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  1. Re:Cats will do fine on Wave Powered Generator to Power Homes · · Score: 1

    But has the EPA approved a design for an ultra high temperature and pressure quintuple filtured cat burning power station that emits no harmful chemicals?

  2. He Shoulda on Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture · · Score: 1

    He shoulda used a proxy...

  3. Think outside on Apple Powerbook and iBook Battery Recall · · Score: 0, Troll

    Think outside the iBox. Don't buy crummy Wintel batteries that don't iExplode when they are being iCharged.

  4. Shortly after... on Mars Orbiter Photographs another Mars Orbiter · · Score: 0

    Shortly after the pictures were taken, both spacecraft fired their orbital thrusters, making it the first time that two spacecraft had changed their orbit around the same planet while in view of eachother. After that, both spacecraft stopped firing their thrusters, the first time manuvers had ended for two spacecraft in view of eachother in orbit around another planet. When asked for comment, a NASA spokesperson said "There is hardly a dry pair of pants left in the mission control center."

  5. What for? on High-Definition PC Video Conferencing? · · Score: 1

    What do you need HD for? There are video conferenceing programs which can remotely open presentations or webpages on PCs, so unless the people on the other end need to see every one of your eyebrow hairs, there is really no point.

  6. Re:G forces on Excursions at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Great! Then I have exceeded the speed of light! All you need is a 24 speed bicycle and my 1337 sk1llz!

  7. Re:G forces on Excursions at the Speed of Light · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thats one long block! The movie is 3 or 4 seconds long, so that is a 1,200,000 km street block.

  8. In related news... on Australia Says No To Spyware · · Score: 1

    In related news, the crime rate in Australia went up 23,453,464,356% today...

  9. Re:Bragging or Complaining? on Searching for a Satellite Pager? · · Score: 1

    They are too busy single handedly keeping Microsoft's 325,325 servers online.

  10. Re:The Snakes May Be Able To Fly on Howto - Flying Snakes · · Score: 1

    No, its kinda flattening out and twisting on the way down, so it glides a little before hitting the ground.

  11. Re:Where's Neo? on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    Lets see...
    2000 prisoners
    at .0002W per prisoner
    Thats almost 400mW!!!
    Thanks to the justice system, we will be able to power DOZENS of small flashlights or MP3 players across the United States!

  12. Quick! on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quick, shine a light into your monitor and take a picture. Then use their software to capture an image of their exploding server!

  13. Re:Ugly! on Live Picture of the Next Xbox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Evidently you are a robot, or wear gloves a lot. I work in a school computer lab sometimes, and the paper white apple eMac keyboards are crap colored after two weeks. Even the eMacs themselves start to brown after a little while.

  14. Re:Ew. on Live Picture of the Next Xbox · · Score: 1

    And if Microsoft released hardware that looked as good as Apples, they would be bludgeoned within seconds by people like you, accusing them of stealing designs.

  15. Re:Ugly! on Live Picture of the Next Xbox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It doesn't look so bad. Of course its not a masterpiece of engineering, but Microsoft probably chose that safe white case to make it more appealing to an audience other than hardcore teenage gamers. My concern is that those paperwhite controlers are going to turn a disgusting brown as dirt and skin acids build up over a couple of months. Grey would have been a better choice, cause nobody is gonna want to touch the thing after a year of use.

  16. Re:Is it too late on Spam Capital of the World · · Score: 1

    We could invoke the lemon law (pun intended)!

  17. Re:Reading the article? on Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic · · Score: 4, Funny

    They read the article, and accidently mentally multiplied the actual figure by 5.3763440860215053763440860215054. It could happen to anyone!

  18. Re:Newsflash! on Morse Code Faster Than SMS · · Score: 1

    Its called sympathetic harmonic motion. And you can do the same thing to your eardrums as you did to that glass door. I'm 18, and I never used to wear ear plugs. I figured, I'm a teenager, I'm invincible. I am also in a band that prides itself in being the most overamplified in the school. After five years of weekly practices and the odd concer I started having trouble hearing my friends in resturaunts or on the phone, and I would hear a high pitched whine when I tried to sleep. I realized that I was going deaf. Ever since then, I have worn earplugs religiously to band practices and especially to concerts. Luckily, I didn't screw my ears up enough for permanent damage, and my hearing is slowly getting better. Don't do the same thing to yourself. Trust me, hearing aides are WAY dorkier than turning it from 11 to 10. Going to a concert and blasting your ears every once and while is fine, but if you are in a band that plays regularly at high volume, wear protection. You can get "Digital Refrence" earplus for about $6 a pair that have a flat frequency blocking, lowering 115 dB metal to a comfortable 86 dB.

  19. Is it worth it? on Simple, Bare-Bones Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    It might be slightly cheaper to buy a barebones motherboard, but with all the extra features, it is definitely worth it for the extras. Motherboards are cheap these days, plus do you want to use up all your PCI slots with USB, audio, IDE, ect... cards when you can have those integrated. Of course, if you are an audiophile, you may want a better sound card. If you run a database on a RAID array, you might want a better disk controller. But if you are none of these, then all the integrated perhipherals are probably better than the add-on cards in your old PC, and definitely good enough for most uses.

  20. Re:Newsflash! on Morse Code Faster Than SMS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So true. I'm in a band, which means lots of concerts. At 100 dB+, I don't want to call anyone, or even take my protective earplugs out for that matter (call me a sissy, but I will be insulting you in ten years, but you won't hear it, or much of anything). Text messaging is a great way to contact people to tell them when our set it, tell people that to bring a forgotten cable or instrument, or even in some cases find out WHERE THE #$%#$ our base player is. Other than that, I usually use the phone for what it is meant for, talking into and absorbing radiation from.

  21. Re:Needs silencing! on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    Isn't that enough to liquify your eardrums from 1/2 KM away? Not to mention any nearby walls or floors...

  22. I hope... on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1

    I hope they have a big desk. If you search around their site, you can find some pictures that show the scale of the DS-96. It is about as big as a squat refridgerator. Not that I am complaining. Their processing power/area is WAY better than anything else out there, but it is definitely not a desktop system.

  23. Re:Depends on the conversion on When is 720p Not 720p? · · Score: 1

    720p operates at 30 FPS (or somewhere thereabouts, it might be 29.997 or something like that), not 60 FPS.

  24. Re:Orbit on Deep Impact Catches First Glimpse of Target Comet · · Score: 1

    That would be pretty darn hard. Commets don't have much mass, so they don't have much gravity. Of course it could be done, but it is much more likely the thing would just go barreling past the comment, and with NASA's luck, directly into the surface of Mars.

  25. Re:WMP? on Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor · · Score: 2, Informative

    Possilby, they did not allow cameras into the demo. They did provide a video, and the picture is simply an amerature screenshot of WMP playing said video.