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  1. Re:Not News on Methane Bubbles Could Sink Ships · · Score: 1

    This has even been mentioned on Discovery channel and similar venues for quite some time. I like how such a concept can be considered so novel when it's been all over Cable for years.

  2. Re:What about the Tengo? on The World's Fastest Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Try TANGO.

    It matters when you're trying to search for the wrong car name.

    http://commutercars.com/specifications.html

    Also the Tzero is slower than the gas powered version of the same car which was powered by a motorcycle engine.

    I can dig up the info if anyone wants.

  3. Re:"Not available in your country" on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    Use an ip address that is not within your country but within the states.

    Email me at zavpublic at mac.com and I'll let you use one off mine.

  4. Re:Missing the point on Could 'Fire Paste' Replace Shuttle Tiles? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we wouldn't want the shuttle flying through a cloud now would we?

    Maybe he should add some PTFE for waterproofing.

    Oh wait, that's flammable.

  5. I see a joint project... on Could 'Fire Paste' Replace Shuttle Tiles? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd like to see a bear suit coated with fire paste.

    This would solve the problem of those nasty flaming bears that attack me all too often.

    This would be great around the office.

  6. NO NO NO! on Skittlebrau · · Score: 4, Funny

    One must inject the brau into the skittle! First one must remove a small amount of skittle or inflate the hard candy shell. 5 seconds in a microwave will make it pliable.

    Then one must carefully inject 3 skittles witl alcohol untill failure is achieved.

    Failure = leakage.

    Heat a spoon or knife on the stove and inject skittles with less alcoholic vitriol. With a heat resistant glove, place the knife or spoon on the edge of the skittle where you removed the needle, thereby sealing the skittle.

    Repeat 10 times per guest. You can't eat just one.

  7. Re:Coincidence? on Spam Slows Australian Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    I have been getting Viagra spam every day over the past two weeks from a box located in AU that is hard to traceroute.

    It appears to be ending in two locations in AU and is at botterhosting.com

  8. Re:Airhorns? on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 1

    Sigh, yes, I know. But isn't it the thought that counts?

  9. Constructive idea. on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 1

    Those telemarketers who call you are taking your time and annoying you.

    None of us has the time to go through the legal process and then waiting to collect.

    Nothing satisfies as much as causing physical harm to your opressor.

    Get one of those compressed gas air horns people use at baseball games and the next time you get a call, talk to them and then blast the horn in the mouthpiece and see if you can make them deaf in one ear.

  10. Re:No calls today on Successful Do-Not-Call Complaints? · · Score: 1

    On a call a few years ago, we asked if the caller had any information about Satanism.

  11. Repost on Element 110 Now Darmstadtium · · Score: 0

    Yet another news article that has already been posted on /.

    August 15th to be precise.

    Posted by simoniker on Friday August 15, @03:38AM
    from the soda-company-to-sponsor-pepsium dept.
    An anonymous reader writes "According to Nature Magazine, chemists will vote in Ottawa, Canada this week, and are expected to approve the chemical element 110's informal moniker, 'darmstadtium', and give it the chemical symbol Ds. The title honors the Laboratory for Heavy Ion Research (called GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany, where the substance was first made. It seems that 'disputes over claimed sightings of new elements have [previously] led to acrimonious and nationalistic battles over naming', but not in this case."

  12. Re:Ever get that on SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony' · · Score: 1

    I must agree that you have stated the exact points going through my head so eloquently it hurts.

    Next to the Polish spammers, here are the next people on my "Must kill when I get some gree time" list.

  13. Re:This is 2 and a half years late. on Sonic the Brain Chemical · · Score: 1

    Actually, reports on the gene go back to Jan '97!

    more articles:

    http://search.eurekalert.org/e3/query.html?col=e v3 rel&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=ev3rel&pw=100%25&ws=0&la=&si=1 &fs=&qt=sonic%2Bhedgehog&ex=&rq=0&oq=&qm=0&ql=&st= 11&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1

  14. This is 2 and a half years late. on Sonic the Brain Chemical · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sonic was mentioned on the 8th of March, 2001.

    And it's called Sonic Hedgehog, not Sonic THE Hedgehog.

    http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-03/U oC M-SHst-0803101.php

  15. Re:The more I think about it...... on SendMail CTO Sounds Off On Spam and FTC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or we could pool our money and hire a hit man to have them killed.

    Just one at a time. Let's start with Eddie Marin.

  16. FINALLY! on Spoofed From: Prevention · · Score: 1

    As long as this is NOT queriable, we may have something.

    In short, spammers should NOTbe able to query what vlaig entries should be.

    Spammers find wayhs around protection, we should be paranoid and put up barriers to prevent what might be possible.

  17. Re:Just installed it... on Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update, Take Two · · Score: 1

    re: rebooting, why is it that after I reboot, I generally get 500 MEG back on my hard drive 1G TI. Is the garbage collection that slow to reclaim swapdisk space on OS X or what? Anyone know what is going on?

  18. DANGER Will Robinson on Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update, Take Two · · Score: 1

    Not all is well. On my 1G Ti, Friday's 10.2.8 changed all the icons on my PDFs - even those with custom icons - to Adobe icons. It also changed the owner of my Eudora settings files to Spark ME.

    Don't know what else is wrong but that's not nice.

    Tards.

  19. Re:On solving Shroedinger's cat. on Schrodinger's Cat Closer To Reality? · · Score: 1

    After a nice little New Scientist search, I see evidence that quantum states can be determined by observation of what they affect without influencing their state. Soooo, I just might be right in the case below.

    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9 99 93384

    "Jian-Wei Pan and colleagues from Anton Zeilinger's group at the University of Vienna had already shown that, in theory, teleportation can be confirmed by monitoring the outcome of the interaction that teleports the qubit. If both photons are detected as expected, it is safe to assume that the quantum state has been teleported."

  20. Gee.. on Scientists Discover Why the Cookie Crumbles · · Score: 1

    Gee, this sounds mind blowing.

    Next thing they'll tell you is that they have discovered that this is similar to why drying mud cracks.

    I feel a Princess Bride flashback coming on...
    "Plato, Socrates, Aristotle... Morons."

    How can something so obvious be counted as a new discovery? What IS wrong with kids these days?

  21. On solving Shroedinger's cat. on Schrodinger's Cat Closer To Reality? · · Score: 1

    It's amazing that people haven't figured this out already.

    If the rules state that you can not directly observe the cat, then you indirectly observe the cat.

    You observe byproducts or effects of the cat. Observing the things that the cat influences - be it live or dead will tell you the state of the cat.

    Sooo, in a stretch, it is possible to get closer to that which Shroedinger and Heisenberg stated were not possible.

  22. Re:The group must be a conservative "think" tank.. on CCAGW Misreads Mass. Policy, Open Standards Generally · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig # 1 speaks to me.

  23. Too bad... on How To Add An External Antenna To AirPort Base Station · · Score: 1

    That this guy doesn't know how to spell. You can't drill a whole in anything. You drill a hole.

  24. Re:All I want to know is. . . on Interview With a Spammer · · Score: 1

    Why don't we have the balls to take this bastard out?

    A few executions will get the message across.

  25. Re:Ginko Biloba is 200 millions years old on Jurassic Plants Make A Comeback · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you go to The San Francisco Golden Gate Park or New Zealand, you will see tree ferns. These are ferns that are as high as some trees.

    But I think the fuss is that this creature did not evolve for 150 million + years. It is a window back that many million years. Also, this creature is a tree. That's quite uncommon.

    And there are a few other very old and unique trees in that vein in New Zealand. Google for Native New Zealand Trees