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  1. Re:Why Helium and not Hydrogen? on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    Lol, you're right as it's diatomic. I'm a chemist, should have caught that!

    Fail.

  2. Re:Why Helium and not Hydrogen? on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    Adding to the above post, hydrogen is much harder to keep contained over He. After all, it's just a proton.

  3. Re:Keep off the Grass, or myLawn on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 1

    Or corporate europe or corporate asia. Corporate America is not any better or worse than the others.

  4. Re:Why do we care? on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Haha. Seriously though, while we can demand equality in most everything. Females and males are physically different when it comes to strength and abilities. I have a good friend that plays D1 women's college basketball and while she could beat the pants of me (football guy myself), she wouldn't stand a chance with a D2 men's team.

    I don't know where to draw the line really and I guess it should be up to the players. I've always thought that women should be required to sign up for selective services and should be able fight in combat positions.

  5. Re:Why do we care? on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    Fuck you nigsausage.

  6. Blowtorch! on The Homemade Hard Disk Destroyer · · Score: 1

    I have an oxy-acetylene torch in my home workshop. I've used it to turn platters into molten slag.

    it's cheap too!

  7. Re:Don't hold your breath on Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Elites" are the modern bogeyman.

  8. Re:Redundant on Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes · · Score: 1

    I can't watch live NFL and Hockey via the net, nor can I watch a lot of re-runs of the older shows I like.

    Sports are the most important, as I'm a sports nut.

  9. Re:it is not the hardware, it is the content on Sony Takes Aim At Amazon's Kindle · · Score: 1

    I've tried reading ebooks on my desktop, my netbook and my iphone. I haven't been able to do it yet. Backlit screens just suck ass for reading for any length of time.

    I tried stanza.

  10. Re:They force you to lease software on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Re: "how is this different from building a computer for financial gain?"

    It's not illegal to build computers for financial gain or otherwise.

  11. Re:as much as it sounds interesting... on Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. No earmark should get a free pass.

  12. Re:Mod Parent Down on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 1
  13. Re:as much as it sounds interesting... on Thinktank Aims To Crowdsource Government Earmark Analysis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then they should get their own bill. Spending for the arts shouldn't be tacked on a defense bill just like a new weapon shouldn't be tacked on to a arts bill.

  14. Re:Cheap electronic parts on RadioShack To Rebrand As "The Shack"? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most of the time when I got to radio shack for a component, I need it now. Not in two days.

    For instance, movie night with my buds a few weeks ago. DVD player popped a cap (blah, that sounded ghetto. magic smoke instead). A trip the Radio Crack and 20 mins later, we were back in business.

  15. Re:Steam too on The Downsides to Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    I did the exact same thing and was able to give my orange box copy of portal (along with HL2) to my brother as a gift. Maybe you contact them.

  16. Apple needs to re-think some things on Google Latitude Arrives For the iPhone — As a Web App · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Happy iPhone user here.

    Although I couldn't give less of a crap about this particular application (it's pretty worthless overall, in my opinion). They do need to open up the API a bit or they are going to be passed by.

    Frankly, I think they will. Steve Jobs isn't one to be outdone by competition.

  17. Re:Android on The Irksome Cellphone Industry · · Score: 1

    I'll stick with my iphone, thanks.

  18. Confused, can someone explain? on EFF Urges Pressure On Google Over Book Search · · Score: 0

    How do you have "privacy of thought" when it was published. These OOP and OOC books were published at some point, so isn't your "thought" more or less public domain at that point? You thought isn't "private" just because the copyright expired.

    Not following the EEF on this one.

  19. Re:Causing Cancer on Wireless Power Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    Only in California.

  20. Re:How long will peak rates be around for? on Consumers May Find Smart Appliances a Dumb Idea · · Score: 1

    I don't know about aluminum foundries but the one close to here (Alcoa, southern indiana) has their own coal power plant. They don't buy electricity from a power company.

  21. Re:OOh on Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't have to reinstall every year. My main rig has been running the same, non-reinstalled copy of XP for over 3 years. It's fast and stable.

    As far as upgrading though? That's dumb.

  22. Re:Does this unlock it though? on iPhone 3GS Finally Hacked · · Score: 2, Funny
  23. Re:iPod and iTunes on Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards · · Score: 1

    The ipod touch is meant to be more of a pda than an ipod, even if it's called that. What you want is the classic, which they still make.

    http://www.apple.com/ipodclassic/

  24. Any cheap(er) e-ink e-book readers in works? on Why Amazon's Kindle Should Use Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Serious question as I have tried everything else. I have a desktop, a netbook and a iphone. Each are worthless when reading books. I simply cannot stand having a back-lit screen.

    I can't see myself spending $200+.

  25. Re:Does this really save that much money? on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    Did you really have professors that required the newest books? Maybe my department (chemistry major) was a little different, but they didn't care. The semester usually started off with "here is the current book. If you don't have this one don't worry about it, just make copies of what you need." The same went for my math classes.