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  1. Re:I thought of this years ago and... on Road Train Completes First Trials In Sweden · · Score: 1

    would you be mad and delirious if someone made blowout-less tires that never come off the vehicle and made your 25 years of work obsolete?

  2. Re:The Real Title: Kalamazoo on Michigan Governor Wants 'Open Source' Economic Model · · Score: 1

    on behalf of native americans, i disapprove this message.

  3. Re:They only ask important questions on US Supreme Court Says NASA Background Checks OK · · Score: 1

    for the Aryan Race

    or Ben Franklin put it, "dirty white people".

  4. Postgre/MySQL ... on Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row · · Score: 1

    Postgre/MySQL can pack more than 2 BILLION ROWS in single column!

  5. Wait a minute, who are you calling Flake? on When Smart People Make Bad Employees · · Score: 1

    I thought they put up with me because of my good looks and funny jokes...

  6. it's called corner guard... on Machining a TI-89 Out of Aluminum · · Score: 1

    $10 bucks at hardware store... aluminum, only protective as deodorant for your sweaty palm... not so much for graphing calculator with screwed down pcb.

  7. PTT and throat mic is the only way to go. on Best Telephone For Datacenters? · · Score: 1

    anyone working in data center should use ptt throat mic. it's pain to keep remind yourself to press two buttons on your neck to talk but hell, i can hear dime drops on the other end of the line and you rarely hear person on the other end asking "What did you say? What.. What?"

  8. OC Officials will lose - they don't know yet but on Officials Sue Couple Who Removed Their Lawn · · Score: 1

    Ha always gets the last laugh. Ha!

  9. Re:Yeah, right... but WHY?!? on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    I think, Google's motivation is in self interest, not end user's interest. Reducing load and time to serve will benefit content providers, not end users. However it's bit odd and immature for Google to fix something that is NOT broken. Or maybe I'm too old to think like people at Google...

  10. Re:hey, it beats on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, I am same way. For instance, I rented "Ghost" over the weekend and oh boy, that was a good movie. Patrick Swayze should really make more movies like Ghost... because it's recent... oh fuck it. never mind. Too soon...

  11. Re:Trotskydoom on Wolfenstein Being Recalled In Germany · · Score: 1

    The nazis are loved by nobody.

    Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, you sir are nobody!

  12. Re:shaking on Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    remember that fluid does not have much space between to move and shake about like gas does. also beer and soda do not spray because molecules are excited. it sprays out because of gas pressure and gas molecules attached to liquid is very weak. therefore small difference in pressure cause the bond to break easily. due to the surface tension of liquid, the bubbles wrapping around gas inside as gas rises up, builds up rapidly, resulting in "spray". but for water in microwave, imagine tightly packed asymmetric dipole molecules rotating in dipolar bond or imagine tightly packed gears rotating causing friction and heat. here is simple test you can do. ice cube and cold water. lets say, we have 100ml of cold water and same amount in ice. place two separate cups, one with water and one with ice into microwave oven. set timer to 3 minutes and watch the water boils before ice melt. in theory, if resonance is the factor, ice should melt faster since it requires less heat to melt than to boil. if dipole rotation causing collision and friction is the factor, dipole water should heat up faster than ice, because solid molecules are rigid, stuck together and can't rotate freely. hence water boils before ice melts.

  13. Re:Idiots on Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    you also have facts wrong. "shaking" of molecules or also commonly mistakenly expressed as "resonance" doesn't occur in traditional household microwave dielectric heating appliance. but rather microwave "rotates" dipole molecules by altering electric field, hence creating rapid collisions resulting "heat". resonance happens at 10 times (20Ghz) that of traditional microwave (~2.4Ghz). so yeah... try to get your own facts right... :)

  14. Re:ban the man on P2P Network Exposes Obama's Safehouse Location · · Score: 1

    I have to agree with you. It's a bullshit story with no regards to facts. Matter of fact, some of those "leaked" info had to be available publicly. For instance, the list of nuclear facilities in US is by COMPLIANCE with IAEA's nuclear nonproliferation agreement. http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear/page/at_a_glance/reactors/nuke1.html Regardless, none of those listed sites entails any of US nuclear weapons facility or infrastructure or security protocol.

