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  1. Lasergrid fence on Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House · · Score: 1

    How 'bout a lasergrid fence? A 10 kW carbon dioxide laser should do the job nicely.

  2. The moon is made of green cheese on British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes · · Score: 1

    The two men were jailed for talking about the "Holohoax". No more truth to that than to tell that the moon is made of green cheese. Yet I haven't heard of anyone going to jail for spreading lies about the moon.

  3. MacOS X + Parental Control on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Get a mac, turn on parental control and the old geezers won't fudge up the computer, get an external harddrive, turn on Time Machine in Leopard for backups every hour. Now, should your folks manage to wreck the system, just reinstall from backup, it's a no bainer.

  4. Secure Wi-Fi on Researchers Crack WPA Wi-Fi Encryption · · Score: 2, Informative

    Use WPA 2, AES, create private network, MAC address lock on, turn off SNMP, if your router allows it: Reduce transmission strength (Mine is reduced to 10%). Some Windows laptops cannot use WPA2 or AES due to obsolete Wi-Fi card, change the card in the laptop to fix the problem.

  5. Cold Fusion on The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they mention cold fusion among the 7 biggest scientific hoaxes?

  6. Apple's King Midas on Apple's Market Cap Exceeds Google's · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs is Apples King Midas, almost everything he touches turns to gold: iMac, iPod, iPhone MacIntel, Final Cut, iTunes Store and in fact most everything, he rarely sets his foot wrong and when he does, as with Cube, he learns from it. iPhone 1.0 wasn't a runaway success, but v. 2.0 is a resounding success. The Apps store selling software to iPhones, yet another perfect hit. Bottom line is, without Steve Jobs, Apple would at worst be bankrupt today and at best be as little worth as Dell! Bottomline is, that Steve Jobs makes all the difference, of cause aided by very talented people like designer wiz Jonathan Ives, but Jobs is a visionary genius, who excels in so many areas and under his leadership Apple has moved out of the little Mac niche and into niches such as MP3 players, smartphones, digital music and film downloads, it all contributes to Apple's bottomline and the continued health of Apple.

  7. Microsoft is not eating humble pie! on Why Microsoft Won't Have Blu-ray on the Xbox · · Score: 1

    HD-DVD keeled over and turned up it toes and Blu Ray stands back as victorer on Hi-Def scene. But Microsoft are left with a humongous problem: Sony, their worst enemy in the game console area, are the owner of BluRay. So, if Microsoft wants BlueRay on Xbox 360, they have to eat humble pie, they would have to pay license fee to Sony. That will happen when there are 2 Tuesdays on a week.

  8. The wolf is coming...or is it? on Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The doom and gloom crowd has predicted Mac OS X would get overrun by virii and malware for 7 years now, so far very little in that direction has materialized. Status today is that there are no malware for OS X exists today. I just don't bother with anti-virus. Mac OS X is such a serene platform. It's funny to hear that the wolf is coming every 6 month or so. What happens? Nada, nothing whatsoever, zip, zilch! I enjoy the peace and quiet, I can spend time on being productive instead of thinking of malware. As for the Office macrovirii: Most often there is a Windows path in the instruction, such as C:\, no good on Mac.

  9. The 2 ways to obtain Pu-238 on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are currently 2 ways for US to obtain Plutonium-238 for space flights without buying it from abroad: 1. Use nuclear waste. Laser Isotope Seperation (LIS) is needed to seperate the Pu-238 from the other isotopes. 2. Breed on Neptunium-237. It is also found in nuclear waste, however it is easily separated from the rest. It can be bred into Pu-238 in a breeder blanket in a reactor.

  10. Microsoft are fighting demons in the dark on Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors · · Score: 1

    The witch hunt on M$ employees moving over to Google looks to me like M$ are fighting demons in the dark. Yes, they want to be #1 in every area they go into and while doing so they're neglecting their key products, the geese laying those 24 carat golden eggs. I am talking about Windows and Office. Latest Windows, Vista, got a lukewarm reception. Apple reached 9% of its installer base on the first weekend after the release of Leopard. 9 month after release Vista is not even there. I M$ wanna see a better bottom line, they need to go for quality, not a multitude of new areas, where somebody else does it better already.

  11. Mac - A more hasselfree platform on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    Let's say you're dismayed with Windows development, have had enough of Windows insecurity and 100K+ virii and malwares, but you still got legacy Win software you wanna run and you don't wanna be bothered with the hassles of Linux and its lack of drivers. The solution is to buy a Mac: The new intel-macs can run Windows either Apple BootCamp dual boot or in Parallels' or VMWare's vertualization on Mac. Of cause it is great with a new improved mac-system such as Leopard, but even Tiger is a very attractive system and still more (former) Windows-users learn about it. Apple makes very good computers. The MacBook Pro is one of the fastest PCs you can run Windows Vista on, so Leopard is really only the icing on the cake.

  12. Breed giant cats instead on Giant Rabbits To Feed North Korea · · Score: 1

    Giant cats are meatier: A short time ago a 20 lbs kittie was trapped in a dog door trying to steal food from the neighbour (which it had been doing for some times). Besides dogs and cats are very popular delicatesses in Korea.

  13. What a load of bull.... on Hydrogen Won't Save Our Economy · · Score: 1
    You don't use electricity to produce hydrogen. You use a thermochemical reaction on a liquid fluoride reactor (LFR) that operates at high enough temperature to be able to facilitate a themichemical reaction from the surplus heat alone:
    2H2SO4+heat=2SO2+2H2O+O2
    SO2+3H2O+I+heat=H2SO4+HI
    HI+heat=H+I
    As the sulphuric acid and the iodine is recycled, all you need is to add is water. The LFR runs a thorium cycle and 25 g of Thorium has the same energy as 200 kg raw uranium, as it is not economic to extract more than about 0.5% of U-235 from the raw uranium.
  14. Check the indoor environment on UK Schools Bans WiFi Due To Health Concerns · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the kids at school suffers from fatigue, headache, asthmatic and flue-like symptoms, perhaps it was time to check the indoor environment. Anything from mold and mildew over the paint used to the chemicals emitted from electronic components of new computers in the class room.

  15. Unorginal battery on Alan Cox's Exploding Laptop · · Score: 1

    According to the article an unoriginal battery was used in the ThinkPad...sounds as if you can buy your batteries too cheap!

  16. 16 megs max on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I wonder if FreeDOS 1.0 has a hard 16 MB RAM upper limit! If so, nobody will be able to accuse FreeDOS of being a memory hog!

  17. Use Firefox with videodownloader + VLC on YouTube to Offer Every Music Video Ever Created? · · Score: 2, Informative

    All you need to rip videos from YouTube is Firefox with Videodownloader 2.0 extension and VLC. Go the the page on YouTube with the desired video, click on the videodownloader button and click download. You can play the saved .FLV file in VLC, it can also convert it to eg. .MP4. If the destination is your iPod, convert in high quality, drag the .MP4 into iTunes, right-click on the .MP4 and choose convert to iPod. Voila, YouTube vids on your iPod.

  18. Do the math right on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    There is 3-4 times as much Thorium as Uranium. All uranium that is. Only the U235 isotope is fissionable and makes up 0.7% of all Uranium. However it is only possible through enrichment to extract 0.5%. And since U233 is 40x as energy rich as U235, the proper calculation looks like this:

    3 x (0,5/100) x 40 = 24,000

    There is at least 24,000 x as much energy in the world's Thorium deposits as there is in the world's U235.
    With a conservative estimate it will take 1,000,000 years to burn all that U233 breeded from Thorium.