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  1. Re:Or inceasing the cost of ammo? on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    Since you are nitpicking, a lot of people do cast their own bullets. You are talking about cartridge parts.

  2. Re:lots of chips had images on them on Revisiting the Macintosh ROM Easter Egg · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are probably thinking of the Silicon Zoo. Fun site.

  3. Re:Something is not right here... on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    That depends on state law if intrastate. Federal law kicks in and prohibits interstate shipping.

  4. Legumes, Thyme and Berries (and peppers) oh my! on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    The weather here in the south is great. My ghost and habanero peppers are doing fantastic. The strawberry plants started growing berries 3 weeks ago. This weather is delicious and our canning gear will be in overtime this year.

  5. Re: Yeah...but on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 1

    I know a few amusement parks that have dorms for workers. Cedar Point in Sandusky is one of them.

  6. Re:OT (your sig) on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    I believe that would be a fork bomb passing 2 to interrupt 80.
    http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/#call-numbers

  7. Re:UnXis = Sketchy on UnXis Group To Acquire SCO · · Score: 1

    These are not the droids you are looking for... see this reply.

  8. Re:YRO? on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 2

    Up to $250 can be claimed as educational expenses on federal taxes with the appropriate receipts. Unfortunately we spend close to $1000 every year on things like photocopies for tests and in-class supplies.

    The copier at the high school requires a teacher code and only allows a certain number of copies per quarter. My wife uses the entire budget on the first couple weeks since it amounts to about three double-sided sheets of paper for each of her students. A small part of our personal monthly budget goes towards keeping her classroom running but we can afford it.

  9. Re:So... on Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? · · Score: 1

    What's the proper pressure through your car's PVC valve? Your mechanic probably knows.

    My guess is he would laught at you for installing plumbing on your car when it actually needed the Positive Crankcase Ventilation valve replaced.

  10. Re:Online is the only way to shop these days on Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    You are right on about Ace. I can't wait until the new one they are building a few miles from here opens. There are three Home Depots and a Lowes within 10 miles but I'll take the Ace for general hardware, tools, and useful stuff. Another place to look is Harbor Freight. They both remind me of the real hardware stores my grandpa used to shop.

  11. Re:Posted under IT, huh? on Thieves Take the Cake · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know of any options to /. that are as cool (minus the idle garbage, of course)?

    Yes, but if we told you then we would have to put up with you over there too.

  12. Re:The first thing I though of when I read this on Using My PC For Plain Old Telephone Service? · · Score: 1

    I've had a telemarketing job. I quit the day I called someone who was dead, and never looked back.

    The important thing is did you make the sale?

  13. Re:sounds like change to Mastercard on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 1

    I'm not going through every page on their site but I did found this through the AU page that claims the same coverage as the US.

  14. Re:sounds like change to Mastercard on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 1

    You are mistaken and I don't know why people continue to perpetuate this myth. According to the Visa Debit Card page they offer the same zero liability protection to all cards processed on the Visa network. This policy started in 2000.

  15. Re:Could someone please... on NULL Pointer Exploit Excites Researchers · · Score: 1

    Ha, I see what you have done. You made a joke based on the stereotype that people who understand computers are incapable of finding a mate for sexual intercourse. Very funny!

  16. Re:Also from the article... on China to Use Silver Iodide & Dry Ice to Control the Weather · · Score: 1

    If your property is purchased through eminent domain you have the right to fair market value which is the highest amount a purchaser would pay to a willing seller. You don't have to whimp out and take the 'peanuts'. Work a little for your rights and get some realistic comps for the area or make your arguments at the hearing. If you don't agree with the outcome of the hearing you have the right to appeal. It is only in the movies that the government goes on a rampage stealing land from little old widows.

  17. Re:That's all well and good... on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    I hadn't read that about the different coated reflectors. This is a hobby so I obviously still have a lot to learn.

    I still think it would be difficult to get the light emitted from screw-in bulbs into the tank. Those bulbs have 4-5 twists so it would be difficult to reflect the light from the upper rings into the water and that is more space that needs to be accounted for in the hood. It would probably require an expensive reflector. You can always throw more bulbs in there but it already gets pretty toasty with the current bulbs so I added an A/C fan and some dynamat to cut the noise.

  18. Re:That's all well and good... on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem with using threaded bulbs (at least all the ones I have seen) is re-strike. That is when the light emitted from the bulb hits another part of the bulb or is reflected off the hood back into the bulb. I do feel that reflectors are ridiculously overpriced so I decided to make my own using PVC cut lengthwise and painted with fake chrome. I'm not sure how you would get much more than %50 of the light emitted from a spiral wound bulb reflected into the tank. The other major problem is just as you mentioned, I have never seen them in the correct temperature range.

    I had to put the inexpensive hood that came with the tank while I was doing some maintenance. The difference in light was amazing between the two 80 Watt 6500K 4 foot bulbs and the six 55/65 watt 10K 2 foot bulbs I have in the new hood. It's kind of funny when I think that it was plenty of light when I set the tank up a few years ago.

  19. Re:That's all well and good... on A Super-Efficient Light Bulb · · Score: 3, Informative

    It isn't that expensive. I built a hood for my 75 gallon reef and it has 350 Watts of compact fluorescent light using 2 Fulham Workhorse ballasts. The total cost of the hood was around $350 and the bulbs should be replaced once a year for about $200. That is over 4 watts/gallon and easily supports my cnidarians and clams. The bulb in the article is not suitable for a reef tank with corals, clams, or anemones since the temperature isn't in the 10K range but it should work great in a planted tank.

  20. Re:Cost Analysis on Google Interested in Wireless Bandwidth Balloons · · Score: 1

    Whoever wrote this business plan is on crack. $15 million a year for the equivalent of 14 base stations?! In a rural area? Instead of using grain silos?

    Maybe part of the business plan is that people will keep them (maybe after purchasing on ebay). If they are designed to be a mesh network there will be at least a percentage of them in peoples homes working as part of the network.

    If they install on towers they have to pay rental but they wouldn't have to pay the land rental or tiny bit of electricity required to run them if people brought them home and powered them up. It seems like they could build a pretty huge mesh network by moving their launch sites around and letting the masses spread out the infrastructure.

  21. Re:Backup problems on The Trouble with Virtualization - Cranky IT Staffs · · Score: 1

    It is possible to just mount the vmware disk image without actually starting the VM. Check out vmware-mount.pl. I have used this to pull files out of old virtual machine files in the past with no problems. Maybe this is what you meant by exporting the files?

  22. Re:They're not that stupid on US Government Caught Manipulating Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Running Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H OSX and Linux in the home. (I don't have time for Solitaire any more.)
    Try using ^W instead and you will have more time for Solitaire.
  23. Re:Yea, it's all the same. on Are Relational Databases Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Read a book ya whippersnapper. PICK is exactly what he meant.

  24. Re:well you're obviously not the intended market on Custom Trojan Creation Tool Sold Online · · Score: 1

    No. I don't know :(

  25. Re:Sad to say, but on Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'm not in total disagreement with you, my googlove notwithstanding.
    My wife made me throw out my googlove. It was standing on it's own.