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  1. Re:Wag the dog on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Read the post again - he was talking about handing every passenger a gun as they boarded the plane, not just CCW license holders.

  2. Re:Google Should Sue on YouTube Reposts Anti-Scientology Videos · · Score: 1

    But the only way they would've done that is to have bought out YouTube, merged its content library with Google Video's, and killed off YouTube.

    Also, I'll note that on my 1.2GHz G4, YouTube is watchable. Google Video isn't. Anything larger than about 320x240 in FLV just doesn't work, and is a skipping slideshow. (Granted, I have a 1.6 Core 2 Duo that I watch online videos on. But, video shouldn't be that hard to do right. Flash just sucks the big one.)

  3. Re:Neat idea... on DIY Hybrid Car Kit · · Score: 1

    I've got an 86 Golf diesel that's rotting away, waiting for a friend to take the engine... I had the 1.6L, so I got 52 hp! w00t!

    The last year for the Golf diesel in the US (the Rabbit is a rebadged Golf, but the 2006.5-present Rabbit has never been sold with a diesel) is 2006.

  4. Re:Neat idea... on DIY Hybrid Car Kit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And you could probably cut that price further by getting a used motor of that class... I've got access to a bunch of Kubota D950 motors (slightly larger displacement, older, but same technology) that I could probably get for free.

    Or, pay a little more, and get a different motor - I'm thinking a Yanmar 3TNV82A-BDSA. Yes, it's over 100 lbs heavier, but you get 10 more horsepower, and below 3000 RPM a significant increase in BSFC, due to it being direct injection.

    (Alternately, you could probably put that engine's head and fuel injection system on a smaller Yanmar such as the 3TNV70-CSA.)

  5. Re:Neat idea... on DIY Hybrid Car Kit · · Score: 1

    Except the closest to a Peugeot diesel hatchback you can buy in the US is a VW diesel hatchback.

    And they don't sell them any more (because Golfs are made in Germany instead of Mexico, yet are sold for less than the Mexican-made Jettas,) so the closest to that that you can get is a VW diesel sedan (saloon.)

  6. Re:Well, a step in the right direction on Intel's First SSD Blows Doors Off Competition · · Score: 1

    This is an MLC, you'll have to wait a while for the SLC drive to come out... (and the SLC is supposedly going to destroy everything on write performance, which is this drive's weak point.)

  7. Re:Oh, my. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 4, Funny

    999.99% uptime: The system never crashes, and after you turn it off, it keeps running 9.9999 times as long as you had it running.

  8. Re:Some videos back up on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So give false information. Yes, that's under the penalty of perjury, but go through enough levels of proxies, and how are you going to get caught?

  9. Re:Legal consequence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    You'd probably have to consult a lawyer, but is there a way to anonymously file a counter notice?

  10. Re:Quality control on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 1

    And most of the whiteboxers that I've seen around here are selling PC Chips-based systems with $2 power supplies that blow up if you look at them funny.

    I guess you could buy machines from ABS or Falcon Northwest or something...

  11. Re:Oh Noes! on AT&T Slaps Family With a $19,370 Cell Phone Bill · · Score: 1

    Actually, Sprint had an automatic tiered plan, the Fair and Flexible plans, although I believe they no longer offer those.

  12. Re:"....less than a zero percent chance" on The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted · · Score: 1

    Same here. :(

    (And, I wanted to mod this up +1, Sad.)

  13. Re:Unique process model, come on! on Development, Privacy, and Standards for Chrome · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You realize that the windows don't have to be maximized all the time, right?

  14. Quality control on Dell To Sell Its Computer Factories · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While it may be cheaper to outsource production of your primary product, quality control might not be as good.

    Besides, it seems kinda wrong that a company that manufactures computers is outsourcing manufacturing of computers.

  15. Re:D'oh! on Comcast Appeals FCC's Net Neutrality Ruling · · Score: 1

    Have a neighbor 1050 feet away get DSL, and use a router setup in wireless bridge mode with pringles can antennas.

  16. Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    For reading Slashdot, I usually use Opera Mini on my Centro, but I was just saying...

    (I do have AvantGo on my Fossil Wrist PDA...)

  17. Re:Not illegal on Don't Share That Law! It's Copyrighted · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The punishment is that, if you commit suicide, your death was caused by your commission of a crime, and therefore you're treated differently by insurance companies and such.

  18. Re:countdown on Ghostbusters Is First Film Released On USB Key · · Score: 2, Informative

    QNX is a *nix for embedded applications, with a realtime microkernel, and Syllable is a fork of AtheOS, which was originally intended to be a modern Amiga-like OS.

  19. Re:Is that a threat? on Hit Man Email Scammer Back With a Vengeance · · Score: 1

    I guess this would be a form of protection racket.

  20. Re:Help Vista or Linux? on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now you have to install Linux Genuine Advantage and pay your $699 licensing fee, you cock-smoking teabaggers!

  21. Re:This makes me want to send a rude email. on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    Actually, they can delete replies posted by somebody - they did it in response to a DMCA takedown notice, one time, IIRC.

    So, just DMCA your own posts...

  22. Re:Might As Well Try to Discuss This on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1

    AvantGo is banned for making too many requests or something... so anyone who tries to use AvantGo to get the Palm version of Slashdot gets a banned message.

  23. Re:10 million digits on 45th Known Mersenne Prime Found? · · Score: 1

    Technically, 1 isn't prime.

  24. Re:Paper? on Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap? · · Score: 1

    Archival-grade CD-Rs do exist...

    Also, there are storage technologies specifically for archival purposes, such as magneto-optical... nobody said they were CHEAP, but they do exist, and due to their use in the medical field, there'll probably always be something to read the media.

  25. Re:Control of personal space on Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai · · Score: 1

    It's in Dubai... a bit of revisionist history here and there, and the arcology becomes a religious landmark.