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  1. NIST on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram · · Score: 1

    NIST release
    http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/newsfr omnist_re def_kilogram.htm

    Personally, I prefer NIST's prior stance, an electronic kilogram:
    http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/gall ery/kilogra m.htm

  2. Re:Hmph. Americans can lose nuclear material too. on London Nuke Plant Loses 30 Kilos of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Nah shit. Everyboy loses radioactive material, especially low-level stuff. But all you're gonna make with Am is a dirty-bomb. But then again, you could do the same if you bought a couple gross smoke-detectors.

  3. Re:They lost it after DS9... on Straczynski Offers To Re-Boot Star Trek [updated] · · Score: 1

    It's close, they lost it shortly after the debut of DS9.

  4. Re:Turn it up! on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 1

    That's nice, my point was audio is one half of a "video", and they didn't make any recommendations regarding it. By your logic they could have just said "HDD + MXF. Fin"

  5. Turn it up! on MXF+JPEG-2000+HDD = Future of Video Preservation? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ummm what about the sound?!

  6. Re:Bad for the Environment??? I think not! on Cell Phone On A Chip · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends on what's used. The densely packed circuitry in cell phones typically requires Tantalum. If this only increases the dependence then no it's not better, because sand is everywhere and we don't have to strip mine the jungle and support warlords to get it. Google coltan

  7. Re:Naming on Coyotos, A New Security-focused OS & Language · · Score: 1

    Ummm, a coyote is a canine (hence the logo of the linked group). Who the hell do you expect to find your random reference?

  8. Re:What Niche? on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    Your point being? I said *acts* not looks, and *muscle-memory* i.e. shortcuts and menus were arbitrarily changed.

  9. Re:What Niche? on Gecko-based K-Meleon 0.9 browser Released · · Score: 1

    AFAIRecall K-Meleon was around before Firefox (it has nothing to do with Firefox other than it also happens to use Gecko). K-Meleon, out of the box looks and acts a lot like IE. Unlike Mozilla (and presumably Firefox), which out of the box, looks and acts like no standard browser and breaks all sorts of muscle-memory.

  10. Re:Ruby on Rolling With Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    Outside of the Ruby community itself it's probably best known within the Perl community, since Ruby is inspired by Perl.

  11. Re:where is the power going ? on Intel's New Chips, High Power And Low · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hi speed = short-distances / closely packed circuitry and thing wires

    Resistance is proportional to the cross-section of a wire and so thinner wires waste more

  12. Re:Super-atoms? on A New Kind of Chemistry · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many properties are related (they all stem from the same root causes afterall: mass and electron configuration). You want to have your cacke and eat it too.

  13. Re:Album/Track information on CDs on Worst Bug or Shortcomings in a Standard? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They do, CD Text is almost never used though.

  14. Re:Ah, the sweetness of lead. on The Tin-Whisker Menace · · Score: 1

    RTFP. Environmental ne Health

  15. Re:An Idea on For Sale: Biosphere 2 · · Score: 1

    Oxygen problem takes care of itself once the concrete is full cured (usually takes a few years, but then Biosphere 2 is no spring chicken...)

  16. Sci-Fi story on Nine Souls, One Body · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This sounds like a short story in one of the recent Year's Best SF edited by Daid Hartwell. The premise in the story is that any collection of human beings whom in themselves are deemed legally incompetent, may gain legal recognition as long as the collective posseses all the faculties of a normal individual.

  17. Re:HOORAY! on Nintendo to Drop D-pad · · Score: 1

    Yes, speed. Nobody said nuthin' about strength.
    Try tapping the table with the fingers on each hand
    as fast as you can. You have much better control over your writing hand.

  18. Re:King William's College is NOT in the UK on The King William's College 2004 Quiz · · Score: 1

    Well, that's exceedingly logical.
    Reminds me of the Get Fuzzy strip where Bucky tells Satchel that by describing soccer as exciting he meant it was "fall in a hole and wait for Lassie boring".

  19. Re:HOORAY! on Nintendo to Drop D-pad · · Score: 1

    You put it under the left thumb because while you typically do not need to change direction rapid-fire, you need to jump/shoot/fly that way.

  20. Re:Babylon 6 on Ben Browder Joining Stargate SG-1 Cast · · Score: 1

    5 did not refer to the length of the series, no more than 24 does. B5 was the fifth station.

  21. Re:This looks familiar on Player vs. Player Play Examined · · Score: 1

    Best Buy devil customers?

  22. Other versions on Settlers of Catan Online Now Available · · Score: 1

    WanCatan hs been around for awhile, the grapics suck
    if you care about that kind of thing but the game is
    all there. It even includes Seafarers and Cities & Knights.

    There are many more computerized versions as well.
    Settlers3D that others have mentioned here is
    supposed to be glitzy, but it has no Citites & Knights.

  23. Re:Price on CCC Mods Rent-a-Bike To Allow Free Rides · · Score: 1

    That's just an artifact of our really soft currency.

  24. Re:I must be backwards on CCC Mods Rent-a-Bike To Allow Free Rides · · Score: 1

    6 cent PER MINUTE

  25. Re:Would this fly in any other countries? on CCC Mods Rent-a-Bike To Allow Free Rides · · Score: 3, Informative

    Elsewhere where this kind of thing is done these bikes are custom and the parts are not compatible with normal bikes. I think Copenhagen did this.