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  1. Re:Comparable? on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. It's the same order of magnitude. Yes, that's comparable.
    2. The AC above you actually gives you the exact reason it's better than that. A gasoline internal combustion engine will be 20%-35% efficient at translating that 47.2 MJ to rotary motion of the wheels. A lithium air powered electric motor, however, is 80%-90% efficient. So you're looking at 9.4-16.5 MJ at the transmission versus 7.2-8.1 MJ at the wheels. Assuming a 95% efficiency drivetrain from flywheel to wheels that gas power goes down to 8.9-15.7 MJ. Yeah, that's pretty comparable. Of course, gasoline engines are over 100 years old and lithium-air battery systems less than a decade old, so I think there's some room for improvement there.

  2. Re:Wait, hang on on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 1

    Or that's just what he /wants/ you to think. Crazy like a crazy fox, they are.

  3. Re:Wait, hang on on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in NK if you compare the US to NK you get put against the wall for implying any other nation could measure up to the greatness created by Great Leader and Dear Leader.

  4. Re:Fantasy on Physicists Detect Elusive Orbiton By "Splitting" Electron · · Score: 1

    Problem is that he agrees that the "me" in that statement /would/ be the most important part.

  5. Re:Obama... on Asian Call Center Workers Trained With US Tax Dollars · · Score: 3, Funny

    Go Ron Paul!

  6. Re:Aha! on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Maybe he used a teletype service?

  7. Re:Assholes on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    doesn't seem like it should be copyrighted

    Works subject to copyright law: "Pantomimes and choreographic works"

  8. Re:The actual claim seems a bit dodgy on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    Monetary loss and injury to business: If a thousand magicians do this trick it's no longer as interesting to watch. If it's no longer as interesting to watch you're less likely to buy tickets to a show featuring Teller performing what was once a signature trick of his.

    Injury to reputation: If he had 500 unique and exclusive tricks but now only has 499 he is a step lesser than he was before.

  9. Re:System Operator arrested on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    Wow. That's absurd. That's beyond absurd. That's Monty Python level absurdity. I can see it now, a thief informing a cop that he just stole everything from a cop and the cop going off to fine the car's owner.

    I can't wait until a thief unlocks a car, steals everything in it, then leaves it unlocked for the owner to later be fined. I guess that means it's effectively illegal to have broken locks on your car or to lose your door key for older cars that have separate door and ignition keys.

    What is going on here. I don't get it. This is pretty much just victim blaming.

  10. Re:Greentards on Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Critique Driven By Bogus Numbers · · Score: 1

    Meh. Hanlon's razor is good enough to describe it. No need for a false flag operation.

  11. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 2

    Even real cops don't know all of the laws all of the time.

    But if you peacefully request that they inform you what law you're violating there's a non-trivial chance they'll radio their sergeant to look it up for you.

  12. Re:This man is a hero. on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    Or want to interview across the country. What's that? Take 7 days off so that you can drive, all unpaid from your shitty job to get a chance at a better life in the land of opportunity? UNAMERICAN.

  13. Re:Jury Nullification on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 2

    Except that, of course, jury nullification only works if you get a clueful jury member who actually wants to do the right thing instead of believing the judge when he says: "Your only job is to determine if this man did or did not expose himself to the public in a public place."

  14. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except he'll be filtered by HR, not by a clueful interviewer.

  15. Re:Free? on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Corporations are a person my friend..." -- Misunderstanding of Mitt Romney.

    Anyone who bothered to look into the context of his statement would understand he clearly meant that corporations are made up of many persons (sometimes referred to as "people") and that each individual in the corporation is taxed on his own.

  16. Re:Don't cry for the N-Industry just yet.. on Japan To Be Without Nuclear Power After May 5 · · Score: 1

    Of course not. Accidents with respect to coal power production only kill those dirty coal miners or cause meaningless towns far off in coalsville to become uninhabitable. The fact that they spew pollution, including radioactive material uncontrolled, doesn't matter because it's not /radioactive/. Oh, wait...

  17. Re:from the who's-to-blame dept. on Stuxnet Allegedly Loaded By Iranian Double Agents · · Score: 2, Insightful

    TFS doesn't outright say it but TFA is pretty clear -- the /vector/ was an Iranian. The /source/ was Israel. This isn't some attempt to pull wool over your eyes, dude. Chill.

  18. Re:I guess.. on Nest Labs Calls Honeywell Lawsuit 'Worse Than Patent Troll' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    YEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

  19. Re:No on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 1

    Or even more braindead, just disgruntledpenguins.com and have that redirect to the detected platform subdomain with a chooser if it can't be determined which you belong on. (And a chooser on each page to get to the other one, of course.)

  20. Re:Tasty aliens... on Scientists Study Trajectories of Life-Bearing Earth Meteorites · · Score: 2

    To Serve Man, anyone?

  21. Re:A chain is only as strong as... on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Right, because I'm sure subversiveantigovernmenttypes.com is going to just hand over their records to the FBI and CIA.

  22. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Yeah, unlawful imprisonment is in no way related to any of the bill of rights or Constitutional Law. It's more closely related to kidnapping charges -- you're not allowed to make someone go somewhere or do something without their consent.

  23. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    If you read the 14th Amendment you'll realize that it says that each state must enact laws to ensure equal protection under the law. The amendment is imposing a requirement upon the states, not upon private parties.

  24. Re:What if on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2

    I've said it before and apparently I'll say it again. This is how the interview would go:

    HR Person: "Please provide your login credentials for Facebook."
    Interviewee: "I don't use Facebook."
    HR Person: "Right. 'Refused to provide Facebook login credentials.'"

    Result: Circular file.

  25. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because private entities aren't required to abide by the Constitution since the Constitution sets the framework for government.