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  1. Re:Censorship = Bad; This = Good, maybe? on UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship · · Score: 1

    You do realize that most of us don't run pkgscr and/or handcompile from source? (though we should)?

  2. Re:Ha-ha-ha-ha .... this is sooooo funny! on UK Culture Secretary Wants Website Ratings, Censorship · · Score: 1

    What's the point of having Internet if it's not, well, Inter-?

    BTW, what about old-fashioned UUCP-over-dialup? Are they gonna block phonecalls to outside as well?

  3. Re:SUVs on Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? · · Score: 1

    Seconded, seriously, people have issues with Toyota, yet LOVE these soccer-mom-monstrosities (considering the drivers, they pretty much are). That's totally beyond me, I confess. What happened to the image of macho-ship being going through a lot pf tough shit, like physically tough. (Ever tried scaling a land-slide? And that's from a skinny, geeky high-schooler. ) Now manliness is measured by the comfort of the pseudo-limousine you drive, usually something that attracts women. Strange world. My $0.02, YMMV (pun not intended).

  4. Re:Alternate heat sources on Man Invents Alternative To Cooking Gas · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that make solar furnaces an interesting source?

  5. Re:Too Bad on Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen · · Score: 1

    Just because of that post, I'm thinking of marrying you. [/joke]

    Seriously, bravo sir.

  6. OT, but... on Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen · · Score: 1

    I AM a hop-headed drug-addled dope fiend, you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:Too Bad on Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen · · Score: 1

    I don't think anything could be really passed as Spider Man, if you ask me. He's somewhat of parody of the stereotypical superhero, yet struggling to keep up with his self-assigned job as one, giving him a unique charisma. Either that, or I shouldn't post when I just skipped a night's worth of sleep.

  8. Re:Wrong Decision on Notebook Sales Outpace Desktop Sales · · Score: 1

    Cheers mate! FSC AMILO user here and lovin' it!

  9. Re:Not exactly on How Do You Monitor Documents? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a network-wide RAID 6 + distributed netboot be equivalent, only cheaper to switch? That way the transition is only in software. Just my $0.03, YMMV.

  10. Re:Ho ho ho! on Aussie Net Filtering Trial Delayed · · Score: 1

    Not really in the same situation, but even the obsessive, ADHD-addled highschooler here just felt the real spirit of slashdot. This is better than Christmas. This is home, my^H^Hour home. Cheers!

    BTW, do you like whiskey or vodka?

  11. Re:H Tree Indexing on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 1

    No, a B-tree is not a binary tree. It is an m-ary tree where all the leaf nodes are at the same depth, so it is balanced.

    You missed something.

  12. Re:Nice start... on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 1

    A kernel implementation? *ducks*

  13. Re:Only a couple of days? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Never happened to me. Sorry.

  14. Re:Install Ubuntu on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    "Windows - crappyly reimplementing UNIX since the beginning."

    Nice slogan, that, huh? *meducks*

  15. Re:Pentrose on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Ideally... on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but when you follow standards, you can't file broken rendering of your page as a bug report to the bugtracker of the respective browser. i keep wondering why web-devs don't use Arena. ;)

  17. Re:Ideally... on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1
  18. Re:It's like you work at an ice cream store on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    Pretty much agree, but I'd rather they port that cleaned up UI too. It's not native on anything but KDE, but it's still lightyears ahead of anything else. Heck, I'd use it just for that.

  19. Re:Don't take the bait on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    BS, it's completely standard, looks just like any other Qt app... oh, I get it. Still, it's got the second best UI I've seen since my days in Opera. That's what I liked about her, snappy as they come (still have that nagging feeling that it's faster than firefox), and every little convinience is built in, and properly implemented. And tab management... short of patching FF at compile-time and/or dealing with a kludge of bitchfight-happy add-ons (not that I don't like 'em, I don't like needing them), I don't see how you can reach feature parity. Chrome is a cleaned up version which I like even better, only it and FF are both going-into-swap prone, and don't talk about GC's latency... multiproc browsing is a good idea, but for something like Vista-ready machines. I wish it had a toggle switch ;(. That's enough for tonight I think. Cheers!

  20. Re:Don't take the bait on Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In · · Score: 1

    Tell me about it... Uhhh, I'll probably grt modded down if I detail this, put take this advice - don't run Chrome with more than 2 tabs on a 1,4GHz Celeron M w/ 512MB RAM. It's not fun.

  21. Re:52 kilowatt Hours? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    This is kind of redundant, but the "nasty electronics" you mention are called "switched power supplies".

  22. Re:52 kilowatt Hours? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Watt x Amper x Second = Joule x Coulomb / Second = (Coulomb x Volt) x Coulomb / Second = Coulomb^2 x Volt / Second;

    IOW, please clean up your measurements before they cause a quantum singularity. vThank you.

  23. Re:Only a couple of days? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    There's this new invention I'd like to tell you about - it's called a switched power supply. Try it sometime.

  24. Re:Only a couple of days? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Do you live in a quantum singularity or something? Like missing time and/or entropy? I think the term you are looking for is 250W. Correct?

  25. Re:Cannot explode but can be used in cars? on EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    The gasoline burns steadily, albeit quickly. The piston moves not from an explosion, but from the expansion of the combusted gasoline/air mixture.

    The traditional Otto cycle operates by rapid, near instantaneous combustion, but not explosion, at Top Dead Center. The Diesel cycle works by starting injection of the fuel at TDC, and injecting it down to some point in the stroke, depending on at what power the engine is running on, all the while of which combusting during the expansion, giving Diesel engines their characteristic torque. It is similar to the Brayton cycle, met mostly in gas turbines.

    Cheers!