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  1. In terms of a car... on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 0

    It's like the alternator. It requires electrical excitement before it will produce electricity. But, once excited, and using the energy from the engine, it will produce more electricity than what was required to excite it.

  2. My starship... on Warp Drives May Come With a Killer Downside · · Score: 1

    My starship, the U.S.S. Wedgie, releases a burst both before and after it travels faster than light speed on Start Trek Online. It doesn't seem to bother anyone. Just sayin.

  3. Re:Privelege on Photographing Police: Deletion Is Not Forever · · Score: 1

    Citizen.

  4. Pluto is small on New Horizons: One Billion Miles From Pluto · · Score: 1

    Pluto is smaller than our Moon. Our planet should be re-classified as a binary planet, with the number of planets in our solar system restored to 9.

  5. Re:What is deduplication? on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 0

    3 times since Nov of 2009 no less. Sheesh. We should all be experts.

  6. Re:Nuclear waste on India To Build A Thorium Reactor · · Score: 0

    > The nuclear waste problem still hasn't gone away. Building new COAL plants is insane.

    There, I fixed that for you.

    I agree. Coal plants spew out coal ash which is very radioactive. We should close all Coal plants immediately.

  7. Gorilla on Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power · · Score: 0

    I'm sorry, but to me it looks more like a gorilla swinging it's body, moving both feet forward between it's long arms. Just sayin.

  8. Re:9 megatons on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 0
  9. Re:That's rather optimistic on Mars Rover Curiosity Sealed Up For Launch · · Score: 1

    I find your lack of faith disturbing.

  10. And then what we need... on Moxie Marlinspike's Solution To the SSL CA Problem · · Score: 0

    And then what we need is an "Auto-Notary-Approval-And-Removal" service so that we don't have to do maintenance on our approved list of notaries.

  11. Not only that. on Scientists Create New Type of Superconductor Wires · · Score: 1

    Electrons on the outside, photons on the inside. Double the bandwidth.

  12. Who made the decision? on State of Alaska Prints Out Palin's E-Mails; Online Distribution 'Impractical' · · Score: 0

    I'm tired of these anonymous decision makers and their ridiculous decisions. Find out their name. Post their name. Where's the FBI?

  13. Re:From the inside... on If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It · · Score: 0

    Let me clarify.

    As technical lead on the project I can determine that the best way to support the product is to introduce libraries or source code that makes the application more stable and or perform better. If I determine that open source code is the best course to take and I introduce it to the product's code base, would that require the whole product to be open sourced? Could the clients running the application required the source be opened?

  14. From the inside... on If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It · · Score: 0

    So let's say I work for a company that has software used by a few fairly large financial institutions and my company wants to kill that software in favor of something..."else". The net result is that the customers are under heavy pressure to purchase the "else", and I'm going to be out of a job. Can I plant some open source libraries or source code into the product, sit back for a while, then demand the company release the rest of the product as open source?

  15. The dance on EC2 Outage Shows How Much the Net Relies On Amazon · · Score: 0

    It's seems like all this article and comments are doing is dancing around the real issue. Amazon provides a pretty good service, but it's being attacked. It's like calling a car unreliable when thieves have stolen the wheels. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by the lack of effort being made to identify the attacker(s) and take appropriate action(s) against them.

  16. It's rocket science. on China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price · · Score: 0

    China can't use their billion slaves to launch anything into space.

  17. Re:Is it just me or...? on Big Buzz For $60,000 Electric Flight Prize · · Score: 0

    It's just you. DARPA is developing an electric airplane for personal transportation. It's twin engine, VTOL.

  18. Real Tests on DIY Laser Pistol Shoot 1MW Blasts · · Score: 0

    Please Mythbusters, test this on various meats so we can get some penetration numbers.

  19. Re:The answer is... on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 0
    FTFA,

    How many Pringles cans would we need?

    42

    There. A little more on topic for you? Yeah, I was going for funny. It does take all the fun out of it to have to explain it.

  20. It's obvious that on Android Devices Are Hives of License Violations · · Score: 0

    CmdrTaco's title is unabashedly trolling. He never struck me as an iOS fanboi before. That's right. I said it.

  21. The answer is... on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    42

  22. Re:I am ironically.... on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 2

    Yes, I know.

  23. Re:Evidence and Explanation on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    I think you make a good, if not intended point; Bing does in fact copy Google's results, they're just incompetent at it (~10% successful).

  24. Re:Side effects? on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 2

    You mean aside from that brick of an electromagnetic transmitter you put beside your head all the time?

  25. BOINC on How a Guy Found 4 New Planets Without a Telescope · · Score: 1

    They should put the data up on [[http://boinc.berkeley.edu|BOINC]].

    Bravo to the guy for doing it long-hand.