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  1. 8 hour backup on Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking · · Score: 2

    I couldn't imagine that they had 8 hours to get a generator to the site of the plant, and yet failed to return any service for days. The idea of having an eight hour backup is that you'd expect to have a mobile generator on site in that time. I might have missed it, but can anyone tell me why the couldn't drag or fly power to them in less than, what 3 or 4 days? Was it that cut off? Are they just that bone headed?

  2. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    Good, more money for you to get back from the Obamacare rebate.

  3. Re:tao of physics?? on Pioneer Anomaly Solved By 1970s Computer Graphics · · Score: 1

    Ah, ha. But, who is the Butler?

    The radar dish

  4. Re:Why wait a month or year? on Mars Rover Down? Spirit Stays Silent · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm fairly certain that it means that staff assignments for this project would be cut after another month of silence. Is that an answer to your rant, or do you need to go on about taxes, black helicopters, or birth certificates?

  5. Re:The next social network on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 1

    I did not detail the plan, I promised the results of the plan in broad terms. Sadly, however, the patent office doesn't seem to know the difference either.

  6. The next social network on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 2

    The next and 'final' social network will be an open source peer-to-peer network with commercial caching and hosting; if my plan works.

  7. Illegal immigration hurts in the same way on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 1

    Those companies willing to hire illegal aliens has the same cost advantage, even if those companies are just contractors for 'responsible' employers. Perhaps we should fine the companies (or jail the actionable people) who hire a 'temp agency' or 'cleaning service' in an effort to skirt employment laws? How it's not already considered a RICO violation, I have no idea. Oh, btw, I'm all for immigration reform, of nearly any sort.

  8. Re:So... what? on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1
    For those wondering what HAARP was (like me)http://boingboing.net/2010/01/18/haiti-haarp-and-cons.html seems to describe it well, without falling down the conspiracy hole.

    This is the kind of 'thing' those who listen to talk radio think that they 'know'. Sad really.

  9. Re:Will he be able to track the missile on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yea, because he 'intercepted' an open frequency call for ships to stay in port, this was deliberately broadcast to keep people from traveling. Next up 'man who hears siren' will be going to jail for knowing where the police are.

    If the Pentagon had transmitted that encrypted, it'd be pretty useless as a general warning.

  10. Re:Uh. on Apple Handcuffs Web Apps On iPhone Home Screen · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if by "convergence" you mean 100 fart apps and other pointless diversions

    What you choose to load into your smart phone is your own business. Personally, I only have a couple of apps on my iPhone, but I use the browser every day, and the map function at least once a week.

  11. Re:And just as important. on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    This "holiday", which does not exist on any calendar...seems sexist and homophobic. Please to be explaining why it is not heterocentric, sir.

    You must get really confused when speaking to those dastardly individuals who call their vacations 'holidays'. Foreigners (a.k.a. non-Americans) mostly say such things, so if you stay right where you're at, you should be ok.

  12. Re:Not a good estimate on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    I'm not the AC, but it's a Diophantine approximation of pi
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_22/7_exceeds_%CF%80

  13. Re:Heh... on Google Introduces Domain Blocking To Search · · Score: 1

    Have they changed EE or something? I used to be able to scroll to the bottom of the page to see whatever I needed.

    Your experience is far different than seemingly everyone else. Maybe you're hitting the site from Google (or another search engine IP).

  14. Re:Sign away your rights on How Big Data Justifies Mining Your Social Data · · Score: 1

    Do you read every word?

    Do you ever click 'decline' and don't use their product based on it's click-wrap?
    What was it?

    I've read the clauses and as I've taken business law classes I understand such contracts fairly well (unlike most), but once I realized the truth I found it generally worthless. If you look at nearly every such contract, you'd note that they reserve the right to change the 'agreement' in any fashion at any time, while trying to lock you in like chattel. From what I understand (as do many, I believe), judges generally never enforce or throw out with good regularity the worst of the clauses when they are put to a test legally. Still, I feel a little dirty and used when I click 'accept'. So you need to keep an eye out for re-billers and watch what you install from or make available online. It's the best that you'll likely ever be able to do.

