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  1. LOLOL on Wreck of Australian Warship HMAS Sydney Found? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Whale, I don't know whether or knot his clams of being able to sea that deep will hold water, but he's certainly making waves in his scientific turf, or is that surf, anyway.

  2. Re: Polarizing windows. on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and who needs one of those fancy vehicles powered by EXPLOSIONS?

    A horse drawn carriage gets me where I need to go.

  3. Polarizing windows. on Pimping Out a New House · · Score: 1

    I have no idea if they exist yet, but after I saw them in Blade Runner as a kid I always dreamed of being able to dim and outright black out my windows with the push of a button.

  4. Re:Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    Do you have any numbers for decibel ratings on more recent stock coolers and some aftermarket ones? I haven't been in the overclocking scene for a few years, but back then stock coolers were among the quietest available, short of going with the huge Zalman's.

  5. Re:Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 1

    Even if it does, the swing can't be more than a few watts in either direction.

    Otherwise, Intel and AMD would release power usage under load numbers for various temperatures, and people constructing server centers would take that into account with their air conditioning decisions.

  6. Aftermarket coolers are useless for most users. on Twenty Five Intel CPU Coolers Tested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When was the last time a CPU failed at stock speed with the stock cooler?

    The obsession with aftermarket cooling solutions for all but the harder core overclockers strikes me as about as ridiculous as engine oil companies' claims of their oil increasing engine life over other oils. When was the last time you heard about an engine seizing that didn't straight-up run out of oil or suffer from a factory error?

  7. Re:SDS = System Design Specifications? on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    Yessir!

  8. And more importantly. on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does the overuse of TLAs obfuscate the meaning of SDS?

  9. Re:So... on The Drive For Altruism Is Hardwired · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What it comes down to, is we're basically just machines acting on our hard wired impulses and genetic programming.

    I'm not sure why any of this should come as a surprise to anyone.

  10. Alternatively... on Climate Monitoring Station Proposed on the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We could just use satellites, which we've gotten pretty good at.

  11. Still at the drawing board. on FFXIII Not Due Until Next Year · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their biggest developmental hurdle will be choosing how many spikes the main character's hair has, his bust size, and the source of his isolation from society and inexplicable feelings of angst.

    Will his fashion sense be a hodge podge of articles from the pirate era, or the dark ages? Will his plucky love interest be a young queen society won't accept marrying him, or a rags to riches disadvantaged girl?

    Will the airship be powered by magical beads, or fire? These are all important questions the developers must answer before they can even begin work on Final Fantasy 6, no 7, no 8, no 9, no 10, wait. What?

  12. strikes me as unnecessary on Copying HD DVD, Blu-ray Discs May Become Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone with a real interest in copying a hd-dvd or blu-ray disc is likely already going to have the know-how (and disregard for the asinine DMCA) to do it illegally, while your average idiot consumer will continue doing whatever they do, consume I guess.

  13. Re:No way on ISPs Hate P2P Video On-Demand Services · · Score: 1

    You're talking about ideals.

    ISP customers pay a fixed rate for "unlimited" usage at a specified speed. The fact that ISPs can not provide what they market has no relevance to the customers who, quite literally, are doing nothing more than making use of a service they pay for.

    As for your mythical wise customers... they make up, what would you guess, some small fraction of a percent of the total pool of consumers?

  14. No way on ISPs Hate P2P Video On-Demand Services · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're telling me a set of companies with aging infrastructures who engage in deceptive business practices and loathe nothing more than giving their customers what they pay for hate having their infrastructures taxed by customers trying to get what they're paying for?

    Inconceivable!

  15. Re:How do you get the hydrogen back out? on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that was my whole point in my post, but... I kind of borked the whole thing beyond salvage.

    Slashdot needs a delete button for retards like me.

  16. How do you get the hydrogen back out? on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this reusable? I was under the impression that once particles are oxidized, they're fairly difficult to separate. Seems like there might be some weird energy investment issues.

  17. In other news. on German Linux Community Boycotting LinuxTag · · Score: 1

    Half of Microsoft is reported drowned in a torrent of schadenfreude.

  18. A squirt gun? on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pfft, everyone velociraptors fear nothing besides traffic cones.

  19. Re:Artificail Blood is old news on Scientists Create Artificial Blood · · Score: 1

    I'm confident either will start sounding a lot better than various type O trauma victims are living through what would have otherwise been fatal incidences.

  20. Re:I've dogded, like, 10000 murder charges on How the RIAA has Dodged RICO Charges · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Troll? It's both hilarious and insightful.

    RICO laws were not intended for this type of thing, and the RIAA is likely not engaging in racketeering by any technical definitions, AND we all know how technical the law is.

    It's sad when Slashdot's moderators wear their biases on their sleeves so blithely that humorous sarcasm pointing out the foibles of others is instantly labeled trolling.

  21. Ugh. on Congress Asks Universities To Curb Piracy · · Score: 2, Informative

    While congress ensures that the rich don't stop getting richer anytime soon, we still have pressing social issues with which to deal.

    The fact that copyright infringement, no matter how widespread, seems to regularly top news feeds lately is just further evidence we as a society are losing sight of our real threats: Further absolution of previously vaunted personal liberties, the lower class continuing their gradual attempts to topple society, and every special interest group out there with their pet right they're trying to get removed.

    Thank you congress, for accomplishing nothing beyond the placation of your idiot single-issue voter bases and largest campaign contributors.

  22. Great idea. on Turn Your FPS Skills Into Cash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's give people financial incentive to create bigger, better, and less detectable aimbots with the purpose of scamming people.

    This has the very real potential to ruin public servers.

  23. Re:What did you expect? on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: -1, Troll

    Even more surprising is that the guy is black, and myspace isn't a television.

  24. Re:Makes a little bit of sense. . . on Treating the Dead · · Score: 2, Informative

    What they noticed was that compressions themselves cause significant enough chest movement to allow some oxygenated air to make it into the lungs.

    The idea is to minimize the amount of time you're not pumping the heart, as all the blood in the world doesn't do any good if it's stagnant.

  25. Weakened? on Supreme Court Weakens Patents · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hell, let's deny them Vitamin D too and see how those bastards enjoy cancer.