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  1. Re:Idiot on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 2

    A cup in the US is 1/16 gallon = 1/4 quart = 1/ pint = 8 oz. = 237ml.

    Though Canada uses a "metric" cup, 250ml.

  2. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 2

    Yeah, or all of Canada in the 70's. It's impossible. Give up now.

  3. Re:Woo hoo!! on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    It's flickering. When you move, the persistence of vision breaks down and the flickering becomes more obvious.

  4. Re:So in the future ... on The UPS Store Will 3-D Print Stuff For You · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really, injection molding is always going to be cheaper for mass produced stuff, shipping inclusive.

    Or do you think there will be a day you can 3D print a plastic chair that can support a person for $5?

  5. Re:It's called redundancy on SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    Wake me up when it prints the motors, belts, and electronics.

  6. Re: This is supposed to be the *WAY* they do their on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 0

    The education department did a fine job. That's why at least half of americans call anything they don't like 'socialism', and assume it is bad thing.

    The problem with obamacare is it isn't socialist enough. The US is too backward to cut out all the insurance crooks, and move to a single payer system. So instead you get forced payment to private companies. How very socialist.

  7. Re:This is supposed to be the *WAY* they do their on Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout · · Score: 2

    Dearborn is supposedly the most Arab and muslim 'city' in the US (pop 100k, not much of a city). It's only 40% arab, and some percent of that group are Lebanese Christians (the earliest Arab immigrants to the area). Suppose there are some non-arab muslims though. I can't seem to find decent religious demographics in a quick search.

    Canada has been sending a few anglo islam converts to go die in arabia lately. I have no idea what would inspire someone who grew up in Calgary or Winnipeg and got a proper first world education to go martyr themselves for Allah in the third world, but nonetheless it does happen on occasion. The amount is so minuscule it's lost in the noise though.

    I suppose the same deal happens in the US on occasion.

  8. Re:Punch cards on Data Archiving Standards Need To Be Future-Proofed · · Score: 2

    stamped / punched stainless steel sheets would probably be about the best option, if you wan't something to really stick around. Less brittle than rock carvings too.

  9. Re: And they wonder why I block ads... on Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that had something to do with Chrome being made by an advertising company. i.e. it was never a technical restriction, but an imposed one.

    Though some searching makes it look like this is no longer the case.

  10. Re:That's government spending for you.. on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    General dynamics was around since 1900, and obtained Convair and Canadair in the 50's, so I don't think "some upstart" is really apt.

    (it was called "electric boat" before then, as it mostly made subs (which they still make))

  11. Re:Well, if you're going to push... on Court Rules the "Google" Trademark Isn't Generic · · Score: 1

    Bayer still owns 'aspirin' in Canada, for what it's worth.

  12. Re:I don't get it on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 0

    The US had just installed nukes in Turkey. It seems entirely reasonable for the USSR to put them in Cuba and retain MAD.

    But the US got all butthurt about it instead.

    In the end Kennedy and Khrushchev weren't retarded, and both sets of missiles were removed. same result in the end, MAD restored.

  13. Re:In other words....Don't look like a drug traffi on CBC Warns Canadians of "US Law Enforcement Money Extortion Program" · · Score: 0

    Were you a pirate?

  14. Re:Decisions, Decisions... on SpaceX and Boeing Battle For US Manned Spaceflight Contracts · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't the safe choice be... Soyuz?

  15. Who names those ships? on Northwest Passage Exploration Ship Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Names like HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are kind of asking to sink with all hands on deck, aren't they?

    Must be British humour or something...

  16. Re:And low-emission transport trucks, too on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Never going to happen. The energy density of kerosene is at least fifty times that of lithium cells. Even with ten fold advances in battery tech it's simply not going to be feasible.

    So even in a post oil world, we'd have to synthesize longer hydrocarbons to fly, I'd think.

  17. Re:Reall problem: German radiation phobia on Radioactive Wild Boars Still Roaming the Forests of Germany · · Score: 2

    Uranium is similar in toxicity to lead, for what it's worth, disregarding radiation and decay products and whatnot.

    I don't remember hearing anything about dumping lead on the thing? I can't see it as being worse than living within 1000mi of a smelter anyway. The smelter in sudbury puts out 150 tons of lead into the atmosphere per year. Radiation was definitely the main concern.

  18. Re:Not A SW error! on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    Bingo. If someone sets a GPS to go to the wrong location, you don't say the GPS had a embedded software problem.

    More like a failure to double check settings or something.

  19. Re:Fire on How Argonne National Lab Will Make Electric Cars Cheaper · · Score: 4, Informative

    So does Sodium. But do you notice how table salt doesn't burn in water?

    There's no lithium metal in lithium /ion/ cells. The whole lithium catching on fire thing is to do with them having a rather volatile solvent as part of the electrolyte (something similar to ether).

  20. Re:a matter of scale on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1

    Which is why they are trying to remove cars in Helsinki (LA), not in all of Finalnd (california).

    North part of Finland has much lower density than parts of CA. I'd imagine a car is even more essential there.

  21. Re:Poor material choice on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    Only modern, pressurized aircraft. Cave tech like the DC-3 are made of aluminium, have square windows, and have no problems. Even ones that have been flying for 70 years.

  22. Re:Odd material selection on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    Historically cable lacing was done with waxed cotton. Since WWII more nylon and polyester, as they wear harder and don't burn as good, don't like water, etc.

    I'd imagine NASA uses some kind of space age stuff.. polyimide or some sort of fluoropolymer, but who knows, maybe cotton has better extreme cold weather performance.

  23. Re:Who needs oil? on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 1

    We'll run out of oil long before they ever get fusion working.

  24. Re:Conduit lease on Netflix CEO On Net Neutrality: Large ISPs Are the Problem · · Score: 2

    Dream on. What do you do when someone doesn't want you pulling cable across their property? (You won't be able to get the government to force them.)

    It's besides the point really. Without government you'd be pulling the cable down a road made of mud and shit anyway.

  25. Re:Will not matter. on Selectable Ethics For Robotic Cars and the Possibility of a Robot Car Bomb · · Score: 1

    No one designs cars to do that.