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  1. Re:Super Capacitors. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    Why not "swap and go" batteries? This would allow the refueling station to re-charge spent batteries at the most appropriate time and reduce "pump time". Of course, it won't allow you to put only $15 of electricity in your car...

  2. Hmm on Gaming Tourneys Coming to U.S. Television · · Score: 1

    I think Dead or Alive and Project Gotham will be the biggest two games there, since there is such a large propensity for style. Halo and CS will get boring to watch as the same thing is happening game-in game-out, but Project Gotham can have drift tourneys or drags or anything associated with cars today and DOA can have anything from massive brawls down to one-on-one fights or even 3-on-1 fights (does DOA let you?).

  3. Re:Hold on a second... on Microsoft Research Builds 'BrowserShield' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its like using filter paper. The more layers of holey software you use, the more likey that bugs will get stuck on one of layers.

  4. Emotional Detachment on Coping with Exam Panic Attacks? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Simply stop caring.

  5. Re:No iPod compatability = dead. on EMI Launches Advertising-Supported P2P Service · · Score: 2, Informative

    You even read the article? "Subscribers will also have the ability to transfer content to Windows Media enabled portable devices for as long as the subscription stays active."

  6. Re:I'm the Opposite on Consumers Look For More Utilitarian Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I don't think we have batteries that can do all that for a day yet...

  7. Cancer on Scientists Search Deep Sea Reefs for Wonder Drugs · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sorry, but cancer isn't a disease... its a mutation. You can't cure mutations, only give your body the ability to remove the mutated cells.

  8. Re:How does it know? on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    Screw this buy energy when its cheapest idea... that'll just change the demand periods.

    It should monitor your power usage and drain a constant amount from the mains that will satisfy your power requirments.

    The cpu can periodically adjust the power requirements, and if required temporarily take more mains power to allow for an unexpected load. This will flatten the power requirements for the whole grid and make generating electricity cheaper.

  9. Re:Unexpected side-effects on Deep Brain Stimulation as Depression Treatment · · Score: 1

    Wow! Relax dude. They aren't talking about 'fixing' people... they are talking about curing the worst of the worst. The people who simply cannot function. "in the treatment of severe and intractable depression, a disabling form of the psychiatric disorder"

  10. Great! on 3D Face Imaging in 40 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    Now having my passport stolen will be the least of my worries...

  11. Re:Too bad those are not the most spoken languages on Hands on With the PSP Talkman Translator · · Score: 1

    Hehehe everybody forgets the Kiwis! (New Zealand)

  12. Re:don't go on Hurricane Relief - What Would You Bring? · · Score: 1

    don't be such a downer. They may have a leader with training, and are just looking here for suggestions from a respected peer group. Even if they just end up being 'grunts' for the officials, more hands make light work.

  13. Damn rich people (and organisations)... on SpaceX Announces Bigger Rocket · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "a mere $78 million"

    I wish I had that kind of cash lying around.

  14. Re:Squeak! You've got ads! on Logitech Unveils Smart Mouse · · Score: 1

    I use a logitech keyboard, and some of the media keys are incredibly useful. The buttons related to music are the only ones i use though. It is easier to press play/pause or stop on the keyboard, than open amarok and search for the pause or stop button (yes i know keyboard shortcuts can be used).

    Having those clearly defined buttons is great. It's buttons like, "My Home" or "Webcam" which seem entirely pointless, those are the bloat. As is this strange button next to the right-ctrl key that has a picture of a drop down menu with a mouse pointer clicking one of the options. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IT EVEN DOES?!?!

  15. Re:1.75% of the work force on Google Lawsuit Exposes Microsoft Offshoring Deal · · Score: 1

    A little offtopic, but your realise that Microsoft's workforce is more than twice the size of Australia's defence forces... (last time I checked, about 20,000 people, but it has probably grown since then)

  16. You know the drill... on Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More? · · Score: 0

    if it doesn't make sense, blame it on another dimension.

  17. from what I have heard... on Mini Satellites Could Revolutionize Space Industry · · Score: 1

    this is a bad idea. They use larger satelites to help slow the effects of gravitational decay. So, shouldn't shrinking the satelites and launching them in a swarm cause them all to drop faster.

    Of course, I don't really know what I'm talking about...

  18. Is it just me... on OpenOffice 2.0 vs. MS Office Review · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or has the bias of heaps of these "reviews" been shifted from pro-microsoft to anti-microsoft? This is just as bad! We need un-biased "reviews"!

  19. Simple answer... on Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal? · · Score: 1

    make his untimely death look like a photocopier accident. Find an appliance he can't use and tamper with it to electrocut him or something.

  20. I could be wrong... on Microsoft Proposes Cooperative Research With OSDL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but maybe this isn't a plot by Microsoft to make themselves look better... maybe they just want to understand their opponent better. Go to the experts to arrange a fair trial and learn where they need to improve.

    Anyways, I've been wrong before.

  21. DAMN YOU! on March of the Penguins Tops Box Offices · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I got all excited for nothing!!! This has nothing to do with LINUX!

    This would have been a great April Fools joke, except make the blurb really vaigue, and make them (linux fan-boys - like me) believe someone did a documentary about them... yeah... fun times.

  22. Re:More Information on Mysterious 20-Year-Old Analog Media? · · Score: 1

    Whose is brave enough to host the pictures? Can they handle a /.-ing?

  23. You understand that... on Governmental Servers Wiped? Never! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if this guy planned on doing anything with the data, he probably wouldn't have blogged about it. He would copy the data, wipe the disks and pretend that he had seen nothing.

    Then at a later date, he could do his evil work using that data.

    Therefore, this particular blunder is nothing to get worked up about, but the potential for future blunders is.

  24. As an Australian... on Governmental Servers Wiped? Never! · · Score: 5, Funny

    this is why I love living in Australia! Nobody takes anything too seriously (except beer and sport, which we take very seriously)

  25. Re:A 1%/year tax escalator on Self-Cleaning Buildings to Fight Smog · · Score: 2, Funny

    That would never work!
    Year 1 - 1% tax
    Year 2 - 1.01% tax
    Year 3 - 1.0201% tax ...
    Year 50 - 1.62834% tax ...
    Year 233 - 10.059% tax

    That doesn't look like a viable plan to me...