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  1. Re:Proof! on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    antimatter has a normal mass, all that is different is that its charge is the opposite of normal matter

  2. post here for an achievement! on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    i'm wondering how long there's gonna be trolls about this thing.

  3. Re:The Children? on ACLU Sues Penn Prosecutor For Empty Threat of Child Porn · · Score: 1

    i think in this case the children were doing just a little too much thinking of the children....

  4. Re:They're nothing short of superheroes of the sea on The Men Who Fix the Internet · · Score: 1

    and just HOW else did you think they whoop Aquaman's butt?

  5. Re:Evidence-based medicine on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    as to the Vicodin thing, Ibuprofen doesn't do a thing for pain in me, (works well for inflamation though)

  6. Re:English 3.0 on Photog Rob Galbraith Rates MacBook Pro Display "Not Acceptable" · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that's English 3.0, then I loathe to think what English 3.11 For WorkGroups will bring us.

  7. Re:Fixed it for you on Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows · · Score: 1

    except that the three computers i've got kde4 on don't appear to do that, at all. there's something different about your setup (my guess would be something with fonts).

  8. Re:Microsoft Sucks Checklist on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Also CF Card on Long-Term PC Preservation Project? · · Score: 1

    What i would do is use a couple of these, and store some kind of ECC on them with the real data, so that if you didn't get a single good one out of it, you might be able to use the ECC to identify good parts of things and try to rebuild the correct one from all the parts. i'd also look to filling the container with some kind of inert heavy gas, something like krypton maybe (dunno how hard that would be to procure though)

  10. Re:Suggestions for alternative to Google Notebook? on Google Terminates Six Services · · Score: 1

    not having used it but just went to look at it i can't say if this is a viable alternative. What about just using Google Docs?

  11. Re:But... on Wireless Internet Access Uses Visible Light, Not Radio Waves · · Score: 5, Informative

    Astronomy

  12. Re:Karlan Mitchell on Hope For Fixing Longstanding Linux I/O Wait Bug · · Score: 1

    thats been in there for a long time, not just in 2.6.28

  13. Re:Strategy fail on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 2, Informative

    a properly configured distro using gtk-qt (or qgtkstyle if you use gnome) doesn't have the problem of things looking different, as far as different configurations i agree completely. As for the l10n and i18n i don't believe that matters at all as there isn't a standard for any other platform as far as i know (i could be wrong about OSX)

  14. Re:A neutron walked into a bar and asked on Stand-Up Comic Makes Science Funny · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've always heard that one as Two hydrogen atoms are walking around and all of the sudden one of them says, "I think I've just lost my electron!" The other replies, "Are you sure?" The first says, "I'm positive!"

  15. Re:eSATA is here already on USB 3.0 Is Ten Times Faster; Get It In 2010 · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#Features Actually SATA is supposed to support hotswapping of drives, i've never actually tried though.

  16. Re:Projects on the horizon:* on The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you only have to distribute your source if you're linking against other gpl code. I haven't looked at the actual product but from what i saw on their site they're just distributing an unmodified qemu with a nice gui to run it. this means that since they're not linking against it (if they are in fact doing it this way) they wouldn't need to release anything from a legal standpoint, though they do need to have some kind of notice about the license of qemu and where to get its source IIRC.

  17. Re:I also agree on Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do · · Score: 1

    well the real solution to this would be a FOSS project, but the ability to buy a guarantee from some company like that still.

  18. Re:Seems silly to use this. on Batteries To Store Wind Energy · · Score: 1

    well as far as stationary ones go, you wouldn't have to worry about the gyroscopic effects at all, but the rest of them would be pretty close to the problems with them i would think. You'd have to build gigantic ones to be able to store enough energy, so then you get the problem of how to mount them. and then with so much mass, they'll probably end up destroying bearings pretty fast depending on how you mount them.

  19. Re:So who sues them first? on Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    my guess would have to be https and the like.

  20. Re:Nice start... on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 1

    sounds almost like Xnest but without the "nest" (e.g. window), kinda neat.

  21. Re:Giant LED light bulbs on New York City Street Lights To Go LED · · Score: 1

    as far as giant ones, my understanding is that they can't scale like that, but as far as replacement bulbs go for normal light fixtures, google brings up this, http://www.theledlight.com/ i'm sure there are LOTS of others too.

  22. Re:Getting Old on BD+ Successfully Resealed · · Score: 1

    If you purchased a CD, would you kick up a shitstorm about not being able to play that back on your walkman? .. probably not. You'd just get your tapedeck and record the CD straight to tape.

    except you just said you'd do exactly what he wants to do back in the 80's!

  23. Re:That sucks on Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity · · Score: 5, Funny

    no problem, just go for sisters!

  24. Re:What is this? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 4, Informative

    except that the letters for subpeana have to be witnessed that the person served actually did recieve them, e.g. in the mail isn't good enough to prove that the person they were intended for actually got them. IANAL.

    ps. IORAL2.

  25. Re:Is this a good idea? on New Nanotech Fabric Never Gets Wet · · Score: 4, Informative

    if its anything like other coatings, certain things like oils will get on it and you'll never get them out.