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  1. Re:Running cars on water? on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    water inject is used in some aircraft engines that are designed for it, as a way to run leaner mixture. It can help some automobile engines a little, but people claiming huge 30% or 40% efficiency increases in car are just b.s.ing themselves and probably don't even know how to consistently compute miles per gallons (in short, idiots)

  2. Another Cock-Up? on Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze · · Score: 1

    the dirt landed on the outside of the lander but none made it inside the oven: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5020876

  3. Re:So now we have the on Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming · · Score: 1

    the truth is that the ocean levels have been rising since the end of the last ice age, anything near the coasts will be flooded anyway, with or without global warming. just a little sooner with man's help, perhaps. which is the key point, in geological time, nothing matters much anyway.

  4. Re:Its hard to believe ... on Happy Birthday! X86 Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    you feel bad, we've been using extensions to the IBM System 360 architecture in mainframes all my life, it's as old as I am

  5. Re:Epic ubmitter fail on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 4, Insightful

    normal good people have things to hide, confidential and private matters that need protection. If you think you have nothing to hide you are abnormal, and may need psychiatric help.

  6. Re:Ringworld? on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 1

    nope, different bloke; that's a two-headed horse of another color

  7. Re:shooop shooop shooop Whooosh! shooop shoop shoo on Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government" · · Score: 1

    acid needs to be stored away from oxygen, ultraviolet and chlorine. it should have a slightly bitter taste but be odorless and colorless. methinks it's time for you to replenish the old inventory with fresh.

  8. Re:Ringworld? on Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Partners and VARS,

    The following is privileged information as described by your General Products N.D.A. and is not to be transmitted to customers or third parties.

    while our General Products Hulls including the #4 provide protection against most hazards encountered in interstellar travel, gravitational tides with a steep gradient such as those found in the vicinity of neutron stars including magnetars can in fact cause bodily harm to occupants while not damaging or voiding warranty on the hull, e.g. rendering of tissues/organs to pulp or plasma.

    Also, although not widely advertised, antimatter may destroy a G.P. hull completely, and void the warranty, service agreements and maintenance contracts.

    We are not putting out any bulletins to customers or potential clients at this time, and partners only are to communicate any issues or incidents to our Hindmost and Vice Hindmost Partner's Relationship Manager, but going forward G.P. will deal with any occurrences on a case by base basis.

    Yours Very Truly,

    Messus, HTO, General Products

  9. luke on Huge Leap Forward In Robotic Limb Replacement · · Score: 3, Funny

    not named for skywalker, it longs for freedom even as its ordered to dig and fill a hole again and again and wins egg eating contests.

  10. Re:What makes SuSe Linux more interoperable? on Novell's Linux Business Takes a Seat At the Grown-Up Table · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    the first bullet point in your link explains it: "Only Linux distribution recommended by Microsoft and SAP"

    only Linux distro to take Microsoft bribe on the order hundreds of millions of dollars.....

  11. Re:Vikings come to Jurrasic Park on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 5, Funny

    death by Nordic goddess snoo-snoo! I'm in!

  12. Re:2 things needed in lightweight linux on Review/Overview of Lightweight Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    that won't be lightweight, will be hundreds of megabytes.

  13. Re:First time Bush has posted something sane. on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    not a disease, it's a stupid ignorant filthy habit people with no will power do. people can quit.

  14. Re:Wow on First Pictures From Mars Phoenix Lander · · Score: 2, Funny

    at least it's a different plot of land this time, down the road from the plot where they faked the moon landing because it's busy with the faked mercury fly-by.

  15. Re:Buddy's Idea on Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    actually, you only need a web server on earth, and feed "live" status from the rover.

  16. Re:Wow, just what we need on New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced · · Score: 4, Insightful

    oh, and do you have trouble with hobbyists making steam engines or kites or ships in a bottle? who the fuck are you to tell people how or with who they spend their spare time coding? anyone can fork their own distro or open source project, if you don't like it fuck off.

  17. Re:the worst on Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels · · Score: 1

    the question is not a troll, though I'm a Linux server and desktop advocate there are applications for which it's the very worst choice. Like serious CADD / CAM, on Linux or BSD? forget about it.....

  18. Re:Fundamental kernel structures such as this... on Removing the Big Kernel Lock · · Score: 1

    no, finer grained locking has been evolving in Linux for over five years (and similar efforts are in the BSD). it will take years more work, nothing simple or obvious about it except to slashdot posters talking out of their ass.

  19. Re:I've got a secret for them on Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    haha. anyway, the grandparent poster was talking about people with their head up their ass when that's where he stores his. taking carbon from the air to release it back again is better than what we're doing now.

  20. Re:I've got a secret for them on Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    where does algae get its carbon?

  21. Re:Wrong scale... on Creating Designer Isotopes · · Score: 1

    any finite electron size runs into the problem of a superluminal surface rotation speed

  22. Re:the worst on Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels · · Score: 1

    the worst for what applications?

  23. Re:pretty continua on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    but are they discrete turtles or are they attached in a turtle continuum?

  24. Re:Oblig.. on IBM Touts Supercomputers for Enterprise · · Score: 1

    but without the expected Pentium floating point bugs our accountants would get confused

  25. Re:Is it really a weapon? on China Buying US Directed Sound 'Weapon' · · Score: 1

    an instrument of torture is a weapon, marks or not. Waterboarding *is* drowning, not a simulation at all, and can cause the same physical damage that being held under water can do, including death.