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  1. Re:Ugly on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 1

    Just wait till there is breaking news and Drudge breaks out the police lights. Or Memorial Day and Fourth of July when all the text is red, white and blue, or Christmas when it's green and red.

  2. Re:Ugly on Drudge Generates More News Traffic Than Social Media · · Score: 1

    So is Craigslist, they both go with the no frills minimalism to keep the page small and to reduce the work it takes to make them work with all the browsers out there.

  3. Re:Been here a while... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Been here a while... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1

    How about the military doesn't care one bit about what the Director of the CIA cares and the rest of that is just anti-Obama derp.

    It's only missing "...he was overruled because he is Black and everyone else who decided is White."

  5. Re:How did they do it? on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    The bulk of the Southern Railroad net was damaged or destroyed by the War, so likely they started the rebuilding during the Reconstruction around fall of 1865 or spring of 1866, there were large numbers of demobbed soldiers and freed slaves for a work force.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_railroads_in_the_American_Civil_War

  6. Re:Electric grid primitive? Compared to what? on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 2

    Actually five grids.

    Two major, three minor.

    Western Interconnection and Eastern Interconnection are the two major, the three minor interconnections are the Québec Interconnection, the Texas Interconnection, and the Alaska Interconnection.

    Western and Eastern currently have six DC connections and a giant connection is being built between Texas, Eastern and Western - Tres Amigas SuperStation was announced to connect the Eastern, Western and Texas Interconnections via three 5 GW superconductor link

  7. Re:Part of a general pattern on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    Cheap energy hasn't happened yet.

    As soon as solar and wind becomes cheap and efficient enough the natural gas and coal devoted to power production will be able to go toward syngas and Diesel production.

    While the US never had the rock oil reserves of Saudi Arabia, the US has alot of natural gas, coal and potential for both solar and wind.

    It'll either be cheap and ubiquitous solar/wind or fusion that brings on the age of cheap energy.

  8. Re:correction: 'terrorist sensors' on Rocket Blasts Off With Missile-Warning Satellite · · Score: 1

    Because the Russians don't have ICBMs and SLBMs anymore while the North Koreans and Iranians aren't working on them at the same time as the Saudis, Israelis, Indians and Pakistan don't all have MRBMs while also looking at orbital systems and ICBMs.

    Its all about the terrorists.

  9. Re:It will be interesting on Rocket Blasts Off With Missile-Warning Satellite · · Score: 2

    ICBMs are not suborbital, an ICBM generally goes up to about 800-1100 miles at it's apogee.

  10. Re:It will be interesting on Rocket Blasts Off With Missile-Warning Satellite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It won't be affected by commercial launches, USAF and other intelligence agencies looking out for missile and rocket launches generally know where and when commercial and research launches are.

    So if a rocket is launched from New Mexico or Kodiak or Baikonur, even in much higher volume, it's not going to cause trouble.

    Now if a launch happens from Musudan-ri, its going to raise an alarm.

  11. And much more limited than an MQ-1 on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 1

    MQ-1 Predator can cruise at 80-100 mph, 2000 mile range, 24 hour endurance at 25,000 feet, satellite uplink, SAR, IR/UV/Visible light cameras.

    So yea, its going to cost more, it can do alot more.

  12. Re:What will commercial space companies do? on How Far and Fast Can the Commercial Space World Grow? · · Score: 1

    Both navigation and weather satellites are government programs, funded and maintained with government money.

  13. Re:Domestic production? on White House Explains Transport-Energy Future · · Score: 2

    46% of petroleum goes to gasoline, 9% jet fuel, 26% Diesel and other fuel (bunker fuels, LPG, etc), 3% asphalt, 4% heavy fuel oils (another bunker fuel source), 1% lubricants, 11% other products, like plastics, medicine

  14. Re:Domestic production? on White House Explains Transport-Energy Future · · Score: 1

    Bunker oil is from petroleum, it's real difference from what is used on land is that it can be high sulfur and exhausts aren't filtered, so it throws out all sorts of crap.

