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  1. Jetstream on 64kbps @ 40,000 ft. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, I heard that the 64kbps is the net of the 56kbps you get going west against the jetstream over the Pacific and 72kbps going with.

  2. Re:Fishy on Camera Meets Speedometer, Travel Across Country Together · · Score: 1

    Uh, either you're just having a bad eye day, or you've uncovered an intricately woven, international conspiracy movement in based in West Jefferson, Ohio to hike up the demand for gasoline and oil changes.

    Either way, it's too late because they've changed the pictures and now you'll be written off as a delusional conspiracy theorist. Only you will have ever known...

    Anyways, time to put my Red Nissa Micra in the garage for awhile.

  3. Technomotive on Hack Your Ignition (Before Someone Else Does) · · Score: 1

    There's a company called Technomotive that does ECU upgrades for the Talon/Eclipse/Laser trio of cars. What makes them different is that their upgrade "Stages" include an ECU lockout that prevents starting the car until a certain pedal combination is pressed, using the factory boost gauge for O2 sensor read-outs/injector duty cycle/spark advance among other things, removal of ECU imposed limits. The coolest mod of all, a "stutterbox" that lets you floor the car at the drag strip line and limit your revs to your optimal launch point. When you pop out the clutch the stutterbox is disengaged, your revs are unleashed and you launch like a bat out of hell. The guy(s) behind the company started it as a total hobby, dumping ECU instructions, etc, and ended up building a laptop-based data logger that can capture/control all of the engine's inputs and outputs. The website for the Talon/Eclipse/Lasers is at DSM.org and is one of the first that I know of that used MySQL and modperl.

  4. Am I missing something? on Should Open Source Software Expire? · · Score: 1

    How do you force open source software to do anything?

  5. Crap... on April Fools Wrap Up · · Score: 1

    I missed out on the free mod points.

  6. Sneaky on Practical Quantum Cryptography · · Score: 1

    Are those spelling mistakes OCR typos or a secret embedded message? Oh well, noticed it now, I guess the gig is up.

  7. Where's Ballmer's cheer? on Corporate Anthems Go Corporate · · Score: 1

    *voice hoarse, sweat flinging to the end of the audience*

    DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!

  8. Re:Interesting but... on NASA Still Trying to Verify Anti-Gravity Claims · · Score: 1

    Not really... If the electricity generated by the spinning axle was equal to or greater than the electricity put into spinning the magnet then we'd be headed somewhere.

  9. Re:that's not bad on North Pole is Leaving Canada · · Score: 1

    Quick question: Why do the fields fade to zero? Aren't the magnetic fields a result of the movement of iron within the core? Won't the poles simply move relative to one another until south is north and north is south? Once the fields cancel themselves out, how do they ever "recover"?

  10. How about... on Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield · · Score: 1

    Get two high-quality sound cards (A and B) and patch the output of A the the input of B. Play CD and record B to WAV. Convert to MP3. Enjoy as desired, repeat as required.