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  1. Re:One of the issues they have is startup energy on Efficient Solar Power Using Stirling Engines · · Score: 1

    Most motors are designed with a start-up capacitor anyways, and the start-up surge is still significant. Normaly a motors that runs at ten amps under load will need to be on a 20 amp circuit or have slow-blow circuit breakers

    You know the more I think about it the more I feel the world is realy coming to an end; first the British outlaw fox hunting, then I defend a technic to will reduce green-house gasses, step three must be the end of the world.

  2. Re:One of the issues they have is startup energy on Efficient Solar Power Using Stirling Engines · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine it's just cheaper to stagger the start-up times than to add the added equipment. Sometimes you just have to comprmise between perfect and good enough.

  3. Re:Close, but not there yet on Efficient Solar Power Using Stirling Engines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Snow never really bothered my satelite tv dish, any snow just fell off it. Basicaly the dish points at a point the sun will cross, even got "sunfade" twice a year as the sun passed into the dish-satelite axis. As far as lubricating the engine, there are synthetic oils that will do it pretty easily especialy the dibasic class of ester based oils

  4. Re:What a buffoon on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    These bafoons don't even have a robots.txt file!

  5. Re:What a buffoon on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    it's about making a cached copy of copyrighted material and redistributing it for free without owner's permission!
    Here's how I read it, The customer's have saved the copyrighted materials on to their hardrives and reposted them to websites they control. Then google finds the sites that have illegaly reposted the images and links and caches to them. The real beef is the gaggle of sites illegaly reposted, not google who found the villians.
    If perfect 10 had a clue, they would use google to find the illegal sites and sue them, not google.

    The other interesting thing is these shit-birds DON'T have a robots.txt file on their site, so all of their thumbnails are going to get cached and linked anyways.

  6. Re:From the article... on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    I simply can't under Linux. I have to recompile the f-ing source for it to link to the right libraries.

    Shouldn't be that hard to write a binary rpm or other loader that automaticaly checks the dependcies and solves them transperantly durring instalation. If Gentoo can do it for compilation, then they can do it for binaries, and if Gentoo can do it than so can Redhat, SUSE and everybody else; if they wanted to that is

  7. Re:From the article... on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    You might save your self a lot of grief by looking into why, sometimes it as silly as two distro's naming the exact same lib differently and a simple maunal simlink to the expected name makes everything hunkey-dorrey.

  8. Re:Vodka snobbery vs. other snobberies on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    That's at least part of what I was trying to get across, Fine wines have an additional expense for their added quality, better selection of grapes, some season produce a better vintage, more attention to fermention, more testing durring aging, more selection for bottling also "good" cigars will use rarer and more expensive tobaccos, longer aging stricter quality control and scotch of course loose volume durring aging, a seasons barley may have better results, skills of the fermentors, distiller agers/blender, preparing the aging casks ect. It easy for me to tell the different from most mass produce consumer level product and their premimum counter-parts even if I don't think the difference is worth the added price.
    Vodka I just don't see it, and I wonder how many dis-reputable bar owners keep filling-up empty Grey-Goose and Absolute botttles with economy grade stuff after hours.

    One year at the company Christmas party I told the waistress, "I'll have the same thing He is" and pointed at the boss; turned out that the boss had just order a $300.00 super rare scotch. It was good, and I enjoyed it but not $300.00 worth of good at leaste it was on the bosses tab! After that I made it a point to pay attention to what the waitresses were asking rather than what the accountant was saying about keeping his face and activities off the TV news.
    Personaly, the wine, beer, and liquores I make are best I've had at a tenth to a hundreth the price of the premium brands, and their are a lot of people who will agree with me, the stuff they've personaly made is the best.

  9. Re:Well... on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    Exactly, but the Water-Alcohol you want will saturate the filter pretty quickly, and move into equalibrium, after that it only adsorbes trace chemical you don't want anyways. So you'll only loose a little bit, if your realy hung-up on a little bit then you should probably consider joining AA.

