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  1. soo.. put your future looking hat on... on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 1

    everyone says,

    using oil is changing the balance of the carbon cycle, by releasing carbon that was tucked away under the earth millions of years ago.....

    how does using borax change the "hydrogen" cycle?

  2. lets look on New Hydrogen Storage Technique · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.biofuels.fsnet.co.uk/sustain.htm
    Typically, a 1460 x 230 mm K size industrial gas cylinder weighs 65kg and holds 7.2 cubic metres of hydrogen, which has to be compressed at 175 bar (c. 2500 psi) - a convenient size and weight (same as a 50 litre fuel tank) for one cylinder to fit into a car, but the actual weight of the hydrogen is only 0.6kg.
    hmmm... 65kg/.6kg .0092 ratio... that's uh, less than 1/100th or 100 times as much packing material....

  3. Re:cite please on Do You Need to Surf Anonymously? · · Score: 1

    original post claim of which I dispute- "law says records must not be kept"

    your cite says "not that they must not be kept, and not that they must be kept."
    only that, "if they are kept, they must be kept confidentially"
    privacy is required by that law, not non-rentention.

    yes, many librarians (and I hail originally from Santa Cruz County, California; a oft-quoted library system ralling against these provisions of the USA PATRIOT act) specifically do not keep records for this reason, but there is no law (although I feel there should be) compelling libraries to not keep records... only compelling libraries to hold what records they do keep into confidence.... which is then trumped when possible by the means of a search warrant or subpeona, a subpeopna being rebuttable/attackable defeatable after receipt and before execution, a search warrant not being so- and requiring immediate compliance.

    http://www.ala.org/template.cfm/?Section=ifissues& Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&Con tentID=51866
    if they are being held, securely, they must be turned over to an fbi patriot warrant

  4. cite please on Do You Need to Surf Anonymously? · · Score: 4, Informative

    you claim It is illegal for a library to keep a record of the books you have checked out after they're returned

    I say, you should be right, but you are completely wrong.
    try this http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fbi+library+r ecords

    so, if you have a citation to back up your assertion, please, supply the citation.
    I say, you are flat out wrong.

  5. close-- the first part on HDMI-Enabled Graphics Cards Debut · · Score: 1

    the first part is the first
    3CCD full hd camera..

    other consumer full hd cameras exist, (I own one) this is the first one with 3 sensors which some feel gives a superior recording.

  6. wow, you did hose yourself on Pirating Software? Choose Microsoft! · · Score: 1

    the plain language on my boxen says I can install it on my home pc, and my laptop, for the one purchase....so long as I don't use both copies
    at the same time-- it's a one use at a time license....

    with the one purchase copy...

  7. mugging for a cellphone on Palm Responds to the iPhone · · Score: 1

    how many people get mugged for a cellphone?

    If mugged, you could have the serial# (asin?) of the phone hotlisted and it would not be possible to reactivate it.. what's the point of mugging for a cellphone?

    (now, in GSM europe- with sims and unlocking so possible, maybe)

  8. One Nine? on Alternatives To SF.net's CompileFarm? · · Score: 1

    you do realize, one nine allows 36.5 days of downtime a year?

  9. I can't tell if yer pushing sarcasm or not on Spore Dev Down On the Wii · · Score: 1

    breaking consoles into generations///the first to do this?
    NO, and your scale is way off....

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game _consoles_(seventh_generation)
    for a start....

  10. not a conflict on Cybercrime Treaty — Hidden Costs For All · · Score: 1

    although the courts cannot compel me to testify they can by god compel me to produce records that help to incriminate myself

  11. Re:Cloak on $100k For Kenobi's Cloak · · Score: 1

    posession of the garmment may well imbue you with an ability to acquire females with whom previously you stood no chance, but I would like as not expect, they would not be ones I, nor you, would happily hold forth as example of 'babes'

  12. here's my method on Online Storage 2.0: Six Sites Reviewed · · Score: 1

    a combination of webdrive http://www.webdrive.com/
    (to mount dreamhost like a drive letter)
    and vice versa pro http://www.tgrmn.com/

    vvp encryption on the dreamhost side only...

    works VERY well with one exception, webdrive uses 100% of my uplink, 100-120 kb/s not option to throttle it down.
    my temp workaround is that I have VVP set to a max of 30kb/s which means it's slower than the uploads, it releases my bandwidth time to slices of 1/3 available time.

    I really need a way to throttle webdrive on it's own.

  13. frequency.... on Using Lasers to Speed Computer Data · · Score: 1


    think of it like this, electrons shooting down wires are like water through your plumbing.. they don't pass it two direction at once.

    but, two FM stations on different frequencies can send their top forty music against each other at the same time without interfering.

  14. fix the dell issue on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 1
  15. just because you can? on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 1

    2 4gb raid 0 flash keys?

    double the bandwidth?

    4 2gb raid 0 flash keys?

    with a tetrahub?

  16. Please explain again the usefulness of Win XP 64 on Laptops with Big RAM? · · Score: 1

    damn little, I have it..

    but- xp64 is a subset of server 2003...

    so OP is right sorta,

  17. Re:YRO should be changed to URF on Dell Censors IdeaStorm Linux Dissent · · Score: 1

    let's look shall we?
    http://yro.slashdot.org/
    Dell Censors IdeaStorm Linux Dissent no
    MPAA Fires Back at AACS Decryption Utility no
    RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy no
    Patent Office Head Lays Out Reform Strategy maybe
    Politics: Canada Rejects Anti-Terror Laws YES

    so the last time was Feb 28th.. oh wait- that was yesterday!

    plus, positive is all in the spin of the matter at hand.

    the last one could just as easily been written as- Canada decides to allow terroists more privacy...

