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  1. Re:Dark Matter bullshit, admit scientists on Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream · · Score: 1

    Working in conjunction with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Fermilab, they were able to determine most of the universe's galactic sheet structures were aligning themselves with a majob B.S. /dark matter production source, centered in G.W. Bush's voice box.

  2. Re:Windmills, very silly for NY on Alternative Energy Confusion · · Score: 1

    peak use occurs during the day, so no, the demand is NOT steady

  3. Re:Shutting down apple on Apple Surpasses Dell's Market Value · · Score: 1

    since a grizzly only eats 25 - 35 pounds a day, you could do the kind thing for that slower unlucky companion of yours, just cut his legs off and toss 'em to the bear, tie the stumps and drag his ungrateful complaining ass to safety. He'll thank you for it later, really.

  4. Re:Holy Shit, That Explains It on Ancestors of Homo Sapiens Hunted by Birds · · Score: 1

    yeah, that's why they got rid of the eagle on the backs of the new quarters

  5. Re:Shutting down apple on Apple Surpasses Dell's Market Value · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I"ve noticed the other big computer vendors starting to have problems too, it's as if the units aren't fully tested before shipping anymore. Until last year I'd never seen an IBM or Sun or HP server with bad motherboard shipped from factory, but have seen all those now....qa going to hell

  6. Re:Another idea for preserving life on Earth . . . on Norway to Build Doomsday Seed Bank · · Score: 1

    or those floating cities will give us reason to also target much of the remaining 70% of our planet in the next global war. Everything else you talked about means cheap kinetic energy weapons with megatons of yield.

  7. Re:Please, get a clue - websites claim anything on Desktop Cold Fusion Reconsidered · · Score: 1

    That website is a from a business which would like to profit from low energy research (nothing wrong with that, but it's not an objective scientist's site). If you restrict yourself to websites of national laboratories and respect physicist groups, you'll find a different story: continued investigation recommended, but no convincing evidence because of background noise, poor experimental technique, etc. For a summary of the state of affairs, see this So it's premature to say "IT's Real!", just that scientiists say it's worthy of further research.

  8. Re:Of Course on Analysts Predict Dell to Use AMD · · Score: 1

    why would apple need to "rot with intel"...they could switch anytime they wished, in less than two years

  9. Re:My C64 floppy could do that! on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    there was a TRS-80 Color which had a Motorola 6809 processor, but mine was a proper monochrome Model I that later becamse a Model II.

  10. Re:My C64 floppy could do that! on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    really, you couldn't vary the baud rate of the tape output? on the TRS-80 one could and so play music

  11. Re:What about a little thing called Privacy? on Military Device Will Sense Through Concrete Walls · · Score: 1

    With murder rate in Jamaica #3 after south africa and brazil, you sure don't have to worry about foreign soldiers or terrorists killing you

  12. Re:i wonder... on US Draw Up Rules for Space Tourism · · Score: 1

    so before landing in the U.S.A., jettison the coke and the hooker

  13. Re:A need for water cooling with Intel on Corsair Demos Easy Watercooling PC Rig · · Score: 1

    NEED? Even the Itanium2 can get by with air cooling, there's no need for water cooling with any microprocessor, just properly designed heat sinks and fans.

  14. not seen in corporate environments? on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 1

    I don't own a Mac, but I've been surprised to see them used in my client's sites, which include manufacturing plants and government (city, state and fed labs). Publishing and graphics design work mainly. And it does run some major pieces of software (anything that runs Microsoft Office can claim to support the most-used business software out there), even popular tax software. I notice my kid's educational video games run on both Windows and MacOS 8.6 & up

  15. Re:Paper doesn't mention open source model on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You did see the counts of lines of code in Praxis' projects? The header files alone in Linux have more lines of code than all Praxis ever wrote or ever will write.

  16. Re:What language? on When Bugs Aren't Allowed · · Score: 1

    They use SPARK, which is a subset of ADA and will compile on any ADA compiler

  17. Re:weight& speed are the big issue here on The Physics Behind Car Crashes · · Score: 1

    so what's the downside? 200MPH collisions are totally painless and don't leave people lingering in hospital beds, and endless blabber about "It wasn't my fault". Much better than painful and tedious low speed collisions.

  18. Re:Explanation for the difference on Pluto is Much Colder Than Expected · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the main difference between an oral and rectal thermometer is the taste if you mix them up

  19. Re:Sounds like a cousine recipe on Share Your Most Dangerous Idea · · Score: 1

    stick your fingers in your ears and run like hell

  20. Re:Speaking of explosions on the moon... on Scientists Witness Meteor Strike on the Moon · · Score: 1

    pffft, a very large thermonuclear device, say 15 megatons, would make a crate less than 1.5 miles wide and a quarter of that deep in solid rock. The moon already has plenty of craters that size and you can't even see them with the naked eye.

  21. Re:Am I alone in thinking that... on 2005 Good Year for Power Architecture · · Score: 1

    nah, some of us think it's interesting because it runs a few flavors of BSD, AIX, OS/400, Mac OSX, QNX, and BOS/X

  22. Re:Global Warming Scare continues on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1

    about twenty to thirty more years of records, of course, to see that atlantic storm frequency & ferocity are or aren't greater than normal.

  23. problem with cometary orign of earth's water on Life's Secrets From A Comet's Tail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    comets appear to contain much more deuterium than the concentration we find in earth's water (even allowing for half-life of deuterium). See: Blake, G. A., Qi, C., Hogerheijde, M.R., Gurwell, M. A., and Muhleman, D. O. "Sublimation from Icy Jets as a Probe of the Interstellar Volatile Content of Comets," Nature, 398, 213 (1999).

  24. Re:Global Warming Scare continues on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1

    the next couple years won't prove much, as the next TEN years (according to NOAA) are predicted to be very busy due to ~60 - 70 year hurricane cycle being in peak.

  25. Re:Global Warming Scare continues on Tropical Storm Zeta Forms in Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Evidence of bad things happening from global warming is mounting up, like huge methane sinks (in permafrost and ocean) thawing and ocean ecosystems dying, BUT this storm season isn't it. This wasn't even the deadliest storm season nor was Katrina the deadliest hurricane on record.