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  1. Re:Guts on Peter J. Quinn Investigated for Travel Omissions · · Score: 1

    Why? what's so bad about sausages?

    seriously though, this would've been a great opportunity for an object lesson. He should've stored all of the plans and approvals in an old, no longer easily accessable format. Come to think of it, nothing in TFA specifically precludes this from having been his course of action all along...

  2. Re:The Globe on Peter J. Quinn Investigated for Travel Omissions · · Score: 1

    I'm very confused by this though. The globe is known for being a horrible, LEFTIST newspaper. They should be chomping at the bit to get interviews with RMS about this.

  3. Re:Lifestyle on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    If you never get a frost, you must never get eiswein. Suffice to say, you're missing out.

  4. Re:MRI waitlists are not a myth in Canada on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    Can you provide a link that you don't have to pay for?

  5. Re:The lifestyle IS different! on Canada Moves to Keep Skilled Workers · · Score: 1

    What's a McMansion, and what's a "traditional neighborhood" in Canada? Most people I know, rich, poor, or crazy, want to live in as large and comfortable place as possible.

    If choosing a common design (what I assume you mean by mcmansion) cuts down on the cost, then that money can be applied elsewhere, such as a larger lot, bigger house, better car, more vacations, savings, etc. What's wrong with that? Do you think everyone should have the same idea about what the "best" domicile is?

    Isn't Canada's greatest natural resource it's vast acreage of undevelped land?

  6. Re:why is this a breakthrough on Breakthrough in Biodiesel Production · · Score: 1

    Who do they usually sell the recycled oil to? Surely it can't be re-used as cooking oil.

    I had a friend that was really into the veggie oil thing. Aparantly there are clubs around with like minded people who will help you do the conversion and set you up with an oil supply. $1.20 is nice, but the local burger factory might let you have it for free if it means they don't have to pay to get rid of it.

    also, apparantly you car will perpetually smell like fast food, so don't do the conversion until after you've found a mate and locked the golden shackles of matrimony.

  7. Re: bs on Dotless Top Level Domains? · · Score: 1

    "DNS is pretty much a single point of failure for the current (ignorant) user base. Many don't know, or care, what an IP is."

    Not only do i not care, I don't think I should care. In an ideal net, the domain name would BE the address rather than a pointer to the "real" address. It's not like there's a difference between text and numbers to computers anyway. Nor does the numerical address give away any more useful information about routing that even a poorly designed plaintext address couldn't give. This whole "lets use a fixed length address until it gets filled up and then bicker about another longer fixed length address" cycle is rediculous.

  8. Re:Up by Fargo, Global Warming can't come too soon on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1

    How much gasoline was used to make your ethanol?

  9. Re:who wants tv on their phone? seriously? on Nokia Declares N-Gage A Failure · · Score: 1

    IIRC, most of the television ads portray FULL-MOTION video, which is a far cry from the .333 fps slideshows the phones actually offer.

  10. Re:Even in the darkest hours, there is yet hope... on Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Just a nit pick, Although I'd also like to see 3He facilities on the moon shipping back huge amounts of energy and powering a new age of interplanetary manifest destiny, We have to find the 3He first.

    Its presence is at the moment, only suspected. It is supposed that based on the moon's lack of atmosphere, that significant and extractable quanties exist trapped in the lunar regolith as a result of constant bombardment from the solar wind.

    I hope it's there, but in the meantime, let's ramp up the thorium breeder reactors and learn how to build nuclear rockets with acceptable fallout levels. If 3HE turns out to be on the moon, we're going to need some HEAVY heavy lifters to get the industry up there for extraction.

  11. Re:My previous post on this subject on Royal Society Wants to Keep Science off Web · · Score: 1

    I think it is important to remember that conference proceedings are not the same as peer reviewed journals. The difference is S/N. Conferences will let anyone present who has paid the conference fee, and everyone who presents will be in the proceedings. This is not particularly a problem since the people who can afford to attend conferences are generally active researchers in the field of choice*, but the lack of peer review means that all of the half-baked theories will be in there, strewn throughout the gold.

    This is not a bad thing. The point of conferences is to encourage researches to throw their ideas out there. One researcher's half-baked theory may provide just enough insight for the next researcher's astounding breakthrough.

