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  1. Re:Bribery fines are funny on IBM Charged With Bribing Korean, Chinese Officials · · Score: 1

    The interstate may be "federal", but only in management. It is very common for a local jurisdiction to be responsible for maintenance (potholes, plowing, etc) and traffic law enforcement (including towing). There is not illegal and should not be.

  2. Debunked on 60% of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers · · Score: 4, Informative
  3. Re:The graph is wrong on Ridley Scott Abandons Alien Prequel · · Score: 1

    Come on, Back to the Future II is rated that low? Batman Returns is rated high? Yeah right.

    Any system is going to have it's outliers. I think rasher's shown similar outliers using IMDB instead of rotten tomatoes. I also think it is presented more clearly.

    http://rasher.dk/filmgraphs/

  4. Re:Cold weather on Ford To Offer Fuel-Saving 'Start-Stop' System · · Score: 1

    Most countries with mainly manual transmission cars teach to put it in neutral when stopped. Reason being that if someone hits you from behind and your foot comes off the clutch the car is a hazard as it's in gear and could injure others when it drives off with you unconscious at the wheel.

    They teach that, but you are mistaken as to why.
    Accident pops left foot off clutch while simultaneously pushing right foot onto gas while in a low enough gear one doesn't stall the engine, and said right foot remains on gas pedal?
    Not very likely.

    The reason one does not idle with their foot on the clutch is that you're wearing out the release bearing. Only way to replace that is to open the whole thing, and we all know how much that is.

  5. Re:i don't understand on Linux Radio · · Score: 3, Funny

    whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?

    I like my Autechre just fine, TYVM.

  6. Re:Abandon all your cash on Estonian Economist Suggests Abandoning Cash · · Score: 1

    The error in your logic this whole thread is in taking the tracking granularity and assuming it is a profitable (or even break-even) transaction granularity.

    You've presented no evidence that it is, much less any supporting evidence for the more than an order of magnitude extension you've argued for.

  7. Re:Not new. on Toyota Introduces Electric RAV4, Powered By Tesla Motor · · Score: 1

    Wrong.
    The current EU standard is 50ppm, with the 10ppm standard on the horizon.
    The US standard is 15ppm since 2007, was an ungodly 500ppm prior to that.

  8. Re:How nice... on Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect To See World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An MIT student works out an interesting way to merge Kinetic with existing technologies for the benefit of users.

    vs.

    A Microsoft rep talks about how Kinetic can be used to foster yet more advertising on people ...

    "I liked the University. They gave us money, they gave us the facilities and we didn't have to produce anything! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there."

  9. Re:Easy recycling? on Bloom Laptop Designed For Easy Disassembly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wanted to replace it, and the cheapest I found that little piece online was $40+shipping. Cheapest I found it from Sony? $60+tax+shipping. It's a small piece of molded plastic, that even after manufacture, storage, etc cannot cost more than a few dollars.

    I'm sure manufacture, storage and inventory were only a few dollars. So were the manufacturing, storage, and inventory costs for the dozens of parts which never got sold.

    The parts business is one of statistical inventory. Cheap prices OR large inventory, not both.

  10. Re:Paper is easier. on Capturing Carbon With Garbage Heaps · · Score: 1

    It takes almost the same amount of energy to recycle paper as it does to start from virgin wood. Bleach too.

  11. Re:Atol Growth on Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice · · Score: 1

    Considering corals don't grow above water I can sleep with those assumptions.

    The rest of the linked "article" is about sea-level changes balancing erosion vs depositing.

  12. Paper is easier. on Capturing Carbon With Garbage Heaps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It seems to me it would just be easier to stop recycling paper, and create tax incentives for the consumption of more paper. ;)

  13. Re:Atol Growth on Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're (and the article) are talking about low-level atolls (not coral islands) which are mildly to unvegetated and not at all the type of atoll or island suitable for human habitation, thus not the subject of this discussion.

