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  1. The "Anti Slave Ship" is worth about a klan hood on Obamas Give Queen Elizabeth an iPod · · Score: 1, Interesting

    God, the first chimp has a huge ego. I wonder if they grease the doors in the morning so he can fit his head through.

    Also the HMS GANNET was an anti-slave ship for the wrong reasons. The GANNET was employed to protect British interests and suppress the slave market among the Islamic and African kingdoms, guaranteeing British prices and control of the market.

    Obama, being an idiot, doesn't know a lick of history.

  2. Talk about future proofing on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    Now all I need is my XBOX browser to start working so I can rack up LIVE achievements AND slashdot achievements all in one!

  3. Re:if they do that on Intel Threatens To Revoke AMD's x86 License · · Score: 5, Insightful

    HAHAHAHA.

    I'm on my way to buy SUN stock right now.

    Oops, maybe not.

    OK, I'm off to buy stock in HP!

    Errr...

    I'm going to purchase some DEC stock!

    Oh fooey.

  4. I, for one, welcome our new age on Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award · · Score: 0, Troll

    of moody computing technology!

  5. Re:ACID3 on Firefox Beta Touts Advanced Engine, Solves 8 Flaws · · Score: 1

    IN SOVIET RUSSIA, YOU GET ELECTROSOCCERTUX.

    We shall see how long electrosoccertux's reign of terror can last!

  6. Re:Is it just me? on Early Killzone 2 Reviews Looking Good · · Score: 1

    Well that and the fact that their cover system has already been done to death, and it doesn't seem terribly interesting. I happen to really like how it's done in Rainbow Six and felt it was only "good" in Gears of War. However both of these harken back to Splinter Cell, which was the first shooter to really push the limits of the idea as I recall.

  7. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 1

    Go back to K5.

  8. So we now have on Twisted Radio Beams Could Untangle the Airwaves · · Score: 1

    AM, FM, and TM?

    Great, I predict this will file for chapter 11 shortly, along with that XM crap.

  9. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    The turbo is not the restriction, because it is also the vacuum pump

    No, you're retarded. That sentence is so wrong it's hilarious.

    As far as the rest of your post, if you can't even figure out how the air gets into the engine, you might as well quit arguing.

    And lets be frank, calling you queer is nice, but we all know niggers run mercedes.

  10. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    No, it's absolutely vacuum. That's how a turbo works, it's only boost once the exhaust catches up enough to spin the turbine enough to shove air in there. Google VANOS, Valvetronic, VVTI, VTEC, etc for similar ideas about intake restriction.

    Are you trying to imply the air is somehow baited into the engine? There's no vacuum so there's obviously some kind of air-candy to lure it into the van!

    Once the turbo gets it's shit together, it makes about +35PSI, which is where the vacuum pump (essentially a "vacuum capacitor" for geeks reading) comes into play. If the diesel engine didn't have a vacuum pump, the vacuum would be upwards of -60PSI and vary all over the place. It wouldn't be regulated enough to be useful.

  11. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    If either of you two queers knew any better, one of you would realize that the "restriction in the intake" is the turbo.

  12. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    Guess what? There's no vacuum in a turbo diesel;...

    I cannot possibly fit words around all the cocks.

  13. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    You really expect me to believe you have a certification without knowing a turbo has turbines and there's a boost and vacuum side to a turbo.

    Yeah ok.

    More on the point, you're now trying to tell me you own a 1982 mercedes turbodiesel and you're claiming that nothing on the car is vacuum driven because "diesels don't make vacuum" when that is the poster car for weird vacuum leak problems.

    It even had power door locks driven by vacuum: http://mercedesforum.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6063.html

    Mod parent LIAR.

  14. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    Guess what? You're retarded and clearly have no idea how a turbo works. Do you even know why it's called a "turbo"?

    The most logical engine to put on some kind of hybrid cab would be whatever is developed and proven + an electrical pump to move air so you can still turn that engine off.

    Please stay away from tools and cars, mmmmkay?

  15. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 1

    It depends on context, I suppose. If you're thinking about UPS, USPS, or Fedex (private shipping companies which handle the "last mile") then it's a possibility, but then you have the same problem you have with a turbo where it needs to make enough boost to overcome the added cost of having it attached to the engine. 5HP is a drop in the bucket to a 700HP/1000lbs torque semi.

    Also keep in mind that most of these are "air ride equipped".

  16. Re:Sounds heavy to me on MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car · · Score: 2, Informative

    (My father in law drove an 18 wheeler at one point).

    So much of the 18 wheeler relies on moving air around pneumatically. The two basic forces in an 18 wheeler are positive pressure and vacuum. If you do away with the engine (or otherwise turn it off), you lose the boost/vacuum economy which makes those accessories work. While you could probably come up with some weird stopgap - they already use compressed air tanks as a backup - the retrofit to make it work with existing trailers would far outweigh the savings from a hybrid cab. Add to this that the truckers rent or own their own cabs as part of the business and there's little incentive for anyone to innovate or upgrade in a direction that would hurt their prospects for hauling.

  17. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, the dead can't talk.

    You know anything about putting my honda back together?

  18. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have the opposite problem. My wife won't touch linux but still wants to use my PC.

    Then she gripes that it doesn't "automatically log in" or gives me the "we should share passwords".

    I say to her, "Do you know shit about Linux?" "no" "THEN YOU DON'T NEED MY PASSWORD FOR SHIT".

  19. Re:I never thought I'd see the day. on New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE · · Score: 1

    Ever boot an SCO box?

    "Portions copyright Microsoft yadda yadda yadda".

  20. Re:In Soviet russia on Russia To Develop a National Operating System · · Score: 1

    Not if you're using Microsoft Windows!

    In soviet russia, Windows logo is FOUR RED PANES OF OPAQUE GLASS.

  21. Re:Reactionary. on Whistleblower Claims NSA Spied On Everyone, Targeted Media · · Score: 1

    lolberman.

  22. Re:Is it cos I iz black? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's abused to hell and back because it is a literary device rather than a functional metaphor, especially when applied to systems of things.

  23. Re:Is it cos I iz black? on Layoffs at Microsoft, Intel, and IBM · · Score: 1

    That's what's good about capitalism.

    It doesn't really ever commit suicide because it's not a person.

  24. Re:FACTS, not "truth". on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 1

    lol.

    Wikipedia should be called "the encyclopedia of popular opinion".

  25. Re:OpenXML Plug-In Exists for Novell's OO.o on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 5, Informative

    They fixed it. I'm the Linux Guy at work, and I have to toss together powerpoint presentations.

    Specifically what doesn't work:
    * Slide transparency isn't supported, so anything you paste into slides will be 100% opaque when opened in MS Office
    * Vector art does wild stuff. Whatever coordinate system OO is using, MS isn't. If you use anything that uses vectors, convert them to bitmaps first.