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  1. Intel Speed Step technology on New Material for More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    originally designed for this scenario

  2. I fail myself on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    no, he says, they license it, or get sued for using the technology (sued to pay for a license)

    I suggest, they refuse to license it, and sue people for using it, (sued for damages and an order to stop using the technology)

  3. Re:either they convince these folks to license thi on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1

    no, he says, they license it, or get sued for using the technology (without paying)
    I suggest, they refuse to license it, and sue people for using it, (without permission-which a patent holder does not have to grant)

  4. Fire proof safe on What Makes a Good CD/DVD Duplicator? · · Score: 1

    rated for paper.. in 3-4 hours your film negatives and CDR's (and hard drives) will be a little plastic puddle at the bottom..

  5. either they convince these folks to license this on Professor and Student Thwart P2P File Sharing · · Score: 1
    "they convince these folks to license this technology or they'll probably face a lawsuit

    you don't see a third option? they refuse to license the technology, and sue the pants off anyone who uses it? thereby enabling filesharing?

  6. When you house burns down? on What Makes a Good CD/DVD Duplicator? · · Score: 1
    All the digital photographs taken by my family,
    are on both the main data partition of our hard drive (which we access frequently) and an external firewire maxtor 160 gb, which I monthly or so copy over from the data partition.
    in case of fire, my wife knows to 1-grab the kid, 2-grab the turtle 3- grab the maxtor, just pull it away from the desk



    I've also told her to drop the turtle in the backyard before the firemen get to the house (not legal in my state)
    who's gonna grab your ten drive bay box with a baby and a turtle in their arms?

  7. Re:So the moral of this story.... on Royal Bank of Canada Cashes Out of SCO; SCO Begins Layoffs · · Score: 1

    if I've read it right, they converted their shares at a 13.50 per share value, that means they lost over half the value of their investment in a fell swoop, just to get out....

  8. Distinguishing charecteristics on The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism · · Score: 1
    He's in PRINT. his target audience are not geeks.
    from the publication of the WSJ, you can assume his reviews are read by ceo's of fortune 500 companies, regularly..

    and you think it is no different than say? Gizmodo?

  9. Re:Item #183 is impossible. on U of Chicago Scavenger Hunt List - 2004 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, in certain high crime areas, it is legal for stations to have customers pump their own gas in the middle of the night.

  10. But? But? on NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless' · · Score: 1

    all those claims? the people who bought licenses? surely, that was revenue also?

  11. it's called Delta Vee on City-Sized Asteroid to Pass Earth This Fall · · Score: 0, Redundant
    and, strangely, with massive astral objects, one EXTREMELY WELL COMPUTED bit of force
    (knock it with a feather) actually could make it happen.

    if you wait till it's next to the earth to park it, yea, a really INTENSIVE amount of energy is required.

    but, if you do the math perfectly, you can get it to park itself with a really light tap..

    (fuckup the math, and it does crash on the planet)

  12. the MOST spam free.... on Gmail Addresses For Sale · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd love to have abuse@gmail.com

  13. Your chinese replacements have a better value, on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    after all, they won't be reading slashdot while they are working......

  14. Stop sending athletes on Going Back to the Moon and Mars · · Score: 3, Interesting
    send gamers.

    of course someone at the peak of physical fitness is going to go bonkers spending three years in a cubicl^h^h^h^h^h spacecraft with no place to go outside.. there are people who spend months playing with computers, who hate going outside, and don't have the energy to move around much.. send the video gamers, no to lan gamers, they like to get out too much
    send my wife, who spends entire days playing diablo with her perfect IK set, doing deliberate incomplete baal hell runs with 3-7 other people that would make me cry, and I can't stand to watch, she'll do it for 8 hours in a row... these are the people who can make the journey..

    course, they're useless when you get there....

  15. Re:CD? Lossless? on Instant Live Concert Recordings · · Score: 1
    let's quote him again

    "That's right. I think it's next month we're releasing some of our classic albums again with new mastering technique, cause when they first came out the mastering was so primitive. Making CD's was so primitive and now it's very sophisticated so it sounds more like the analogue recordings, and I honestly can't tell the difference between those and the analogue."

    so it sounds more like the analogue to me means, it ain't there yet, the fact that a musician, (who presumably, has been around loud noise for extended periods) can't hear the difference does not mean an audiophile (which I do not claim to be at all) cannot.

  16. CD? Lossless? on Instant Live Concert Recordings · · Score: 1

    pfft.. do some research...

  17. Hmm, on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    That's the rub then, for all microsoft OS's, it does qualify for a patent

  18. if you mean cellphones on High-Altitude 'Security Blimps' Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    look around for c.o.w.s.
    much more realistic

  19. Scrabble* on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 1
    http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/home.cfm you can look up any word

    *it's not there

  20. Parents... on Cameras for Dark and Wet Locations? · · Score: 3, Funny
    do you have any?
    Do they own a camera?
    borrow it..

    (parents are very understanding)

  21. the results you aren't pleased with.. on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 2, Informative
    this picture, your first time using this camera.

    although most cameras are purchased prior to an impending expected use, is it fair to blame a camera the first time you used it? most photogs know they need to use a camera for a while before they can expect the best the camera can produce.

  22. something I don't understand on Beyond Megapixels · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Sonys new touted digital cameras are RGBe or emerald, every 4 pixles are Red Green Blue and Emerald, purportedly because our eyes are twice as sensitive to green, and this makes better pictures (according to sony).

    if we are so 'green aware' why don't inkjet printers ever have green ink?

  23. hmm, on 526 Years On, Da Vinci's Clockwork Car Constructed · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always just changed my scantron form to make it indicate it was the new 'master' scantron machines (the ones my school had) scored cards marked as masters as a perfect score (0 missed) and to the hell with the forms folliwng mine.

  24. and the merchant verification process? on Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    how do I, the merchant, prove I 'heard' the squawk?

  25. and I have one, on Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo · · Score: 1
    a real tivo, without a subscription.

    I purchased one of These toshiba models known as a 'series 2'. there are a few manufacturers of these, they all have a 'basic mode' that gets three days worth of programming, gratis.. the only recording options are 1-picking something in the next three days by name or manual based on date channel and time (as in original VHS VCR's)

    I paid a lot less than amazon's price, and do not pay either a monthly or 299 fee to Tivo. (ok, I didn't pay it yet) and it's still damn useful for me, the kid cries, I pause and go, the kid screams, I go, and if I make it back in 30 minutes, I'm still good.