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  1. FYI, last week Hawaii had some GM eco-terrorism. on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    Video: 8500 Papaya trees chopped down.

    I guess some people are pretty fussy.

  2. Re:GM on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    That is a poor analogy.

    A better one would be "that's like saying consumers are misinformed because lobbiests eliminated ingredient information for vaccines".

    Doctors and parents need to be informed about the ingredients in vaccines in the case of people with allergies and auto-immune disorders. I would like to be informed of GM foods so that I can boycott them for ethical reasons. I personally don't believe in supporting the use of Roundup. I would like to vote with my dollars, but can't.

  3. Re:zparts looks most promising on Good IC / Electronic Component Inventory Software? · · Score: 1

    Oh well, there ya go.

    I was going to suggest Access or Openoffice Base. If you had just a few hours of experience under your belt using these programs. You could whip up something to suit your needs in less than an hour. I would suggest having just one big table with a few fields like qty, part number/name, category, keywords, purchase source, storage location, bool checkout.. Then make a search form, and add few input boxes for adjusting qty, whether or not the part is in use, etc...

  4. Re:More evidence GIMP needs a name change on Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's a great sounding name. GNU-IMP. Pronounced NIMP.

  5. Re:$20,000 per home? on Obama Awards Nearly $2 Billion For Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Yup! And if each home pays $173/month in electricity, it will be paid back in just 10 years. Sounds pretty good to me!

  6. Re:just shows you how broken Windows is on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    agreed

  7. Re:I seem to have missed why we'd want this on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 1

    I noticed something strange. In the thumbnails on the bottom. I click the right-most thumbnail and it zooms in at hi-rez. Any of the other thumbnails zoom in blurry. If I wait, it eventually loads the hi-rez. Bug or....?

    Anyways, it's too slow to be usable.

    11Mbit down
    Firefox 3.6

  8. Re:Heh on New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords · · Score: 1

    You mean Snadboy's Revelation http://www.snadboy.com/

  9. Ok, it's Wednesday. on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1

    What's the news?

  10. Re:Man this question pisses me off. on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 1

    great minds...

  11. Man this question pisses me off. on The Tuesday Birthday Problem · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The constraints are not defined.

    "I have two children, one of whom is a son born on a Tuesday. What is the probability that I have two boys?"

    I have three children. But I also have 2 children. See the problem? I have a son born on a Tuesday, and I have another son born on a Tuesday. See the problem?

    It doesn't say I have *only* two children. It doesn't say the other child can't be a son born on a Tuesday. It assumes the birth rate is 50/50, but most statistics agree it's not even. FTA, it assumes there's no such thing as twins. It assumes you have only one wife. But none of this shit is specified.

    Pisses me off. Use coins and cards. Not assumed biblical customs.

  12. Stick a pipe under my ass on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you'll be able to power at least a reading light. Yet another reason why nerds are useful to women.

  13. Re:What's with all the Australia news? on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    -1 Disagree

  14. What's with all the Australia news? on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like we get it every day. Who cares? It's just one country.

  15. This would work great on Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro) · · Score: 1

    for the mosquito laser defense system.

  16. The chick, Jak on Theremin Guitar Hero · · Score: 1

    Seems like the best a nerd guy could hope for. A talented artist, gamer. Awesome. Also, fat chicks give the best head, because they're hungry. Trust me on this.. they're great!

  17. Re:That's cute and everything.... on MINI-ITX and the Future of PC Case Design? · · Score: 1

    Brah, don't sound so smug. You said:

    "Just because you can replace the air inside of a case faster with air outside does not mean you are cooling things faster."

    Actually, it does. And this is the point of ducting. There was a whole slashdot topic on the concept of ducting.

    I think the parent's point was that given the smaller volume of the case, you have more of a ducting action. Whereas, if you had two 80mm fans on a large case, the fans could just be swirling the air around inside the case, and you would have less of a temperature differential flowing over critical components. Imagine if your case was the size of a garage, with two 80mm fans on either end and a MB sitting in the middle. Would the two fans produce much airflow over the CPU?

  18. Re:Found the full text article. on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1
  19. Found the full text article. on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1

    Full text article.

    As far as I could tell an addition of 3.0% sticky rice soup to standard mortar improved strength:

    there is not always a positive relation between the strength and the sticky rice content. The sticky rice component in moderation is helpful in the development of the strength of lime mortar, because its water retentivity favors the carbonation reaction of lime and the subsequent increase in mechanical strength.(45) However, organic matter in excess will work as a retarder and restrain the carbonization reaction(46) of lime mortar. Therefore, when there is a >3.0% sticky rice solution in the lime mortar, the development of the strength of lime mortar will be restrained.

  20. Re:So what's the exact recipe? on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1

    Here's the article which I imagine has the recipes and their strength characteristics. Anyone have a subscription to ACS? Otherwise it's $30.

    http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar9001944

  21. Re:Strong doesn't mean good, and rebar as a flaw on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1

    Use hydrogen peroxide or hairspray, like Aquanet. Spray the hairspray on up close so it freezes off the stain. Works on ink, too.

  22. So what's the exact recipe? on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1

    I follow the links and couldn't find anything about the exact recipe for concrete/mortar. Just that "the scientists prepared lime mortars with varying amounts of sticky rice and tested their performance compared to traditional lime mortar."

  23. Hmmm, housing prices have tripled. on Econophysicists Develop and Test "Bubble Index" · · Score: 1

    I wonder if this is a bubble. Naa, I don't want to miss out!

  24. Re:That right... on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 1

    In the long term, being useful to humans is probably detrimental. For example: turkeys too fat to breed, the Kava plant which only propagates through human intervention, corn, seedless fruits. We tend to change organisms to suit our needs without any thought of how these changes fit in with the natural world. It's like as we humans are devolving we are busy devolving the things around us.

  25. Re:Really? Like maybe a Pencil? on New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. He's referencing this dupe from last week.