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  1. Re:Think of the Children!! on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    I apologize for not having mod points.

  2. Re:Not enough jobs? I thought not enough candidate on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a severe shortage of programmers with 25 years experience in Java, gimme more H1B.

  3. Re:Reality Check: Go for your dreams on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Graduate first. Then go for your dreams.
    Because if you fail and you have to fall back on normal employment, dropping out has just put you all the way back to the end of the line, behind all the unemployed educated people.

    You can waste a few years after college in dead-end attempts. You can explain that in an interview, it might be a positive (because you're entrepreneurial, and because you've failed and won't be running off again soon).
    But if you didn't graduate, you aren't likely to get the interview in the first place.

  4. Security improvement. on London Council Dumping Windows For Chromebooks To Save £400,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they trying to go around the (few) GCHQ monitoring limits by going straight into NSA-friendly territory?

  5. Re:Rebublican Conservative?? on CISPA's Author Has Another Privacy-Killing Bill To Pass Before He Retires · · Score: 1

    Because it works. Check the incumbent election rates.

    next question?

  6. Re:Titanium? on Tesla Model S Gets Titanium Underbody Shield, Aluminum Deflector Plates · · Score: 1

    Considering the drought in many parts of the US, any accident which causes more dangerous (hotter, longer-lasting) sparks then steel does is bad news.

    The advantage of the current version is that the batteries rarely burn, and always in a contained environment, usually on pavement. If the new version throws sparks 10m away after every shock, it's worse for anyone except the car owner...

  7. Re:energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    My argument on the turbo point was that, while the turbo gives you more engine power, it doesn't output it itself. I honestly don't know what the actual energy usage of the engine component "turbo" is, but it's a fraction of the "80HP for 10s". And that energy is not delivered via mechanical linkage straight to solid wheels, it's compressing air.
    Therefore saying that a turbo turns 5x faster is a false equivalency, because the amount of stress on the components, and therefore the required care and maintenance (the original point), is orders of magnitude different.

  8. Re:energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    > Doesn't exist

    Moon... finger... see other reply
    or go get a motorcycle

    >Turbochargers don't explode all the time, and they spin at even faster speeds (around 5 times)

    Educate me. Are turbochargers designed to provide "80HP for 10s" (through a mechanical linkage), as another poster put it?

  9. Re:energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    I my point invalid if I write 4l (essentially 60mpg) or 5l (~50mpg)?

    I point at the moon-sized battlestations driving by, don't stare at my finger

  10. Re:Oh great... on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    It's flawed from the first second.

    Really...

    1969 is before the fractional second correction at the end of 1971, so the moment you try to convert, you're off.
    How far are you? I don't know, because they also changed the definition of a second, so you don't get the same time if you count seconds up from 1969 than if you count down from 1970 or 1972...

  11. Re:energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 0

    Sure, let me give it a try:

    The heavier the car, the more energy there is to store when you stop.
    So you add a device to store the energy for later.
    BONUS: you just made the car heavier, which means you have even more energy to store.
    So now you can restart from scratch easier using the stored energy, unless you didn't have energy stored and have to restart a heavier car.
    But you can't have bad performance when starting, so you need a bigger engine.
    BONUS: you just made the car heavier again
    So you add a few more bars to protect you in case of a crash, what with all these heavy vehicles on the road, you know...
    BONUS: you just made the car heavier yet again, man do you have a lot of energy stored in that bigger flywheel that you put in to better recover the bigger energy of the heavier car!
    You're definitely saving a lot of gas, in stop-and-go traffic, compared to the other huge cars!

    On the other hand, an econobox will get you from the same point A to the same point B for 3l per 100km (or over 60mpg) and cost a quarter of the price.

    Of course, we can trust the average Joe to properly maintain a piece of hardware designed to rotate at 60000 RPM, right?
    I'm looking forward to cars just blowing up when they come to a stop because unmaintained flywheels explode and shrapnel likes gas tanks, according to hollywood.

  12. Re:Here's how to secure your "Internet of things" on Security for the 'Internet of Things' (Video) · · Score: 1

    "I didn't microwave the cat, a hacker did"

  13. Re:Canadian company goes bankrupt on Owner of Nortel Patents Sues Cisco For 'Immense' Patent Infringement · · Score: 0

    After deciding to stop building stuff unless it's designed to blow someone up, you too would have to find alternate resource streams to buy junk from China.

  14. Re:Shoot it to the sun? on What Fire and Leakage At WIPP Means For Nuclear Waste Disposal · · Score: 1

    1) mantle convection simplified
    2) The word "dilute" in step 3. If you have a thousand tons of U235 surrounded by 5km of rock and melt it all, how much U235 can find an updraft toward a volcano, since you were dumb enough to drill next to an active volcano?

  15. Re:Self-induced pilot error on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    People being reasonable and fixing their issues rather than endlessly griping about them would be the death of the Web2.0.

    Dude's got a blog to write, and you want him to not put a "Tesla has a problem" post?

  16. Re:Tesla on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    If Apple updates their laptops it's news. If Apple looks like they may potentially hint at having a glance at wearable something, it's front page news.
    Free advertising, if you're convinced enough journos that you're "cool"

  17. Re:Tesla on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 2

    But... if it's not creeping, how will you regen in traffic jams by hitting the brakes?

  18. Re: Everyone is a potential criminal in L.A. on L.A. Police: All Cars In L.A. Are Under Investigation · · Score: 2

    "the best defense against change is making sure people believe they have something to lose"

  19. Re:Shoot it to the sun? on What Fire and Leakage At WIPP Means For Nuclear Waste Disposal · · Score: 2

    We already had that discussion...

    1) Chose a subduction zone,
    2) bury $Stuff_we_don't_want right next to it, a few km below the local ground surface.
    3) wait for mother nature to push it down and dilute it in billions of tons of molten rock.
    4) profit? nah, it's expensive... but at least don't worry about it.

  20. Re:Bullshit on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Agreed, now switch it to "England burnt down the white house"
    Get my point?

  21. Re:moooooorrrrooonnnss! on Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud · · Score: 1

    Their 20% net margin and $50,000,000,000 cash reserves beg to differ with your armchair analysis...

  22. Re:A whole network of clouds... on Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud · · Score: 1

    "the network is the computer" Sun
    "We'll make megaclouds" Cisco

  23. Re:Bullshit on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Canada burnt down the White House. Your point?

  24. Re:This is a glitch in the Matrix...... on Why US Gov't Retirement Involves a Hole in the Ground Near Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    The moment the prisons became a very profitable business, you could be sure that the cops and judges would get the money they need to keep getting convictions.
    Tolerance and prevention policies don't bring quite as much cold hard cash and jobs.

  25. Re:its not asy on More On the Disposable Tech Worker · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since he's 100% overhead, think we need to replace him with an H1B

    Where's that old Onion article about the CEO outsourcing himself?