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  1. Re:It's April 2 now on Microsoft Asks Fed For Bailout · · Score: 1

    No kidding. However it is still April 1 in the US at this moment.
    I need a bailout also, say 10 million would cheap compared to most of the bailouts.

  2. Well, any yeast fermentation will do that. on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 1

    Yeast fermentation of sugars absence of oxygen will create carbon dioxide and alcohol. Hence the "fizzy" in beer but in wine the CO2 is allowed expire out.
    Yeast fermentation of sugars with oxygen will create carbon dioxide and water.
    Animals on earth have been creating CO2 as part of living for millions of years and the plants on earth have converted that CO2 back to O2 for millions of years and cycle goes on.
    But no, we need to have plants and to absorb the CO2 and chopping down forest for timber and development is killing our planet. In short, we have tipped the normal balance of plants and animals so this, as best we know now, is killing the planet.

  3. True on Irish Domain Registry Banning Adult Domains · · Score: 1

    What about "breast", "testis", or any legitimate body part that have diseases in and have legitimate research on can be block by this statute.
    This is were people worry about blocking/filtering content from legitimate people from doing legitimate research.

  4. Re:Anyone Still Have Spam? on Spam Back Up To 94% of All Email · · Score: 1

    Your really lucky. I have one gmail account that I have never show anyone and one that have several trusted friends with and both of them have spam of varying degrees daily.
    I run my own mail server at my company and the spam levels on that mail server hasn't gotten back to pre-MacColo levels yet. However, there are few sets of servers that map back to Russia, Brazil, China & Taiwan that I get a major chunk of my spam now.
    They may have shutdown MacColo but they slowly and surely regrouped in other places and countries to send out their &$#(*>.

  5. Economic Terrorism on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 1

    IBM and other companies that are affiliated with Wall Street are nothing better than economic terrorist.

  6. Put it in a Man bag. on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    If your that insecure about manhood then you should seek therapy. Objects and devices you have don't your "manhood" so if you need a something to "enhance" your manhood you should take all of those drugs from those spam messages.
    Netbook is nice device and like new adopter of any device, you will get a many of strange looks so get used to it until it becomes "mainstream".
    People that drive big vehicles or show off fancy things are making up for the lack of their personal security.

  7. Scratching through layers of infinity of knowledge on Hungry Crustaceans Eat Climate Change Experiment · · Score: 1

    We think we know so much but in reality we know so little. Every generation that passes proves how much we don't know but the current generation think they know so much that they make assumptions, rules and other things that harms us later.
    In this case, we have part of good story but didn't figure all of the animals that can affect this project.
    Live and learn.

  8. Try the previous story in /. on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    Here are some high schoolers that made their weather balloon with camera and sensors.
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/18/1645216
    There are many fields in science but finding what turns on the "light bulb" to get them interested that any field in science.
    However, most of the time the "hands on" approach will get most interest because they actually experience what you see in book. Lecture and book knowledge are one thing, getting to do something interesting is another and most kids love to see the action of what they learned from books or heard from the teacher.

  9. Use a Dvorak keyboard. on Researchers Sniff Keystrokes From Thin Air, Wires · · Score: 2, Funny

    Change to an Dvorak keyboard or even an foreign language keyboard "challenge" this.
    However the way I type, they will have fun with all of those backspaces...

  10. Re:Lasers on Satellite Debris Forces ISS Crew Into Rescue Craft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The USSR had Polyus, which never made it to orbit, which had a self-defense cannon and a blinding laser. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/polyus.htm
    However if don't incinerate the target, then you are left with more debris that you may run into. They need a space "refuse" service which will remove
    debris, old satellites, and other stuff. Maybe all space faring countries can contribute to an fund that will allow an creation of this organization so that some private or public organization will do this job.

  11. Re:4-Foot Drop = Rugged? on Dell's Rugged Laptop Doesn't Quite Pass 4-Foot Drop Test · · Score: 1

    Correct, at least the common ones that most people and industry can get. I think there are few that can withstand more abuse than a 4 foot drop. Nevertheless most "thin" screen displays the military uses are plasma.

  12. Re:I wonder on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 1

    Hmm. The use of quarks are like saying what is the use of an child.

