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  1. The material is synthesised from urea on Smart Rubber Promises Self-Mending Products · · Score: 1

    "The material is synthesised from fatty acids and urea"

    You only need lots of beer and hamburgers to produce this rubber.

  2. Please don't on Making Use of Terabytes of Unused Storage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Please do not use the space for anything else. Do not try to actively use the space.

    The reason is the obscenely large amount of power required to use the space given a few gigabytes requires the whole machine to be running, and uses it's CPU which can't be less than 21Watts itself.

    It's actually cheaper to get a 1TB drive and use it elsewhere than use the power on so many desktops (or worse, servers). Even with the desktops in use by active users.

  3. Re:Hmm on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    They do not need to 'design' anything.
    They just need to watch this video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gJ0hYMyYEtc

  4. Re:Days gone by on AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not necessarily gone.

    Someone could buy the Netscape brand name and donate it to the Mozilla foundation.

    We'll all get a kick out of Netscape (previously known as firefox) kicking the ass of IE.

    Heck if someone setup an organization to buy that brand name to give it to firefox, I'm paying big $$$

  5. Re:next on Mathematicians Solve the Mystery of Traffic Jams · · Score: 2, Funny

    They did. It starts with one editor accepting the story without checking it, and that starts a chain reaction. Dups start coming in faster than editors can check and they're all accepted.

  6. Re:hah on Bar Codes Keep Surgical Objects Outside Patients · · Score: 1

    "Each sponge has a unique bar code affixed to it that is scanned by a high-tech device to obtain a count"

    I suspect this high-tech device is a barcode scanner. Similar to Palm calling its laptop a personal-internet-communcataur-thingy.

    Wake me up when they have rfid capsules in each object and the patient is scanned before getting sewn up instead of using some visual basic script and a symbol scanner.

  7. Re:Not very different on Canada Opens Wireless Industry To Competition · · Score: 1

    The fact that Bell owns the last mile everywhere in itself is a monopoly. That should be the government, laying down fiber for the last mile and allowing open competition by ISPs. They could also just provide very fast and cheap government Internet service (voted for and paid for by the masses) but that's a different issue.

    I'm liking my new Teksavvy account very much. Peer1 is fast. But the last mile (and Bell fees) are still bottlenecks and I can only get 5mbit in Burlington. France and Korea get much faster Internet because they allow better competition.

    I cant wait for wireless services to get cheaper. I could FINALLY be able to use my blackberry's data services without having to pay $100 for 1MB per month.

  8. Re:MS Keeps Pushing IE7 on Firefox 3 Beta 1 Review · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yup. Install IE7.

  9. Re:Can't one achieve such performance & more/w on Samsung Announces Fastest 64-GB SSD · · Score: 1

    At that price you can buy a fiberchannel SAN and hire a boy from a third world country to carry it around with you.

  10. Re:nope, doesn't hurt RH on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the most important one:
    CentOS is the Fedora that Fedora should have been.

  11. Re:Skip 3G for 3.5G on EDGE Can Out-Perform 3G; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    You're only posting to incite hatred and anger in everyone here. "unlimited use for about $50/month" is like racing your Lamborghini down the street on the first gear at 1am.

  12. Re:I have a need right now... on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 1

    Get a Clariion AX150. It takes SATA drives and can do RAID rather well...
    (I work for VMware/EMC).

    I just happen to know this product, I'm sure other SAN vendors have cheap SATA arrays too.
    Check them out on eBay... I'm waiting for one to be cheap enough for me to buy. That will make for a truly quiet PC (with the array in the basement).

  13. Re:Ummmm on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    It's NOT impossible.

    The Amish do it.

  14. Whats wrong with used? on Replacing a Thinkpad? · · Score: 1

    Get a used R60 or T42p. You'll be able to extract years out of it. They were the last laptops sold just before Lenovo stepped in. I'm not sure but I think early T60 laptops were also IBM.

    If you're feeling nationalist... buy a Gateway. And while you're at it, get a Dodge Neon as well. And drink American beer.

    Just kidding...

  15. Network Administrator on Marketing Yourself as an IT Jack-of-All-Trades? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the title.

    Some places think a Network Admin is someone who administers a network. They're wrong.

    Those are called Network specialists or something like that.

    Generally a company of 20 to 100 employees hires one IT guy to support all desktops, the servers if any, the website, Internet connection, managers' blackberries, the occasional phone issue and the president's home computer (and his children's Xbox). That my friend, is a network administrator, occasionally called a system administrator.

    IT Technician, IT Administrator or IT guy are also used. As soon as you hit 2 IT employees, you are called an IT manager and everyone stops worrying about what to call you while you start looking for IT Director jobs on dice all day.

  16. Re:Great for kids! on Ultimate iPhone Review — Will It Blend? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you get to the section where they blend frogs and gerbils?? ...

    (ok ok, I was only kidding. Stop with that look on your face!)

  17. Mystery Pricetag on iPhone's "Mystery App" Is H.264 YouTube · · Score: 1

    Sure you would.

    When you realize so much data over the EDGE network will be well over $100 a month.

  18. Re:The evils of soap on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1

    Rather well, except that I put on some keys wrong. Keep a reference keyboard on hand.

    The sides of some keys will also need some scrubbing as black gunk tends to stick to it.

    Oh yeah I also broke the connector on one key. When you lift keys, put a fingernail under each key under opposite corners and lift straight up.

    Good luck.

  19. Re:The evils of soap on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd question this.

    I washed a few keyboards, most notably my IBM Model M.

    Some did not quite work well afterwards and the plastic layers with copper encrusted in it must be cleaned carefully and dried. Rust forms on that layer fast (and so water was the more dangerous element in my case). If it is dried quickly enough there's no reason why it should not work.

  20. Re:Does the ethnicity matter? on ISS Computer Failure · · Score: 2, Funny

    My thoughts exactly!

    After all Redmond is in USA.

    *ducks*

  21. Re:Whaaa???? on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1

    Hopefully the additional PCs will improve written or typed English worldwide.

    On the flip side of the coin, the English will be "OMG, emerging markets! LOL!".

  22. You can't say that. on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    The Taliban never did attempt to twist science to their use. They just accepted that science would not agree with them and stayed away from science except in manufacturing bombs.

    No hypocrisy there. Even the Taliban had a sense of principles.

    Twisting science is VERY dirty.

  23. Blackberry? on How Big Will the iPhone Become? · · Score: 1

    The iPhone doesn't look like it can be a Blackberry. The whole attraction of the Blackberry is really email and text messages.

    I cringe at the thought of typing on a small touchscreen.

  24. Re:Brand power on First Peek at Netscape Navigator 9 · · Score: 1

    I remember when Firefox was having trademark issues with its name (Firebird?).

    I so wish Netscape would hand over its name to the Mozilla foundation. I want to see Ballmer's face when the growing firefox browser's name is changed to Netscape.

  25. Transmeta 2 on A Hardware-Software Symbiosis · · Score: 1

    What makes it special is that she's using Transmeta's marketing literature.

    I'd recommend her to hire Linus and go head-to-head against Intel. (Or try to be bought out by them).

    It's scary to think what if the Cold Fusion professors were as pretty as she is.