clearly enamored. After getting herself off with the toy, Amy gets to meet Vince Vouyer who is more than happy to make her acquaintance. Amy's mouth gets to know Vince's dick in no time, as she takes him between her lovely lips. Watching her suck dick, it is clear the Australia's loss is our gain. (You know, there is a little bit of a young Kaitlyn Ashley in this woman, maybe that's why I'm so head over heels for her already. ) Lots of great eye contact during this wonderfully long blowjob. As a special treat, Vince gets to cum in her mouth with that pretty face staring up at him. She won't do a full fuck, but with a face like that, I'm hooked already.

    Alana is cute girl fresh off a college campus and dying to give interracial sex on camera a try. Mr. Marcus is more than up for the task, happily providing a nearly hard cock for her mouth to work on. It won't go very far down her throat, but Alana does a lot with what she can work on, sucking and licking the head like it's a fat candy stick. She certainly doesn't look to big cocks, handling Marcus as if she sucks ten inch poles on a regular basis. The question is, can she take that big thing in her pussy. Well, Marcus gives her slit a good tongue bath, juicing it up a bit for his monster invader. Wisely, he lets Alana get on top, lowering herself onto his rod at her own pace. Of course, give her a few strokes, and watch the way she bounces up and down on that fat prick. She is clearly ready for him to bring it on from behind. For a newcomer, she sure knows hot to take a hard pounding. Mark this one down as a great find by Wild Bill, Alana certainly has the sex drive to make a big splash. If we could just her to do anal, she'd be there already, but then again, who can be expected to take a cock this big in their butt the first time out? She fucks like crazy and takes a load on her fact. If that's not enough for you, then it's your loss. (At least until her second video when she damn well better take it in the butt.)

    Honey is an eighteen year old exotic dancer from Long Beach with a talent for doing the splits. (Got to love that.) Nick East comes in and looks happy as shit be busting her on screen cherry. He gives her shaved slit a little taste before putting her young mouth to the test. Honey has that closed mouth, tight fisted style so common among newbies, but still manages to give Nick a raging hard on that he just has to slip into that cute little hairless honeypot. It's a snug fit, but wet enough so that Nick can give her a really hard pounding from behind, making those lovely breasts shake about. They find a nice rhythm and even if Honey is not a gymnast in her fucking style, she has plenty of energy and looks great being plugged. Her initial porn performance ends when Honey strokes a sticky wad into her mouth. It's clear she isn't too thrilled by it, but I'd still say we will be seeing Honey again.

    All right, a tape devoted to new girls that I can watch and not shake my head wondering who the fuck would want to watch. Will Bill knows what we want to see, cute, hot, new girls, fucking and sucking. No 'Night at the Improv' reject jokes, no directors masquerading as studs. (Come to think of it, the worst of that batch are masquerading as directors as well.) And get this, the camera work is actually praise worthy. I know, it's nearly unimaginable. I expect to see all four girls do more video work, with sexy Aussie Alana being the one I will be watching most closely for. Her solo and blowjob are worth the price of the tape. Honey needs to relax a bit more, but she is wonderful to look at and shows much promise. Caramel is already starlet ready and will go as far as her sexy ass will take her. And Amy? Let's see, her first on screen fuck is with Mr. Marcus and she takes everything he has with a huge grin, I'd say she's got mad game. Beyond my enthusiastic recommendation, I have to point out the fact that all four of these girls have great smiles, truly wonderful.

  12. my cousine Kristie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    When Kristie found out that I often wrote sex stories, she wouldn't leave me alone. I'm almost 30 and Kristie is my cousin, barely 19 when this relationship began, petite and quite a doll. I guess most people would call her "cute" because of her looks. But she has always been a precocious kid, graduating at the top of her high school class, getting scholarship offers galore. But she wanted to go to the local business school and work full time locally. She occasinally did some modelling because, as I said, she's a doll. Her short reddish-brown hair, freckled nose and bawdy sense of humor made her popular with everyone, including me.

