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  1. Efficiency on Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel · · Score: 0

    How could this possibly be more efficient than simply using the solar cells to charge a storage battery to power electric motors? Not only is splitting water inefficient, but burning it in an internal combustion engine is even more so.

  2. Re:Bring 'em on (no thanks) on Remote-controlled Bolts and Screws · · Score: 0

    I'm sure there are many that can, carbide is very brittle any flex/vibratiion and the brazed carbide will break and you now have a useless $20 drill bit.

  3. Nice but, on Sony's $700 Linux-based Remote Control · · Score: -1

    Does a remote control come with this remote control?

  4. Re:Lance pisses off French on Mapping The Tour de France Riders From Space · · Score: 0

    Merckx was the best ever IMO, his record speaks volumes

  5. Re:Lance pisses off French on Mapping The Tour de France Riders From Space · · Score: 0

    Where was it reported that it was the French spitting on Armstrong? The tour fans come from US, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Columbia, Brazil, Australia, Italy, UK... Why do you assume it is French fans?

  6. Re:Lance pisses off French on Mapping The Tour de France Riders From Space · · Score: 0

    Please drop these ridiculous insults regarding the French, as a former amateur road racer who has avidly followed the TDF for many years I can say that I have nothing but respect for the TDF organizers. This press reporting that the TDF is stacked against Armstrong is total BS from the sports journalists (whom IMO are the rejects from any sort of serious reporting) .

  7. March 1st on Do Your $20 Bills Explode In the Microwave? · · Score: 0

    Someone jumping the gun?? April is still 1 month away...

  8. Re:Let's check on Current Processors Tested With Linux · · Score: 0

    Actually you would use neither, a surface grinder can take off much finer incremements than a planer will ever be able to, even the least accurate surface grinders can remove .0002

  9. THe DoctoR is IN! on Star Trek: Enterprise in Danger of Being Cancelled · · Score: 0

    I forsee the perfect time slot opening up in the mainstream network continum, It's time for the Tardis to make an appearance! Actually, merging DW and Star Trek would be even better. Having the cybermen stomp the personel of the enterprise to have the daleks show up, and then blow up the enterprise killing all on board up would the highlight of the entire Enterprise series. I can see it all in my minds eye, a few seconds after the enterprise is totally obliterated, we see archers frozen severed head tumbling in outer space, BUT WAIT?? WHAT'S THAT NOISE? (swoosh swoOSH SWOOSH PLONK!), IT's THE TARDIS! HERE TO SAVE THE DAY AND this time slot!

  10. Re:They say they want to discourage tourism... on Australian Pilot Stranded In Antarctica · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No one offering to voluntarily fly to (and land on) Antarctica could be be charcterized as a "bright pilot" imo.

  11. Re: the future? on Microsoft to Charge for FAT File System · · Score: 1

    Don't most Linux disributions also use FAT for the Swap partition?

  12. Re:Pretty boring on Project Plex-Box · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI, its impossible to machine a mold cavity to a mirror finish. All injection molds for optical quality parts get the finish via laborious hand polishing.

  13. Re:My take on this on ARIA Threatens To Sue Internet Service Providers · · Score: 0, Troll

    is this aria giovanni were taking about?

  14. Re:good news from someone whose job went to India on Dell Moves Call Center Back to US · · Score: 1

    Sort of on the same lines, I used to work as a tool maker (made some of the molds for Dell computers coincidentally). I was working 6 or 7 day weeks for these people 10+ hrs a day, sometimes much more. These people were negotiating with chinese tooling shops behind our back while simultaneously lying to the 30 or so people in engineering. Kind of amazing the molds we would get back from china were sub par quality and we actually had to rework just about every mold (these things were made for 100's of thousands of dollars) to enormous expense. Nevertheless the asskissing tooling manager sees a possibility to work his way up the corporate chain and the lure of $$$, eliminates the tooling rooms in plants all over the USA. We were the last one still functioning, some of these guys have 30+ years experience as tool makers. All sacked. I quit leaving them in disarray before it came to me however, as only one other guy had any idea how to operate same equipment

  15. Re:Can't surpass flash. on WVG : The New Scalable Vector Graphics · · Score: 1

    Anyone heard of this little web browser called Mozilla?

  16. Re:McBride's Funniest Quips! on McBride Speaks, In Person And In Print · · Score: 1

    The line that says "#include system.h" is copied right out of the unix source code! THIS IS A CLEAR INFRINGEMENT OF SCOX IP RIGHTS!

  17. Re:Smack me with a Clue Bat. on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 1

    2.6 is not a stable release yet, if you wish to take the plunge (risky) and try the beta kernel on mandrake you can find a 2.6 kernel on one of the mandrake cooker mirrors:

    ex:
    http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/m andrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS2/kernel- 2.6.0-0.test9.5mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm

  18. Re:just slightly off-topic on Mandrake 9.2 ISOs Available · · Score: 1

    nope, 2.6 start up is identical to 2.4* startup

  19. Re:Which doctor is this? on New Animated Dr. Who Series · · Score: 2, Funny

    bella lugosi? http://www.dunwich.org/draculea/photos/album/9-dra cula/vtdrcblu.jpg.html

  20. SCO's legal stratagem on SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al · · Score: 3, Funny

    boils down to "No GNU'S is good GNEWS"

  21. The tortoise vs the Hare... on VIA-based Mobile Robot Design For Download · · Score: 1

    Parallax sells (http://www.parallax.com/ ) pic based microcontrollers designed for hobbyists - they are great for robotics. They are fairly expensive for microcontrollers, but you could still do a hell of a lot more than this POS via will be ever able to for $500 and the power consumption will also be much less. Then again you could always just wire EDM yourself a small wankel rotary, hook that up to a generator and run off nitromethane...

  22. Re:anti-GM = junk science on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1

    that much was obvious upon reading

  23. Re:Ashcroft is doing a bit of this, isn't he on Online Journalists are ISPs? · · Score: 1

    That's John Asscroft to you, mister.

  24. Bring 'em on! on SunnComm Says Pointing to Shift Key 'Possible Felony' · · Score: 1

    A few more moronic lawsuits like this one and we should be able to completely invalidate the DMCA! yay!

  25. Re:OMG! RIAA has technology that really works! on MPAA Ruins Own Films As Anti-Piracy Measure · · Score: 1

    Or it isn't working at all, which would still explain why nobody has a bootleg of gigli...