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  1. Re:shocking on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    They are responsible for Bazaar, and Launchpad:

    https://launchpad.net/

  2. Re:Death Star on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Real slow light is propagating through something not resembling a vacuum. In anything resembling a vacuum (like air...or a vacuum), it goes real fast like.

  3. Re:marketing speak = teh suck on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    Please expand your description of the group that your last paragraph excludes, I'm curious.

  4. Re:What, again? on IPv6 Challenges and Opportunities · · Score: 1

    You need to be more patient. The IPv6 transition is going to be impending right up until the point that it happens.

  5. Re:10lbs...throwable? on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I wouldn't really expect someone in the military to have the correct physique, training or conditioning (of the 3, physique would probably be the most frequent problem).

    If you keep on a clicking, you will see that the site stops reporting entries at 1,000, at which point the entries are still going a bit further than 15 meters. I would guess that there are many thousands more who can easily break 10 meters. So it isn't crazy to expect there to be, out of 10 or 15 guys, a couple that can throw a 10 pound object a pretty decent distance.

  6. Re:You know what company is shamefully absent? on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand it, Canonical Ltd. does not enjoy a charitable tax status, it is a private, for profit (a tax status, not a description of how profitable the company is) company that happens to be merrily run at a loss by the owner.

  7. Re:10lbs...throwable? on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: 1

    15 meters isn't real crazy, lots of high schoolers do it:

    http://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Division/Event.aspx?Gender=M&Event=12&DivID=15963

  8. Re:U R Doing It Wrong on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: 1

    The problem with the sudden stop is the acceleration (things like seat belts and airbags and crumple zones work by reducing the acceleration that the body inside the car experiences).

  9. Re:This is an absurdity on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    EROEI isn't particularly relevant when you are driving around with an (essentially) arbitrarily sized nuclear reactor and a very limited supply of liquid jet fuel.

  10. Re:Cost effective? on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    I imagine the hilarious size of the oceans and limited number of ships with nuclear reactors would also tend to limit the impact of the process.

  11. Re:No pattern = a very good thing on Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits · · Score: 1

    Those things are either neutral or positive.

  12. Re:I Have to Disagree on a Few Things on iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan · · Score: 1

    Everything I have seen says that GM and Chrysler were happy to be shedding dealers when they went through bankruptcy (Having their cars sitting on lots not selling probably doesn't do much for them, I don't really know how the sell through works with cars though).

    Also, there was a local TV news story about Cash for clunkers meaning that dealers were running out of those cars...

  13. Re:Pretty much on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    Well, since you didn't hang up on them, they probably thought you were compliant.

  14. Re:one more stat on Relativistic Navigation Needed For Solar Sails · · Score: 1

    They might invest in something that takes 30 or more years to pay off, especially if it is a big dam that starts making electricity right after it is finished.

  15. Re:Just how big is the Oort Cloud? on Relativistic Navigation Needed For Solar Sails · · Score: 1

    My envelope says the volume is on the order of 10^40 km^3. Copy this into Google:

    (4/3 * pi * (100000 astronomical units)^3) - (4/3*pi*(5000 astronomical units)^3) -> cubic kilometers

    Or should I not be modeling the volumes as spheres and subtracting the smaller from the larger? If the 100,000 in your post is a typo and supposed to be 10,000, using spheres still gives 10^37 km^3. Either of those does interesting things to your estimate of the distances between objects.

    So I'm curious how the volume is actually modeled on your envelope there.

  16. Re:Actually... No it isn't. on Schneier On a Generation Gap In Privacy · · Score: 1

    Baaaaaaahhhhhhhh. What about intents?

    I have been trolled, excellent work sir.

  17. Re:I Have to Disagree on a Few Things on iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan · · Score: 1

    That worked. The article is strictly about dealers, they are not American automakers (which is what you referred to in the comment I first replied to), they are American car dealers, and they are generally not owned by the big 3 automakers (Saturn, along with the dealership network, was at one time, but is no longer, owned by GM, so that is a mild exception).

  18. Re:20 Years From Now? on Schneier On a Generation Gap In Privacy · · Score: 1

    Start putting more money aside, I'm sure better nursing homes will be perfectly willing to use technology that does not offend your sense of privacy (I.e., sensors will only display information if there is a problem, and they will keep an eye on you by actually coming by and knocking).

    Trying to stay healthy is another good idea, plenty of my older relatives have been reasonably independent well into their 70s.

  19. Re:Let's say that I am planning a big heist on Scientists Learn To Fabricate DNA Evidence · · Score: 1

    Even then, the best you could do is muddle the results. And you have to make sure you plan ahead quite well (the police may sample your DNA at their convenience, rather than yours).

  20. Re:My hand hurts on Is Typing Ruining Your Ability To Spell? · · Score: 1

    Well played.

  21. Re:Define Overweight on Average Gamer Is 35, Fat and Bummed · · Score: 1

    They compared the average BMI of people in each group, the average BMI of the gamer group is higher than the average BMI of the non-gamer group.

    (The actual article is linked in an above post:

    http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1341207&cid=29119867

    Here is the link, in the spirit of laziness:

    http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_2561.pdf

    )

    It's a small study, but I would imagine the result is interesting enough to justify a larger study (but I'm not a social scientist).

  22. Re:It is not the volts on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    Deep breaths dude. I mentioned power in my first reply to you, the power you mention there is more than enough to penetrate the body, so of course I am not going to play with it.

  23. Re:Look at the bright side. on Schneier On a Generation Gap In Privacy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    He's not a politician, he's royalty.

  24. Re:It is not the volts on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    I didn't make the post that you initially replied to, I made a post asserting that Tesla coil antics generally aren't that dangerous because the voltage doesn't go right across the heart.

    Anyway, as I said before, the voltage is not entering his body there, it is pretty much bouncing off of his skin.

  25. Re:It is not the volts on Fatal Explosion At Russian Hydroelectric Dam · · Score: 1

    With a straight face: That video does not show voltage bridging across his heart.

    I guess it would be more proper to say that his skin is acting as an insulator, but the voltage is not really entering his body there.