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  1. This is ridiculous on Texas Makes Zombie Fire Ants · · Score: 5, Funny

    Zombies are never the answer. Oh wait. Zombie ant overlords? That's totally different.

  2. They can always make you agree to anything. on Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? · · Score: 1

    Whatever it is, if you don't go along, then your boss gets harassed because his people are not in compliance with corporate policy. His pay might be affected and it will be YOUR fault. This kind of pressure works well because you are likely to be friends with your immediate supervisor. Show me where to sign on the petition to resume clubbing baby seals (only the cute ones).

  3. Re:'Drift' sounds like a rubbish excuse on Voting Machines and 'Calibration Drift' · · Score: 1

    I have an older Garmin iQue3600 PDA which uses the Palm OS. It never drifts; the whole "drifting" business makes no sense to me.

  4. Re:No, Geothermal on Hawaii Planning State-Wide Electric Car Network · · Score: 1

    I have a house on the Big Island. The electric rates are very high. There is a geothermal power company which has been limping along for many years, but has not gained any traction. They must sell electricity at the same rate as the oil-fired generators. You can't just build a power plant on the volcanoes since they are in national parks and are off limits to development. Hawaii Electric has enough capacity to supply everyone without using renewable sources so they don't care and continue to burn oil and naphtha to make power. There are wind farms at the southern end of the island, but many turbines are in disrepair and just stand rusting. Solar cells are just too expensive. Politics trumps technology.

  5. There are sites that are blurred... on Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth · · Score: 1

    I work at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. Kodak Park is blurred in Google maps satellite view and I assume in Google Earth. Check out 1999 Lake Avenue Rochester, NY.

  6. Re:Targus lobbyist on TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags · · Score: 1

    So if I want to go to Hawaii, I need to get a really fast running start and then drive off a incompleted expressway entrance ramp headed west.

  7. Re:Zero bandwidth transmitter and Hedy Lamarr on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    The correct spelling is Hedy Lamarr. See http://www.hedylamarr.com/about/biography.htm. Gorgeous and technically brilliant (typical /. gearhead and ultimate electrical engineer!).

  8. Re:Scientists cannot explain != mysterious on Yet Another Perpetual Motion Device · · Score: 1

    Harry Houdini said that the easiest people to fool were scientists because they believed what they saw. That is why Houdini went into the business of unmasking charlatans and fake-seance fortune tellers. It takes a magician to uncover these scams. Any decent magician can pull off tricks that can't be explained by any given scientist. Does pulling a rabbit out of a hat violate the laws of physics and make "conventional" science look foolish? I don't think so.

  9. Re:I can get one now? No problem! on Wiimote as Multi-Touch Display Controller · · Score: 1

    My friend at work has bought 5 Wii at Walmart (not all at once of course). You simply need to know when the delivery takes place and hang out at the store until they bring them out. Actually, he got six. He got one for me and then GAVE IT BACK when he couldn't contact me on my cell to see if I wanted it! No problem; he just got another one for me the following week. This morning he picked one up for our boss to give to his son. Now that's job security!

  10. Re:I always worry about aluminum. on High-End Aluminum PC Cases Make A Comeback · · Score: 1

    Energy levels are related to shielding capability? What two different metals are being connected? ICs are made of Silicon; try making a case out of that! Your post is full of "fake" science...

  11. Re:THIEF!! on Genre-Defining Games? · · Score: 1

    I was hoping someone would mention the Thief series. Just finished Dark Shadows recently (like for the 4th time...). Great game!

  12. Re:Tax a percentage of what? Packets? Meters of ca on Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs · · Score: 1

    A percentage of revenue. On an internal LAN there is no revenue...