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  1. Re:hmm on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Like a modern common rail diesel uses piezo injectors? But I guess that doesn't get the air in, does it?

  2. What is C02 on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    Is it anything like CO?

  3. Hopefully he won't be wanting this taken down on Electronic Frontier Foundation Sues Uri Geller · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Whither predictions? on CA Solar Use Falling Because of Economics · · Score: 1

    Because they don't own the land to install them on? Because their facilities management process for their office blocks is complicated enough already?

  5. For me, on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    the most useful thing would be to have an AppleScriptable DOM, like Safari. But that's only because I've got a Firefox only site that I use that I'd like to copy data into programmatically.

  6. Re:good for car parts, still lousy for complex stu on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Because the inventory costs of the 10s of thousands of parts per model line of car are a touch too high. If all the e.g. solid steel parts could be stored on a computer and printed as and when needed, then there'd be no problem at all with stocking things and it would drastically reduce servicing costs.

  7. Re:Only a numpty (most consumers) buy their produc on Science Fair Project Exposes GlaxoSmithKline Lies · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, so sweetened drinks are fine as long as the sweetener's not a sugar, then?

    How exactly is the body supposed to calculate its insulin response if its taste buds keep giving it false positives to the presence of sugar?

  8. Re:Testing for vitamin C on Science Fair Project Exposes GlaxoSmithKline Lies · · Score: 1

    Except of course that nearly all fruit juices are acid due to acids other than ascorbic acid. Malic acid and citric acid spring to mind.

  9. Re:I would spend serious money for a laptop drive on Samsung's 64-GB Solid-State Drive · · Score: 1

    Well, you can get 32GB for that price right now. Although I've only seen it sold as PATA, for reasons I do not know.

  10. Re:Doesn't Look Legit on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    The article translates 8 inches as 21.3cm, or 3mm wider than a sheet of A4.

  11. Re:PC Mag, not Extreme Tech on Build an Environmentally-Friendly PC · · Score: 1

    OS X 10.5 will introduce resolution independent displays, as Windows has had since 98 and NT 4 and as Linuxes have had also for several years. Apple's implementation may break compatibility less, though.

  12. Re:Where do you get decent CFLs in the UK ? on GE Announces Advancement in Incandescent Technology · · Score: 1

    The high pitched whine? That's at the same frequency they're flickering at. Myself, I can't hear it, even though I can generally hear it from mobile phone chargers and electroluminescent displays.

    Oh, and I buy Philips Genie lightbulbs from Morisson's. They're buy one get one free at 99p each, and they strike instantly to about 90% of apparent luminosity, warming up to be very slightly brighter after a couple of minutes. The IKEA ones are abysmally slow, although they come in a much better variety of shapes and sizes.

  13. Re:Article makes things seems worse on Scientists Dubious of Quantum Computing Claims · · Score: 1

    It has been submitted, they said. It hasn't returned from it yet.

  14. Re:I'm sorry but... on Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku · · Score: 1

    A 16 qubit machine will calculate the results for all 65536 states that the qubits can be in simultaneously. Make a 1024 qubit machine, and you can factorise a 1024 bit number in constant time. Essentially it will meant that all NP-complete problems of a small enough size will be solvable in (low order) polynomial time.

  15. Re:The Tetris hack was a fake on Chip-and-Pin Vulnerable To Subtle Trickery · · Score: 1

    No copying cards. These are cards with chips, so they're carrying functions, not just data.

  16. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well, I oversimplified, and I'm no expert, but according to Wikipedia

    the USB specification requires that devices connect in a low-power mode (100 mA maximum) and state how much current they need, before switching, with the host's permission, into high-power mode.
    That sounds reasonable.
  17. Re:Better now than later.. on Parking Attendant 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Funny you should say that. The USB spec's quite clear that electrons should only be supplied to devices that are exchanging data with the host.

  18. Re:Wrong way around. We need "xxx." not ".xxx" on Why the .XXX Domain is a Bad Idea That Won't Die · · Score: 1

    What, like http://xxx.lanl.gov/ (safe for work)?

  19. What jurisdiction is this? on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 1

    Certainly, the electricity company in TFA doesn't use that system, neither do any of the suppliers in the UK (my jurisdiction).

  20. Re:Subsidies on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 1

    Funny, I thought net metering would mean they bought it from you at the same rate you bought it from them. But doubtless you know better.

  21. Re:efficiency, inefficiency, personal responsibili on Future Desks to Charge Gadgets Wirelessly · · Score: 1

    No, not with any modern battery technology.

  22. Re:What did most do when they read this? on Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition · · Score: 1

    Well, no, there's no rules on citation for newspapers. They're giving information to their readers on trust.

    However, copying verbatim from other sources is a given in most local journalism. It's normally from press releases rather than Wikipedia, and of course, unlike Wikipedia, press releases are free to redistribute with no copyright notice. So, this article is in breach of the GNU FDL.

  23. Re:I don't get it.. on Download Only Song to Crack the Top 40 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Those downloads were only counted because it was being released on a physical format the week after.

    Similarly, Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars made it to number 7 this week while not available on physical format, as up until the beginning of this year, a single was not eligible to enter the charts from the date two weeks after the physical release had been deleted.

  24. Re:Yet Another Phone (or PDA), huh? on How Apple Kept the iPhone Secret · · Score: 1

    Never used Opera on a Nokia N90, then?

  25. Re:Looks more like science fair project on A 3D Printer On Every Desktop? · · Score: 1

    From what I see on this side of the Atlantic, it's only Germany which has comparably belligerent trade unions to the US, and even then it's more controlled by existing legislation.