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  1. Regular in the US on A Memory Card Torture Test · · Score: 1

    is not "ALWAYS" 87 go into the mountains of like, wyoming.. it's 85 or 83

  2. it has to do with surface area on Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns · · Score: 1

    if a perfectlty square rock, 10ft to a side, is thrown into the atmosphere from outer space,
      it presents a total of 600 sq ft of surface area for the atmosphere to burn away due to abalative effect...

    if 1000 square rocks, thrown into the atmosphere, are presenting 6000 sq ft of surface area, the abalative effect is far greater.

    note, both rocks have 1000 CF of volume.

    if you blow up the asteroid, the effects are reduced, even if 100% of the original material enters the atmosphere.

    same as the BB's and bowling ball...

  3. what? on Pharaoh's Gem Brighter Than a Thousand Suns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    throw a 10 pound bowling ball off the empire state building
    throw 20 pounds of BB's off the empire state building..

    same effect? I don't think so.

  4. reality check.. on Dell's Exploding Laptop Autopsy · · Score: 1

    a small drip, gets inside..

    then later, the camera, not in the housing, not underwater, still with a drip.. is sitting out..

    think about that.

  5. Re:Blockbusted on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    not true about movies for a few years,

  6. Actually... on Can eBay Make You Rich? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    in the real 'beginning' feedback was not transactional.

    I have a collection hobby, and I actively pursued ebay for more items of my hobby

    when I saw weak or less than informative listings in their infancy I'd write the sellers, correct the name or spelling or whatever I knew about the piece to help the seller do a little better.. I have two feedbacks in my history that have no item #-- just sellers who bounced a thank you...

    'course, my motivation was- folks who wanted the same series of toys would have less cash for the ones where I didn't help the sellers out....

  7. all sides video camera? on A Car Navigation System That Takes Pictures · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Will the market really sort itself out? on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    and providing different levels of speed depending on the origination point of the data does not threaten common carrier?

    how can it be common, when it's not equal?

  9. I believe it's called IOBI on How Do I Filter Phone Calls on a Land Line? · · Score: 2, Insightful
  10. Ya know what else he could be? on U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy · · Score: 1

    a really great race car driver-- if he justs starts at 13!

    sure//!! just because it will help you get ahead or maybe lead to a
    future sale does not make it ok

    BTW-- that is what educational discounts are for.

    adobe photoshop is $299.00

    elements, which is 96% of shop, is 69$

  11. how about a poll? on Samsung Ships the First Blu-Ray Player · · Score: 1

    Blu-ray
    HD-DVD

    WTF?

    Cowboy Neal.

  12. Vulcan=Darhel on Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space · · Score: 1

    read a little john ringo-- alldenta..

  13. What will touch tell you on Robotic Sense of Touch · · Score: 1

    about picking up an egg, before it's too late?

    this isn't all that useful for 'sturdy' checking.. only experience can teach you that.

    a better method for surface detection under a gripping apendage would be a small rubber disk (fingertip) on the other side of which is a prism-- with a small amount of oil inbetween.. bounce a light off the disk and a camera on the other side.. perfect surface detection.

  14. Thanks... on More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace · · Score: 1

    strangely, in highschool, this is the kind of thing I'd go to the internet to avoid....

  15. I've just spent my first five minutes at myspace. on More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace · · Score: 1

    I feel bad for those employed to do the research, and I will not be returning..

    what a bunch of crap?? did I miss something? annoying music- nothing redeeming, it's a big dating + a few other features site?

    every user page looks awful, and they all load with music -- my average webbrowsing session is multiple site windows open- this would kill me..

  16. Re:No definition in law? on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1

    it does, requires reading more at that link
    In the US, the National Organic Program (NOP), was enacted as federal legislation in Oct. 2002. It restricts the use of the term "organic" to certified organic producers (excepting growers selling under $5,000 a year, who must still comply and submit to a records audit if requested, but do not have to formally apply). Certification is handled by state, non-profit and private agencies that have been approved by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Quality Assurance International (QAI), a private US corporation with a partner in Japan, Ecocert-QAI Japan Ltd., is the largest organic certification body in the United States.

