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  1. Re:That's not quite true on It's Official -- Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1

    There are video filters available that reduce the film noise when converting to digital. The ones I'm familiar with (yuvfilter in mjpegtools) aren't perfect and might require some manual intervention, but what's 100 man-hours in a project of this sort? Using such a filter improves results and lowers data rate.

  2. Re:what's the difference? on It's Official -- Star Wars on DVD · · Score: 1

    Hokey, unrealistic explosion of death star in the new version.

  3. Re:Environmental Deception? on IC Failures Linked to Resin Series? · · Score: 1
    For instance, the crying about beer bottles and 'littering' of that sort.

    A broken glass bottle cuts human flesh and automobile tires.

  4. Re:Premature component failure in healthcare... on IC Failures Linked to Resin Series? · · Score: 1
    But it all depends on who fabbed the chip

    No, it depends upon the materials used to package the chip.

  5. Adelphia on Cable TV Versus Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    $83.44/month gets me 170 TV channels and 45 music channels with Adelphia (Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, but not HBO). It's a lot of money, but the same price would bring me fewer channels with either DirectTV or DISH. Outages have been about 12 hours a year due to trees falling on cables & similar events.

  6. Re:I used to have a room temperature superconducto on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1

    Not true. One of the early researchers (Chu?) claimed in the major peer-reviewed journal (Physics Review: Condensed Matter????) that he BRIEFLY had a sample of the perovskite superconductor that worked at room temperature. In those days the product wasn't very stable and this particular one soon stopped working at room temperature. I don't remember the time frame, but my impression was that this was on the order of a few days.

  7. Translation on Scientists Create New Form of Matter · · Score: 1
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  8. Re:Malcolm Bricklin on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1
    And then there's the Dale, a three wheeled car built by a cross-dresser sometime in the early '70s.

    Better known is Ford's DeThomaso Pantera, with chrome so thin it rusted through on the showroom floor.

  9. Re:Ah, the Pinto. on Worst Cars Of All Time Rated · · Score: 1

    Father of a friend of mine had a Rambler. The standing joke was if you drove the car into a bad neighborhood, people would add parts to the car.

  10. Re:Using Grocery Data to deny Benefits on Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall · · Score: 1
    You obviously did not understand his last paragraph. Let me explain in language you can understand:

    Young people who are independent-minded today will be independent-minded when they are 50 and will resist supporting that system of theft known as "Social Security".

  11. Re:Using Grocery Data to deny Benefits on Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall · · Score: 1

    "Social Security" is becoming increasingly expensive because people are living longer and benefits are increasing. If this continues the burden will be unbearable in the 50-100 year time frame. Something has to change. Obliterating the system would be best, but bandaids are likely all that will be applied for a long time.

  12. Re:pretty far offtopic on Stores Use Discount Cards To Notify Of Recall · · Score: 1
    bigot: one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam-Webster)

    Actually, he sounded pretty tolerant, just pointed out the consequences of stupid/villainous actions.

  13. Re:Bushes space program... on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1

    Maybe if Bush didn't invade Iraq we'd all be dead now.

  14. Highest thermal conductivity on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 1

    Best for a solid is diamond. Make a paste with diamond dust, let the heatsink and CPU case deform around the particles. Graphite might work also, I don't know if the adsorbed gasses and different structure make a difference.

  15. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    Clinton was a rapist and an accessory to murder. He was not a good human being, let alone a good president.

  16. Re:The goods on Electronic Burglary in the Senate · · Score: 1

    If all listed candidates have negative totals, don't all the non-candidates win? (In both senses)

  17. Spaceship fuel on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 1

    Now we can replace all those coal powered spaceships with helium-3 powered shaceships.

  18. Re:Or they could just leave the moon alone on Mine The Moon For Helium-3 · · Score: 1
    We've been to the moon in person and we have an excellent idea of what it's like and how much life there is there.

    You're an idiot.

  19. NY Times is dense on The Amazing Properties of Aerogel · · Score: 1

    They make several claims for the density of aerogel. One is 3 times the density of air, which would be 3 to 4 mg/cc. Another is 1/100th the density of a hand, which would be 10 mg/cc. Granted that it can be made in various densities, but come on guys, be consistent!

  20. Re:Yum! Olivine! on The Dirt On Mars, In Words And Pictures · · Score: 2, Funny

    With olivine and all the green cheese on the moon, we can solve world hunger.

  21. Re:Sun and Slashdot, like oil and water... on Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 · · Score: 1
    A day at a time isn't at all helpful when running a simulation that takes three days. Four years ago I was running IC design software on Sun machines and had to call the sysadmin at home perhaps a half dozen times at 10PM when hardware failures crashed the network and license servers. The most common failures were the tape backup and the RAID system, neither of which should have crashed the network and both of which did. The failing systems were neither Sun nor X86 hardware, but rather Unix and network hardware specialist products that sold for very high prices and were unrepairable only 2 years after purchase. The tape backup was particularly bad; its software never worked properly.

    Sun's hardware support was so expensive we were better off fixing stuff ourselves. Software support was mostly beyond what I saw, but what little I did see was responses of "yes, what you see going wrong is indeed what the software does" and hoping that the "quarterly" patches would fix things. BAH.

  22. Put it at an airport on Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times · · Score: 1

    Most major airports have big buildings that might be large enough to house a Saturn V. If it's put in a passenger terminal, it's an attraction that will bring people to the shops in the terminal. If it's put in an unused or little-used hangar, it can be a paid-admission exhibit. Plastering over the holes and repainting it can be done for a lot less than a million dollars.

  23. Re:rant on The Uncertain Promise of Utility Computing · · Score: 1
    women just die more from having babies, hence the fact that men got more power (hard to have power when you're dead).

    But women live longer on average; so your logic is flawed.

    Men have more power because more men try harder to get power. This tendency to male aggressiveness is inherent in the nature of humans and most mammals.

  24. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Unless the losing plaintiff pays ALL costs of the defendant, including mental stress, damage to reputation, time wasted, etc., there is harm. Being "laughed out of court" is not sufficient.

  25. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Writers of bad software harm their own companies and themselves, and they can't use a gun to force you to use their product. Writers of bad laws help themselves and their buddies, and they do use guns to force you to obey their product.