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  1. No contact with any ISP employees? on User Charged With Taking ISP Tech Hostage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, so up in Canada they have ISPs where you can actually get in contact with the employees instead of the automated phone system from hell?

    Lucky Canadians.

  2. Re:Apparently... on "Perfect" Mirrors Cast For LSST · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your post is written
    Almost like some poetry
    Refrigerator

  3. As Picard would say on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Obama's response? on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 3, Informative

    informative gives karma, funny does not.

  5. Re:Obama's response? on Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, and McCain's is summed up by "Error 404: File not found"

  6. Re:Black? Niggles? on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Microsoft's Japanese division is EXTREMElY racist.

  7. A new Al Gore rhythm on New Algorithm Boosts Network Efficiency · · Score: 3, Funny

    A new and improved Al Gore rhythm would dramatically boost network efficiency. Since he invented the internets, and actually routes every single packet on the internets by hand, if he learned how to work in a syncopated rhythm the efficiency of the network would nearly double.

    Check and mate!

  8. Re:Neat! on LHC Fully Documented Online · · Score: 1

    Home Depot has extra large superconducting electromagnets, right?

    No, they dont. Wal-Mart has Yttrium, Barium, and Copper Oxides on sale right now though. Pick up a tube furnace and a compressed oxygen cylinder and you can make your own

    http://materials.binghamton.edu/labs/super/superc.html

  9. Re:Out of touch much? on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're right, he was in a movie which cost $150 million to produce, but which grossed about $125 million.

    No blocks were ever at risk of being busted.

  10. Re:The Episode on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 3, Funny
  11. Re:Jerry Seinfeld on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the parent should be moderated as incorrect. Jerry Seinfeld was offered $5 million per episode to do another season of Seinfeld and turned it down. So no, he won't just go wherever the money is.

  12. Out of touch much? on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, this could either be a great move on MS's part or an illustration of how woefully out of touch with popular culture they are. Seinfeld hasn't been on the air in over 10 years at this point (new episodes at least).

  13. Re:need to bring down cost too I bet. on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 1

    That's the overall efficiency of photosynthesis. You can cut out a lot of steps and inefficiencies if you're trying to do electrolysis since the part of photosynthesis where water is split into O2 and protons is pretty much right at the beginning.

  14. Re:need to bring down cost too I bet. on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because normal electrolysis of water isn't very efficient at producing hydrogen.

    This is a system for generating Hydrogen which can then be stored and used as a fuel either in an internal combustion way or with a fuel cell.

    Solar panels are a way to generate electricity which then must be stored and used. Storage of electricity is generally a pretty big inefficiency, and solar panels only really work when the sun is out, so they necessitate storage or supplemental energy generation systems.

  15. Re:Better than the iPhone on T-Mobile Will Be First To Use Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We'll see. I'm guessing Google probably won't totally drop the ball on the software, but the hardware and integration between hardware and software will be interesting to see in the real world. Lots of companies make good hardware, and lots make good software, but Apple is usually better than most at integrating the two, which in a device like the iPhone or HTC "Dream" is pretty key.

  16. Re:You kids, I swear on Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered · · Score: 0

    Back in my day we sisn't even have abacuses.

    Or spellcheckers, apparently.

  17. Re:Sex on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Well, the last time I had sex, George Bush was in office and we were engaged in a war with Iraq.

  18. Re:Slightly off-topic on Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car · · Score: 1

    It's Vista based, so if you're fiddling with your new car PC while driving, you'll more likely experience a red (wind)screen of death instead of a Blue Screen of Death.

  19. Re:Hmmm on Microsoft Bets Big On Computing For the Car · · Score: 1

    I think we should preserve that disconnect.

    Yeah, the last thing I want to experience in my car is a red screen of death.

  20. Re:Hot technology on Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies · · Score: 1

    Well we are using Platinum in extremely warm car parts as it is. So placing rare earth metals in our exhaust system isn't a far out idea in the automotive industry. ;)

    Right, but there is roughly 1-3 grams of catalyst in a catalytic converter in a car. The article doesn't say how much Thallium is needed in this application.

  21. Re:Neato on Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again · · Score: 1

    I'm picking up some good vibes from that planet.

  22. Re:Hot technology on Ohio Researchers Advance Heat Reclamation Technologies · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe the most important point, at what cost? how rare/expensive is that new material? If is very, maybe the main use would be not for our normal lifes, but maybe for i.e. space probes.

    Lead is very cheap, Tellurium is about 20 some odd dollars per pound, but Thallium is damn expensive. In the late 90's Thallium was running about $600 per pound. That said, I'm not sure how much Thallium will be needed for this application.

  23. Re:Still not easy to build at home on Opening Quantum Computing To the Public · · Score: 1

    FTFA : "These things [quantum computers] can be very small and very cold, and they can be built out of exotic materials" - emphasis mine.

    He makes this sound as a good thing.

    Oh, it is a great thing for the marketing folks.

  24. Re:OMG!! on Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you overestimate Vista market penetration,

    No, as with most Microsoft products, Vista penetrates the market quite thoroughly, violently, and in every possible orifice.

  25. Re:Lund says the technology can be scaled to any s on New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed · · Score: 1

    And maybe you can get the Flaming Lips to play a concert in there:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fcheMyNsN4