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  1. Re:Calling this "liquid wood" on "Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought the paper industry grow low ligin trees for paper production, if they used higher ligin trees they should be able to supply both demands. The ligin industry might even develop using high ligin trees and consider the paper pulp a valuable by-product.

  2. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    I couldn't determine if the system was trying to override the nervous system and move the person through direct stimulation of the muscles or by causing an avoidance reflex, but if it simply tasered your ass that would work too! I imagine after a couple of assassination attempts, the wearer would tend to avoid high-risk behaviors!

  3. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    Dragon-skin doesn't hold up to thermal stresses the military requires, the adhesive fails at extremely low and extremely high temperatures, then the plates fall down leaving the system vulnerable to first round penetrations. It's great until you go to the desert or the arctic.

  4. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    Either way. I won't be counting on being alive after a .50 cal round or something that big. Even a .308 must hit you like a truck. Also what about light but higher velocity rounds --like a .270 or something. The energy from a 308 is higher IIRC but the velocity means the impact forces could be higher.

    No the .308 has more power, m*v, the .270 has more energy, m*v^2. Which is more effective is a matter of considerable controversy.

  5. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    Moving directly toward or away wouldn't help.

  6. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    The silencer or more properly sound suppressor is used in these cases more for their ability to suppress the muzzle report and flash, this gives the sniper a better opportunity to execute an escape. People trained in anti-sniper techniques will hear the sonic boom from the bullet passing, then listen for the muzzle report to determine the sniper's shooting position if they didn't see the muzzle flash.

  7. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    Presidential guards are expected to take the bullet, not avoid it.

  8. Re:Stimulate to move... on IBM Files Patent For Bullet-Dodging Bionic Armor · · Score: 1

    The sonic booms don't convey much positional data unless you have multiple acoustic sensors and do a triangulation on the data; they do hurt and will give you a ferocious headache even with hearing protection.

  9. Re:NO on Hadron Collider Relaunch Delayed · · Score: 1

    You should have said 1969 so we could make some stack underflow jokes.

  10. Re:Inflation rate is zero or negative on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    +-3%, the budget should be near balanced, 3% is chicken feed.

  11. Re:Great on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    half-stepper, whack'em both, that way the little bastards knows what they've been taught is wrong as well as the parents.

  12. Re:Who is the bloodsucker? on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    Almost, most infrastructure would be consider capital expenditures and have to depreciated over a period of time, rather than expensed in one year. If memory serves me correctly a corporation can claim something on the order of 10's of thousand of capital expenditure in the purchased year presently, that's a big deal to small businesses, not so much for big businesses.

  13. Re:no soup! on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    Running up a deficit to fund government spending works really good to create inflation, and that's what I'd recommend if our money was deflated; however I'm not sure that's the case presently. Since the inflation rate is around 3% the government budget should be close to balanced and neither the current administration nor the past administration will do this, Bush did the wrong thing and Obama wants to do the wrong thing differently, not really much difference from our agent of change.

  14. Re:no soup! on $2 Billion For Broadband Cut From Stimulus Bill · · Score: 1

    It's not economically viable for these guys to hire and train in-house talent to do these roll-outs, they hire a contractor to do it; My step-son used to travel all over the country doing pole-to-pole cable systems. It doesn't make sense for these contractors to spend a ton of money on capital equipment to increase capacity only to be out of work before it's depreciated off. I honestly don't think throwing more money at fiber to the door is going to speed deployment up any. Municipalities deploying in what the big-boys consider fringe-area will get their asses in gear quick.

  15. Re:money is not the way on How Do I Start a University Transition To Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I keep all my porn on the linux partition, Linux rocks in multimedia and no DRM to get in the way

  16. Re:The problem sounds a bit circular on DTV Converters In Short Supply · · Score: 1

    However, the difference between you and the US government is that *they* know that- regardless of whether it's those people's fault for missing the point, ignoring the advice and not getting a box- there are a significant number of them and they'll be mighty pissed off and blame the government when they can't watch TV *at all*.

    Yeah and the residence of New Orleans were warned years ago that the levies would break if they were hit with a hurricane and we saw how well the evacuation for Katrina went! Go park by the Post Office at 11:00PM on April 15th if you don't believe me.

  17. Re:Yeah... Ok on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    I just had surgery and it was like being switched off wht the pentobarbitol hit me, no felling woosy just out instantly.

  18. Re:Yeah... Ok on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    I just had surgery this month, the anaesthesiologist said "here a little something to make you more comfortable while you wait" and it was like they hit a switch, out instantly. when i woke up in recovery I didn't even know they had done the surgery until the nurse told me.

  19. Re:Ob on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    Must not be or Daryl Mc Bride would have been excommunicated, the LDS is a big time Linux user, their genological database is on a mainframe running thousands of instances of Linux and that would have been a big chunk of change at $699.00 an instance to licenses!

  20. Re:Phelps poll on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    I thought that THC detection was more on the order of days than months, especially if they just use the simpler screening test rather than the more expensive gas-chromatography/mass spectroscopy method.

  21. Re:Phelps poll on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    He also got a blowjob but didn't have "sex", but somehow I don't believe either. I'd rather have a president that either didn't smoke pot at all or inhaled deeply, none of this half-stepping bullshit.

  22. Re:Phelps poll on Utah Mulls a Database of Bar Customers · · Score: 1

    Depends on the child, most of the Disney kids could use a good whack with the clue stick.

  23. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    Damn your right, I'm mortified! Even if the directory is owned by root, root can still see the contents.

  24. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    The "Mojave Experiment" was supposedly to show that people had just a bad opinion of Vista because of bad hype but that once they saw it they liked it.

    I actually like Vista, not quite as much as Linux, but it's really not bad on high-end hardware; but I bet if I loaded Geoworks and DOS that ran find on my 8 MHz 286, on to a dual core 3GHz machine people would have an all-day woody when they saw how fast it ran.

  25. Re:not surprising on Is It Windows 7, Or KDE 4? · · Score: 1

    Try chmod -r the directories permissions, now its just an empty directory, even root can't see anything in it unless a chmod +r is done on it; Oops probably shouldn't have said that!