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  1. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    And those comments are from someone who knows not what or why NASCAR exists. Just a brief glance at Wikipedia will answer those questions. It may also explain why F1 cars seem to disintegrate when they crash, but the drivers get out and walk away. Did you know that there are additional cables holding the wheels on to F1 cars so when they do have an accident the hubs and wheels remain loosely attached to the body. You do not want to kill the paying punters in the audience.

  2. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Nascar even have non flammable foam inserts around the sides to help cushion any impact.

  3. Re:Fuckwits are everywhere on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    See, ignorance on Slashdot abounds. Yes you can buy GMO food in Euuurrrope. It tends to be labeled and some countries do not allow GMO crops to be grown. But many products contain GMO crops.

  4. Re:What happens when corrosion eats 0.01in of it? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    An awful lot. Pretty much everything outside the roll cage is a crumple zone. Apart from the engine. The roll cage is also smaller then the exterior of the car so there are crumple zones around the sides too.

  5. Every aircraft made by both companies is first flown by a production test pilot before delivery.

  6. Re:Sounds good to me. on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 1

    That may be what you think.
    It does not alter the fact that the test was for the car as sold at the time of the test. They can pay for a retest for an updated year/revision if they want to

  7. Re:Sounds good to me. on NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards · · Score: 1

    They won't retest it unless it is a new model. A software update is not a new model. And what did the update actually change?

  8. Re:Put it into perspective for all other religons on How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects (forbes.com) · · Score: 2

    Chile is out as two other even larger telescopes are planned for the southern hemisphere so it would be redundant. Mexico and the Canary's are possible but much lower altitude negating a lot of the potential performance. That is why Hawaii was selected.

  9. Re:Not ill timed... on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 1

    In what world do you live in. In England the vast majority of burglaries are when nobody is home. There are some cases of vulnerable people being conned into letting a fake official in to read a meter or check for leaks. But you wouldn't shoot them as the owner doesn't tend to know valuables are missing until much later.

  10. Re:Why are there so few? on Japanese Space Probe Akatsuki Enters Orbit Around Venus Five Years Late (space.com) · · Score: 1

    They do. Its called a common systems bus. They are available from many manufactures with a variety of capabilities and masses. Then you bolt on you mission specific bits. But they are mostly used for earth orbit missions

  11. Re:Worse than clickbait ! on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No in England we just herded them jews on to a tidal flat and waited for the waters to come in. Nobody is good in this argument. It is the usual loonies.

  12. Re:Worse than clickbait ! on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Notice how the articles said he stepped down. (or ran away).

    Does that justify attacking and killing muslims? They are not defending themselves anymore. They are killing people under the justification of religion.

  13. Re:Coren22 = "Run, Forrest: RUN!!!" #6/6 on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Good for /.
    worse for the women though. I don't even know what you are suggesting that they put up with ;(

  14. Re:Your reply is bad and you should feel bad on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well it did sort of tie in to the the subject of this story.

  15. Re:Your reply is bad and you should feel bad on How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism (metro.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The Wrath of APK

    After all this time I would have thought that he may have aged a bit, perhaps realised that s/he is being a total dick and stopped the bots replying. Yeh everyone can do that. Do you know why people do not?

  16. Re:Nearly as light as air? on Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 1

    About the density of balsa wood

  17. Re:Surprise! Surprise! on Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    That LOX and LH2 are really nasty when dumped into our atmosphere /sarcasm

  18. Re:Self inflicted on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Who do you want to get in. Who do you want to let out. The second part is scary. Justified as they are nutters who need to be apprehended. But a big problem for freedom of movement in the EU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement)

  19. Re:The liberals are in fact aiding the moslems ! on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    In your opinion Jesus was the light and discarded the old testament. So that means, In your opinion. Nothing more, nothing less. But them Muslims are Evil...Nothing more, nothing less.

    If you missed the point your beliefs are as valid as anyones are. Nutters are available everywhere

  20. Re:Gun free zone = target rich zone on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    P.S. Switzerland is not part of the EU.

  21. Re:Gun free zone = target rich zone on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep I am sure they are all pointing their army issue guns at each other to dissuade muggings. Or perhaps it is a remarkably state controlled system. Fascist or Communist by your judgement of how things actually work. After all the guns are registered. The population is tracked. Even down to ensuring that they get enough shooting time at the range.

  22. Re:The liberals are in fact aiding the moslems ! on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar to how many Americans claim to be christian. But how and why vary dramatically.

    It depends on where you are as to how black and white the religion thing is. In many countries religion is not an important aspect of culture. In others it is very much so. You can go from "do not care much" to rampant Catholicism with protestants along the way.

    In the UK we are technically Protestant as the Church of England was set up to allow Henry VIII to ignore the pope. Other countries in Europe have similar wierdnesses. Most due to politics many centuries ago. None of the countries enforce a religion on people. Some take it seriously, Some do not.
    When you give people a choice it seems that getting on seems more important then religion.

  23. Re:Wow ... on Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Mind you a company I worked at three or four years ago still had Amdahl machines in a basement somewhere doing something. Again travel related.

  24. Re:Wow ... on Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a number of GDS's now (Global distribution systems) derived from reservation systems but most still provide a terminal mode. (The primary mode) I spent a few years scraping the screens to get information for a booking website. When the software was originally developed it was the easiest/only way to get the data you needed and to book flights /hotels/stuff. Plus getting exchange rates, flight routing, connections and paying per query.

    Most still seem to run on IBM machines somewhere in the background. And it is fun handling the "cards" especially trying to add all the required information into 32 character people names and spilling into the random additional info fields to store it correctly (along with all the other crap that is now mandated)
    Amadeus
    Travelport

  25. Re:Am I the only one that... on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1