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  1. Re:modern journalism on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    this is old news...they have turned it on and it was able to sustain containment of the helium plasma for it's test run of one 10000th of a second. they have apparently also sustained containment of a hydrogen plasma too since then... http://www.iflscience.com/phys...

  2. Re:It's THIS EASY to stop Windows 10 Upgrades. on Massive Backlash Building Over Windows 10 Upgrades (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This is because i wasn't logged in when i posted ^^^

  3. Re:Just on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 2

    Oh No...Not the Basilisk...everybody stop thinking...;)

  4. Re: Unavoidable on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    No one mentioned that 'terrorist' specifically meant the 'enemy' of our current army. This government is very well known for creating 'terror' so as to keep up the 'Manufactured Consent' thing. Edward Bernays...Father of Propaganda.

  5. Re:If you ride a bike... on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    Actual invisibility comes with comic books, and also resurrection... Not giving bad drivers the opportunity to run you down is a no brainer... Also how do i follow these rules in bike lanes?

  6. If you ride a bike... on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Always ride like absolutely NO ONE can see you...like you are invisible. If you purposefully always avoid situations where you are in front of a driver that perhaps doesn't look both ways...

  7. Sort, Quicksort, Heapsort on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    multiplication is a more complex addition...division, i'm told by the internet, is a more complex form of subtraction. we subtract the divisor from the dividend and continue until we reach a point that no whole divisors appear, and that is our remainder. personally, I kinda find this moronic. at divide by 0, you subtract zero from the dividend, and get an answer...a unity...the same number split into 0 pieces. The undefined in the computer (so says teh intertubes) is that this complicated subtraction is continued ad infinitum until exception and halting...for undefined. i also believe that the type of zero you are talking about is VERY important, as like infinity, zero is not a number but a concept...and given humanity's provincial "never being wrong" attitude...i ask this...could there be more than one type of zero? In Newtonian gravity, divide by zero when the distance between two objects becomes zero results in "undefined". Personally, i look at this event in my head and realize that if the two objects are 0 distance apart, you could easily (depending on composition and actual mass) you would no longer have two objects...no distance between centers of mass, since you only now have one mass. This zero specifically refers to the distance between two bodies of mass moving towards each other...wouldn't the equation change once there is only one body, no distance to travel...just a unified single object possibly in motion? so this is going to get a little into sort, quicksort, and heapsort arguement. what kind of divisions would result in actual numbers, should we simply change how we divide? how about removing single units into a number of piles equal to the divisor and the remainder is still the same? In this scenario though, it would seem to give a real answer though, instead of getting stuck in a loop because we programmed everything to 'kernel panic' and can't decide when to stop subtracting nothing...dividing into no piles...no division when 0 in the denominator. So if it's a 0 of a distance, would indicate no distance...if it's a zero of a charge, would indicate no charge...if it's a zero of mass, it would indicate no mass... *shrugs*

  8. Re:One word: Cloud on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you, but what we have here is an opportunity to demonstrate our upstanding character to our peers by venting self-righteousness against someone of lesser moral virtue. Before you know it, we'll be arguing over which method of execution is most appropriate, and whether the boy's family ought to be punished as well. No punishment will be quite harsh enough to quench our indignation over what this evil, horrible boy has done. We're an angry mob, and we want everyone to see it because we imagine that it makes us look virtuous. It's the American Way.

    I don't think that I could have said this any better myself...

  9. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I see where the confusion is...and why your descriptions for each seem so similar. What you experienced though i think had little to do with the idea of social ownership and cooperative engagement. That is what i hear when i hear socialism...cooperative, not collective. While i don't deny your charges against the USA being fascist...by any means...it seems that you are using experience of a socialist state as your definition of socialism...when in fact most 'socialist states' in practice have little to do with the idea of social ownership with the peoples involvement in the market and economy...rather state ownership and nationalized propaganda...which is as you state...pretty fascist. I hope you can see now, where i chuckle every time someone throws those two ideas out as the same thing since it seems that they are opposites to me, and are very different in practice

  10. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    why don't you go read the actual definitions for both, and then tell me the difference between the two...you can find the answers in the first paragraphs of each wikipedia page on socialism and fascism. your use of "socialism" as an invective, as well as "as far as im concerned" removes most of the credibility that's left by your use of all of those other scripted propaganda points which thankfully identify people who are not worth arguing with. :D

  11. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    yup...you're not playing with the actual definition of socialism...as i thought.

  12. Re:Sounds good on Republicans Back Down, FCC To Enforce Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you quite understand the conundrum that you create by stringing those two words together...socialist and fascist...

  13. WebQL... on 'Google Search On Steroids' Brings Dark Web To Light · · Score: 1

    couldn't this be done since like 2001 or so?

  14. Fresh boot... on Live Patching Now Available For Linux · · Score: 1

    i'm kinda partial to seeing the errors so that i can fix them...*shrugs*...

  15. I got a raise this year... on Study Predicts 9% Drop In Salaries of New CS Grads This Year · · Score: 1

    1.7 percent increase, for a total of $698/month...SSI...lol

  16. Re:Neet toys and all on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 1

    The point i was making is that graphics design most assuredly needs a mouse for precision and coding absolutely needs a keyboard...and when you add those two things to a tablet, you get a laptop...have you also noticed how we are making stands and keyboards for them now as well as 'mouse/pens'? So now they are just less functional versions of what we already had...many trapping you behind a paywall and a UI that leaves a lot of people frustrated...

  17. Neet toys and all on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 2

    but they are not made for data creation...doing graphics or coding on a tablet is a pain without getting a wireless keyboard/mouse... perhaps now we can get back to regular desktops...

  18. Re:Depends on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    QSynergy...one mouse and keyboard...they work on whatever screen the mouse pointer is on

  19. Re:Isn't there a movie about this? on Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 1

    [SPOILER] It's the light...it seems to make them agressive

  20. Re:I'll bet you... on JP Morgan Chase Breach Compromised Data of 76 Million Households · · Score: 1

    Two things... A) The right piece of code and the right piece of hardware could burn through 76 million searches rather quickly...Facebook itself has how many users with phone numbers and addresses? My android fones like to automagically take all my google plus contacts/email addys and facebook contacts and put them in my personal contact lists for me (i have to shut this off, as I don't like having to scroll through thousands of contacts to find my local friends whom I desire to call... B) Go check out the people searches like pipl.com etc...i have found my phone numbers and addresses clear back to when i was in the military in Colorado...the amount of information about EVERYONE on the internet is rather staggering... Either you don't know how to use google, or you're intentionally not using google properly to maintain your "Faith"...which is what some would call swimming in that river in egypt.

  21. Re:Numbers don't seem right on JP Morgan Chase Breach Compromised Data of 76 Million Households · · Score: 1

    JP-Chase handles foodstamps accounts...

  22. I'll bet you... on JP Morgan Chase Breach Compromised Data of 76 Million Households · · Score: 1

    that if i took a little bit of time on Google, I could find all this information as well...in the yellow pages...SMH

  23. 2.4 million letters? on Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments · · Score: 2

    How many oxygen producers (trees) did it take to accomplish this goal of having giant piles of letters thrown away once the post office was finished hauling them around to the whitehouse and congressional offices?

  24. Re: This sounds familar... on Earth Gets Another Quasi-Moon · · Score: 1

    At this point, also massive enough to be quasi spherical and having cleared its orbit of debris

  25. Re:All your waves are belong to us on Underwater Landslide May Have Doubled 2011 Japanese Tsunami · · Score: 1

    All your oceans are belong to us