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  1. Nokia is Swedish for God of Hell on Flaming Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Yeah my work phone, a Nokia 3285, gets very warm when used a lot even in digital areas but especially in analog mode...then again so do I ;-P

  2. Transformers! on Japanese Deploying Powered Exoskeletons for Elderly · · Score: 1
    The TransFormers...
    more than meets the eye.
    Autobots wage their battle to
    destroy the evil forces of
    the Decepticons!
    The TransFormers...
    robots in disguise.
    The TransFormers...
    more than meets the eye...

    the TransFormers!

    credit to...Pseudo
    Intellectual and www.everything2.com


  3. Ugly on SpaceShipOne Flight Test · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is it just me or are both those airplanes/spaceships ugly as hell?

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    Off topic: Could someone get rid of that white dot in the ad banner at the top of the page it's driving me crazy!

  4. Re:Smart move Mr. Coors on Beer Added To The Food Pyramid · · Score: 1

    Yes but that's more wishful thinking on the part of people who want to see it; the people who drink.
    Southern France has a Mediterranean-style diet, which is healthier. They skew the results and make the whole country appear healthier.
    I'm sure we could all spin it to our own advantage and find studies to support our own positions. MSNBC story
    Link
    You'll die without Vitamin A, you won't die from lack of alcohol.

  5. Smart move Mr. Coors on Beer Added To The Food Pyramid · · Score: 1

    Why didn't tobacco manufacturers try that trick the alcohol industry did with the study that declared beer/wine is good for you?
    Call me crazy but I think a cellular poison could never be healthy in any amount. I have no problem with anyone drinking but to call it healthy?

  6. Great Ab exercise on Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? · · Score: 1

    I saw this great abdominal exercise, it's for "that lower bulge even people who do crunches get." They said in the article on the website.
    Lie face down on the floor.
    Then support yourself on your forearms, palms down.
    Then support you lower body by pointing your toes, imagine you're a bridge.
    Hold this, with a straight back and neck, for as long as you can.
    That's it. The easiest ab exercise ever!

    The next step up is to get one of those exercise balls, the big plastic inflatable ones they're great for doing crunches.
    And don't forget the cardio!

  7. 2Fast 2Furious on NEC Unveils Methanol-Fueled Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'll wait for the nitrous version and then install a rear wing and a big exhaust tip (to make it sound faster).

  8. Re:New Meaning for IP Address on Microsoft Rolls Out iLoo · · Score: 1

    ooohhhhh I wanted to say that

    a log?! a log?! ...BA DUM bum!

  9. Re:All this talk... on Hydrogen Fuel Station in Iceland · · Score: 1

    I think so too but for a slightly different reason. I think certain algae, with high oil content, would be great for producing oil for bio-diesel. The algae in Lake Baikal, Russia, in southeastern Siberia is supposed to be very high in oil content. Sometimes the water of the lake is covered in oil.

  10. Re:Why bash hard drives? on Getting Rid of the Disks · · Score: 1

    Because SSDs are cool :-P

  11. Re:Before everybody piles on... on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    Very well put!
    I agree 100%.
    I couldn't have said it better myself.

  12. yo fault on Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. · · Score: 1

    Nice to know, but not a whole lot that can be done about it other than move somewhere else. I suppose you can build better and safer structures but when a big enough quake occurs nothing will help. I'd be more worried about offshore, undersea quakes.

  13. Q*Bert on Quantum Computing Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Q*Bert ...everyone was thinking it.

  14. Re:A system that I've thought of a while back. on IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Hey it sounded good, but it needs more work.
    Maybe you could specify to your ISP between two types of e-mail accounts, the normal/open or the credit/debit type.

  15. Re:hrm on Problems in Computer Conservation · · Score: 1

    Just make sure it's not an OrganicLED

  16. Spam harms the enviroment on Forty Percent of All Email is Spam · · Score: 1

    If a program is running to filter Spam, then that means it is using power, if there was no spam then no need for the spam filter. So the time spent processing, filtering the spam is wasting electricity which is made by either conventional;coal, oil, gas, hydro or nuclear power plants. If most of the power plants use coal then that means more electricity is needed to power the computers running the progrmas to filter the spam, and that wasted power means that more coal or oil is burned which causes air pollution which in turn we breathe, or which cause global warming!

    I don't know if this is funny or serious.

  17. Internet, food, TV? on Using WiFi to Bridge the Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    Food is more important than Internet access.
    What about cable TV? Should that be free too so anyone who is poor can watch PBS?
    Whatever happened to books?

  18. Don't worry on Sendo Accuses MS of Stealing Smartphone IP · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well if the SmartPhone works as well as my Toshiba e740 PocketPC (crash crash crash) Sendo has nothing to worry about.

  19. Flight or write? on Kiwi Flight Before the Wright Brothers? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the Wright Brothers were given credit because of the ability to record their flight. The infrastructure that the U.S. had to record events and to keep a record of them.
    Maybe the first powered flight was made by someone from another country? It's possible.
    Just because a person isn't American doesn't mean they're stupid or couldn't have flown first.

  20. Mandrake install on Mandrake News · · Score: 1

    Well I can see why they have all that money! I bought Mandrake 8.2 about a month ago and couldn't install it on my new system (have XP Pro on it at the moment) and then I saw version 9 and thought "ahh that should work!" ...nope :( So I've spent close to $200(Canadian) for squat. I looked at the other distros and Mandrake looked like the best the start with for a new to Linux user. ...and yeah I'm posting and searching the various forums on Mandrake(which all seem to have gone to hell by the way), ARS(good), and Linuxnewbie.org(lot of bitchy people there lately).

  21. Lifting Body on Fanwing Planes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What about the Lifting Body (LB)? It should be included with the wing and rotor(which are really just rotating wings).
    The Space Shuttle is an LB, the wings are not really wings but they look like wings.
    The Six Million Dollar Man plane that crashes during the first part of the show was a proto-type LB plane.
    The new International Space Station/Alpha will use an LB emergency escape vehicle.
    A lot of new high performance aircraft will use it too.

    NASA info on LB
    Very nice collection of pictures page is in Japanese .
    an interesting study
    links
    more links
    Google

  22. Well if you want to know how many GFLOPs for G4s on Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier · · Score: 1

    An ad on Apple's web site about the G4:
    "Twin engines All systems have dual PowerPC G4 processors -- up to 1.25GHz -- and L3 cache for the ultimate in performance and productivity delivering up to 18.3 gigaflops of power."

    Is that why the "G" is in G4?
    Is there a T4 coming soon?

  23. Shortwave radio + PC = meteor strike counts on Leonid Meteor Shower Observation Tips · · Score: 1

    Casting aside my Mod powers...

    I've seen several applications over the years that use a shortwave radio hooked up to a computer (I've seen C64 and recently a PC version) used to count the hits by meteors in the upper atmosphere. I forget the links though I'll have to do a search. Just thought I'd mention it now beforeI forget.
    Now if there was a CF card for my PDA that could do that...ahh that would be cool.
    Now wouldn't this be the true geek way instead of actually going outside?!?!

  24. Quantum Fireball lives up to it's name on Have Fujitsu Harddrives Been Failing in Record Numbers? · · Score: 1

    Well Quantum Fireball drives are well...burning up. But then again what would you expect from a drive called a Fireball.

    Linkage

  25. Re:It Would Be Nice If...[solution] on Folding@Home Client's Performance Impact Measured · · Score: 1

    I'll have to check it out I guess because I could never get the damn thing to work for me. I'm using Windows XP Pro. Folding crashed a lot...well, in between the usual crashes :P
    I'd like to get it working since it's far more useful than SETI.