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  1. Pneumatics on Peugeot Citroen To Introduce Compressed Air Hybrid By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Pressurized hydraulic fluid can be dangerous (especially oil-injection via pinhole leaks that can result in amputation or death depending on the target area), but in the unfortunate instance of a pressurized vessel failing, as the fluid is essentially uncompressible, the motive force quickly stops.

    Compressed gas, on the other hand... far scarier results with a ruptured vessel as the rapidly expanding gas is more than happy to forcefully hurl projectiles out of its way.

  2. Close but no cigar on Silicon Nanoparticles Could Lead To On-Demand Hydrogen Generation · · Score: 1

    How much energy to create the silicon nanoparticles.

    No; it's how long can they run before being degraded by contamination? If it takes six-sigma water purity to prevent crap from interfering with the reaction, then it's more novelty than breakthrough.

  3. Irony on Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears · · Score: 1

    "Oil & Gas Frackquake Threat Closes Nuke Weapons Plant"

  4. I can imagine weed growers (and their quixotic whack-a-mole pursuers) will be very interested in this.

  5. One of these things is not like the others on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1, Troll

    As reported by Reuters, The New York Times, and Fox News...

    Seriously? You couldn't think of a third actual news source? Couldn't find a link to the National Enquirer, so you went with one of it's peers?

  6. At the same time on Recession, Tech Kill Middle-Class Jobs · · Score: 1

    At the same time of fewer and fewer living wage jobs, the GOP still wants to 'Ayn Rand' the shit out of the US.

    It's what Jesus would have done.

  7. Meet me half way on The Road To KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 2 · · Score: 0

    Get rid of every program starting with a K and drop the omnipresent gear motifs and I might consider it.

  8. Red States on Tech Firms Keep Piles of 'Foreign Cash' In US · · Score: 1

    Make no mistake, this is by design. The politicians who designed it and refuse to change it benefit, because the recipients overwhelmingly tend to vote for those who promise more of the same (that's the carrot). When a family comes to depend on these benefits and wouldn't be able to make ends meet without them, they fear the possibility that they might be taken away (that's the stick).

    There are a lot of carrots that end up in Red States - especially if you include the heavily subsidized 'family farmers' (a few of which reside on Park Place). It ain't all just Reagan's Welfare Queens.

  9. Tell-tale sign on Steve Jobs Threatened Palm To Stop Poaching Employees · · Score: 1

    It was pretty obvious what a horror he was to be around, given that there were always far more high-level ex-Apple employees than on the roles.

  10. Overkill on Intel Leaving Desktop Motherboard Business · · Score: 1

    Fact is, most pedestrian users have realized they don't need a machine that could crunch FEA or render an entire building when all they will ever do is email and surf. No longer needing a dedicated desk big enough for a keyboard, mouse and chair (or not having the space to begin with) has also been a big factor; get a laptop or tablet and have a seat on the far-comfier couch.

  11. Specifically: Linux Mint Debian Edition. It reminds me of what Ubuntu was before Cannonical lost their minds and decided to become Cupertino 2.0 (or is that Too?).

  12. Mineral Rights on New Asteroid Mining Company Emerges · · Score: 1

    I am being serious here: what rights do they have to those minerals if by some miracle this actually 'gets off the ground'? Is international law really Finders Keepers? Hard to believe.

    Regardless, I could see the very real scenario of them being underwritten by someone with very deep pockets (ahem-China-ahem) in exchange for exclusive use of the minerals.

  13. Common Ground on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    There is one bit of common ground all organized religions share: misogyny.

  14. FTFY on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    As far as dumb political choices go, the American Supreme Court elected and rigged voting machines re-elected George W Bush.

    FTFY

  15. Easy for you to say on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    Easy for you to say, but given that his name indicates he's probably not fourth generation Quebecois _and_ in light of Aaron Swartz literally being hounded to death by his own government, that threat no doubt sounded all too real. Western laws and protections have been proven not to be universally applied to those of the 'wrong' religion and tending towards the brown part of the skin spectrum.

  16. Finger ring on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    DEAD finger ring.

  17. Something something on No Spitfires In Burma After All · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Something something
    Something something
    Something something
    Something Spitfire
    Burma Shave!

  18. Rest assured on You Can Donate Your Genome For Medical Research, But Not Anonymously · · Score: 1

    Both the data and procedures have been copied by the NSA and National Security Letters sent to all involved. Endless War means Endless Spy^H^H^H Vigilance.

  19. Cheney on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    This was probably the real reason DICK Cheney switched back to a human heart.

    That and the whole cool Kali-ma um, 'medical procedure'.

  20. Dear Redacted on FBI Responds To ACLU GPS Tracking Complaint · · Score: 1

    Your [REDACTED] is so [REDACTED], that when she [REDACTED], she [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. -- FBI

  21. So it begins on DHS Steps In As Regulator for Medical Device Security · · Score: 1

    The slow, Hooverite acquisition of power. Once they have enough dirt on current legislators and CEOs gleaned from their vile activities, they will be unstoppable.

  22. So... on US Educational Scores Not So Abysmal · · Score: 1

    So only count the white kids, Mr. Birch?

  23. Mexico on A Humanoid Robot Named "Baxter" Could Revive US Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Actually, this trend may hurt Mexico far worse - especially if it becomes significant in the agricultural and meat packing industries (the sectors of jobs that even long-term unemployed US citizens feel are beneath them). This might be just as destabilizing as the idiotic War on Drugs (TM).

  24. Exactly on We The People Petition Signature Requirement Bumped To 100,000 · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is about the joke petitions but about the speed of getting 25000 signatories for the removal of publicity hound Carmen Ortiz because of her part in Aaron Swartz's suicide. She's part of The Establishment, they want to keep her so it is far better to raise the bar than address a perceived problem.

    This is EXACTLY the reason they raised the threshold. Murderous copyrat bastards.

  25. Daniel Plainbot on Curiosity Finds Evidence of Ancient Surface Water · · Score: 2

    If there's water, there's oil. I DRINK YOUR MARS SHAKE.