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  1. How long do you want to live? on A New Biopaper for Organ Printing · · Score: 3, Informative

    This will potentially allow us to live as long as we want. We'd just pop in a new part every time something goes out. The great mystery is the brain transplant.

  2. Phillip Morris says... on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "There is no safe cigarette." I think that's all we need to know.

  3. Pros and Cons of a good piece of legislation on British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do we strike a balance between a piece of legislation that covers any crime that may not have been thought up yet, without prohibiting activities that are not necesserily criminal that will be invented in the future? This is something that no country has come up with yet and this is unlikely to happen any time soon due to various governments in power. (cough)

  4. You really want to find out? on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 1

    Start with google and Zabasearch and go from there. I would suggest running a background check on yourself..... well you get the picture.

  5. How it was discovered on The Car That Makes Its Own Fuel · · Score: 1

    It is just my speculation, but this looks a lot like a device for making home-made vodka. My guess is that the guy discovered this after having one too many shots. More power to him! Hmmm... Fresh-made vodka right in your own car... I wonder what kind of an effect this will have on the DUI rate.

  6. RADARS! on Florida DUI Law and Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They need to do the same with radars!!! People shouldn't have to pay for tickets that are nothing more than racketeering! (Although most tickets are ones that should be paid, sometimes cops are just out to get their bottom line up!). Also, we need a law that makes all government software open-source. For example, I am currently trying to resolve a proprietory issue with RFID cards.

  7. HHHOOOWWW SSSLLLOOOWWW WWWAAASSS IIITTT?????????? on Estonian Internet Voting Called a Success · · Score: 1

    Estonia is sometimes compared to slowness.... so how slow was the voting process?

  8. Fuel on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget that Europe uses electricity when we use Diseasel. That also plays a part in speeds and in costs.

  9. Re:Safety? on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    I guess the Engineers on BC Rail are lucky, cause in Siberia they have no such things on their VL's.

  10. This brings back the Soviet-era joke on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    This brings back the Soviet-era joke.... Someone knocks on the door of the Russian Space Station. -Who is it? -Its se Chinese. -How did you get here? -Person on person, person on person.

  11. Tracking digestion on RFID Tags to Track Your Food · · Score: 0, Troll

    So now they'll be able to track what we eat, when we eat it, where it goes, and how it comes out with RFID sensors embedded in our food.

  12. M$ to learn how to racketeer! on Microsoft Helping Nigeria Fight Scammers · · Score: 1

    Didn't we just read a story on M$ racket??? So I guess they're learning now, more cashflows for them!

  13. Precision! on 300 Years to Index the World's Information · · Score: 1

    Isn't everything information? Every single bit (i.e. piece) of every single thing contains information (just like the Matrix). So what precision is this 300-year estimate set at? If we have infinitely-small precision, we have infinite amount of information, which is simply infeasible to catalogue.

  14. Redundancy on The Intelligent Door Handle · · Score: 1

    It's important to have both types of keys avaliable, as one will most certainly will not always work.

  15. Re:That's transit on Internet Partitioning - Cogent vs Level 3? · · Score: 1

    Then why does Wikipedia say that "Put simply, a Tier 1 provider is one which does not pay for transit or "paid peering"."

  16. All you guys in Manhattan! on Jamming Cellphones with Text Messages · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey all you guys in Manhattan! Are your cell phones working? If so, then I'll up the number of SMS/second.

  17. We can only watch (OR COPY) it once on Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If we can watch it only once, we can copy it once.

  18. 30 GB?!?!?! 250K oughta be enough for anyone! on 30Gigs Web Mail Launches Into Beta · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can't fill up my 2 gigs on Gmail, nor my gig on Y! mail, why in the world would I need 30 gigs?

  19. 2.4 GHZ? on The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess we now know how to provide lots of interference for this mike...just turn on a whole bunch of microwaves, routers and old cordless phones.

  20. Patent pictures on The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those that don't have quicktime installed:
    Pic 1, Pic 2, Pic 3, Pic 4,
    Pic 5, Pic 6, Pic 7, Pic 8,
    Pic 9, Pic 10, Pic 11, Pic 12,

  21. Use original contract! DUH! on Owning Your Own IP at a Company? · · Score: 1

    Use the clauses from the original contract and modify them so that they mention exactly what you own and just change the company's name for your name.

  22. Multiple cards... on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    This is another thing I don't quite get... If you have multiple cards, as most of us now do, will we get double-charged for swiping a wallet on the scanner, or does MasterCard want full and complete monopoly here? BTW, the only reason train passes have not been hacked yet is the fact that the rewards are much less than those associated with credit cards.

  23. Re:Theft! on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried getting money back from fraud charges? I, thankfully, had not had to deal with it *YET*. Howeever, I have heard both horror stories and the opposite of horror stories (the word escapes me now) regarding getting your money back from the CC company. In the end, it'll be the consumer who'll be spending more time on the phone, trying to get through to customer support along with everyone else.

  24. Theft! on MasterCard To Distribute RFID Credit Cards · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not only will thieves be able to capture your CC#, they will be able to do it without you knowing it! Think of the possibilities! Subways, buses, crowded trains, elevators, escalators, and other public places! I guess that gives me another reason to not leave home and to spend all day reading slashdot about how others have had their identity stolen.

  25. Re:Where does the energy come from? on Hydrogen Generating Module to Help Your Car? · · Score: 1

    Refilling water - well, you can make a 1-gal tank for it. As for chemicals, people already have to deal with batteries (unless they're maintenance-free) and if they cell the chemicals in spill-proof containers that you can just "plug in" to the car, they should be fine. I mean we don't have people drinking radiator fluid, do we? (I guess we do, but they don't live long enough to tell us about it). As for the extra current that is needed for the breakdown of water, that's where the hybrid technology would come in.