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  1. Big parkingplex? on Solar Tree Bears Fruit · · Score: 1

    Google uses a similar concept to light their parking lots with 3,000 solar panels that provide up to 10 percent of the Googleplex's power demand.
    So lighting the parking lots uses 10% of the Googleplex's power?
    How big are their parking lots?
  2. Re:SR-71 Blackbird on How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected · · Score: 1

    Overdue indeed. I was expecting them by 1995.

  3. Tracing what? on Flying Humans · · Score: 1
    "The best fliers, and there are not many, can trace the horizontal contours of cliffs, ridges and mountainsides."

    I'm confused. The worst fliers, people who are merely falling... do they trace the horizontal or vertical contours?

  4. Re:Institutions on Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I don't expect a school to profit much from textbooks which it proscribes. They tend to sell more of the prescribed texts.

  5. This is news? I have two. on Carnegie Mellon Gets $14.4M to Build Robo-Tank · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the big deal? I have three robot tanks already: one is called "water heater" and another "water softener"; in my car my "gas tank" tells me when I need to connect it to the tank-fed robots at a station. What's so special about yet another robot tank?

  6. Re:This article brought to you .... on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We do know what to do with used nuclear fuel. Reprocess it into nuclear fuel, like France does. It's only being blocked by the stroke of a pen. That will be taken care of if we have an energy crisis.

  7. Re:Ehhhh... on Radiation Not As Hazardous As Once Believed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, the adult human manages to go a lifetime while losing 50 carbon atoms per second from DNA due to radioactive decay of carbon-14 atoms, and the decay of 4,000 atoms of potassium-40 per second.

  8. Me! on Mapping the Brain's Neural Network · · Score: 1

    Map my brain!
    ...reads article...
    When I'm done with it!

  9. Re:Adults can learn... on Adult Brains More Flexible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    So... when are we getting the ability to edit posts?
    You haven't learned how to edit posts?
  10. NASA's business is stars on NASA Knows How To Party · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because NASA's business is stars, with billions of stars you'd think NASA could manage more than 4 stars in the hotels.

  11. Not true on Adult Brains More Flexible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, the science is settled. Adult nerve cells don't wriggle around, everyone knows that. There's no need to look. Nothing to see here, move along.

  12. Re:Enforcement Policy on Graffiti as Password - Secure and Memorable · · Score: 2, Funny
    "a graffiti-laden alteration of your favorite politicians campaign photo"

    Mustache is not sufficient alteration. Please redraw your password.

  13. Re:Ironic curiosity on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    So you're trusting that the creator is all-knowing?

  14. But it is OK to do anything on Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines · · Score: 1
  15. Re:question: on Orion Nebula Gets New Milepost Marker, Now Closer · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the nebula is just moving 20% closer every six months!

    Don't be silly. It says 20% closer since 25 years ago. So it will be here in 100 years, as in 25 years it's traveled one-fifth of the way, so it only has four more fifths to travel.
    Dibs on the Trapezium.

  16. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 2, Funny

    And a friendly female voice announces "You are being kidnapped. Please remain calm."

  17. Re:Related Story on MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you're saying that the most visible version of this Slashdot story is actually a cheap inaccurate copy of the original and legitimately produced version? Why haven't the [redacted - ed.] /. editors cracked down on this shoddy duplication, and instead made available the higher quality Firehose material, in the form which it was originally conceived by its producer?

  18. Gundam on MPAA Chases Uploads, Ignores Open Sales of DVD-Rs? · · Score: 0

    They're not carrying Gundam.
    Tvboxset.com is not in charge of Gundam.

  19. Wrong Ministry on Japanese Bureaucrats Reprimanded for Wikipedia Editing · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, so the Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam. Which Ministry is in charge of Gundam?

  20. Re:Oh, come now on Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't you rather pay $2,000 to have your $100 laptop sent to a special clean room facility to recover the data?

    How exactly does that work on flash-based storage?

    Very profitably, actually. Why do you ask?
  21. Speechless, I do be. on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 1

    I don't know how to say how I feel about that report. Maybe the right word has gone extinct.

  22. Summary on Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft · · Score: 1
    Important Legal Notice

    Do no evil.

    :-) 2007 Google, Inc.

  23. Re:Easy Answer on Why Do Commercial Offerings Use Linux, But Not Support Linux Users? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you intend to write a piece of software that doesn't work at all, then when it doesn't work it will be working. So in order for it to not work at all it will have to work.

  24. Re:Same thing here on Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And I got bludgeoned for adding and improving references. By people who refused to state what the case was about and why they were voting, although the rules require them to.

  25. tmcnet trustworthy? on Wikipedia 2.0, Now With Trust? · · Score: 1
    I don't know if I can trust that tmcnet site. Is it bad formatting or bad reporting when it says:

    "As a result, although Wikipedia has grown in since its launch in 2001 around
    per cent
    f all internet users now visit the site on any given day its information
    ontinues to be treated cautiously."