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  1. Yeah they're probably detecting a strange disease on Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some sort of brain affliction that makes people distrust and hate the dept. of Homeland Security. I hear it's spreading fast...

  2. Re:Sorry but this sounds like non-news to me on X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles · · Score: 0

    Did you read what I wrote? Heating atoms by making them enter resonance is not new, and everybody knows the efficiency is maximum at resonance. All these guys did is change the frequency, more or less.

  3. Re:A shark with a supercharger? on X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A shark with a supercharger?

    There ya go.

  4. Sorry but this sounds like non-news to me on X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles · · Score: 0

    Exciting molecules by resonance: a kitchen microwave does that.
    Shaking molecules until they lose their electrons? That's called heating. That's how CRTs work.

    So, these guys found a way to heat up a bit of material with X-ray lasers... M'kay...

    The only substantial passage of the article is where they say researchers can use their "recipe" to maximize (or minimize the effect). That's a bit thin...

  5. Re:He's still alive and working on Ivan Sutherland Wins Kyoto Prize · · Score: 2

    Er.. people staying alive and productive well into their 70s - and beyond - isn't exactly uncommon these days you know.

  6. Re:And for all of us who prefer RPN? on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think every OS and software platform in existence has a HP48 emulator. Currently I use one on my Android cellphone when I need to calculate something and I don't have the - increasingly rare - real thing with me, but as you say, without the excellent HP keyboard, it's nowhere near as fast to do anything with it.

  7. Re:High school on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, you have to admit it's an improvement: when you dial 8.0085 on a slide rule, it's not nearly as funny.

  8. Re:And for all of us who prefer RPN? on Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Indeed. I'm clinging on my HP-48s, and I dread the day they'll stop working, because absurdly old tech or not, there's just nothing better on the market right now.

  9. Re:one problem on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 1

    Not nearly as much. A 3 year old car with 10,000 miles on the clock will sell much better than the same 3 year old car with 50,000 miles.

  10. Re:Wow - just wow! on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 1

    A velomobile is a bicycle.

  11. Re:A great vehicle for a few who are interested on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your post show how misinformed you are:

    This vehicle combines the worst parts of bicycle experience with the worst parts of car experience. It only can be used to deliver your body from point A to point B - even though many, if not most, trips require carrying cargo (even as little as a laptop bag; but often groceries are also required.)

    See this video.

    This works only on absolutely flat land, and in good weather.

    See this video.

    In case of an accident your body will be neatly squashed by wheels of larger vehicles, making it a death trap.

    See this video and this video.

    See this video and this video

    Only well trained young men can ride the thing

    See this video

    As for the rest of your comments, you'll find plenty of videos and sites to prove you wrong. I can't be bothered to find them for you just right now.

  12. Re:one problem on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a velomobile. I ride between 6 and 10 thousand miles a year - which is actually pretty easy, given that the velomobile is fast and protects you from the weather so you ride year round without any trouble.

    With the gasoline I save, the depreciation of the car I don't use when I ride the velo, parking tickets I don't have to pay... the velo paid for itself in 3 years. After that it's all free miles.

  13. Velomobiles are fast without a motor on Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now · · Score: 1

    These bikes can easily cruise at 30 mph on the flat on muscle power alone for extended periods of time.

    See this video or this one for instance,

  14. $1,500,000 for porn on $1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent · · Score: 4, Funny

    That REALLY sucks...

  15. Wow how sad on Has the Mars Rover Sniffed Methane? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    8 posts so far, 8 fart jokes. I see space exploration is truly inspiring to Slashdot geeks...

  16. Missing Captain on Sandy Sinks HMS Bounty, Knocks Off Gawker Websites · · Score: 3, Funny

    and the Captain still missing.

    You'll find him adrift on the ship's boat somewhere in the Pacific I expect.

  17. Re:If Americans cannot compete with non Americans. on Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I suggest you read this before you marvel at the opportunities Americans have for education.

    You know why H1Bs threaten American jobs? Because they mainly come from countries where education is better and free, so they come better educated and debt-free. Debt-free people accept lower wages and employers prefer people with a better education.

  18. Re:This is not new on NBC Erases SNL Sketch From Digital Archive For Fear of Copyright Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Even if they can defend themselves with fair use, a lawyer probably decided it's simply not worth the hassle for the ad revenue it generates.

    Or put another way, lawyers are way too expensive.

  19. The next cool unmanned aircraft on NASA Exploring $1.5 Million Unmanned Aircraft Competition · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do, don't call it Shirley.

  20. Re:Invulnerable? on The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a little sad when you have to write police raids into your disaster recovery policy. Especially when it's one of the more likely disasters.

    Come on, that's a bit disingenuous here. It'd be very sad if the concern was fully legit (and actually the problem of police interference isn't new - see the Steve Jackson Games incident, but at best TPB sits in a gray area, to put it kindly.

  21. Invulnerable? on The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers · · Score: 4, Funny

    The move will cut costs, ensure better uptime, and make the site virtually invulnerable to police raids

    Wanna bet on that?

  22. Re:not the first, but the only post that matters on Pedagogical Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For Educational Software · · Score: 3, Insightful

    slashvertise much?

    Yes, that's the first thing I thought, especially when the OP used a smiley in a sentence that's neither funny not ironic (The software is GPL'd, without DRM :)) Random smileys like that are a sure sign of the author trying to plug something and being slightly ashamed of doing it.

  23. Re:2012 on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Um, something about Jesus, Jews and a cross, keeps coming to mind.

    You must mean the famous joke:

    What happens when you drive nails through the hands of the son of a jewish carpenter? He gets very cross...

  24. It's way simple on Physicists Devise Test For Whether the Universe Is a Simulation · · Score: 1

    Just wait for some dude to offer you a red pill and a blue pill, and swallow the red pill. If you just get diarrhea, the universe is real. Simple!

  25. Firefox *16*!? on Firefox 16 Pulled To Address Security Vulnerability · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, I'm still using FF 3.6.12. I must have fallen into a time wrap bubble... What year is this?