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  1. Re:huh? on Microreactors Change Propane into Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    This does break open the chicken-egg problem with hydrogen vehicles and a distribution system for hydrogen. If all of the currently operating gas stations can easily offer hydrogen with some kind of on-site converstion unit it creates a much better position to get people to buy hydrogen or multi-fuel vehicles. Once people have hydrogen powered vehicles on the road you just change the way hydrogen gets to the fuel stations. Right now the investment in a whole new hydrogen distribution system is probably one of the biggest obstacles to overcome.

  2. Re:And not looking at the right numbers. on Ethanol More Trouble Than It's Worth? · · Score: 1

    So run the harvesters and tractors on ethanol. Just use nuke reactors for the energy required for the conversion of biomass into ethanol and use fossil fuels during the conversion/weaning process. We already have the fuel distribution system in place (hydrogen doesn't) and we aren't waiting for some magic bullet technology (fuel cells) that might never come to fruition. Sounds like a more realistic way to significantly reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources.

  3. Re:Won't somebody please think of the ATM machines on IBM Officially Kills OS/2 · · Score: 1

    Just hook up an old Atari laptop with a cable attached to your card and the ATM will tell you what your pin number is.

  4. Re:Contamination on Mars Express Begins Search for Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    I haven't read the book or seen the movie but from past experiences I assume Tom Cruise will save the world in some fashion.

  5. Re:failure to take off on Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SVG's failure to take off has everything to do with there not being any infinitely scalable vector-based pr0n. Pr0n is what drives internet technology.

  6. Re:No smoking gun? on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tried to murder her??? After the incident took place the same US soldiers applied some first aid to her and then drove her to a hospital to be treated for shock. I have never heard of a criminal in the U.S. that was intending to murder someone taking that same person to the hospital after the attempt but maybe criminals are different in Italy.

  7. Re:Do I need to explain Everything to you?!! on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 1

    A Delorean can make it up to 88mph, you just have to dump out all the cocaine first.

  8. Best tip ever from this comic on Howard And Nester Comic Archive · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best tip for life in general comes from this comic. Check out the Sept/Oct 1988 Strip. Here's the tip for you lazies:

    Carry the magic potion to the place with the most grass before you use it.

    Brilliant, just brilliant.

  9. Re:Just ONE request... on Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years · · Score: 1

    No, the key word is density. A pound of pure lead isn't more dense than an ounce of pure lead. The density is the same. Making the fuel tank bigger with same fuel doesn't increase the energy density, it just lets you take more fuel.

  10. Re:Rehabilitataion vs. Punishment on All Games Banned From MO Prisons · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to rehabilitation? When did we become a nation that values vindication over elevation?

    When has the U.S. prison system ever been about rehabilitation, if by rehabilitation you mean the teaching of social, life and vocational skills? There have been a few experiments with that form rehabilitation (especially in the late 1800's), but ever since the concept of a prision started in Philadelphia in 1790, the idea was punishment, repenting and penitence (where the word penitentiary comes from). Usually this broke down into solitary confinement or free contract labor. If you add in the concept of control because of the ever increasing ratio of prisoners to guards, you have the U.S. prison system of today. While most Liberals poke fun about 'Jesusland' and such, the U.S. still holds on to a lot of its Christian puritan roots.

    Check out Prison Reform for a good look at the history of prisons.

  11. Re:They tried this already... on Game Companies Prepare for Next Console War · · Score: 1

    But playing the E.T. game is just like the business practices of Hollywood and soon to be the video game industry. Example: Damn it, fell in a hole. Try to get out of the hole. Nope, fell again. Try to get out of the hole. Nope, fell again. Try to get out of the hole. Nope, fell again. Try to get out of the hole. HURRAH, GOT OUT OF THE HOLE!!! Shit, fell in another hole.

  12. Re:I have a sinking feeling.... on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    Ok, disclaim, RANT_MODE_ON:

    And you think voting for the alternative would have any different outcome? When you realize that politicians, D or R, only care about getting (re-)elected and will whore themselves out in any way they can to get there, then you will understand the bi-party system for what it has become. The system we have now is like having heads and tails on a turd. Whatever side lands up, it's still a turd.

  13. Re:Stern.. on Michael Powell to Leave FCC · · Score: 1

    Fritz Hollins (D-SC), nuff said.

  14. Re:OK, But... on Make Magazine Subscription Now Available · · Score: 1

    Take a look at Circuit Cellar. If you have any interest in electronics/microprocessors/microcontrollers this magazine is top notch.

  15. Re:OK, But... on Make Magazine Subscription Now Available · · Score: 1

    You just haven't realized that there really is no spoon.

  16. Re:blech on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    But having a Jag means having "experiences" with hot chicks in the back that aren't your girlfriend. Your girlfriend can settle for the back of the Pinto. This proves to yourself that she really loves you. Hot chicks in the back of the Jag are only for hot monkey (or grits) type love, not relationships.

  17. Re:A Plea on Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed · · Score: 2, Funny

    The HDDs in my main machine easily drown out the fans, and it has 10 fans, all told (2 PSU, 5 case, CPU, GPU and chipset).

    WHAT!!!! I can't hear you over all those HDDs!

  18. Re:Right Alongside on US To Push Criminalization of IP Violations · · Score: 1

    NO!!! Not the Tossed Salad man!!!!

  19. Re:35% at McD's?! on Budget Issues Force Spy Satellites Into The Open · · Score: 1

    Just remember that FICA is not a tax, it's a contribution. Spoonfull of sugar and all.

  20. Re:This looks really sweet, but..... on SBC Builds A TiVo Rival · · Score: 1

    So change your career from textile production to road construction.

  21. Re:Same nonsense different century. on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    And to think, my Linux box actually told me this when I accidently deleted the /etc directory.

  22. Re:Abuse of the term "Darwinism" on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    The table is not solid because it's an agreed reality. The table is solid because your hand cannot pass through it.

    Until you realize the truth, that there is not table. Then you will see that it is not the table your hand cannot pass through, only yourself.

    <Ted_Logon_Voice>Whoah</Ted_Logon_Voice>

  23. Re:don't forget about darwinist programming on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    Or what I said in back in college:

    Why bother with the Fourier Series? - I have beer and Final Fantasy VII.

    Too bad my controls systems prof didn't agree.

  24. Re:Don't forget ... on Subatomic Darwinism · · Score: 1

    So God must be a woman because I've only seen women going into or out out of the Gap.

  25. Re:A few more stories you might have missed... on BBC Reports 38% Jump In U.S. Broadband Use · · Score: 1

    You mean newsmax.com, right?