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  1. You sir may have just created a new religion. on Star Trek's Warp Drive Not Impossible · · Score: 1

    Where do I sign up, I want my pendant keychain.

  2. Re:Physics? on The Road To Terabit Ethernet · · Score: 1

    The electrons actually move quite slowly regardless to how fast you send stuff down a cord.

  3. Eagleeye? on Pentagon Cyber-Command In the Works · · Score: 1

    Is that what they will call it?

  4. No, not impressed. on Solar Powered Car Can Get Close To 60 mph · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most of the North American Solar Challenge vehicles and World Solar Challenge Vehicles easily exceed 60 mph.

    I work on Purdue's Solar team and have first hand experience with these vehicles on the highway.

    www.PurdueSolar.org

  5. You haven't seen this before?- NASA's Blue Marble on First Solar Eclipse Recorded From Moon · · Score: 1

    There are tons of high def pictures and video of these shots from NASA's blue marble project. The only slight difference is, the satellite isn't quite this far away, the photos however are way better.

  6. Re:That's not okay. on EU Says MS Must Offer Other Browsers; Now What? · · Score: 1

    Well, then hopefully they try more then one of the internets, and go with the faster more functional one.

  7. Re:I hate to say it... on Pirate Bay Day 3 — Defense Requests Dismissal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whoa, you think that the US has that much pull on the Swedish courts? I doubt it. TBP is clearly winning the case thus far. I expect them to win, regardless of the United States not liking it.

  8. Re:Hoax? on Searching For Russian Extremophiles · · Score: 1

    Well, It would be a bit more work to get the helicopter from the Kamchatka airline. It says right on the side of it: Kamchatka Airlines, in russian of course.

  9. Re:High Perigees LEOs Should be Reserved on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting we reserve geostationary slots for technology that doesn't currently exist? Also- you will find that many countries along the equator have been given reserved geostationary slots even though they do not possess the technology to launch their own satellites- This is because the slots are directly above their country.

  10. Re:Was this really bound to happen? on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 1

    It doesn't make sense to me why you wouldn't raise the geostationary satellites orbit- instead of lower as you have suggested- and geostationary orbit is around 35-36 thousand kilometers above the surface.

  11. Re:Let's land on it. on Small Asteroid Making 400,000 Mile Pass By Earth · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you guys might be missing the parents REAL joke. In order to land ON the asteroid the following is taken into consideration.

    Since he is proposing the ship being larger, the asteroid would actually be landing on the ship.

    If you allow the asteroid to land on the soyuz, -- in soviet russian soyuz lands on asteroid.

    Thus, the only way to land ON the asteroid is with a russian ship and a bad joke. Get it?

  12. Re:Humor? Entertainment? on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 1

    Yes, you are dead on right. I work with the same people. I take back some of my assumptions made.

    I will accept the fact that she knows little to nothing about computers, and at this point, I see nothing but holes in the story.

    Why was it she had to drop both the fall and spring semesters?
    Did she contact anyone to help her with her problem besides the also computer illiterate news crew?
    Is it really that much user friendlier to set up her internet on windows?- I guess probably and unfortunately.

  13. Re:Humor? Entertainment? on Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is a difference.

    This woman didn't want to try to use it, she got stuck with it on accident and then failed to make use of it. A few google searches by her would have revealed at least how to use Word or Open Office. And has it been shown that she really has a verizon card?- or does she just think she needs the magic cd that came with her cable modem?

  14. Re:And Nikola Tesla.... on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1, Funny

    The same joke occurred to me, but I felt it was a little to lame to post.

  15. Re:Linux Causes Woman to Drop Out of College on A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have to giggle whenever someone thinks they need some sort of Verizon High Speed Internet CD to use the internet.

    It's almost as funny as the people who use AOL because it is the "internet" even though they are just hooked into a router and cable modem like everyone else. - this used to be acceptable when people used AOL's dialup service (or shudder- continue to use it)

  16. Sooo... on A Cheap, Distributed Zero-Day Defense? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is the zero-day defense protocol for the zero-day defense software?

  17. Not Russian, Ukrainian on USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement · · Score: 2, Informative

    That ship was built, and is registered and maintained in the Ukraine. They only claim it is soviet.

  18. Re:BitTorrent on Canadians Miss Out On Doctor Who Season Finale · · Score: 2, Funny

    Proxy Server + Hulu.com /= USA-only

  19. World of Warcraft uses it. on BitTorrent For Enterprise File Distribution? · · Score: 0

    Must be good enough for the rest of us.

  20. Re:So... stuck in car pileup = no cell phone 911? on Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try reading the article next time. This is a willingly used device. It also doesn't jam signals in any manner you are speaking of.

  21. Shut up about the emergency situations, jeez on Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is not a jammer, it is a bluetooth device.

    They would have to be idiots to lock out 911.

    Even phones that you have lying around without an active subscription can make 911 calls.

  22. Re:Interesting on Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo · · Score: 1

    There is nothing free about this energy, what you are proposing is a very elaborate and inefficient way of converting (propane, diesel, electricity or whatever your forklifts run on) into electricity.

    Every time a forklift runs onto the tile, the tile depresses slightly which causes the work, however the forklift will then have to compensate by climbing off the depressed tile. Where else do you think this energy is coming from?

  23. Re:They must run elephants through every hour on Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they mean 1400 KJ/day

  24. Not Just Theft of Services, Theft of Calories on Energy-Generating Floors To Power Subway Displays In Tokyo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It may be a joke that they are stealing PE and KE, but they really are making it slightly harder to walk around. Thus the user will be doing more work- ie- burning more calories.

  25. Re:Nikola Tesla on Pushing 800W of Wireless Power at 5 Meters · · Score: 1

    Well, neither really, because the name is not of english origin, both are accepted. I would show you the correct spelling but Slashdot doesn't yet accept cyrillic.