  15. Re:Domestic production? on White House Explains Transport-Energy Future · · Score: 2

    Power plants in the US don't generally run on oil. They run on hydro, natural gas, coal and nuclear.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation

    1% from petroleum.

  16. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    As the article states, the dollar amount is huge, but the US, even during a bad economy, has a huge GDP.

  17. Re:You mean one can make helicopters less noisy? on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Since the USA = Nazi Germany... on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    Other countries have low observable technology, the Russians, French, Swedes, Israelis and Chinese come to mind immediately.

    The Saab/BAe Gripen has a lowered radar cross-section, as does the Dassault Rafale, Israelis have been working on LO for drones, the Russian for helicopters and fighters, same for the Chinese.

    The US however has the much greater industrial base and military spending to build many more LO aircraft.
    France has 93 reduced cross section Rafales, the US has 400 F/A-18E/F, 168 F-22, 66 B-1B, and 18 B-2A - all are stealth or reduced cross section.

    When the Russian Federation gets their new stealth F-22 in production, if recent history is any indicator, they'll only be able to build a few, likely less than 100, China also has trouble mass producing cutting edge aircraft.

    As for forcing the USA to get rid of nuclear technology, how exactly would you press that agenda against the most technologically advanced military and intelligence apparatus on the planet?

  19. Re:I know what it was... on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    Pistol shot to the inflight refueling probe, thats how you blow up Airwolf.

  20. Re:MMO Fan Since 2001 on Star Wars MMO Estimated To Cost $100M · · Score: 1

    Battleclinic, EVE wiki and alot of secure containers with ads.

  21. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 1

    Tail of Comanche used a closed Fenestron like the AS365, Z-9 and HH-65, this helicopter does not.

  22. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 2

    The only stealth fighters that crashed were...

    S/N 79-0785 was lost on 20 April 1982 during takeoff on its maiden flight in California, recovered.
    S/N 80-0792 was lost on 11 July 1986 in California, recovered
    S/N 85-0815 was lost on 14 October 1987 in Nevada, recovered
    S/N 82-0801 was lost on 4 August 1992 in New Mexico, recovered
    S/N 86-0822 was lost on 10 May 1995 in New Mexico, recovered
    S/N 81-0793 was lost on 14 September 1997 in Maryland during air show, recovered
    S/N 82-0806 was lost on 27 March 1999 in Serbia, not recovered

    No stealth fighters crashed or were lost in Iraq or Kuwait

  23. Re:Hardly secret or surprising on Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets · · Score: 3, Informative

    1.8 trillion total since the GWoT started more like.

    FY2007 Department of Defense appropriations: $70 billion(estimated) for Iraq War-related costs
    FY2007 Emergency Supplemental (proposed) $100 billion
    FY2008 Bush administration has proposed around $190 billion for the Iraq War and Afghanistan
    FY2009 Obama administration has proposed around $130 billion in additional funding for the Iraq War and Afghanistan
    FY2011 Obama administration proposes around $159.3 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

    US defense budget FY2010
    Provides $533.7 billion for the Department of Defense base budget in 2010, a four-percent increase over 2009.
    Includes $75.5 billion in supplemental appropriations for 2009 and $130.0 billion for 2010 to support ongoing overseas contingency operations, while increasing efforts in Afghanistan and drawing down troops from Iraq responsibly.

    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy10/pdf/budget/defense.pdf

    Visualizing the US defense budget

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/01/information-is-beautiful-military-spending

  24. Re:MMO Fan Since 2001 on Star Wars MMO Estimated To Cost $100M · · Score: 2

    When WoW launched it had plenty of competition, remember Everquest II? Launched at the same time as WoW. Guild Wars launched in April 2005 when WoW was really struggling with hardware issues and over subscription. Matrix Online, same spring '05 time frame.

    What content in Eve is created by players?

  25. Re:but... on Star Wars MMO Estimated To Cost $100M · · Score: 1

    Why would dailies make you quit? They are always completely optional and just there for people who want to sink time into getting a toy.