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  1. Re:Water City on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If could have harnessed the power of the 200 MPH gusts- then maybe we would have a short term energy surplus.

    Perhaps we should not but the wind farm in Nantucket sound but in the Gulf of Mexico.

  2. Re:OH MY FUCKIN' ... ehrm... *GOD*...? on Scientist Says Most Scientific Papers Are Wrong · · Score: 1
    I think part of the issue stems from the "publish or perish" attitude that is so prevailent in the scientific community. To get a higher degree- you must publish a thesis and defend it- and there is a push that all ideas be "new".

    It is truly hard to have an original idea- and more and more educated people are competing to have them. With such competition- people are forced to put out papers that may not be up to snuff.

    And never mind the professor who already have their higher degrees- they need to continue to publish- regardless of the quality of their work.

  3. Unionize on Growth in Indian Offshoring Slowing · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I can see it now- labor unions in India are going to be picketing about how those dirty Eastern Europeans are stealing Indian jobs.

    What goes around comes around I guess.

  4. Also.. on Nanotubes Start to Show their Promise · · Score: 2, Interesting

    on that page was the urine powered battery.... Now that could useful. Drink a few beers and power your laptop.

  5. Re:HF Spectrum Pollution on Motorola to Marry BPL and Wireless · · Score: 1
    My favority has to be acronyms of acronyms...
    examples

    AAL- ATM (Asynchronous transfer mode) adaptation layer
    VHDL- VHSIC (very high speed integrate circuit) Hardware description language

    Got any others?

  6. Re:power != current on 19 million Amps · · Score: 1
    Then knowing V= I * R we can say

    power = I * I * R

    Hopefully if these guys are smart enough to measure for R- which should be a constant when dealing with DC current. However since this was a pulse- I am not so sure that the DC equations hold true- and this problem would become an AC problem- and the impedance of the can would changed for the harmonics of the pulse. Calculating the impedance of a cylinder is not difficult- but consider the thing imploded during the test- its shape was changing- and that could make life difficult.

  7. Re:Wowf on 19 million Amps · · Score: 0

    Was it a can of chicken or tuna? It says Chicken of the Sea on the can. It makes it so confusing.

  8. Re:Where's the nudie pics? on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android · · Score: 1

    And the whine too?

  9. Re:Rockstar Defrauded the ESRB on Hillary, GTA, and High School Football · · Score: 1
    I am not so sure they defrauded them. They took out the code which allows access to the sex scenes. You cannot play the scene unless you get a third party tool.

    I can download a naked skin for the Sims from a third party tool- no one is saying the Sim should be banned.

    Is there a difference between unlocking something that was removed for the games rating- or adding the same content separately? I'd say no.

  10. Re:You don't get what you pay for... on Challenging Music Downloading Myths · · Score: 1

    allofmp3 has a great format engine.

  11. Re:Civilization on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 1
    You obviously have never been to a bar in Beijing that has Karoake.

  12. Re:Amera-Slovia on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 1
    We tried that once- it didn't go so hot.

    In fact we have much more in common with our fellow countrymen that we give credit for.

  13. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Ok- but what about the right to gossip then? I would be invading someone's privacy in that case?

  14. Re:How about parts? on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Jeez- I think also if you request an IP address- and are given one to use (DHCP- bootp)- that could be construed as allowance of use.

  15. Re:Zzzzzzz on Beginning Of the End For PC Noise · · Score: 1

    So how do you guys watch pr0n then? One of those old fashion TV things?

  16. Re:It's for the children! on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act · · Score: 1
    The right to privacy? Where did that one come from? I recall that a soldier cannot just shack up at my house, and that my belongings cannot be searched without a warrant- but what ammendment says I have a right to privacy?

    How convenient too that a wave of attacks occur JUST as congress is voting to renew the Patriot act.

  17. Of course.... on Websurfing Damaging U.S. Productivity? · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Ars Technica is going to attempt to debunk that fact that web surfing hurts productivity. A good portion of their readership, hence ad revenues, comes from people who are surfing at work.

    Good business sense, don't talk your business model down.

  18. Re:Conspiracy! on Google Moon Debuts · · Score: 2, Funny

    What I want to know is how the Swiss got their first?

  19. Re:Get them young huh? on Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional · · Score: 1

    I think when you devote so much time and effort to studying Microsoft products-- you are certifiable- not certified.

  20. Re:Zion on Conquering the LaGrange Points? · · Score: 1
    Oh boy- this is the post which will bring Godwin's law to bear in this thread.

  21. Multiple programs.... on Microsoft Denies Claria got Spyware Exception · · Score: 5, Informative
    This simply reaffirms my belief in the running of multiple anti-spyware programs. If MS won't remove a certain piece of Spyware because of business/political reasons- adaware will get it- or Spybot will.

    PS. M$ sucks.

  22. Re:Once Again, The Terrorists Win on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 1

    Exactly-- but then you have to wonder is the Mossad would just commit a false flag operation in order to get the US or Britian to take out their sworn enemies for them.

  23. Re:Once Again, The Terrorists Win on Body Scanners for the London Underground · · Score: 0

    I say we nuke Mecca. We already lost- if we simply compromise one more principle then the terrorist loose too.

  24. Re:it's strange ... on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about CAMs. Because most PCs use straight addressable memory doesn't mean computing doesn't have parellel searches.

  25. Re:And now for something nasty on Our Brains Don't Work Like Computers · · Score: 1
    Do you also know what a B-Tree is

    No but, if you hum a few bars, I can fake it.