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  1. So the rule needs to be modified on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    That is millions of Kindles packed into each square meter of the plane. " Therefore, the only place where the ban should stay in place is in Coach.

  2. Re:people = shit on Unmanned 'Terminator' Robots Kill Jellyfish · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, it would make perfect sense to replace hunting at sea with farming, just as we did on land millennia ago, so that our use of seafood could become sustainable. So why does the Luddite lobby oppose every kind of fish farming, preferring to remain romantically identified with wild catch? When I question them on this, all I get is that one old talking point "Because the first attempts at fish farming involved crappy feed, overcrowding and disease, God said it has to be this way forever!"

  3. Re:Tor compromised on Silk Road Shut Down, Founder Arrested, $3.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin Seized · · Score: 1

    That the Lotto ticket with the GPS location of his server farm could not be traced?

  4. Re:Sure, it's good today on EU Committee Votes To Make All Smartphone Vendors Utilize a Standard Charger · · Score: 1

    A "mini travel pad" version for a single device would solve that problem The travel version could also come with multiple detachable power cords to support the specific foreign power receptacle standard you would need on a given trip.

  5. Re:Sure, it's good today on EU Committee Votes To Make All Smartphone Vendors Utilize a Standard Charger · · Score: 1

    So what are you going to say if the EU standard includes the most common device-end interconnect - the micro USB port?

  6. I know where the vertigo is coming from on Why iOS 7 Is Making Some Users Feel 'Sick' · · Score: 1

    Because trial lawyers can see down into the deepest pockets on Wall Street.

  7. Re:technical info on Cricket Reactor Inventor Says $1mil Prize Winners Stole His Work · · Score: 1

    Will it be surrounded by tiny little protesters?

  8. Re:HEADLINE on Clinton Grants $1 Million To Edible Insect Farmers · · Score: 1

    Insect protein can be close to ungulate protein in nutritional value, but much more efficient in terms of feed -> protein yield. just as importantly, insect farming uses hardly any water.

  9. Re:Ya I seem to recall this same story from before on Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon · · Score: 1

    Consider the Dyson Sphere, which involves breaking down an entire planet and using it to build a shell around a star. Because of the star's heat and strong gravitation, the Sphere can absorb and destroy any amount of household dust, even over billion-year spans of time, without losing suction, and without use of any external power sources. But even the traditional Dyson customer base has balked at the high price, and not one order has so far been placed, even in Beverly Hills or Qatar.

  10. Re:Treason.. or... on Yahoo CEO Says It Would Be Treason To Decline To Cooperate With the NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We're talking about the federal government here. It no longer has to abide by this "Constitution you speak of, and if you invoke it in a court case, the feds can declare your argument "frivolous" and ignore it.

  11. Re:no on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    But shouldn't an observatory's name suggestion be something relevant to astronomy?

  12. A better honoree... on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    This would be the ultimate in PC stupidity. I would rather name an asteroid after Neil deGrasse Tyson. Not only is he a more worthy honoree, but an observatory should suggest honorees that are relevant to their own science.

  13. Re:Not concerned on How Gen Y Should Talk To Old People At Work · · Score: 1

    Truman administration baby here (you know, the guy who dropped those big bombs). You're lucky in not having had to look for work during the Carter administration.

  14. Re:Where were the professionals. on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 3

    Japan needs to ask for the help of international experts. There is a ton of unutilized nuclear expertise just in the US who could be a part of this effort.

  15. Re: Is It Just Me? on International Climate Panel Cites Near Certainty On Warming · · Score: 1

    Methane may be a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, but it also breaks down much faster.

  16. Re:Not happy with this on Chinese Developer To Build Ocean-Water Thermal Energy System · · Score: 2

    OTEC is yrt another technology that Greens lauded and promoted until the instant some contemplates actually building it. Note the venom with which they are greeting this tiny pilot project. THIS, not labor or official regulation, is why anything edgy and cool has to be built in China

  17. After a career of coding... on Excess Coffee May Be Linked To Early Death · · Score: 1

    According to this article, I died sometime in 1986. So this is what Heaven is like? I thought it was just northern Arizona.

  18. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    The eco-nut problem in Germany is actually even worse than in the US, and it doesn't end with having Green Party representation in Parliament. In Stuttgart, they have even been protesting against high-speed conventional rail.

  19. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    Arizona 101 in Phoenix.

  20. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    But what about that long section that follows I-5? Implementing this piece as a cut-and-cover tunnel in the die-straight median would probably be cheaper than the pylons. Elevated track would be best for the urban sections where tunneling under existing infrastructure would be prohibitively expensive.

  21. Re:Hoax - The project of stupiity on One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000 · · Score: 1

    150 years ago, large numbers of people decided to go one-way to California. An easy decision, you say? There was no Silicon Valley and no Hollywood. The northern part of bear-infested wilderness, and the southern half was uninhabitable because it had no water supply.

  22. Re:DOA on One-Way Ticket: Mars One Project Applicants Top 100,000 · · Score: 1

    Power the ship with a fission reactor, and you can use the fuel load, in combination with your water supply, as emergency shielding. The reactor will also come in handy when you get there.

  23. Does this explain... on Study Ties High Blood Sugar To Dementia · · Score: 1

    Oprah Winfrey's overwhelming sense of entitlement?

  24. Re:WTF is a 'becquerels?' on Fukishima Springs Water Leak · · Score: 2

    A becquerel is the breakdown of A SINGLE atom per second. News reports have standardized on the becquerel because the numbers are so much larger and more impressive. Just the background radiation going on inside you and I and each of us is about 4500 Bq. And yes, any one of those Bq going off inside you at exactly the right place and time could have a mutagenic effect on your offspring.

  25. Add more units to Palo Verde (Phoenix) Because of our dry desert air, we don't need a river or a lake as our heat sink in Arizona. We tried burning Californians for power, but they wouldn't stay lit.