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  1. Re:Weight concern? on First Human-Powered Ornithopter · · Score: 1

    The human body is much more powerful pushing with the legs / pulling with the arms.Given it looks like the "push" pulls the wingtips towards the ground and airframe weight / air flow pulls the wingtips back up, the "pull" would only serve to increase weight (additional linkage, or linkage capable of tension and compression) with little gain in power. However, I fail to see how a rowing machine would capture much energy on the reverse stroke comparative to the normal power stroke.

  2. Re:ohhh on In Canada, Criminal Libel Charges Laid For Criticizing Police · · Score: 1

    The talking and compromising comes in after the angry sex. You've both got enough hormones running through you to calm you down and allow you to think of the other's best interest to some extent.

  3. Re:I don't know about the rest of you on Security a Concern As HTML5 Advances · · Score: 1

    No kidding. I am usually not allowed to implement in a technology is obsolete...er, "well supported."

  4. Re:Nice car on Meet the Virginia-Built 110MPG X-Prize Car · · Score: 1

    Hiring a bunch of unemployed (aka non-unionized) former factory workers is getting easier and easier these days.

  5. Re:Aptitude on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Madoff didn't kill the man. Madoff tanked the man's life savings and caused the man's depression, but the man killed himself. He gave up.

  6. Re:Finally on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    Unless you plan on bringing the whole star home (fun for everyone when it absorbs Earth), the force of gravity on the chip you bring back will be lessened significantly once it leaves the influence of the star.

  7. Re:Statistically significant on Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time · · Score: 1

    My question is, do youtube videos embedded in Facebook count towards, one, the other, or both?

  8. Re:Right, because Google is *instant* now. on Facebook Surpasses Google For Users' Online Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Imagining Uber Hot Chick*

    *Interrupted by foggy window hovering right-of-center*
    ==Ads by Google==
    + _Prescription Drugs Cheap_
      Viagra and Cialis straight to your door
    + _Slutty Lingerie_
      Get something hot for her to wear tonight
    + _Toys, Toys, Toys_
      Vanilla not cutting it? Have more fun with toys

    Yup, just how I want my dreams. Hot and practical.

  9. Re:replace an $80 textbook with a $400 iPad, wow!! on School Swaps Math Textbooks For iPads · · Score: 1

    If you think an iPad will withstand even 4 years of the abuse textbooks go through, you're crazy. If I assume that they replace the textbooks every year (they don't) and assume the iPad can last 5 years (they won't), then they will break even if the publishers don't charge for electronic updates (they will).

  10. Re:This is the end of unlimited unmetered bandwidt on Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients · · Score: 0

    You're thinking economies of scale, but as a finite resource increased bandwidth usage = increased demand. Increased demand = increased price.

  11. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But proving you've been discriminated against by age is difficult, at best. "The candidate we hired had skills more relevant to our business needs and displayed an attitude that meshed better with our company culture."

  12. Re:Le sigh on FCC Fights To Maintain Indecency Policy · · Score: 1

    Most places, yes, but not all by a long shot.

  13. Re:Northrup Grumman on State of Virginia Technology Centers Down · · Score: 1

    B2 Bomber?

  14. Re:"Hard to see flames" on Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport · · Score: 2, Informative

    Infrared goggles, not amplified light goggles. Both can be considered "night vision" as they allow vision in low-light situations.

  15. Re:Power from the people on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you can articulate valid reason, you may detain and transport criminals to the police station and/or jail. The problem is you personally take 100% responsibility for doing so and if found in the wrong, you are 100% liable for wrongful arrest, kidnapping, unlawful detainment, etc.

    In an emergency or witnessing a felony in progress (again, can articulate valid reason/concern), you can enter the property of someone else w/o a warrant.

    If someone is in the middle of a felony, you may taze them in most states.

    The difference between you and a police officer? A sworn officer has protections bestowed by the jurisdiction. The jurisdiction has trained them and decided to take on the liability of the officer, in most cases, by authorizing them to act on behalf of the jurisdiction and people within. If you don't mind taking on personal responsibility and liability for everything, you are well within your rights to do most things the cops do EXCEPT break laws in non-emergency situations (since sworn officers are specifically exempt from some laws such as speeding).

  16. So Then... on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can walk through the parking lot at the police station and attach GPS transmitters to all the squad cars and publish that information to the internet because they have no expectation of privacy, right?

  17. Re:convenient but useless on Portal On the Booklist At Wabash College · · Score: 1

    Cube Execution Officer?

  18. Re:Why? on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    Actually, many cell phones use assisted GPS. They can receive a normal GPS signal for rough positioning, but also use cell-based GPS services to increase accuracy and for situations where a clear view of the sky is not available (not enough birds available). The GPS works just fine without a network.

  19. Re:Any objections? on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 1

    If you can get an amendment passed that limits all offices except supreme court judges to a maximum of 2 terms, it would be very difficult to remove it afterward. It's much easier to add laws than remove them. Doubly so for amendments to the Constitution.

  20. Re:Any objections? on Senate Approves the ______Act Of____ · · Score: 1

    The Tea Party was established as a call to fiscal responsibility (refusing to pay more tax because the tax we do pay is misused), independent of party but definitely spurred on by Obama's explosive increase of the federal deficit. They were financially conservative by the definition of the word. Unfortunately, once they started picking up steam against the current party's spending, many Republicans joined the party with the mantra of anti-Democrat and outnumbered / overtook the party. You confuse original party members with the Republicans that invaded.

  21. Play for free? on NAMCO Takes Down Student Pac-man Project · · Score: 4, Insightful
  22. Re:Not all private on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I was going to post this myself. At least some small portion of the citizenry still gets it.

  23. Re:And yet- on What's Wrong With the American University System · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I wonder... maybe this is to blame?

  24. Re:It's Obvious on Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support · · Score: 3, Funny

    M maybe, but even looking at the video still of her at the desk there's nothing ILF about that.

  25. Re:global warming, so what? on Global Warming 'Undeniable,' Report Says · · Score: 1

    Humans get upset about changing the status quo. And ideal temp for what exactly? You must define what ideal first. If temps go up it's less than ideal for penguins, polar bears, and other ice dependent animals. However, that same change is very ideal for animals and plants in topical climates because said plants (and thus the animals' environment) will tend to spread faster in those conditions.