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  1. Limit loans to STEM degrees. on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    The way to cut the head off the snake is to only fund degrees useful to society and let hobbyists find money for their amusements.

  2. Re:Makes no sense on Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s · · Score: 1

    They were designed to run a range of available fuels, with the most recent standard being JP-8 which also interchanges with diesel on ground vehicles. (JP-4 is better for air restarts, but went out of fashion after the Green Ramp crash at Pope AFB.)

    If you can keep it from growing bacteria (which can thrive even in diesel and standard jet fuel!), avoid corrosion and sealing problems, and get it to behave when mixed with other fuels, burning it is the "easy" part.

    Eco-friendliness is relative, and when you burn vast quantities of fuel it can be argued that switching is highly eco-friendly.

  3. Re:I want to move to Germany... on German Surveillance Trojan Spies On Fifteen Apps · · Score: 1

    "Then imagine a world where the government kicks down your door because your detected their worm and quarantined it - which makes you a person of interest."

    Then imagine that country's track record over the first forty-five years of the last century, plus the track record (yet to be fully revealed) of the Eastern half of that country, and don't forget how many players are either still alive or lived long enough to have direct contact including training with current law enforcement.

    Sleep tight.

  4. Re:And they say global warming is bad on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 2

    "There is ALWAYS an upside."

    Canada may become habitable!

    I, for one, welcome the annexation of our Northern Province.

  5. Re:Yay! It's getting nice and warm! on Northeast Passage Becomes Viable Trade Route · · Score: 1

    Cities are easy enough to gradually rebuild and modify. The idea that those we have should stagnate as they are isn't particularly useful.

  6. Could be a useful sop. on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1

    So what if the implementation sucks?

    The goal of offering parental control will be met, and then can be pointed to as giving customer choice. Make it as restrictive as practical. When in doubt, block.

  7. Maximum voluntary blocking is a good move. on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 2

    Those who want blocking on THEIR OWN PCs should have it. The more the better. :)

  8. Re:Different perspective... on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    In what alternate universe are many settlements of tens of millions of dollars "cheaper"?

  9. Re:Different perspective... on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Seeing MANY, emphasis MANY, settlements and very little active defense argues that there is plenty of guilt to go around!

  10. Re:The concept of 'work' must change on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    The concept of work DOES change.

    Don't forget what the "Foxconns" of today replaced. Chinese have never in their history lived better than today and are making stunningly rapid progress.

    Here's what "work" used to look like in the US.
    Have some routine news from the transportation industry:

    https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/railroad/fight/explosion.html

    "Railroad work was extremely dangerous. Nationally, between 1890 and 1917, a staggering 72,000 employees were killed and over two million injured on railroad tracks; an additional 158,000 were killed in repair shops and roundhouses. The total casualties from this period are more than the combined casualties from every war ever fought by the United States. Steam boilers were a particular hazard. Since the beginning of the steam era, there had been literally thousands of explosions, some with horrific loss of life. Back in 1865, the steamboat Sultana exploded with the loss of 1,238 lives, most of them Union POWs just released from Southern prisons. In 1905, the naval gunboat Bennington exploded, killing 62 sailors, and an explosion at the Brockton Shoe Factory in Massachusetts killed 58 and leveled the factory. Explosions of railroad steam boilers took place on a regular basis."

  11. Re:Not gonna happen. on What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years? · · Score: 1

    Short version:

    All puppies are cute. Before you buy one, get a look at the bitch.

  12. Why is this shit on Slashdot? on Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? · · Score: 0

    It's not "News for Nerds", and it sure as fuck doesn't matter to anyone except a tiny number of competitive eaters about which there is no reason to give a shit.

  13. Re:Assange condemns greed? on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Tea Party are nearly all Bible Thumper Dixiecrat slaves to the old GOP because they are too stupid to question those who affirm/masturbate them.

    I live in the South and know them as they are.

  14. Re:Why? on Hacking the Nissan Leaf EV · · Score: 1

    OT but handy:

    One trucker trick you may already be aware of is to toggle switch the noid so you can pass visual smoke checks.

  15. Re:Violence on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    I know a few of my biker friends who have paid the local $275 fine for simple assault. Jail is expensive, so if it can be played off as mutual affray or similar you might luck out.

