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  1. Re:Average body size on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 1

    I think not...

  2. Re:Average body size on New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight · · Score: 2

    Oh, but Europeans love to think that...
    I've been to the UK numerous times, no shortage of lard buckets

  3. Re:Only YEC denies it on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    Wide is the path to destruction, and many shall find it!

  4. Re:Ho-lee-crap on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    exactly
    you don't want to be in the situation where you have to hire a bunch of fresh-faced engineers who have never built a sub before, and have no one to ask because everybody who has is either dead or retired

    reminds of a story I heard about stained glass.. evidently there are some forms of stained glass made in medieval/renaissance times that we have no idea how to make today...

  5. RDRAND on Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux · · Score: 1

    His conclusions were wrong, just wrong, his decision to allow continued access to rdrand was irresponsible...
    Even the smartest guy in the room is going to be wrong from time to time, the difficulty is getting them to accept it.

  6. Re:America = snowball on Diners Tend To Eat More If Their Companions Are Overweight · · Score: 1

    It's not just America
    Although Europeans love to act like that...
    We're just a few years ahead of the rest of the pack
    I go to Western Europe semi-regularly, no shortage of fatasses, especially the UK...

  7. Re:WiFi Calling? on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Republic Wireless has been doing this for awhile now.
    Works right out of the box...
    Sorry, apple isn't first here, or, first to make it usable.
    Of course republic gives you WiFi calling, unlimited talk, text, and 4g data for 40$ a month so Apple can still rightfully claim they are the first to charge entirely too much for it...

  8. Re:Ban when you are done testing? on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 1

    Or just blowing it to hell with a conventional ballistic missile (which is also "hypersonic").

  9. Re:What? on Climate Damage 'Irreversible' According Leaked Climate Report · · Score: 0

    It was cold last winter, some days even colder than average, "global warming" LOL

  10. Re:NHL has used them for years on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    400M is a bit much, but then again it's the NFL which is the most well run sport (in the business sense, ethically notsomuch) in the US and possibly the world.. They have more money than they know what to do with...

  11. Re:American football on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    Because austrialian rules football isn't anywhere nearly as complicated..., and the start/stop, line of scrimage concept in American football renders it much more dangerous, things like padding and helmets were added because a not so insignificant number of people were dying playing the game (as opposed to just slowly turning their brains to mush, which is apparently more acceptable).
    but other than that, yah you totally have a point

  12. Re: You're welcome to them. on Comparison: Linux Text Editors · · Score: 2

    Yep, pretty much this..
    If you aren't using a modern IDE like eclipse for Java, or VIsual Studio for .net languages, you're doing it wrong
    It's like pulling an automobile with a rope tied to your balls, impressive, but there are better ways to get the job done.

    Where editors like vi and Emacs, in the hands of an expert, still shine is configuration file maintenance, and really file maintenance on any text that isn't compilable source code.
    I really wish I knew them better than I do, just for that reason. I can use them, but just at a basic level.

  13. Re:The GISS adjusted^^^ dataset on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    It's going to be colder than normal in the eastern US this week
    global warming LOL!

  14. Re:If some idiot leaves a space heater running 24/ on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    or, continued to run after I shut the damn thing off...

  15. Weaponinzation on Bug In Fire TV Screensaver Tears Through 250 GB Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Sounds like something that could be developed into a nasty DDOS tool
    //ham and egger, don't know if that is actually possible or not...

  16. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cars don't have to be as fast as they are today, but thats what people, driven by the automotive press, have decided they want. Today's toyota camry and honda accord both can be bought with engines that approach 300HP and have sub 6 second 0 to 60 times.

    40 years ago, that was the realm of sports cars. Now we have that with dime-a-dozen, bake-potato-on-wheels flagship sedans

    build a sedan with a 10 second 0 to 60, which used to be quite common, and your car will be universally lambasted as "sluggish".

    even the new kia sedona minivan has a 0 to 60 of 7.4 seconds and a quarter mile just over 15 seconds..

  17. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 1

    It's also slow, pollutes more than cars made in the 21st century, and a veritable deathtrap, but hey...

  18. CIVIC GX on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 1

    The natural gas version of the civic is available, right now, goes about 250 miles on a tank, enough for all but the most insane of commuters, and costs less than 30k.

    A massive natural gas delivery infrastructure is already there, we just need a commitment, via tax credits or outright subsidies, for existing gas stations to add CNG pumps.

    Switching a good portion of the auto fleet over to CNG would lower CO2 emissions and a lot of the nastyer emissions that create ground level smog
    Is it as good as electric vehicles powered from a clean grid? No, but it's a great bridge technology.

  19. Re:Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sigh

    Nobody is saying that there can't be franchised dealerships. If that is the way a company wants to organize its distribution chain, fine..
    The issue is that car dealers, slimebags that they are, are trying to use the legal system to force all businesses, whether they want to organize that way or not, to follow that model.

    The reason for this is quite clear (at least to me it is), and it has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with any altruistic purpose (keeping costs down, protecting the customer, or some such bullshit). Its all about using the force of government to protect their racket. They realize, quite accurately, that Tesla's model would threaten to remove a lot of the zero-value-add profit that gets extracted by the dealer from the consumer.

    It's not a hard point to understand, unless you are determined not to understand it.

  20. UVERSE on Cable Boxes Are the 2nd Biggest Energy Users In Many Homes · · Score: 1

    I recently moved from a Comcast only area to a U-verse only area (monopolies yay!!!)
    I figured the new, smaller u-verse box would be better on power, but the damn thing is quite warm to the touch, even when its "powered off" from the front panel when no one is watching TV.
    I don't have the exact figure, but that heat is not getting created for free (especially in the summer when it has to be pumped outside by the AC).

    I have taken to switching the power off at the power strip when I'm not watching. The only downside to that is there is a bit of a lag in my trip into the land of mindnumbing entertainment as the box has to boot up and figure out who it is each time.

  21. Re:How will history judge the F-35? on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    If the A-10 ever flies in a combat mission with an enemy well supplied with the latest generation MANPADS (greatly enhanced warheads that can easily penetrate its armor, counter-countermeasures, etc) it is Toast.
    the Airforce knows this, even if its fanboys do not
    A faster, stealthier design at least has a fighting chance.

  22. Re:REALLY STUPID Canada on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    The F35 is not ground-attack-only. I don't know why this keeps getting parroted.
    This is not a comment on the issues surrounding its development/procurement process, it certainly has had its share, but if/when the platform reaches a mature state, it will be able to perform air-to-air missions just fine

    Also the super-hornet is not "just as good"... no.. it is isn't...

  23. Re: No one will ever buy a GM product again on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 3, Informative
  24. Re:Integrated Infotainment, why do I want it? on Intel Wants To Computerize Your Car · · Score: 1

    I have a new Chrysler and a newer toyota and they both have 3.5mm jacks. Odd that the Beemer doesn't

    I wonder if this is a "this hotel is so nice, they make you pay for the internet" type of situation

  25. liberal propganda on How LEDs Are Made · · Score: 2, Funny

    More liberal propaganda to justify our loss of lightbulb freedom