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  1. Re:Ahem on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apparently his web sight is too cool for my 36k dial-up connection. I haven't downloaded the flash plugin as I don't need to tie up my phone line for an hour so I can see all the pretty flashy ads.

  2. paper ore on A Non-Toxic, Paper Battery / Supercapacitor · · Score: 1

    Around here we're surrounded by "Paper Ore"... That stuff grows on trees!

  3. Re:"275-pound[s]"? That sounds awfully cheap on NASA Engineers Work on New Spacesuits · · Score: 1

    At first I thought this was just another joke.. But I am confused on the 275Lbs. being the"weight" on earth or moon. Here giving a value for the suite mass would actually make much more sense.

  4. Re:Quantum leap on Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku · · Score: 1

    I'm "simulated" by it

    I think it is a typo and he meant "stimulate"

  5. Re:Apple...er...Microsoft...er...Apple..um...neith on Vista - iPod Killer? · · Score: 1

    "or expecting Chevy to design their intakes so you can drop one on top of a Ford block with no modification and expect it to work."

    Yes but I go to the fuel station and purchase fuel for ford or chevy and expect it will work the same in either.

    It's like only chevy gas will work in my chevy and if i use ford fuel, my chevy is broken.

  6. Re:Vu-Ja-De on Even The Blind Get Deja Vu · · Score: 1

    Possibly you refer to the more common feeling of Vu-Ja-de...

    The feeling that none of this has ever happened before.

  7. Re:Sensational bullcrap on Jury Awards $11 Million for Internet Defamation · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of that video where two women in a parking lot bang their doors into each others' cars, then it escalates to totalling both vehicles through a series of deliberate acts (not real events).

    Sounds great! do you have a link?

  8. Re:pieces of paper on Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion · · Score: 1

    They are buying the sight not for money, but stocks.

    If the lawyers shut them down, what have they lost?

    Now the stocks are worth $1.65 billion. if the stock price falls, the price they payed for the sight would calculate to a lot less.

  9. Re:radioactive poo on Creating Water from Thin Air · · Score: 1

    The waste water isn't stored underground for "hundreds of years".

    In a septic system, the solids fall to the bottem of the vessel and the liquids travel through poris underground pipes and "water the lawn"

    In A sewer system, the wast water is filtered and the solids are trucked to a landfill, or dumped in the ocean and the liquids are returned to the nearest river.

    Both systems return the waste water localy. sewer systems are not much bigger than the city they service.

  10. Re:advertisements on A Working Economy Without DRM? · · Score: 1

    If I could download a movie or music free within 10 seconds of it's release, but it had comercials that I have to fast-forward through,
    OR
    Buy the hard copy cd/dvd a week later with no comercials at all, I might do both, or either.

    Could this provide a solution?

  11. Re:I can't wait until this is free on Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing · · Score: 1

    I think I'm going to patent "Pay per Prod" quickly.

    Can you shut these things off with a Q-Stick stolen from the Bar?

  12. Re:What is the real issue? on A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    That we don't have enough addresses to assign one to every human?

    My frying pan and refridgerator each need their own IP address.

    That way, I can get E-mails on my cell phone informing me the milk is about to expire, and the frying pan is overheating.

  13. Re:Natural Resistance to Venom? on Athens Breeding "Super Mosquitoes" · · Score: 1

    "When I was little and got bit they were the size of silver dollars"

    Everything is bigger when you are a kid and smaller than you remember as you grow-up....

    Back when I was little, 65k of ram was as big as a wharehouse.

  14. Re:aaw c'mon on Immaturity Level Rising in Adults · · Score: 1

    screw all that, let's go play in the sandbox!!

  15. Re:Adverse effect on magnetic storage? on Ship Logs Suggest Upcoming Polar Reversal · · Score: 1

    Maby there is a market for "mag-rev compliant" stickers, buy a few cases of creamed corn and bullets just to be shure.

  16. Re:Magnetic amplifiers work fine. They're just big on Magnetic Processors - Computing's New Future? · · Score: 1

    I have a customer with d.c. power supplys using a saturable core transformer (mag amp) they are rated for 12v, 6,000amp 100% duty cycle. powered with 480v 3 phase, the ripple on the output is lower than the s.c.r. controlled power supplies.

    The regulation is poor, there is no voltage drop in the iron core windings unless there is current flow, they are big, noisy, variac controls dc power into bias winding.

    schematic for the power supply is dated 1960. three units still running strong after 46 years!

    This type of power is used in the plating industry. I have worked on 15v 30,000amp dc power supplies. that's big. 1000amp 480v 3phase powered, water cooled, 360 diodes, each diode rated for 300amp 600volt, e-tech tools include 1-1/4 wrench!

  17. Re:Why do they call it... on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    Well... to answer your question: the outside area of the water heater becomes hot due to the in efficiency of the design. "hot water heater" describes a water heater that gets hot when it is heating water. Or maby the water heater is was stolen from someone's house. Or the marketing department assured the sales staff this model will sell really well.

  18. Re:What is worse on NASA Puts A Stop To Space Romance · · Score: 1

    "Of course, I would expect periods of frustration"

    And by "frustration" do You mean "self service"?

  19. Re:Would these add to global warming? on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 1

    Don't solar panels produce heat as a by-product?

    It seems to me the by-product would be shade.

    this may lead to global cooling.

  20. Re:Here in Northern Oregon on Unexplained Leap In CO2 Levels · · Score: 1

    "She says it works on about 11 year swings"

    sounds like sun spot cycles

  21. Re:Economist Shows its Slant on Building the Energy Internet · · Score: 1

    "Unfortunately, The Economist winds up the article with a startling and unjustified leap to the belief that a big-government socialist mega-project is the answer to all of our energy problems."

    "The "electricity internet" scheme comes from the people who think free markets are the answer to everything. When free markets fail, they say they weren't free enough."

    Sounds like the artical did cover "both sides" of the topic.

  22. Re:Future video medium? on NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1GB Hologram Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great, now I have to get my kids to do that "N.E.S. cartrage dance" (wipe, wiggle, reset, eraser head) thingy when we change movies.

    Hopefully edge connector tech. will be better too.

  23. Re:Quite the sparkle? on The Galaxy's Largest Diamond · · Score: 1

    "The average for production employees, those involved in the mining operations, was slightly higher, at $64,336"

    Well that would be $48,924.71 US dollars

    I think I'll keep my day job

  24. Re:Nothing really matters. on Three More Solar Flares · · Score: 1

    sounds like you discribed "Stone Hendge"