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  1. Re:awesome on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, "to burn down") is a technical term describing subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it). Most "fire" found in daily life, from flames to explosions, is technically deflagration. Deflagration is different from detonation which is supersonic and propagates through shock compression. Deflagration

    That's what it means although I'm not positive that it accurately describes detonation, which caused by shock compression by two flame fronts colliding in the combustion chamber.

  2. Re:snake oil, more like on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    the feedstock material is first ground into small chunks, and mixed with water if it is especially dry. It is then fed into a reaction chamber where it is heated to around 250 C and subjected to 600 psi (4 MPa) for approximately 15 minutes, after which the pressure is rapidly released to boil off most of the water. Thermal depolymerization

    The big advantage to the CWT process is that they flash off the steam and use the heat from the steam to pre-heat the next batch of feedstock; methane gas generated by the process is than burned to generate the rest of the heat needed. 85% of the feedstock's caloric content is present in the final product.

  3. Re:Progress o Science doesn't mean locking away id on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    FTA

    Rivera must convince potential investors that his trade secret â" 21 years and $31 million dollars in the making â" isnâ(TM)t just a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

    so it's not a patent

  4. Re:snake oil, more like on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    The Solar Energy would still cost the money you didn't make by selling the energy collected to someone else.

  5. Re:Progress o Science doesn't mean locking away id on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why this will be a problem for the energy companies, might possibly take a bite out of the ass of drilling companies, but tell the Energy Co. they don't have to partake in the high-risk crap shoot that punching new holes in the ground entail and I'll show you a company with an all-day woodie!

  6. Re:BT Encryption on FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All the FCC has said is using arguably illegal techniques to send forged traffic to unsuspecting users and irregardless of existing network traffic fail to meet the standard of reasonable traffic management. This isn't that much different to a slum-lord committing arson by burning down his rat and cockroach infested buildings and claiming it's a reasonable pest control technique!

  7. Re:awesome on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Ideal gas law is PV=nRT, so while the increased number of moles of gas will inherently increase the combustion chambers pressures and temperature, but the lion's share of the pressure increase is due to the exothermic nature of the combustion heating the gasses.

  8. Re:Too good to be true??? on "Vetrolium" From Agricultural Waste · · Score: 2, Informative

    At best this is a variation on TDP, therefore it probably works, it definitely doesn't work as economically as the article implies, but you have to over-hype this stuff to get the attention of the venture capitalists. I expect that the ROI isn't really good enough to get the venture capital excited when compared with the risks involved.

  9. Re:Hmm on Spammers Announce World War III · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now this is no bullshit a friend, of mine knew this guy that had his penis amputated in an industrial accident, the doctors tried to reattach it but the ends were too mangled to work with, Next they tried an experimental surgery and attached a piece of elephant's trunk instead. After 6 weeks the doctors gave him permission to try out the new equipment so he took his honey out to dinner. Over dinner with his girlfriend his "penis" unzipped his pants, reached out, grabbed a dinner roll and pulled under the table. His girlfriend, couldn't quite believe what she saw until it happened again so she finally said "Is that going to happen all night?" and the guy replied "I hope not, I don't think another dinner roll will fit up my ass."

  10. Re:Tax Dollars At Work on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've read the "offending" section and it's clear to me that the law is aimed at requiring computer forensics investigators to have a Private Investigator's license.

    * (b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), obtaining or furnishing information includes information obtained or furnished through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the content of, computer-based data not available to the public. ...
    Computer repair or support services should be aware that if they offer to perform investigative services, such as assisting a customer with solving a computer-related crime, they must be licensed as investigators⦠[Text of law posted above.]

    In fact this law seems to be a stake in the heart of the RIAA toady Media-Sentry or WTF they call themselves today.

  11. Re:GPL is nice LGPL is better. on Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy · · Score: 1

    If you succeed in making programming not profitable, then I just start violating GPL. And luckily for me, a Russian citizen, no Russian court is going to do anything against that, because GPL status in Russia is still unclear (we're not bound to contracts that are not written on paper, and license agreements in foreign languages are invalid if signed between two Russian subjects).

    So you're saying that in Russia there is no copyright laws? Acceptance of the terms of the GPL is what gives you the license to redistribute the copyrighted code.

  12. Re:Oh cool! on Massive, Coordinated Patch To the DNS Released · · Score: 1

    Your name server, at 208.67.217.6, appears to be safe.
      You're using OpenDNS. Thanks! You are now navigating the Internet safer, faster, smarter and more reliably than ever before.

