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  1. Re:Fritz Haber on 100 Years of Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    And he developed nitrogen fixing for it's use in gunpowder and other munitions. The fertilizer use boomed when companies needed a use for all of their left over nitrates from WWI.

  2. Expert tribunal? on Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System · · Score: 1

    They tried expert tribunals. They're called "settlement talks". They didn't work, so it went to jury.

  3. Re:Point of failure on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And your system was totally rebuilt after WWII. Ours has just been "maintained" by the "if it's not broken don't touch it" scheme since Edison.

  4. Re:Why would they expect Gates Foundation funding? on Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the US we think 100 years is a long time.

    In England they think that 100 miles is a long way to drive.

  5. Don't want to distribute through the Apple Store? on An App Store For iPhone Software · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised I haven't seen this suggestion, especially on Slashdot. Go open source! If you don't want to distribute your compiled application through the Apple Store, simply make your application source available for download elsewhere. Granted, anyone who wants to use it will need a $99 SDK to compile it, but if they already have the money for an iPhone and a computer and an internet connection... Go open source and you can bypass the Apple Store

  6. "White" sensor? on Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters · · Score: 1

    It'd be interesting to see the algorithm for that sensor. The color values of the adjacent pixels are going to have to be taken into account. A bare photoelectric sensor will provide a higher voltage for higher frequencies of light. To a "white" sensor, a blue photon looks brighter than a red one.

    More complexity for RAW filters.

  7. Re:Heathen on Has Cosmology Been Solved? · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean Saturday?

  8. Hexies on Cassini Probes the Hexagon On Saturn · · Score: 1

    It's the hexies from Saturnalia.

  9. Re:Her notebooks are horrifying. on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There's also a song about it.
    Madame Curie's Hands

    Copyright ©1987 Duane Elms- All Rights Reserved
    Lyrics posted by permission of the author
    Tune: Leader of the Band, © Dan Fogelberg

    A young and headstrong lady, was Madame Marie Curie,
    And radiation was the field she studied selflessly.
    She didn't know the dangers, as she worked long nights alone,
    And spent her health to open up the secrets of the stone.
    Rest of lyrics here.
  10. Re:This is absolutely right. -- Is it? on Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? · · Score: 1

    Then there's Speakeasy which actually makes it easy to resell your internet connection to anyone within range.

  11. Re:They're mostly Windows users, too on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have memory leaks on my Macintosh OS X 10.4 system.

  12. Re:Similar to a proposed "solution" to nuclear war on Combatting Global Warming With Artificial Volcanos? · · Score: 1

    Even the geosynchronous orbits aren't stable, all communication satellites need occasional nudges from station keeping thrusters. The Lagrange points are the only places for stable orbits in the Earth-Moon system.

  13. Re:They'll have trouble with the name iTV in the U on Apple Announces iTunes 7, Movies, Set-Top Box · · Score: 1

    I'll be very surprised if iTV isn't released at or before the MacWorld Expo in January.

  14. Re:Bring back ushers on Theaters Unhappy About Faster DVD Releases · · Score: 1

    I'm just recalling Firefly's Shepherd Book talking about the "special hell reserved for people who talk in theaters."

  15. Re:(Don't) Call Your Congressman! on The Pirate Bay is Here to Stay? · · Score: 1
    ...but would say that to the average 50-60-70-80 year old, intellectual property is not a big issue.

    If you ask them what about "intellectual property", it's not a big deal. However, anything that affects their television watching is very important to a large section of the older population. Tell your grandparents that the broadcast flag will prevent them from taping shows and they will write their congressmen.

  16. And in more local news... on Konica Minolta Quits Photography Market · · Score: 5, Funny

    Film is dead. Digital at 11.

  17. Re:Name? on Google PC to Hit Walmart? · · Score: 1
    What OS will it run? GNU of course! - Google's Not Unix.

    Gnoogle? Or maybe GnuGL?

  18. Re:Details on Apple Unveils New Pro Products · · Score: 4, Funny
    I can't help but notice the omission of "faster processor" there, is there really no boost in speed? Yikes!

    No, the Yikes PowerMac was the original 400MHz G4 Powermac revealed in August 1999.

    ;)

  19. Re:Operator Overloading on Apple Unveils New Pro Products · · Score: 1
    "Your problem is that you didn't correctly set the aperture on your G5, which accounts for the bad results in Aperture on your G5. That's because aperture data isn't recorded in the Aperture suite...

    Ah, you haven't looked at the EXIF information. Aperture does capture the aperture.

  20. Wikipedia on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    Could this explain why I can't get to wikipedia today?

  21. Re:The public has never forgiven GM for their Dies on When Hybrids Do (And Don't) Make Sense · · Score: 1

    My 1980 Chevette Diesel got 50-54 mpg and ran fine right up to 130,000 miles when it was unfortunately totalled in an accident.

    I really wish more diesels were available in this country.

  22. Fiber on Web Access Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that the big expense of laying cable is not the cost of the physical cable, but the acquiring the right of way for the cable.

    Couldn't the power companies avoid all of the RF Interference issues just be draping some fiber optic cable along their existing towers?

  23. Re:Kind of related... on Aussie Speed Cameras in Doubt Because of MD5 · · Score: 1

    In Alabama they started to convert from mile markers on the interstate highway to kilometer markers. But when I last drove there (1996) they had only done about 1/4 of the highway. Must have been very confusing for emergency services trying to respond to a particular spot on the highway. Accident at mile marker 95 or kilometer marker 95?

    I don't mind converting to a new system, but don't convert partway and stop!

  24. Re:Stallman was right up to this point ... on Textbooks With EULAs · · Score: 1

    Finally, the success of other free software projects at the university level suggests to me that a free text-book program would be quite welcome. The students would certainly put quite a bit of pressure on the university and its faculty to implement it regardless.

    Anyone know if something like this exists?

    MIT's Open Courseware is a big step in this direction. It includes course descriptions, syllabus, calendar, readings, lecture notes, assignments, and study materials. All available online for free.

  25. Apple releases multiple button mouse. on Apple Releases Multi-Button "Mighty Mouse" · · Score: 1

    Are we sure someone isn't releasing an April Fool's joke a few months late?

    First the switch to Intel and now this. What's next, the return of the Newton?