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  1. Re:Explain what can happen on Getting Company Owners To Follow Their Own Rules? · · Score: 1

    I'm in a "right to work" and "at will" state which means at will employment, and I can be terminated at any time for any or no reason as long as it doesn't include racial, cultural, religious discrimination and a few other things. So basically it means it's easier to fire me for no reason than for a reason. I am entitled to unemployment compensation if I'm fired, but not if I quit. I've seen this turn into a battle of wills where the employer treats an employee badly to induce them to quit vs. an employee that will not quit no matter what and tries to induce the employer to fire them.

  2. Re:Is a mini-black-hole always a mini-black-hole? on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 1

    Well that's the point not all observer's will see the same relative velocity and mass. Imagine a group of particle traveling in parallel paths at the same speed, another particle colliding with the center of the group. The approaching particle will be seen at a different velocity by every particle per particle's frame of reference.

  3. Is a mini-black-hole always a mini-black-hole? on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 2

    Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a high energy particle physicist, a particle's energy/mass would only exists at it's maximum along it's axis of velocity, m = mrest/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) and v is varied by the cosine of the angle of approach or the radial velocity therefore it is likely that a relativistic particle could have some collisions that would satisfied the conditions for a black-hole and some that did not simultaneously. We generally view a blackhole event horizon as a psychologically comfortable sphere, yet a relativistic blackholes event horizon would be shaped like an hour-glass.

  4. TO: Whom it may concern; on Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes After All · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a pornographic film maker and I have just registered a screen-play with the USPTO and the US Copyright office for a creative work titled "The Large hardon Collider"depicting two white nude male actors running around a ring for the purpose of jousting with their abnormally large, erect penises. When the actor collides his penis with the opposing actor he is assigned a point for the collision, the first actor to achieve 5 points wins the privilege of engaging in the sex scene with a black actress. Any talk or writings involving "large hardon collider" or "large hardon collisions" with or without blackholes is a serious violation of my IP rights. My legal team is at this moment is preparing litigation against the more grievous violater one "Anonymous Coward".

    Seriously if newstechnica.com habitually misspells the word hadron, which is so fundemental to the topic of the article, how can anybody give them any credibility?

  5. Re:of course on 80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline · · Score: 1

    looks interesting, boy these mods have no sense of humor anymore do they

  6. Re:Beautiful pictures on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 3, Informative

    The number of photons over a fixed amount of time isn't going to change whether exposure time is sliced into a single exposure or multiple exposures. It's basic math.

    Your assuming that the CCD is going to be equally sensitive to every photon many of the initial photons are going to be buried in the detector thermonic noise, this is why amateurs use peltier devices to cool their detectors and pros use cryogenic liquids. Additionally the electronics reading the charge on the CCD pixels will have a threshold level you have to get above. There are probably other factors that I am not aware of.

  7. Re:Beautiful pictures on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try Astroart 4.0 seems like it'll do it all.

  8. Re:Beautiful pictures on Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers · · Score: 1

    The impression I get is now the guide scope either have their own camera and is monitored by a computer or the main camera is sample for guidance correction via software. His equatorial mount accepts auto-guider systems.

  9. Re:It's actually sort of creepy... on Slime Mold Could Lead To Better Tech · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Wikipedia entry for the slime mold species in question indicates that the organism actually does have some sort of primitive intelligence - it could, for example, solve mazes, and learn the pattern of a regularly reoccurring period of cold conditions (reacting appropriately). I see the stuff growing in my garden now and then... the fact that a patch of slime exhibits intelligent behavior is, I don't know, kind of weird.

    I guess that means there is still hope for neural networks and AI.

  10. Re:How do you check? on 80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline · · Score: 1

    Try DNSSEC Drill: Extension for Firefox, it sounds like what you want with the idns libraries and programs. I've never used it but it sounds interesting.

  11. Re:of course on 80% of .gov Web Sites Miss DNSSEC Deadline · · Score: 1

    Does Bind have a point-n-click gui so the MCSE's can use it? One can't expect them to edit text files to configure the software after all.

  12. Re:Why use lasers? on Astrium Hopes To Test Grabbing Solar Energy From Orbit · · Score: 1

    It probably is, if people didn't get emotionally over-wrought at the thought of it being Evil(tm) food-nuking radiation and go all NIMBY on you. All they have to do is keep the power-density low enough so that any critters that stray into the power-beam can radiate the heat-gain away. The antenna is tuned so it absorbs the energy from the power beam, yet only shades a small percentage of the sunlight; my guess is the area under the antenna will become a de facto wildlife refuge for small animals shielded from raptors.

