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  1. Re:Well at MY place, on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    For the factory to get the contract, they have to compete against the Americans, Mexican, Indians, ... Ok, battle stage 1. Now battle stage 2, they have to compete with the factories from five neighboring provinces, each have population size more than a country in Europe.

  2. Re:Food for thought on Future Astronauts May Survive On Eating Silkworms · · Score: 1

    No where in the article mentioned the food for silkworm, it is the leaves from mulberry tree. The tree could go up 30 feet.

  3. Re:"The only fireproof way of safeguarding your da on "Smash Your Hard Drive" To Fight Identity Theft · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Throwing into fire is not enough, the magnetic domain on the platter is still there for highly technical team to retrieve. You have to melt the hard disk into liquid and stir thoroughly.

  4. Re:Pyrolysis may be more useful on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Been to a small dairy farm where my classmate's father worked, the dairy cow were eating corn, I mean the stem and leaves, not the golden yellow beans that we make pop-corn. I just wonder if it is true for the meat cows.

  5. Re:That's not quite the point... on Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    Apart from from building the first Chinese restaurant there first, this could be the motivation behind the lunar exploration: http://www.asi.org/adb/02/09/he3-intro.html

  6. Re:A real contribution to humanity on 7th-Grader Designs Three Dimensional Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Make a few DIY electron microscopes.

  7. Re:How? on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors · · Score: 1

    lab exercise one, what happen to a resistor with more current than it can handle.
    result: charred resistor and white smoke.

    lab exercise two, what happen to capacitor with more AC current than it can handle.
    result: a pop corn, sometimes a juicy pop corn.

    lab exercise three, .....

  8. Re:Homebrew angle. on Inexpensive USB LCD With Linux Drivers For LCDproc · · Score: 1

    many laptops nowadays don't come with a RS232 port. A pricy USB-> RS232 dongle is needed to connected to the legacy hardware.

  9. Re:Math for scaleup... on The Windbelt – a Cheap Wind-Power Generator · · Score: 1

    Been to silk route in China many years ago. On one of the 2000 meter+ mountain, found some nomads who herd goats for a living and sleep in tents at night. While watching the grass grow was their daily entertainment, they found out bringing a TV there was feasible.

    These people put up a 5' diameter fan shape blade to drive a dynamo, which was taken from used car. The output was connected to lead acid battery. The generator will run full day, and after sunset, the lead acid battery was connected to an inverter, which brings the voltage to up 220v for proper operation of TV. I have not examined the dynamo gears, my guess is, it would not be complicated. When I was there, most of the fans i saw was turning. I thought every family there should have one installed.

    The people there had some kind of tent that i have not seen elsewhere. The tent was erected with just one pole, like six feet long. Then there was a shorter horizontal bar, together it form a structure in a letter 'T'. The tent itself was make of thin flour sac, it was nailed to the ground to maintain the balance of the center pole. It is some kind of minimalist design.

  10. Re:If it doesn't work... on 'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors · · Score: 1

    http://www.northernwatchdog.com/Religion/antichrist/jesuits/wtc2.jpg

    flame, and no flame.

    Strike iron while it is hot.

  11. Re:If it doesn't work... on 'Super Steel' Sought For Fusion Reactors · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, this is could be.

    The Twin Tower is built like a metal tube. So if it fails, it should fail in dignity, fail like a metal tube. But on that mighty day, PUFF (note: not flame). A metal tube turned into a pile of crackers.

    Hell, tensile strength, bending moment, grain boundary, finite element... all thrown out of the window, because it was hit by black magic.

    Where is my toad?

  12. Re:Reality Check on Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries · · Score: 1

    From TFA, the cost of bandwidth could come down 95%, so that means new price can be $100 / month. I just wonder where they can find 3bn customers who can afford this amount.

  13. Re:clarifying on Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries · · Score: 1

    I guess the satellite dish connects to a small town and relay through wireless means such as http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/

    In that case, there might be fund raising campaigns for a few containers of Chinese parabolic cookware and wifi dongles.

