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  1. Wrong! on Researchers Getting the Lead Out of Electronics · · Score: 1

    It's nature's super oceanfill!

  2. Re:To prove it... on A Third of Mars Could Have Been Underwater · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Quantity Vs Quality on The Importance of Procedural Content Generation In Games · · Score: 1

    It all depends on the algorithms you use to create procedural content.

  4. Re:Vaporware technology on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Smog results from SOx and NOx compounds. Syngas (CO + H2) is never allowed to leave, because it's a valuable resource for a number of industrial applications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas

  5. Re:Your High School Physics Teacher Called on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Self-sustaining is not necessarily perpetual motion.

  6. Re:So.. on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    ICE generates enough energy to generate electricity for spark plugs, drive a number of electric appliances in the car (lights, stereo, etc.), and move 3 to 10 times more weight than itself at a pretty decent speeds.

    So, ICE is a great example of a self-sustaining operation.

    Self-sustaining means that energy produced is more or equals to energy used for this production.

  7. Re:Earth-observing? on Boeing 747 Modified To Act As Infrared Telescope · · Score: 2, Informative

    Author probably meant "Earth-based observing", although calling a Boeing 747 flying at 10-12 km above sea level "Earth-based" is kind of a stretch, even by Hubble telescope standards... :)

  8. Re:What normal users can expect on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    Man, I totally agree.

  9. Re:What normal users can expect on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    It's a matter of taste. I, for one, like the Ubuntu's default theme. :)

  10. Re:Progress vs Motion on Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? · · Score: 1

    Maybe because feature-rich and functional means a lot of overhead and thus slower operation? Not always, of course, but mostly.

  11. Re:BTRFS? REALLY? on Ext4 Advances As Interim Step To Btrfs · · Score: 1

    Couldn't they come up with a better name than "BuTteR FaSe?" I know I can't be the only one who read it like that. Call it anything but that.

    Missed the point! It's BTR FS, the bullet-proof filesystem for Linux!

  12. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    or Windows X-III (just to cause some brand confusion with OS X)

    And, incidentally, with X Window System as well.

  13. Re:Isn't There an Iron Maiden Song For This? on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    > or Windows X-III (just to cause some brand > confusion with OS X) And, incidentally, with X Window System as well.

  14. Re:Vaporware alert on CO2 To Fuel, Closing the "Carbon Loop" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oops, modded you wrong. Never knew, that willows were actually detrimental to Australian ecosystems...

  15. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    Nope, engine braking saves fuel! Because when you engine brake, your car's ECU will adjust and basically cut the fuel injection, until you push the clutch pedal. When you're braking with brakes on neutral or clutch pressed, the engine is taking fuel to continue working + your car's brake vacuum booster [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_brake ] will take even more power from your car's engine, thus increasing it's fuel consumption. Engine braking is also much more secure on a slippery road -- at least, from my experience.

  16. Re:Go with the flow on What To Do Right As a New Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Man, even in programming experience means something! Great post!

  17. Re:ISO? on IBM Threatens To Leave ISO Over OOXML Brouhaha · · Score: 1

    Maybe /. polls?

    I, for one, welcome your bright idea!

  18. Re:A Self Contradictory Smear. on Grokking SCO's Demise · · Score: 1

    Reality is not compiled, it's a real-time-interpreted medium.

  19. Re:LIQUID ALUMINUM??????? on Bizarre Properties of Glass Allow Creation of "Metallic Glass" · · Score: 1

    Nope, you read it wrong: it "wants" to be true, therefore, unfortunately, if you wait long enough, all urban myths crystallize into truth... :P

  20. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Duroplast was used by Eastern European automobile manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau to produce the body of the mass-produced Trabant motor car, parts for the BMW X3[1][2] and *toilet seats*. The last words made me ROFL. :)
  21. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    A common auto transmission for smaller vehicles is variator-type transmission. It can actually be even more economical, than a manual gearbox.

  22. Re:Wait, CCTV owners? on An Imaginative Use For CCTVs · · Score: 1

    The owners of the cameras were probably stunned by the impudence of band's actions.

  23. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You think that's bad, they raided some guys house in the middle of the night, shot the guy and then when they didn't find any evidence, they tried pinning some child porn charges on him. I dont know what happened after that the press was told to shut up. There, fixed it for you!
  24. Re:No surprise... on UK Academics Arrested For Researching al-Qaida · · Score: 1

    Yep, that looks a little bit like Yezhov's (Stalin's) Great Purges against "enemies of the state" during 1937... One could "report" on another man and the man would be arrested, tortured and finally, sent to GULAG with a false charge...

  25. Re:Interesting, but really needed? on Estonian Cyber Defence Hub Set Up · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Where are my mod points? Well said! :)