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  1. Where's the grip? on Making Quieter Highways · · Score: 1
    Rubber + water + rubber = Slip.

    Granted, in the dry it will have good grip.

  2. Re:I want a mouse with eraser head on New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways · · Score: 1

    get an IBM mouse that comes with their PC line, it's just as you want...

  3. Man Conquers Space on Celebrating the Mars Encounter with a DVD? · · Score: 3, Informative
    This is Under 10 material, but its good for adults too...

    Mars Mission Docco

    btw: I'm an extra in it ;)

  4. water in time on A Water Molecule's Chemical Formula Isn't Really H20 · · Score: 1

    is now H2O.99999999

  5. Re:but our server is in San Diego :) on The Thermal Paste Revolution · · Score: 1

    So posting a story to /. is what? testing the fixes?

  6. Re:As a guy on Female Gamer Talks Girl Gaming · · Score: 1

    My 8yr old daughter loves the sims, but do you think I can get her to get ready for school in the morning on time or clean up without being asked or ... ;)

  7. Systems problems? on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    If your users (readers) need the google cache then there are system problems. Either the technical systems are inadequate (yay slashdot) or your business systems are inadequate (or both). Tech is easy, and so are business systems. Well at least the ones you want simple every-day folks to use...

  8. Treat the cause not the symptoms on Installing Halon Fire Supression System at Home? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Forget fire control for a moment, you have a construction material and/or site layout/placement problems.

    If you are building in a fire prone area consider partially or majorly covering the building in earth. (A side benefit is your heating energy provider will hate you.) If the fire was an "accident" then you most definetly have a materials problem. Wood, while very attractive and cheap to buy & work with, is fuel. eg: Would you use compressed "fire retarded" straw or paper as a building material? (I wouldn't) It is supposed to be more fire-resistant than wood.!?

    Consider naturally inert and fire resistant materials like concrete & bricks.

    Then high risk/expense/maintainance fire suppression systems like halon become pointless. Ordinary smoke detectors can then be sufficient.

    Using halon is such overkill and may even accidentally kill one of you loved ones. It's like having loaded 9mm handguns at convienent, accessable places around the (wood & paper) house to combat a roach problem when all you had to do was clean up your filth.

  9. why Porche of course ;) on Apple-Quality Intel Laptops? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.vprmatrix.com/products_notebook_200A5.a sp

  10. Much of a muchness on SOCOM Online Cheats Ruin Experience · · Score: 1
    I don't know which I find more unappealing - FPS on a gamepad/console or online games with no mechanism for patches and anti-cheats..

    So when you add them together I get- WTF!!!

  11. Call me callow... on Biblically Themed RPG Discussed · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'm more of a 6-week-Roman-orgy & throwing-christians-to-the-lions kind of guy. I guess I won't be Jesus either... but hey - who wants to (relive) wander(ing) around in the desert with a bunch of nerds...

  12. Wet Blanket? on Michael Michael On PomPom Shmups · · Score: 1
    Miles Visman must be one!

    After all he could have changed his name to Miles Miles for the good of the ....

  13. I Love it but... on Build Your Own Boeing 737 Simulator · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Instead of the lame little (even at 21inch) CRT, why not get a reasonable LCD projector and a screen a few feet in front of the beast and look out the windscreen at it? Like they do with some real simulators...

  14. Hello I'm John, on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 0

    but my call center name is Sanjay...

  15. Re:Can the Matrix simulate independent thought? on The Computational Requirements for the Matrix · · Score: 0
    "then how is it the humans inside the matrix are capable of independent thought? "

    think of it like a buffer overflow... that the pill causes.....

  16. Re:Intel's Not Out Yet on Transmeta OK'd for Mira Displays · · Score: 1

    Indeed, even if the centrino proves all the PentiumIII v Pentium4 "trolls" right all along ;)

  17. ob. Simpsons Reference on LED Book-Light Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Informative
  18. Re:eh on Battlefield 1942 - Secret Weapons Interview · · Score: 1
    It might be just you. I get pegged by snipers running. I can pick the lead by which you snipe a moving target (with any of the rifles), it's just that it takes 3 hits (or more) to kill. You're a sniper & you're aiming at the chest? that's why you "miss" all the time, go for the head! One shot no prob! Sniping in DoD is too easy...

    2tuff2care

  19. Re:There are easier ways on Build Your Own PCB Milling Machine · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You may be missing the point, he machine's turn-around-time is 1 hour(ish) the best you can get is 1 day from the fab co's. Secondly @$80 a board you will quickly pay for the milling machine, if you have need for it. I like it because @ 1:00am when I'm ready to do the board - I can... and how many things geek are done "because I can"?

    Granted it's only double sided - but at that it's wonderful. Wow, no more chemicals! I've always-forever wanted one of these but the pro milling machines are out of my league.

  20. Re:PHP Is *not* an application server on Introduction to PHP5 · · Score: 1
    but if you have a database you could employ a technique for clustering sessions via a database no? so as usual 'best practices' depends on knowing what you are doing...

    UPDATE application_variables SET value='bulshit' WHERE id=1

  21. Re:Strange, but... on Dvorak Thinks Apple Will Switch to Intel · · Score: 1
    "I can't possibly understand how a switch to intel processors can possibly benefit Apple..."

    I can think of two off the to of my head.

    1) Doing a win32 Layer (wine style, with no real windows install) would be much easier. Imagine running any win32 or mac software transparently and at FULL speed on ya mac.

    2) A $400 mac....

    But I can see the main reason not to would be something like:
    The killer: Take into consideration processor/OS speed. A x86 running win2000 is generally faster than the same box running RHx. Given that Yellow Dog is a RH variant and that YD runs generally faster than OSX on the same hardware, you could deduce that OSX on x86 will run way slower than win2000. Ouch!

  22. Re:Not everyone distributes that way on Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fair enough in principle, but what unique features & goodies are there in safari? Is it not "just a wrapper" to WebCore?

  23. Re:Defying the UN on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1
    It does NOT logically or legally follow that the "Alliance" may take it upon it self at any time to act without the sanction of the UN.

    Today just marks the day when Sep-11 tradgies occur frequently.

  24. Leonitis? or just Leon on Speeding up Evolution · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So if after all the hype dies down and it does some "unforseen" things, will the condition be known as Leonitis, or will you just be Leon(d)?

  25. Re:King of the Hill! on Europe Heads for the Moon in July · · Score: 1
    "there is a high chance you don't know what the Iraqi flag looks like."

    I do - but only from playing BF1942 Desert Combat....