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  1. Re:Only 19000 spam messages?? That's nothing. on A Visual History of Spam · · Score: 1

    IF the articel he said that this is what gets through the corporate filters.

  2. hmm, how many gigs has he used to store spam? on A Visual History of Spam · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is he stuffing the spam into the windows build, thus causing win-bloat.

  3. Can we just ignore infinium on HardOCP Wins Against Infinium Labs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Infinium is a bit like a scab, if you pick at it it'll only get worse.

    Isn't this company/product the original vapor ware. Comments... Even the website is vapor.

  4. Not what I thought when I saw "steel bolt hacking" on Steel Bolt Hacking · · Score: 1

    I'm in the midst of a materials science course and the first day in the lab we spent pulling metal samples apart. and the third. and the fourth. hmm, I think tommorow we either melt stuff or crush... Check the gear http://me.uttyler.edu/MatLab.asp

    I always threatened to /. the school

  5. Re:Text of article on Speech Recognition in Silicon · · Score: 1

    I only had to read the first paragraph to see that this project is one of the many that have sprouted since 9-11 because they can work a "homeland security" angle into it.

  6. Re:Ooops - No Seismic Activity Last Hour, Day, Wee on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 2, Informative

    The USGS FAQ on nuclear-seismic activity says that a small earth quake has the energy of abour 2000kilotons. If the NK are playing with fission they might reach 40-50 kilotons. The size of the explosion might fall of the bottom of that chart.

    The fact that there are no sensors in north korea might be a factor. Also, india and pakistan were bragging about their nukes, NK might not be so open. And if the USGS has noticed something THEY might be quiet about it. They like rocks, not politics.

  7. Re:Environmentally friendly? on Batteries For Your Pen And Paper? · · Score: 1

    I agree that the batteries and what not make this environmentally unfriendly, should'a been a cradle setup to recharge. but junk is junk.

    Why does /. bring us reviews of stuff thats getting panned, warning us or filler content?

  8. Quick mover on Robot Walks on Water · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the most important part of this article and development is the fact that the pure research came up with the knowledge last year, and has quickly produced a working model. I think it's a good show of the need for pure research in all fields of science, but it ain't gonna win a nobel prize.

    Since these little things rely on some form of surface tension, will a surfact tension modified such as oil or soap affect them.

  9. Re:Cost inefficient? on DVD / Hard Drive Recorder With 28-Day Capacity · · Score: 1
    The top of the line w/400gb goes for $1499 http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servle t/ModelList?storeId=11251&catalogId=11005&langId=- 1&catGroupId=11058 See it here. I need to go dig out a /. usermanual.

    They've invented the infinite hard drive. They're just waiting for it to finish the low level format

  10. Re:Guess who controls the helium! on China Goes Nuclear · · Score: 1

    Helium is found in concentrations of up to 7% in natural gas wells where the helium is extracted as a byproduct of purifying natural gas. So the helium would still be a petroleum by-product. Interestingly, the prescence of such high levels of helium is one of the clues in the abiogenic (non biological) theory of petroleum origin.
    Remember, pebble bed reactors are closed cycle systems and will not need to be topped up after being properly sealed. The cell will need maybe 1500-2000 cubic meters to operate at 2-3 atmopsheres, meaning about 100k m^3 for the 50 proposed, or less than whats put in balloons every day at used car lots.

  11. Re:message of means? on Should SETI Be Looking For Lasers Instead? · · Score: 1

    But what is the question. Are you willing to have your brain minced to find the question that the mice are looking for.

  12. Re:The End is near... on Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card · · Score: 1

    Your right, every card is really a small black whole. The only problem is that you have to wait until the rest of the universe to die of entrophy for the read time.

  13. Hmmm, must be using really small atoms on Taiwanese Firms To Launch a 2 Terabyte Memory Card · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Since it takes a couple transistors to make a logic circuit there will be several times as many transistors as bytes, possibly a minimum of 6-8 trillion transistors. At present the microprocessor lines are at around 42 million transitors, and doubled every year(moore's law is exponential) it might be 10+ years to be able to put that many transistors on a chip, but by then the chip will have to larger than the proposed standard. Other wise you'll need to use smaller parts, and I think in the space allowed you're looking at transistors smaller than the electron orbit around hydrogen. Just because you can adress a certain amount or memory doesn't mean you can make the memory to use it.

  14. Re:Fire! on Rocket Fuel Speeds Transistors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The impermeable skin of the Hindenburg was made of canvas treated with a solution that included more than a touch of nitric acid. Cellulose + Nitric acid= Nitro Cellulose aka guncotton aka Celludloid film which early movies used, resulting in the occasional projection booth fire.

    If only gigli had been filmed on this stuff.

  15. Re:This is GOOD news. on USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent · · Score: 1

    Don't review the broken system. Now we have a specific non-governmental "source of all evil" and can file suits against this man for permiting abusive use of HIS patent. But doesn't Al Gore already have claims to this?

  16. Fluoride Where !!!! on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    If you RTFA and all the pdf's on the site you see that they mostly talk about UF4, uranium quadra flouride. If you took a good chemistry course you'll remember that flourine does not like letting go, and the Uranium in this case has it's VESPR locked up by flourine. If one of these power core wafers cracked and got loose, the uranium would not leech into surfaces, as happend in the cities around cheyrnoble. There the uranium chemically attached to all sorts of stuff leaveing hotspots. If there is a nukee reading this, where did the radioactive iodine come from in chern and 3 mile isle.

  17. Re:Oh well.. on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    okay, I'm not a fan of RIAA, but I am a fan of gutenburg project and Heinlein, who died in the mid-80's. That story should still be in copyright, property of virgina heinlein. I'm not gonna call her, cuz I think she really let us down when she let the scriptwriters hack up StarShip Troopers