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  1. Re:Uses in homeland security? on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 1

    In the post-9/11 world, everything can be used for homeland security.

  2. Re:I dont know... on Fat Geeks Healthier Than You Thought · · Score: 1

    I say just get them all into LARPing. Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!

  3. Re:Software to make midi from singing or humming? on Concert to be Performed from Beyond the Grave · · Score: 1

    Actually, any recent copy of finale will also do this. Of course it's a $400 piece of software, but if you know any music majors - and odds are you know somebody that knows somebody that has this - I'm sure you could "borrow the licence for a week" I tried it with a ukelele before... It wasn't too bad. Of course, you've got to set the time signature, tempo, etc... but it's worth it.

  4. Re:Thin clients don't work on Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP · · Score: 5, Funny

    But this time microsoft is bringing innovation...

  5. Re:RC Landing? on The Shuttle Mission No One Wants · · Score: 1

    Easy fix. By the time landing gear deploy, the shuttle will be out of comm blackout. This allows ground controllers to remotely lower landing gear in real time. Patch a solenoid into the ground link. Connect to the button with duct tape. Cost = $20.

  6. Re:Two conversations at once on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 1

    You expect ordinary people, who can't drive while on the phone, to be able to talk on two phones at the same time? ...In other news, car crashes up 1200% with this invention.

  7. Re:Vocal cords on Detecting Speech Without Microphones · · Score: 1

    Vocal Cords vibrate by the breath you pass over them. Ever try to talk when you have the wind knocked out of you? it's the same thing.

  8. NIMSlum! on Space Elevator Update · · Score: 1

    Well, if the cable is based on land, the're going to have to put it in either Africa or the Amazon, i.e. the third world. I'm sure the residents of these places would enjoy the economic oppurtunities.

  9. Can I ask slashdot? on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My internets are slow. I don't know what to do. I can run my microsoft works, and that goes fine. But when I start up my internet my entire computer slows down. I asked the boy that sold me my computer at best buy, and he said I should put more ram in it. So after I got my computer back from him installing the ram, it is a little faster, but the internets are still slow.

  10. Re:putting a mini inside an Apple // on Mac mini Maximized With 3.5" Drives · · Score: 1

    A 9 inch POS VGA display lines up perfectly with the mounting holes for the CRT in any old "Classic" Mac. I know this from experience. How about a mac mini inside a Mac Plus, Classic, SE, or Classic II?

  11. Good Luck? On Friday the 13th? on Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 · · Score: 1

    Anyone notice that the asteroid's closest approach to Earth will be on Friday, April 13, 2029?

  12. Re:Yup...too far from now on Asteroid To Be Naked-Eye Visible In 2029 · · Score: 1

    Thank god. I was waiting to see a refrence to "Dig"

  13. Re:On the plus side... on Indian Moon Mission to Have Landing Component · · Score: 0

    Especially when they seem to be sending something designed with MS Paint...

  14. Re:Looney Tunes on Museum of the Future · · Score: 1
    You really only need to watch it once.

    Once, but really, really high. and hope you invent it before the buzz wears off.

  15. iPod killer? on Creative Zen Micro Ships Today · · Score: -1, Troll
    So it's an iPod killer with, at most, one-third the storage space.

    Yeah, this will go over great.....

  16. Re:Neato on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric · · Score: 1

    besides nerds making girl robots out of it, I could think of a couple uses... The first light bulb filimant was Carbon. Looks like we have an atom-thick heating device. That my go to scarves, mittens,car windshields and the such... Not nowing the properties of the system, such as the strength and permibality of air, but you could have a parachute on your hands... Or even a super-super lilght Zeppelin. You know, the one that the NSA wasnts to put up everywhere? Those are just ideas. Now if you want me to tell you what I think you should do is have a paper airplane race made outof this stuff. I'd be intresting just to get my handson a one-atom thick piece of paper. jut to see what it feels like. See if at has any coool properties... Wait. a. Minute. Paper that doen't burn.Cigarettes, man. The futurs in cigarettes.

  17. Where do I apply? on Russian Mock Mars Mission · · Score: 1
    I'd like to know where to apply for this. In 2006, I'll be a year out of school, and this seems like a great way to defer paying back my student loans for a year and a half.

    Even though I'd be crammed in a concrete bloc(oh, there's a pun!) shed for a year and a half, with 5 other guys, and after a week probably only rasin-toilet wine to drink, I'd still go. I've been wanting to go to the Aumandson-Scott reaserch station to work over the winter, but my future career probably precludes that. Might as well donate my body/time to space exploration. I doubt they'd have to pay me.

