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  1. Lighting should be on the ground, not the sky! on The Illuminati Project Pushes For Dark Skies In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Look, this is about using reflectors to *increase* illumination on the *ground* where it is desired, instead of wasting it causing skyglow which can be seen for 100 miles. And have more streetlights, closer to the ground, with reflectors, and you will have greater safety, greater night vision for drivers, cutting down on hitting pedestrians, and allowing people to see the sky. Those of you still afraid, go buy a sidearm for crying out loud.

  2. OLED scroll? on Larger iPod Touch In Apple's Future? · · Score: 1

    Then you can have your larger screen and still fit the iScroll in your pocket. I'd like one of those.

  3. Well, the US isn't clearly referred to in Revelati on Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow? · · Score: 1

    So maybe so, eh? I would still make it out to be less likely than getting hit with asteroid Apophis in 2038.

  4. Isn't this enough different to make the switch to on Next Generation T9 Keyboard Technology · · Score: 1

    Dvorak work?

  5. Gov't content regulation wouldn't end well. on Content Filtering Pulled From Free Broadband Proposal · · Score: 1

    I do not think that in the present climate of competing belief systems, that there is a way to regulate content that would not end up infringing on political, religious, or scientific speech. Therefore, content regulation has to be done by the individual, and the individual sets of parents.

  6. FYI: chick anti-gravity on Linux Compatibility With VR Goggles? · · Score: 1

    Women are NOT attracted by the 'gargoyle' look, dude.

  7. But my cousin -did- get leukemia on Wireless Power Consortium Pushes For Standard · · Score: 1

    from living under a high-tension line.

  8. It sure would be nice to have a scroll-mobile on HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display · · Score: 5, Funny

    So that we who are old enough to have coded in punch cards can read our netphone screens. :-)

  9. Leader of the *Free* world? on Obama's "ZuneGate" · · Score: 1

    Not once he's inaugurated.. . .

  10. beware the creepiness factor on Scientists Add Emotions To Robotic Head · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They would be better off making robots look like 'droids' not people; as Wall-e and even Star Wars have shown, you can express emotion-equivalents without entering into the creepiness-zone of not-quite-human that you can get in some computer animation or clowns.

  11. Good luck with that. You just elected an anti-spac on NASA Exploring 8 New Space Expeditions · · Score: 1

    President-designate who is opposed to further space exploration (apart from once changing his tune when speaking in Florida).

  12. The Omega clouds in Jack McDevitt's Academy series on The Best Fictional Doomsday Devices · · Score: 1

    Sweeping through the galaxy at 8,000 year intervals, programed to destroy the surface of any planet or moon with straight lines and angles. The unknown purpose of these mysterious clouds seems to be either to destroy any technological civilizations, or possibly create novas as an artwork. Excellent stories. Would make good movies. Real craft with mystery and suspense - not common. Since someone already beat me with the Higgs.

  13. sea level fell 30 centimeters in the 1970s on As Seas Rise, Maldives Seek To Buy a New Homeland · · Score: 1

    So, we have these relict coral atols atop volcanic seamounts, and sometimes the islands rise, and sometimes they sink. Volcanic bulges do that, as magma inflates or deflates the magma chamber. This isn't global worming, this is geology.

  14. thank you, Luddites! on Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Dead · · Score: 1

    If it weren't for the superstitious anti-fissile hysterics, Phoenix would have RTGs and plutonium pellets to keep it operational and warm. It could even have spotlights to take images throughout the Martian winter, showing us just how deep the snow and CO2 ice get. 700 billion bail-out for banks and nothing for space exploration. What we could have done with just 1% of that!

  15. Clear violation of the 13th and 14th amendments on Former IBM Exec Ordered To Stop Working For Apple · · Score: 1

    prohibiting involuntary servitude. He was coerced no doubt into signing the non-compete, and a federal judge arrogates to himself the power to deny him his job, and IBM presumably isn't going to pay him his salary he had at Apple for the duration of the non-compete. Hence this is involuntary servitude.

  16. There are lots of ways to make diesel fuel on Rainforest Fungus Synthesizes Diesel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mr. Diesel designed his engine so that farmers could make their own fuel back in the day when there weren't filling stations in rural areas. It could still be done from farm crops, garbage, this new fungus, all sorts of things. What we need is government approval of the efficient turbo-diesel engines that they use in Europe, and then plants to make the stuff in numerous ways depending on what is most economical in a given region.

  17. Considering the ACLUs opposition to the 1st and 2n on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 0, Troll

    One has to take their claims with a huge grain of salt.

  18. Is it made by Rumley? on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 1

    (The first internal combustion tractors uses oil for cooling, avoiding the need for a pressurized radiator. Rumley was the main name associated with these "oil-pulls"

  19. absurd on Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would get me exactly backwards! Sounds more like stereotyping than research.

  20. So is ethanol. on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 1

    And with cellulosic ethanol using the entire cornstalk - or sawdust or sawgrass, and with the electricity coming from wind towers and solar furnaces, there ya go: closed cycle carbon. For that matter, we could go back to wood-fired steam engines.

  21. Great. A cancer ray. on Repairing Genetic Mutations With Lasers? · · Score: 1

    Or name-your-genetic-disease-here. Putin will be thrilled.

  22. read a demo recently. Has nothing on Eliza. on Loebner Talks AI · · Score: 1

    You'd think they'd be doing better than that by now. Even just doing something like Eliza.

  23. Didn't Larry Niven write a story about this? on Odd Planet Confuses Scientists · · Score: 1

    Entitled _Satan's Planet_?

  24. The questions are chosen by PBS, not the candidate on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    So they can only answer what the left-wing moderators choose to ask or have asked.

  25. The Clinton administration did this too on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    In order to harass and spy on political opponents including ordinary citizens and the cardinal archbishop of New York. Just wait til the New Party candidate Obama gets his hands on what he can do with the "Patriot" Act.