    One of the first organizations to carry out organic certification in North America was the California Certified Organic Farmers, founded in 1973.

  17. whereas on Google Researchers Create TV Audio Analysis System · · Score: 2

    I wish it could get it right, and record my "dateline" and not,
    football head baby and big fat cartoon man talking about his ass gas hour...

  18. No definition in law? on Allergy-Free Kittens Produced · · Score: 1

    do FDA regs count?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_certification
    "Being able to put the word "organic" on a food product is a valuable marketing advantage in today's consumer market. Certification is intended to protect consumers from misuse of the term, and make buying organics easy. However, the organic labelling made possible by certification itself usually requires explanation.

    In the US, federal organic legislation defines three levels of organics. Products made entirely with certified organic ingredients and methods can be labelled "100% organic". Products with 95% organic ingredients can use the word "organic". Both may also display the USDA organic seal. A third category, containing a minimum of 70% organic ingredients, can be labelled "made with organic ingredients". In addition, products may also display the logo of the certification body that approved them. Products made with less than 70% organic ingredients can not advertise this information to consumers and can only mention this fact in the product's ingredient statement. Similar percentages and labels apply in the EU.
    "

  19. better on Implants for Sensing Magnetic Fields · · Score: 1

    ya know the secret service guy cliche with the earpieces?

    put a small speaker on the jawbown.. run a wire under the skin to the thigh or armpit..- then a small coil close to the surface of the skin...

    now put another coil (transformer) on the outside.. and you have two-way radio with no coil coming out of the ears...

  20. SOrry-- on Social Engineering Using USB Drives · · Score: 1

    I buy a lot of office supplies, where can I get such a deal on sharipies?

  21. 500 million games played, 6.4 mil copies sold... on 500 Million Halo Games, Halo 3 Documentary · · Score: 2, Funny

    so what-- the other 6,399,999 of you have played like-- once each?

  22. you miss the point.. on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 1

    the guy was born during an era where people watched rocks roll off hills for entertainment
    No TV's AT ALL, no automobiles AT ALL, electricity to homes is UNCOMMON and it's not uncommon for toilets to be outside.

    now the world has radios, then tv's then computers- to the point where he can see his grandkids..

    I'm baffled by what the world will be like for me, growing up with atari2600 and apple //e's and heathkit heros... to ????

  23. 30 years ago on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    howabout August 20, 1975...

    That would be before your birthdate yes?

    Viking- Mars-- not fiction.. look it up and be amazed..

  24. My wifes grandfather on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 5, Interesting

    86 years old, lives in eastern europe-- grew up in a world without automobiles, spent two nights in jail in his life for slaughtering a pig without sharing the meat with the state-- was recently upstairs in the family mansion-- (a big deal for him to get there) he was watching, and listening, two his two great grandchildren via a panasonic IP camera, which allows for walkie-talkie sound (model# KX-HCM110A) if you are interested.. although they (my wife & the family in the old country) usually talk while the family watches the kids & listen to them play and what they can do lately...

    I could tell from his voice when he was talking, to the kids- something was getting to him.. I asked my wife later.. he was simply flabbergasted.. he couldn't believe he could watch on 'tv' (he knows it's not tv- but he refers to it as such) his great grandchildren from 6,000 miles away..... he was talking about what an amazing world it was.

    I find more spooky though, trying to imagine the world I'll be failing to comprehend, when I make 86 (if I do)

  25. the subj that made no sense on Vast DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy · · Score: 1

    sorry.. I had a paragraph explaing that even after the physical withdrawal was over.. the mental imbalance still jerks me around daily.. it it is a drag on my life.. point being, I'm jarred by the change in perception between me and Government as I am over constantly thinking there is something I should be doing (smoking) that I'm not