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  1. Elium 4? on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    What the hell is that? Is it anything like dilithium crystals? I don't remember seeing it on a periodic table.

  2. Wonder how many of these people on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 1

    use microwave ovens? They operate on the same band of frequencies, along with many other consumer devices. The ovens are shielded pretty well, but nothing is perfect. The radiation leakage is measurable and can overload a close by WiFi receiver.

    Also, the Sun puts out quite a bit of microwave radiation. People found that out in the early satellite dish days. Aiming your dish towards the sun would cause a lot of noise.

  3. The Crystal Meth-od on Cognition Enhancer Research · · Score: 2, Funny

    Enhanced my cognition right into the homeless shelter. Now I'm a homeless genius and use the computer at the library to control vast bot nets. Eventually I will rule the world.

  4. The anti-circumvention part on US Plots "Pirate Bay Killer" Trade Agreement · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is what worries me the most. If applied broadly, that could apply to many types of software, that have legitimate purposes. e.g Anonymous proxies, OpenSSH, Freenet, etc. Basically anything that hides or obscures your communication from eavesdropping could become illegal.

  5. I claim Uranus on The Case for Lunar Property Rights · · Score: 1

    Darn spell checker. Thats not what I meant.

  6. I really doubt on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 4, Insightful

    that this is an experiment. They already know that the device will run indefinitely. No company would do a media event like this that would shed bad publicity on their product- except Microsoft, LOL.

  7. The Late Dr. Gene Scott said on UK Teen Cited For Calling Scientology a "Cult" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that "the only difference between a cult and a religion is that one has more members than the other." There you have it from a well known theologian.

  8. Google Sex Life on Google Health Opens To the Public · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thats the service I want to see offered. With the posting of photos and movie clips allowed. They can build a virtual community of porno providers and consumers. Wait- thats YouTube.

  9. Cartman says: on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 1

    "Its all a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap."

  10. In layman's terms on World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you take a car battery and discharge all of its energy in a picosecond or less, and for that split second, you are generating as much power as this laser.

    Big deal.

  11. In related news on Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View · · Score: 0

    Microsoft patents the idea of putting a virtual bag over peoples' heads to conceal their identity. Says project manager Chris Farley, "We've been testing the technology on the faces of various women on the NOW website, and it really does the job."

  12. Two Words on First Space Lawyer Graduates · · Score: 1

    Space Sex

  13. My Guess its at Netlib or at NIST on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was looking for some mathematical routines to port into Python and ended up poking around at http://www.netlib.org/ and http://www.nist.gov/ where there are huge repositories of mathematical functions, most written in Fortran.

    One of the most interesting things after perusing much of the code I was looking for, was that instead of using integration routines for calculating things like Bessel functions, Hankel functions, and other differential equation related functions, they simply used look up tables and curve fitting.

    I suppose in the 1960's that made perfect sense as computers were so slow. But even today, I don't know why I shouldn't do the same thing. With EM and circuit simulation software its GIGO. There are so many parasitics to model, that you can only ever get an approximation anyway, so what difference does it make if you get a tiny error from a look up table, vs. the "exact" integration routine value?

  14. But can it detect erectile disfunction? on A Guardian Angel In Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Tin foil over the gonads.

  15. 10 years and now finally working? on After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I used Freenet 10 years ago, and as time wore on, I gradually got more and more bored with it. It was interesting at first, but I don't have a 10 year attention span.

  16. Oregon's Constitution is more liberal than USA's on Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court · · Score: 1

    The Oregon Constitution guarantees more freedom of expression than the US Constitution. Thats why in some areas of Portland, there are strip clubs on almost every block. The religious nuts have tried over and over again to ban strip clubs, but any law that gets passed eventually struck down by the Oregon Supreme Court.

    The only control anyone has over them is via the liquor license. Then the clubs just get creative and find other things to make money off of other than alcohol.

    So considering all of this, I doubt that any ban on the sale of books is ever going to take place.

  17. In other news... on Focused Microwaves Could Enable Wireless Power Transfer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Belden http://www.belden.com/ is selling wire.

  18. I've been trying this too: on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 1

    I keep calling the Dept of Justice as I need to filter the net backbone to find dates on Friday and Saturdays.

  19. Personals ads will cause extinction on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 70,000 Years Ago · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone who uses Personals Ads services and sits in front of a computer all day hoping for their Knight In Shining Armor to come rescue them is contributing to the next possible extinction of the human race. It used to be that people met at Church, through school, through the extended family, and through REAL neighborhoods where people knew each other. Other than school, much of that inter-social infrastructure is gone. Couples move out of the city and into sterile suburbs where there is little social contact at all. They they get divorced and the woman is at home in front of her computer all day looking for Mr. Right all over again so the process can repeat itself.

  20. In other news... on FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco Gear · · Score: 1

    the USA issues counterfeit money. "Why it will hardly buy you anything these days, says octogenarian Edna Pumpernickle. But I hear they have great money in Europe."

  21. Chicken Mushroom or fungus on PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    There is a type of non-gilled mushroom called the Chicken Mushroom which tastes exactly like beef, yet i suppose has no nutrition to it at all. Perhaps they can find out what is inside it and market something similar. I know this for certain because in Pa I occasionally would find one and cook it up.

  22. Fuel leaking SR-71's on F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I understand that the SR-71's leaked fuel until they got up high enough so that the vacuum pressed everything together tightly. But speaking of engines, how did they keep the fuel from igniting from the engine while it was leaking?

  23. MS and China's special Linux on Microsoft-Novell Takes Open-Source to China · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is MS going to support "Red Linux" or whatever its called. They don't seem to trust any software made somewhere other than China, and I don't blame them. I think MS is doomed on this initiative. Hey, maybe the Chinese will eventually buy MS? They have so much of our money now.

  24. Anonymous Remailers on Wikileaks Sidesteps Publishing Public PGP Key · · Score: 1

    But thats so early 90's. Still might be useful, although I don't think there any left that will anonymously send the recipient plain text.

  25. Stallman's domain on .su Lives On, Stronger Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Is that where Richard Stallman hosts his web site? LOL Oh, I see its a .org