  10. Re:not surprising... on Hacking Vodka · · Score: 1

    Vodka is just ethtanol cut with water, carefull attention to distallation technics will lead to a purer, smoother product, up to a very well defined specific point. I just took a pretty good look at Tito's site, alot of what he says makes sense even if his terminology and a couple of his idea's is a bit whacked.

    I kinda think that Tito's real advantage is his senses are a bit crossed, some people's olifactory sense get's crossed with their color sense, making them smell in color and they can detect very minute differences in odors that are completely beyong what most people can sense. Still he's not doing anything I can't with a gas-chromatagraph.

    There is no reason why you can't run some rot-gut vodka through a real fractional distilalation colume like every 1st semester organic student has used, and get a much better produce out than you put in. Filter it through some activated charcoal (ala water filter) you can tweak it even more. If it is still not smoother enough for you add a bit of food-grade gycerin like the mass-producer do.

    I also believe that this is another spoiled rich-boy fad like Cigars, Scotch, Fine wine were before them. When you think about it Grey Goose is a French Vodka, French and Vodka to me that's an oxymoron.

  11. Re:who says we failed? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    You forgot
    5 US can't purchase imported Chinese good leading to wide spread civil unrest in asia
    6 US agriculture is decimated, cripples humanitarian relief durring african famines

  12. Re:Irony on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    And I'm very grateful that the canadian authorities now tell us when chemical valley plants in Sarnia spill hundreds of gallons toxic chemicals into Our drinking water; it sure beats looking across the river for fire trucks.

  13. Re:Consequences? on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 1

    That would be like how the lottery money goes into the school fund, sure it does, after they cut the general fund contribution an equal amount. The fact is we're to dependent on foriegn oil import from the rest of the world, and the rest of the world is to dependant on US Oil money and foriegn aid for anything real to happen.

  14. Re:Way offtopic.... on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    I would argue that Isolating members extremest sects that opening boast of and practice torture, kidnap, and murder of innocent men women and children many of which are Muslims of Arabic desent as a pro-Islamic agenda.

  15. Re:Way offtopic.... on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    The ignorance of Americans about the rest of the world constantly amazes me.
    So does that mean that you know who the Governor of Michigan is or how many troops are under her command. How about what the GNP of Michigan is? The ignorance of the world about Americans constantly amazes me! One thing I am certain of is the stereotypical view of Americans, by any other nationality is as inacurate as my stereotypes of them.

    Oh and about Multi-party ballots, my ballot had candidates fot the Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and the Greens, I'll bet the Greens were on your last ballot to!

  16. Re:big money, intl relations... on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    When the French are being unkind to us (the US), a little voice in the back of my head says"Hey you shouldn't complain about us because you made us" therefore we can aways say its France's fault.

  17. About France, on EU Intent on Hosting International Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    French politics have been more than a bit contrarian for several decades. This has diluted their influence both in the EU and in the world community in general. I'm not sure if the EU is ready to except the philosophy of "all things nuclear is in France".

  18. Re:A Little Trite? on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 2, Informative

    After a hurricane I've never seen 40 square miles of homes leveled to the foundation, Dumpsters pushed through brick-cement block wall three stories above the ground, or a 2X12 going through a car tire. But I've seen all of that after a tornado and that was in Alabama, out in Oklahoma they get the big ones. No only reason I'm alive is because it skipped over.
    I Had three steps advance warning.

  19. subdermal tags on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1

    The biggest issue I see is since the minors aren't competent to make an informed concent, their parents or Legal Guardians make the concent. Now when these people reach Majority, it takes active measures to opt-out of the system. Why might a person want to undergo surgery to have a subdermal RFID removed? One situation pops to mind is when the primative embedded tag interferes with later versions required by future employers. I'm sure the NSA or CIA might have issues with non-issue electronic devices in certain areas.

