Yeah, I wasn't saying holy crap on the water burning, but the radio frequencies making it release Hydrogen to burn. If it can be fine tuned with research, it's a whole different avenue than electrodes.

True, but I really want to see someone else repeat the work in another lab before I get my hopes up. Cold fusion, anyone?

I can see where salt water might act as an antenna for radio waves. It's certainly conductive enough.

Gloomcookie, perhaps this might have the solution to your iPod cover art problem: [link] It's about Coverflow, but has instructions on getting cover art onto an iPod. I haven't looked at it in detail so I don't know what they're doing differently....

Odd question - for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?

for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?

If you need to dial, you'll need dial tone.

Odd question - for dial-up, obviously you have to have a phone line, but does it need to be active, i.e., have a dial tone?

A modem will listen for a dialtone before it attempts to dial out.

Well, that's nice. I'm fucked then. Comcast doesn't recognize my address and AT&T says it has "no slots available" in my area. I can pick up weak signals from someone's unprotected network and I guess that's it for at home internet for me. Lovely.

AT&T says it has "no slots available" in my area.

WTF? For regular phone service, or for DSL?

I was only looking for DSL, but when I pressed them on that they said either. WTF is right.

I'm pretty sure they're required by law to give you regular telephone service.

I'm pretty sure they're required by law to give you regular telephone service.

Yeah, for 911 if nothing else.