  14. Re:Mercury free LEDs on 24 Hour Laptops From HP? · · Score: 1

    Just wonder if any manufacturer comes up with a detector on eye-ball, so it tracks where you are focusing your eyes at. And then turn on the white LED in that area of the screen. So when your eyes are off the screen, all LED turned off to save power. And when you are looking at the upper half of the screen, only the upper half is on.

  15. Re:Not quite on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    People think it is noon time at 12. Well, almost.
    This is a small chart of our local time when the sun is at the highest point:
    Jan 1, 12:27
    Feb 1, 12:37
    Mar 1, 12:36
    Apr 1, 12:27
    May 1, 12:21
    Jun 1, 12:21
    Jul 1, 12:27
    Aug 1, 12:30
    Sep 1, 12:23
    Oct 1, 12:13
    Nov 1, 12:07
    Dec 1, 12:13

    It is actually changing everyday.

  16. Re:Where's the fire? on China Sets Sights On Rail Record · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are 21 stops along the Beijing - Shanghai line, over 10 of the stops running through a city with population over 1,000,000. By 2012 it is expected to carry 1000-1200 passengers on each train. There should be over 100 trains departing daily. During peak hour, as often as 3 minutes per train will leave the station. Annual capacity one way will likely reach 80mil each year. Estimated ticket price is under US$100. Whole trip will take more than 5 hours.

    The current environmental issue is the chronic sufferings of the Homo Sapiens within the train. The train system in use is now running 4 times above the average capacity.

  17. Re:Don't jump to conclusions on Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police · · Score: 1

    Not sure why Putin picked the Olympics opening date to strike Georgia when he was busy watching the show. The timing is a little off here.

  18. Re:future of perl? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perl 5 is a glue, perl 6 will be a super glue. Perl 6 can glue together much wider range of codes, which of course, including perl 5.

  19. Re:future of perl? on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    The difference is, it will be much easier to write a python in perl 6 then a perl 6 in python.

  20. Re:You've GOT to be kidding! on NIST Releases Report On WTC 7 Collapse · · Score: 1

    The building was down in hours, so it should not be hard job to do it again. May be people should build a 1/4 size model and ask these NIST professional to repeat the collapse one more time. My guess is, they have to burn it for a month.

  21. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Mimicking Photosynthesis To Split Water · · Score: -1, Troll

    30 years? No, true green energy system has arrived. Convert you car into a compressed air vehicle. Buy an ox or two. Set up rotary air compressor so it could be driven by the ox. Buy some grass. Or may be an iPod too, which might promote the efficiency.

  22. Re:What did the IOC plan? on YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video · · Score: 1

    The point is, WTF does the Olympics do with the Tibetans. That is the question. If the pro-Tibetans movement want to protest, it is the Chinese government. Not the Olympics. If they are after the Olympics for some free publicity, fine. Just look at the effect of their action. Could you find their banner drawing any supporter. Sorry, there isn't much. And if they want people's attention, they should have known that other ethnic groups such as the Manchus, Mongols, Muslim and other minorities also suffered during the Cultural revolution. The banner should be written as 'FREE CHINA' instead of 'FREE TIBET'. The remaining question of why the Tibetans are way behind their fellow citizens in other parts of the country. May be you should study more.

  23. Re:What did the IOC plan? on YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video · · Score: 1

    So in the same line of argument, Nike, Gucci, Apple, Microsoft, HP, Coca Cola, MacDonalds, ..... should be slapped in the face because "they are shifting attention away from the great vices of the Chinese government, paint them as happy friendly internationally welcoming country" too. Chinese should put on rubber shoes, dress in dark cloths, use only abacus, drink chinese tea and eat only chow mien ....

    The questions why just pick on IOC. Not anyone else?

  24. Re:What did the IOC plan? on YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video · · Score: 1

    I don't quite understand the relation between the Tibetans and the Olympics. It is just a sports event and it has only 1/200 Chinese element in it, among the 200+ nations. The game will last about 10 more days. So after that are we going to see, Nike, G.M., MacDonald, Rolex, Gucci, Kentucky chicken etc... protest along with their Lion flag? If they are after the Chinese govt, why drag with the Olympics.

  25. Re:What did the IOC plan? on YouTube Stands Up To IOC Over Free Tibet Video · · Score: 1

    People only noticed the fake big-foot, little did they know China is a fake-communist country.