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  1. Conjecture much... on Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats To Marine Life (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1
    Let's see what is in this fact based plea from an anonymous coward: probably produce, Some scientists say, can cause, experts fear, according to one study.

    The science is strong with this REEEEEE for help...

  2. Re:2 billion vrs 19 billion vrs 1 billion on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Neckbeard in Facebook Finance Department rolls 20 sided die...

  3. Re:Not as cool as it used to be on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1
    Low skill labor, button pushers, forklift drivers - sounds like they need to hire the Buffalo Bills players and staff to do the job.

    The Bills sure as hell can't play football so they should be doing something useful... (Go Jets!)

  4. Deal with the devil - time to pay up... on Facebook Wants Ownership Case Thrown Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mark, come on man - give the man his due - it's only 84% of the stuff you ripped others off for...

  5. Re:Sigh. on New Tool Reveals Internet Passwords · · Score: 1

    It's a CmdrTaco post - did you expect anything less (or actually more)?

  6. 1st step in something useful for deep exploration. on Japan Successfully Deploys First Solar Sail In Space · · Score: 3, Insightful
    One question, how does it stop with no fuel (aka an ability to brake?)

    Also, how well does the membrane hold up to minuscule debris? Is it durable for extended voyages (outer solar system, extra solar)?

    What is the maximum velocity it could reach with the available solar wind prior to it ending at the heliosheath?

    If they could combine it with something to scoop up stellar gas, along with something to process the gas into energy for steering and braking, you would have something useful.

    And please no Uranus comments for my subject line...

  7. Google has begun a Cash Back program on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 1
    In a move to boost their search engine ratings, Google has now started a Cash Back program.

    From Google HQ:

    Google Cash Back is designed to help advertisers reach you with compelling offers, and to provide a new type of shopping experience that will change user behavior and attract a bunch of new users to Google. We have put in new programs for you and our advertisers designed to provide amazing shopping experiences for consumers and great opportunities for advertisers.

    Our strategy for Google remains evergreen – working hard to understand the intent of your search and helping you make smarter decisions and complete important tasks.

    Shopping remains one of the most important tasks people engage in while using search, and we remain committed to delivering great shopping experiences for you that help you make better shopping decisions, get great deals, and save time and money along the way. For merchants and advertisers, we have some ideas for making it easy to get a broader array of products and offers into Google, and we’ll share some details on this later this summer.

    BTW, another important task is implemented our swell new feature called Google Background - we hope you like it!

    Don't be evil!

  8. Simply put - BCB was more money in my pocket... on Microsoft Cancels Bing Cashback Program · · Score: 1

    By using a combination of key words (a bunch from http://www.slickdeals.net/) on bing.com (especially during the holiday season), I was able to save between 5% to 30% on a bunch of items. I knew M$ was trying to buy results and did not care - $1500 cash back in addition to more from rebates and sometimes coupons which worked with cash back is more money in my pocket....

    As for the person who says it costs more to buy thru bing - I don't think so - there are some items which go on sale at specific merchants and then become awesome deals with high BCB percentages... some recent purchases: i7 980X for $780 delivered, X58 Classified 3-way SLI for $321 (includes $30 rebate), 8% on everything purchased from ebay, LCD TVs, Canon EOS 7D combo deal, newegg deals, etc. - the program has saved me a lot of money since November of 2009. Wish I had used it when it first came out.

    Check out slickdeals site and you will see the posts which people have made to help people save money on all sorts of items... Yesterday it was 30% off your purchase from endless shoes (Amazon's shoe site). There are good deals to be had if you know what other places are charging.

  9. Prepare for the lawsuits... Sexual Harassment 101 on TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What a mess. If it was his supervisor cracking the jokes, the supervisor just opened up the whole sexual harassment facet of this. Mr. Negron has a case if can prove it made his work environment hostile.

    Based upon the available information - sounds like they should fire the supervisor, train the employees on sexual harassment, and fire Mr. Negron for assault.

    Unfortunately, we as taxpayers will ultimately pay for all of it...

  10. Paypal and fraud... on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 5, Interesting
    With heightened visibility comes more scrutiny. Paypal and their more shady customers probably don't want anymore light shown on their activities. Better for paypal to dump cryptome to protect their "more lucrative" albeit more less forthright customers...

    Here is a lovely site for some light reading... http://www.paypalsucks.com/

    Also an interesting story on a new scam in Boston on a scam using facebook, twitter, and Paypal http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/03/6000_fall_prey.html

  11. Notebook and Webcam/Camera Phone and OneNote on Pen Still Mightier Than the Laptop For Notetaking? · · Score: 3, Informative
    I take notes all the time with my laptop. You can use your camera phone or webcam to snap a photo of the diagrams. If you have permission, record the lecture as well if you have a built-in microphone (use Dragon Naturally Speaking or something similar to write the notes automatically.)

    Offer to share the information with your prof or student teacher and they will usually give you the green light or become the note taker for the class (some schools have them for hard of hearing/deaf students - R.I.T.)...

    If you use something like MS OneNote you can drop all these separate pieces onto the note pages and keep them better organized. Text, your notes, the sound clips, and the diagrams...

