I've been on a lot of tours of WWII vessels-- everything from the USS Arizona in Hawaii to the USS North Carolina in North Carolina to the submarine exhibit at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. I have to say the very best tour I've done was the USS Cobia sub tour in Manitowoc, WI. http://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/ The tour was given by an old WWII submariner (yes, he was old!). It was a far better experience than any other sub exhibit. The sub is in the water and it is quite the feeling to go beneath the water line of a WWII sub. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend it! Granted that was 12 years ago and nowadays the old tour guides may have either passed or are too feeble...

$2.99 for an HD episode on iTunes. Stop the FUD. I haven't checked, but there are probably other purchase options as well besides HBO/cable subscriptions.

I don't recall the specifics. I thought the IS-95 CDMA had several channels with each using ~ 1MHz of shared spectrum. Even so, CDMA does use very fine-grained power control. Make the cells smaller and the transmitters reduce their power such that interference with adjacent cells is reduced (and battery life improved, etc.).

One of the core concepts of "cellular" phones is that "cells" enable frequence reuse. Now this has to be carefully done to prevent interference, but in general, decreasing the size of cells will increase capacity. Of course this adds infrastructure cost.

Dude, go smoke some pot or something. You are way too angry for your own good.

Studies consistently show that your mind doesn't lose focus when talking to passengers in the vehicle compared to talking on the phone. Perhaps because your passengers realize when a traffic situation is momentarily tense and stops talking?

You either didn't learn the very basics of finance in college, or you shouldn't have qualified for a loan in the first place (since your only post-bankruptcy option for buying a BMW and house would be cash or handouts from Daddy).

The carpet was shot anyways ;-)

I probably got that information here: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/

Perhaps I was mixing up the guidance found here: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/

Sure thing: http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/

Dear AC, Thanks for calling me a moron. The GOP candidates around here are all Tea Partiers. I'll change my voting strategy when I see fit. What makes LEDs viable? I would like 1000 lumen output for $50/bulb.

Thanks, I didn't realize it condensed right away. That definitely reassures me. Now to convince my wife!

Thanks. I didn't realize it condensed right away.

I'm glad you are pretty sure. Since a random Slashdotter is "pretty sure" without making any technical arguments, then I should be pretty sure too. That said, I buy the other poster' arguments about the mercury quickly condensing soon after breakage.