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  1. Re:Showing my ignorance on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    That makes me wonder. Couldn't they make some hydrogen using the solar cells & waste water on the space station? It wouldn't be much but might be enough to build up a little thrust to use to maintain orbit occasionally.

  2. Re:not a new concept. on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    Not if you plug it into the neighbors electrical outlets...duh. j/k ;)

  3. Re:Brilliant idiots... on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1
    God knows how much the US love miniturization

    You haven't seen my truck....

  4. Re:Yeah... on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 1

    or one of my personal favorites

    FORD - F*cked Over Rebuilt Dodge

  5. Re:Yeah... on Car With A Mind Of Its Own -- Part 2 · · Score: 1

    I had my accelerator stick under the edge of the floormat one time and go full blast. I was able to kick it off quickly but if someone had been in front of me it would have been ugly.

  6. Re:It reminds me... on Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam · · Score: 3, Funny

    or vice-versa. You think you have a little fart and you get the surprise of your life.

  7. Re:Scary, yet cool. on Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the antichrist is leader of a one world government and the whole world wanders after him. He comes in as a lamb..so that would be under the pretext of a peaceful man. That is not the United States. Someone attacks us and heads roll, countries fall, and leaders go into hiding. It also states that the one world government would be without the wings of the eagle. I'm all for pulling out of that crap. They don't do anything. 10 years of drawing new lines in the sand in Iraq did alot of good. I'm not saying I completely agree with how it was done, but I do completely disagree with how it was handled the 8 years prior. We need a one world religion as well. Thanks to the muslim extremists that will probably happen to get rid of radicals. The temple mount has to be rebuilt and a one world currency comes into effect...damn Euro....its ugly.

  8. Re:incorporate zahn's books on Star Wars TV Show · · Score: 1

    or Troops!!!

  9. Re:Not that impressive... on 11,000 Words on the Star Wars Trilogy DVDs · · Score: 1
    That's nothing. I've seen more effort put into discussions concerning the far-reaching ramifications of Greedo shooting first and Han stepping over Jabba's tail alone.

    You should look up the heated debates on Death Star vs Enterprise. It goes on for DAYS.

  10. Re:Low cost on Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Chandrayan==all your jobs are belong to us.

  11. Re:Bush's Fault on IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In The U.S. · · Score: 1
    because under clinton inherited terrible numbers and turned them around. gwb inherited clinton's numbers and turned them around

    or vice-versa...things were turning around at the beginning of the Clinton era (and just before him) and began falling apart at the end...remember the .com bubble burst? most democrats don't..sigh.

  12. Re:Initial Cost on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I considered the same thing but couldn't get an answer to an important question I had for the people selling it. Can it survive the occasional baseball/grapefruit sized hailstorms we sometimes get in TX? Another thing was I figured if I added all of the green energy stuff to my home owners insurance that the added premium would probably offset the savings. I have lots of plans on how to make a home more energy efficient. I would love to do it someday. I even did a simple modification to my 2 story house that lowered my electric bills quite a bit. I ran an air duct down to the bottom floor from upstairs into the AC unit. During the winter it would suck the coldest air off the bottom floor right into the unit and blow heat out from the ceiling on the bottom floor. Just closing that off in the summer time kept it blowing cold air upstairs & trickling down through the house. It helped quite a bit.

  13. Re:waiter there's a computer virus in my soup! on Zombie Networks On The Rise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know about that. I find it ironic that even on P2P networks people are so infected that their files aren't even usable. The irony is that you can download functioning copies from the same networks that they are participating in or at least can get a free version of some decent virus protection, yet they don't. So I think even if not one more single computer virus was made starting tomorrow it would take forever for them to disappear.

    Not trying to flame here but some of the worst havens I have seen are samba shares because people don't put antivirus on *nix servers. It is like pulling teeth trying to tell those admins that it DOES affect them. If their users are running windows, get a virus that does keylogging, and they log in again...guess what...it did affect the *nix server.

  14. Re:the 3 days it takes? on Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms · · Score: 1

    Oh thank God they took it off. I quit going there when it would pop up & ask me for $$ for a 5 day forecast. I guess nobody signed up & it produced nothing but an angry mob ;) Thanks for the update though. Now I can start going there again to see more than current weather.

  15. Re:the 3 days it takes? on Supercomputers Race to Predict Storms · · Score: 1, Insightful
    and that 5-day forcast is getting much more accurate.

    And much less free on weather.com. Who decided to do that anyway? Charge for a best-guess on a 5-day forecast? I can see that for free on my rabbit ears on the TV.

  16. Re:I think I speak for all of us ... on Beer Found to be as Healthy as Wine · · Score: 1

    I should bring that up in my DUI trial. I only had 2 drinks but I don't weigh enough to get outside of their little revenue sliding scale.

  17. Re:in other news... on U.S. IT jobs Down 400K Since 2001 · · Score: 1

    BNSF railroad outsourced its IT department and it is practically impossible to talk to them over the phone. They just try to fix everything with a script and you can't even understand the questions. I sat in on a couple of these (my Dad works with them). It was a horrible experience.

  18. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 1
    If you can show the expense on the credit card bill, it shouldn't be hard to contact the software vendor and get a new key. Going to a site to get a hacked key is not only illegal, it's lazy and pointless

    I think you missed the point. I downloaded versions that did not require a CD and some of them come with a key built in...I still have the cd key sitting right here in my folder with the others. I just hate having to tote around 50 cds just in case I decide to write a word document or play Age of Empires in the hotel room. I own it. Its legal. Think of it this way, most companies have corporate images of windows installs. Every one of them has the same CD key. This is perfectly legal as long as you own a CD key for each and every one of them.

  19. Re:Best quote from article on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 1
    In a nutshell, is this not what MS is doing?

    Better not read bug track forums if you think this way. Firefox, etc do the same thing. They talk about bugs before a release is due.

  20. Re:This is a big deal? on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 1

    It is similar to reading about bugs in forums for *nix based products. You know they exist....and they aren't fixed yet....same thing.

  21. Re:Too Far? on Independent Developers Fight Piracy & Lose · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That really sucks. The only pirated software I have is stuff that I actually own but would rather have a version that doesn't require the CD or something I own that the CD was damaged & I refused to pay $10 or whatever for a new CD. I have the license keys to back them up. If a pirated copy deleted my important calls you can bet I would be on the phone with support for hours until they restored all of my data they messed up.

  22. Re:Crinkle crinkle on Satellite Pics Going Dark? · · Score: 1

    lol I hate it when that happens. I forget the extrans all the time.

  23. Re:First thing to type at a command prompt.... on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 1

    grin that was the point. its a noob so of course they would log in as root. Personally I use sudo with a regular account.

  24. Do I strive or crack under pressure? on Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? · · Score: 1

    According to my watch I don't crack until 100 meters.

    But seriously...I'm bored if I'm not in a high stress job. I jumped right into IT/Systems Admin where I was taking care of hundreds of systems and got used to it. Now if I have a low work load I feel like I'm working 18 hour days.

  25. Re:First thing to type at a command prompt.... on Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey · · Score: 3, Funny

    [root@linux]# man what do I do now?
    No manual entry for what
    No manual entry for do
    No manual entry for I
    No manual entry for do
    No manual entry for now?
    [root@linux]#wtf?
    -bash: wtf?: command not found
    [root@DEV-INT-AS1 root]# computer, do something
    -bash: computer,: command not found
    [root@DEV-INT-AS1 root]#

    (ok lets get out of this...X for exit?)

    [root@DEV-INT-AS1 root]#X

    ARGH!