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  1. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Work Schedule Make You Unproductive? · · Score: 1

    Misclicked my mod point...

  2. Re:No.. on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 2
  3. Re:Triangle Panties on Pi Day Is Coming — But Tau Day Is Better · · Score: 1

    nevermind the fact that tau is already the symbol for a bunch of other things. I think it would make more sense to redefine pi as whatever new constant you wanted, but then that would be about 60billion times more confusing.

  4. Re:isn't untapped energy a more universal problem? on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    yeah, but what about the energy cost of reprocessing?

  5. As long as its not 7 years away... on Capturing Solar Power With Antennae · · Score: 0
  6. butanol isn't really anything new on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    people have been trying to make this stuff cheaply and efficiently for a while now -> http://parts.mit.edu/igem07/index.php/Alberta was one such attempt that I heard about

  7. Klingon Keyboard? on Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This reminds me of the klingon displays from startrek

  8. Removing it from the environment on BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://2008.igem.org/Team:University_of_Alberta This project was about creating a synthetic organism that would be able to detect and destroy this stuff

  9. Truck Drivers? on Lobby Groups Launch Full Assault For Canadian DMCA · · Score: 1

    I thought that distribution was supposed to be moving towards being done over the net anyways. Tough to say if new copyright laws will be able to be pushed through anyways right now, what with the minority government and all right now.

  10. But... on Dell's Adamo Goes After MacBook Air · · Score: 3, Interesting

    will it run ubuntu without any huge issues?

  11. Re:But what to send to the Prosecution? on Wife of Harried Pirate Bay Witness Gets Buried in Internet Love · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A completely different and much grosser type of "Internet Love"?

  12. I don't see this mattering too much... on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know if its really different or whatever, but Japan has a satellite they managed to get off the earth that sounds like its going to do about the same thing. http://www.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat/index_e.html

  13. Re:"little known" ??? on Tapping the Earth For Home Heating and Cooling · · Score: 1

    Also in western Canada, the local university here uses river water for its cooling. Not really a geothermal situation I would guess, but still the same idea. I sort of wonder what the longterm effects of these sorts of practises will have on the environment down the road. Don't get me wrong, its probably way better than burning coal etc, but I still wonder.