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  1. Beyond Thunderdome on Fuel Tanks Made of Corncob Waste · · Score: 1

    Is a movie example of how it can be solved. Corn in, methane out, more or less.

  2. Inside the Windows Vista Kernel on Inside the Windows Vista Kernel · · Score: 4, Funny

    The subject line made me think instantly of the old Adventure game,

    "you are in a maze of twisty passages all alike"

    sent a shiver up the spine.

  3. Steel on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We had steel pennys during WWII for a couple of years, they work fine, bring them back.

  4. Perfect for a cage match on No Ceasefire in DVD Format Battle · · Score: 1

    Lock the promoters of each side in a single steel cage for a death match, ending only when LG develops their dual format player. Thats what the people really want to see.

  5. Its coming, at least for others on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1

    The One Laptop Per Child project is a start, at least to get people thinking outside of the beige box of uniformity we have now. Here in the west, it will be appliance like computers, like specialized browser boxes, black berries, iPods, cell phones and rest..

  6. Yeah, but on A Shopping-Scanner Darkly · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is really going to be hard to fit the MRI machine in the line at the supermarket.

  7. Privacy and email on Government Has a Right to Read Your Email? · · Score: 1

    If you want privacy on email, that is what port 25 is for, and the sender can exchange email directly to the receipent.

    When the email hits a third party server, it is just data to them, and they can do what they want with it, subject to whatever agreement you have. So unless you signed a deal with them (IE your ISP) there is nothing special about it.

    As long as the authorities got proper warrants to serve the third party for their data, they get it.

  8. We do Linux too! on Microsoft To Announce Linux Partnership · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It sounds like some ammo for the sales force, when the client mentions Linux, and keeps MS in the bidding.

  9. Different EULA for enterprises? on Surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA · · Score: 1

    A different EULA for enterprises, with a higher cost. MS has the margins to cut better deals, and will do so.

  10. Change the name usage on Ask a Mozilla Person About Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Mozilla firefox is all over the place, and in the news all the time, but unless your a geek, tuned into the Mozilla project and its codenames for things, it tells you nothing.

    Firefox browser, Thunderbird email would go a long way to telling joe average user what these things actually do, and why they would want it.

    "Firefox internet browser by Mozilla" if gotten into the press, would go a long way to telling folks about it.

  11. No need on Laptops Searched and Confiscated at U.S. Border · · Score: 2

    The border guards can detain you for 3 days, or until things move.

  12. Remember the old fashioned mailboxes? on More E-mail, Fewer Mailboxes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The ones out in front of rural homes? That had a red flag that one would put up if to flag the delivery person that there is some outgoing mail?

    If you have a mailbox to receive mail, the letter carrier will take away outgoing mail.

    I had a package that was damaged in shipping, customer service sent me a pdf in email, to print out a return address label that the USPS would pick up and deliver to them postage due.

  13. Re:Ya right on Engineering Food at the Molecular Level · · Score: 1

    From what I heard, M&M's are protected by the excretions of the lac beetle, aka shellac. Same as what is in hair spray, and makes for a nice wood finish as well.

  14. Re:Who is pushing this on Online Gambling Bill Passed in House · · Score: 1

    The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal is all about Indian (native american) lobbying on capital hill. There is a LOT of money involved.

    Not only that but many states have lotteries or other forms of gambling as revenue.

    And the horse racing industry wants to allow betting at remote tracks and the like.

    There are many fingers in the no on-line gambling pie, all trying to preserve their piece they got now.

  15. Re:Sheet rock on Can Faraday Cages Tame Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    "Still probably going to be rather expensive, it being a whole "chicken and egg" type of situation."

    Expensive yes, but available. Lead lined sheetrock is available for doctors offices and other places that use X-rays.

  16. Language problem? on Biometric Terrorist Detector · · Score: 1

    Where are they going to get people that speak all the languages of every traveler? How to question an old lady from India (or anywhere else), that doesn't speak anything but the local dialect?

  17. Ad supported errors on The Ad-Supported Operating System · · Score: 1

    This blue screen of death brought to you by,

    MICROSOFT

    all that you have been working on is lost, please keep
    the advertiser in your memory.

  18. The existing monopoly is the problem here on The Real Issue With Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Cable companies had to sign franchise agreements with each and every municipality in the US, to provide the service in the first place. In return, they got a monopoly on the service, usually at a cost of a local access channel or something.

    The phone companies want "net neutrality" so they can run video in, without having to do this themselves.

    AT&T is running TV ads saying this would mean competition, and thus lower video costs (cable bill) to the consumer.

  19. As an additive to gas on Vinod Khosla Talks Ethanol · · Score: 1

    It works very well as an additive to gas, according to the pumps, I've been burning 10% ethanol in the gas for like 30 years here in the Chicago area. Doesn't poison the groundwater like MTBE does, and helps clean the fuel system.

    Not going to totally solve our energy needs, but it has a place in it.

  20. Spreading the word on A Profile of the Electronic Frontier Foundation · · Score: 1

    I contributed a few bucks to the EFF and they sent me a shiny bumper sticker. which currently resides on my filing cabinet.

  21. Makes picking new names easier on The Software Internet Database · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Makes picking a name for a new project much easier, if you have the names of what exists in what genre.

  22. It isn't about the Internet on Dueling Network Neutrality Commentary on NPR · · Score: 3, Informative

    This argument isn't so much over the internet, as it is about AT&T wanting to get into the video business, without having to pay franchise fees, or being locked out by existing monopolies granted the cable companies.

    T is running ads in my area promising this will bring lower prices for existing video sources via competition with the cable providers.

  23. Superbowl on Viral Marketing to Become the Norm? · · Score: 1

    The final game of the season in American football, is the biggest TV audience of the year, and the advertising is part of it.

    For those people not into the sporting event, it is something for them to watch. Companies kick off their ad campaigns, and a lot of money goes into producing and airing them.

    It is the TV advertising industries day to shine as well.

  24. Re:Erasing, not Voodoo on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I'm getting paid by the hour, 35 passes is fine by me, and I will watch every single one of them to make sure it really ran. Can't cut corners when it counts.

  25. Re:Canadian Heritage on Canadian Record Industry's Secret Lobby Campaign · · Score: 1

    That is where Bob & Doug McKenzie on the old SNL show came from. Because part of the production was in Canada, they wanted some Canadian content. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, a pair of really funny guys, they were given the orders to go out and "do something Canadian".

    They had a musical hit, with Geddy Lee of Rush, with "take off". And a modest movie "strange brew" with Max Von Sydow.