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  1. Re:If it's not broken, why are you fixing it? on Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid · · Score: 1

    The impact would be on the order of 6.3 ExaJoules! (6.3*10^19) or 6.25×1019 J, the yearly electricity generation of the world as of 2005, which is a whole bunch all in one splash. I suppose that the Russians would be a little sensitive to these things after the Tunguska event

  2. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    A little RainX on the lens covers lets 99% of the snow slide off. I use it on my windshield and lenscovers and the snow just brushes off when it even sticks at all, if there is icing it scrapes off easily too. In our area most traffic signals are suspended from a cable, so if there is a blizzard or near blizzard the lights sway enough that too snow doesn't accumulate anyways.

  3. Re:getting myself a glass of iced tea on Court Orders Shutdown of H-1B Critics' Websites · · Score: 1

    it would seem that,

    On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains and provide hosting services -- GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, to disable the three sites, ITgrunt.com, Endh1b.com, and Guestworkerfraud.com.

    and GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, just obeyed it without regard for whether the judge had jurisdiction or even if the order seemed even vaguely reasonable. 3 of the 4 haven't had the most reputable reputation amongst slashdotters and DiscountASP.Net is a pure microsoft shop so that speaks for itself.

  4. Re:Who said it was anti-technology? on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    Another hint: floating mountains, people. Come on.

    Turn in your geek card, everybody knows unobtanium is a room-temperature superconductor, and therefore the floating mountains are simply an example of magnetic levitation

  5. Re:Some nice backpedaling there, bud on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    "The globe is cooling" is a big denier lie.

    if it's such a lie the why will

    2009 will be the 2nd or 3rd hottest year on record.

    instead of the hottest on record. Right now the 5 year mean. trend looks like it could either flat or ready to increase or decrease it's hard to tell.

  6. Re:I just pictured an oil sheik... on The Last GM Big-Block V-8 Rolls Off the Line · · Score: 1

    The Rat Motor will still live for those who really want them, just like the 427 Hemi's and the 440 wedge. For that matter you can still get Offenauser engine if you have U$28,000.00 burning a hole in your pocket..

  7. Re:at last, a climate change scenario with facts on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    Well this graphseems to contradict your assertion, even the NASA graph shows the 5year means could be flat, too early to tell for sure. If the PDO has in fact shifted phase, the global temps will drop towards middle 1960's levels, the ocean will cool and the water will contract lowering sea levels.

  8. Re:Satellite Imagery on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    and given a free-pass by Kyoto!

  9. Re:Some nice backpedaling there, bud on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    Except that the globe is cooling, in fact the big question is whether this cooling is weather or is it climate.

  10. Re:Some nice backpedaling there, bud on Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas · · Score: 1

    What has that to do with third-world people riding in smokey diesel buses, using kerosene cook stoves, oil lamps and wood fireplaces for heat?

  11. Re:Questions on Smuggler-Proof Toilets Come To Canadian Prisons · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I only see these being installed in select locations. Usually a Female Visitor will smuggle the contraband into the visiting room in their vagina, which is removed in the bathroom. After the bathroom visit the contra-band which is most often currency, is slipped to the inmate who will swallow it while eating some chips or whatever from the vending machines. The inmate then retrieves it the next day, this is where the evidence securing toilet will be used. Currency is highly prized inside because most drugs are smuggled in by the guards and other employees and they aren't interested in stamps or cigarettes for payment.

  12. Re:The Pentagon is full of idiots on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 1

    You're of course assuming that this is just a hole and not a trap, the possibilities for miss-information abound in situations like this. Imagine the stress involved in seeing a video feed tracking your every movement from a machine that can spit silent death at any second and waits for weeks for you to make that one lethal mistake.

  13. Re:Shooting bombs? No bombs trigger when shot? on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    When "Israeli security officers (most who looked around 18 years old)" ask you "Do you have a boyfriend?", you say "Why No, do you know any good clubs, maybe we could have a couple drinks and dance."

  14. Re:Shooting bombs? No bombs trigger when shot? on Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop · · Score: 1

    60 years?, the problem is more like 4,000 years old.

  15. Re:Blahgh on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 2

    FTA

    However it was unlikely to activate the major fault line that runs beneath Basel, which led to a huge quake that devastated the city in 1356. Switzerland geologist on trial for 'causing quakes'

    My guess is at least some of the "damaged" buildings were around 653 years old.

  16. Re:Blahgh on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    In fairness it was a magnitude 3.4, the amplitudes in one of those can be confused with a semi-truck going 35 MPH hitting a pothole in front of your house. 3.4 earthquakes are described as minor and Often felt, but rarely causes damage. I've never been to Switzerland but if they build like the Germans it's homes built out of mortared bricks without reinforcing and more more susceptible to seismic damage than would be expected by North Americans.

  17. Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. on Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    A foot of volcanic ash soaks up a lot of toxic chemicals, so no worries there.

  18. Re:THIS is why AGW skeptics cannot be trusted on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    BZZZT, wrong! the curing light isn't UV, but deep blue, sometime UV light is used to active dental bleaches.

  19. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    No he said "I don't understand that formula. I don't have the math for it", is one local market's prices being consistently above the norm really that much different than one temperature sensor?

  20. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 1

    Good god someone has finally made a rational observation eloquently.

  21. Re:I am very sceptical... on The Limits To Skepticism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Before everyone starts putting down the author for being anonymous, please observe that this is The Economist. For those of you not familiar with that particular publication, one of its distinguishing traits is that it does not publish bylines. Ever. Editorials in The Economist are backed by the reputation of the editorial staff of The Economist, not of any individual writer.

    FTA

    I don't understand that formula. I don't have the math for it. The paper goes on to reject the Trewin formula for reasons which, again, I don't have the math to understand. This is academic-level statistics. Scepticism's limits

    WTF The Economist's editorial staff doesn't understand math? I can easily understand that they may not understand why a formula may be rejected in a particular context but to not understand the formula itself! I think their reputation just FUBARed.

  22. Re:10% improvement isn't that much on Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine · · Score: 1

    I have a lot of friends that are corn farmers and they would all love to know about how to get this supposed corn subsidy

  23. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    While they will receive perfunctory instruction in reading and writing, the primary sociological function of this institution is to indoctrinate the children with the state's version of history, to teach them obedience to authority, and to condition them to view agents of the state as authority figures.

    Yeah like that is working well, we have a bunch of increasingly Narcissistic, ADHD and Oppositional Defiant Disorder kids that are stupid in ways that transcend being poorly educated, ignorant, uncritical thinkers or lacking in native intelligence. I'm almost glad they view the state as the authority figure instead of me!

  24. Re:Ignorance in the comments from the Superintende on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    But there are people who don't get D. Adams references.

    Some of us are real nerds and some are posers.

  25. Re:Idle computer resources on SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing · · Score: 1

    Niesluchowski is claiming he had permission to run the SETI@Home 3 superintendents ago, 2 superintendents ago when he was informed that SETI@Home might be a problem, he installed a "group policy object" or GPO on the computers to disable SETI; which was inadvertently disabled or deleted. Seems that some whiteboard program was having trouble do to the computers going into screensaver or standby when inactive.