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  1. Re:Cold Fusion News on Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal · · Score: 2

    E-Cat is bullshit. The most prevalent isotope of nickel is Ni-58. If could somehow add a proton to Ni-58 you would get copper 59, (Cu-59). Cu-59 has an 81.5 second half life and decays to Ni-59 via positron emission. Nickel 59 is unstable and decays via electron capture to cobalt 59 (Co-59) with a half life if 76,000 years. The second most prevalent isotope of nickel is nickel-60 (Ni-60). If you add somehow add a proton to Ni-60 it becomes copper 61 (Cu-61) which decays to nickel 61 (Ni-61) via positron emission with a half life of three hours and 18 minutes. If Rossi's E-Cat reactor works as advertised then after a few hours of operation you could remove the fuel samples (assuming that it was nickel with the isotope ratios observed in nature) and expect to find copper 59, cobalt 59, copper 63 (from adding a proton to Ni-62) and copper 65 (from adding a proton to Ni-64). You would also expect to have very detectible radioactive emissions while the E-Catalyzer was running. And yet there are no radioactive decay products and Rossi won't allow anyone to test his apparatus by providing their own samples of hydrogen and nickel and then analyzing the byproducts. For E-Cat to work everything we know about beta decay and the weak nuclear force would have to be wrong. I'll bet on over 100 years of observations of nuclear interactions any day of the week over some bullshit being spun by a sleazy fraud like Rossi.

  2. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    Yeah, fuck you asshole. Seriously. The PATRIOT act was passed by Bush and the Republicans, who also went on an eight year spending spree and ran up massive deficits, just that great conservative hero Ronald Reagan. Then there's that other great Republican hero Richard M. Nixon, who instituted wage and price controls, ran up up massive debts, spied on Americans who disagreed with him and was so out of control that even J. Edgar Hoover told him to fuck off, which is why the plumbers unit that tried to pull of the Watergate burglaries was formed. If we had a Republican president doing the same things you wouldn't be saying a single fucking word about it. You'd be down on your knees with his cock in your mouth sucking as hard as you could while he rubbed his flag pin and talked about Jeebus.

  3. Re:so a remote fork bomb is possible? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, run this:

    env LC_BOMB='() { :;}; :(){ :|:& };:' ssh some_user@some_system

    And if some_user is using bash and the ssh daemon on the system is configured with AcceptEnv LC_*, which most of them are, you'll end up with an awesome remote fork bomb.

  4. Re:Test string here: on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most sshd daemons aren't configured to accept just any environment variables, they limit exposure with an AcceptEnv directive in the sshd configuration file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config on most Linux versions. This means that

    env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' ssh some_user@some_server

    probably won't work on most systems but

    env LC_FRED='() { :;}; echo vulnerable ssh some_user@some_server'

    will if the server is configured to accept the LC_* environment variables with the AcceptEnv directive in sshd_config.

  5. Re:Why again? on Adam Carolla Joins Fight Against Podcast Patent Troll · · Score: 1

    Shooting patent trolls on sight is covered by a business methods patent owned by Intellectual Ventures.

  6. RTFM you lazy bitch. on Ask Slashdot: Scientific Computing Workflow For the Cloud? · · Score: -1

    Seriously, RTFM. There are lots of documents online about how to create your own AMI and upload it to EC2, or you could use one of the prebuilt AMIs available in the Amazon EC2 marketplace, customize it to your needs and then convert it to an AMI. Once you have that you can use the Amazon CLI and script these tasks with bash, or you could use the AWS gem and do it with Ruby, or you could use the Python (Boto) SDK. I think that there's a PERL API as well, but I'll let you do the searching for it, you lazy sack of crap.

  7. Fuck Paul Verhoeven on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 0

    That piece of shit made a shit movie that was basically took the title of Starship Troopers and some ideas from the book and wrapped it around an updated version of Robocop. Heinlein was trying to make serious points in his book but Verhoeven either couldn't see that, or more likely, didn't care and made a movie that shit all over Heinlein's book.

  8. What a fucking piece of shit on Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    James Sensenbrenner should introduce legislation to repeal the PATRIOT act and then resign from office and forfeit all pension benefits.

  9. Creator of out-of-control killer robot on Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    builds new killer robot to keep other killer robot in check. News at 11.

  10. Re:Shuttleworth works for the NSA on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 1

    Nicely put. As an aside, do you ever grab spare robot parts so you can build your own killer robot at home? I would.

  11. Re:Why did they not roll this out anyway? on Shuttleworth: Apple Will Merge Mac and iPhone · · Score: 1

    I love you and want to buy you beer.

  12. Re:Makes we wonder about Japan and the nukes deplo on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    I suggest you look at the photos/videos of nuclear tests that the governments of the US and USSR have helpfully provided. Unless they could fake all that in the fifties, including all the glass-lined craters you can tour now, considerably more than two weapons successfully detonated, even if only those two were fired in anger.

    Well George Pal was pretty awesome, plus the government was spending a lot of money on SFX back in the 1950s because they knew they were going to need the technology to fake moon landings in the 1960s.

  13. Re:Broken Arrow. on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    They killed an unarmed cow? How could they?

    Because it was a black cow, and they had to stand their ground.

  14. Re:Did they put the switch in a museum? on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    It should be remembered as a hero.

    It has a place of honor next to inanimate carbon rod.