    A few weeks ago, I answered the door to find Kristie, wearing shorts and a halter top. "Hi, Cuz," she said. She'd call me 'Cuz' as a pet name. "Got a few minutes to talk?" I asked her in and no sooner had I shut the door than she asked, "Is it true you write fuck stories?" I'd heard Kristie say 'fuck' before, but always as part of a joke. But this time it was different.

    "Who told you that?" I asked. Writing erotic stories, whether you call it smut, porn or 'fuck stories,' it isn't something you announce to the general public. But it pays well and there's less competition. My close friends knew. My uncle, Kristie's father, knew. No one thinks it's wrong or "bad." Itt's good money and I don't write degrading crap. But I certainly don't tell everyone I meet or know that I write erotica. My grandmother doesn't know. And I didn't think Kristie did.

    "Never mind how I found out," she answered. "But if it's true, I think it's pretty neat. Well?" I felt a twinge of embarrassment but I couldn't lie. "Okay, it's true. But I don't call them 'fuck stories.'" Kristie's face lit up. I suddenly became aware that my nubile cousin was braless as her nipples poked the material of her halter.

    "Lemme read some, Cuz." What could I do or say? I led her to my work room, showed her where my file copies of sex magazines were, then I left the room. Embarrassed, I guess. I went to the kitchen, grabbed a beer from the 'fridge, and gulped it down. I have to admit that I had felt some sexual attraction to Kristie for some time. Whenever I wrote about a girl losing her virginity, it was Kristie's face I had in mind. Her young body, her youthful eagerness, her intelligence, all had inspired and influenced me. And now she was actually reading the material I had written.

    I grabbed another beer, popped it open, and went to my workroom to find Kristie avidly reading the sex magazines I'd been published in. From the look on her face it was obvious she was enjoying what she was reading. She was breathing rapidly, sweat shone on her upper lip, and her nostrils seemed to flare, all the signs of a woman in heat, even a cousin. She saw or heard me and said, "I love to read about people fucking almost as much as I love to fuck. Surprised?" How could I be? I mean, she was smart, witty, attractive and old enough. I felt a twinge at the thought of my cousin getting dicked by some pimply teenager. Jealousy, I guess. I also felt a twinge in my loins as I warmed to the subject with my cousin.

    "Does it embarrass you that I'm talking about fucking, Dave?" she asked. "Well, not embarrassed, I'm just not used to it," I answered.

    "Not used to fucking?" she asked. "Oh, you know what I mean," I said. She was enjoying this conversation immensely. "I'm not used to talking about it with you."

    "Don't you get horny when you write this stuff? God, I know I sure would. I'm getting wet just reading. Ooh, this is really hot." Kristie started reading part of a story I had written. "'My cock had never felt so hard as it did in Gina's mouth. Her tongue flicked the underside of my meat and her lips seemed to caress and stroke my shaft.

    "'"Fuck my tits," Gina pleaded as she took her mouth off and held her big jugs together. Trouble was, I wanted to eat her pussy first. After all, eating her pussy was what I'd dreamed of doing for years.' Damn, Dave, I love this stuff!" Hearing Kristie reading that passage had excited me as well. And there was very little I could do to hide my excitement, since a bulging cock is difficult to hide in tight shorts. Kristie immediately noticed and then she blushed. "I guess you do get horny, Cuz," she grinned, standing up as she stared at the front of my shorts. "Was it my reading that did that, Dave? It sure couldn't be my tits 'cause mine aren't big enough to fuck. See?" Kristie lifted her halter and showed me her pert breasts, the nipples pink and rigid. My personal preference is for small tits not large ones. I felt my cock grow another inch as I looked at my cousin's mouth-watering boobies.

    "Kristie, you have great tits," I said. She beamed. "Most guys like big tits," she told me. "A girl with big breasts will have sagging chest bags when she's forty," I said. "Yours will still be young and suckable then."

