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  1. Re:Already done? on World's First Molten-Salt Solar Plant Opens · · Score: 4, Informative

    This one doesn't use salt, but we have had one very similar built here back in 2008. http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/07/areva-boosts-solar-supersteam-parameters-in-bakersfield

  2. Re:High calorie toys on California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys · · Score: 1

    When I first read the headline, I thought it might have been to prevent all the trash that comes from those cheep toys. Don't know how many times I have gone to clean my kids room to find those cheep toys broken and stuffed in drawer or toy bin.

  3. Sophia S.. ever check your facts? on "District 9" Best Sci-fi Movie of 09? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ever here of Snopes? http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp Case was dismissed for no evidence. (She didn't even show up.)

  4. TnA casting? on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Did you watch the show? Both Grace and Tricia had to play different versions of themselves throughout the entire series. They sure made a believable presentation out of it. I am pretty sure they both received some sort of awards. Maybe not Emey's/Oscars, whatever that crap is that they give to them lowest common denominator movies.

  5. Your comparison is a bit faulty. on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    Umm I don't really think 16lb difference is going to matter when most roads are designed to hand regular truck traffic. Prius: 3000lb (~15 sq in per tire * 4) = 50lb / sq in (P195/65R15 tires) Hummer H2 6600lb (~24.8 sq in per tire * 4) = 66lb / sq in (LT315/70R17 tires) This is not even taking in account for under inflated or overinflated tires! http://www.fao.org/docrep/w2809E/w2809e03.htm

  6. New sig for all on News Sites Slammed By Michael Jackson Traffic · · Score: 1

    This is good enough to be a sig!

  7. Re:Milky Way, hell... on One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >I'm lucky if I can see cyclists and pedestrians after sunset. That's just population control, if there stupid enough to step in front of a moving car then they don't need to be spoiling the gene pool.

  8. Re:Why should we care? on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    But without Replicators we would never have Repli-Carter or Fran.

  9. Re:How does that make it not "real water"? on Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine · · Score: 1

    yeah dhmo is good for making people look like idiots. To bad I didn't read the whole thread first. oh well.

  10. Re:How does that make it not "real water"? on Space Station Crew Drinks Recycled Urine · · Score: 1

    Someone should start a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. Why do we waste our time banning shit that's nowhere near as bad as this, while we have almost zero regulation on such a hazardous chemical?

    someone already has

  11. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    Still it is perfectly able to transport all that iron on your blood, duh!?

    It's the midi-chlorian's that allow organisms to time travel, duh!?

  12. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be "John Connor" that saves the day. I am sure the humans would find another leader just as SkyNet "finds" a new creator everytime one is blown up.

    Really want to mess with skynet, take away the nukes. Now how's it going to massively retaliate when it throws a tantrum?

  13. Re:Here, I'll summarize. on Sarah Connor Chronicles — Why It Died · · Score: 1

    If you have a time machine that only goes backwards, made of metal that can't be transported back with you, how are you going to relearn something from the past to go back even further? Leave yourself a sticky note somewhere to be found on the next loop?

  14. Re:Wanted 3D but no colour printer on Google Launches CADIE, the First True AI · · Score: 1

    No color printer, you should have gone for the polarized printout to go with the polarized 3D glasses.

  15. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    >posted here only for the april fools achievement, obviously.

    Quote from the bottom of the page:
    I think we're all Bozos on this bus. -- Firesign Theatre

    Are we a sad group of people or are just eclectic?

  16. New Passwords on Study Finds Hundreds of Stolen Data Dumps · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Modern keyloggers use algorithms and/or regex to find certain data like credit card numbers or email addresses and some even specifically filter out "wasd" patterns.

    Then make all your passwords "wasd" derivatives!

  17. Forgotten option... on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You forgot CowboyNeal you insensitive clod.

  18. Re:clue ? on Space Litter To Hit Earth Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Funny

    > If you want a comparable situation, think of throwing a turkey at 100mph at a parked car. I guarantee you that car's not going to come out looking to good.

    Is that a frozen or thawed turkey??

  19. Worlds slowest typist on Compromising Wired Keyboards · · Score: 1

    Seriously can the guy type faster than 3 words a minute? Can his decoding software only work up to a certain speed? I am betting most people enter there passwords in less than a second, not with second long pauses between each character.

  20. Re:Outage Outrage on Extended Gmail Outage Frustrates Admins · · Score: 2

    This is what you get when you pick the cheaper option eh?

  21. Re:combine this with vortex effects on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 1

    Umm yeah, I was tripped up by the article mentioning that their test center did ok with the humidity, but the graph shows that it stayed between 10% - 20% Humidity, much lower than the 80% - 90% relative humidity a swamp cooler is going to provide.

    To top it off, looks like the running water doesn't do much to filter contaminates after all.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooling#Disadvantages

  22. combine this with vortex effects on Intel Shows Data Centers Can Get By (Mostly) With Little AC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Add some of the Dyson vacuum inspired vortex thingy's to the intake to help filter out the dust and you wouldn't have to waste as much money on filters either.

    Or what if you run the incoming air through a swamp cooler? wouldn't the running water cut down on the incoming dust significantly?

  23. sooner than latter on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    I always thought of landfills as the next cycle of humanities oil reserve or archeological playground.

    Guess that won't happen after all.

  24. The other lists have science... on Entertainment Weekly Bemoans Lack of Great Science Books · · Score: 1

    While their book list is silly, at least they have some decent Sci-Fi in their movie and TV list.

  25. Re:keep control of the class on Have Mathematics Exams Become Easier? · · Score: 1

    I would vote for you as president. Them disruptive kids need some good discipline. As my Marine Drill Instructor once said, "It's the mom's of America that are making us weaker."

    My complaint about keeping the class under control really comes from once the lesson was done, that class was left to it's own. Within a few minutes it was nothing but but loud gossiping. No work or exercises were being done.

    I will give the teacher some credit though, because he was showing them episodes from the TV show Numbers as a way to show math in use in real life. The kids really liked it. At some point some parent complained that they didn't want their kid watching the show and he was told to stop.

    As for his abilities as a Math teacher, I am not really certain as I was not in his class, my daughter was. Time will only tell if it is as bad as everyone says it was.