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  1. Re:RE : MIT Making Super Efficient Origami Solar P on MIT Making Super Efficient Origami Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    At the risk of potentially melting a server somewhere in Taiwan or somewhere, here's a link to part 1 of a seven-part documentary, "The Private Life of Plants." http://www.megavideo.com/?v=QM24N1FL They actually move quite a lot on longer timescales than our meatbag-brains can usually appreciate.

  2. Re:You joke, but I think he'd like to on Microsoft Finally To Patch 17-Year-Old Bug · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Back when the Win7 RC was new, I tried to install it to a 6GB partition and it needed 6.13GB on an Inspiron 5150. It ran rather well for the 512MB ram I had and the unsupported 64mb go fx5200.

  3. a lithotomy is... on Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey · · Score: 0
    hmmm...

    "...it has something to do with getting stoned..."

    seems like you're somewhat correct, but it's more like getting unstoned... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithotomy

  4. Re:VLC media player and MPEG-2 on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 0

    This comment only appears about fifty times a day on Slashdot.

    ...and is rarely modded above my reading threshold. Then again my own posts seldom make it past my threshold.

  5. Re:correct on In Canada, No Expectation of Privacy On the Net · · Score: 0

    My cousin is a coke-head...

  6. Re:A semantic quibble about these things (rant?) on Periodic Table Gets a New, Unnamed Element · · Score: 0

    I would imagine that it's ever so slightly less than that of the nucleons inside it...

  7. Re:Net Benefit? on Violent Video Games Can Improve Vision · · Score: 0

    http://armorgames.com/play/1716/gemcraft

    I've played through it a couple of times and slight variations in shade can make a rather large difference when you're throwing gems at an immune...

  8. Re:Tactics? on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 0

    "was a "grammer" nazi"
    Shouldn't it be "grammar"??? just sayin...

  9. Re:Agreed, TANSTAAFL on 20 Years After Cold Fusion Debut, Another Team Claims Success · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=palladium+excess+heat&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

    Here's a google search to a whole lot of sources for a paper I read several years ago in one of the journals(Science?/Nature?/...) at the local library. It referenced Palladium electrode(cathode?) and unexpected Helium and excess heat produced during electrolysis. It suggested that Hydrogen Nuclei were combing - Fusion by definition - within the lattice of palladium but concluded that the effect may warrant further research.

  10. Re:A.I. on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 0
    http://www.google.ca/search?q=William+Shatner%27s+age

    William Shatner Age: 77. Born: March 22, 1931. Montreal, Canada. Height: 5' 10" ... worn in Halloween is reportedly a commercially made William Shatner mask painted white. ... videoeta.com/person/1453 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

    The second result from Google says he's 77(ish)...

  11. Re:Sounds like Intelligent Design on Florida Lab Gets Pregnant · · Score: 0

    Would it be interesting to find out that we created ourselves via AEGIS and shot it back in time via a time travel paradox?

    I think it would be AMAZING!!! But the real question is: Would it be interesting to find out that we created ourselves via AEGIS and shot it back in time via a time travel paradox?

  12. Re:You CAN take control of the Local Settings fold on Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7 · · Score: 0

    I installed the win7 beta to a 6gb partition on my (still working!!!) Inspiron_5150 P4M 2.8GHz 512MB ram. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron#Problems

    The UI is snappy, the system as a whole is a little slower than XP, but the bitch runs! Sadly, I'm still looking for a driver compatible with my nvidia fxGO5200 64MB to see if Oblivion will still run as well as under XP or WINE.

    CACLS at the command line got me access to all folders on the system with no difficulties...and no reboot iirc.

  13. Re:Great googa-mooga! on Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life · · Score: 0

    Zinc Pyrithione to the rescue! (I thought I was the only one to see this movie...)

  14. Got hit with this today... on MS Security Patch Blocks Net Access For ZoneAlarm Users · · Score: 0

    I think that a big "thank you /." is in order.

    My roommate is a "somewhat savvy" user who knows to use a properly set-up firewall and to scan every downloaded file manually. She can also fix most of her own computer issues thanks to google. And she has spent most of the day trying to connect to our wireless router.

    After several hours of futility she asked for some help. ipconfig looked mostly normal but the subnet mask was off by 1 (e.g. 255.255.254.0 rather than 255.255.255.0) and wouldn't reset through any method I know of, ping pinged both locally and on teh webz, and tracert ... well tracerted. Thought about dns but it tracerted to "www.google.com" and the 72.14.what.ever also hopped to www.google.ca just fine and wouldn't resolve ANYTHING, even local files in Internet Explorer or Firefox.

    This might have had me breaking out the disk and hitting the old "repair install" back to a known good configuration (yes, I know... 'windows' & "good configuration" have only RARELY coexisted but stranger things are possible) then HOURS of updates to duplicate and diagnose the problem. Looking foreward to a fix that doesn't hose the net!

    So again thank you slashdot, all of you, for saving me hours of updating incrementally to find the culprit!

  15. Please mod parent +3 Sinus-killer! on Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab · · Score: 0
    I hear that Japan has started a Zen Buddhist Quantum logic lab that will be neither evil nor not evil nor both evil and not evil nor neither evil nor not evil.
    At least it is when ones Pepsi gushes out ones nose. Gotta clean the laptop but that just made my day!

  16. Re:At Last!!! on Old Airlift Vehicle Concept Made New · · Score: 0

    That was a great game! I remember running it at around 8 fps on an early 486... Good ole windows 3.1

  17. Re:Chick and Egg problem on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 0

    You see; whatever format you used for anything has to be documented and you can't use paper because it won't last as long ... Do you carve it into stone?


    As for the limitations of paper storage, there must be some other medium that could be used...
  18. Re:Emergency? on Space Shuttle to Receive Emegency Repairs · · Score: 1
    I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!


    Hopefully we can avoid the eugoogleys this time!

  19. Re:Tough cloth on Space Shuttle to Receive Emegency Repairs · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A geek must be able to read a simple newspaper story

    'R'ing TFA? On /. ? I was under the impression that TFA is optional in this forum...

    +3 cynical...
  20. Re:It works... for now on Microsoft Genuine Advantage Cracked in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    Actually Security updates are exempt! (for now anyway...)

  21. Re:MSNBC Commentator is a jackass on Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off · · Score: 1


    I just saw Miles O'Brian on TV!

  22. Re:This is spectacular on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1
    If that were the case, the government might as well pay you to jerk off to porn.

    That's called Welfare I believe...Get paid for wanking, boozing and drugs!
  23. Re:This is spectacular on One Step Away from Changing Daylight Savings Time · · Score: 1
    The article said that it could save something like 100,000 barrels of oil a day.
    And how many barrels a day are currently used by the U.S. Military overseas??
  24. Re:What really irks me... on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released · · Score: 1

    I just installed 1.0.5 yesterday and had no issues with my extensions at all although now I guess I gotta DL 1.0.6 now... Then again I would guess that 12 is among the lower extension totals of /.ers!

  25. Re:Would you like to play a game? on Can a Bayesian Spam Filter Play Chess? · · Score: 1

    The side that lives!!!