  13. Wash and blow dry.... on Tubcycle · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was driving a the bridge to my old workplace once and it was pouring rain and I saw this guy in a car in front of me stick his head out of the window and he started to comb his hand through his hair for a several seconds. Remember I'm driving at about 50 MPH and this guy was doing this so my thinking was he was washing his hair and blow drying it at the same time. However the most scary thing was there was a large center divider on the bridge and if he twitched the steering wheel the wrong way a little and his head would have been removed!
    This photo looks like he wants to take a bath and then blow dry at the same time. Taking a bath with sufficient lather would protect our eyes from the unmentionables, However, drying is another issue that would cause "eye pain" or even psychological damage.

  14. He should also sue the Yellow Pages. on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    If he has that much time maybe he/she can sue the Yellow Page for having "Escort Services" and "Massage Services".

  15. I wonder who is paying the person off? on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    This is same argument I made about the MS Internet Explorer issue with the European Union. Some person at State of Colorado must be paid off my MS or has a nice cushy job at MS after his or her stint in the State of Colorado.
    That person wrote the website for MS IIS so that you must use Internet Explorer and this person is spewing the "virtues" of Microsoft.
    As I said before, all public websites should be written so that ALL browsers should work with it so that ALL people can participate in the digital age.
    This is just another form digital discrimination.

  16. Does this affect Open Office Calc & Apple Numb on No Patch For Excel Zero-Day Flaw · · Score: 1

    I wonder if any one has tested this exploit on Open Office Calc, Apple Numbers and other MS Office compatible applications?

  17. Economic diet on NY Bill Proposes Tax Credit for Open Source Developers · · Score: 1

    Governments and executive management needs to go on a economic diet. However like all diets, we go off of them for various reasons and go back to our "bad" ways.
    Government and executives need to reduce own personal expenses so they can live within income they get.

  18. Nominee for igNobel awards. on Science Unlocks The Mystery Of Belly Button Lint · · Score: 1

    This guy should be nominated for the igNobel awards.

    The igNobel website:
    http://improbable.com/ig/

    Nominate an candidate. Like this fellow:
    http://improbable.com/ig/miscellaneous/nominate.html

  19. Use 3rd party PDF readers. on Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    Why not use 3rd party viewers like CutePDF or Preview? Again these patches only fix part of the issue so you are still vulnerable to more dangerous part of the bug.

  20. National Lampoon Christmas Vacation.... on The Art of The Farewell Email · · Score: 1
  21. Geez, and Apple charge for this. on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    I have a new MacBook and 15-inch MacBookPro at work and from the pictures I see the only thing that Apple did was to remove the access panel for the 17-inch MacBookPro. I don't know how much space it would have saved when they removed the access panel for the 17-inch MacBookPro but IMHO not much from these photos. The access panels for both new MacBook and 15-inch MacBookPro doesn't appear to take that much space and IMHO can fit in the 17-inch MacBookPro.
    I think Apple wants to remove the access door for the 17-inch so that they can charge for replacing the battery or hard drive.

  22. I doesn't break perl in most part. on Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl · · Score: 1

    This is a fairly unique problem from what I can tell. I ran several perl commands on my MacBookPro running 10.5.6 and here are the results:

    perl -MIO::Socket::SSL -e 'print $IO::Socket::SSL::VERSION;'
    0.999

    perl -MIO::Socket -le 'print $IO::Socket::INET::VERSION'
    1.29

    I appears that this problem unique to UTF8, adding or modifying CPAN and the Security 2009-001 update. I think that this is perl module problem that is causing this issue and they need to fix at that level.
    Again perl is not broken unless you have done certain things on the Mac.

  23. Re:Comparing Apple's Release Cycle to MS on Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl · · Score: 1

    Also for those that need to run XP for whatever reason you need to PAY $99 for the downgraded from Vista if they are buying new hardware. WTF!
    Who in their right mind, except for MS, want to pay for a downgrade?!

  24. Re:Whoops on Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Extremely low sound. The ocean waves above them and other natural sounds would be louder than they were if they were running quiet.
    Like space, as vast as it is, collisions do still occur just like the two satellites last week.

  25. Re:Outsourcing? on Indian Court Is 466 Years Behind Schedule · · Score: 1

    Yes! We seen all of the lawyers on those late night infomercials and other media postings.
    We outsource our IT to India and they outsource their legal system to us and that is a good deal!
    Now I just need money to go to law school.