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Comment text on right side cut off (Score 1) 2254

by promiscuous-mode (#35004052) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

For me text on right side is cut-off because my user name is longish in both chromium and firefox on Ubuntu. Also does anyone know of a setting in options that make it more eye friendly on a n900 ? Sure I could zoom all the way out and have all the text readable without scrolling from side to side, but then I would need to carry around a magnifying glass !
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Cutting Steel With Flaming Bacon Weapons 73

Posted by samzenpus from the Kingdom-of-Loathing-gets-a-little-more-real dept.
Ed Pegg writes "Theo Gray demonstrates the Bacon Lance, a flaming meatsword that can cut through steel. Yes, with some ordinary bacon, and some pure oxygen, it's possible to cut through security doors. Form the article, 'I recently committed myself to the goal, before the weekend was out, of creating a device entirely from bacon and using it to cut a steel pan in half. My initial attempts were failures, but I knew success was within reach when I was able to ignite and melt the pan using seven beef sticks and a cucumber.' This comes out right after his profusely illustrated book of science experiments, Mad Science."
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Can the Auto Industry Retool Itself To Build Rails? 897

Posted by Soulskill from the cross-training dept.
knapper_tech writes "The scope of the auto industry troubles continues to increase in magnitude. The call to retool and develop new vehicles has been made several times already, but with all of the challenges from labor prices and foreign competition, how exactly can the industry retool itself to be more competitive? In light of superior competition facing losses, there doesn't seem to be enough room in the industry moving forward. In the context of finding a new place in the auto industry, the future isn't bright. Calls for no disorderly collapse of the cash-strapped big three and a reluctant congress can only point to an underlying lack of direction. However, consider two other standing economic challenges. The airlines have continued to struggle due to fuel prices and heightened security. Consumers backed off of SUV's due to high fuel prices, and while those prices have eased in the face of global recession, the trend will pick up again with growth in China and India leading the fight for resources. In short, things are moving less, and the industries that support the movement are in need of developing new products while consumers are in need of a cheaper method of transportation." Read on for the rest of knapper_tech's thoughts.

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