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  1. Re:Just think of the possibilities! on New Rechargeable Battery Uses Water · · Score: 2

    Because, of course, if your fresh/salt water plant is next to a fresh water river, there isn't any source of fresh water nearby, so you have to desalinate the salt water.

  2. Answer: No on Does Wiretapping Require Cell Company Cooperation? · · Score: 2

    A government can bribe or persuade an employee to perform the tap, or place an undercover worker in the telephone company in a position which can perform taps. So taps could be done without the telephone organization knowing about them.

  3. DVD good enough and safer on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    DVD quality is quite good enough for me, and I can easily copy and media shift DVDs. If I want to watch my DVD on my phone, I can. If I want to watch something from outside my region, I can. (I already paid $80 for the damn DVD direct from the publisher, why not watch it?)

  4. Re:Non-issue really on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    You might lose your cell phone signal once inside the house which would be problematic.

    Especially if you've also gotten windows covered with infrared-blocking metallic coating.

  5. Re:Grounded? on New Houses Killing Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I was attempting a deadpan joke with the 'rabid sheetrock mites'. I'll try to be more overt.

    Of course you were. Only mammals can get rabies, so sheetrock mites can't get rabies. However, they can get distemper.

  6. Save the Earth on Taking Radioactive Contaminants From Water With Shells · · Score: 2

    Eat lobster and save the world!

  7. Other story more interesting on Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific Discovery · · Score: 1

    I find the story "Mono Comes To Android" to be more interesting, and a greater biological challenge.

  8. Re:It's not a newspaper on Cylindrical Rolltop Laptops · · Score: 1

    Could it be that we went to books because of the invention of the printing press, which was not able to print continuously on a long scroll (contrary to the more modern printers, starting with the matrix printer)?

    No. The change from scroll to book happened centuries before the invention of the printing press.

    I blame union sheep, for their refusing to produce infinitely long hides.

    Looong sheep says baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

  9. Mine Eyes Have Seen A TV Show on Cable Channels Panic Over iPad Streaming App · · Score: 1

    Do they want my eyeballs or not?
    I wouldn't be streaming unless that was the best way to get the show to my eyeballs, and they would have me watching less if I couldn't stream it.

  10. Re:More interestingly on An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress · · Score: 1

    I was thinking you could probably do something similar to this on a real model with cloth.

  11. Office plant on Improving Productivity (With Science) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Make sure the office plant has a comfortable chair in his cubicle.

  12. Hey, look at that! on Facebook Photo of Stolen Ring Puts Couple In Jail · · Score: 1

    Hey, that ring on Slashdot looks familiar...

  13. Re:Sous Vide on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I recently bought the cheapest slow-cooker...

    Thermostat costs more. Did any of the others in the store have thermostats?

  14. Re:one trick-pony on Ex-Microsoft CTO Writes $625 Cookbook · · Score: 1

    So you want him to get out of the kitchen and get into the kitchen?

  15. Re:Greece on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 1

    I suspect the Libyan navy and air force might block that, where running overland through rebel held territory doesn't involve that risk.

    Implementation details.

  16. Greece on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 1

    Or how about to Greece? There's a submarine cable already contracted to connect Libya to Greece. If the contractors already got paid, maybe they should install it.

  17. Re:Argument from ignorance fallacy on SCO Found No Source Code In 2004 · · Score: 1

    You are stealing my material. I'm the one that's been arguing based on structured logical conventions lately.

    Sue him!

  18. Cab cap on A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts · · Score: 1

    So you also think that the greasy cab cap is not a good idea? I wonder how many drunks can vomit in it before it quits working.

  19. Re:Planetes on JAXA To Use Fishing Nets To Scoop Up Space Junk · · Score: 1

    The preachy lead character is the rookie. Not all 7 seasons of Adam-12 involve an experienced police officer and the same inexperienced rookie officer.

  20. Re:Internet error. Not space net. on JAXA To Use Fishing Nets To Scoop Up Space Junk · · Score: 1

    I'm reading stories like this one which are a few days older than the mangled web-catching stories. It's a tether, not a net.

  21. Internet error. Not space net. on JAXA To Use Fishing Nets To Scoop Up Space Junk · · Score: 3, Informative
    No space net involved.

    If you look at the details, there is no net involved. A company which makes nets is also able to make webbed rope-like material, and this is being considered for installation on a satellite before launch. When the satellite is no longer useful, the electrically-conductive tether would be extended, and induced electromagnetic forces would drag the satellite out of orbit.

  22. Firehose box hosed on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    I have the Firehose box at the top, just below my userbox, and the Firehose box is shifted significantly to the right. Much of the headlines are not visible.

  23. Re:the challenges of autistic gamers on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    So with direct admin spotting and memory scrubbing off the list, that leaves two basic routes to get banned. Either statistically improbable scoring, or statistically improbable performance. (similar to your watching for uncharacteristic pointer sensitivity)

    Or statistics identified something unlikely, and analysis of the machine found a cheat code was in use. It's possible the kid didn't realize he was using cheat code; he might have been told a procedure would give him a redder uniform or a Darth Vader voice.

  24. Re:That's so 2010... on NY Times Considers Creating a WikiLeaks Type Site · · Score: 1

    "Fadwagon" is a perfectly cromulent word.

  25. Re:Ow! on Artificial Retinas Can Balance a Pencil On Its End · · Score: 1

    Obviously this is why they tested that they can balance things on their retina.