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  1. Re:Exactly. on McCain Picks Gov. Palin As Running Mate · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "The only place Creationism has in a science classroom is as an object lesson of something that is not science."

    Like all those other social 'sciences'.

  2. Neglect battey replacement and environmental cost on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Economics of Kensington's (RTFA) home built EV.

    That $2000 set of lead acid batteries taking our friend Kensington 20 miles/charge is only good for 500 charge/discharge cycles or 10,000 miles. He's paying 20 cents/mile for batteries. Add the cost of the electricity(without regenerative braking) to this and we're closer to 30 cents/mile or 3.33 miles per dollar. At $10/gallon for gas a 34 mile per gallon vehicle has him beat. At $4/gallon, a 13 mpg vehicle has him beat.

  3. Re:Bandwidth on Hobbyists Create GPLed DIY Super TV Antenna · · Score: 2, Interesting


    That the modeled hoverman looks better than the modeled conventional bowtie does not necessarily translate to the physically built antennas. This is why we still have and use antenna ranges.

    Don't really need the RF bandwidth but a wifi version would be fun to build and because of the bandwidth, the tolerances won't be too severe.

    30"x 40" would scale down to 8"x10" and have 14dbi(modeled) gain.

  4. How can we take TFA seriously? on Japan's Unique Cow/Whale Hybrid Experiments · · Score: 1

    43 papers out of how many published?
    Is it possible only 43 papers have been written on whales in Japan over the past 18 years? I suspect that this is off by a factor of 10.

    combining genetic material of cow and whale labeled bizarre, or is the science in a particular paper that is bizarre?
    think about it, people who eat dried, shredded, spiced, squid as a snack, might be a huge market for beef jerky that tastes like whale.

  5. Re:Gene splicing fab is much easier to set up... on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 1

    No one takes the threat of exploding Nigerian drug mules seriously either.

  6. Gene splicing fab is much easier to set up... on Counterfeit Chips Raise New Terror, Hacking Fears · · Score: 1

    We've seen plenty of this already with firmware.
    Setting up a fab, incorporating a trojan into the design, marketing the friggin product, and then seeing that it gets into the devices you want it to is MUCH more difficult than doing a little woojoo tango to help, say avian flu, hanta virus, or maybe dengue feel happy with endemic vectors. Hell, most any university lab has all the gear and no one watches those grad students, not even their advisors :-)

  7. Here in Honolulu there is TOO MUCH free WiFi on Ericsson Predicts Swift End For Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    I have to keep a notebook lined with foil to use as a corner reflector in order to narrow the antennas field of view. Hell, this AM in the apartment I scanned close to 70 signals. 5 of these were free. This is from inside my apartment!

  8. Give me a break! on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't want people looking at your naked ass all day, put your pants on in the morning.

  9. Re:Out of range? and did you catch on 'Death Star' Aimed at Earth · · Score: 1

    The google ads link for gamma ray credits!

  10. Re:rtfa on MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries · · Score: 1

    RTFA = 5 informative? surreal

  11. Because the markets a friggin democracy! on Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable? · · Score: 1

    Sure, everyone thinks they have a choice but the game is rigged.
    Some, know it's rigged and scream for 'transpancy'. Idiots!
    Be it poker, business, or foreign policy, the transparent hand is the losing hand.
    The majority walks around in a daze.
    The rest, knowing it's a rigged game, either strive become a benefiting player or drop out, grow a little pakalolo, and go surf.

  12. Fourth method on Fish Can Count to Four · · Score: 1

    Adult humans use a third counting mechanism, in which they verbally count much larger numbers. and a fourth method in which they assign the task to a machine

  13. Too many options. on Microsoft Says Not All Ad Clicks Are Created Equal · · Score: 1

    Businesses already track results and are aware of synergy resulting from multiple venues allied to the same product/campaign. Knowing what works gives one a competitive advantage. Why pay Microsoft to do something that one already does. Why allow them access to results that could benefit competitors?

