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  1. No the other Steve on Who is Your Hero, Gates or Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Wozniak.

  2. Re:None have AM radio on MP3 Player Shoppers Guide · · Score: 1

    Plenty of models have FM radio but what's so hard about AM?

    It the antenna requirements for AM that prevent it. For the FM band it is possible to use the headset wires as an antenna. That isn't possible for the AM bands. What's the smallest AM/FM portable radio you've seen without an external antenna? AM requires a bulky ferrite antenna that isn't size friendly for this small players. This is the same reason that cell phones have FM, but not AM radio reception.

  3. Re:Full disclosure? on Hackers Forced Announcement of 10th Planet Find · · Score: 1

    First, the existence of a tenth planet is not time critical. A tenth planet has been postulated to exist for many years, but without corraboration from direct observations. Moreover, fame and fortune are not made from this type of discovery.

    Second, the paranoia of "Who knows what else could be kept back from the scientific community until its observer deems it 'impressive' enough to release" is BS. Any ethical scientist will publish data once they are convinced they know what they are talking about. It is rare that a discovery in any science is made by a single research group. New publications are always a race against some other group publishing first and your data becoming irrelevent.

    Third, a full analysis is what the Cold Fusion or the Polywater folks should have done before they announced these great discoveries and destroyed their reputations as researchers.

    Raw data shouldn't be released without a distinct understanding of its meaning. It's the difference between saying 'Dihydrogen monoxide will kill you' and 'You can drown in water.'

  4. Re:Billing rates are going up!!!! on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1

    How about we have our 'puters set for GMT? This is standard practice if you are required to manage devices across time zones. It does wonders for the admin's sanity. You don't need to know "is it tomorrow or today or yesterday?" and "if the server is five time zones away, what time should it be there?" anymore.

  5. Run away!!! on Open-source Licensing: BSD or GPL? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Next on Slashdot: vi versus emacs

  6. Netbotz on Server Room Temp Monitoring and Notifications? · · Score: 1

    Out of the box monitoring for everything including an equipment cabinet door being openned.

    http://www.netbotz.com/

  7. It's obvious on Poor Man's Kinesis Keyboard: The K'nexis Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Keyboard manufacturers are VI users...

  8. GnuMP3d on Organizing MP3s and Other File Collections? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you always have network access to a server, drop your music files on the server and point GnuMP3d at the directories. GnuMP3d has ACLs and password moderated accesss.

  9. Two words on Crack Found in Shuttle Tank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duct tape...

  10. Two words on A Home-Made Power Supply that Lasts 1000 Years? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nuclear.

  11. Cooling?? on Cooling a Digital Camera? · · Score: 1, Informative

    30-50 degrees Celsius is above room temperature (~22 deg C). I highly doubt that your lab has an ambient temperature above 50 deg C. Fahrenheit temperatures don't any sense either, because you would begin to condense water vapor on the camera in the 30-50 deg F ranges as well.

    Would you like to re-write the question so it actually makes sense?

  12. PJ is right on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    PJ (from Groklaw) is right in predicting that Microsoft is gathering ammunition (re patents) to take on the Linux distributions. At the moment it seems to be the only manner in which they will be able to hold onto the desktop market in the long term.

  13. What's the search bot's name? on Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I'll deny it access to my site. If it pays attention to the robots.txt file, let's just starve it of information for its database.

  14. Re:PC weather tools on The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet · · Score: 1

    Weather watcher (Windows only) from http://www.singerscreations.com/

  15. Well.... on Where Can I find Sources for Learning LaTex? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Start at the LaTeX project site.

    Go buy Leslie Lamport's "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System" book.

    Take a look at the Indian TeX Users Group's LaTeX tutorial.

    Then read Tobias Oetiker's "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e"

    If you need a quick start then start using Lyx and their Tips and Tricks section.

  16. Re:Another liquid that won't get things wet: on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 1

    This is what the structure looks, based on the name, like if anyone is interested.

    F
    |
    F F O F-C-F F
    | | " | |
    F-C---C---C---C---C--F
    | | | |
    F F F F

    No wonder it doesn't wet anything with all those fluorines on the structure!!

  17. Re:The best macro program is... on Open Source Macro Programs? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse me, I almost swallowed my tongue while reading this comment.

  18. Why not ... on Forums for Windows Admins? · · Score: 1

    Start your own forum. It worked for Slashdot, it might work for you.

  19. Re:Sodium hypochlorite would be safer on Safer Means Of Disposing Of Mad Cows · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nice try but wrong. Sodium hydroxide is a strong base and as such it will completely dissociate to water and the counter-ions when the solution is neutralized for disposal. All strongly acidic or basic waste must be neutralized for disposal. Once it is neutralized, the waste is only hazardous with respect to the remaining organic material.

    The [balanced] reaction is:
    NaOH + HCl ----> H2O + Na+ + Cl-

    Sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl, also a strong base) has a lower pKa than sodium hydroxide and would require more to be as effective as the sodium hydroxide solution while still requiring the resulting solution to be neutralized.

    Another consideration is how concentrated of a solution can be consituted. Higher concentrations allow for less solution to do more. Sodium hydroxide saturates around 11-12 mol/liter and potassium hydroxide saturates around 14 mol/liter.

    Additionaly, once the base cleaves the peptide bond, the later neutralization of the solution will not reconstitute the peptide bond.

    The crap in your drain is not bulk muscle, nerve, or bone tissue. Unless you are a serial killer. The strong caustic is necessary to effectively dissolve the infected tissue.

  20. Scouring of the Shire (small spoiler) on Saruman Completely Cut from 'Return of the King' · · Score: 1

    The return of Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin to the Shire is a slow, but necessary part of the end of the trilogy. Despite the attempts by people to find analogies in it ("it symbolizes the spread of socialism in Europe after World War II"), it shows the aftermath of a large conflict and how the hobbits must fight to reclaim their homes.

    I doubted that Peter Jackson would include much, if any, of Book Six. Without showing the final destruction of Saruman and Wormtongue, it leaves a few loose storylines in the movie.

  21. Terminal Compromise on Radiofrequency Weapons · · Score: 1

    This was one of the infrastructure attack methods used in 'Terminal Compromise'. It's the information technology world's version of the neutron bomb.

  22. Re:What about the X prize on Orbital Space Plane Problems · · Score: 1

    and the X-prize has no docking requirement. Remember that orbital docking was a major goal of the Gemini program.

  23. Re:What about a license plate cloaking device? on Turning a Blind Eye to Big Brother · · Score: 1

    In California you are required to have front and rear license plates and neither one can be covered with even a transparent cover.

  24. Re:$480M vs $67M on Music Industry Pays $67M Fine For Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    So, they won't show this as a loss due to P2P on their annual reports?

  25. Made for parties on Discarded AT&T Microwave Bunkers For Sale · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just fill the microwave horn with popcorn and fire-up that 60kW generator.