    Not to mention, atolls won't rise as fast as the sea. They will be under water for thousands of years before once again cresting. Nothing in your linked article successfully argues otherwise.

  14. Re:Atol Growth on Facing Oblivion, Island Nation Makes Big Sacrifice · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Studies show that atols and coral islands maintain their height above sealevel. The coral grows upwards as sealevel rises.

    I'm not sure I understand how the dead skeletons of corals past, which are what makes up coral islands, are going to maintain their height above sea level by growing. Perhaps if they get covered by water for a few millennium new corals will attach themselves and grow upon the old? ;)
     

  15. Re:As an American.... on Construction of French Fusion Reactor Underway · · Score: 1

    About those carriers, what are their value these days?

    Same as it ever was.
    Name a better way to project air power to the other side of the world?

  16. Re:Where to buy? on Femtocells To Replace Parts of the 3G Network · · Score: 1

    And the dual GPS antennas on (literally) brick-and-mortar telephone switch-houses is for???

  17. Re:Where to buy? on Femtocells To Replace Parts of the 3G Network · · Score: 1

    The weirdest thing is it has to get a GPS signal to activate.

    Gnats-ass time-sync.

  18. Re:Hadn't Noticed on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Not all of us have the beautiful anamorphic laserdiscs.

  19. Re:N900 without phone? on Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900 · · Score: 1

    re N810:
    You can chroot Debian, but not run it natively. Too many drivers are locked down, so you're pretty much forced to use the shipping OS if you expect all your hardware to work.

    If you want the unrestricted Linux freedom you're come to expect from a PC on a device of that form factor the N900 is 80% there, the N810 is 50% there.

  20. Re:ATM Skimmer on More Gas Station Credit-Card Skimmers · · Score: 0, Troll

    And as I am remembered every time I go there, the fact tipping is not common practice shows in the shitty service.

  21. Re:Hypocrasy on A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts · · Score: 1

    I believe there's an international treaty where you cannot nuclear attack a nation having an nuclear arsenaln, even if it's just "one nuke".

    This fact allows the US to nuke, say Irak, until they have developed their own nuclear weapons. That's why these nations are developing their own weapons, not to "nuke the Western world" but to get themselves safe.

    Peter, hold on to that thought, because I'm gonna explain to you when we get home all the things that are wrong with that statement.

  22. Re:cool on ESA's GOCE Satellite Provides Gravity Map of Earth · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, because that image shows one how height above the ellipsoid (not spheroid as someone said above) model of the earth (as used in GPS / etc.) minus the geoid model deviation (what these satellites are, in effect, measuring) equals your orthometric height (what most people call "elevation").

    I don't believe this helps the GP's query, because it doesn't explain what the geoid model is.

    What most people never think about is that old-school surveying (with a conventional level) always, even before we understood that the earth's gravity varied, compensated for the variation. A surveyor's level, be it an old one where the circular plate is made level with a spirit bubble or a newer one where the recticle floats and self-compensates, is always looking perpendicular to the line between it and the center of gravity. Everyone always assumed, back in the day, that this really meant the center of the Earth, but the positive side effect is that elevation measurements "carried" with a surveyor's level were always compensating for these differences in gravitational potential.

    So much so, that all the major geoid models used to this day are heavily based upon high-precision GPS observations (of height above the ellipsoid) on benchmarks possessing elevations leveled in.

  23. Re:Carbon to Hydrogen Ratio on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    Aye - it is.
    I wasn't trying to get you modded below 3, just post a clarification, as your point was valid, regardless of facts. ;)
    Oh well - never can tell what the moderators will do.

  24. Re:Carbon to Hydrogen Ratio on MIT Says Natural Gas Best To Lower Carbon Emissions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Natural Gas is mostly Methane. Since methane has the smallest ratio of carbon to hydrogen at 2 carbons, per 6 hydrogens,

    Huh? Methane is C1H4. Ethane is C2H6.

  25. Re:Adobe bridge? on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    I won't comment directly on your critiques of Lightroom 2, but they do not affect what the OP was looking for.