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  1. Re:32 kilowatt!!! on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 1

    32 kW, not MW, thats kilowatt, not megawatt.

    I was about to comment that the SSDG's on a Ticonderoga class cruiser wouldn't quite be able to handle a load that size. 32 kW on the other hand, that's certainly doable. A Nimitz class carrier reactor could probably handle the 32 MW strain but that would put a crimp on other operations, I'd assume.

  2. Re:This is just the beginning. on US Gov't Orders 73,000 Private Websites Offline · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They forgot "weapons of mass destruction" and "baby-cooking recipes".

  3. Praise be to Jobs on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 0

    Hallowed be thy name

  4. Re:Why haven't we evolved to see IR or microwave? on Some Birds Can See Magnetic Fields · · Score: 0

    We have evolved to do these very things, in a way - our brains have developed the ability to engineer machines to translate these spectra into ones we can use. Sure it's not as cool as being a real life member of the X-Men but, hey, it's still pretty neat.

  5. has this been asked yet? on US Plans Cyber Shield For Private Companies and Utilities · · Score: 0

    Why is critical infrastructure attached to a public network in the first place?

  6. Re:Liquid Tin Foil on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 0

    Aluminum isn't magnetic.

  7. Re:No Surprise... on Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use · · Score: 0

    You'd think the ramifications of filibustering something that has a large amount of popular support like closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay would be a net negative for the Republican side. The Democrats should have just went ahead and tried to press their agenda, and make the Republicans really be the bad guys. It seems to me like the current administration is afraid to govern. Disappointing.

  8. Re:Typical on Alleged Russian Spy Ring Exposed In US · · Score: 0

    aren't you contradicting yourself? :)

    apparently you've never heard of kim philby and others from cambridge five.

    Kim Philby was British, not American. Likewise for the other known members of the Cambridge Five. It says so right in the articles you linked.

  9. Re:Well, it's true on YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails · · Score: 0

    Am I the only one who misparsed this phrase in my head ?

    You're the only one parsing phrases in your head, so yes.

  10. nothing's shocking on Daily Kos Pollster Made Up Numbers · · Score: 0, Insightful

    A website that has an openly biased point of view published data that backed up their point of view for a year and a half without looking at it critically? Why are we surprised at all? By that same token, why would anyone care what dailykos or any of those other rabble-rousing political bitchfest sites (from either side, a pox upon both their houses) have to say about anything?

  11. Re:why do people work for Raytheon? on Microwave Pain Ray Keeps Frost From Killing Crops · · Score: 0

    But we have so much more stockpiled!

  12. Re:Charge YOU? on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 0

    for the most part Carriers are Buying up spectrum to prevent competition

    I wonder if there's any way of telling them "use it or lose it"? IANAL

  13. loose lips sink ships on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 0

    His biggest mistake was telling people beforehand.

  14. Re:NYC Governor? on NY Governor Wants To Expand DNA Database · · Score: 0

    Take a look at a map of New York from around the time of the Revolutionary War. Northern New York is the unorganized and nearly uninhabited "Tryon County", and pretty much everything west of Schenectady is property of the Six Nations. Albany was pretty much dead center looking at it on the east/west axis, and as centrally located on the north/south axis as it is today. Most of Upstate wasn't settled until the early 1800's.

  15. Re:My Opinion, More BFE Buffalo Ridge Projects on US Dept. of Energy Wants Bigger Wind Energy Ideas · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can see which states really took off with wind power, I don't know why you're highlighting coastal areas and the Great Lakes when Colorado and Texas have demonstrated an equally large potential.

    Does the Bible say something about windmills being evil? Not much going on in the southeast according to that GIF.