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  1. Raid ? unnecessary voilence ? on Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks · · Score: 1

    - breaking into the house
    - weapon trained
    - bruises, cuts

    Dammit he is not a terrorist suspect !

    Why not watch wait and catch ?
    - Home owner leaves house for his job
    - intercept him
    - shakle/arrest him - with a squad team in the background
    - cease the computers

    -> no voilence and wounds necessary if the suspect corporates

  2. The judaen peoples front - suicide squad ;) on SpaceX Aims To Put Man On Mars In 10-20 Years · · Score: 1
  3. Re:I rarely see this cruft on Google Tweaks Algorithm; EHow Traffic Plummets · · Score: 1

    Yes I think you are right,

    But using advanced googling should not be that tedious. I just wish for a google-cookie DO-NOT-EVER-SHOWN-THAT-SITES-AGAIN,
    I don't want to exclude them manually each by each but by clicking the "ERADICATE" link just besides the "chached" link, if google
    would analyse those clicks their algorithm would also have a certian amount of NI (native intelligence).

  4. Re:Wind turbines? Insecure! Let's abolish them! on Hacker Claims He Broke Into Wind Turbine Systems · · Score: 1

    Yes because a wind turbine going havoc causes the public order to collapse, instead of a nice and silent nuclear reactor meltdown.

  5. Here is another reason on Medicines Lose Effectiveness In Space · · Score: 1

    - highly sophisticated filtering systems | CO2 recylcing | UV-light ( for killing germs ) | water treatment ( preventing water from getting brackish)
    by this -> a decline or thinning out of the variaty of germs

    recent research indicates that having a cleaned/near sterile living area makes people more susceptible to allergy, perhaps similar effects happen could happen
    in space also ..

    - biological experiments conducted in space ( bacterial cultures )

  6. Re:OK folks, time to jump ship on Firefox 5 Details: Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    Well Google has Chrome and ChromeOS, Mozilla has FirefoxOS with Version 5, Browser and Operating System All-in-One

    Think of Just a Browser as your interface to your computer ..

    http://foxos.desktop.resolutionres_id/"1080p"&output=DisplayPort&action=change
    http://foxos.filesystem.recycleactionrestorefile/"reallydirty_porn_I_tried_to_hide_from_my_girlfriend.jpg"

    http-get blah security .. who cares Mozilla of course not.

    The "Sharing, Home Tab, PDF Viewer " sounds to me like a feature list of some Linux Distros

  7. Solution: Why Chinese Parts.. (it's north korea) on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    I guess they got help and supply from north korea in exchange for hard money == $$ , these subs can also be used to circumvent the international embargo, and they are not that expensive than their real minisubs. Think about it China is North Koreas biggest trading partner and needs foreign currency to survive .. and NK can make trades through china as a middleman. NK also tried to deliver "things" to Iran, the transport ship was chased by U.S. vessels NK even threaten SK+US with escalating war even to a nuclear level.

    And NK has skilled engineers, from intercontinental rockets to nuclear fission bombs/reactors, up to NK built mini subs.

    I think the drug bosses should open source the design of the vessel ;)

  8. Re:Sounds like my girlfriend on RSA Says SecurID Hack Based On Phishing With Flash 0-Day · · Score: 2

    Good Lord, do you mean she is pregnant !? You should buy better condoms, so the Trojan doesn't break.

    btw. she is ;)

  9. Re:DHS on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    - it's there
    - it has power
    - all the tools .. and it's under the control of the government

    (same reason applies to why Gadafi uses lybias military for internal slaughter rather than external protection)

  10. Re:What does $1/W mean? on Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators · · Score: 1

    In the wind industry that way we calculate the costs per installed Watt of rated power, I think it's the same here

    3,6MW would equal to 3,6 Million $

  11. Re:Domestic oil is an alternative on Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    Well you might think, that affordable energy is the best way to escape the current recession of the US you might be right on a short term. But as economy rises in the US it will fuel the economy in some directly affected countries (example: China) the need for oil in consequence will increase so will the prices. And China has over the last decade also secured oil longterm import contracts from some african countries.

    So the midterm effects of such an affordable energy strategy, come out as where we are now. Because the US had since the oil price "crash" very cheap energy at it's hand, and was even on the verge of leaving recession behind. But since energy prices rise this is not for sure anymore.

