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  1. Re:Maybe on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 1

    The light at the end of the tunnel has burned out again

    Replace it with an Induction bulb and take care the outlet voltage is stable (within a couple of %). That'll hold for years (probably decades).

  2. Re:Cross functional standard that is driven by mgm on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Don't be afraid of CamelCasing either, just because server names are case insensitive doesn't mean they are not case preserving

    CamelCasing is ugly, but it's so much more readable than fucking all-caps. People who claim stuff needs to be in all caps because it looks professional should be mildly inconvenienced IMHO.

  3. Re:Why Astronomers? on What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040? · · Score: 1

    rocket scientists?

  4. Chicken.

  5. Re:Always on The Worst Job In the Digital World · · Score: 1

    Some people should start by thinking once.

  6. Re:Cheetah? I don't think so on DARPA-Funded 'Cheetah' Breaks Speed Record For Legged Robots · · Score: 1

    Those are two steps, at the absolute minimum.

  7. Re:Aardvark the extension on Google's Rules of Acquisition · · Score: 1

    It's would not be considered safe to overload someone with ads while he is driving, so we must give them an option without driving.

  8. Re:Aardvark the extension on Google's Rules of Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear.
    I wholehartedly agree. I use Google products, I pay for them with information (costing me privacy, albeit a little) and eye-time (as in ads). I find this a fair trade, but it's a descision everyone needs to make for themselves.

  9. Assembly. Those nice short commands and only a few of them means it can't be hard.
    I heard Brainfuck has even less commands so it should be even easier, right?

  10. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    There are solutions to this:
    1. Upon edit all positive mods are nullified (and maybe modpoints returned).
    2. It's only possible to edit within x minutes of posting (if modpoints are returned this is a must).
    Negative mods should always stay.

  11. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    They blow themselves up in defence of their religon. Blowing up a symbol of the same religion is against that line of thought.
    Now if you consider the age old: "If I can't have it nobody will have it" this does not mean they'll not attack.

  12. Re:Double Encryption??? on NSA Publishes Blueprint For Top Secret Android Phone · · Score: 1

    Nobody would dare to use that password anymore, so they'll not check it. Therefore it's the most secure.

  13. Re:Dumbest fucking idea evar on Japan Creates Earthquake-Proof Levitating House System · · Score: 1

    You'd have to calculate the resonant frequency for each house and make sure it falls wel beyond the expected frequencies in the earthquakes.

  14. Re:Interesting... on Evidence For Antimatter Anomaly Mounts · · Score: 1

    We are just an experiment that has gone horribly wrong. Before the big bang scientists in an universe made of what we call antimatter decided it would be interresting to test wether a universe of antimatter (what we call matter) would work. It got out of hand in about 10^-200 s and we are living in the debries.
    After reading Ignition! my best guess would be the genes of these scientists live on today, in the rocket fuel researchers.

  15. Re:Christ, on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    2. Hood latches. Hood latches? Do you have any idea how much money is wasted on putting those secondary hood latches on every car? If one hood latch isn't enough, then lock the designer up and throw away the key!

    Saab has reverse opening hoods. They swing forward to open. They are required to install a second hood latch because "otherwise the hood could open while driving". The wind of driving would close the hood. (I am not sure about newer models, this was a 99)

  16. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Eventually it will: driverless cars.

  17. Re:Winter/mud/etc. on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    Here in the Netherlands there are parking spots designed in a way that is awfull for reverse parking. They are on a one-way road and angled so it's easy to park forward. Terrible designs.

  18. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 1

    Only in some movies.

  19. Re:Get the facts on Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone · · Score: 1

    The paper is good and clears up a lot but it does not indicate any solution to the maximum resolution of this lens size. Albeit a Carl Zeis lens helps, there are reasons a small lens will not get this resolution (other /.-ers are far more capable of explaining this, and have done so in this topic)

  20. Re:A good side effect of all this on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    Maybe even Scientology will check it's sources!

    Ah, if only.

  21. Re:The new equation on A Small Glimmer of Hope For Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    I theorise, for I have no direct knowledge of the techniques used.
    I imagine they could measure all the known time-affecting metrics during transport and compensate for them afterwards. A simple 3d GPS chip would do a lot: time dilation due to speed and height would be measured and could be compensated for. Of course you'll want to add a decent acceleration sensor to prevent insane jumps due to GPS errors and because redundancy is your friend.

  22. Re:Don't want your protection on FCC Chair Calls On ISPs To Adopt New Security Measures · · Score: 2

    I'm not very friendly if you get me out of bed in the morning at the weekend. In retrospect that may have been overly nasty.

    No it wasn't.

  23. Re:Reliability ratings aren't reliable anyway... on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    You can't really blame the foreign car manufacturers for that.The replacing of the brakes cost me E150 a couple of months back (not at the dealer's). I'd guess the cost to import and distrubute is high in the US. Or is there some weird law to prevent you from going someplace else as the dealer? Dealers always rip you off.

  24. Re:Is this a rule? on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 2

    Luckily new LPG cars switch automatically. Leave the switch where it is and just start. The controller will see the motortemp is to low for LPG and will feed gasoline to the engine. Once the temp is high enough it will switch to LPG automatically. The switch is just there to be able to switch to gasoline when the LPG is empty. This is usefull as most LPG fuel gauges aren't really accurate.
    I have been driving LPG for years and never knew the carburator had to be emptied before switching to LPG. The controller seems to do that.
    Then again I'm not sure there is a carburator under my hood. It may already be an injection engine (1997 Opel Astra 1.6 benzine). I'm not really a gear head.

  25. Re:Me gusta on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    I use Mm with people who should understand it when it's appropriate. Maybe that's one of the reasons why some friends and family complain they can't understand me and my brother when we're on a roll.