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  1. Re:Not just plane windshields on High-Tech Electro-Defroster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I was in school, during one of the ASME meetings we had a presentation of a device to remove the ice from the wings. The plan was to have a series of these plates on the leading edge of the plane. during normal flight they would be inlayed into the wing and be aerodynamic. If you were in an icing condition you would start a trickle charge a bank of compactors. Then once the charge was built up a series of panels would "pop" pushing the ice off the wing. Then the caps would recharge and a second series of panels would knock more ice off. and so on. Don't know what happened to the project. anything dealing with aviation takes a long time to develop. It has only been 8 years, which is not really that long for a industry with those types of safety standards.

  2. GMail on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Par down your data and use Gmail as your server. If it's too much more then a gig it's going to take forever for you to upload,DL the backup. At a gig you can probalby store the core db as long as you haven't poluted it with images and files.

  3. Just use POPFile on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    I use Popfile and have had little problems with spam. It also gives me the added benefit of binning my mail

  4. Track Tivo on Sports Highlights via AI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is easy, simply track what segments of the game everyone rewinds in Tivo. We know they can already do this! They anounce how many times Janets Breast was reviewed!

  5. It would be better to go by Identical Email on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 1

    Instead of limiting just on the total number of emails it would be better to limit based on content. 90% identical content to 100 emails would be more effective. I send well over 100 emails a day for work and this would be a pain. Or maybe track radical changes in email patterns 10 avg emails over a year, then 200 a day for 2days would through a flag.

    It seems like intelegent trending would be the most effective means of not punishing small Bis and slowing spam at the same time.

  6. So what about company sales. on Microsoft: You Need Permission to Sell Our Software · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So according to this if the company I work for is bought by another company, then do the Licences that are on my computer beocme OSB, Does the new company have to buy New licences.

    Something to think about?

  7. Re:classical FUD on AMD Roadmap for Coming Year and Beyond · · Score: 1

    One thing everyone is missing AMDs chips are manufactured using Cu, Intel is still using AL for the majority of their chips. Cu chips will produce less heat and allow for higher speeds.

    So bassicly Intel is acheving the same speed as AMD by better chip design over chip manufacturing. I believe once Intel locks into Cu and the market turns up a little they will be able to out manufacture and out design AMD, (But I bet Intel will have learned from M$ and keep AMD around so they can avoid the Monopoly stamp.

  8. gifscii... on Enormous 80s Textfile Archive · · Score: 1

    ...a program that does just that...converts gifs to ascii.

    - jay

  9. They lie... on Gnome 0.99.7 released · · Score: 1

    gnome.org never announced RPMS for 99.5 (because there were any released).

    - jay

  10. damn i'm jealous!!! on Linux 2.2 Released · · Score: 1

    mine was 470K. not nearly as cool. although, once i got a burger and fries and medium drink at a roy rogers on the jersey turn-n-puke and it rang up as $6.66!