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  1. Japanese Culture on Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Using stickers with built-in buttons and LED lights, the promo isn’t only smart, it’s also a great opportunity for stealing Star Wars memorabilia. I imagine that these stick-in ’sabers are going to disappear very quickly indeed.

    Something makes me think that these will be just fine. It just isn't in some cultures to steal everything that looks cool and isn't bolted down.

  2. Re:healthcare's a rip-off on Rite Aid Drug Stores Offer Virtual Doc Visits · · Score: 1

    Most doctors do not get their masters. An MD is not a PhD. There is no PhD in medicine, it is a professional degree like JD or DDS.

    You CAN get your PhD or masters in something else before med school (Usually someone that doesn't get into med school 1st time will take a year off to get a "Masters of Public Health", Dietetics or Physiology).

    I've heard of people that have PhDs in in Virology and an MD, but they end up doing more research than actual medicine practice.

  3. Illinois on Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Illinois is broke as all hell. They're setting themselves up to be the next California. I moved out around a year ago before they raised state income tax. At that time they hadn't paid any of the in state colleges what they were owed for around 18 months.

    U of I also came out with a genius plan to 'lock in' your rate for 4 years, so if there is a short fall, the next year is going to have a huge jump in tuition. It's getting to the point where in-state for U of I is as expensive as out of state if you were to go to Purdue, Michigan, UW Madison, etc. Out of state tuition is up near the cost of private schools.

  4. Re:Myth on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=52&i=9773
    The first experimental engine was built in 1893 and used high pressure air to blast the coal dust into the combustion chamber. While the prototype blew its cylinder head off but, four years later, Diesel produced a reasonably reliable engine. His ideas for an engine where the combustion would be carried out within the cylinder were published in 1893, one year after he applied for his first patent.

    Further developments using coal dust as fuel failed. A compression ignition engine that used oil as fuel was successful and a number of manufacturers were licensed to build similar engines.

    His first designs were designed around coal dust.

  5. Myth on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 2, Informative

    Diesel designed his engine around coal dust.

    Someone else ran it on peanut oil for exhibition in Paris.

  6. Re:D-Link DIR-825 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    My N seems to max out around 100baseT speeds. (Which given that's what my old HARD wired network was, I'm happy).
    Gigabit goes along around 40-50MB/s.

    I need to put back up my old Buffalo so I can take my router down long enough to get the soldering done (My roommates rather like internet).

    Any advantages of extboot over external overlay?

  7. Re:Money NOT well spent. on The Search For Apollo 10's "Snoopy" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is the ratio of what is spent on NASA to what is spent on "Defense"?
    There is a lot of waste in the budget, but NASA and the sciences are not one of them.

  8. Re:Not an issue. on William Shatner On Star Trek Vs. Star Wars · · Score: 2

    Sisko: Better than all of the above.

    Star Wars seemed more about the story. Rebels fighting to live free.
    Star Trek to me was interesting because it was more technology based. Yes they had excellent story lines (DS9 in particular) but what got me hooked as a young engineer was "the future." PADDs, Warp Drive, etc.

  9. Re:D-Link DIR-825 on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. It even has a second internal USB port that I soldered a cheap 1GB thumb drive to (stripped down). I'm running OpenWRT but it has all the features I want/need. It's also serving up IPv6 to the network with SIXX.

    And none of the DD-WRT slowdowns mentioned.

  10. Avoid SGC on Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If Stargate Command comes to your door recruiting, best bet is to politely turn them down.

  11. Re:Hmmm..... on Microbes Produce Power As They Clean Nuclear Waste · · Score: 4, Funny

    A rat teaches them martial arts?

  12. Estimations. on Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
    Scotty: How long will it really take?
    Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: An hour!
    Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya?
    Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.
    Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

  13. Re:Security theater a little on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    They're using LDAP for authentication.

    Meaning if we have a network of linux, windows, mac, etc machines all served by a LDAP backend run on Lion, then I can login as you.

  14. Re:The best fix for Minecraft... on Notch Shows Minecraft Adventure Update · · Score: 1

    God This. It gets nearly unplayable on a Mac after a half an hour. I have 8GB of RAM and a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo Java will just start to eat RAM and CPU.

    It may just not have the optimization on the Mac but it just plain sucks.

  15. Yo Dawg. I hear you like raising money. on Kickstarter-Like Service For Charities? · · Score: 1

    So start a kickstarter to build a kickstarter for raising money for charities.
    One of those charities could also be a nonprofit to raise money like for another project like kickstarter.

  16. Re:Double Standard on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    " the teacher's hostile remarks about creationism and religious faith "

    This has nothing to do with the subject and everything to do with the teacher being on a soapbox.

  17. Re:Not so surprising... on Study Shows Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer · · Score: 1

    The real oddity here is not that dogs have good noses... a ton of animals do. Humans are actually the oddity. There seems to be a negative correlation between intelligence and smelling ability, perhaps because having lots of rational thought takes enough brain space that smelling gets pushed aside.

    This is going to come off wrong, but I can tell when a woman is on her period. To say it's a "smell" is a bit offensive, it's more like a pheromone. It's just sort of an emotion/feeling. Akin to my feeling of where North is. I can't describe it, I can't explain it, but it's 100% dead on. (Hardest time is getting close enough friends to ask the question).

  18. Tucows? on Canadian Judge Rules Domain Names Are Property · · Score: 1

    The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software is registering domains? Man I'm old. Has Flint Michigan done so bad that we gave it to Canada?

    Next you're going to tell me Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company has stopped selling stuff for my mine.

  19. Re:Mod Parent Up! on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    When you went to the store did you skip over anything sold by 3M because you weren't in the mining industry?
    Do you skip BBC because you don't care about British news?
    Do you skip Al Jazeera because you don't care about Arabic news?

  20. Re:Supply and demand on Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies · · Score: 1

    1) It hasn't always been easy to make.
    2) There is a huge difference between making something in a lab and doing it in production.
    3) Say he made $5000 worth of it from a part of a cookie. It could have easily cost him $10,000 to make. See also fusion reactors.

  21. Mod Parent Up! on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    CSM has amazing articles and unlike most of the drivel coming out of places these days is actually well written and researched. The "Christian" part throws a lot of people but it shouldn't.

  22. Re:You Are The Product on Fake Names On Social Networks, a Fake Problem · · Score: 1

    It's how USPS does it for online change of address forms. It's a $1 charge but google could easily afford a $.1 charge (they already have the google checkout processor). I'd validate and verify everyone on their service. Heck they could even just issue a temporary hold and reverse the charge as long as it went through.

  23. Capsaicin on The Biggest Dangers to Your Fiber · · Score: 1

    If you have any new ideas on how we can combat these wayward rodents, I’d love to hear from you. We are always looking for ways to improve.

    I'm pretty sure this has already been solved. You coat them with a capsaicin powder. Higher on the scoville scale the better.

  24. Re:No emulator is perfect on A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator · · Score: 1

    Super Mario Bros 3.

    We didn't have NES, but that was the only game me and my friends consistently played. Even 20 years later I still can play the original on NES like nothing happened. The emulators are 99.9% there, but in tricky spots or when jump timing counts, they don't work right. Mario slides just a bit too far or jumps a bit too fast.

  25. Re:I remember the ping of death on Microsoft Patches 1990s-Era 'Ping of Death' · · Score: 1

    If your friend was on dialup why not just do the ++ATH0 ping? Oh the fun I had with that.