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  1. Re:Looking elsewhere... on Searching For Alternatives To China's Rare Earth Monopoly · · Score: 1

    They are here in the US, but just undeveloped.

    How far will we have to go scouring the ends of the Earth and fueling conflicts before environmentalists allow development?

    http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/chinese-threat-on-rare-earth-minerals.html

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/16/1739241/US-Sits-On-Supply-of-Rare-Tech-Crucial-Minerals

  2. Re:You don't know if the new images are from drone on Google Maps Adds Drone Imagery · · Score: 1

    Helicopters are more expensive to operate than small single engine general aviation planes like the mentioned "Cessna".

  3. Re:I'd rather make peanuts telecommuting on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    I'm doing IT in Alaska and love it.

    Not really the boonies, I'm in Anchorage (375,000 people in metro area), and I love it. Pay is good, better yet, there are jobs. Electricity is all sourced from natural gas, alot of green spaces in the city.

    Commutes are nothing, I had an 11 minute drive from the far east side of the city to the southern side of the CBD (5.2 miles) in the morning rush hour and it'll take me 20 to get home with a stop for my fiancé. It's getting colder now and theres always a chance of a moose on the road at dawn or dusk.

    It beats the hell out of Portland or Seattle.

  4. Re:Why stop there? on FCC Will Tackle Cell Phone 'Bill Shock' · · Score: 1

    My iPhone 3G and 4 have those features.

    Settings - General - Usage - Time since last full charge, Call Time, Cellular Network Data

  5. Re:got spyware? on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 1

    Castle doctrine doesn't work that way.

    If you tried it you'd be rightfully thrown in prison.

  6. Re:Forget the robot on Robots Guarding US Nuclear Stockpiles In Nevada · · Score: 1

    A true Hummer runs on JP-8, at least since about 1998.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8

  7. Re:Better still on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    They had whole crews of guys doing signals traffic so the Germans would hear it and assume it was the work of operating military units.

    A large reason why Overlord was a success, the Germans didn't believe that Patton wouldn't be the spearhead, so if Patton is opposite Calais, then the real invasion must be there.

  8. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    Try reading your own links.

    As early as 2650 BCE they had standardized on lengths and made rulers.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cubit_rule_Egyptian_NK_from_Liverpool_museum.jpg - look a cubit stick.

    However, different cultures had standardized on different lengths of a cubit.

    They didn't build the Pyramids, Memphis, Persepolis or Petra by measuring different slaves and engineers arms.

  9. Re:Better still on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except Minuteman were never railroad deployed.

    They were always road delivered to silos.

    And since railhubs were always 2nd and 3rd tier targets right after C3, nuclear bases and air fields, having them hidden in the rolling stock of the US wasn't that much of a decoy.

    Russia on the other hand was better suited to hiding things out in the boondocks on rail sidings.

  10. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    A photon has no mass and no charge so why couldn't a major god just create them.

    Back to Earth was created in 6 days and it's only 5-10,000 years old.

  11. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how long a cubit is.

    30 by 10 is 30 by 10 if it's feet, yards, Jewish cubits, Egyptian cubits, Temple cubits.

    They were standard measures when/where they were used, different societies and civilizations had different ones is all.

  12. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    Really? Do you know what the authors of Isaiah really knew or thought about cosmology?

    I know that the leading Clerics in Saudi Arabia didn't accept the Earth was a sphere until a Muslim flew on the Shuttle in the 1980s. They thought it probably was a sphere, but there was doubt in their minds because a Muslim hadn't witnessed it.

    Reading Isaiah in Hebrew and looking at the translation straight to English is better, I shouldn't have dumbed it down to the Christian translations

    http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1040.htm

  13. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    The link I posted talks about pi from a Jewish point of view, so from the Hebrew.

    http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/Pi_In_The_Bible.html

  14. Re:News For Nerds on Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The noise to signal ratio has always been high and non-tech articles here have always been common.

    There was no glorious golden age of Slashdot.

    Just alot fewer goat.cx and hot grits posts

  15. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Six days. Right there in Genesis.

    According to the Hebrew calendar the Universe was created in 3760 BC, so it's less than 6000 years by that measurement.

    And yes, pi is three in the Bible, even Jewish scholars admit to it.

    http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/Pi_In_The_Bible.html

    "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits."

  16. Re:As long as we Americans keep buying made in Chi on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Scientific Accuracy? Pi is 3 in the Bible.

    Isaiah 40:22 says a circle, not a sphere, not that it's round, but that it is a circle and "heavens like a canopy" of a tent.

    You skip over the universe being created in six days and it being a bit over 6,000 years old.

    As for confirming the Bible with Herodotus, he didn't get the title of Father of Lies for being accurate.

  17. Re:Where is the broken glass? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    My white Mac Book is pretty unscratched after three years of hard use.

  18. Re:Tribalism on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1

    And the left has The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father, so what is your point?

    Both sides have anti-science members, look at the anti-vax movement in the left pushed on Huffington Post.

  19. Re:Republicans In Action on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1

    Here in Alaska, Lisa Murkowski has never indicated anything about a witch hunt if she is reelected and to his credit, Joe Miller hasn't said any Birther crap either.

    On the other hand, the Democrat is running on a platform of wearing the same kind of ties Alaska's ex-Senator Ted Stevens wore.

    So your milage is going to vary in November.

  20. Re:Where is the broken glass? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 0

    And those are from motes of dust or other debris getting caught between a case and the phone?

    If I hit my iPhone with a hammer, took a picture of it and tossed it up for google image search to index, doesn't mean it has anything to do with this alleged issue.

  21. Re:I Left Out The Best Part on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 1

    Like Iran-Contra or Vince Foster, the Whitewater scandal, Travelgate, Filegate, and later the Lewinsky scandal, Troopergate or Ted Stevens/VECO?

    I'd call of of them witch-hunts.

  22. Where is the broken glass? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is speculation right now, where are the pictures of phones with scratched or broken glass?

    The damn phone has been out for months and Gawker, Powerpage or any of the Apple fanboy sites have no photos of this "issue".

  23. Re:My money is on... on Why Geim Never Patented Graphene · · Score: 1

    My money is on someone like DuPont, Siemens, Phillips, 3M, BASF or a "carbon company" like Ashbury.

  24. Re:WTF? on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 1

    Yea it did. Migraines and stuck here in the dark at work.

    Damn it!

  25. Re:WTF? on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 1

    Libya gave up their NBC programs after the Iraq invasion, we are all buddies now.