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Comment Re:Title (Score 1) 231

by JoeBar on Tuesday June 02, 2009 @01:31AM (#28178035) Attached to: <em>Left 4 Dead 2</em> Announced For November

LOL

Comment Re:Reserve Not Yet Met (Score 1) 556

by JoeBar on Monday January 29, 2007 @02:21PM (#17802592) Attached to: How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions

Yeah, the new "second chance offer" deal makes it even easier to scam buyers.... Have ur buddy shill bid the price as high as possible and even if his bid exceeds the real bidder's top bid and he wins the auction, you can just offer the real bidder (who lost) the 2nd chance offer..

In the past at least the seller had to worry about his shill bidder bidding too high and ending up winning the auction away from the real bidder -- forcing the seller to eat the listing fees, and go thru the hassle of relisting..

Iceland To Drill Hole Into Volcano 275

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 27, 2006 @09:09AM from the tapping-the-earth-for-energy dept.

G3ckoG33k writes "BBC reports that Iceland will drill a hole into a volcano so it can tap heat from it, which eventually is hoped to produce commercially available energy. From the article: "Twenty years ago, geologist Gudmundur Omar Friedleifsson had a surprise when he lowered a thermometer down a borehole. 'We melted the thermometer,' he recalls. 'It was set for 380C; but it just melted.'". Excuse me, Gudmundur, but how could that ever have been a 'surprise'..."

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