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  1. Re:Hey, I Needed Negative Mass for my Alcubierre.. on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself. Nevermind that's KF drives. I'm confusing myself, heh.

  2. Re:Hey, I Needed Negative Mass for my Alcubierre.. on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Random trivia fact: This is the core technology that the entire Mechwarrior / Battletech universe relies upon.

  3. I love my Vive as well, but my understanding is that kids under 6 should not be using it because of how bright the screens are.

  4. Re:A problem with an easy solution on Uber Driver Kills His Passenger (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Same for me. It's simply the convenience. I can get an Uber driver to pick me up from anywhere, even a street corner, even without knowing where I actually am, other than phone GPS, within a few minutes. Last time I called a taxi, I had to walk half a mile to a location I could describe (nearest restaurant), ask them for a taxi service I could call that would pick me up there, called. Was told I had to wait an hour. Waited an hour, and called again, and they said they didn't know I was waiting and had to wait another hour. Driver finally picked me up in a barely running mini-van, and was surly that my destination was far away from his normal routes. Outside of New York City, I've used Uber exclusively since.

  5. Re: I don't get it on Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    They can leave full fossils, it's just uncommon. example: https://www.scientificamerican...

  6. Ugh, sorry. It cut my stuff out for some reason. It's only allowed/safe at around 20ft of depth or less. Deeper than that do very bad things to you very quickly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  7. At pressure, pure oxygen is toxic, which is likely what he was referring to. Scuba divers regularly use pure oxygen to help offgas CO2 during decompression, however, this is only allowed/safe at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:Jobs for coal miners on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    First, no government would let its own satellite get modified by another entity.

    Much like any of their other computers. Especially not military computers. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... https://www.sans.edu/cyber-res...

  9. Re:Fahrenheit? on NASA's Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet (scienmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes perfect sense. Water freezes at 32, and boils at 212. There is 180 degree difference between boiling and freezing, just like there is a 180 degree difference between North and South.

  10. Re:Americans writing about Internet == Funny on Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I would invite you to do a quick google image search for "Cell coverage in canada" and "cell coverage in australia" and "cell coverage in the united states". Do the same for "population density". Canada's north is mostly empty. Australia's interior is the same. The US has people basically everywhere except a few small locations because most of the US is habitable land. Per-capita they may be less dense than the US, but their actual populations tend to be clustered making the statistics misleading. The US has a lot more people that are spread out a lot more. The US really is harder to provide land-based infrastructure for people in these rural areas, but at least for cell coverage, they are arguably doing better for providing access in rural areas than either of your examples.

  11. Re:Reimbursement on Getting NASA To Comply With Simple FOIA Requests Is a Nightmare (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    At least in my area, this is available. http://chart.maryland.gov/map/ Allows you look at all the traffic cameras live. I do not agree however, that all data should be public. For example, the government has access to people's fingerprints. Allowing public access to that data would make it quite easy to frame whoever you wanted for a crime.

  12. Re:The watered sprinkler on Navy Unveils First Active Laser Weapon In Persian Gulf (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Water can take away a lot of heat fast. It's heavy and bulky but it can be stored in skin tanks on the wings so it ready to go when needed. Under pressure it would flow out any hole made by the laser and remove the heat quite fast.

    If water is "heavy and bulky" and needs a pressure container, which is also heavy and bulky, I question how useful of a defense system this is on what is supposed to be a light-weight fast-moving flying object.

  13. You can just throw money at poverty and at least thereby improve the people's lot.

    The number of lottery winners that end up going bankrupt seems to be a strong counter-argument to this.

  14. Pretty sure it was more than that, seeing as it was, and still is, legal to also own artillery (cannons). You see them all the time at really old homes, though they're usually painted over to keep from rusting, and are more like statues now. There are some still-in-use privately owned ones by clubs.

  15. Re:I'm curious on PostgreSQL 9.5 Does UPSERT Right (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    MERGE is absolutely atomic. It either entirely fails or entirely succeeds.

    That's not what atomicity means.

    Actually it's exactly what atomicity means in this context of a database transaction. In an atomic transaction, a series of database operations either all occur, or nothing occurs. You may be confusing it with an 'atomic operation' in programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Re:Ejected Star on The Mystery of the Naked Black Hole (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    "rouge" black holes

    Are they rouge because of red-shift? Those rogues.

  17. Re:Email clients are the weakest link on Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years (pcisecuritystandards.org) · · Score: 1

    I have the same issue, except mine was with advertisers and the API. Disabling TLS1.0 for the site disables it everywhere since they all go through the same load balancers. Suddenly a bunch of the advertisers that use the API couldn't use it anymore because their Java implementations were so old, it didn't support anything newer. I'm sad that PCI moved it back, because it means, once again, the business will force the deadline back, and I'll have to submit the stupid trustwave things every 3 months saying that nothing has changed.

  18. Re:flawed "research" on Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    30 mA will light most modern LEDs screaming bright. Or very bright, at least.

    I have two Nests, and the LEDs on them _are_ super bright. Annoyingly so actually.

  19. Re:The kilogram is based on a chunk of metal? on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Fahrenheit is the superior measurement. Water boils at 212. It freezes at 32. There is a 180 degrees of difference there, just like there is 180 degrees of difference between North and South. Checkmate.

  20. Re:You americans... on Defense Distributed Sues State Department Over 3-D Gun Censorship · · Score: 1

    So it looks like you're agreeing with him that Gun Control is bad?

  21. Re:Government gun regulation is useless on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Correct, quite selective use. Such as including suicides in your numbers and extrapolating that to likelihood of 'being killed', Or comparing the raw number of gun homicides to a country with heavy gun control without taking into consideration the rest of the crime rate, which in the UK is very close to the US. School shootings are quite rare statistically and are significantly blown out of proportion as a health concern. The effort/money spent on 'dealing' with them would be better spent reminding parents to lock up the cleaning products under their sinks.

  22. Re:Government gun regulation is useless on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Except that isn't true. http://www.frontpagemag.com/20... The US just has a lot more people, so you hear about it more due to the Internet.

  23. Re:Jesus isn't that influential on Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals the Most Influential People In History · · Score: 1

    given that Muslims make up the single largest religious majority on Earth

    Not according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

  24. Re:Disagreement is only over the "soul" ... on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 1

    The slight flaw in your argument is that "Adam" and "Eve" lived 20,000 years apart and there is no evidence that either was created from dust by God.

    According to the bible, the most recent female common descendant would be Eve from "Adam and Eve". The most recent male common descendant would actually be Noah since the only people on the ark were him, his sons, and their wives. Everyone else drowned in the flood. Since Mitochondrial Eve (actual Eve) is older than Mitochondrial Adam (Noah) this actually fits the biblical account/ordering.

  25. Re:Hmm... on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    There was a DC metro crash with a few fatalities last month actually. http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/23/washington.metro.crash/index.html