  15. Re:Troll? on Verizon FiOS/DSL Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Across US · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.boingo.com/download-boingo.php Assuming this is Boingo network, I don't see how Boingo software can't be used within Boingo network. Currently Boingo supports from Windows XP, Mac OS X, Nokia N series, WindowCE, Blackberry, Android and iPhone/iPod Touch. Most likely Verizon partnership with Boingo is to include the Verizon netbook promo users for branding. I mean, even the most stupidest marketing idiots should be able to see the idiocy in supporting only Windows XP/Vista. I really really really don't want to lose my faith in humanity because of this...

  16. Re:Space elevator? on $2 Million NASA Power Beaming Challenge Heating Up · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you get caught in between the Moon and New York City... I know it's crazy, but it's true.

  17. Re:I guess I should prepare for extinction then on Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo · · Score: 1

    ..."Hand held" GPS using is about 10 inches long, by 3 inches wide, has a giant antenna on the side, weights about 10 pound and goes through its specialized and expensive batteries in about 6 hours of use."

    Does it "vibrate" also?

  18. Re:Read the RFP on Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign · · Score: 1

    From the website; Recovery.gov version 1.0 is currently hosted on a Linux server and Drupal is used for the content management system (CMS) and a MySQL database. RATB is open to recommendations for technology improvements for version 2.0 and beyond, including the hosting platform, database technology, CMS, programming languages, etc. that facilitate satisfaction of the requirements described in this SOO.

    Yeah, because everyone in Slashdot all here have single handedly managed, built and hosted a system that gathers/collects and tracks information that is worth 400 billion dollars under 20 bucks an hour within a week, drinking 6 packs of Mountain Dew.
    18 million is really nothing even in this economy which needs to serve up the expected number of traffic.

  19. visualizing the improvement on New AES Attack Documented · · Score: 1

    2^256
    26  25  24  23  22  21  20  19  18  17  16  15  14  13  12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
    115 792 089 237 316 195 423 570 985 008 687 907 853 269 984 665 640 564 039 457 584 007 913 129 639 936

    2^119
    12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
    664 613 997 892 457 936 451 903 530 140 172 288

    2^110.5 (rounded off to nearest units)
    12  11  10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1
      1 835 754 156 221 338 741 132 617 695 578 321

    2 significant figures improvement!  That's freaking amazing.

  20. call me stupid on Graphene Could Make Magnetic Memory 1000x Denser · · Score: 1

    1000x Denser ???
    ... 50,000 atoms ... to 15,000 atoms... 8nm across ... only 0.5nm across... could allow an increase in memory density of three orders of magnitude
    three orders of magnitude? what kind of math is this???
    The only question now is whether this team's calculations hold true in the real world.
    I would like to see that calculation!

  21. How? ...with one line command on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    fsck -py /dev/ramdisk

  22. Re:What irony? on Lightning Strikes Amazon's Cloud (Really) · · Score: 1

    How about, "cloud computing on a sunny day only".

    irony FTW!

  23. Re:I don't see how this matters on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    but we all know it's an alias for "Copy and Paste".

  24. Re:I had to learn trig with tables in mid/late-80s on Wolfram Alpha Rekindles Campus Math Tool Debate · · Score: 1

    similar story - my middle school math only allowed abacus in class. funny how times have changed.

  25. Re:Protecting the borders on Spy Satellite Photos Used To Fight Drug Smugglers · · Score: 1

    personally i don't understand the simple issue with illegal immigration business and administrative bureaucracy.

    So called "illegal" immigrants do not enjoy same benefits citizens enjoy, often excluded from financial and social safety net. "Tax cannot be collected from undocumented illegal immigrants" often can be heard as the defense mantra and argument from the fair distribution of tax income folks. But in reality, citizens making $200 bucks a week almost always pay less tax than illegal immigrants making $200 bucks a week. Not to mention, qualification for health/medical (federal sponsored, not state), education (again federal sponsored, not state), housing (always state), legislative (federal not state), social security (always federal), employment benefits, disability and constitutional legal protection (federal and state) are always all for citizens making $200 bucks a week. None of which applies if you are illegal immigrants who do not have any option to take advantage at their discretion.

    So obviously cost only comes down to loss revenue from administrative bureaucracy and cost of "boarder fence".

    US has history of people having chronic amnesia when it comes to immigration.

    People do not migrate over to US for measly $200 bucks a week. It's because US has history of providing home for those who are willing to take chance and willing to make better life for themselves and their children regardless of religion or race.

    But saddly what we do doesn't always turn out like what we stand for... really sad.