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  1. Re:How did they . . . on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 2

    lots of optics, very precisely aligned.

  2. Re:CO2? on DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound · · Score: 1

    Gases are not used to put out fires on submarines. Water is used.

  3. Re:LENR (aka Cold fusion) has been peer-reviewed on Weak Solar Convection 100 Times Slower Than Predicted · · Score: 1

    Based on the link you offered, I might as well Google 'homeopathy' or 'perpetual-motion device'.
    Got anything more convincing?

  4. Re:Stohach acid on Live Pictures From Inside Your Stomach · · Score: 1

    So hydrochloric AND phosphoric acids, then? Oh, and don't forget brominated vegetable oil. Gotta love that stuff.

  5. Re:I think people just got smarter on PC Sales Are Flat-Lining · · Score: 1

    But you do need one to watch nuclear weapons simulation porn or atmospheric modeling porn.

  6. Re:Well... on PC Sales Are Flat-Lining · · Score: 1

    OTOH, I bought a Mac in 1992 and ten years later I could not use it, effectively, since OS X would not run on it and software I would want to use would not run on MacOS9.

  7. Re:Flat-Line on PC Sales Are Flat-Lining · · Score: 1

    This.
    I can't even find a laptop with a 1920x1200 display like the three year old one I've got now, so I don't want to replace it. Haven't looked for a while, but things seem headed in the wrong direction display-wise.

  8. Re:What? on Microsoft Kills Windows Gadgets Via Security Update · · Score: 1

    I think it was poorly worded, but what was meant was that if the USER is logged as admin, he could install a gadget that would give the attacker the ability to gain unwanted access to the system.

  9. Re:Whats the difference... on Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why GM kept Buick and dumped Oldsmobile. Oldsmobile had some cool cars. Buick OTOH....

    I also think Jetta drivers tend to be pretty crazy, just like they're in a big hurry and don't care how that affects anyone else. Plural anecdotes and all that.

  10. Re:The simplest explanation on Weak Solar Convection 100 Times Slower Than Predicted · · Score: 1

    Of course cold fusion was never decades of peer-reviewed research. As soon as some peers reviewed it (tried to replicate it) it was shown for what it was.

  11. Re:More incomplete research on Arsenic-Friendly Microbe Now Seems Unlikely · · Score: 1

    Was the claim that As was incorporated into the DNA, or into some other cell constituent. I thought it was supposed to be part of the metabolic process, so wouldn't expect to find it in DNA.

  12. Re:Oh well... on Arsenic-Friendly Microbe Now Seems Unlikely · · Score: 1

    Someone already got started on a polonium-based politician, but it didn't end well.

  13. Re:Standard Scientology practice on Church of Scientology Enlisting Followers In Censorship · · Score: 1

    Would you object to someone using it thus: "Scientology (TM) is not really a religion." ?

  14. Re:I think they can reinvent themselves on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    Free to run the company into the ground ... or raise it to new heights.

  15. Re:"one in a a trillion" event on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 1

    That would be a function of how much of an atom is empty space, relative to how much space there is between atoms, wouldn't it?

  16. Re:A boat? on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    Yep. A division of General Dynamics. In rotten Groton (CT).

  17. Re:Link, please? on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    10-15 kts? No, more like 4 kts. "Four knots to nowhere", as we used to say.

  18. Re:Interesting but... on US Consumer Bureau Opens Online Credit Card Complaint DB · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean much without knowing the numbers of people carrying their cards. A useful number would be the number of complaints per 100,000 cardholders or something like that. If Discover has 8,000,000 cardholders but Barclays only has 500,000, then Barclays is ten times worse despite their better position on your list.

  19. Re:Scientific review on Why Groundwater Use May Not Explain Half of Sea-Level Rise · · Score: 1

    "O-Zone"? That doesn't help your credibility.

  20. Re:VMODA ear buds take the most ABUSE on Ask Slashdot: Best Headphones, Earbuds, Earphones? · · Score: 1

    I got a pair of those at Costco and haven't used them a lot, and the plug end is already suffering from a bad connection in the wiring, exactly opposing your anecdote...

  21. Re:Liberals = More Educated = More Cognitive Error on Why Smart People Are Stupid · · Score: 1

    See, that's why the educational system is so left-leaning! Liberal principals!

  22. Re:Next week - coffee gives you cancer on Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    Another study will come out soon that says that observational studies sometimes produce erroneous and/or conflicting results.

  23. Re:surely they're joking on Richard Feynman's FBI Files Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, surely it was his failed attempt to get to Tuva that should have raised the real big red flag!

  24. Re:So, I suspect that a good strong cup of tea ... on Coffee Consumption Strongly Linked To Preventing Alzheimer's · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, as a *spelling* Nazi, his expertise is limited to detecting misspelled words, not misused words. He apparently doesn't have the combined spelling/grammar or spelling/usage Nazi certification.

  25. He needs it too, since he could use it to Google "Amelia Earhart".