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  1. Re:No worries on MPEG Continues With Royalty-free MPEG Video Codec Plans · · Score: 1

    Does my unhacked ps3 play webm stuff?

  2. Re:Just to clarify.. on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    They have those already, they are called "a clutch", some cars have them, and they are a mechanically linked driver operated way of removing the power to the input side of the transmission. These work regardless of what the cars computer is telling the rest of the systems to do.

    Don't most parking/ebrakes still use a mechanical linkage? If so the steps are then, "press clutch, apply brake, hunt around for how to torn the damn thing off once you have stopped"

  3. Re:Subsonic on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    mine might as well be, takes a microSD card, hot swappable.

  4. Re:useless on Tethered, Water-Powered Jetpack Provides Two Hours of Flight Time · · Score: 2

    Its the other way around. Think like a canister vacuum cleaner, you tow the vessel. The article says 35MPH for 2 hours if you wanted.

  5. Re:ISP on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    Have an update for my ps3, wii, tv, my wifes iPhone, etc?

  6. Re:My Theoretical Response on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    But where does the energy in the oceans come from?

    mostly the sun.

  7. Re:I've been saying this all week on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    They do do this, just not for airports. the size is too large for it to work well, as you also end up heating the ground some as well. Hospitals have these sorts of systems.

    I'm not sure they are cost effective over other methods unless you have a pile of waste heat to get rid of. Also what happens to the water from the melted snow?

  8. Re:I've been saying this all week on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    I would use gas heat, and a warm/hot water glycol loop. These sorts of systems are commercially available. I'm not sure if they are for a home sized installation. Many hospitals have snow melters on the ambulance entrance, and other critical areas.The controls end is likely to be available as a package as well.

    The question i have is what happens to the snow once you have turned it into water? does it evaporate, or does it run into the street and make that a sheet of ice.

  9. Re:No on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    You really should drive a manual for a month or so. After a bit it become so much of a habit that after driving automatic slushboxes for the last two years, I still go for the phantom clutch every once and a while. Which is nice for everyone on the road because someone decided to put a double wide break peddle in the car and when pressing a clutch all the way down and getting a break you sure do stop fast....

    In fact it really should take very little thought to shift a car once you are used to doing so.

  10. Re:Go China! on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    as per usual, scale is everything and custom projects are expensive.

  11. Re:Where we should have been years ago already on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    Right, where they disabled the safeties, ignored the secondaries, and then ran the reactor without containment while conducting an experiment?

  12. Re:Where we should have been years ago already on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    to me it's not the cost, but simply a density problem. Name something else that can produce the same power over 30 years that takes up the same amount of space, breeding and disposal included?

    Right. So in densely populated places(the whole boston->DC area) nuclear is the clear winner. Now if only they would upgrade New York, New York's power distribution so we could use more than a 15HP motor on a circuit and something other than 208V power.

  13. Re:Where we should have been years ago already on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    I'm set at -1 and everything is expanded. your score 0 at the time post included

  14. Re:type of game matters! on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 1

    how does that saying go?

    "you can't make a slow driver fast, but you can make a fast driver safe" something to that effect.

  15. Re:Moderate and libertarian candidates .... so the on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    I would disagree that our "left" party is not left enough, and our right party is too far right. I'd like to the right where our left is, and our left left of that...

    I value individuality, but some things work better as large scale projects, the interstate system, healthcare, power generation/transmission, communications infrastructure, water and sewer services to name a few. Those are places where scale really does help in keeping per unit costs down.

    I agree though with the need to move away from right/left and would add that we really need in the neighborhood of 5-7 somewhat evenly split up parties in the government. This would help keep things running smoothly and help with a general consensus.

  16. Re:Moderate and libertarian candidates .... so the on New Hampshire Bill Could Lead To Adoption of Approval Voting · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking that those charts either need to have 0,0 at some defined point, or they need to have 0,0 in the average of all of the points.

  17. Re:Unicode? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Like getting paste to work in chrome, or adding edits to comments, or for that matter the ability to render a large thread of comments fully expanded without hanging FF and chrome for a few seconds?

  18. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    and sometimes doubly so!

  19. Re:High pressure? on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: 1

    hmm short a super cap with some steel or aluminium bar, and let me know how it goes.... or simply ground one end to the car body and watch it light up a rescue worker/bystander when it ground through them.

  20. Re:Boom! on How Chrysler's Battery-Less Hybrid Minivan Works · · Score: -1

    i only carry around 12, and thats only right after a fill up you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Inertia on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 1

    Care to show me a vendor selection tool for refrigeration components that works on something other than windows? until then either I can sell gear and use windows, or I can use a different OS and not sell anything.

    Also, auocad(the standard in HVAC) is windows only as of right now, as is revit(the likely next standard)

  22. Re:My grandmother is one of them... on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 1

    Mine doesn't... I thought all of those got phased out years ago....

  23. Re:The meaning of random on Greenland Ice Sheet Melts At Record Rate In 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    excpet that getting goods down to the underwater New York, Amsterdam, etc, may present some challenges.

  24. Re:Wow this is a bit onesided. on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    so how does an open source app pay a license fee? If the fee was a one time $200 for ever and ever and all the copies you want sure... but it's not...

  25. Re:Wow this is a bit onesided. on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    and how much does the license cost so that i may distribute my player/encoder in all countries world wide?