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  1. Re:Perhaps Apple should begin licensing OS X on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    a scythe ninja cooler costs about 30 euros and is big enough to passive cool the lower end core 2 duo cpus.

  2. Re:Palm or PocketPC on War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front · · Score: 1

    i own a htc universal pda phone (wm6, 3.6" vga display, keyboard) and while the device is great and there are lots of apps (even office, microsoft or softmaker), it is in no way a replacement for a subnotebook but rather a complement to it.

  3. Re:fine I'll say it on Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power · · Score: 2, Insightful

    but then again there is good investment return in peak load powerplants like pump storage powerplants, especially when coupled with a nuke powerplant.
    they can be loaded using the cheapest electricity availiable and they can sell at the peak load (the most expensive electricity).

  4. Re:It's *that* hard to detect whether a nuclear... on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    build better reactors. spent fuel is still fine for some of the reactor types, some really bad elements can stay in the reactor or be transmutated and the waste of those reactors should be safe after a much shorter amount of time.

  5. Re:Tampering on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    if a group of people wants plutonium so badly they just build a reactor which can be refuelled without shutting down (like CANDU).

  6. Re:If I read this right... on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    doesn't that depend on the reactor type?
    the chernobyl RBMK was operated at 20% power without shutting down and had a runaway reaction after a scram because of bad control rod design.
    marine propulsion reactors afair also can change their output power fast.

  7. Re:What's wrong with infrared? on Antineutrino Device Tackles Nuclear Proliferation · · Score: 1

    a scrammed reactor still produces decay heat for quite a while, even spent fuel does it.

  8. Re:A Dynamics Feature! on Last-Minute Glitch Holds Up Windows XP SP3 · · Score: 1

    dynamics what?
    microsoft has bought a lot of business software (navision, axapta, great plains etc) and calls them all dynamics. they are still extremly different under the hood.

  9. Re:Democracy did win right? on New "Iron Curtain" for Russian Internet · · Score: 1

    yep, he pretty much was the coolest russian head of state of at least a century.
    flying a jet fighter, black belt in judo, promises of blasting terrorists even in their toilets.

  10. Re:What about the old fashined way on DARPA Working On Arthur C. Clarke Weapon Idea · · Score: 1

    the old fashioned way was already defeated in ww2, just put lots of barbed wire on the top of the armour, that is often sufficient enough to substantially weaken the shaped charge.

    that is the reason why modern tanks use apfsds as antitank weapons.

  11. Re:Gas Cooled Fast reactor on Self-Healing Ceramics for Nuclear Safety · · Score: 1

    what about lead coolant? afair there were some russian submarines with lead cooled reactors.

  12. Re:Waste storage? on Self-Healing Ceramics for Nuclear Safety · · Score: 1

    what about molten salt or candu reactors? afair they can both go on spent lwr fuel.

  13. Re:Lenovo Hardware is Unreliable Junk on Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation · · Score: 2, Informative

    thinkpads were manufactured by lenovo years before the takeover.

  14. Re:Obligatory joke on Computers Emulate Neanderthal Speech · · Score: 1

    dao is the chinese sabre (katana is a japanese sabre), jian is the chinese sword.
    a sword has a straight double edge blade, a sabre has a curved single edge blade.

    so a lightsabre isn't, it is a lightsword actually.

  15. Re:Why XP - Are you kidding? on Microsoft Accommodating Eee With Lightweight XP · · Score: 1

    try wm6, it is much better. wm5 is utter crap.

  16. Re:In Kiwi New Zealand on In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails · · Score: 1

    thank you!
    you are a shining light here on slashdot.

  17. Re:Confused on In Australia, Bosses May Get Power To Snoop On Emails · · Score: 1

    you only pay someone to be watched when you go to a show or watch models on a sex cam site.
    otherwise you pay someone for an exactly defined service. you pay money, your get your service, period. as long as your employees get their jobs done - providing their services you hired them for to you - it is not your business to interfere.

    it is strange that some people believe, that as long as they pay they may behave like assholes they are. but you'll learn that not everyone thinks so the hard way: you will have to pay more for your business than non-assholes do.

  18. Re:Not smart on Stolen US Military Equipment Being Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    iran has supposedly reverse-engineered northrop f-5e for building the hesa azarakhsh. f-14 would be the next step.

  19. Re:And if... on AMD To Shed 10% of Its Workforce · · Score: 1

    remember cyrix, idt and transmeta? they used to make x86 cpus. where are they now?
    remember the prices of pentium 2 cpus back then when amd was nearly dead?
    remember, how reluctant the mainboard manufacturers were with started the production of athlon motherboards because intel had too much power?
    the first motherboards made by gigabyte even were labeled as noname.

    i don't want those times back.

  20. Re:Most famous quote. on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    the difference is, with the knife it gets close and personal. much more difficult than pulling the trigger.

    and i say that as someone who likes to shoot and also likes iaido.

  21. Re:Yeah, yeah... on Daily Caffeine Protects Your Brain · · Score: 1

    caffeine, not coffee.
    enjoy a cup of good japanese green tea - it is healthy in general and tasty too.

  22. Re:Dashboard Support on A Screenshot Review of KDE 4 · · Score: 1

    vista sidebar does work on windows xp, although it is a hack.

  23. Re:Reality mirroring Science Fiction on Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack · · Score: 1

    make a disassembly of an ak-47 and a sig 552 then you'll see it. the bolt system is practically identical. there are also other small parts like the magazine holder.

    sig 550 is not as good as an example because it has a spring moved.

  24. Re:Reality mirroring Science Fiction on Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack · · Score: 1

    their modern stg90 is basically an ak-47 with a spring moved to a different place, longer barrel and built to the swiss perfection.

  25. Re:Evolution on The Squid's Beak May Revolutionize Engineering · · Score: 1

    not really smarter. nature seems pretty stupid, given how much time it needs to achieve such technical progress.