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  1. Re:Missing credibility right now on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 2

    China has signed it but like the US has not ratified it. Iran? who cares.
    India and Pakistan have not signed it.

  2. Re:From most the comments I've seen here? on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I do not need proof (although some of the phrases are a bit telling). It is just the huge number of AC's following your every word that jump in to defend you as you are obviously just and right?

    Sock puppets or random AC self confirmation posts are pretty much the same thing.

  3. Re:From most the comments I've seen here? on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Weren't you just complaining about sock puppets APK?

  4. Re:What happened to SXSW on SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It will still stop the marriage.

    Remember that a marriage is a contract. The church stuff is not really relevant to it.

  5. Re: This seems contradictory on Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden · · Score: 1

    Yes there is. 18 for boys, 16 for girls

  6. Re:My auto insurance policy renewal & Uber on Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math · · Score: 1

    In the UK Uber drivers have to be licensed minicab drivers driving licensed minicabs. All Uber are is a dispatch service.

  7. Re:Just keep improving the cars, stop with idiot-t on EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating · · Score: 1

    Why do you find it odd? If the exhaust system leaks then not all the emissions will go out of the tailpipe. Tailpipe readings are useless if a large % of the exhaust are slip sliding away through a broken and leaky pipe.

  8. Re:On the fly/road measurements on EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that VW was forced to sell its 20% holdings in Susuki (anti trust thingy) for 3.9 billion dollars just hours before VW announced their wrong doing. The price would have been far lower hours later as vw stock price crashed.

    Also the CEO of vw had a difficult challenge to his position previously that was due to be up for a board vote next week. He resigned.

  9. Re:VW Diesel's do have low polluting exhaust ... on EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating · · Score: 1

    Because it changes the properties of the diesel. Temp, gelling etc.
    Also because burning it in the combustion chamber (the cylinder) does not produce the same effects as injecting it into the exhaust (higher pressures and temps in the cylinder)

  10. Re:Congratulations, dev. nations. West.. not so mu on India Mulls Using Nuclear Power For Its Chandrayaan-2 Mission To the Moon · · Score: 1

    One of the objectives may be to look for frozen H2O. If so they may need to venture into permanent shadow for longer than batteries would be feasible. If they don't need to venture far into permanent shadow then certain areas of craters on the moon have far less than 2 weeks of night and they could recharge using solar.

  11. Re:It's pointers all the way down, jake ! on Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines · · Score: 1

    So back to your point about a good combination of memory GC and RAII (memory is well handled by GC, other resources are not handled at all except as a side effect of freeing memory). Java is one language, I am familiar with, that is attempting to give you some features of both without the all out "hang yourself whilst shooting yourself in the foot when jumping out of a plane with a faulty parachute" approach of C++. (It is possible you will miss your foot, hit the rope which will get tangled in the faulty parachute and cause you to land safely with only minor broken bones. It will be fast though ;P

    I'm still out on if they are good. I would say better than before.

  12. Re:It's pointers all the way down, jake ! on Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines · · Score: 1

    No problem.

    Catch and finally for resources have been the bane of Java devs forever. Test for null, attempt to close, have to wrap the close call in an exception. It is not to bad when you have one non memory resource (file, network, sql, etc.) but two or more and it became a mess of nested exception handling and complex finally constructs to try to ensure everything was closed and released.

  13. Re:I don't get it on Battery Advance Could Lead To a Cleaner Way To Store Energy · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Batteries and Buffers on Battery Advance Could Lead To a Cleaner Way To Store Energy · · Score: 1

    Not all. Many use colour combination to produce white (or whiteish light) no fluorescent coatings/layers needed.

  15. Re:It's pointers all the way down, jake ! on Bjarne Stroustrup Announces the C++ Core Guidelines · · Score: 1

    Java 1.7 has try -with-resources which can auto close any declared AutoCloseable object on any exit from the try block. No need for finally or catch clauses.

    Sort of RAII for non anything you want.

  16. Re:Congratulations, dev. nations. West.. not so mu on India Mulls Using Nuclear Power For Its Chandrayaan-2 Mission To the Moon · · Score: 1

    On the moon you get two weeks of night (unless you are at the poles)

  17. Re:Limited unlimited on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Big electromagnets to lift the scrap into a vat partially filled with molten metal. Then lower the rods and electrocute it. How many megawatts does that require? The power lines outside and the transformers and the people negotiating the price of the electricity. How much did it use? No idea.

  18. Re:Limited unlimited on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Put enough current through anything and it will melt :)

  19. Re:Limited unlimited on Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap · · Score: 1

    Same here. Electricity gets less expensive per unit the more you use. Gas has a fixed unit charge then on top the rates vary. Both far to expensive. How may percent did the rates rise this last year ;) At least electricity is quite cheap off peak. But unlike the US there is only one timezone so demand does drop overnight and you got to keep the power stations running. That is for residential use. Industrial use is often done by negotiation. From what I remember of a huge scrap steel recycling plant that used arcs to melt steel. I suppose that when you install power lines and huge sodding transformers you may get a little discount.

    And last month the grocery stores stopped giving away discounts on gas (petrol). Probably as Tescos is in a world of financial trouble. The Co-op is not much better and the rest no longer need to compete on coupons and money back schemes.

  20. Re:time for revolution on Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content · · Score: 1

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Look how well that worked out.

  21. Re:Eliminating the overhead on Tim O'Reilly and the 'WTF?!' Economy (Video) · · Score: 1

    Most people on contract jobs do very little work.

    Just to counter your baselessly "Most people on a salary job do very little actual work" claim.

    So who is doing all the "hard work"?

    Who empties the bins at the office? Who unblocks the toilet? Who makes sure that you get paid? Lots of people who do actually work.

  22. Re:Intel E3845 Xeon processor? on Military Data Center In a Suitcase To Get Commercial Release · · Score: 1

    BioDigital 7 are amd 2 or 4 core processors with GPUs

    http://www.deployabletechnolog...

  23. Re:$409 for a month on Amazon for powder on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    1 Cal = 1 kcal = 1000 cal. And yes kcal does exist

  24. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    If he could just ask the kids to get inside the house then he has no reason to shoot the drone (apart from being pissed off). And the article said that the hovery thing did not crash in his yard. So there was a small risk it could fail and crash and hurt someone. There was a vastly greater probability of it crashing and possibly hurting someone once he shot it.

  25. Re:Correct link to TRA on Why Your Software Project Is Failing · · Score: 1

    It was written in 2009