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  1. Re:What superconductor? on Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY · · Score: 1

    High temperature superconductors are ones that work in liquid N2. Other ones need even colder temperatures.

  2. What superconductor? on Attack-Proof Power Line to be Installed Under NY · · Score: 1

    For an "attack proof" power line, I wouldn't think a superconductor would be the best idea. I mean, just boil off the liquid N2 and you've got a fairly high resistance material. Same thing happens if you go over the critical magnetic field.

    I still wanna know what they're using. 123YBaCuO and most other high temp superconductors are kinda hard to draw into a wire, but I guess a thick cable might be easier.

  3. Re:Comparing Apples To Lemons on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also Ferarris roar when they drive. Mac computers are silent and pride themselves on user safety last I checked. Actually my G5 tower spins up all the fans briefly upon startup, and it sounds kind of like a car revving its engine.
  4. I claim that Ballmer sucks ass on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey Ball-boy.

    You know jack shit about making a decent product, and you'll never have your software in 60%, 70% or, 80% of the mobile phones sold. You see, there are several vendors of cell phone OS software, and they're almost all better than you.

  5. Re:Perfect quality! on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 1

    I think that right now at least, lossless downloads are too large for most people served by the iTunes store. iPods simply don't have the room for a large lossless collection. I have a 40GB 4th gen, and it holds far less than half of my music in apple lossless format (about the same size as FLAC). 24/96 files are even worse. Those files are huge. Even compressed losslessly they are around 1GB per hour and do not play on my iPod.

  6. Re:WoW not engrossing? on Games Less Engrossing Than Other Media? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And apparently nobody has ever stolen their cloudsong.

    http://cloudsong.ytmnsfw.com/?0bc4392e4b6b6d3618e1 5e165215213f

    And they've never gotten minus fifty DKP.
    http://onyserious.ytmnd.com/

  7. Re:So... on 'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine · · Score: 1

    You get sulfur hydroxide.

  8. Soap laced with GHB on The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess that's for the times when Axe brand shower gel and body spray aren't enough.

  9. Re:I knew someone on Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Better to go to jail fighting the charge than to accept it and live with the label for the rest of your life. Says the person who has never spent time in jail or prison.
  10. Re:Slashdot: my source for news about... on NASA Probe Validates Einstein Within 1% · · Score: 1

    Here's a source for rubber sheets you can put your balls on...

    http://fetteredpleasures.com/product/rubber_beddin g/prodRB02.html

  11. Re:Again? on New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.

  12. Re:Not delayed, same time as always on Apple Delays Leopard to October · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.

  13. Re:Blood made suitable for all on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I doubt this is any sort of April Fools joke though.

    Using a bacterial enzyme to cleave the terminal sugars from the A and B type antigen totally makes sense. You're just cleaving an alpha 1-3 bond between either N-acetylgalactosamine or galactose and galactose. Bacteria commonly have enzymes to digest alpha bonds, so it would only be a matter of trial and error to find the right enzyme.

  14. Re:O negative, eh? on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    You could probably do that. And it wouldn't take very long if you did an ELISA since the rh factor is pretty well known and it would be easy to make the antigens.

  15. Re:PS3 owners? on Blu-ray Hits Key Milestone Faster than Standard-Def · · Score: 1

    for big HDTV upscaling, Oppo players are tough to beat at the price.

  16. Re:GFs Pussy on High Performance DDR2 Memory Breaks 1.25GHz · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the smell is really strong it is probably some sort of infection which is causing there to be high levels of trimethylamine oxide which cause a fishy odor. Get her on a regimen of Flagyl to treat the infection.

  17. Re:BS on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    Modern cars can last, provided you don't abuse the shit out of them. Isn't the whole point of the Hummer that you abuse the shit out of it?

    And of course that you can write off the purchase against your taxable income since they weigh over 6000 pounds.
  18. When do we get to say... on Can Apple Take Microsoft on the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    ... that Microsoft is "beleaguered"?

  19. Re:Apple Laptop on Live Edu site on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the demo which isn't a demo at all, but rather a shitty commercial.

  20. Re:Worse still on iPods to be Used as Flight Data Recorders · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they use a Zune though, they won't have to find the actual flight data recorder, they'll just have to find another person with a Zune.

    On second thought, it might be easier to search through a pile of charred rubble for a small piece of metal than to find another person with a Zune.

  21. Re:Anyone know anything about these? on Purdue Unveils a Tricorder · · Score: 3, Informative

    A mass spectrometer needs to be a certain size since it ionizes a molecule to break it into smaller pieces and then passes them through a magnetic field. The charge (of the ion fragments) interacts with the magnetic field to cause the path of the fragment to bend. The radius of the curvature of the deflection is correlated to the mass/charge ratio, thus the mass spectrometer will tell how massive the fragments are. By knowing the mass of the fragments, the formula and structure of the compound can be elucidated by using a few tricks based on the isotopic abundance of elements in the earth.

    Wikipedia has a pretty good article and diagram.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_spectrometry

  22. Liars! on Purdue Unveils a Tricorder · · Score: 0

    So, this is just a DESI and mass spec. in a 20 lb package.

    That's no sort of tricorder. That's a monocorder. A tricorder measures THREE things, hence TRI.

    Damn lying hoosiers.

  23. Re:Matey on Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient · · Score: 1

    You aaaaarr a pirate.

  24. Re:Obvious... on TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy · · Score: 1

    I can either wait a few years for the dubbed english version, or get the subbed Japanese show the same day in really high quality DivX. How good can the quality of the translated subtitles be if some fanboy has it done on the same day?! Really fucking good. The worst problems I've seen are occasional spelling errors. Dattebayo Fansubs does pretty damn fine work.
  25. Re:Obvious... on TV Delays Driving AU Viewers To Piracy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Also, Doctor Who on BBC-America looks like crap. I guess it is due to the PAL-NTSC conversion, but everything on that channel looks awful.

    I do the same thing with Bleach, a Japanese anime show. I can either wait a few years for the dubbed english version, or get the subbed Japanese show the same day in really high quality DivX. I don't know what it will take to convince the networks that people really would like to download content and have it at home. I also don't understand why networks don't just release shows for free with targeted advertisements. It seems that if you had people sign up with some sort of basic survey about where they live, how old they are, their interests, etc. advertisers gladly pay to have commercials interjected into the programming people download. Free, but with advertising, television downloads would be a big hit, I imagine.