  20. Re:Not clear? on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's stupid because they can't detect the image of a countefit currency, they can only detect a yellowish pattern of 5 circles printed on the currency. If I try to print anything with the pattern, the software fires up my webbrowser to a website that tells me about how counterfitting is wrong. Now If I am a clueless teenager, I see the site and think "OMG they know" and stop doing the stupid shit like scanning currency it's good. If I am somebody who is trying to print out someting completely legal, but happens to have that pattern I think "but this is not money, what are they talking about" and try again, sooner or later the Secret Service see my IP address a shitload of times and comes to call just to say HI, and to let me explain myself before a trip downtown to jail for a little chat.
    Another possibility is some printers, if they get more than a certain number of images with the pattern lock-up, requiring an expensive service call from a factory rep, who's policy is when they see that error code, will report it to the Secret Service. Immagine what it could do the the Secret Service's ability to investigate real crimes if I posted some pictures of Sara Michelle Geller nude with the pattern on a P2P network.

  21. Re:Since the submitter is linked to the company... on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1

    is the laser diode and optics suitable to cover the larger area?
    If laser powered fusion doesn't work out the porn industry could get real interesting.

  22. Re:Too terrible to behold on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1

    a LCD illuminated with a laser would work, just show the frames as an image of the diffarction pattern rather than a visual image. The bigest limit I seee is the limited resolution of the LCD.

  23. Re:Gives a new meaning to porn on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The problem would be that film usualy isn't real sensitive to the color of light that lasers put out, and the amount of light to expose a sceen with actors is pretty large, compareing the output of 1KW movie lighting to a 5mW laser means exposure times would be at least 20,000 times longer, you'd get;
    Porn movie director: OK we are going to shoot frame 1, sceen 1, cast into postion!
    Actors: ok we are ready!
    Director: when I say action, you can't move or even breath for 30 min.
    Actors: Hey there is noting in our contracts about holding our breath for a half hour!
    Director: we told you that it was a 3 minute sceen and and that means we have to shoot 4320 frames, and each frame has to be exposed for a half hour.
    Actors: so how long is this sceen going to take to complete?
    Director: If everybody cooperates, and we shoot arround the clock, about ninety days
    You might be able to do something interesting using stop-motion and models
  24. Re:(sniff) farewell my misspent youth. on Making Holograms In The Kitchen · · Score: 1

    My impression is these guys were selling a kit based on instant type lithographic film, so buy using normal darkroon developed litho-film, you darkroom time would be about the same as for printing paper (about two min for developing, another two for fixing in dark and rinse under normal light) if memory serves me correctly. I think that given the engery of the light and the sensitivity of the film, your in the dark time for exposure would be a lot longer than for film processing. Given that litho film is available for eveything from the smallish 4 x 5in. to huge film for printing press plates, and that a holograms quality is also dependant on the size of the film; developeing your own, would be more versital in the long run and 20 films for $30.00 in a hobby that would have a lot of trial-and-error seems a bit pricey to me.

  25. Re:Pah on Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens · · Score: 1
    Are you trying to say that 2 grams of H2 gas occupying 33L of volume at STP has more potential energy than 86 grams of hexane occupying the same 33L? Liquids don't burn only gases and a mole of one gas has the same volume as any other gas at the same temperature and pressure as in PV=nRT.
    A Stanford
    paper seems to suggest
    Hydrogen is the lightest of the elements with an atomic weight of 1.0. Liquid hydrogen has a density of 0.07 grams per cubic centimeter, whereas water has a density of 1.0 g/cc and gasoline about 0.75 g/cc. These facts give hydrogen both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it stores approximately 2.6 times the energy per unit mass as gasoline, and the disadvantage is that it needs about 4 times the volume for a given amount of energy. A 15 gallon automobile gasoline tank contains 90 pounds of gasoline. The corresponding hydrogen tank would be 60 gallons, but the hydrogen would weigh only 34 pounds.
    that Hydrogen in liquid form has 1 quarter of the energy of gasoline, and as a gas would have 2/86*2.6= 0.060 as gasoline energy when burned. This is dissregarding the heat of fussion and amount of heat required to bring each to its flash-point.

    The other thing everybody dissregards is that hydrogen burner hotter so if it's used in a Combustion fuel, it would produce much more NxO and O3 emmission than hydrocabon fueled combustion; so we better stick to fuel cells rather than engines.