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  1. Do this with my reef tank at home already on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oddly enough this has been done in the Reef hobby world for decades. You add what is called "Kalkwasser" which is nothing more then a solution of water and lime. Course I would think to have similar effect on the ocean you are going to need to add MASSIVE amounts.

  2. Gorilla Solar in Home Power Magazine on Hobbyist Renewable Energy? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check in old issues of Home Power Magazine. There were articles where people were setting up grid tie solar setups on a small scale safely without some of the expensive utility work. The articles were titled Gorilla Solar.

  3. Scrap Barry White on Party Ideas For Math Nerds? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are in college, drink booze and play drinking games. Me and my engineering buddies always preferred Asshole but my brother and his medical school buddies all prefer Beer pong.

  4. Re:While these stories are interesting... on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was going to say the same damn thing. Seriously he "buys" software, says the computers are "too old" (are they Apple ]['s or something) and then signs them up for "Fresh Start". Not only does he lack experience but his strategy reads like a Microsoft shill's play book. If the kid had downloaded some open source tools, used a couple free spam/virus scanners and then setup a Samba domain controller, well then I would have been impressed. I mean my 3 year old knows how to use Windows.......

  5. Re:HP Omnigo 700lx, circa 1996 on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 1

    Maybe that is what they mean in the article about Apple offering prior art to the USPTO. The article also says the filer "explained" this evidence away somehow.

  6. HP Omnigo 700lx, circa 1996 on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is one of the best cases for a production phone/pda that is prior to this filing:

    HP OmniGo 700LX

  7. Legacy dead on CompUSA To Close All Stores · · Score: 1

    I got my first computer from Softwarehouse, what CompUSA as called before they were CompUSA. They literally were in a warehouse type building tucked away in Addison, TX. They also ran a great BBS back in the 80-90's. Then they turned into a huge crappy camera selling POS. Hey-Ho the witch is dead.

  8. That is what your brain is for on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the snide remark, but seriously isn't the human brain the best filter? Use it, not a service then you don't risk missing anything.

  9. Device is 399 dollars?!?!?! on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    WTF? 400 bucks buys a lot of paperbacks and if I lose a paperback I am out less then 10 bucks and I can just buy another. Not to mention a paperback doesn't break when I drop it, can go pretty much anywhere, doesn't need to be turned off on takeoff and doesn't need to be plugged in. You can buy a cheap laptop for 400 bucks, so why would I buy this?

    Also why would I want to pay the same price for a electronic copy of a book? They should be cheaper then their paper counterpart.

    I am surprised no one has mentioned the E-ink ads appearing in grocery stores across America.

  10. one last thing on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    I would also venture to say my grasp of technology is vastly better then yours :)

  11. Re:Bulls**t on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahaha, two things

    1. You are just a jackass.
    2. Have you ever been on a diesel submarine from the 1950's?

  12. Typical Gen Y commercialism on In The US, Email Is Only For Old People · · Score: 1

    I am not surprised, Gen Y seems pretty stupid when it comes to picking trends. By only using Facebook or My Space they are limiting themselves to only communicating with people on these services. Also this story is a repeat.

  13. Re:Bulls**t on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    Good example, so lets compare the Benz 1885 to the space shuttle, that is what you need to do to compare a diesel-electric sub to a modern nuclear one. Light years different in their capabilities.

    Also understand the USS Kitty Hawk, aka the Shitty Kitty, is the only non-nuclear carrier in service and it is a steaming pile of dung.

  14. Re:Bulls**t on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    The Song class diesel-electric submarine is Chinese built submarine derived from the Soviet Romeo class submarines, which is a design from the 1950's. Do you research before rebutting :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_039_submarine

  15. Song and Kitty Hawk about the same age on Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise · · Score: 1

    If it surfaced near a modern nuclear career I would be surprised. But it didn't it surfaced near the USS Kitty Hawk, which is 47 years old, about as old as the Song Class diesel submarine.

  16. Regrets.... on Woz Still Misses Homebrew Computer Club and Apple · · Score: 0, Troll

    And he also regrets banging Kathy Griffin "That stupid redheaded biatch just wouldn't shut her pie hole, even when I shoved my junk down her throat and talk about nasty unshaved red snatch"

  17. Re:Well --- Why Not?? on Texas Family 'Sues Creative Commons' · · Score: 1

    "Note the HEAVY editing"

    What heavy editing? They just reversed/mirrored the image so it flows properly. The wall was already there.

  18. Stop going to the movies on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    It is pretty damned cut and dry. Vote with your dollar, don't watch movies, don't rent movies don't go to the theater. I have been doing this for years in protest of the MPAA. Sometimes it sucks because I don't get to the see latest movies but then again I am not giving a dime to those retards running the MPAA.

  19. Line Printer won't scale on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you only had a single machine or maybe even a couple lightly used boxes a printer might work. But even that would be near impossible to go back and sort through and if you ever ran out of paper or ink you would be SOL. And trust me the last thing you want is to to be SOL when it comes to SOX. If you have the money don't half ass an audit solution.

  20. Go with commercial hardware solution on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I preface this by saying I know I will get flamed for not recommending Open Source but SOX is a Federal mandate (Federal equals PMITA)

    EMC's Centera is my personal favorite, it isn't cheap but it does exactly what you need and is auditable and recognized by all the third party audit compmaies as well as the Federal government.

    I have worked in IT for 15 years and 5 of those have been for a LARGE financial institution. When it comes to audit and SOX go with something standard, tested and commercial, unless you want to spend the next 6 months explaining to your auditors how your homegrown solution works and then the next 6 months building something new that your auditors do understand (or worse, like losing your job).

  21. I prefer buttons on my PDA on Steve Jobs Hates Buttons · · Score: 1

    Call me old school, but I can type a lot faster then I can write, but I need buttons.

    And I really resent Jobs trying to dictate what I need.

  22. Project Orion on Interstellar Ark · · Score: 1

    This is nothing new, we actually have had the technology to build Intersellar Arks since the late 50's:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nucl ear_propulsion%29

  23. Voting with your dollar on How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You ultimately vote with your dollar on this one.

    -If an auction costs more then you want to pay, DON'T BID.
    -If a seller looks like they are cheating, DON'T BID.

    And ultimately if you feel you have been cheated don't pay, sure you might get a negative feedback but why put up with unfair pricing. If you don't pay people will STOP doing it because they won't sell.

  24. Typical Gates logic.... on A Microsoft-Speak Timeline - From Altair to Zune · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Keep saying something enough and it will become true. Gates just lies and lies in the Playboy interview:

    What was the first microcomputer software company? Microsoft.

    WRONG Digital Research was found the year before, it was also the company Microsoft stole DOS from....

    And who were we imitating when we did Microsoft Word? When we did Excel?

    WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3......

  25. The amount is extremely tiny on Polonium-210 Available Through Mail Order · · Score: 0

    This site will sell you Polonium 210, but only .1 microcuries of the stuff. The lethal dose is 106 microcuries, meaning you need to by more then a 1000 of this guys samples. Which would likely throw up a red flag somewhere :)