  13. Re:Permanent damage at 100 meters too... on Sound Generator Lethal From 10 Meters · · Score: 1

    Do you mean governments like Pittsburgh?

  14. Re:Yeah, tens of meters from a 50mW power source.. on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    A 50Hz transformer that copes with 300W is the size of a shoe box, but for a switchmode power supply at 100KHz it's the size of a match box.

    That's because the transformer's core magnetic saturation level is inversely functional to the frequency, so the lower the frequency the more metal you need, the number of turns isn't affected to a significant degree unless your using tuned coils. 50Hz transformers don't get as big as a shoe box until your at a 1KW or better

  15. Re:Yeah, tens of meters from a 50mW power source.. on Is RCA's Airnergy Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    My DC electricity instructor from decades ago was a radar technician for WW2 era radars, so periodically they would have to tune the antennas because frequency drift would induce standing-waves on the feed-lines. He told us that they would fire-up the radar transmitter, climb up the ladder and prune each dipole to null and that in the winter it would keep them warm enough to work in shirt-sleeves, well at least in England where the winters are usually milder . My guess is that this gismo might pull enough energy to keep an already charged Li-ion or a NiMH cell from discharging due to internal leakage, but if you expect more than that your going to be disappointed. Being able to charge a battery, put it on a shelf and having it still charged a week later is useful but not earth-shattering.

  16. Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    Dude you are so dissing gopher

  17. Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    As for messing up the whole sub-domain naming scheme, please clarify?

    Well let see Example Corp is a mega-sized multi-nation with a physical presence in numerous countries providing goods and services; it's global web portal is example.com, it's web portal for American operations is usa.example.com, Mexican operations site is mex.example.com and Swiss operations is at che.example.com. Putting an "www." on the front just complicates things a smidgen, but it's not a deal breaker.

  18. Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    The http: part does make the www. part redundant.

  19. Re:So how do we DDoS Microsoft? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The unobtainable fruit is always thought to be the sweetest.

  20. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    There's another way to keep them cheaper for clinical use. Create an approved testing regimen, and certify each one that's going into a clinic. For those prices you could afford to perform $9,000 worth of tests on each and every board, and they'd still be half the price.

    Manufactured for $ 100,00 ,
    certified for $91000.00,
    wholesaler' markup 40% $12740.00,
    Retailer's markup 100% $25,480,
    I'd say your over-budget

  21. Re:"Not for ________ use" on Wii Balance Board Gives $18,000 Medical Device a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    Another huge cost is Good manufacturing practice, I looked into making medical devices in my dental lab and the effort involved in just the paperwork was 3 times the effort to actually make the device. Everything has to be documented, every lot number, every expiration date for the materials used and which went into which device, who did what and how, what their training was and the documentation had to be maintained for 2 years or the expected life of the device. This is a killer for small facilities.

  22. Re:A lazy post on Police Called Over 11-Year-Old's Science Project · · Score: 1

    After the psychological trauma of having to deal with the police and the Metro Arson Strike Team, at a tender middle school age, then having your home and sanctuary violated by a search for hazardous substances, counseling probably isn't a bad idea. If the kid can McGyver a motion detector out of a pop bottle and surplus electronics, he can play this up for $Millions.

  23. Re:Well on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    What's the fun in that, how would you know if somebody flames you? Half the time I get flamed, the initiating post ends up modded to +5

  24. Re:Not A Nerd? on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it makes any real difference, isn't an EXT3 /boot partition is read as EXT2 on booting and then almost all of the rest of the time it's not written too?

  25. Re:The government *does* have the right !! on Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops · · Score: 1

    18 U.S.C. 1111 : US Code - Section 1111: Murder
    (a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice
    aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or
    any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated
    killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to
    perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason,
    espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child
    abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or
    practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or
    perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously
    to effect the death of any human being other than him who is
    killed, is murder in the first degree.
    Any other murder is murder in the second degree.
    (b) Within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of
    the United States,
    Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished
    by death or by imprisonment for life;
    Whoever is guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be
    imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
    18 U.S.C. 1111 : US Code - Section 1111: Murder

    The killing could be legal under laws your not familiar with or it could be outside the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of
    the United States,