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  1. Re:It's doomed. on Breaking Google's DRM · · Score: 1

    It's be interesting to see them use PNGlets to
    render the page.

  2. Not a battery on Nuclear Batteries · · Score: 1

    Batteries (electrochemical cells) are chemical

  3. Re:Uhm... on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    Yeah liquid nitrogen it's like, as common as water. AFAIK LN2 is more of an engineering
    abbreviation but I have definitely heard it used.

  4. Re:Tetrachromats are old news on Women See Colors Better · · Score: 2, Informative

    Close, I agree this is truly ancient news. However
    tetrachrmoacy is very rare (not the "frequent" the blurb claims) as true tetrachrmoacy requires the fourth cone to have a frequency response curve that is significantly different from either the existing red or green gone.

  5. Battery info on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, if the UPs is worth a dam the backups aren't on a trickle charge; it should be periodically testing and charging as necessary.
    Deep cycling is bad for any battery, but excercising them extends their life. I recently came across an interesting resource when doing
    my own research on batteries

    http://www.buchmann.ca/default.asp

  6. Re:Oh come on on Video Games Hit The Big Screen · · Score: 2, Informative

    How original
    http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_location/5 4.html

    Interactive even
    http://vadim.www.media.mit.edu/games/gbt.htm l

    See also
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=89704&ci d=7749 183

  7. Re:Sorry to rain on your parade, but... on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Umm, you're not likely too see to many 40-50 ICEs in the US, other than maybe a Geo
    Metro. And the Prius is 60/51/55 not the paltry 30-35 you speak of. The Insight
    boasts a 60/66 MPG.

    Thess guys silverlining.greatnow.com, www.mv.com/ipusers/lsg/Prius/PriusMileage.html
    ev en share their own experience and the EPA estimates seem to be reasonably accurate.

  8. Re:$8,000 on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't want to. Deep discharge dramatically
    decreases the lifetime of rechargeable batteries,
    and those used in hybrids are not cheap. For that
    matter, neither is a bank of lead-acid.

  9. Re:Sorry to rain on your parade, but... on Build Your Own Hybrid-Electric Car? · · Score: 1

    Just because Fords car sucks (but I repeat myself) does not mean hybrids are pointless. Besides which, money isn't everything.

  10. Horrible summary on MIT Names First Female President · · Score: 1

    Firstly, MIT is not the only "historically gender-biased institution". Secondly, while I can't speak for everyone here, most of us could give a flying rat's @$$ about our president's gender. They claim she's qualified, and at least she was a scentist in a former life (even if it is a biologist, way too trendy a pick IMO), so that's fine. But the thing I for one want to see (and others too) is an alum as president. An accquaintance quipped this somewhat aking to choosing a Julliard alum to direct West Point.

  11. Re:Fun afterwards on Scientists Invite Kerry And Bush To Chat Online · · Score: 1

    Here here! And the parent poster might want to
    look at research going on in the rest of the
    world.

  12. Re:Ruby and Sapphire.. on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    Umm no "buddy". In water ice the oxygen is part of
    the molecule which makes up the lattice. In gemstones the impurities are lattice defects
    (I include inclusion shere).

  13. Re:at no cost to who? Who foots the bill? on VOIP Progress To Be Hobbled By Wiretap Costs? · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. The actions of the FBI and other law enforcement are, in theory, to protect us all. Such services should then be payed for by all, i.e. federal tazes (which incidentally spreads it out very thinly making it a neglibile cost). As opposed to the person subscribing paying to have their provacy taken away. Not unlike a bank charging you to hold onto your own money, which they in turn make money with by lending it out (or your future earnings, using you as an annuity) to others.

  14. Re:The US national land grid on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    That actually doesn't change what I said, "the
    Louisanna Purchase was gridded out into townships"
    is still true :-P

  15. Re:NWS does better on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    Read the presentation linked to by another poster,
    this map explicitly filters out things like forest
    fires, it's intent is to represent static light
    soucres i.e; settlement.

  16. Re:Amatuer Astronomers (and Pros) Cringe on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pfft. What about us tree huggers? All that light you
    can see in space is energy wasted.

  17. Re:USA looks very bright on Composite Of Earth At Night · · Score: 1

    Sort of, the Louisanna Purchase was gridded out into
    townships. Roads were then typically built along the
    grid, and towns tend to develop at cross-roads.

  18. Re:Not that big of a deal... on The IOC's 'Clean Venue' Policy · · Score: 1

    Yes, do it under the auspices of the UN. Pay to play (on a sliding scale according to means of course).

  19. Re:Hypocrites on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should use the other 50 cents to buy a clue. https://helixcommunity.org/

  20. "not street-safe" my arse on Student Killed Driving Solar Car · · Score: 1

    The obvious solution is no fvcking hummers on the road. Besides being more efficient (energy *and* materials) lighter vehicles reduce mortality for pedestrians and bicyclists. There's no need for an arms race in vehicle mass. If your manhood is that tied up in "bigger is better" become a sumo.

  21. Re:Why bother?? on Where Did Affordable OCR Go? · · Score: 1

    I bother because the readings for my courses are available as PDFs created from page scans. Now,
    when I need to go back and find something I can't
    grep through embedded TIFFs and JPEGs. So I tried
    AdLib Express, and it works pretty damn well if
    not expensive as hell. Plus, it embeds the OCR
    results in the PDF so you can search within the
    documents as well.

  22. Re:Hmmm... I just rtfa on Coffee Bean Gene Mapped · · Score: 1

    You must count yourself among them masses then. There are huge differences between your average GMO and what they have proposed
    1) you typically need a vector to add the new genes.
    2) are *adding new genes* vs. selecting for existing ones
    2b) these new genes often come from completely unrelated creatures and the result is not possible with traditional breednig and nybridization techniques, these are the so called frankenfoods.

  23. Re:shouldnt *need* to patch on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1

    Ever seen a GE medical instruments commercial?
    You know, instant access to medical records anytime anywhere? Explain to me how that's going to happen without machines being on the network.

  24. Re:similar scenario in Antarctica on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    Argentina actually lays claim to a large portion of Anatartica (of course they claimed the Falklands too)

  25. Re:$100 per acre? on Lawyers In Space... · · Score: 1

    I dunno, Helium-3 is pretty damn scarce.
    (Helium-4 is getting there too actualy)