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  1. Scientific Method failure on Mars Rovers Have Incorrect Instruments Installed · · Score: 1
    Gellert published the data last year (Science, vol 306, p 1746).

    Nobody duplicated the experiments to confirm the results?
    I've been meaning to pick up a spectrometer and test Mars myself...

  2. Re:Two for two on Mars Rovers Have Incorrect Instruments Installed · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This was a follow up mission to the Viking landers which found no signs of life on Earth.

    So they established colonies on Vinland.

  3. Their Secret Is Out on Google's Technology Explored · · Score: 1

    Now that you've told everyone how it works, everyone will build one.

  4. Round up a posse... on Free Wi-Fi Threatened? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sarge says we're war-driving today. Get some extra ammo and aluminum foil.

  5. Re:Suggestion: Go Top-Down on Considerations for Raised Floor Installation? · · Score: 1
    As you're probably not going to be running a lot of heavy wires and moving them around weekly, light-duty raceways probably would be satisfactory.

    Look at what is in your hardware stores. There are several materials which can be used, depending upon your budget and decorating needs.

    • Surface-mount conduit. There are wallmount conduit materials intended for adding an outlet or moving a switch. Components vary, but often there is a box intended to fit over an in-wall outlet box (so you can connect to the power cables there and move the outlet out to the face of the new box), a flat-backed conduit for running along the wall, corner pieces, and surface-mount boxes. These could be used for either power or data -- although the corner pieces may bend cables more than your data specs prefer.
    • Cornice/cove trim. Wood, plastic, or foam shapes to mount where the wall meets the ceiling. Various decorative shapes. Often have a gap where corner would be because one use is to cover rough wall top. Not intended to support weight, but a possible tool, such as for hiding cable/conduit mounted in wall/ceiling corner.
    • Roof gutters. Steel, aluminum, or plastic gutters in various shapes. Plenty of room and when mounted near ceiling it resembles a large cornice. Downspouts have obvious applications.
    • Large-diameter pipe. Plastic/PVC pipe can be sawed along its length to create throughs...with cut piece available as a cover if wanted. Or cut in quarters to make sturdy cornice.

    Also be creative with mounting, keeping in mind that supports may need to be more sturdy than usual (a foam cornice isn't intended to support more than layers of paint). Cabinet hardware, hinges, velcro, and magnets allow various possibilities for hiding from sight and sealing from dust. Cornice could be hinged for access to top, or mounted below ceiling and gap above closed with removable wood or foam trim, or a strip of contact paper (look at shelving supplies - it's a sticky paper/vinyl sheet intended for covering shelves).

    Also look down. There are various wood trim shapes for baseboards (trim where the wall meets the floor). Trim with a gap in the corner could be used to hide wires. As it is a basement floor, it would be best to have wires in a conduit or trough for moisture protection.
    Or if there already is a baseboard, there may already be a gap there -- but if you break the paint seal consider whether there should be air circulating in that space and you may need to caulk/paint that corner to reseal it behind your newly-uncovered cable space.

  6. Re:Hack-a-do on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1

    Actually, on the first page of Google results are discussions on the subject. And within those results is at least one link to an HP public knowledgebase page which seems relevant.

  7. Re:Hack-a-do on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I can't locate the info right now

    Well, you might search in Google for: 30 months after first install or 2 years after printed date on cartridge

  8. Re:Are you sure? on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 1

    Just wondering: Have you ever been committed?

  9. Re:Irony... on Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed · · Score: 1

    Slashdotting?
    What, you're not remote viewing it?

  10. /.ing Prediction? on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1
    But did the slashdotting of the project's web server show up in the patterns?

    I hope the web server was not also the machine trying to gather data.

  11. Only in America... on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: 1

    ...we have a giant, 3 story, 110-ton hunk of highly reflective steel
    and also we have 110-ton hunks of steel which are not giant.
    We also have crawlspaces in our houses large enough to explore with an Abrams tank.

  12. Re:Let the. on The Crawlspace Tankcam · · Score: 5, Funny
    Anyone else think for a second that it was a remote control ACTUAL Abrams?

    Iraqi /. readers are impressed with the huge size of our houses.

  13. Now How Much: Who is Hubble Repair Worth? on Repair Costs for Hubble Are Vexing to Scientists · · Score: 1

    Any proposal to use the Space Shuttle should require answering the question: Which astronauts are you willing to kill for this mission?

  14. Re:Wrong priorities on Indian Moon Mission to Have Landing Component · · Score: 1
    So nobody should spend money on space until everyone has "enough"? So make this Internet thing illegal until everyone has "enough".

    ...and my "enough" requires I have a new car.

  15. Re:The cause on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you are not aware that the population of about half the nations is below replacement fertility?

  16. Re:HOWTO: give science a bad name. on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1
    I believe you left out the part which reads ...until someone loses an eye.

    It's a desert island. Little vegetation. Easy to find the eye.

  17. Re:Uh huh on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1
    According to the climateprediction.net website, the researchers are trying exactly that with weather data from 1950-2000. The equations are tweaked, within reasonable boundaries, so that the model does as well as possible at producing past and current climates (compared to archived observations).

    ...and how well do these equations produce the warming from 1900-1950?
    ...and the cooling from 1945-1975?

    However, what people don't realize is that nuclear waste becomes a rather large problem when it lasts hundreds of thousands of years longer than our best containers.

    Is it so much better to leave those radioactive materials lying around the landscape as they originally were? And a lot of the "waste" in the USA is fuel which has been used one time. It could be reused, rather than having to set it aside and use another batch of fuel. But the USA has decided to not recycle.

  18. Re:Specifics about the model used??? on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 1
    it shows there's no such thing as a safe level of carbon dioxide.

    There definitely is an unsafe level of carbon dioxide: zero.
    Then the oxygen-making plants die.

  19. Only 11K? What kind of contestants are these? on New Climate Change Warning · · Score: 2, Funny
    rises of average temperatures of up to 11K

    Shucks, Team Slashdot is still running and their score is up to 55K! Those others are way behind!

  20. Re:Ahem... on Sun Releases Largest Radiation Storm in 15 Years · · Score: 1
    What did the Romans ever done for us? Apart from the aqueduct, the sanitation, irrigation and the roads, medicine, education, health and the wine, public baths, the public order?

    You can't think of XI things?

  21. Re:Ahem... on Sun Releases Largest Radiation Storm in 15 Years · · Score: 1
    The plural of aurora borealis would be aurorae boreales.

    Pronounce both as "aurora borealis".

  22. Re: shucks on Sun Releases Largest Radiation Storm in 15 Years · · Score: 1
    I blame global warming.

    Cause, meet effect.
    Effect, meet cause.

  23. Re:Al Gore's book title is correct, NOT on Climate Change Doubles Drought Stricken Area · · Score: 1
    But science doesn't know whether increased humidity causes the types of clouds which cause cooling or warming. This also means scientists don't know how to simulate the effects in climate models.

    Do the clouds form as tall localized thunderstorms? Wide, reflective, cooling, clouds? Blanketing, warming, clouds?

  24. Re:Al Gore's book title is correct on Climate Change Doubles Drought Stricken Area · · Score: 1
    Yes, but people can't accpet we can't keep having kids and living anywhere we want.

    Population in many countries, such as the U.S., is decreasing (they're not having enough kids) except growth is happening from immigration (others are moving to live where they want).

  25. Re:Can't Blame Global Warming? on Climate Change Doubles Drought Stricken Area · · Score: 1
    The global climate is an extremely complex system. So changes in input can potentially have unpredictable results.

    Maybe we should stop flapping our lips.