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  1. Re:My objection to the article: on Condensing Your Life on to a USB Flash Drive? · · Score: 1

    Actually in a situation that may be ongoing fermentation could be a priority and not impractical at all. Making a grog is a great way to prevent sickness if water purity is questionable, plus you can use your brew disinfect wounds if need be. You also should not underestimate the willingness of people to trade for, well anything that will help them forget the situation.

  2. Talk about Paranoia on Outspoken Group Releases Album as Free Download · · Score: 1

    Paranoia! Paranoia! RIAA's coming to get me Just say you never met me I'm going underground with the moles

  3. Which OS on Pepping Up Windows · · Score: 1

    On Windows I use EditPad I think it was one of the first to support tabing in a text editor. On OS X(Another great way to pep up windows, get rid of it)I have been using SubEthaEdit.

  4. Re:I say... on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you understand the full implications of what you are saying. M$ has bought them selves a nice little piece of AOL. Now do you really want to intermingle anything related to M$ with international politics. Before you know it we would all be bowing to the great and mighty BillGateis of the Borg. Resistince is futile, You will be assimilated.

  5. Re:Dogfood? on Mozilla Lightning Plans to Unify Mail & Calendar · · Score: 1

    Unless I'm mistaken "Dogfood Bugs" are white, long, and kind of squirmy. The vet used a long metal rod to check my dog for them(not vary pleasant I assume). Maybee Mozilla.org should take thier pet lizard to see a vet if he's got "Dogfood bugs".

  6. Re:I love the Gimp but on A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing · · Score: 1

    My PowerMac is only a couple months old, but I'm not running Tiger so that could be the difference. And, I have noticed it does seem to crash when I am working with the text tool.

  7. I love the Gimp but on A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing · · Score: 1

    I only use the Gimp for any graphics work I'm doing, which is usualy limited to web design. I think it is actualy a far more powerfull tool than photoshop, however it has its problems. Instead of waisting time on the looks of the UI I think there are two or three basic things which would make the Gimp more apealing. First and formost are the crashes, I mean come on some times I only get 20 or 30 minutes of work in and it crashes. Second, and this seems to mainly be an issue for Mac Gimp users, is the fact if you try to click on anything outside your current window you first have to make the windows active. So if I want to click on the blur tool I have to click once to make the tool bar active, a second time to select the tool, a third time to make the canvas active and then I can use the tool, of course if the keyboard is handy I can always use short cuts, but... Lastly is I wish they would make a native aqua interface instead of using the X server, this is a very small gripe however.

  8. Re:Issue 3 and 5, and maybe 2, easily resolved on IE UI Designer On His Switch To FireFox · · Score: 1

    What is it with every one sueing everyone else ;-)

  9. Re:Umm... it's called biodiesel... on Intel Enters Anti-Virus Market · · Score: 1

    Actualy, I was thinking a while ago about industrial food plants(Think Nabisco). They go through tons of oil in thier cooking proccess. If they where to set up a refinery system fed from theaste oil disposal systems, they would be able to produce alot of biodiesel.

  10. Re:Free Fusion on Europe Plans a New Type of Fusion Facility · · Score: 1

    Why is it that every time solar is mentioned it is assumed we must be using PV cells. Has any one on this site followed recent trends(http://www.stirlingenergy.com/).

  11. Re:And the good side is... on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 4, Funny

    To bad it does not work on brain tissue or there could be hope for the democrats to ;-)

  12. Interesting but? on Chinese Websites Used As Launchpads For Cracking · · Score: 1

    This shouldn't suprise any one, after all if you are a potintial enemy of the US and you have a tech savy society then one of the best stratigies in being prepared for any futur engament would be to probe that countries computers. If you can find a way to disrupt communication system then you very well may gain an advantage. I'm sure the US has hacked every computer system they can find, just in case. What the US needs to take away from this is a need for improved security even on thier low priority, unclassified systems. And by the way they did say UNCLASSIFIED not PUBLIC DOMAIN thier is a diffrence.

  13. Tag lines! on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    Windows 95, 10 years of Linux evangelism and counting.
    or
    Windows 95, 10 years of making more money for semantic.
    or
    Windows 95, Unix without the useful stuff.
    or
    Windows 95, Adware with style.

  14. Re:Before anyone starts flaming.. on Scientists Create New Human Embryonic Stem Cell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On a completely different look at in vitro fertilization and if we as a society should allow it is the fact that there are a lot of orphaned children that need families. By allowing in vitro fertilization we not only generate the ethical questions raised above, but also create an environment in which children that would have been adopted by otherwise children less couples are raised without proper parental love and care. I think we would be better off finding caring homes for these children, than just creating more children through artificial means.

  15. Re:Environmental loop... on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    While talking about focused beams of sunlight which reach temps in excess of 1000 degrees, covering a large portion of the mid western US it is not wise to use the words "Wild Fire".

  16. Re:Conversion Table: Megawatts to Homes on World's Largest Solar Array to use Stirling Engine · · Score: 1

    Brushing our teeth with rechargable toothbruches, obviously. ;)

  17. Re:The world actually needs more bogs on Siberian Permafrost Melting · · Score: 1

    Obviously you have never drank a good single malt scotch, or you would no that the bogs must be preserved at all cost(execpt for use in scotch of course). ;)

  18. Re:I must be new here on Is It Wrong to Love Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Your right Sun, and HP also make acceptable UNIX alternatives. :)

  19. Re:Magnetic Rail's? on More New Details on NASA's CEV Launcher Studies · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, is that speed based on a completly vertical tack off. The system I had read about launched at an angle(although I do not remember the angle).

  20. Magnetic Rail's? on More New Details on NASA's CEV Launcher Studies · · Score: 1

    What ever hapened to the ideas of using a magnetic rail to "fling" the ship into orbit. Is this still just not practical. It seems with that system you would have all of your launch energy requirments on the ground instead of needing to carry fuel with you.

  21. Re:Yes, but how efficient overall? on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's actually quite easy to make "Bio Diesel". Basically you add methanol to used cooking oil and use lie to reduce the acidity. Used cooking oil can be obtained free from a lot of restaurants (some may even pay you) or for a nominal fee from others. Bio Diesel runs much cleaner than Petrol Diesel, and can acutely increase your engines horsepower while cleaning out the sludge left behind from years of petrol. The biggest down side is if your diesel is more than say 3-5 years old you may need to replace some of the rubber fittings in the fuel system to keep them from degrading.

  22. Dawn ye now your tinfoil hats? on Death Penalty For Hackers? · · Score: 1

    You see this could all be a conspiracy by RIAA. Once it is made law that hacker costing a company money is punishable by death RIAA could argue that you not buying 5 new cd's a month is costing them money and therefore a national minimum cd purchase limit should be enforceable by death.

  23. Re:Way to miss my point. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    No, I was simply trying to state the point I cannot assign a higher value to a persons life just because of their age. For instance if a mother and child where both drowning should I save the mother because she is older than the child. At any rate, no I don't approve of vigilante justice any more than I approve of the slaughter of unborn children for no good reason(wether or not it is a medical necessity is different topic all together).

  24. Re:No, you're wrong. You're very, very wrong. on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    As opposed to those who murder real live baby humans?

  25. Re:Piracy for the Sake of Piracy. A.K.A. hoarding on Internet Movies Before DVD · · Score: 1

    The men with very large rifles pointing at your head when you wake up in the morning may disagree.