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  1. Re:Lol... on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    Because the communists of the black lists where people that aligned themselves with a political group that was unpopular and arguably evil and proven wrong by history.

  2. Re:They do. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    Yes they used a sub reactor because they had them.

  3. Re:Reading between the lines on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    Actually carriers often carry fuel for other ships in the battle group and refuel them. At least they did in the past. The fuel oil is actually used to help protect the ship from torpedos.

  4. Re: Cool ... on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    If you combine this with Thorium fueled fission or if the Lockheed high beta fusion reactor or the polywell reactor work out then yes it becomes real practical.
    You can use this to make liquid hydrocarbon fuel for things like long haul trucks, ships, and aircraft. None of those are practical uses of electrical power. Now if the polywell or high beta really work out well you could use them for ship propulsion but you still have long haul trucks and aircraft.
    BTW it takes more energy to make electricity as well than just to use the fuel. The thing is that electricity is a more convenient form of energy for some uses like running a computer and lighting. Really the same thing.

  5. Re:They do. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 3, Informative

    All current carriers also have two reactors. The first carrier the USS Enterprise had 8 reactors. The Ford's new reactors do make more power but the amount is not publicly available. We do know they make 3 times as much electrical power but that does not include the propulsion power.

  6. Re:Cool if you have a nuke. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    You mean like every aircraft carrier in the US Navy?

  7. Re:Lol... on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 2

    What is really strange is that people seem to forget that he supported a law that passed.
    Frankly the firestorm smacks of the black lists of the 1950s.
    Someone supports a political concept that you do not like or you even feel is evil and you get drummed out of your business.
    And let us be really honest. Stalinist Russia was evil and they had the largest influence in the US communist party from the 1930s up.

  8. Re:Lol... on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 2

    " but get some damn perspective before you turn into the bigots you despise"
    Too late.

  9. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    "Law is written containing the words "coerce, influence, or attempt to coerce or influence through or by means of threat of discharge.". Sounds like you did not bother to read the law.

  10. Re:repeated this strategy with IBM PC on Fifty Years Ago IBM 'Bet the Company' On the 360 Series Mainframe · · Score: 1

    Not at all. The once ISA to rule them all did not last at IBM for long. IBM started to live in fear that the US government would break them up as a monopoly. IBM started to make mini computers like the system 36 and system 38 that didn't use the 360 ISA to make breaking up the company easier.
    IBM did make a 16bit version of the 360 so it could have made the PC into a 360 based computer. IBM even made an IBM pc that would run 360 code using a custom microcoded 68000.
    The PC used the 8088 because that is what was used in the DisplayWriter. Had IBM been broken up they could have put the PC in with the word processors in the business machine company. The minis would have gone into a mini computer company, and the big iron would have stayed intact.
    THe PC used the 8088 and an OS from Microsoft for the simple reason that it was in no way part of IBMs core business. As far as BIOS that term predates the PC by a lot.
    The PC became a standard because.
    1. Microsoft was smart and kept the rights to sell MS-DOS to other companies
    and
    2. IBM really didn't care. They saw the PC as just a part in being a total one stop shop for businesses. It was in the same category as typewriters, printers, and word processors.

  11. Re:How about a backplane? on Raspberry Pi Compute Module Release · · Score: 1

    Funny that you should say that. I am pretty sure that meme started off when the uCSimm story was posted on slashdot a long time ago.

  12. Re:April Fools stories are gay on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Only if you arrest RMS first for supporting the sexual abuse of children.

    Also you do realize that the majority of voters in California actually agreed with him at the time.
    So much for freedom of speech.
       

  13. Re: I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    You left out that Russia signed a treaty with the Ukraine respecting their territory and along with the US and the UK to defend the boarders of the Ukraine in exchange for the Ukraine giving up it's nuclear weapons.

  14. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    In Flight wifi? ??? The Iridium system or even the Intersat system used by the plane makes more sense that in flight wifi.

  15. And the Mac Pro is now lagging again. on Intel Announced 8-Core CPUs And Iris Pro Graphics for Desktop Chips · · Score: 1

    Unless they have a refresh of the Pro when the chip launches or soon after the Pro is back to being too expensive for the performance.

  16. Re:First time? on Water Filtration With a Tree Branch · · Score: 1

    Is it incredibly useful? Is 99% good enough? How much E coli does it take to get ill? I doubt that it is good enough for viruses. Hepatitis A for example is 28nm while B is 40nm, enteroviruses average 27 to 30 nm. Even the Rotavirus is at the low end of the test at 80nm The test only filtered down to 70nm.
    Cool, interesting, but a major beak through? Maybe but I would not get so excited just yet.

  17. Re:Why SHOULD there be acceptance? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    wearing Google Glass is legal. Until it is made illegal then it is protected.

  18. Re:She caused the escalation on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    If they did nothing they are responsible. If the staff didn't call the police and did nothing why the women was physically attacked and her purse stolen they can by held responsible in a civil court. Just imagine the testimony.

    So you saw a group of people confront a women about wearing Google Glass?
    Yes?
    And you did nothing?
    That is correct?
    Do you usually allow patrons to be harassed?
    When they attacked her and stole her property what did you do?
    Nothing.
    You did not call the police?
    No.
    And so on. It is no better if they claim they saw nothing.

  19. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    You may or may not ask the other patron to leave. That depends on the staff/owner. You maybe told to leave. You do not have the right to suggest to anyone that they should leave at all. But yes from the reports what happened went way over the line. Frankly if the staff saw this and did nothing about it they could be held responsible for what happened in a civil court.
     

  20. Re:Not everything observed... on 3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean · · Score: 1

    Because I miss read it. I knew that the UK had leaded long after the US made it illegal and Did a search to find when they stopped selling it.
    The EU banned it a decade an a half ago the US several decades ago is the correct statement. My bad.

  21. Re:Not everything observed... on 3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean · · Score: 2

    And you could still buy 4 star leaded fuel in the UK in 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
    The US went lead free decades ago, Europe a few years ago.

  22. Re:Avgas on 3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean · · Score: 1

    That is a very tiny amount compared to what autos produced.

  23. Re:Nuclear energy neglected by ignorance. on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 1

    Sigh.... Still have to trot out that oil company boogie man. The Tesla is a very good car but it is not "best vehicle on the market" it a very good vehicle but frankly their are no cars in the the Tesla Ss price range that are not very good. For 70k you get a very good car pretty much no matter what car you buy in the that price bracket. Well maybe a Land or Range Rover but those are not cars.

    It is not the Oil companies it is the Coal companies. The coal companies have the perfect storm to fight nuclear. They have the Unions on their side because of the miners union, they use the anti nuclear lobbies to great advantage because solar and wind do not impact base load plants which the only use for coal, and they always have the oil companies and the fear of imported oil as a scapegoat.
    It always seems to go back to the oil companies but never to the mountain topping, strip-mining, carbon out put monster coal companies. They have so won the PR war

  24. Re:Oh NRC... get your crap together on NRC Expects Applications To Operate Reactors Beyond 60 Years · · Score: 0

    Possibly. Proper monitoring can keep an eye on that.

  25. Re:Take pictures, press charges. on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    "What idiot doesn't understand that one of these things is not like the others, that one of these places often has a large individual (or several such individuals) stationed near the door to control access and to remove -- by force if necessary -- undesirable patrons?"

    I do not see how you that means you have an expectation of privacy? The owner of the place can record everything you do and do what they want with it.
    If the owner said that you had to put away the google glasses or leave that is one thing. The customers have no right to do that.