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  1. Re:hmm on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    Nah, you just need to do unauthorized copying that you cannot defend as fair use (note, you can claim it is fair use, but you have to successfully defend that claim).

    It is not insane to argue that selecting the torrent from a web site is the action that initiates the creation of the copy that the torrent software downloads.

  2. Re:Disheartening on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    I find your assertion that people buy pancakes to be preposterous.

    Also, are you really so certain that people would have been lining up to pay $35,000 for a shitty electric vehicle (assuming that they could get the price that low)?

  3. Re:Safety on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    I like to think of getting my car as an act of insanity.

    I expect the number is a fair chunk lower for people that do not engage in certain high risk behaviors.

  4. Re:Why? on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you would be offended that the product tastes the same but has less salt in it. I suppose you might not care, but if tastes the same, you don't really need to complain that it tastes different (and certainly, the average American diet does not contain too little salt, so that is not a concern).

  5. Re:30MPG was not uncommon on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Canada?

    More seriously, I wondered if that was what you were getting at, but your presentation was pretty condensed.

    Fuel prices will eventually have an impact on behavior, but that doesn't help much today.

  6. Re:30MPG was not uncommon on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Second paragraph should read "Many of those improvements have been spent on dragging around safety systems, rather than better fuel economy."

  7. Re:30MPG was not uncommon on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 1

    Modern engines almost certainly get much better fuel economy than engine in the car discussed (per horsepower of output).

    Many of those improvements have been spent on dragging around safety systems, rather than discarded for better fuel economy.

    So how do you translate "unimpressive performance" into "less safe"?

  8. Re:Screw politics, its a health issue on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 1

    Preservatives are actually quite similar to anti-oxidants. One mechanism of preservation that they follow is that they prevent oxidation.

    And really, it wasn't intended as misinformation, I was having a bit of fun.

  9. Re:1970s and 32MPG...? on When the US Government Built Ultra-Safe Cars · · Score: 3, Funny

    They could have combined things like fantastically expensive construction (to make them very light) and unimpressive performance.

  10. Re:Screw politics, its a health issue on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You suck nanoparticles into your lungs with every breathe.

    ARE YOU DEAD YET?

  11. Re:the taste? on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 1

    Olestra was pretty well labeled.

  12. Re:Why? on The Rise of Nanofoods · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They can magic the salt into a different shape that means more of the consumed salt hits the tongue, resulting in less salt used to achieve the same sensation of saltiness.

  13. Re:There are still more out there!! on Three Indicted In Scareware Scam That Netted $100M · · Score: 1

    Hopefully AntiMalWareBytes is a typo and not an additional source of your problems, the name of the popular malware removal tool is Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

  14. Re:Great news on Three Indicted In Scareware Scam That Netted $100M · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Whichever Microsoft group it is that puts together Security Essentials is working on that too.

  15. Re:Anybody knows the details of location measureme on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 1

    Draw two points (the two towers you claim are sufficient). Now draw circles around those towers (Representing the information each tower has, your distance from the tower. Make sure they overlap, to represent a situation where the equipment is reporting accurate information.).

    Now count the intersections of the circles.

  16. Re:Anybody knows the details of location measureme on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 3, Informative
  17. Re:Quaint system... on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Sure. My post is phrased the way it is not because I thought it was particularly novel that my state had solved the problem but because I thought the solution was blisteringly obvious.

  18. Re:Quaint system... on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 1

    My state has solved this problem. The license printing apparatus can print more than 1 style of card.

  19. Re:Apple vs Linux on iPhone's PIN-Based Security Transparent To Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    They tried!

    It is too strong.

  20. Re:Cement != Concrete on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    They don't really use aggregate in deep see drilling.

    So the summary is correct when it says cement. I am assuming that it what you are talking about, because I didn't really see any comments talking about concrete. Ref:

    http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=cement

  21. Re:Too early on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    The relief well will presumably be under the damaged parts of the original well, and it will be 'under control'.

    The problems with the main well are that the BOP (and perhaps other stuff) is damaged, and that it is out of control.

  22. Re:relief well ... bet on it on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The relief well does not divert the pressure. They can use it to inject mud (which has a density much higher than oil or seawater) into the original bore. As the mud fills the well, the higher density will increase the pressure until it matches the outward pressure of the reservoir.

    So 8,000 vertical feet of seawater/oil is not enough to stop the leak, but 8,000 vertical feet of drilling mud that has a much higher density can do the job.

  23. Re:Not so bad on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    The first relief well is well underway:

    http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033657&contentId=7061734

    Between public relations and the tone of the government (deep water projects are being put on hold), I would be surprised if they try to continue operating this hole (and I'm not sure it makes technical sense for them to do so, I imagine they have lots of concerns about various parts of the casing).

  24. Re:in other news, cementing the BP CEO has started on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of the numbers I have seen sort of add together to the total cleanup cost and other liabilities to at least be in the range of $10 billion. They can pay that off in 6 months.

    (I'm assuming several billion dollars of cleanup costs, and then also several billion for fisherman, and another several billion for the tourist industry)

    They could probably afford to pay $50 billion (but I don't really see how the liabilities will get that high).

  25. Re:Too early on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Speculation:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-cavnar/bp-top-kill-today-finally_b_590178.html

    In short, the guy thinks that maybe they waited because they didn't think it would work until the pressure in the well had reduced some.