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  1. Re:Good Engineering Tesla on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    You mean put it in the back, where if you get rear-ended, it's in the line of fire?

    At least at the bottom there's less risk of a massive impact, and it lowers the car's center of gravity.

    "RELEARN a BUNCH of shit that GM, Ford, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota and all the rest learned a long time ago" - no thanks. Good opportunity to get around legacy hardware designed under circumstances that are often no longer relevant.

  2. Re:Coincidence? on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 1

    Also, he played the same role in World War Z. Yeeesh.

  3. Coincidence? on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IMDB says that in War World Z, he played the character of a Dr. from the W.H.O.
    Coincidence?

  4. So you paid for it anyway on News Worth Buying On Paper · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How much did you pay for the paper?
    How many physical ads in the paper were you "forced" to glance over?

    On the bright side, at least your viewing habits were not tracked. (Probably!)

  5. one word ... on The Price of Amazon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... Selection.

    Amazon beats any bookstore at finding older books.
    Brick and mortar stores are all about displaying 20 copies of the latest shit best-seller, sitting side by side, on the front shelves. No thanks.

  6. Why this is bad on Not Quite a T-1000, But On the Right Track · · Score: 1

    Wars don't end because either (or both) of the sides are tired of committing atrocities.
    Wars end because either (or both) of the sides can't sustain its own casualties.
    See Iraq. See Vietnam.

    Robot soldiers mean that atrocities can take place with no human toll, no witnesses.
    No battle fatigue.

    Robots will do to war what Facebook did to idle chat...
    (How about that?)

  7. Are you kidding? on OpenOffice: Worth $21 Million Per Day, If It Were Microsoft Office · · Score: 1, Troll

    If was to cost even $10, what would the download rate be?

    Try anything that's currently free on the internet, add a small charge, and watch the DL rate plummet.

    OO is only acceptable since it is free. If someone was making money off of it, then they'd be expectations for things a bug fixes and support and in no time it will cost $150, and get a bad rap in comparison with some other free product.

  8. Re:Let's kowtow! on Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission · · Score: 1

    Plus, nobody knows why he killed himself. He didn't leave any note behind.

    He was offered a 6 month plea deal, which hardly seems like the end of the world.

    But we do know he had issues with depression. It could have been a family matter for all that we know.

    Nobody killed him but himself.

  9. Re:I'm confused on Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics · · Score: 2, Interesting

    low-quality transmitters emit more on side-bands, IIUC

  10. You think that's bad? on North Korea Claims Archaeologists Have Found 'Unicorn Lair' In Pyongyang · · Score: 2

    I heard some lawmakers in the United States are actively claiming that the world was created 6000 years ago by an old man with a beard, who later went on to bed a Jewish girl and spawn an offspring which ended up being nailed to a tree. Also, talking snakes, burning bushes, and splitting seas. no kidding!

  11. Re:This study makes a serious mistake on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    So by extension, McDonald's makes the best burgers in the world?

  12. Re:In Olde English units on Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pressure vessels get increasingly difficult to build as their size grows.

    When a 150 PSI compressor tank goes (and they do, even though they are made out of steel, a lot thicker than a soda pop can) they take away the room with them.

    This pressure vessel is probably miles on a side, and the walls don't have good tensile strength - it's just gravity that's holding it down.

    In short converting it to Olde English units doesn't help.

  13. Stubborn Screw Stymies Space Station S-tronauts. on Space Station Spacewalkers Stymied By Stubborn Bolt · · Score: 1

    Simple

  14. 3D on Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11 · · Score: 1

    Can you make one for 4 colors out of 4 spheres?
    Certainly not a prime number

  15. Re:Who knew... on NASA Morpheus Lander Test Ends In Explosion · · Score: 1

    Well part of it might be that by the time the Tampa Bay Fire Department finally got there, the metal was so hot that it was not enough to put out the fire, they also needed to cool the metal to below the ignition point of the fuel.

    I can't believe there are so many rockets flying around simultaneously in KSC that they couldn't have a fire crew on site.

  16. Re:Acronym abuse on Berkeley Lab Develops Technology To Make Photovoltaics Out of Any Semiconductor · · Score: 1

    Booyah!
    Sharp as a laser beam, powerful as the diode bank that's driving it. Analogies are not my thing.
    The second line should be enshrined and worshipped. Neither are accolades.
    So yeah, Booyah!

  17. Re:No, not really on LHC Discovers New Particle That Looks Like the Higgs Boson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, that's what we take from the Bison.
    What the Bison gives us is shit - just like said politicians.

  18. Re:when these genius people are 100% on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Heh, that's because the Math type have never ever proved (or even claimed) anything that is related to the real world.... In this respect, they are like fiction writers, 100% sure about what's happening in their world :)

  19. Stay grounded on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hysterics and hyperbole do not serve us well.
    IF MS ignores the correction, sure. But that hasn't happened, has it?

  20. Obligatory on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What a snob!

  21. Re:Holy cow ... on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 4, Interesting

    well, think about (hypothetically) zooming out from the Nimitz on Google Earth - how much you have to zoom out even after the Nimitz (all 300 m of it) before you see the full Earth.

    Each 1 km x 1km area would pack about 30 Nimitzes. Each 1000 km x 1000 km area would pack about 30,000,000 Nimitzes. And that's just the surface... The Earth is (gasp!) as thick as it is wide, and denser at the center... So yeah. BIG.

  22. Re:High Speed rail on California Going Ahead With Bullet Train · · Score: 2

    If you do the math, add the cost of the airports.... probably 20-25 $B each...
    Of course if you compare existing infrastructure to new projects, the existing one will come out ahead.
    But what happens when the existing one saturates?

  23. It's the film handling.... on Lego Super-8 Video Projector · · Score: 4, Informative

    The important part is the film handler. Unlike a camera, which can run the film more or less continuously and use a fast shutter speed, a projector has to stop the film for most of the frame's duration, and then quickly accelerate it out of the way while only blocking the light for a very short duration, or else the movie would "smear". Of course it flickers, since this is Lego, but it doesn't smear, and that's quite a feat.

  24. Re:Only one binary digit? on Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared · · Score: 1

    You mean 10, I think.
    1 is just 1 in any base.

  25. First I have to ask on Accidental Find May Lead To a Cure For Baldness · · Score: 1

    Are you a guy or a girl?