  14. Re:All geeks are the same on Hans Reiser and the "Geek Defense" Strategy · · Score: 1

    Maybe he took out the seat to move some big old IBM or Cray mainframe parts and the coolant leaked out. Or he'd gone fishing, gotten real lucky, and had a half dozen coolers full of fish and ice crammed in that civic. Both have happened to me except it was a 944, the computers were Sun, and one of the liquids was beer.

  15. Re:No, that was Intelligent Design on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education · · Score: 1

    No problem.

  16. My pioneer LASER disc player still works. on How to Convert Your HD-DVD Discs to Blu-Ray · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My brother in laws Betamax player still works.

    Are we to understand that the HD DVD player is in danger of crapping out if we don't hurry up and convert?

    Wouldn't it make more sense to buy all the movies you like that are available in the obsoleted format along with a player because now you can get them cheap?

  17. OK, so I avoid this new tech because on Should Addictive Tech Come With a Health Warning? · · Score: 1

    I've been warned that it might be addicting. Some years later we learn that it isn't addicting at all. However, the avoidance has cost me enormously in opportunity.

    I'll suggest a simple symbolic warning label.
    A smoking cigarette.
    It's been beat into our heads how bad that is for a good 20 years.

    edebris bonus!
    Public education needs to get back to the basics.
    How to cross a street.
    How to handle a gun.
    How to behave around dogs and other animals.
    How to behave in general.
    How to cross railroad tracks.
    How to identify a blasting cap.
    How to dress a chicken.

  18. Re:few thousandths? on NIST Working On "Deathalyzer" · · Score: 1
    TFA

    Each pulse may be only a few millionth billionths of a second long.

    a few femtoseconds.

  19. Re:No, that was Intelligent Design on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education · · Score: 1

    Parent stated that 'islands have been abandoned'. I know damn well that Funafuti is still inhabited and was supposed to be 'first to go'. Hence my question, "...which islands?" I'm a former resident in that I don't live there any longer. Not that I was displaced :-)

  20. Re:My favorite. on TR Picks 10 Emerging Technologies of 08 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude!
    You forgot flying car(Henry Ford said it would happen!), personal pneumatic transportation, cure for baldness, miniskirt, and communication with animals.

  21. Re:Why Isn't There...? on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ebay is a legal party to transactions via it's site. A site allowing anything goes sales can only charge a 'publishing fee'. Craig's list doesn't charge anything so there's no way to compete.

    Yes, you could set up a pay to advertise or pay to view site for craig's list prohibited stuff like Nazi, gun, COS, shrunken head, stars and bars,... but most of this already gets traded in aficionado forums. Perhaps one of the COS related forums has a 'swapmeet' page. If not, it's likely the best place to make sale on an e-meter.

    IMO L-Ron wasn't even original. His quackery is much in the style of Edgar Cayce. Maybe COS needs all those lawyers to fend off these guys?

  22. COS and ebay ignore the "first-sale doctrine" on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 1

    It's a case for the FTC and courts. Ebay and COS have no legal right to prohibit resale of COS paraphernalia.

    If unfamiliar: Firt-sale doctrine

  23. Re:You know what would be even better? on Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU · · Score: 1

    If they sell you three working cores and you get three working cores, there is no defect and no chicanery. You don't want that fourth core jumping in and yelling TUCK when you want it to yell BUCK so it's disabled.

    Not 100% and allowed to park in the handicapped space = defective?

  24. Re:No, that was Intelligent Design on California Lawmaker Seeks Climate Change as part of Public Education · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A former Funafuti(Tuvalu) resident wishes to know which islands?
    Climate changes. Evolution happens. In the long run, stagnation would be much worse.

    Civilization is a pretty thin veneer but losing it for a while is unlikely to extinct man.
    As a species we're as tenacious as those rat riding cockroaches from Mars.

  25. SCO fails at chapter 11 and gets auctioned off... on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    Somewhere in that mess is something that's worth more than $100 million to more than one group. Otherwise, these guys would have waited and bought it at auction.