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  1. Re:Engineered humans on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    In a few years we'll all be hung like Jonah Falcon I guess.

  2. Re:rewilding? on What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? · · Score: 1

    Walt Bell would probably agree, he was famous for dropping elephants with a 7x57.

  3. Re:The undersides of rocks... on Journal of Cosmology Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut" · · Score: 1

    I just got a vision of a secret North Korean rover following Opportunity and tossing crap in front of the cameras.

  4. Re:Series hybrids on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    Of course, and gas powered turbines in mobile things, including but not limited to cars, routinely operate in a reliable fashion, so it's obvious that some degree of torque is acceptable. The magnitude of change and rate of change in angle involved in driving over the summit of a hill isn't close to the loads the poster was talking about. If what he is talking about is an issue (I'm not convinced it is) then changing the axis would seem to be a potentially reasonable way to mitigate it.

  5. Re:Series hybrids on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    Hills and banked curves are not (generally) sudden though. I've never pulled 2g (gods g + 1) in the transition from a flat run into a hill, for instance. This sort of load is what the poster was talking about.

  6. Re:Series hybrids on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 2

    The problem with gas turbines is ... the bearings generally dislike the imposed accelerations when a high performance road car turns hard (Extreme gyroscopic loads).

    Why not place the turbine with the shaft vertical?

  7. Re:Amazing how times change. on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 1

    Yet backblaze likes Seagate because they are cost effective.

  8. Re:Hmmm ... on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Honestly I like Vista just fine too. It's essentially a slightly undercooked Windows 7.

  9. Re:Few people really need a new PC on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 2

    With Windows 8.1 all that (and a lot more) is available from the new start button with a right click. Set it to boot to desktop, start button on, and use Win32 apps, solved.

  10. Few people really need a new PC on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty convinced that most of the cause of slow PC sales comes from the fact that people just really don't need a faster newer PC every few years anymore. Couple that with people buying tablets and I doubt Windows 8 has much to do with it. Not nothing, but not as much as some people want to believe. Once I bit the bullet and installed 8 once, I started installing it everywhere, because after a few hours of becoming used to it ... it's better. I don't use "Modern" apps, they don't work for me on a desktop, but 8.1 is better than 7 in every way for me.

  11. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    We clearly need stricter stapler control legislation then.

  12. Re:So let me understand this ... on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    In a hibernated machine with full disk encryption, isn't the memory streamed to the encrypted disk, requiring a login to resume?

  13. So let me understand this ... on TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction and Volume Identification · · Score: 1

    Are they saying that it's possible for someone to read the contents of an encrypted drive if it's mounted? Wasn't this always obvious, or did I miss something?

  14. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Assault weapon is always a semi-automatic rifle, at least, and all rifles are lumped together as they are not a popular murder implement as a class. Clubs are under "Blunt objects (Hammers, Clubs, etc.)" and account for more than rifles .... here .... http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

  15. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Not really. The FBI does lump hammers and clubs together but I don't see that as an issue, they also lump assault weapons in with all long guns.

  16. Re:The man was not shot for texting on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting the face-punch fatality rate is on par with the firearms fatality rate?

    Well more people are murdered with clubs than "assault weapons" every year, if that helps.

  17. Re:common and fun on Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows · · Score: 1

    Artistic license is something I can respect, however when for instance a policeman rolls up, pulls out his sidearm and fires once and the slide locks back, that's just stupid and sloppy. I have seen exactly this, as well as variations such as he fires *3* times and the slide locks back.

  18. Re:Private Speculation? on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    But knowledge of the current price wholesale and payment at that price are not as far as I know. Happy to be wrong though. ;)

  19. Re:good person with gun on Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home On the Net · · Score: 1

    Yes, that was the first thing I noticed too. The thing about proving someone is lying I get, the initial supposition that, as you say, good people wouldn't hold guns speaks volumes about how screwed up our world has become.

  20. Re:Laugh on Tweets and Threats: Gangs Find New Home On the Net · · Score: 1

    Hope you have a good home security system...cause you might be meeting some of these fine upstanding citizens in the near future if you get your way too much longer...

    12 gauge should do it.

  21. Private Speculation? on Record Wind Power Levels Trigger Energy Price Fall Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Maybe allowing speculators to connect to the grid and buy, store, and sell electricity would smooth it out.

  22. Non issue on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Misdirected Email? · · Score: 0

    "Someone else has already used my email" - how is this even a problem?

  23. Re:Interesting... on McAfee Brand Name Will Be Replaced By Intel Security · · Score: 2

    It's actually useful on file servers, as it can sometimes detect malware that attacks other platforms that got persisted to a share.

  24. Re:It doesn't matter on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Pass 10% Market Share, Windows XP Falls Below 30% · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod you up, but since I can't I'll just tell you that in case you don't know it, 8.1 is a free upgrade to you and makes everything about 8 either just as good or better. I have found literally no downside to moving up to 8.1.

  25. Re:This is why I like being old on The UK's Internet Porn Filter and Fighting Censorship Creep · · Score: 1

    "I can filter that on my own, thanks anyway"