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  1. Bullet with Beowulf Wings on Unmanned Aircraft Clustered via Bluetooth · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm visualizing a flock of computer controled ultralight orinthopters with wings made of plastic explosive. Commanded, they flock and gather on places where a demolition charge needs to be set. Once a critical number gathers, they organize to make a shaped charge, and BOOM!!!.

    Also, visualize a bombsquad guy in all that padding chasing these things with a net.

  2. Re:this disgusts me... on The History of PDAs in Words and Pictures · · Score: 1

    He shoulda patented the process of patenting broad and sweeping patents with his royalties, then he could sued more people without comping up with anything new.

  3. Re:Man, Fox really dodged a bullet on Second Round of Serenity Screenings Sold Out · · Score: 1

    Netflix and a DVD burner.

    'nuff said

  4. Re:Skipping work cost ME on Star Wars Sickout · · Score: 1

    Your "less populated areas" are getting Star Bucked.

    I live in Tyler, Texas. About 100 miles east of Dallas, population ~ 80k. I'm within walking distance of two full starbucks, and another in the Barnes&igNoble. Not quite country, that down the street from me.

    And its dry, no beer.

  5. Re:A totally uninformed post! on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 5, Funny

    That post is more relevant than the majority

  6. Re:OK, that's just cruel... on Seeing Around Corners With Dual Photography · · Score: 4, Funny

    DARN, /. just hiked Stanford's tuition rates again.

  7. Re:Is it? on HP Deletes Negative Corporate Blogger Comments · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Back when I worked for Bell Atalantic DSL Support a customer, disatisfied with his DSL service, created an Anti Bell atlantic DSL website, after which time a flag was put in his file to not speak with him.

    Yer free to speak, and the truth shall make yee fret.

  8. Usefull up close on Ultra-Wide Band And Bluetooth Working Together · · Score: 2, Funny

    A quick read of the first article mentions that this is intended for distances of 2-4 meters. That would make it great for improved headsets. PDA's, MP3 Players, and cellphone viruses should also benefit.

  9. Re:Origional News Source at U of M on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 2, Informative

    A real civil engineering paper on this
    http://www.engineeredcomposites.com/publications/2 005-2006/Keoleian%20J%20Infra%20Systems%25
    I've read over this, and it gives loads of info, but more for the CE, and as an ME student I'm looking for its Youngs Modulus, Tensile strength, cyclic lifespan. And I know they have real numbers for at least two of those, the pic physOrg uses is a UTM, a familiar machine.

  10. Re:This is why EE's aren't ME's on Programmatically Controlled Juicer · · Score: 1

    I use ANODIZED ALUMINUM pots and pans... the unreactive heavy aluminum oxide coating makes for a better item (if not teflon coated). Tomatoes and long cooking things can pickup funk.

    Also, think about the time variable in the juicer. If you load the machine and run through everything in 20 minutes you probably won't have a chance to pickup funk. But if a two hour wait shows up, then you'll have dried juice and the acid etch.

    nice bit on the patent law observation.

  11. This is why EE's aren't ME's on Programmatically Controlled Juicer · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm looking over the article and there's a bunch of "FCC compliance" stuff, but nothing about NSF or FDA (yes, I ran a find) compliance. I wouldn't worry about these guys for too long, though they may be expelled for poisoning the faculty through negligence in design.
    Standards and Trademarks The Juicer is in compliance with FCC rules concerning Radio Frequency Devices located in Part 15 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations. We operate at a frequency of 433 MHz and transmissions are in bursts less 10% duty cycle.
    We used Poland Spring 2.5 gallon spring water containers to hold our juices. We understand that they hold the patents and trademarks associated with their bottled water.
    We also use solenoids and force sensors which are patented by Guardian Electronics and CUI respectively.
    The Juicer is created for private personal use only and will in no way be commercialized and thus, should not infringe on existing patents.

    Overall, not a bad report, compared to some I've seen(and written). And no, that aluminum mixing trough ain't kosher. Acid+Aluminum = funk
  12. The Executive Lunch room on A Look at Silicon Valley Cafeterias · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where they dine on the souls of that they've sucked out of the employees, feast on the marrow of the bones that they've been worked down to, and maybe a baby or two that's wondered out of the daycare center.