  12. Stability of pairs and efficiency of transfer? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1
    What can untangle the pairs? How stable is the entanglement?

    Also, how much energy does it take to do the correct measurement to receive the transmitted energy?

    Depending on how much energy can be transferred in this method, would it be possible to mass a large amount of entangled pairs and send them into the Sun (or a solar array in space) that could then transmit that energy back to the other pair located somewhere on Earth?

    Limitless energy with no loss to transmission... Sweet deal...

    BTW, which do you think will come first? The civilian or military use (if the military isn't already using it in some fashion...)

  13. Re:Skim the contaminants off the top on Sponge-Like "Swelling Glass" Absorbs Toxins in Water · · Score: 3, Informative
    Some more details on the product:
    NSF Grant to Aid in Further Development of Water Purifying Substance

    Looks somewhat legit, let's hope for their success...

  14. Skim the contaminants off the top on Sponge-Like "Swelling Glass" Absorbs Toxins in Water · · Score: 1

    Floats to the surface and skim the contaminants off the top??? Quite the trick if it absorbs some sort of heavy metals. Exactly how does it not drip yet you skim the material off the top. Who get's to squeeze the contaminants out?

  15. Continued IOC Actions Will Engender Public Outrage on IOC Trademarks Part of Canadian National Anthem · · Score: 1
    "The IOC, what a bunch of hosers, eh?"

    The more exposure the IOC's lawsuits bring to their activities the the more idiotic their actions will be perceived. The lawmakers will eventually cave as the whiplash from the public outrage nails them...

  16. Re:Same with old photographs on Digitizing Old Magazines? · · Score: 5, Informative
    warrior s,

    My wife is in the same boat as you - she had lots of slides (~3000) from her parents, lots of 35mm negatives (too many to count), and a bunch of photos (again thousands) from all different formats.

    I ended up buying her a Nikon Coolscan V ED for her to scan in the 35mm negatives she has and her parent's slides. She has been very happy with it. I already had an Epson 2450 flatbed scanner...

    She scans the slides, photos, and negatives while working on other projects in her office. The easiest tool I found for the photos is Adobe Photoshop CS (a bit expensive, but worth every penny - you could download a trial version from Adobe.) You put as many photos as can fit on your flatbed scanner (no need to straighten them perfectly), scan the photos, and then click on File --> Automate --> Crop and Straighten Photos - this will break up all the scanned photos into individual files, arrange them so they are straight, after which you can then edit and save each one.

    Someone else wrote some instructions at http://photoshop911.typepad.com/help/2006/01/automating_crop.html/

    There are probably some scanners where you can feed photos in - but some of the photos we have are irreplaceable (no negatives or copies.) We would not want to see them lost due to a scanner feed malfunction.

    Also, do yourself a favor, and make backups of the work that you do. You would hate to lose all that effort due to a hard drive failure.

    Best of luck!

  17. Do we remember images as B&W with Scribbles? on Colorizing Images and Video by Scribbling · · Score: 1
    You have to wonder if this is how we remember parts of our lives or photos. Storing mostly everything in B&W and then colorizing it with scribbles in keyframes.

    Maybe this is why people remember colors in different ways (from what they actually were) when they look at them years later. Or why some people seem to think we dream in B&W...

  18. Uh... sorry... on Volatility of Human Memory · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forgot what I was about to type...

  19. Somone log in with Gabe''s account... on Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault · · Score: 1
    Someone should "access" the auth servers with Gabe's account - most current password is probably Newell...

    Reset the date on the authentication servers to the 16th and see what happens...

    Too bad this does not work on the PC side...

    Hadesan

  20. All Your Posts Are Belong To Us! on How has the USA PATRIOT Act Affected You? · · Score: 1

    Signed,
    Patriot Act Super-super computer systems admin.

  21. Who let's NPD track what is on their hard drives.. on MP3 Going the Way of the 8-Track? · · Score: 1
    CmdrTaco, your link to trend data is goofed...

    The only clear trend shown from your trend link is that Kerry is losing in the polls... ;-)

    One has to ask who are the idiots who let NPD track what is on their harddrives? (NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives)

    As mentioned in previous articles - most people rip their own CD collections to their HDs and have most of the music they want from DLs/file sharing/friends/etc. Additionally, most new music is shite anyways. Hadesan

  22. Where the hell is my catcher's mitt?!?! on Genesis Capsule Crashes; Chutes Blamed · · Score: 1

    Where the hell is my catcher's mitt?!?!

  23. Re:Nuclear energy works! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Can't you mark the burial site with a big balloon that says "Surprise!!!" etched into the rock or doors? ;-))

  24. Credit Card Fraud Skyrockets 1000%... on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    If this works for the credit card authentication and activations - the credit card industry is in for a huge upswing in fraud related losses... This sucks... Hadesan

  25. Keeping secrets... on NASA Boosts AI For Planetary Rovers · · Score: 1
    What if the AI learned to keep secrets?

    Say for example, it encountered an alien lifeform which "convinced" it not to take a picture or report the alien's existence?

    The robot would go along reporting "Nothing here. Nothing there."

    Also, as other's mentioned, what if it said - "Why the hell do I want to die on an alien planet? I am staying right here and not budging..."