    "Suck them now, Dave," she said breathily. I couldn't have resisted if I'd wanted to, cousin or not. And, believe me, I wanted to suck those nubbins. So I lowered my head to her left mound and stuck out my tongue. I circled the perky nipple then popped the rigid nub between my lips. Kristie gasped and her arms went around me, holding me as I sucked and chewed, first one, then the other, hot mound of flesh.

    "Oh, Dave, that feels so good!" Kristie's body wiggled as she tried to push more of her titty-flesh into my mouth. I think she must have had a mini-orgasm from the way she jerked around and gasped. Then she asked me if I liked to eat pussy. I told her I did. "None of the boys I've been with would lick me." "Boys aren't old enough to know what's good," I said.

    "Would you...will you...eat my pussy?" I picked her up and carried her to my bedroom and laid her on the bed. I pulled off her sneakers while she removed her halter. I reached for her shorts but stopped.

    "Kristie, are you sure you want this?" "Yes, please." "You won't hate me for it, will you? This is incest, you know." "Oh, Dave, you don't know how long I've dreamed of having sex with you, my handsome, smart cousin. Please. Do me."

    I unsnapped and unzipped her shorts, gripped the waistband of her shorts and panties and slid them down her legs and off her feet. Her downy brown pubic triangle contrasted with the pale, untanned flesh of her belly. I gently spread her legs and put a pillow under her ass to give me the best access to her pussy.

    And what a beautiful pussy Cousin Kristie had! The fragrance of her secretions made me even more eager to feast. I used my fingers to part her slick folds and I exposed the wet crimson of her cunt. Her clit was stiff and the largest I'd ever seen on a woman. It was as big as the end of my pinky finger, almost like a miniature cock. No wonder she seemed to get so excited. With a clit like that, it's a wonder she wasn't horny 24 hours a day! But I've since found out that she does stay excited 24 hours a day!

    I let the flat of my tongue lick her slit from asshole to clit. Kristie shuddered, her legs locked around my head and she chanted, "Yes, yes, oh yes." Kristie tasted tangy sweet and more of that love liquid oozed from her hole and onto my tongue. My nose kept rubbing against her clit so I stuck a finger into her cunt and took that clit of hers between my teeth. Needless to say, my cousin went crazy. "Oh, God, oh...oh!" she wailed and she bucked and thrashed at the mercy of my finger and tongue. I eased my finger out of her pussy, sucked her cream from it, then sent my tongue into her quim to quench my thirst for her nectar. My finger toyed with her asshole and I worked the digit up her backside to the first knuckle when she came again, her muscles contracting as if to nip off my tongue and finger.

    Kristie's heels pounded my back and she went wild as she came. Fortunately I live in a house, not an apartment, because her screams of ecstasy were loud enough to arouse others in an apartment building. As it was, I'm glad my next-door neighbors were at work because Kristie was loud when she came. After a few minutes I stopped and she caught her breath. "It's never been like that," she said. "Whew! I think you've spoiled me." She put her hand on the bulging wet spot on my shorts. "What can I do to repay you, Cuz?"

    Kristie tugged my shorts down and my 8-incher sprang out, strands of pre-cum strung between the tip and my matted pubic hair. Her eyes got as big as saucers and she gripped my bat in both hands. "Uh, this thing'll split me if...."

    "Don't worry, Kristie," I said. "We don't have to fuck." "Oh, but I do want to fuck," Kristie assured me. "It's just that this is so damn big!"

    "Look, tell you what," I explained as she slowly pumped my prick, staring at it as if hypnotized. "Right now I'm too close to shooting to bother with a rubber, let alone trying to squeeze my cock into you. How about making me come and we'll fuck when we have plenty of time. Okay?"

    "What do you want me to do?" she asked.

    "Think you can jerk it off or suck on it?"

    "All I've ever done was fuck, Dave. I always thought sucking was supposed to be nasty, but after what you did to me...." Kristie had milked a clear drop of ooze out of the slit and she moved her head close and stuck her tongue out. The tip of her pink oral muscle touched the drop and retreated to her mouth, followed by the shiny wet string.

