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  1. Re:This is truly... on Scientists Discover Link Between Trees and Electricity · · Score: 1

    Are you positive?

  2. Re:Good on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    Good idea, and I used to get that when I hit the back button after inadvertently going to some sort of site like ExpertSexChange (ooh, they hyphenated), but I haven't seen the "Never see these bastards again" link/button in a very long time. (And yes, I'm logged in) I'm not an iGoogle user and I usually go in via the search bar on Firefox.

  3. Re:Just beware of the potential misunderstandings on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    If only I had mod points! YES. We are well past needing to chill out and stop responding to every sneeze with a paramilitary assault unit.

    What, you want the paramilitary assault units that you can find in every police department of size to just sit around and twiddle their thumbs, waiting for the real emergency?

  4. Re:Problematic on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    I used a rifle stock mount for a camera at a baseball game and no-one in the stadium raised a fuss.

  5. It's not exactly a new idea. on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    Imagine getting a photo of a politician with this camera: http://www.novacon.com.br/odditycameras/mamiyapc.htm Or going to a (US) National Park with one of these: http://fedka.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=610&osCsid=726706c7db885cd7ea53125689e0e62e

  6. Re:Dead musicians society on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    The MIT AI Lab gave all of their Lisp Machines (both in-house, LISPM, and Symbolics) names of dead rock stars - it's an ever-growing set.

  7. Re:Shannon-Hartley still in effect. on 'Twisted' Waves Could Boost Capacity of Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    You get 56k out of it because of compression. Actual physical bandwidth is limited to about 34kbps of actual data transfer.

  8. Re:Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    There are some specific things to which the owner claims that the "lone cypress" on 17 Mile Drive in Monterey California (in the Pebble Beach development) is their exclusive trademark and that no photographer may sell images of the tree. http://kwartlerlaw.com/Commentaries/LoneCypressgate.html

  9. just what I need on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just what I need - another plant to be allergic to.

  10. A Fifth of Beethoven on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    I was going to say that this sort of thing was going to lead to this generation's "A Fifth of Beethoven" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxS0gO_-TQk), but then I saw on the right that we've already had techno and dubstep versions of Beethoven made.

  11. Re:So... on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    When I first saw them, I thought "AWESOME!" Then, moments later, I imagined what their parents said when they were first told. "You're going to play what? Almost twenty years of lessons for this?"

  12. Re:Thank god we still have Radio Shack on The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store · · Score: 1

    Or those who are red-green colorblind.

  13. Re:I kinda do the same thing... on A Data Center That Looks Like a Mansion · · Score: 1

    Your soul exists in a quantum state after death and you only go to Heaven or Hell once it's examined.

  14. Re:10% Ethanol on Is E85 Dead Now? · · Score: 2

    If you did not mind replacing the fuel lines and a few other parts when they dissolved away, you could run E85 in a standard car and engine.

    In the 1970s, in the wake of the first gas crisis ('74), Detroit promised us that cars' fuel lines would be modified "in a few years" such that they could burn pure ethanol or pure methanol (a stronger solvent than ethanol) without modification. Fast-forward forty years: Not only will your fuel lines dissolve (I can only imagine how dissolved fuel line will burn in an engine), but your gaskets will as well.

  15. Re:Good luck with that on Apple Threatens Steve Jobs Doll Maker With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Actually you're mistaken.

    The United States passed a law that all U.S. laws apply in foreign countries.

    Which is meaningless, because no matter what the US claim, their laws with 100% certainty do not apply outside of the united states, *especially* not in China.

    But we do arrest folks who do things overseas that we've declared to be crimes, e.g. having sex with children. Now, California does not equal the USA, so as long as the dolls aren't sold in the Golden State, everyone should be A-OK. I can't wait to see them use in stop-motion videos floating around the 'net. (The '' sign doesn't show up on /. in 2012? Seriously?)

  16. Re:Pre3 on HP Wanted $1.2B For WebOS and Palm · · Score: 1, Funny

    Me, I'd love to get my hands on Kim Kardashian's shaved pussy. Different strokes for different folks, I suppose...

    I take it that you'd pay $500?

  17. Re:substitute? on NIH Restricts Use of Chimpanzees in Labs · · Score: 1

    I was going to suggest Lawyers. They're nearly identical to Humans, save for their moral and ethical senses, and no-one will complain about mistreating them.

  18. Re:They're claiming it's not thermal damage on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    2.4GHz Wi-Fi signals aren't the only EM signals generated by a laptop. Who here remembers computers playing music by executing carefully-timed loops using a properly-tuned AM radio to pick up the EMI generated by them?

  19. They're claiming it's not thermal damage on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yet every modern laptop has its wifi antennas carefully routed alongside the screen so that their polarization will match the WAP's polarization. Laptops get hot. Sperm want to live at 97F (definitely not at 98.6, which is average body temperature). What have they previously published? I smell an agenda.

  20. New Stuff? on IBM's Patent To "Capture Expert Knowledge" With Games · · Score: 1

    How's that going to help this quarter's earnings?

  21. Swap Meet Louis on Web Hosts Hit With $32 Million Judgment For Content · · Score: 1
  22. They lack the balls to open in Silicon Valley on First MS Retail Stores Will be In Scottsdale, AZ and Mission Viejo, CA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they were to open in Silicon Valley, they'd have to close within a week's time.

  23. Lon Guyland on DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" · · Score: 1

    As if the eastern end of Long Island doesn't get hit by hurricanes.

  24. I've been doing this since the eighties on Are Keyboards Dishwasher Safe? · · Score: 1
    I've been doing this since the eighties.
    • no soap
    • top rack
    • gentle drying cycle


    If it's still not dry, then a week in the sun, or a few hours to overnight in a 160 oven will drive out the water.

    The latter works great for cell phones that have been caught in the rain or lightly dunked.
  25. Re:we had 400 speed reversal film in the 50s on Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters · · Score: 1

    I came in here to make the same point. Before 1985, I was shooting Fujicolor 1600 in "very dark" situations, sans flash.