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  1. Re:Heat retention for how long ? on CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved · · Score: 1

    It could, but I don't know how cloudy it would have to be or for how long. If the designers were wise, they might have a backup system using natural gas or hydrogen to keep the boilers hot in case of emergencies.

  2. Re:home use? on CA's First Molten Salt Energy Plant Approved · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Realistically? No. The thermal mass required to keep a steam turbine running 24/7 is not something you want in your house. This is large scale industrialized energy production. The only personal scale applications are solar hot water heaters and greenhouses, and in those cases your goal is to take advantage of the stored heat directly instead of converting it to electricity.

  3. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    No. I don't. I don't like libertarians either. Their only goal is to dis empower the governments ability to protect the people from exploitation by a privileged class by proxy through corporations.

    What I mean is that the constitution and bill of rights was intended to define the governments structure, powers AND limitations. To provide some measure of protection to the people against not only foreign powers, but from domestic powers and a government turned against its people as well.

    I am anti corruption. I am anti police state. I am anti fascist. I am anti feudal.

  4. Re:Seriously? on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What news media outlet exists for a frustrated rational progressive with strong constitutional tendencies completely dissatisfied with every party?

  5. Re:High Risk? on US Offers $30M For High-Risk Biofuel Research · · Score: 1

    High risk as in no chance of being profitable within the next quarter, or even the next year, may not even be profitable before you cache in your golden parachute and move on to the next corp to gut and sell.

  6. Re:I have a confession on Designer Arrested Over Anonymous Press Release · · Score: 2

    Glenn Beck may well be part of anonymous, but his best trolling is done under his own name.

  7. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    I remember the movie well, I watched it this year. The speech was definitely synthetic, and sounded worse than a Steven Hawking lecture.

  8. Re:The stupidest thing is on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    Wrong. They key word you are forgetting is the word copies. Except for this egregious ruling, you can resale the original of anything you want and copyright does not matter.

  9. Re:The stupidest thing is on First-Sale Doctrine Lost Overseas · · Score: 1

    The prohibition is on distribution of copies or derivative works. Not resale of the original.

  10. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    Hackers had Angelina Jolie, that makes it completely unbelievable.

  11. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    my c64 from the early 80's had a voice synthesizer.

  12. Re:What's to be learned? on Learning From Gawker's Failure · · Score: 1

    So says an Anonymous Coward.

  13. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    With the exception of the Space Shuttle, pretty much everything born of the 80s is "awesomely bad."

    Bullshit. Counting from 1978 to 1992

    • ...
    • My daughters!

    • ...

    Granted, there was a whole lot of bad stuff in the '80s, like Reagan, the War On (some) drugs (which launched a snowstorm of cocaine use, since it was really just a war on pot), the Challenger explosion, etc, but it was a hell of a lot better decade than the one now ending.

    <joke> Oh, they are awesomely bad girls alright.</joke>

  14. Re:"awesomely bad 80s graphics" on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wargames. I re watched it recently. It actually has some of the most realistic representations of hacking and hackers in any movie ever.

  15. Re:Hallelujah! on Fourth Amendment Protects Hosted E-mail · · Score: 1

    The founding fathers were not known for racial equality. Fortunately some things do change. And fortunately some things do not, like the second amendment protecting the right to bear arms.

  16. Re:Hallelujah! on Fourth Amendment Protects Hosted E-mail · · Score: 1

    No. The militia noted in the second amendment is every adult white male from the perspective of the people who wrote it.

    Your misinterpretation is based on not understanding what the words used meant at the time.

  17. Re:Hallelujah! on Fourth Amendment Protects Hosted E-mail · · Score: 1

    To the people who wrote it the MILITIA was every white male over the age of 18.

    Also note that regulated does not mean what you think it means.

    In the context of 1700's military speak it means armed and knows how to shoot in comparison to an irregular militia that consists mostly of peasants with torches and pitchforks.

  18. Re:Good on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1

    Summary: What if jesus was played by Keanu Reeves, knew kung fu and shot a lot of people inside a computer?

  19. Re:Cars? on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 2

    The most impressive special effects are the ones you never know are there. I have a cousin that has done VFX work on terminator 2 and a few other blockbusters. He also worked on a number of drama's and comedies that you can't imagine having had digital effects of any kind.

  20. Re:Transparent Synch on Stallman Worried About Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    Its been a while but IIRC you can get your yahoo mail through POP or IMAP to a local client.

  21. Re:Sentience on Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind · · Score: 1

    They live in a post scarcity society. You can afford to have different motivations where nearly every material want and need can be pooped out of a replicator on a whim.

  22. Re:Build your own infrastructure? on Comcast Accused of Congestion By Choice · · Score: 2

    You could build your own infrastructure by using a collection of high power 802.11b/g modems to multiplex a small amount of bandwidth from every unsecured wireless connection in your neighborhood.

  23. Re:Weird on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    I won't argue for the cr-48, I do think its pretty useless.

    How is your tablet more portable if you have to bring your external keyboard as well to match the same functionality?

    How is a laptop form factor make it less portable and more easily damaged because it folds? the fold protects the screen from damage and provides the keyboard in one unit so that you don't have to carry it separately.

    You do not need a lap or table or be sitting down to use a laptop either, especially so for the ones with touch screens that are available now. My old stylus based laptop from about 7 years ago only lacked multi touch and battery life in comparison to the iPad and had better hardware, more storage and a dvd drive.

  24. Re:Shouldn't that be "CR-49"? on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    Its still in beta, it has at least one more version to go before it is as good as CR49.

  25. Re:Color on Hands-On With Google's Cr-48 · · Score: 1

    wild guess? chrome is too expensive for beta hardware? They probably could have sprung for mylar though.