  13. Re:The REAL problem on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    yes the only site that can count on IE6 or IE7 being that is update.microsoft.com!

  14. Re:Trust on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    Obviously Microsoft can do this for their own product. What if you run Opera and Photoshop as well? Microsoft can not be asked to do the updates for them, because they did not provide them.

    that would be a perfect use for the microsoft certification thingy that crashed and burned a while back; all M$ would have to provide is a link to the software's package distribution site, M$ stuff might come from ftp.microsoft.com and Photoshop would come from ftp.adobe.com. I use Arch Linux and get my updates from numerous mirrors, pacman just goobles them up automatically. Something like that or aptget work work like gang busters, it's not like it would be hard for Microsoft to reverse engineer it.

  15. Re:Trust on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    no need to shoot twice, just decapitate and put a stake through the heart.

  16. Re:The REAL problem on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    Even the logs don't really tell you anything, there are numerous sites that will reject a new browser or a browser running on linux because they were to pathetically lazy to test it. The result is I like many others frequently spoof our browser's ID. Many site's will crash and burn when presented with Mozilla on Linux work fine when told the browser is IE7 on Vista. One day I'm going to tell sites that I'm a Googlebot and see what happens.

  17. Re:47% on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    well considering we are talking about Mosaic shortly could be as early as 2009! Mosaic is not like those new-fangled browsers, they think long-term.

  18. Re:And yet... on 550 Metric Tons of Uranium Removed From Iraq · · Score: 1

    what rude awakening, He's already said the "16 Month time table" would be modified by what the commanders on the ground told him. This to me reads he's going to re-enact the Nixon administration complete with a "the fall of Saigon in Bagdad" scenario when Iran annexes Iraq.

  19. Re:Good! on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seti@home was started for several reasons

    1. SETI researchers were passionate about there work.
    2. the idea of SETI is inherently romantic insureing some success
    3. the SETI project was interesting and computationally amenable to distributed processing

    Originally the SETI@home was intended more as a proof of concept rather than the finally goal and it popular success surprised even the SETI team.
    boinc was a restructuring of the 1st gen SETI@home software and is designed to be much more modular and versatile framework than its predecessor. Because the framework is more versitile the other projects can spend their time writing their specialized software and not re-inventing the wheel.

  20. Re:What a politcally correct headline... on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    Apostasy has nothing to do with state religions. That line is simply explaining what apostasy means and then pointing out that it's specific to Islam in Iran in case anyone thought the crime would also apply to anyone promoting leaving Christianity or another religion too. Might seem unlikely but certainly not impossible that it could.

    My understanding is in Indonesia a Muslim country you need the government's permission to change religions or you could be charged with Apostasy even if you changed from Christian to Islam.

  21. Re:So, let's TALK to them! on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    From the United States' perspective, the United States' military perspective, in particular, opening up a third front right now would be extremely stressful on us, Mullen told reporters.

    Of course one could consider the US Military involvement on Iran's boarder with Iraq, and th US Military involvement on Iran's boarder with Afghanistan as setiing up a classic pincher offense to finally deliver a coup de grass onto a nation that took great delight in seizing our embassy and holding our diplomats hostage only a few short decades ago.

  22. Re:How is this regime possible? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    Just prior to that (73-74) I was attending an Army Missile repair course and it was pretty common knowledge that Iranian students didn't fail the course because they were beheaded when they got home if they did. I'm sure this was the case in civilian education as well, so even if he wasn't a planted informant he was unlikely to be the due to merit; at the time get abroad for education meant you were connected to the Government somehow and there due to patronage.

  23. Re:How is this regime possible? on In Iran, Blogging May Be Punishable By Death · · Score: 1

    yes they do have a large amount of young people and like all young people they have a strong tendency toward revolutionary, and fascist thoughts and behaviors. The present government has become very adept at manipulating these young people into supporting their equally fascist theocracy.

  24. Re:What? on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    If you really study the History WW II was basically a re-escalation of WW I anyways

  25. Re:Good! on Arecibo Observatory Facing Massive Budget Cuts · · Score: 1

    Good. Maybe soon, all the BOINC users wasting time searching for non-existent aliens will move on to something useful!

    World Community Grid is a boinc project , no Seti@home no boinc, no boinc no World Community Grid.