  18. Re:Sprint sends me SMS advertisements every day on Verizon Wins Injunction Against Text Spammer · · Score: 1

    verizon sent me one, in three years of service, to tell me high-speed data was now active in my home zip/region....

    (I already had data, and had already been using.noticed the increase for about 3 days) but I consider that ok...

  19. corporate evolution on AMD A Ripe Target For Buyout? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to point out, aside from the great national developmental things they made happen in the past,

    railroads are just the bright shiny ideal model of a succesful industry today aren't they?

    next time try the phone company, or oil.. they at least are empirical..

    I'll grant you, m&a is constantly slammed for slicing apart businesses and putting a lot of people out of work, but the fact is- it also makes businesses leaner and more survival oriented...

    and yes, I'm jealous, I only have 90% ownership of my LLC

  20. ok.. on Reverse Hacker Awarded $4.3 Million · · Score: 1
    so it's codified..



    You can't consider enemy invader warplanes bombing your factories out of existence, even if through your companies actions, or inaction.

  21. it's the only way to get the job done? on Reverse Hacker Awarded $4.3 Million · · Score: 1

    Not justifying, just 'splaining..

    hypothetical.. a condo assocation decides to take snow removal from the outside company (which charges a whole lot, and comes out even when it's 1/8th of an inch, and the temp is expected to melt that off in 2 hours) to the management company, who will perform the action as needed... the management company has increased liability if someone falls on the snow-blowed sidewalk, and says the snow-blowing was insufficient/caused the accident.

      the management company before agreeing to taking snow removal inhouse will likely insist on a shield from such lawsuits, and specifies 'absolute shield' as opposed to 'including gross negligence'

    the problem with excluding gross negligence is- no one ever does when they are suing.. no one sues for actual damages, they always pursue gross negligence......

  22. problems for a corporation-mindset on Reverse Hacker Awarded $4.3 Million · · Score: 3, Interesting

    let me give you my gut level response about what you've missed in a corporate level mindset. (bugs, bugs, they're crawling all over me now)

    any end scenario that equates with annihalation/extinction of the company is not worth considering or planning for.

    on a scale of 1-10, (1 being some hourly wage earner is caught taking 40$ from the till) a 5-8 embarrasement bad pr episode (security leak, court judgement, contracts broken) is a whole lot worse for the company than a 10 extinction, because at 100% corporation extinction/cessation of manufacturing, there is no one left to point fingers (other than history) in the internal squabbles.... a mid level manager would rather the company declare banktrupcy than one of his subs become a series of internal memos cc'd to legal...

  23. nice idealisim.. reality sinks in on How to Keep America Competitive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the basic problem with your points are the assumption that we MUST churn out more IT, to the detriment of all other employment fields.

    1- and if the answer is none?
    2- how many people recieved health insurance with the first paycheck? often there is a 30-90-180days before health insurance starts.
    3- there is no savings at point of beginning.... it is YEARS down the line if it works. Investment cannot come from savings which follow years later.
    4- perhaps the correlation is not, the existance of music and art makes people math smart, but rather, math smart people are also people who appreciate music and art.
    this is akin to saying, people who know how to swim are wet.. so throw a non-swimmer in a pool and they will/can swim..
    5- how the hell do you do that with the NCLB? seriously, one of the reason some other countries do so very well on standardized testing, is that they DROP underperforming students from educational programs, leaving the mid to reasonably behind for testing and highschool.. they leave children out.... some kids are that stupid.
    6- physics? to graduate from highschool everyone should have a semester of chem II and physics? it's not practical.. not everyone needs these classes.
    7- here I'll agree with you. The most important argument and flaw in the system I see.
    8- here I'll agree with you almost wholeheartedly.. it's not a philosphy, it's an unfunded federal mandate.. a major distinction. To keep getting the federal dollars for school systems, schools must get 100% of their kids in line, and to do so- they get no additional money where needed- they just lose funding &control in some cases, of their own educational program.. The result has not been dumbing down of an entire curriculum, it's been the refocusing of the entire curriculum to being 'program the kids to pass the standardized test'

    First step is, balancing the need of more IT professionals vs. other professions.

    I think you'd do a lot better training welfare recipients/disabled types in medical technician training.
    IT training requires a lot more mental capacity & attitude than some people have.
    blood draw tech, orderlies, nurses assistants, dental assistants, etc.. a slot where life saving is not key...

  24. ask your gov on Where Are All of the HDTV Tuners? · · Score: 1

    http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/dtv/dtvcouponfaq. html
    How do I obtain and redeem converter box coupons?

    Between January 1, 2008 and March 31, 2009, eligible households can request up to two coupons, each valued at $40. All coupons will be sent to requesting households via the United States Postal Service. Recipients must redeem the coupons within 3 months of issuance, but may not combine their two coupons toward the purchase of a single converter box and may not use them for other products.

    Can you provide more details about the converter box coupon program?

    The specific rules addressing the coupon program will be made public in early 2007. As you can imagine, there are many program implementation details to consider.

    In 2006, NTIA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that sought the public's suggestions on various details of the program's operations, including issues related to these questions. NTIA will provide more detailed program information for the digital-to-analog converter box assistance program on our website, www.ntia.doc.gov.

  25. sorry to ruin your day on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 1

    although 2am is techincally, morning- that's when it's gonna happen.

    and they won't just bang you on the head, they'll whap you with something..