    This is also a very interesting system when US economy boosts -> energy consumption will -> higher prices, China's economy boosts -> energy consumption will -> higher prices.

    It's history repeating itself, and the lesser the US will lower their dependency on forreign or restricted energy sources the greater their economic dependency on the energy prices or availability will be.

    Even if you have "vast" energy reserves availible, you will get into an economic problem, tar sands are expensive to extract, at the moment it is a small loss or a zero benefit situation for the companies. Using natural gas you need the right amount of power plants to produce enough energy with them, and even vast reserves are going to be depleted when they are vastly used. Not thinking about planning and construction times for those plants

    conclusion: insulate & devellop alternatives & make it fast because the next economic downturn is on the rise.

  12. D-Mags are getting pirated ! So "they" want it .. on 'Hulu For Magazines' Relies On Users' Data · · Score: 1

    The question de-unanswered itself.

  13. It's useless, it's dangerous, it's not wireless! on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    A wide range WLAN-NAS would be a better dead drop.

  14. Re:What????? on Radioactive Boar On the Rise In Germany · · Score: 1

    The radioactive fallout from "Tschernobyl" went down in several european countries. So in the first it's not a purely german problem, but we might have strikter rules for certain radioactivity levels.
    The radioactive isotopes are the problem as they stay active due to their rate of radioactive decay ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay ). And those isotopes were thought to be taken deeper into the earth through rain. But boars have an interesting habbit .. they shovel into earthy grounds with their nose.

    The fallout isotopes are still there with a high level radioactivity plus you have a species that hunts for food at a certain depth. It seems that the isotopes wandering deeper into the earth now just managed to reach the right depth for boars. That's an explanation for the rise.

    The most prevalent isotope found is Cs-137 which acording to wiki has t-half of 30,17 years. So the back of the envelope shot says at the moment of now not even half of the Cs-137 ejected in 1986 has decayed yet to other also possible radiactive elements. Cs-137 emits electrons (or beta minus radiation) shielding is very easy even a piece of paper blocks most radiation but Cs-137 will be used from the human body as it shows similar chemical reactions like potassium so this isotope will be a long life friend, t1/2 = 30 years but the best thing is that cs137 decays to Ba-137 with a t1/2 of 2 minutes, and Ba-137 in this configuration is a gamma-radiator, it's like a double punch.

    In "Tschernobyl" the amount of radioactive material was much higher than what was emitted during the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombing, but it would be interesting to correlate the ejected material with above ground nuclear tests ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_tests )

  15. Fully Powered CFD ? Try Blade Element Momentum ! on Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? · · Score: 1

    Well a CFD-System for just verifing wind tunnel tests might be a bit too much, but verifying lift and drag for such airfoils is possible.

    This is based on my experience in the wind industry, so this means I'm refering to blades which consists of many airfoils attached to a rotor but the basic principles remain the same.

    When dealing with windturbine aerodynamic simulations Aerodyn[3] implements the BEM[1] but BEM is based on MT[2] and can caculate Lift/Drag for Airfoils due to a certain wind either constant or
    turbulent. Turbulent wind can be generated by Turbsim[5].

    And if you don't want to stop there, with FAST [4] you get an "easy" design code for load caculations on a simplified turbine model,
    with example simulation models like the NREL 5MW-Offshore Turbine.

    In the wind industry CFD will not be used for caculating aerodynamic loads acting on the rotor and drive train, we use reduced theories like BEM[1] (which exists in various even spiced up versions, for things like dynamic stall, tower drag, tower shadow etc..)

    CFD is taken into account when the blade design is going to be tuned, for example finding vortices which consume kinetic energy and generate certain unwanted noise levels.

    And by the way all NREL-Tools are OSS.

    Draw back -> you can't "see" the vortices unless using CFD.

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_element_theory
    [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_theory
    [3] http://wind.nrel.gov/designcodes/simulators/aerodyn/
    [4] http://wind.nrel.gov/designcodes/simulators/fast/
    [5] http://wind.nrel.gov/designcodes/preprocessors/turbsim/

  16. Re:Umm... on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    If I were from China and avid to gain such a prototype, I would do nearly everything to get my fingers on this ..

