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  1. Re:I'll believe it... on Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle · · Score: 1

    You need to check your definition cold fusion. Cold fusion has no bearing on whether or not the reaction has reached or surpassed the break even point. It merely refers to the the fact that fusion occurs around room temperature as opposed to millions of degrees normally used.

  2. Re:Indeed not. on Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle · · Score: 1

    Oops! My < key was't firing. Should've previewed. Sorry folks.

  3. Indeed not. on Cold Fusion in a Breadbox Instead of a Bottle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this the first tripe article ever!br>br> No, most of the articles on slashdot are tripe. Yet for some reason we all keep coming back.

  4. Re:Refresher course in cryto theory on DVD Decrypter Author Served With Take-Down Order · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't you think they know this already? The various media concerns are trying to get the TV/DVD player/whatever to be Bob, while casting the consumer in the role of Carol. That's what all the fuss is about.

  5. Re:Replicatiors on Open Source Self-Replicating Robot · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? In the episode where the Asgard trapped them on the planet using the time dilation device, by the time SG-1 arrived on the planet, there was nothing left anywhere but replicator blocks. No plants, no animals, just replicator blocks. The team thought they might go miles deep, as well.

  6. Re:crush those secondary sales. on Apple to Recycle your iPod for Free · · Score: 1

    That explains why there are no used car dealerships on the planet... or used computer shops for that matter.

  7. Re:no surprise... on Morse Coders Beat SMSers · · Score: 1

    Morse code "bugs" have two paddles that move horizontally. The operator pinches the paddles much like people pinch their nose when jumping into a swimming pool. Holding one paddle in produces a series of dots. Holding the other paddle in produces a series of dashes. Pinching both paddles simultaneously produces an alternating dot and dash pattern.

  8. Re:$6 to $10 is a lot of money on Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers? · · Score: 1

    Mmmm... random meat!

    Pay is also an award to how popular you are. Artists like Brittany Spears, for example, don't get paid more because they sing better or harder than others. They can simply draw bigger crowds, and sell more records because of their popularity.

  9. Re:phases on Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris · · Score: 1

    Comments get awarded mod points regardless of who made the comment. Non ACs can get bonus points if their karma is high enough. ACs cannot be issued points to mod with, but non ACs can, again if their karma is high enough.

  10. Image check? on Batteries Becoming Limiting Step For Portable Toys · · Score: 1

    Image check? What image check?

  11. Re:Good job /. editors on Cell phones as Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Dupes... samzenpus... "sames"-enpus... Get it?

  12. Re:The Problem: Batteries don't last long enough. on Batteries Becoming Limiting Step For Portable Toys · · Score: 1

    If you manage to accidentally break open your pacemaker, you've got other things to worry about than slowly poisoning your neighbourhood.

  13. Slashdot bug? on Batteries Becoming Limiting Step For Portable Toys · · Score: 1
    A cure for cancer? By using math? Astounding!

    This shouldn't be so astounding. After all, for many it's already cured insomnia.
    Is there a Slashdot bug that cross-links stories? Here we are talking about nuclear batteries, and days old comments about math and cancer come up. I also recall irrelevant/untraceable references to Cuba coming up in another story.
  14. Email? Try Slashdot! on Email Addiction Runs Rampant · · Score: 4, Funny

    I may check my email 5 times a day, but I check Slashdot 20 or 30 times a day.

  15. Re:Turn off the music on Coming Soon, Roadcasting · · Score: 1

    Of course, that won't work if they are listening to a MP3, CD, cassette tape, or 8-track.

  16. Broadcast? on Coming Soon, Roadcasting · · Score: 1

    What are they going to broadcast? Traffic reports and whining kids?

    "Traffic on Main street approaching Elm is stop-and-go. I can't tell if there is an accident or whether it is just volume because there is a U-Haul van in front of me... Billy! Stop hitting your sister! Wait, we're moving... Nope, we've stopped again... I know, Sally, but the traffic isn't moving... Ok! The U-Haul is turning onto Elm. Rats! There's a Fedex truck. Now I'm behind a Fedex truck... Billy, sit your butt in that seat right this minute!"

  17. Re:Evidence on First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes · · Score: 1

    None of the people on your list are Canadians (expept possibly "that guy who does that thing on that TV commercial"?). Bob Hope and Stan Laurel are British, Arnold Schwarzenneger is Austrian, Yakov Smirnov is Russian, and David Hasselhoff is American.

  18. Re:Evidence on First look at new Battlestar Galactica Episodes · · Score: 1

    Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Jim Carrey, Thomas Chong (of Cheech and Chong), Don Harron (a.k.a: Charlie Farquharson), Phil Hartman, Eugene Levy, Rich Little, Howie Mandel, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Mike Myers, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Steve Smith (a.k.a: Red Green), David Steinberg, Dave Thomas, and a few others may disagree with that survey.

  19. Re:I Still Buy Vinyl on How to Keep Music for Forty Years? · · Score: 1

    Where do you get your songs cut onto vinyl?

  20. Re:Why? on White Knight Testing X-37 · · Score: 1

    NASA has it's own B-52 that is used specifically for drop tests. It is not used for combat.

  21. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali on POV-Ray Competition Winners · · Score: 1

    What the devil are you talking about? There are no trees, leaves, nor shadows of leaves in the picture I linked to. It is a picture of two guys and a car.

  22. Re:The thin line between reality and digital reali on POV-Ray Competition Winners · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know. I think this one is pretty good.

  23. Re:Why? on White Knight Testing X-37 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    *MY* nation is not at war. I don't think it has been officially at war since WW2.

  24. Re:Why? Answer: Cost on White Knight Testing X-37 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I guess the answer is cost.

    "NASA has transferred its X-37 technology demonstration program to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which plans to go ahead with atmospheric drop tests of the prototype space plane next year."

    The B-52 aircraft that NASA normally uses for such drop tests would not be used, a decision made by the agency now in charge of the X-37 program, he said. "The cost analysis favored Scaled Composites," [NASA spokesman Michael] Braukus said.
  25. Re:WTF on PHRACK Final · · Score: 1