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  1. Re:Wish granted. on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    The fallout is a bit strange. It calculates the largest distance against the (normal) wind here in the Netherlands. Dunno about the Rossby waves.

  2. Re:This is a test... on Nationwide Test of the Emergency Broadcast System · · Score: 1

    If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been writhing on the ground in unspeakable pain, bleeding from every orifice, while your skin peeled off in long, black, ragged strips.

    How do they know that feature works? They should test that to!

  3. Re:IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!! on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 2

    The magnetic field of the UFO disturbes the sense of direction of the bees and thus they collectively bash their heads in against the board separating them from the driver. As the driver is stung by the surviving bees it fails to controll the truck and thus the truck crashes.

    The conspiracy is that they claim they have found all the bees (who counted them? It must be a lie!) in order to be able to "disprove" the truth, since the thruth could not have happend if the bees survived.
    Thus the existence of the UFO's has been covered up.

  4. Re:I for one welcome our new dragon overlords on Public Supports Geo-Engineering · · Score: 1

    It's the circle of life (long scale).

  5. Re:Schadenfreude on Public Supports Geo-Engineering · · Score: 1

    Squirrels are not "happy" as such. They are viscious canibals if the need arises.

  6. Re:weed out the weak on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    Being able to survive a plane crash isn't as important as being able to survive a car crash. Planes don't crash verry often.
    It's also harder to prepare for. A SAS survival handbook, some guns, some wires and fire stuff will get you a long way when civilisation crashes, but a plane/car crash is a brute force event. Preventing to be crushed is not easy.
    Unless you're talking about surviving long enough to be rescued after a plane crash. That's much the same as surviving a civilisation crash, although one can assume a civilisation crash would give oppertunity to gain some resources (raid a shop or a warehouse). If you have that opportunity after a plane crash you're pretty much saved already.

  7. Re:Wow. on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Well if it's the weather's fault due to lightning or such you'll still get blamed.

  8. Re:You will need an engine on Starships In a Century? · · Score: 1

    The efficiency of a bussard ramjet increases with speed (since there are more particles to fuse and accelerate) so with a ramjet you'd definately want to use a slingshot as a first "push"

  9. Re:I've got an easy way on Starships In a Century? · · Score: 1

    That depends on your frame of reference. As seen from the ship they would arrive instantly if moving at the speed of light. We could then theoretically start the vessel in 5 years and still be on time (although the G forces would be "fun").
    If you take the frame of reference of "Earth" we are already late. At light speed it would be 4.3 years to get there and then 4.3 years for the information to travel back to us, so the ship should have started 3.6 years ago.

  10. Re:Government service on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1
    That should be a grading.
    1. Every woman is in a burka. No flesh exposed
    2. Hair (and knees) is covered, arms may be visible
    3. Bikini's are allowed
    4. Naked tits are allowed
    5. Full nudity is allowed, no suggestion of sex
    6. Suggestion of sex
    7. sex is visible, no anal
    8. Anal sex
    9. Bondage/mutiliation/rape
    10. Snuff

    In that way the filter can be set at a limit that's correct for the country.
    There are some issues like certain parts of Africa where showing tits is allowed, but knees are not allowed. These issues must be solvable with the combined intellect of /..

  11. Re:Hopefully on DNA Sequenced of Woman Who Lived To 115 · · Score: 1

    What's a good job is a matter of opinion. Some people feel gardening as a perfect job, or contructing. Nice in the outdoors, some workout. Perfect. You may find the workout not as valuabe, and the outdoors cold and rainy. That makes it a less than perfect job for you.
    For you the top 2 percent may contain work like programming or such. For someone else the top 2 percent may contain something else entirely.

  12. Re:A good start on Grooved Disk Spinner Cleans Up: $1M For Winner of Oil Recovery Challenge · · Score: 2

    Can't sell the oil if it's broken down.

  13. Re:Not shocked, too busy laughing. on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    The rabbit is in the shoe, I repeat: the rabbit is in the shoe.

  14. Re:*Gasp* No!! I'm shocked! Shocked! on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    Yes they will, but they'll use a portable ram to knock with.

  15. Re:I know that's what they're doing... on US Intelligence Mining Your Social Network Data · · Score: 1

    That would imply the second statement is true, wich can't be true because he always lies.

  16. Re:This Will Mean A World of Trouble on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    But the DMCA thiefs only value their own personal liberty. Not yours. They value their liberty to take what's not rightfully theirs far beyond your liberty to do what you should be allowed to do.
    Disclaimer: I feel some of the people they handled have broken the boundaries of what should be allowed. However they are only an statistically insignificant part of the lives they have attempted to destroy.

  17. Re:I don't get it on 3D Printer For Your Kids · · Score: 1

    This one won't display "Load letter" while it's told to accept regular A4.

  18. Re:Same tech lets government control YOUR limbs on Man With Quadriplegia Controls Robot Arm With Mind · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. It's as much bullshit as Chemtrails. They'd have to implant stuff into your brain without you knowing. That's a tough challenge to do with one subject and you think the majority of the US citizens have had this done? Unrealistic to say the least.

  19. Re:TFA (-1, wrong) on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but shouldn't it be an USB switch then? A hub repeats all packets to all connections (and thus all at the same speed). A switch actually looks at the adress and sends it only to the correct one.

  20. Re:TFA (-1, wrong) on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't connect something I need to go fast to an USB hub anyways. An external hdd gets it's own port, because timesharing can't be good for speed (even if all the devices are at the same speed).
    Hubs are, by definition, quite stupid devices. In ethernet networks this matters a lot, beause there one device can slow the whole network down, as the slowest device determines the complete hub's speed. I dread these 16 port USB hubs and hope they figure out how to make an USB switch soon enough.
    Dunno how it is with different USB ports on the same root hub (internally the USB ports are structured into root hubs. This may only be software).

  21. Re:That's because the "tablet market" doesn't exis on Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag · · Score: 1

    With my EeePC I could hold the laptop comfortably with my left hand and type with my right hand. The keyboard was to small for two hands so one hand typing was my standard for it (untill I crashed it by shorting a 5V line when attempting to increase the hdd space with a 64G USB stick internally. The stick didn't survive either.)
    I assume the MBA is usable with one hand (given sufficiently large hands).

  22. Re:If this is true... on Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? · · Score: 1

    particles already traveling at the speed of light are allowed

    . They generated them, so the neutrino's can't already have been traveling at the speed of light.

  23. Re:C&C on Android Malware Using Blog As C&C Server · · Score: 1

    "My command is your wish"

  24. Re:hmm... on EU Sending a Probe To the Sun · · Score: 1

    [woosh] Venting atmo would cool the craft, due to pressure drop. It does, however, generate a problem if you need to cool any electronics after that, since vacuum doesn't conduct the heat.
    I wouldn't advise it either if you have some humans on board. They can stand vacuum for about 30 seconds but after that the damage quickly becomes severe and I assume the voyage is a bit longer (since the light needs a couple of minutes).
    [/woosh]

  25. Re:Short term thinking on Patent Troll Says Anyone Using Wi-Fi Infringes · · Score: 1

    Patent the buisness method to have suing for patent infrigment as main source of income. Start a Kickstarter project for funding. Sue all patent trolls.