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  1. Re:waste of time on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 1

    And saves tarmac too, as the incoming and outgoing roads no longer have to deal with spikes and troughs in traffic, and can become substantially narrower.

  2. Re:Ridiculously stupid on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 1

    The idea IIRC is not to disrupt the tornadoes. It's to disrupt the much more benign winds that interact to form tornadoes once they reach the mid west.

  3. Re:Why does the post fail to mention the real pric on Toyota's Fuel Cell Car To Launch In Japan Next March · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right, because tesla haven't sold any of their $80,000 car that goes 1/5th of the distance, right?

  4. Re:Socialism is not working on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uhh, you realise that the other countries highlighted, where this is going better, are more socialist than the US, right?

  5. Re:work life balance is a myth on Workaholism In America Is Hurting the Economy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is, even if you have a job that you love (and I do), that doesn't mean that you want to (or that it's healthy to) spend every waking moment doing it. Variety is important for a healthy life.

  6. Re:AP Statistics isn't really computational thinki on Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This whole article is based on a fallacy - that Computer Science is teaching people to code.

    This isn't what a Computer Science degree teaches you.

  7. Re:Serously? on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 1

    If you want to add a dozen orders of magnitude, you're talking about 2e12 minutes, i.e. 3800 millennia. Yet, people are happily living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear weapons are in general designed to consume all the highly radioactive things in them - after all, each of those radioactive elements is something that can be turned into energy for an explosion to occur. They don't generally have significant contamination issues.

  8. Re:Logical Consequences on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Japan are probably worried that they are not in any way protected by the US nuclear program. They worry that the US would stop short of getting involved in world war 3 if China really did want to invade Japan. By building their own nuclear arsenal, they remove that possibility and maintain MAD with China.

  9. Re:This is fraud. on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 2

    Not quite - I'm also not defending them, but the consumer has the right to receive what was advertised, not what they thought they were getting.

    If kingston advertise certain specs, and the new build still meets those specs, there's no false advertising going on.

    What 3rd parties say about their device is neither here nor there, and any consumer believing what said 3rd parties wrote is completely liable for their own mistake in believing something other than what was explicitly advertised.

  10. Re:Sigh. on Endurance Experiment Writes One Petabyte To Six Consumer SSDs · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, every single SSD you bought was a low capacity sand force controlled one.

  11. Re:Definitely a low flying rocket... on Cockpit Revealed For Bloodhound Supersonic Car · · Score: 1

    The reason is explained in the video - when you're traveling at that speed, the loads you put through the suspension are huge. You don't want to have the suspension compressed before hand or it'll just break.

  12. Re:Should it even be called a "car"? on Cockpit Revealed For Bloodhound Supersonic Car · · Score: 2

    The world record requires them to do one run, turn the car (by itself), and repeat the run within 1 hour, so it definitely can turn.

  13. Re:I'm ignorant on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 2

    No, this is simply the definition of a theory. If it's simply "I think that mice cause global warming", that's a hypothesis, but as soon as you add "you could test this by doing this, this and this, it predicts this result from the above tests" it becomes a theory. Once you do the testing it may stay a theory, or become simply wrong.

  14. Re:I'm ignorant on Evidence of Protoplanet Found On Moon · · Score: 1

    No, you're misunderstanding what a theory is. A theory is merely a hypothesis that has a well understood method of disproving the hypothesis.

  15. Re:"Sexual diversity?" on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    No, sex is not the same thing as sexuality.

  16. Re:Actually, a gun is a useful machine on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 2

    Similarly, Koninsegg 3D printing the entire gearbox (gears included, already printed inside), and turbo housing (again, turbo fans and compressors already included inside the housing) for the new One:1 car. Also showing that 3D printed materials can indeed stand up to repeated high temperatures and pressures.

  17. On the contrary, I find the idea of an autonomous vehicle with someone who thinks they're clever enough to override it just plain stupid.

  18. Re:Is this an ad ? on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 1

    Which 4k doesn't improve in any way.

    4k is about resolution, only.

  19. Re:I get it.. but I won't get it on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 1

    Speaking as someone with a 27" 2560x1440 monitor, and a 15" 2880x1800 monitor... No, 2560x1440 is not high enough resolution on 27", and 1920x1200 certainly isn't.

  20. Re:4k at viewing distance isn't that special on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um... just no... that is completely and totally false, I wish people would stop repeating that nonsense... Maybe YOUR eyes suck and you can't see a difference, but put them side-by-side, sitting 6 to 10 feet away, the difference is clear and obvious to most people...

    No, it's nothing to do with his eyes sucking, it's to do with the angular resolution that 20/20 vision can pick up. at 8-10 feet, a person with 20/20 vision can not make out better than 1080p on a 60" screen.

    I speak from experience...

    How sure are you you don't speak from placebo?

  21. Re:Is this an ad ? on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, it is - if you sit 8-10 foot away from your screen you need a 60" TV to see a resolution higher than 1080p.

    4k is pretty much useful for monitors only (where it's useful because you sit 2 feet away from them).

  22. Re:Next target, please on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    None is needed. This completely ignores the fact that policing roads costs money. At least in the UK (and I'm guessing the US where the fines are cheaper), the cost of policing is higher than the gains from the fines.

  23. Re:The Problem Isn't "Free Speech vs Privacy" on The US Vs. Europe: Freedom of Expression Vs. Privacy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem is, what you're saying here is actually "enforcing your rules on other nations". You want the rule to be "I'm free to do whatever I want", which is basically the American ruleset. You are trying to enforce that on Europe, where the rule is "no, actually, that hurts someone else, you can't do it".

  24. Re:Why are they in the EU again? on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 2

    No one's... But that's the entire point of being a member of the EU... Leaving the EU by definition destroys these agreements. Which is why all the people yelling "leave the EU" are such idiots.

  25. Re: In other parts of the world... on Swedish Fare Dodgers Organize Against Transportation Authorities · · Score: 1

    They rode on the public transit which was signed as costing money - that's the agreement to pay right there.