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  1. Re:The truth about lawyers isn't what you think on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1

    Lawyers in public office deliberately make huge volumes of incomprehensible laws in order to guarantee them undeserved incomes in perpetuity.

  2. Re:Slightly funnier take on URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued · · Score: 1
    if they dont do whats good for you , vote them out and let them find another job.

    By the time they're voted out, the damage has been done, and there's no guarantee that the replacement will be any better. Voting helps, but the existence of so much political power is the root problem.

  3. Re:Moving down the wrong path on Kodak To Stop Selling Film Cameras In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Epson's pigment-based printers on archival paper ought to be OK. The same applies to laser printing on archival paper for B&W.

  4. inferometer? on ISS May Have A Leak · · Score: 1

    Do we really have to go to space to measure inferences? There are plenty of good logicians on the ground.

  5. Re:Why do food products contain sugar at all? on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    By "REAL SUGAR" you mean what? Sucrose? Fructose? Lactose? Dextrose? Do you wish to ban inositol, which tastes like table sugar and is considered by some to be a B-vitamin? Do you wish to ban xylitol, which can provide a sugary taste in chewing gum and actually helps prevent cavities?

  6. Re: RIGHT on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    I've read (although from sources of marginal credibility) that developing agricultural societies produced smaller and less healthy offspring than their hunter-gatherer forebears, due to the transistion to a grain-based diet.

  7. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Or use their MBNA America credit card.

  8. Re:Wha?? on The Billion-Dollar Telescope · · Score: 1

    Mathematics is not a subdivision of science.

  9. Re:FAA Traffic control system on Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever · · Score: 1

    Let's see... 100 billion dollars to protect 300 million American lives. Thats 333 dollars per life. Perhaps YOURS isn't worth that much, but I think mine is.

  10. Re:FAA Traffic control system on Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    Having spent 5 years in Boston, I think the proper solution to the traffic is to shut off all transportation into and out of the city. Keep all the f_ing liberals in their zoo and don't force traffic to pass through that huge slum.

  11. Re:Why not just wait until the 10GHz is here? on Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    Try waiting a couple of days for a video to render or an integrated circuit to auto-layout.

  12. Re:where to cool? on Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    The heat sink contacts a heat spreader that contacts the chip. The pins are connected to very thin wires that connect to the chip. The pins also mechanically attach to an electrically insulating substrate (plastic or ceramic?) that contacts the chip. Neither the wires nor the substrate conduct heat nearly as well as the spreader.

  13. Re:NERD ALERT!!! on Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    When the LN2 is boiling, it doesn't take a lot of bad luck to get a drop of it in your eye. Not fun, and might cause permanent damage. The safety glasses are a reasonable precaution.

  14. Re:Acid Rain and Stupid People Like the Author of. on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1
    Economic growth by no means requires an increase in energy use, any more than it requires an increase in worker productivity.

    It requires an increase of the product of productivity X hours_worked to increase. Since you apparently don't like increased productivity, you either want people to have to work longer hours (try to make me, slaver!) or you don't want economic growth.

  15. Re:Acid Rain and Stupid People Like the Author of. on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1
    You assume that a use for spent fuel rods will be developed, why do you make that assumtion?

    Because such uses have been proposed.

  16. Re:There's a time and place for everything on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1
    If America wasn't such a belligerent, non-cooperating nation to begin with we wouldn't have problems with free trade.

    Yeah. We'd all be dead. No free trade problems then. Lets cooperate with the murderers who flew into the World Trade Center.

  17. Re:Solar? on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1

    It takes toxic stuff for common photovoltaics. A solar water heater does not need to be made with toxic components.

  18. Re:Not really true anymore. on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1

    Actually, progress is quite slow. 23% efficiency was practical 30 years ago, and there will NEVER be an improvement of 4.4X from that point.

  19. Re:Solar? on Wind Turbines Kill a Few Birds · · Score: 1
    Plus, the solar panel collects energy that would have went into photosynthesis for plants.

    Not necessarily. There are plenty of areas where there is very little green vegetation at all. Sandy beaches and deserts. City rooftops.

  20. Re:Power supply in the cable on Piezoelectric Transformers · · Score: 1
    It's possible that a low-power switching power supply was built into either the plug or socket end.

    Another possibilty is that the power cord was made of a moderately resistive material to drop voltage in a lossy manner. This is an old (and poor) technique.

  21. Re:The rectification will still kill you on Piezoelectric Transformers · · Score: 1

    The power supply has to be designed "from the ground up" to do this. Modifying an existing supply is difficult and dangerous for anyone but an electrical engineer who specializes in switching power supplies.

  22. Water wheel on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt? · · Score: 1

    If you have a stream that runs all year, water power can be fairly efficient and the energy would otherwise just be going to waste.

  23. PFET vs NFET on Strained Silicon Chips From Intel · · Score: 3, Informative

    Note that Intel improved the P channel devices 25% and the N channel devices 10%. Since N channel devices are usually 2 to 3 times stronger than P channel devices, this reduces the difference and makes CMOS design a little bit nicer.

  24. RPM on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1
    Attempt to install package:

    >rpm -ivh xxx.rpm

    ....xxx already installed

    Query to find out what's happening:

    >rpm -ql xxx.rpm

    ....xxx not installed

    RPM has horrid problems such as the above.

  25. Re:solving a non-problem on More E-Voting SNAFUs · · Score: 1
    people who are well off and have high-end salaried jobs are more likely to be able ... to take time off from their weekday jobs (which are salaried, not hourly) to vote.

    Most places I've lived polls are open 12 hours and absentee ballots are trivial to obtain and use.