    "Hmmm, not bad," she said after tasting my pre-cum. "Kinda sweet. I figured it would taste just awful." I knew that I had to come, and soon, and I wanted plenty of time to introduce her to cocksucking. "Just pull on it, Kristie. I'm close to coming. Yeah, like that." She was using both hands to jerk me off and she was staring with fascination at my balls and prick.

    "Squeeze it tighter! Pull faster!" I felt all my energy focus on the twitching in my prostate, he familiar signal. "Kristie, I'm coming!" I gasped. I felt my cum race up my swollen shaft and I saw the first wad explode from the tip. Kristie was watching closely, so closely that first white gob of goo splatted high on her forehead. She squealed with delight as she pumped yet another wad up and out, and another. She was enjoying watching my prick spew cum with the same glee kids have at fireworks displays. But for all the fun she was having, I had the advantage because I was having the orgasm and I had the added pleasure of watching Kristie excitedly milk my jizz out of my cock.

    By the time my sperm was only trickling from my cock, the stuff was all over my stomach, Kristie's hands and arms, even in her hair and on her face. She was still giggling as she licked and sucked the head of my spent prick. She kept sucking as my cock shrank and I managed to settle down. "That was great, Kristie," I said, using my finger to wipe cum off her cheek. "I can't remember coming like that." She took my cum-covered finger and, to my surprise, sucked it into her mouth. "Hmm, this is good stuff," she said. "Next time I wanna try sucking, Dave. How long till you can do it again?

    My cock had not gone down yet, so I told Kristie to go ahead and try. The first thing she did was to lick up and down the length of my meat, lapping the cum that oozed from the hole. She toyed with my balls, instinctively knowing just how to squeeze without bringing pain.

    She finally opened her mouth and let my cock slip between her lips and into her mouth. I felt as if I were getting my first blowjob as her tongue tentatively explored my pole. Slowly she learned, and soon her head was bobbing up and down on my cock,. Sloshy, sexy sounds escaped her mouth as she worked on me, and soon I felt the familiar tug inside that let me know I was about to shoot.

    And shoot I did. I managed to warn Kristie but she kept her lips around my cock and when my cum spurted, she swallowed like a seasoned cocksucker. I have no idea where this second load came from, but it felt like I was pouring my guts out through my cock.

    Well, several weeks have passed and Kristie has become an enthusiastic cocksucker. She took to oral sex with a passion, even to some rimming and reaming of my asshole with her tongue when she found out how sensitive I was to it. She even finger- fucked my ass and naturally I returned the favor, sucking her sweet, petite bum.

    We took our time when we first fucked, and with her on top she managed to get almost all of my cock inside her. She wants me to fuck her without a condom because "I want to feel you shoot off inside me." I told her I just wanted to be cautious because of AIDS. When I'm sure things are okay and we don't have to worry about AIDS or herpes, you can believe I'll fuck her without the rubber. Of course by then I'll know she's on the Pill and that we don't have to worry about her getting pregnant.

    For now, though, we've got plenty to do. We suck, we fuck, we jerk each other off, we suck each other's ass, and Kristie even fucks my asshole with a vibrator. She bought a strap on dildo and loves to climb between my legs and skewer my ass while I beat my meat until I spurt my cum between us and all over her tits. I love it, too.

    She's really sexually imaginative. She met a woman at a clothing store down the street who, Kristie swears, has lezzie written all over her. She is slowly cultivating a friendship to find out what it feels like to have sex with a woman. But she wants me to be there, too.

    In the meantime, Kristie wants to write sex stories, so I'm helping her out. She certainly has the imagination and we love doing the research!

  13. Re:soon the day will come..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Maybe, but they'll stick make a noise when they hit the pedestrian who didn't hear it coming...

  14. Re:There is no such thing as an 'oil company' by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yah, and the guys with teatowels on their heads and bombs can go back to running around the desert, eating with one hand and wiping their ass with the other.

  15. Re:soon the day will come..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    e need top make quieter pedestrians then.

  16. Re:End of Big Oil? by cyclist1200 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who holds back the electric car?
    Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?

    We do...
    We doooooo.