    Anyone who wants me, knows where to contact me....

  18. Re:control issues on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: 1
    This guy needs to be nominated for world's best pilot or something. I can't think of one other person that wouldn't have to wipe the poop out of their pants at apogee.

    Oh, yeah, then you have to come down. Talk about edge of your seat action.

  19. Re:About an hour on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: 1
    Ha! My class was cancelled! My teacher is going to Rome to judge a pipe organ contest/thingy.

    Coincidently, I think she's flying Virgin...

  20. Re:Hmmmm? on NASA Releases World Viewer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, The terraserver is USGS aerial photography. This, however is GOES satellite data. Pretty cool, IMHO. I was on the Terraserver planning my trip last week to Centralia, Pennsylvania. Has had a coal fire burning underneath it for 40 years. Look at the street grids with no houses on them. And if you scroll 100 meters south of downtown, there's a giant steaming crater. It's a fun place. I'd love to fly through Centralia on this Nasa thing. Anybody know what the resolution is? I doubt it would be better than 1 meter...

  21. Re:An embarassment of security. on Lexar JumpDrive Password Scheme Cracked · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I've got one of these, so now you do know someone with one.

    If you're carrying around secure documents/files on a jumpdrive using only the included encryption scheme, you may need a lobotomy. I took one look at the security program that came on the drive, and threw it out. I knew I'd never need it. It wasn't a program that looked like it reeked of security, either. I'm acutally surprized this is the first report of the JumpDrive being cracked.

    Since there are dozens of USB drives on the market, and the're basically the same price (my JumpDrive was the same price as the other 128Mb offerings in Circut City), I wouldn't think a consumer to expect a fairly decent encryption system for free. On top of that, if you're carrying around sensitive documents on your keys, just think: when's the last time you lost your keys?

  22. Re:Diversity in radio on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 1
    That's a big part of the problem right there. How are people going to get exposed to new music, if radio stations only play what's "tearin' up the charts"?

    Sorry If I wasn't as precice as I should have been. We still had calls in requesting the same old shite, and hey, you wanna play what the listeners want to hear....

    Ratings are coming in for when I was DJing/practically in charge (with some social engineering. :), and the're looking pretty good - even for this time where we didn't add any new music in rotation. At least up from the last piece of college degree meat dragged his sorry ascot out the door.

    By far, the best thing I did there was get put in charge of a basically no-holds-barred show - I could play anything I wanted, And I'll be damned if it wasn't the best music sent to me in the last two weeks. I listened to everything. If I liked it, and thought the audience would like it, then it went in that show. If you ever have a ratings book, and you turn the dial and hear one of these "underground / new releases" shows, listen to it and put it down.

    On a sidenote, I hate Clear Channel more than anyone. The're trying to buy every station in the area (except the one I was at...). So anyway. Clear Channel sends independents ads, these HUGE ads that are worth $1000s. Problem is, We can never play them, cause they don't send us a script or cart or anything. So one day I decided to call Clear Channel, and to make a long story short, got Clear Channel to pay my radio station $2000 they didn't have to. Yeah, fight the power.

  23. Re:Diversity in radio on Microsoft Creates Static With New Webcast Feature · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Have you ever worked in mass media? I interned at a radio station, and we didn't add any new music for a month over the summer, just because there was nothing *new* tearin' up the charts. When we did add something new, I had a request an hour for one song - from different people.

    It's not the Programming or Music Managers that make radio the repetive drivel it is, it's the listeners. Start advocating and turning your friends onto some good music, fill out the damn ratings books (and nobody can listen to 180 hours of NPR a week, I've seen this.) and stop listening to "the best hits of the 80's and 90's" chanells with 500 songs in rotation, and you might end up with a good radio station due to market pressure.

  24. Re:Hidden outside the horn of the universe on Missing Matter... Still Missing · · Score: 2, Informative
    IAKAP, but I do have access to a dictionary, and the universe, as defined, is EVERYTHING. Nothing exists outside the universe, by definition.

    From dictionary.com:

    universe (yn-vûrs)
    n.

    1. All matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.
      1. The earth together with all its inhabitants and created things.
      2. The human race.
    2. The sphere or realm in which something exists or takes place.
    If WIMPS were outside the universe, I'd think the physisists would have a much, much larger problem. Either that or we'd have to redefine "universe"
  25. Re:1998 called on What Lies Ahead For Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    1998 called again, and this time left a message; they want their joke format back