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  1. Re:Probably not happening on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Anything can work on the ground. It just has to me fooled into thinking it's in the air. To figure out how the weight on wheels switch works, you don't look at the computer, you look at the weight on wheels switch. It probably uses a commercially available microcontroller. Just crack it open and read the code. Worst case, connect it to your own bus controller and read every possible number of words from every possible location of every possible remote terminal. Actuate the switch and read everything again and look for the bit that changes. Ditto for the radar, spam writes at it until the popcorn explodes. For the TFR, disable the transmitter and feed synthetic signals into the receiver. You can tell it anything you want.

  2. Re:How Silly on US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Maybe next time the US will think twice... on Iranian Military Says It's Copying US Drone · · Score: 1

    Nah, they'll keep poking the weak kids and beat the shit out of them if they try to fight back.

  4. Re:Why is that paper even still in business? on US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors · · Score: 1
  5. Re:How Silly on US Journalists Targeted By Pentagon Propaganda Contractors · · Score: 2

    Palin specified that she was referring to Section 1233 of bill HR 3200 which would have paid physicians for providing voluntary counseling to Medicare patients about living wills, advance directives, and end-of-life care options.

    The "death panel" is a doctor asking you if you really want to spend your last 2 weeks on life support drifting in and out of consciousness in extreme pain and too full of morphine to think, which is the default option if you don't specify otherwise.

  6. Re:Chronic Depression, type 1 diabetes, on Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment · · Score: 1

    Glad to know I should be sterilized along with my wife, and my existing children should be killed to make sure I don't pollute the gene pool with my depression. Helpful.

    Glad to know you're completely batshit insane to get that from

    Left to nature, contra-survival traits like these weed themselves out in any population.

  7. Re:Chronic Depression, type 1 diabetes, on Computer Game Designed To Treat Depression As Effective As Traditional Treatment · · Score: 1

    Read your own comment and tell me again who's the douche.

  8. Re:Expensive blackberries on UT Dallas Professor Captures the Mobile Interactions of 175 Texas Teens · · Score: 1

    At this point, I'm hoping the sane people in the US will move away and the crazies will "how do I supported modern society?" themselves to death.

  9. Re:No undesirable emissions? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    This thing doesn't produce heat. It absorbs heat.

  10. Re:Sustainable? Not really. on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article assumes you went to high school and know basic chemistry. The zinc vapour reacts with water to produce hydrogen gas and zinc oxide.

  11. Re:Man on MIT Wants You To Print Your Own Paper Robots · · Score: 2

    No more Disabilities in 50 years

    If you limited it to physical disabilities and mostly in first world countries, I could see that. Even if you still consider someone with say, a permanently attached prosthetic arm which is equal to or greater than a human one by any conceivable metric still "disabled," 50 years is in the realm of just cloning a new one and grafting it on.

  12. Re:so... on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    What I am denying is that the amount of zinc lost will be anything but negligible compared to other costs. I am denying that the amount of zinc mined for this purpose will even register compared to what we already use. Even if you went completely off your rocker and banned any kind of emission of CO2, you can produce zinc oxide without carbon simply by burning the ore.

  13. Re:Byproduct of hydrogen combustion on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    about 14 million tonnes of water evaporate from the oceans every second. I don't think we're going to make that much of a difference.

  14. Re:so... on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    You have no idea how this works do you?

  15. Re:Darn that dirty hydrogen on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    It's vague because they don't know. That's why they're testing it.

  16. Re:And what about that ZnO? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    The zinc is a one time cost. The reactor uses zinc oxide to create hydrogen out of sunlight the same way a refinery uses steel to create gasoline from oil.

  17. Re:is this useful? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Is this hydrogen plant really any better than just creating electricity?

    Very much no. This is for people who want hydrogen, not electricity.

  18. Re:How down-scalable is it? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 0

    If you bothered to read the headline, you would notice that this device uses sunlight to generate hydrogen, so yes, this is a fuel "source."

  19. Re:How down-scalable is it? on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    The transmission losses are trivial compared to the gains brought by economies of scale. Also, this is for generating hydrogen. Converting it to electricity at the same place or even in a non moving generator completely defeats the purpose.

  20. Re:so... on Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    The zinc vapour reacts with water producing zinc oxide and hydrogen gas.

  21. Re:Anyone named Kennedy? on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    1000 suns? What are we doing trying to put wind power there?

  22. Re:Reality check on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    Your ugliness is lowering my property values. No one will move in next to someone so ugly. I demand that you get corrective surgery so that your face isn't so hideous people want to gouge out their eyes.

  23. Re:There's always a downside on Canadians Protest Wind Turbines · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Hydrogen centralizes the pollution for remediat on The Mercedes-Benz 'Cloaking Device' · · Score: 1

    A half charged battery? Sure. You must be really short if you can't afford another $5 for a full one though.

  25. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 1

    Lets see if I can explain this to you, dipshit:

    create iso: drag and drop contents of cd. Select iso option.
    mount iso: double click on it.