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  1. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    You are right, I was mistaken. In which case hooray for hydrogen balloons!

  2. Stack Exchange to weed out bogus claims? on US Patent Office Seeks Aid To Spot Bogus Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Sounds too good to be true.

  3. Re:How to decide the fate of helium on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    The problem with hydrogen is not that it's flammable (pure hydrogen is not very explosive) but that it's very hard to contain because of its small molecular size. Balloons would have to be made of expensive materials.

  4. What happens if they get hacked? on Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide · · Score: 1

    I imagine some burglars could find this data quite useful, knowing which houses are empty.

  5. I guess their users are quite angry on New Twitter Policies Put the Kibosh On Mashup Services · · Score: 1

    All 5 of them have signed the petition (assuming it wasn't signed by the owners/developers).

  6. Feet on Ask Slashdot: Gaming With Only One Hand? · · Score: 1

    I don't know much about disabilities but there are pedals for car games or amps that you should be able to reprogram for fpses.

  7. Re:Barcodes on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 2

    It will only make it easier for Hitman to blend in.

  8. Re:Iran, or... on Iran Behind Cyber Attacks On U.S. Banks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, an evil organisation who wants to destroy the friendship between the US and Iran...come on.

  9. Re:And I am willing to bet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 0, Troll

    The US has been sabotaging the Kyoto and other emission controlling treaties for as long as they existed.

  10. Re:And I am willing to bet on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 0

    Well they did have a much better life in the colonial times, and in fact Chinese businesses has already started recolonizing them.

  11. Good idea on W3C Announces Plan To Deliver HTML 5 by 2014 · · Score: 2

    Finalize the things that we already have, this long-stretched process is already hurting the web.

  12. Elegant on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 2

    Nice trick, but I'm still not sure if people really believed in what they were arguing for or just wanted to avoid looking stupid.

  13. The real question is on Ig Nobels Feature Exploding Colonoscopies, Left Leaning Views of Eiffel Tower · · Score: 1, Funny

    Which way does the Pisa tower lean?

  14. The quality of recording matters more on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1

    When songs are recorded and mastered badly with no dynamic range no amount of lossless compression will save it.

  15. Re:Yeesh on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 1

    Of course they don't. That would be terrorism. This kind of speech can be quite dangerous, only the forensic analyst testifying in court will be allowed to read it.

  16. Re:"Several Guns Were Found"? on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 1

    There is a correlation though, very few go on a rampage with bare hands or knives. It's not a proof alone, but could be a basis of suspicion if something else is found.

  17. I have diarrhea on Nestle's GPS Tracking Candy Campaign · · Score: 1

    Good luck finding me in the sewers!

    On a more serious note, this could cause loads of trouble to an unsuspecting guy if an airport scanner picks it up.

  18. Re:This Will Help Political Trolls Everywhere on All the TV News Since 2009, Now Available At the Internet Archive · · Score: 1

    Still better than politicians saying one thing today and the complete opposite tomorrow, relying on the public having a very short term memory.

  19. Re:Welcome to the Machine on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 1

    You just have to run through his answers on a NOT gate to achieve high accuracy.

  20. Re:Welcome to the Machine on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The way I see it, finding methods to unlock the power of our subconcious is a useful delay to being replaced by robots.

  21. Re:Awful headline. on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 1

    Wrong, both do:

    Researchers found that rats fed on a diet containing NK603 Roundup tolerant GM maize, or given water containing Roundup at levels permitted in drinking water and GM crops in the US, died earlier than rats fed on a standard diet. They suffered mammary tumors and severe liver and kidney damage.

  22. Re:The apparatus works on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 2

    RTFA, please:

    In the dry-run experiments just completed, cylindrical beryllium liners remained reasonably intact as they were imploded by huge magnetic field of Sandia’s Z machine, the world’s most powerful pulsed-power accelerator. Had they overly distorted, they would have proved themselves incapable of shoveling together nuclear fuel — deuterium and possibly tritium — to the point of fusing them. Sandia researchers expect to add deuterium fuel in experiments scheduled for 2013.

    “The experimental results — the degree to which the imploding liner maintained its cylindrical integrity throughout its implosion — were consistent with results from earlier Sandia computer simulations,” said lead researcher Ryan McBride.“These predicted MagLIF will exceed scientific break-even.”

    A simulation published in a 2010 Physics of Plasmas article by Sandia researcher Steve Slutz showed that a tube enclosing preheated deuterium and tritium, crushed by the large magnetic fields of the 25-million-ampere Z machine, would yield slightly more energy than is inserted into it.

    A later simulation, published last January in PRL by Slutz and Sandia researcher Roger Vesey, showed that a more powerful accelerator generating 60 million amperes or more could reach “high-gain” fusion conditions, where the fusion energy released greatly exceeds (by more than 1,000 times) the energy supplied to the fuel.

  23. Re:Submarines on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    It is, but you can put even more nuclear bombers on a carrier.

  24. The apparatus works on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    But why is that news? They tested it empty, fuel won't even be added until 2013, and analyzing the results of the actual experiment might take even more.

  25. Idiot on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    Now that was low. Idea, why don't we just decide debates by who has the lowest user id? Google only got their patent today, we don't know yet whether they will use it to sue someone. Also, there's a direct link to the patent, are you questioning the factuality of the USPTO?