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  1. Re:Typical american slasdotters on EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll · · Score: 0

    American Slashdotter: "Damn europeans! Always picking on our good ol hard workin corporations. Its about freedom and choice. Don't they get it."

    Well considering you are like the third comment on this post, and there are no comments that actually say that...

    I'm just going to leave this here.

    [Citation Needed]

  2. Re:Net energy? on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Batteries are heavy, expensive, and wear out. This would be much better even at less efficiency.

  3. Re:That's nothing; think how they store the passwo on Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You · · Score: 1

    Alternately they they match your long password against the hash, trim the password to the new length, and overwrite your old hash with a hash of the trimmed password.

  4. Re:waiting for activists to start police recogniti on Facial Recognition Cameras Peering Into Some SF Nightspots · · Score: 1

    Police wear helmets.

  5. Re:Someone else must have used Prodigy... on Online Services: The Internet Before the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yeah I used to love the Mad Libs game, and the choose your own adventure games on there. Had to be careful because some of them charged money, and I wasn't allowed to use any that did.

    There was a little icon at the bottom of the screen (This was before multitasking computing. The prodigy application ran in DOS and took up the whole screen.) that told you how much you were being charged at the moment. Some of them charged by number of page loads, and some actually charged based on the time you spent on the page.

    My mom used it for email, and was on a bbs.

  6. So basically... on RoboBonobo: A Project To Outfit Apes With Tablets and Telepresence Bots · · Score: 1

    They use the idea of giving monkeys smartphones to drum up funding for their research, and then when the smartphones don't actually help anything they take them from the monkeys to use themselves.

  7. Re:Earthen berms.... on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's a very arid region, the soil is porous and soaks up moisture, and is easy to dig into.

    So basically it is only useful because of local conditions. Kind of like wind power in that regard.

  8. I read the actual paper. on Changing the Texture of Plastics On Demand · · Score: 1

    The primary researcher's website is http://www.zhaogroup.org/

    The voltage must be passed through the plastic. Not useful for things you don't want electrified.

    http://www.duke.edu/~xz69/papers/34.pdf

  9. Re:Already implemented here on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 2

    Tape a magnet to the bottom of it. I'm serious.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Trigger-Green-Traffic-Lights

  10. Re:Pretend they are real on $6 Trillion In Fake US Treasury Bonds Seized In Switzerland · · Score: 1

    If we pretend they are real then they would be PART of the US debt. The US debt IS treasury bonds.

  11. Re:Want! on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Yeah its too bad none of those old SNL skits are on youtube. The networks must be real strict with the takedowns because the best way to sell dvds is to make sure nobody knows SNL used to be funny.

  12. Re:Or you never visualized them in the first place on Are You Better At Math Than a 4th (or 10th) Grader? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Especially once you realize that 3*7=21 and only one answer ended in 1.

  13. Re:To say nothing of their own reputation on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    The holding tanks were supposed to be a temporary measure until a permanent disposal facility was built, but the building of the permanent disposal facility was blocked for political reasons. The waste could be reprocessed in a breeder reactor into usable fuel, but breeder reactors are forbidden because they make weapons grade fissionables.

  14. Re:But why... on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Or white granulated sugar. Serving size: 1 gram; Carbohydrates: 1 gram; Sugars: 1 gram. Ingredients: Sugar.

  15. Re:Let's be accurate here on In the EU, Water Doesn't (Officially) Prevent Dehydration · · Score: 1

    Instead they do stuff like advertise things like Licorice as "Low in fat". Considering it is made almost entirely out of sugar that is technically accurate.

  16. Re:In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What Human's Crave on In-Vitro Muscle Cells, It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    Guess what happens to all the animals being raised for meat once synthmeat starts driving down the prices. They get slaughtered to cut feed prices.

  17. Re:not really sustainable. on Strange Places To Find Open Source · · Score: 1

    You need far more energy to smelt steel than any amount of windmills will provide. Not to mention carbon.

  18. Re:I stopped reading the responses after... on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Any substance, any action, any thought. I mean have you ever tried to stop breathing. Let me tell you the withdrawal symptoms are killer.

    Also: http://vintage.failed-dam.org/tomato.htm

  19. Re:Why it doesn't matter on Redbox Raises Its Prices To $1.20 Per Day · · Score: 1

    I used it to rent Tron Legacy.

    The movie sucked, and then after I returned it redbox sent me like 12 emails in the next two weeks. It was like some creepy girl I went on a date with, but never called back.

  20. Re:Subsidies inflate pricing. on Ron Paul Wants To End the Federal Student Loan Program · · Score: 1

    Student loans can't be defaulted. Bankruptcy doesn't discharge them, and they can garnish your paycheck. That why banks love them so much. Nearly no risk.

  21. Re:is there a helium shortage? on Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships · · Score: 3, Informative

    In fact helium, once lost to the atmosphere, is irrecoverable in any useful quantity. The only way we can get more is to filter it out of natural gas trapped underground. Helium could therefore be considered a petroleum byproduct.

  22. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    Wow. You have really impressed me with your in depth research on this topic as well as the care you took to cite all your sources.

  23. Re:Federal Law State Law on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    In a technical sense, accepting goods places a burden of debt upon the recipient.

    No it doesn't. If I hand you a widget you do not owe me money. If you take a widget from my store without paying for it you still do not owe me money. (You have committed theft though, which may allow me to file suit against you for restitution.) You only owe money when you agree to owe money.

  24. Re:This will finally kill capitalism. on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    Capitalism isn't something that can be killed. It is an economic model that describes the actions of people. It does not dictate those actions. Capitalism does not provide or refuse anything to anybody.

  25. Re:This will pass safety inspections? on Electric Tron Lightcycle Hits the Streets · · Score: 1

    Notice that the first section where he looks like he is zooming down the road is actually sped up. You can tell by the pixels, and also the water rippling in the background.

    He drives in the bike lane because it can't reach road speed. That thing has 12 car batteries in it, and a steel frame with only one electric motor it doesn't have enough juice.