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  1. I think Wolfram Alpha can. on The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap · · Score: 2
  2. Re:Data Rates on The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I doubt many mobile customers are going to fully utilize a 12Mbps connection (and it's debatable whether that's actually what they'd receive in the first place).

  3. Re:High Skilled Professions put in more hours on Faculty To Grad Students: Go Work 80-Hour Weeks! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "More than 40" is not the same as "80." I've hit 60 hours in a week before, but at 80 I doubt I'd be any more productive.

  4. Re:$30 a day per unit is a rip-off. Was this job b on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the school is getting $30 in state funding per day for each student in attendance, not paying $30 per day per student to whatever third party provides the RFID cards, right?

  5. Re:Captain Obvious on Electric Car Environmental Impact: Power Source Matters · · Score: 2

    Power plants are really efficient.

    Not really. Some run as low as 30% efficiency. In fact, according to this article, the automobile Otto cycle can be more efficient than a power plant's Rankine cycle. However, power plants do (or ought to) have better pollution controls for scrubbing pollutants out of their exhausts.

  6. Re:I used to think this stuff was cool on Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car · · Score: 1

    That's only off by a factor of about 2 if the above quoted 0.04 mpg is correct.

  7. You know what they say about when people assume... on Successful Engine Test in UK For Planned 1000 mph Car · · Score: 1

    ...but if you assume constant acceleration over the 42 seconds to get to 1000 mph (~447m/s), it will take a distance of around 9.4km to reach top speed. That's a long drag strip.

  8. Re:Next to WoW on Game Review: Torchlight 2 · · Score: 2

    There's actually a key (bound to tilde ~ by default) that will move you towards where your cursor is regardless of enemies.

  9. Re:That's the long term plan for the industry on Accelerator Driven Treatment of Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    The USA took a relatively short look at this but then they stopped since they could not also produce weapons from these reactors and at the time it was all about the bomb.

    Alvin Weinberg (former head of the Oak Ridge National Lab) actually took on a fairly ridiculous nuclear aircraft project in order to be able to put more development time into LFTRs.

  10. Re:I'm starting a new site on Kickstarter Introduces New Hardware and Product Design Project Guidelines · · Score: 2

    Can I get my Turturkeykey business started on there?

  11. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Okay, there is a very, very small amount of extra energy used when metabolizing the sucrose: the bond between the fructose and glucose molecules has to be broken.

    ...some of the energy contained in the fructose is consumed by the body having to metabolize it into glucose. This is not a negligible difference, and if you think I'm bullshitting you, read the wikipedia article on the Thermic Effect of Food and read this paper specifically comparing fructose and glucose:

    Self-contradiction aside, you realize that sucrose has to be metabolized into fructose and glucose, and that fructose then has to be further metabolized, right? Posting an article that compares the thermic effects of fructose and glucose is not relevant when you're comparing sucrose to HFCS. I don't know of anyone who uses pure glucose for anything, except for diabetics with low blood sugar.

  12. Re:Starting 05/09/2012 on Productivity and Creativity Software Coming To Steam · · Score: 2

    I prefer 2012-09-05. Computer sortable, and easy to read, as it goes from most general to most specific, left to right. And it's ISO compliant!

  13. Re:Try to keep up, people. on 'Nuclear Free' Maryland City Grants Waiver For HP · · Score: 2

    Why don't you quit shoving your PC-ness down my throat?