    GET IN MAH BELLY

  13. Re:That "Titan 2" site makes my eyes cry... on Last Titan Launch from Florida · · Score: 2, Funny

    These arent tears, we are puking through our eyeballs.

  14. Re:PoE on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 1

    So, how much more will PoE network equipment and PC's cost than just putting in the electrical plugs?

    This might work in a new layout for wifi access points, but then you'll be restricted to WiFi components that fit this motif. Just bite the bullet and keep things flexible. The few sites that install this gear will be ripping up the place later to install power lines when they realize the new gear needs special PoE cat 5 (with 16 gauge wires)

  15. Re:Dr Strangelove, is that you? on New Computer Powered By PoE · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if they loaded Mandrake linux on it.

    Okay, I know that distro' has changed their name, but I had to scroll down so far to find the Dr Stranglove post it was correct when I started.

  16. Re:Life imitating art, possibly? on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 1

    I know this shows up on www.gpf-comics.com a few years ago. Either e-Urban ledgend material or dumbass script kiddies.
    Anti script kiddie, I'm not even bothering to make that a proper URL

  17. Do we have a legitimate article? on Software Patents Stopped in India · · Score: 0, Troll

    Okay, so the two references are to a Marxist org and a FSF site. Too much "spin" for me to see straight.

    That doesn't stop me from voicing an opinion. Patents are a pain, and software patents doubly so. But since there are so many "old" ideas getting patented, maybe a few pushes are in order.

  18. Re:Makes sense on More Freedom for DVD Players? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thats why I've copied most of my DVD's, even the ones I own. If they expect me to wait through the five minutes of commercials they are wrong. The trick is to remove the "Prohibited user options" while making the copy.

    A few weeks ago I rented a title that they must have been paranoid about getting copied: My normal DVD player couldn't read the disc. I had to make a copy (DVD-RW)to watch it.

  19. Re:What Ceasar funds... on Texas Bill to Filter Highway Rest Stop Internet · · Score: 1

    How about getting Caesar to stop piddling my tax dollars on public WiFi that primarily serves interstate trucking and travel. State parks, maybe, but freakin' WiFi at the park and squat, NO.

    Overall I'm against municipally funded WiFi. Just enough ignorant users will wrap up a town in free access.

  20. The Timeline on AOL Monitor Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old for Sex · · Score: 1

    Four years ago the AOL guy first chats with the then 15 yo
    Two years later (and two years ago) they plan to hook up on her 17th b-day, when an AOL co-worker catches on
    Two more years go by and the AOL stock values are back up, and its time to file the lawsuits.

    I really have no idea what the AOL stock values have done in the past four years, but she claims she waited because it's been "a very confusing and painful time for her," according to her lawyer Olivier Taillieu (FTA)

  21. Re:Torrents on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    OOPS, shoulda previewed that comment
    I meant DoS, darn that Bacardi Bat.

  22. Re:Torrents on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 3, Funny

    /. may have just figured out for RIAA and MPAA how to stop torrents.... DNS

  23. Re:Classicist 3 Scientists on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1
    Don't worry about the next sword-and-sandal flick. from "The Light Of Reason" link in the /. blurb:
    Their operation is likely to increase the number of great literary works fully or partially surviving from the ancient Greek world by up to a fifth. It could easily double the surviving body of lesser work - the pulp fiction and sitcoms of the day.
    Worry that the TV networks will get their hands on this.
  24. Re:That's all well and good, but.. on Breakthrough Decodes 'Classical Holy Grail' · · Score: 1

    What language has such common usage of numbers in everyday conversation...?

    You're not in a geek science, are you. In mechanical engineering we can throw around numbers all day and just be talking about steel or aluminum alloys. The electrical engineers are worse with all thier components. And computer guys..... well, their numbers are outdated by the time they say them.
    Interestingly, mathematicians have given up on numbers for the most part, traded them in for letters.

  25. Re:Well, in all fairness on Microsoft's Tips for Buying an MP3 Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just a matter of finding the right crack-head after the fences are closed. $20 iPods, $50 notebooks... not free market, but liberated.

    I furnished an apartment for less than $100.