  15. Re:Real time science indeed on 'Most Earth-Like' Exoplanet Gets Major Demotion · · Score: 2
    Maybe it took 40 years to fully debunk, but that doesn't mean there weren't people right from the offset (from the wikipedia article):

    From the outset, there were scientists who expressed skepticism about the Piltdown find. G.S. Miller, for example, observed in 1915 that "deliberate malice could hardly have been more successful than the hazards of deposition in so breaking the fossils as to give free scope to individual judgment in fitting the parts together."

    In essence it took 40 years for the people who benefited from or were fooled by the fakery to die off. There is a small segment of the population who will never admit a mistake.

  16. Re:WANT! on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 2

    Lost people tend to cause accidents, and as one does 90% of their driving within a few miles of their home, you or your loved ones/neighbors would most likely to be the victims. Besides what are you going to do, run power out to it? Change the batteries all the time? I'm sure that these little revenge fantasies look much better in your minds eye.

  17. Re:It's a sad day for Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda etc on Google Cars Drive Themselves, In Traffic · · Score: 1

    You're right, but your numbers are off. Sure taxis would be cheaper, but if the system is cheap enough for 'the average car' you'll find more one-car families, as a car could return after taking dad to the office, or the kids to school, etc. As many still would want to own their car, there will always be a personal transportation market, but cars wouldn't be 'stuck' with one member of the family as much.

  18. Re:The only thing that hasn't changed on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 2
    I did the numbers on people who make random claims of statistical analysis and found that too often they're either wrong because of sample issues or just blatant liars.

    I doubt if you have the kind of access to Chinese medical and criminal investigation data that one would need create such a study.

  19. Re:I'd love to meet this Internet guy on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 3, Funny

    You would feel that way about water, if you knew the evil it has done: Dihydrogen Monoxide Warning

  20. If so then Apple will be selling out of iPad 2s on Android Honeycomb Born Too Early · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I saw another article talking about the $500 price point as being 'unbeatable' in the market, this is an odd place for Apple as they actually seem to be the price leader. I'm sure that Google will sort things out with Android's issues, but for now, I think this is Apple's game.

  21. Re:Same time? on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 2

    From the article...

    Veloz [ the dead guy] had exited his vehicle after getting into a minor accident with another motorist at around 7:30 AM. He was standing near the other driver’s vehicle exchanging information when he was struck by Beas [the facebook poster].

    Presumably, he was making the call to 911 rather than paying attention to oncoming traffic, which was really his mistake as one should always be paying attention to traffic when on the road, especially when standing in the road. However, it doesn't mean that the presumably distracted driver had any right to ultimately take his life

  22. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    wow +5 insightful,

    I wonder how many comments the moderators who endorsed your view had to suffer though until they (you' all) found one that matches their view that somehow people like Glen Beck are some sort of 'balance' against the lies told by 'the left'. We make noise about what right wingers say week-to-week they on the other hand, dig up random 'liberals' and lay out 'blanket' insults, often based on misunderstandings and lies of the angry men they listen to every day.

    Did you ask Rand Paul and Jim DeMint how they thought about PBS? If you'd been paying attention to your party's platform/speeches over the last 30 years you'd know that PBS is often called a 'waste of taxpayer money', Amtrak too for that matter, likely you didn't know that either.

  23. Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    I don't care what you call me, I will never allow a full blooded Klingon into my home.

  24. Yes, Russia better worry the most on Iran's New Space Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've never understood why the Russian leadership seems willing to arm it's most crazy neighbor to the south. It's not like they don't already have an islamist problem.

  25. Re:AOL are still going? on AOL To Buy Huffington Post · · Score: 1

    They had something like 35 million in VC funding.