  15. Re:A little drastic but... on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Hearing the sonic boom of the B-52s

    How does an aircraft with a max speed around mach 0.86 make a sonic boom?

    Very carefully?

  16. Re:A little drastic but... on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Actually the bomb fell in a relatively uninhabited area outside of Goldsboro so if it had detonated it wouldn't have killed that many stupid, white, southern conservatives.

  17. Re:Anyone should be able to fly on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 2

    Bullshit, you're just another stupid racist who wishes that the government would crack down on all of those horrible negros and other people of color. White people, especially white male conservatives are the last people in the world who would want to implement any sort of "honest" profiling scheme because the history of terrorism in America is overwhelmingly white, male and conservative. Don't believe me? Well how about a little terrorist organization called the KKK, which lynched thousands of black men in the early 20th century and terrorized blacks, Catholics, Jews and other minorities to prevent them from voting or moving in to certain areas or taking certain jobs. Then of course we have Tim McVeigh and his crazy militia buddies, the neo-Nazis in Idaho, Bruce and Joshua Turnidge (this story got no media coverage compared to the Boston bombing or the Fort Hood shootings), the asshole who tried blowing up the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial march in Spokane in 2011. While we're at it let's toss in all of the school shooters (Adam Lanza, Kip Kinkel, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are all white) and that crazy fuck who shot up the theatre in Aurora. Any honest look at American history shows that white people are mean, crazy dangerous fuckheads and that you should keep an eye on them lest they go batshit insane and start killing everyone in sight. Yeah, if we had profiling in America and it was honest, and not just an excuse used to fuck with people then white guys like you would spend a lot of time getting cavity searched.

  18. Re:Anyone should be able to fly on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 4, Informative

    People charged with a crime often have a their movements restricted as a condition of their bail.

    Yes, people charged with a crime often have their movements restricted as a condition of bail, a fact which has nothing to do with the TSA's idiotic no-fly list. See people who are charged with a crime and who have had their movements restricted have had the benefits of a little thing called due process of law and the fifth amendment to the Constitution. See, if you've been charged with a crime and have had your movements restricted that means that you've been arrested, charged in a court of law, allowed to have counsel to represent you. You can also appeal the judgment that restricts your movements, confront the witnesses against you and you have the right to subpoena witnesses to testify in your favor. You have none of this with the TSA. The TSA restricts your liberty to travel without telling you why they've done so or what evidence they used to make this determination and gives you no opportunity to defend yourself. The TSA no-fly list is essentially nothing more than the imposition of Soviet style internal passports that has nothing to do with protecting citizens and everything to do with restricting their movements.

  19. Re:A constitutional right to fly? on One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come · · Score: 1

    Do you enjoy sucking government cock?

  20. Re:This is a Constitutional tax on Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) · · Score: 1

    If the States all decided they wanted to ban free speech and private ownership of guns, they could easily pass a new Amendment completely overturning the 1st and 2nd. The only reason this doesn't happen is that it'd be extemely unpopular and because it's really hard to get all the States to agree on Constitutional changes, which of course was the intent of the Founders when they devised the Amendment process.)

    Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Jesus you are fucking stupid. You are so fucking stupid that you should be shot in the fucking head for writing something this stupid. Go read the Wikipedia article on "Substantive Due Process" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantive_due_process The useless racists in the southern states tried this shit back in the 1960s when they said that state laws overrode federal laws in matters relating to desegregation, interracial marriage and the like and the federal government said "Wrong fucking answer and in one case even sent in federal troops (Little Rock, AK, 1957) to get the point across. God you're fucking stupid.

  21. Re:Unconstitutional as heck on Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) · · Score: 1
    Wrong libertarian douchetard. Read Article I, section 10.

    No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

  22. Re:Yet another unconstitutional law on Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Oh goody, a fucknut with the user name of RKBA, which probably stands for "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" lecturing us on the Constitution. Hey fucknut. Why don't you read the entire document? If you ever did that, and didn't just spend all of your time masturbating over the second amendment you might have come across this portion of the document in Article I, Section 10.

    No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

    So according to this section of the Constitution Congress can consent to grant states the ability to tax imports and exports from that state, and by imports and exports the founding fathers meant not just commerce with foreign countries but commerce with other states. Right now online merchants have a huge and unfair advantage over brick and mortar merchants because they can set up in states without sales taxes and then sell to residents of states that have sales taxes without collecting any taxes. Why don't you do us all a favor you ignorant son-of-a-whore and take one of your guns, jam it into your mouth as far as you can and blow your fucking head off.

  23. Re:Destruction on Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) · · Score: 1

    Then why don't you leave America, Libertarian douchetard? Go Galt and head off to magickal libertarian Jesus freemarketopia where there is no evil government to tax and destroy. At the very least you should give up on using the internet, which was developed by the Department of Defense and resolve to never again use GPS or to drive on public roads or highways or to use any other service provided by government since every time you do so you are implicitly giving them consent to pay for these services with taxes.

  24. Re:Unconstitutional as heck on Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) · · Score: 1

    The Constitution was not written with words and phrases having only the meaning stated in the dictionary. The Constitution is a governing document very similar to a power of attorney, and the phrases and terms used should first be considered from what the ratifiers considered them to mean.

    Cool story bro. Tell us, who died and left made you the authoritative scholar as to what the original intent of the founders was. Do you have access to the same Magickal Jeezus Originalist Dictionary of Constutional intent that Antonin Scalia does?

  25. Re:F U on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 1