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  1. Re:Linux on USB Flash Drives == Mandriva Linux on Microsoft To Offer Windows 7 On USB Thumb Drives? · · Score: 1

    I think you should try Mandriva Flash. BTW, all Mandriva ISOs can run directly from a USB stick.

  2. The strongest parts of a car are it tires on Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car · · Score: 1

    The strongest parts of a car are already inflateable. However, those parts are quite heavy. Inflateable parts are not necessarily lighter than metal parts.

  3. Earth quakes on Researchers Discover That Sand Behaves Like Water · · Score: 1

    This is well known. Earth quakes can cause sandy soil to flow and cause buildings to sink.

    The fluidic properties of particulates are used to process ores, grains, tobacco dust and flour for example.

  4. Ghettoization of the intertubes on The Battle Between Google and Facebook · · Score: 1

    I think the subject line says it all.

    The advantage of a universal search engine such as Google is that it searches for data internationally and broadens one's horizons.

  5. Re:Overpriced. on Microsoft Discloses Windows 7 Pricing · · Score: 1

    I use a Microsoft Mouse on my Linux laptop!

  6. Reveal Password button on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Some of the better designed applications have a 'reveal password' button. Most of the time there is no-one looking over your shoulder, so this option can indeed improve usability.

  7. Cool, he invented the sea. on 15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System · · Score: 1

    I think God Neptune already holds a patent on that one.

  8. SyncToy and Rsync on How Do You Sync & Manage Your Home Directories? · · Score: 1

    On Windows the free MS SyncToy works OK for me. On *nix I use rsync. Backup media is a slew of USB drives ranging in size from 120 to 750GB.

  9. ...but does Adobe Flash still hang up? on Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    The Javascript speed is not much of a factor. The one truly annoying thing with Firefox is the gawdawful Adobe Flash plug-in that hangs up at random, causing the whole browser to come to a screeching halt.

  10. Re:But why? on Firefox 3.5RC2 Performance In Windows Vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    The Microsoft C compiler generates very well optimized code. It has beat out GCC by 10% or more since time immemorial.

  11. Go topless in a Jeep on Where Does a Geek Find a Social Life? · · Score: 1

    Well, if you are indoors too much, take up an outdoor hobby. I bought a Jeep and a cayak and go camping every other week-end. I meet people at the start and end of each river trip. If you can't find anyone to go with, go to a lake, so you can row a circular route. To go down river, you need two cars - so you need to solve the friend problem first.

    There are also Jeep clubs everywhere. Trail rides are nice slow bumpy fun with great views and lots of relaxed people. Pretty soon the married women will try to hook you up with their single friends and all you got to do is take them with on the trail rides. A Jeep is basically a two seater, so if a woman wants to take a friend along - she has to find an accommodating single guy with an empty seat, so your Jeep won't stay empty for long...

    I simply started to go camping a couple nights at every lake in the area and each time I met a bunch of nice people and it just expanded from there.

  12. Re:"century-class solar minimum" on Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No true.

    We can take the sulphor filters out of the coal fired power stations and cause more reflection of sunlight in the upper atmosphere.

  13. Re:Materials, materials, materials on EU Fusion Experiment's Financial Woes Get More Concrete · · Score: 1

    ...or repair, repair, repair.

    One could make a production line to churn out stainless steel liners for the reactor at low cost.

    TIMTOWTDI

  14. No - ocean modulates field, doesn't cause it. on Ocean Currents Proposed As Cause of Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    TFA and the Slashdot summary are both wrong. The paper doesn't allude that the ocean causes the field. It says that the field is affected (modulated) by the oceans. So the earth could be a permanent magnet, with some of the changes in its field explained by the ocean currents.

  15. Re:This is similar to an old school BBS trick on Web Servers Getting Naked, For Weight Savings · · Score: 1

    My server boards and other pieces of kit are cable tied to Canadian Tire plastic shoe racks.

    Now *that* is cheap...

  16. Solar cell on Nokia Developed Wireless Power-Harvesting Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would that be cheaper to do than sticking a solar cell on the phone?

  17. Who knew about it? on China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest · · Score: 1

    My guess is that the competition simply wasn't advertised in North America. It is no use hearing about it for the first time after the competition closed.

  18. String of baloons on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    Helium baloons strung along a cable will be more practical.

  19. Re:Will we actually be able to buy these? on Printable, Rollable Solar Panels Could Go Anywhere · · Score: 1

    They will likely go bust before anyone manage to figure out how to buy their product.

  20. Legally repair the Digital Restrictions on The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If the DRM servers shut down, it would be legal to repair the DRM everywhere in the world, not just the EU. You paid for the stuff, so it is yours to do with as you please. That is what Sale of Goods means. Copyright Acts are on very shaky ground (100 year old law) compared to Sale of Goods (thousands of years old Common, English, Roman and Greek law).

  21. Creeping Socialism on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm, capitalists are known to flee from socialist countries. In the USA most everybody now live in public housing (mortgage companies and banks were nationalized) and travel with public transport (car finance companies and factories were nationalized), and the health care industry is next on the list.

    So it would not be too surprizing if Microsoft packs up and moves to a new capitalist country like Russia or China. However, I'm sure there will be cheers of delight if they do, with millions of geeks shouting 'Good riddance!'.

  22. Re:Doesn't Take Much on Penguin Poop Seen From Space · · Score: 1

    "car turd" is the word.

  23. Re:The Meaning Of "Free" on FSFE President Urges Community To Strengthen Open Source As a Brand · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with understanding the true meaning of the word Free is due to a lack of schooling. Many people don't know English, history or political science. Free State = A type of republican state government (Irish Free State, Orange Free State, Freestate of Thuringia, also 19th century US states where slavery was outlawed). Free Trade = I think it is obvious that trade is not gratis. Live Free or Die (New Hampshire motto) - I think it is clear that NH is not a Gratis State. "We begin with the proposition that the right of freedom of thought protected by the First Amendment against state action includes both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all," Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote for the majority in Maynard.

  24. Re:False friends, as well as false enemies on FSFE President Urges Community To Strengthen Open Source As a Brand · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Exactly. I can write Secret GPL code for the Department of Defence and be in compliance.

  25. Explosives factories on Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some explosives factories still use hydraulics, steam or vacuum for process control. Although it tends to be digital now, with valves used as flip-flops.