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  1. which offers the possibility that a 'breath test' on Study Shows Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer · · Score: 1

    It sounds like the breath test already exists. How hard is it to train these dogs?

  2. Re:Adage on TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen · · Score: 1

    The equivalent american english idiom is "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted"

  3. Re:Ubuntu + VMWare Player on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Linux Distro For a Newbie · · Score: 1

    +1. I love andlinux. I'd rather have real linux, but andlinux is a close 2nd.

  4. Re:SpaceX is bullshit on China Space Official Confounded By SpaceX Price · · Score: 1

    the Tesla Roadster is another bullshit in action (claiming 300hp, with a ~50kWh (a bit suspect even here, given that a Prius has a battery capacity of ~1kWh) battery and a range of some 250 miles? 300hp is about 200kW, if the roadster is traveling 200mph, 50kWh gives you about 1/4h run time, which equals about 50 miles...bullshit claims QED).

    Name a single car that gets its advertised city/highway mileage while operating at 100% output or 200mph. Either one will do.

    Timesaving hint: there are none.

  5. Re:Not Reasons Unknown! on Apple Disputes Browser Speed Findings, Says Mobile Safari's the True Contender · · Score: 4, Informative

    So surfing the net can open iOS to exploits?

    That wouldn't be anything new. I jailbroke my iphone4 by going to a website.

  6. Re:What an experience! on Firefox 4 Web Demos: Web O' Wonder · · Score: 1

    Crashes here too on ubuntu 11.04 alpha. I don't see an incident ID anywhere, but here's what it did tell me:

    Add-ons: {d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}:1.3.3,{e4a8a97b-f2ed-450b-b12d-ee082ba24781}:0.9.1,betterfacebook@mattkruse.com:5.300,{987311C6-B504-4aa2-90BF-60CC49808D42}:2.2,{D4DD63FA-01E4-46a7-B6B1-EDAB7D6AD389}:0.9.7.2,firegestures@xuldev.org:1.6.1,testpilot@labs.mozilla.com:1.0.6,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:4.0b12
    BuildID: 20110227020049
    CrashTime: 1299277082
    EMCheckCompatibility: true
    Email: xxxx
    FramePoisonBase: 7ffffffff0dea000
    FramePoisonSize: 4096
    InstallTime: 1299093973
    ProductName: Firefox
    SecondsSinceLastCrash: 59
    StartupTime: 1299277038
    Theme: classic/1.0
    Throttleable: 1
    URL: https://demos.mozilla.org/
    Vendor: Mozilla
    Version: 4.0b12
    This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

  7. Re:Why not leave shuttle up there? on Shuttle Discovery Docks With Space Station · · Score: 1

    Actually, in terms of cost to keep it functional for that purpsose, there would be a sort of parking meter.

  8. Re:Good! on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    If you energy costs went up, then it must be cheaper for you to heat with electricity than your primary means of heating.

    I suggest you purchase electric heaters. Another benefit of heaters over lamp-waste-heat is they can be turned off in the summer.

  9. Re:Mostly true, but slightly spun summary. on Drivers Blamed For Out of Control Toyotas - Again · · Score: 1

    In the unusual even that it does happen, you can shift your car into neutral to stop.

    Or firmly apply the brakes. These are toyotas after all, not 800hp supercharged corvettes*.

  10. Re:How is it anti-science to teach... on New Mexico Bill To Protect Anti-Science Education · · Score: 2

    Gravity is just a theory.

  11. Re:Is Wind up and running? on Canada Courts Quash Gov't Decision On Globalive · · Score: 1

    Yes, they're operating in the GTA. Though its rare I heard Toronto called 'western canada'

  12. Re:16,800 W? - WTF?! on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 1

    Heat pumps work like air conditioners. You use 1 joule of energy to move 2 joules of energy from one place to another. So while it only draws 1 joule, you now have 3 joules of heat at the output side, and 2 joules less heat on the 'sink' side.

    Keywords to google for: "coefficient of performance heat pump"

  13. Re:No Thanks on Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo · · Score: 2, Informative

    nope. works fine here on ubuntu 10.04 x64. It told me i needed moonlight, so i clicked ok, and then restarted firefox. blizzam. big picture and shit.

  14. Re:Just bought WD 64GB SSD on Why SSDs Won't Replace Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    that's the way it seemed
    duh-da duh-da

    corruption haunted all my dreams

  15. Re:could this be for marketing reasons? on Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year · · Score: 1

    I hadn't touched opera in years until today. I was testing a site im working on that does a bunch of ajaxy calls then plots data on a graph. In comparing the major browsers, I was blown away at how much faster opera was. Better than twice as fast as chrome and FF. Internet explorer took about 4 times as long as chrome/ff.

  16. Re:Skype still sucks on Skype Encryption (Partly) Revealed · · Score: 1

    your an idiot.

  17. Re:Not just Google on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    It certainly wasn't the only place. But it was one of the larger ones.

    At least most of the others didn't use that stupid cities infrastructure.

  18. Re:Not just Google on At Google, You're Old and Gray At 40 · · Score: 1

    My samsung u740 reaches from my ear to my mouth. That's one of the reasons I got it. When you flip it out long-ways its really quite large. Have a full beard (not too long though) and no issues.

    Plus it has a full keyboard, which is a bonus.

  19. Re:food on Potato-Powered Batteries Debut · · Score: 1

    A potato battery doesn't actually take any energy from the potato. It's really a copper and zinc powered battery.

  20. Re:A GUI for the motherboard? on BIOS Will Be Dead In Three Years · · Score: 1

    I had one of those GUI BIOSs too. Also on an old 486. Neat interface. Haven't seen anything like it since.

    Here's a screenshot of the one I had.

  21. Re:from the depends-how-you-count dept on New Estimate Suggests 5.5M Species On Earth, Not 30-100M · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *Touché

  22. Re:Better than ours? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 1

    or just turn tap on the the toilet down a bit. A little slower filling toilet isn't a big deal, and often eliminates the oh-my-god-im-showering-wtf problem.

    Though of course proper plumbing is a much better solution.

  23. Re:interesting concept on Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying · · Score: 1

    Can I borrow your dog?

  24. Re:It was leaked. on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 1

    Long in brute force time is tens to tens of thousands of years. The leaks aren't slow by that metric.

    Either that or it had a 5 character lower case password.

  25. Re:Just count kernel downloads. on Ubuntu Claims 12 Million Users — Before Lucid · · Score: 1

    And I update on 3 computers and a virtual machine.

    I bet apt-get is a decent guess. I wonder how close that apt-get guess is to 12 million.