    You have to have a pretty good idea of the ROE, but yes you can beat the fuck out of some folks under the right circumstances. Helps to have friends who will lie convincingly.

  16. Re:Quick Hitsory Lesson on Occupy Wall Street Protests Go Global · · Score: 2

    They also had to waste a lot of Tories and chase away the rest.

    No bad thing but a small barrier nonetheless.

  17. Re:Why? on Hacking the Nissan Leaf EV · · Score: 1

    "GEET Heat Exchanger or HHO Water Electrolysis "

    Third party public dyno testing per EPA standards or go shoot yourself. The only cure for mental illness is suicide, so hurry up and quit wasting oxygen.

    Cranks who probably never (competently) spun a wrench in their lives babbling about tech-cult scams piss me off. Build one that works and get rich, or shut your paranoid clueless piehole. Or go post on Free Republic instead. :)

    If you are seriously worried about getting EMPed/HERFed you are too stupid to be an effective rebel against ZOG. Unless you run breaker points or a magneto or a mechanical injection diesel, you are fucked in a running chase if electronic countermeasures are used.

    You are fucked anyway since shooting the "nut holding the steering wheel" is the classic old-school solution to crazed trailer trash on the run. See ya on TV!

  18. Re:Why are archivists worried? on Soon, No More Film Movie Cameras · · Score: 2

    Fun fact:

    Nitrocellulose film could be cut up and used as "gunpowder". Note the location, whose inhabitants were plinking Brits with their jezails during the first Eurocolonial adventure in the region!

    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BQY/is_8_47/ai_76558924/

    "One of the intriguing qualities of nitrocellulose is that it is the basic material in many harmless, domestic products including celluloid plastic, early photographic film, rayon, fingernail polish and lacquer. Not that such items couldn't be converted to other uses. An old article in National Geographic describes tribesmen along the Indian border with Pakistan who were adept at producing gunpowder by dicing up nitrocellulose movie film."

  19. Re:Pretty Terrible Story on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Because it involves computers and the legal issues concerning data thereon.

    Many of us work on PCs and may well encounter illegal content.

  20. Re:Is that how that works? on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    "As a matter of interest, why is it worse to abuse a boy than a girl?"

    Talk to women who have PTS from being fucked by molesters in their childhood. The damage is permanent.

  21. Consider recumbent seating. on Ask Slashdot: Ergonomic Office Environment? · · Score: 1

    For home office use, an adjustable recumbent seat can be VERY comfortable. I use the electric recliner I inherited from my father. It will even stand you up since it's designed for folks with limited mobility. I figured fighter cockpits have semi-recumbent seating so I gave this a try.

    My back never gets tired. An optical mouse works fine on the arms of the chair, and I switch sides to avoid RSI.

    I use my Thinkpad supported by my lap, but an ergo keyboard and monitor setup would be very easy to do. Power users could copy some features of various homebuilt flightsim setups with multiple monitors and whatever tech toys they like.

    If it wouldn't conflict with spousal decorating preferences I'd damn sure have a cockpit-style layout, but this will do.

  22. Re:Why post here? on Who Killed Videogames? · · Score: 1

    Such passion indicates a different market addressed by different games.

  23. Re:Different perspective... on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 2

    "But I don't remotely believe some of the numbers that are bandied about regarding RC sexual abuse.But I don't remotely believe some of the numbers that are bandied about regarding RC sexual abuse."

    How about believing the actual settlements the RCC paid out when they can afford armies of lawyers to fight an injust accusation?

  24. Re:Wait a minute. on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    The real issue is the obligation to destroy pedos who hold positions of trust.

    It is established (see "wall of links" posts some snivel at me for posting") that the Church hid and abetted MANY pedos. If you consider it reasonable that only a tiny percentage actually got caught, the problem is worse.

    The Church has a moral duty to hand these folks to the cops INSTANTLY. They hold their superstition to be above secular law.

  25. Re:mixed feelings on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    The Catholic Church has hidden so much abuse that it if it weren't a "church" it might fall under the RICO act.

    "Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal goes global"

    http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-19/world/catholic.church.abuse_1_abusive-priests-church-abuse-archdiocese?_s=PM:WORLD