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  1. american view on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Even if these numbers are too large, this still makes you think about how inefficient our cars are.

    No, i like to think of it as:


    Even if these numbers are too large, this still makes you think about how inefficient the gasoline production is.

  2. Re:Yes on Closest Asteroid Yet Flies Past Earth · · Score: 1

    ..when the clock strikes 5pm and its a friday afternoon..... geez, geeks of today......

  3. Re:Couple of questions on China Prepares To Examine MS Windows Code · · Score: 1

    What is to prevent China from looking at the Windows Source, and then taking the good parts out and inserting them into Linux

    the lack of good parts?

  4. yes yes yes, but the important thing is... on Microsoft to Build High School in Philadelphia, PA · · Score: 1

    ...will it run linux?

    *ducks for cover*

  5. Re:Now that... on New Theory on Water Strider Propulsion · · Score: 1

    ..no its a spoon

    I see you've played bug-gy spoony before!

  6. this could revolutionize.. on Hyperion Rover, 1 km On One Command · · Score: 1

    ...the drug smuggling industry!

    consider this: outfit an old boat with enough fuel for a journey from amsterdam to england, a computer controlled engine/rudder and a GPS system.

    load up with you're preffered narcotic, aim for home and wait a few days.

    i need a boat and £5000!

  7. Re:Look Out! on How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..maybe you should learn to wipe better...

  8. styling (or lack of...) on Microsoft SPOT Watches · · Score: 1

    i'm thinking that maybe they should change the name to SPOD, given the style of these mock-ups..

  9. Re:Interesting, but... on Smart Bricks to Monitor Buildings of the Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did you think of the possibility of embedding wireless thermometers/motion sensors/microphones in them so that in the event of a building collaps, you have a small sensor network listening for signs of life?


    I'm claiming prior art on this one.

  10. madness on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 1

    so if i put my mobile phone back in its box, am i breaking the law?

    If hide me TV under a blanket (or, say, tin-foil), am i breaking the law?

  11. oh dear... on Web Enabled Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Funny

    kind of misread that as

    'WEP enabled spacecraft '

    I can imagine loads of script kiddies aiming Pringles cans into the sky....

  12. cool on Streaming RealAudio From a Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    i bought an old zx spectrum the other day, hoping to write some funky stuff with it. Only problem being that it chucks complete crap onto the screen and doesnt work. ah well.

    guess its going the same way as my c64 did, drill a few holes, mount some skateboard trucks and bam! off to the half pipe!

  13. beware.. on Linux-based Digital Audio Player with Ogg · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    its got linux on it!
    it uses an esoteric file format!
    it looks like a pc!

    you can almost hear the sound of a million slashdotters unzipping their flies for this

  14. Re:Already in UK on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 1

    they sell them in WH Smiths in London bridge station. Although just around the corner is a coffee republic and other nice coffee places (theres an AMT espresso place hidden in the station too, much mch better).
    my brothers culinary opinion of these cans was somewhere along the lines of "this tastes like warm ass"

  15. this research.. on Crappy Passwords Very Common · · Score: 1

    ..was conducted in the university I go to. In face, Helen Petrie is my lecturer for the HCI module.

    i see this research is as useful as the module thats taught...

  16. isn't this.. on Windows XP is Listening · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..a bit like what our brains do when we dream? I read somewhere that dreams are our brains trying to find patterns in all the random things we see/do.
    winxp is dreaming, ie trying to find patterns in data its receiving.

  17. this'd make a sweet virus on Windows XP is Listening · · Score: 1

    i think this is the next "i love you" virus. I'd be more than happy to be infected by this :)

  18. new slogan on AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Americans On Linux

    substitute Assholes for americans where you see fit..

  19. as with all IT things on Designing a More User-Friendly DRM · · Score: 1

    as with all complicated IT things, user friendliness = non-existant.

  20. it has to be said.. on Amazon & Barnes and Noble Settle One-Click Dispute · · Score: 1

    .. what a fscking waste of time/money. does this now mean that all online shops will require more than one click to order things?

  21. must be.. on Movie Industry Cries All the Way to the Bank · · Score: 1

    ..all the people with camcorders. see? piracy does help the industry

  22. what happens.. on Augmented Reality: Enhanced Perception · · Score: 1

    ..when a script kiddie h4x0rs youre wearable?

    me : hey there, fancy going for a drink
    her : sure, just wait a sec..
    BEEP BEEP
    her : OH MY GOD, THATS DISGUSTING **runs away**


    finally, someone to blame for low pulling power!

  23. possible commercial names for this device.. on Augmented Reality: Enhanced Perception · · Score: 1

    .. well, it takes some input
    searches for something based on that input
    displays some results from the search
    hmmmmmmm
    Googles anyone?
    i'll shut up now.

  24. Re:AntiHydrogen atom? on Antimatter Atoms Captured · · Score: 1

    (i'm not a physicist btw) i wonder if theres any way that a chain reaction could be set up to create antimatter from an antimatter explosion? would this mean the end for all matter?

  25. Re:Very Beta on Functional Languages Under .NET/CLR · · Score: 1

    At this point it is still an alpha-quality release; it's hard to install, there are still many parts of the standard library which are not yet implemented for this port, it's not well tested, not yet efficient, and undergoing continual change in our development snapshots...

    And this is different from a microsoft release, how?
    boy, i love microsoft.