    *In that sense, conferences are just like journals. the submitter is charged hefty fees for their submission. A not insignificant part of grant money awarded to researchers by verious institutions is expected to pay for conferences and article submissions. The whole system of funding academic research is totally bass-ackwards though, with professors paying universities to work for them and journals to print their work and third parties altogether paying for the research who don't directly recieve any of the benefits.

  12. Re:pretzel logic that crumbles on SETI@home Becomes Part of BOINC · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, you're right though. That's why they call the lottery a tax on the mathematically ignorant.

  13. Re:Fine on MS Has Free Software Removed From U.N. Paper · · Score: 1

    "Dude, there are still people who thing socialism will work, next time, when they are the ones in charge."

    We know. They post to slashdot regularly.

  14. Re:Propane, Oil on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    airflow maybe?

    airflow is the key to good drying. heating the air just lets you use a lower volume of air to evaporate the water. If you don't want to shrink your clothes, get a high flow drier and crank the temperature down to the minimum acceptable level.

  15. Re:Marketing Crapola! on Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater · · Score: 1

    (I'm completely ignoring AC/DC conversion here, which adds another factor of 1.414.) That's substantially more than 100 or 200 A.

    actually it doesn't in this case. The 110 V or 120 V line voltage quoted is the RMS voltage. If they were giving you amplitude, then you'd have to factor in that sqrt(2).

  16. yup your math is indeed wrong. on SETI@home Becomes Part of BOINC · · Score: 2, Informative

    1-0 = 1 not infinity.

    while it's true that lim(x->infinity) 1/x = 0 the converse, lim(x->infinity) 0*x = 1 cannot also be said to be true.

    lim(a->infinity) (1-0)/a = 0

  17. Re:Is it safe? on The 11 Year Soap Bubble · · Score: 1

    According to their adverts, Gatorade "replaces everything the body loses through sweat" So, what does that make Gatorade, chemically?

  18. best example: on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    Chicken gun.

    The first time around, they called it "Busted" after having done analysis of the steel plate footage completely wrong. It hurt to watch because they were doing so well up to that point. Chicken gun redux was a bit better, but they never did explain what was wrong with the analysis of the steel plate.

  19. Re:Getting the least out of your 16MB camera on Refocusable Plenoptic Light-Field Photography · · Score: 1

    Obviously you've never tried any of sony's dissapointing consumer cameras. A low-noise CCD is critical. (or at least a CCD capable of recording the "dark frames" whenever you want)

    so I would peg the percentages at: good lens 100%, good CCD 100% since bad either will guarantee terrible photos.

  20. Re:This is why I use.... on CCTV Network Tracks Getaway Car · · Score: 1

    Ok.. In the states, the law also requires that the tags be adequately lit. What's to stop you from illuminating it with super bright infra-red lights that just happen to saturate the region around the tag...

  21. Re:weather today on Dell Finally Goes for AMD · · Score: 1

    To be fair though, the town's main export is kitsch.

  22. Re:Well, there are some causes for concern... on CSI Takes On Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 1

    No, you don't need the addendum. The problem is that although there are citizens who are not stupid who get called up for jury duty and simply believe it is the price of living in a nation of laws, neither advocate wants such individuals sitting on an actual jury. People who can think for themselves are harder to manipulate and snow with jingles like "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit"* or race bait or other such things

    *I didn't actually see all the evidence from that trial, so it is certainly possible that in that instance, the nature of the rest of the evidence was not compelling.

    The problem that I have with CSI, and to a much greater extent, "law & order" is the liberties they take with YOUR liberties. breaking and entering, badgering suspects and such make great drama, but they aren't ever called on it. We're just to accept that since they decided the lowlife perp should be off the streets, he's a lowlife perp who should be off the streets.

    I think it fosters a "daddy knows best" attitude towards the government that is not healthy.

  23. Re:If you can't stand the heat... on Austrian Town Sees the Light · · Score: 1

    If there's cloud cover, the sunlight would be diffuse. They wouldn't need the mirrors.

  24. Re:notice on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 1

    Tribes has velocity addition. and jetpacks. and was one of the first to have "open-air" maps. and was probably the first to have maps as large as they were. You could run for 15 minutes before reaching the edge. starting from the middle.

  25. Re:notice on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 1

    A Lot of people bought it who hadn't played a FPS before. For them it defined the genre. Obviously they've never played Tribes.