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  1. Re:This will get no play because it is nuclear.. on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    It's ok because he was using Mibitonnes instead. Common mistake.

  2. Re:RFID on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 1

    Who says you have to ask her... Stick it in the sole of her shoe.

  3. Re:I don't really worry about it. on How Do You Handle Your Keys? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, we do have something similar in Japan. They are e-cash cards. Suica is one of the more popular ones since it lets you ride the trains without having to buy a ticket each time. You charge it up with cash and then you use it until the cash runs down on it. You can use it to buy almost anything your heart desires (inside a train station anyways) including drinks, food, smokes, condoms, newspapers, etc... I have also used it as a "key" for some of the pay lockers. You open the locker, stick your stuff inside, pay with your Suica card and the door is locked. The only way to unlock it is to swipe the same card you used to pay for it.

  4. Re:Whatever... on Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yah, homeopathic history. The farther from the original event they are recorded, and the more times it has been passed by word of mouth before it's committed to some more permanent medium, the more believable it is.

  5. Re:Where's it going? on Japan To Launch Solar Sail Spacecraft "Ikaros" · · Score: 1

    [points] -> That way.

  6. Re:Isolation Doesn't Increase Productivity on Best Seating Arrangement For a Team of Developers? · · Score: 1

    We have our desks in a square facing each other. All the cables run down the hole in the middle, we can speak to each other over the tops of the monitors on our desks, and we have a shared projector in the middle pointed at the wall. This projector allows any one of us to show what we are currently working on so we can ask for another pair of eyes easily.

    If I need some help finding a problem, I can project my screen on the wall and all 4 of us can look at it and collaborate.

  7. Re:Perhaps nobody else cares? on HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Market · · Score: 1

    Even easier that than. Try this:

    Hold down the CTRL key and scroll the mouse wheel.

    A whole helluvalot of applications seem to support dynamic font resizing this way..

  8. Re:Gotta love... on Extremists Warn South Park Creators Over Muhammad In a Bear Suit · · Score: 1

    Yea but the Christians rarely follow through with their death threats.

    Look, all this was was a simple discussion about a cartoon character on South Park! I didn't expect this sort of SPANISH INQUISITION!

    "Ahh, but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

  9. Re:Sounds like mad men on Media Industry Wants Mandated Spyware and More · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it sounds like a great idea. No wait, here me out:

    People who want peace of mind to not be sued for something they're not sure they did or not could install and run it on their system since they aren't going to actively download infringing content anyways.

    The rest of us, will simply download a cracked version of this watchdog software which, when it runs, never finds anything. Hence, "the pirates" enjoy the same protection from the xxAA that the ignorant get.

    "But your honor, my client downloaded and ran the program provided by the prosecution and it never found any infringing content. Clearly any content found on my client's hard drive is legal or it would have been automatically deleted."

  10. Re:Theological implications on Microbial Life Found In Trinidadian Hydrocarbon Lake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Larry? You read slashdot?!?

  11. Re:Theological implications on Microbial Life Found In Trinidadian Hydrocarbon Lake · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait wait wait. Just wait a second. Are you saying that Hell is in Trinidad and Tobago? I know of worse places that that.

  12. Re:maybe on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    VHS doesn't care if it gets bumped around, shaken, dropped, etc.. Imagine a hard disk based or optical system in a combat vehicle.

    As far as SSDs go, I doubt the military has much confidence in new technology.

  13. Re:maybe on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    I used to work on these systems when I was in the Marine Corps. The video is stored on a standard VHS tape by an internal recorder. The tapes are offloaded when the helo lands.

  14. Re:Video on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    That's the problem. You're not supposed to kill the enemy. You're supposed to wound them. Hence why non expanding bullets are used against human targets. Wounding one guy means that you have actually taken 2 (or more) people out of the fight. One guy wounded, one or more to carry/drag him off the battlefield. Perhaps another to bind his wounds. One shot one kill doesn't apply anymore.

  15. Re:dd, slip on Need Help Salvaging Data From an Old Xenix System · · Score: 1

    That box has a proper tcp/ip stack included IIRC:
    netcat and dd

  16. Re:Are you concerned about your privacy? on Auto-Scanning the Names People Choose For Their Wireless APs · · Score: 1

    SSIDs are case sensitive. Hence, HOME, Home, and home would all be separate, valid SSIDs.

  17. Re:Symbolics Open Genera? on 25 Years of the .com gTLD · · Score: 1

    I have a set of tru64 install discs. I also have a few alpha motherboards and CPUs laying around. :) Care to answer the question now?

  18. Cool! on Air Force Spaceplane Readying For Launch · · Score: 1

    Every little step gets us closer...

  19. Contact the Owners on Licensing an Abandonware Game? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Contact the owners and ask them if they mind. You might be surprised.

  20. Re:Well, at least the important keys still work. on Microsoft Says, Don't Press the F1 Key In XP · · Score: 1

    nice ren and stimpy reference :)

  21. Re:Time does not exist on What Is Time? One Researcher Shares His Exploration · · Score: 1

    Digital wristwatches ?

  22. Re:Obligatory StarTrek quote on Saturn Moon Could Be Hospitable To Life · · Score: 1

    That's not a Star Trek quote! The next line is "There's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, there's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow Jim."

    Star Trekkin'

  23. Re:The debate is long from over. on The Lancet Recants Study Linking Autism To Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Um, thimerosal has never been used in MMR shots and thimerosal hasn't been used in other vaccines since the early 90s, however rates of autism still increased after the use of it stopped. Go figure. No link at all.

    Antivaxxers wrongly targeted thimerosal as a health risk, and thimerosal was removed from vaccines in 2001, but no reduction in autism spectrum disorder diagnoses occurred. In other words, thimerosal is not linked with autism.

  24. Re:Audio/Videophiles Beware on THX Caught With Pants Down Over Lexicon Blu-ray Player · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell so far (I have yet to scroll all the way to the end), there is only one audiophile posting, and that is TheGratefulNet.

  25. Re:Don't live there on Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    HIPA filters stop hippies from coming into your house via the air ducts