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  1. Re:I'm sorry but.. on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with that, just because I forgot to close a curtain, doesn't mean you should be able to photograph me or my wife naked in our home; nor would I want the up-skirt laws changed.I also find the majority of the activities of the paparazzi moraly repugnant, but I don't know how we would limit that without over-reaching.

  2. Re:I'm sorry but.. on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    Yeah right, every cellphone has a camera now, every pair of tween girls takes pictures of her and her BFF, with their heads stuck to gether and grinning like a couple chestersire cats; kick them out and all you'd here is echos in the halls of the mall.

  3. Re:lawsuit time? on Canadian Teenager Arrested For Photographing Mall Takedown · · Score: 1

    They were mall security guards, even if he explained, they probably wouldn't have been able to understand it.

  4. Re:Yogurt does the same thing on Gut Bacteria Cocktail May End Need for Fecal Transplants · · Score: 1

    Is this a troll? Cause you can tell that yogurt has nothing to do with the bacteria in your digestive tract because you don't shit yogurt, eh?

    Well:

    Yogurt Implant Enema Recipe:
    8oz. Plain Yogurt (live culture) acidophilus
    8 to 16 oz. warm filtered water
    Temperature 103Fahrenheit
    Mix well

    some times you do. Makes sense, if you want to get bacteria in your gut, why go the long way arround?

  5. Re:three words, one hyphen: on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you don't mind a behind the ear design, there's plenty of hearing aid work-alikes out there. Hearing aids are FDA medical devices that must be custom fitted and adjusted for the individual by order of a licensed professional, but if you look in the back of the AARP, or the American Legion magazines you'll find consumer devices that look a lot like hearing aids, work like hearing aids, but aren't.

  6. Re:Not a practical solution to our energy problem on Using Winemaking Waste For Making Fuel · · Score: 1

    Petroleum is just recycled sunlight and atmospheric CO2, what's "greener" than that?

  7. Re:Grandpappa on Using Winemaking Waste For Making Fuel · · Score: 1

    You can't get all of the gasoline out through distillation, Everclear is probably cheaper than buying the gas and distilling out the ethanol anyways.

  8. Re:Yea!... I mean No. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    More likely the electronic system detects the steering is operating properly then disengages the clutch, rather than the other way.

  9. Re:Yea!... I mean No. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    Yeah but after the war we decide that its cheaper to abandon our cots electronics then it is to ship it home so we just leave it for the locals.

  10. Re:Faradays cage on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 1

    The microwaves just induce a lot of voltage, if you put a piece of aluminum foil and zap it a lowest power, (not on the turntable) you should be able to get it to arc. Take it out after it cools and you'd find that the pits are 1/4 wavelength apart.

  11. Re:My computer has a tin-foil hat. on Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs · · Score: 2

    Tin Foil, 6"Wide x.001 Gauge 1Lb/Bx, Buffalo Dental Mfg Co Inc , $77.99 ! Aluminum is OK for wraping a turkey, but sometime you need the real deal.

  12. Re:Nuclear Waste Storage facility on Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Yes but the radioactivity is very low so it much easier to work with, about the same activity wise as the original fuel.

  13. Re:Nuclear Waste Storage facility on Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013 · · Score: 1

    The way I understand it is, Spent Fuel Rods are dangerous primarily because of the cesium 137 content. The Cesium has a half-life of about 30 years, so it is gone for all practical purposes after 10 half-lives or 3 centuries. Then the result is pretty much pure plutonium, with a bunch of inert filler, and very easy to process.

  14. Re:Nuclear Waste Storage facility on Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013 · · Score: 1

    So the federal government has all this money in the bank waiting to be spent on the clean-up, or they have already spent it all and will be taxing future generations?

    FederalDeficit is $901 billion, and the Federal Debt is, $16,198,677,971,774.43, so that would be no; we already spent the money on other things.

  15. Re:Well... on Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013 · · Score: 2

    I grew up on a water well that had gas in it, the faucets never lit, but the air space in the water tank accumulated a lot of gas; the relief valve would support a 3 foot flame! We had an oil seep down the hill too.

  16. Re:Well... on Dominion Announces Plans To Close Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station In 2013 · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with CO2, it hasn't gotten any warmer for 16 years, that's over half a climatic period!

  17. Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is on Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? · · Score: 1

    Routers work at really insane frequencies, semiconductor junctions break down due to cosmic ray strikes, and just plain diffusion and with such high frequencies the transmitter are very sensitive to any degradations. Wires and circuit board traces get mircroscopic cracks from vibrations and the cracks oxidise causing signals to get rectified also causing degradation.

  18. Re:cold fusion fraud again? on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 1

    The Nazis thought so, and no I'm not going Godwin on you, it just the good'ol synfuel being revisited on you. Honestly they would be better off hooking this thingy up to a cement kiln or a coal fired power plant and getting some concentrated CO2 to extract rather than trying to get parts per million out of the atmosphere but that way it's hard to get the grants and subsidies to get this money-pit rolling.

  19. Re:How much CO2 does it take on Climate Change Research Gets Petascale Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    No it's coal-fired

  20. Re:833.9 mph actually on The Tech Behind Felix Baumgartner's Stratospheric Skydive · · Score: 1, Informative

    Typo, somebodies finger hit the 8 instead of a 7

  21. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    There's also a possibility that the Lybian's will instead of having one dirtbag dictator in charge will have a revolving door of dirtbag warlords.

  22. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    The worst part of Libya was we made a deal with Gaddafi , give up your nuclear program, stop sponsoring terrorism, pay damages for the Lockerbie incident and we'll leave you in peace. Well the dirt-bag called our bluff and did it, so now along comes our NATO partners and Obama and we attack Gaddafi, now how easy is it going to be to negotiate a non-violent resolution with dirt-bags in the future after breaking the deal with Gaddafi? This is something that is going to haunt us for decades.

  23. Re:Uh, how is this a subject for Technology and Ge on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    That was really scary, it was apparent to me that as far as understanding how trivial it is to make a nuclear weapon out of weapons grade uranium;

    The weapon was developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium 235. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 to 860 milligrams of matter in the bomb was converted into the active energy of heat and radiation (see mass-energy equivalence for detail). It exploded with an energy of 16 kilotons of TNT (67 TJ).[5] It has been estimated that 130,000 to 150,000 people had died as a result of its use by the end of December 1945.[6]The available supply of enriched uranium was very small at that time, and it was felt that the simple design of a uranium "gun" type bomb was so sure to work that there was no need to test it at full scale. Little Boy

    the current administration is a "Beavis and Buthead" team.

    At least Bidden go Cornholio on TV, with all of the laughing to himself, I wasn't sure what was going to happen.

  24. Re:nothing new at all needed on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Dude that would have been so Rat Fink cool. I always thought a Toronado drive train would have been cool lurking under the hatch of a Bosstang, but the simca would have beat the all to hell.

  25. Re:Ford makes the engin allready. on How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 · · Score: 1

    Sure it is, in fact during the summer months we export a lot of diesel to Europe, then during the fall and winter we make it into fuel oil instead, we can crack and splice those hydrocarbon chains pretty much as we want.