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  1. Re:Did they get the pot of gold as well? on Scientists Trap a Rainbow · · Score: 2, Informative

    *creature. Never work, eat and /. at the same time! ;o

    *bows in shame*

  2. Re:Did they get the pot of gold as well? on Scientists Trap a Rainbow · · Score: 1

    I don't believe that they've got it alive! A Rainbow Warrior is a create with a strong degree of honour! ^_^

  3. Re:Somewhere it it's odd.. on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 1

    Don't get me wrong: I'm not stating that there are no benefits from legislation like this. Just that it's has a 'two opposite thoughts in ones mind' kind of feeling to it.

  4. Somewhere it it's odd.. on Losing Personal Info On A Laptop Could Get You Charged · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..that a group of people who want to know more and more personal details about you, especially in the last 6 years,.. are now coming up with legislation that should help to take the privacy of people seriously.

  5. Re:No picture? on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    Thank you, but it is not my blog. You should compliment the owner for this write-up. :)

  6. Re:No picture? on Amazon's Ebook The Future of Reading? · · Score: 1

    I think it should look like a Star Trek Pad:

    http://www.billabonger.net/futurisms.cfm

  7. Re:Lesson Learned: on Hushmail Passing PGP Keys to the US Government · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Ringtone suggestions include... on Shake a Secure Bluetooth Connection · · Score: 1

    No, perhaps 3-4 mins; just a copy+paste on some search results. I don't have to listen to the whole song before posting it here.. (and looking at some songs I'm grateful for that :P).

    But if it gives me extra karma, it must have taken me at least half an hour to give the /. crowd these insanely cool suggestions! ;D

  9. Ringtone suggestions include... on Shake a Secure Bluetooth Connection · · Score: 3, Funny
  10. Re:acronym question on NASA Wins Nanotechnology Award · · Score: 1

    Almost like TNT of course.. there are 4 letter acronyms and 3 letter acronyms, a big difference! ;P

  11. Ok, I'm not and expert in all the math.. on A New Theory of Everything? · · Score: 1
    but somehow I do find it intriguing that the pattern displayed on page 15 of the paper looks like a nice hexagram/Star of David


    And that the graphic of the E8 model reminds me very much of certain mandala's.. perhaps I should check out the Sacred Geometry field. :)

  12. Re:Reading the RSS title ... on Colossus Cracks Again · · Score: 1

    For the record: I've never even touched WoW.

    The only visuals I've seen of it were on TV or in a YouTube movie...

    I've just got my creative moments every now and then! ;P

  13. Reading the RSS title ... on Colossus Cracks Again · · Score: 2
    I initially had this amazing vision in my mind of a huge Greek mythical hero in the sky ... with a huge hammer (perhaps borrowed from Thor!) and an anvil to match... picking up numbers and cracking them with huge force one by one.... causing all kinds of wild lightning like effects that scared all mortals on the ground.


    Then I realized I have some code to debug. ;-)

  14. Re:Bad title on Close but no Cigar for Netflix Recommender System · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the summary was not recommended to them, given their personal preferences.

  15. The memories! on Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes · · Score: 2, Funny

    And you thought Air Wolf had badass headgear.

    Thank you for that bit of nostalgia! Now I'm browsing YouTube for cool startup sequences and intro's of AirWolf again! :)

    What can I say more? Dom, give me the turbo's! :D

  16. Re:Tesla connection? on Crater From 1908 Tunguska Blast Found · · Score: 1

    With all respect for Franklin, but if there's one man who could have really done it, it is Tesla. http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html

  17. Re:I predict... on Is the Future of the Electric Car Industry in Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Electric cars are not really efficient requiring coal or natural gas in many places to generate it.

    IMHO that's not an inefficiency problem caused by the car. Similarly I could say that gasoline cars are inefficient because oil has to be pumped out of the ground in some far away place, it has to be transported to a refinery and finally it has to be transported to the filling station before it can be put in the car!

    And there are losses in recharging and discharge.

    Well.. have you ever looked up how little energy from the gasoline is actually delivered to the wheels? Engine effiency around 20% for a stock engine.. perhaps up to 35%... then there are losses in all the belts, pulley's, gears (transmission) etc. etc.

    If my memory serves me well, I believe that I recently heard that there are just 20 moving parts in the Tesla car... compared to hundreds, if not thousands, in a 'normal' car. A gasoline car's tank-to-wheel efficiency is 16% ... of course there are recharge/discharge losses, but I bet the efficiency is a lot higher than 16%. A good electrical engine can reach efficiency levels in the range of 97%, as recently was demonstrated during the World Solar Challenge race.

  18. Re:I'm too lazy to do any research... on Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of · · Score: 1

    You forgot the magic pair of words: plug and play

  19. Re:Lessons learned in Chicago on Microsoft Plans $500 Million Chicago Data Center · · Score: 1

    Some people say that the name of that new movie will break with the current naming scheme and switch to Mission Developers Developers Developers (a.k.a. M{1}D{3} ).

    "Ethan Hunt comes face to face with a dangerous and sadistic arms^Harmchair dealer while trying to keep his identity secret in order to protect his girlfriend."

  20. Re:Lessons learned in Chicago on Microsoft Plans $500 Million Chicago Data Center · · Score: 4, Funny

    It will be protected by Itanium walls and a ChairLauncher which can launch at a rate of 40 standard Ballmers per minute.

  21. Re:Microsoft employees bashing something non-MS? on Redmond's Heavy Guns Go After OpenSocial · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just wait! Tomorrow Ballmer will announce the 'OpenChair' API!

  22. Re:Teslas on Super-Magnet Sheds Light on Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    Yes indeed! The Force is strong in this one! ;)

  23. Re:Apple leads share in key Adobe markets on Why Apple Should Acquire Adobe · · Score: 1

    I have also spotted Macs as being popular in the Artificial Intelligence corner of studies. Both staff and students seem to go for the 'nice GUI with UNIX foundation' combination.

  24. Re:The War on Terror on Schneier On the War On the Unexpected · · Score: 1

    An perfect, eternal, war even..

  25. Hhmmm.. on FTC Seeks Anti-Spyware Authority · · Score: 1