    Hey and it's in the pacfic so it's nearly in China's backyard!

    Or is it a fake mission ?
    If I were from US I would do everything to get my bitter rival to analyse a piece of pure ol' rocket powered crap.

    The lock on their face ? hillariously, priceless.

  17. Firefox is lacking innovation & also control on Firefox Is Lagging Behind, Its Co-Founder Says · · Score: 1

    Yet the performance issues are just one side of the coin.

    FF's inability to react to a user demand for easily obfuscating the Useragent or even the HTTP_ACCEPT have led to the panopticlick.eff.org problem.
    Leading to the urge to use 3rd party plugins like noscript/adblock or even privoxy.

    Firefox is mostly doing innovation, where it's unnecessary, like the mouse-hover changing skins under Win7. But where is the opera-like visited-closed-sites-recycle-button ?

    From my point of view what FF lacks is also a configuration menu within the browser status bar, not the one presented to you atm through extras->options/settings why not scraping extras ->
    and just putting up a settings-menu ?

    What's missing:

    - behaviour restrictions on java script (don't give me the 5 somethings toogles you can uncheck)
        - including the ability to prevent certain javascript from executing (Flying javascript windows block)
    - bevhaviour restrictions for redirections
    - behaviour restrictions on user agent (native)
    - behaviour restrictions on plugins (much better) (not that overruled by microsoft .net -> can only get rid of me through regedt32 crap, or JQS - Java Quick Start(*))
    - behaviour restrictions of plugins on a site-per-site base including java script/plugins/cookies
        this even goes so far to "easily" restrict the plugin search path, for example mediaplayer/drm are loaded from the c:\programs\media play ..\plugins path you can only disable them,
        but removing those entries directly from the plugin-list with two clicks is not possible

    - access-restrictions onto domains/ips blocked for navigation (preventing the Koobfacegang) - manually and automaticly(phishing url check/privacy concern)
    - better cookie management, accept cookies on default (save them temporarly for only lasting one session) - but reading restricted - user has to activate the needed onces
    - export these sitespecific access restrictions+bookmarks into a container file and making it easily distributable for network admins (or just easy to backup)

    But these things can all be added through plugins, but why not implement them direct into the browser ?

    (*) From my point of view disabling JQS on a machine with a frequent use of java programs isn't impacting the performance so much (I tried it both and I can't really feel the difference) it's one thing less which eats memory and does nothing most of the time it's started as a windows service.

  18. Re:Where's Sarah Palin on Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Below the Gulf's Surface · · Score: 1

    At the moment of now she's 5000 ft underwater at the center of the well, she will be used as the nuclear option.

  19. Re:You might be interested in... on Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, thanks for this .. it's so important like the news that Richard Stallman can sometimes get mixed up with a homeless man.
    Or that the main character from Torchwood is openly and 110 percent pure gay.

    It's like .. fox news, nobody is interested in sex, but everybody talks about it.

    Thank you for your "public service".

  20. Re:VRML! on NIST Releases Updated Handbook of Math Functions · · Score: 1

    1.) sluggish plugins
    2.) slow rendering / in '97
    3.) not widely known

    4.) it was a good idea .. do you really expect good ideas to succeed ?

  21. Re:So what? on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    But if you can program in Pascal you will fairly easy learn FORTRAN which is still used to date mostly in HPC.

  22. Some may call it a small thermonuclear reactor .. on North Korea Announces Achieving Nuclear Fusion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I call it H-BOMB

  23. He, was from Europe/ non UK ! on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 3, Informative

    because in central EU(let me speak for Germany) - 10^6 is a "Million" you would say million (we all agree) - 10^9 is a "Milliarde" you would say billion - 10^12 is a "Billion" you would say trillion We also have a trillion but if our state debt would be measured in trillions of euros, we all would have "fun" like in the 1930s. Ok this is totally missing logic, he just had fat fingers.

  24. Re:Read the Popular Mechanics article on Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But such a nice female (mech. eng.) I have only seen in the "construction" department :D

  25. Re:Read the Popular Mechanics article on Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Perhaps there are many mech. engineers on /.

    Beeing a mech. eng. in the wind power industry is not bad at all, you have to do much of your work with a computer and Excel/VBA ;)

    ps.
    I for myself am one off them :)