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  1. Re:Turnabout is fair play on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    Ummm, I think he means one of the following and not your interpretation:

    (a) Gun owners publishing the addresses of non-gun owners, creating a catalog of homes where an intruder has only dogs and baseball bats to worry about; or

    (b) Gun owners publishing the addresses of pro-gun-control journalists.

  2. Re:"Please work for us!" on Skilled Manual Labor Critical To US STEM Dominance · · Score: 1

    What does the GWB administration have to do with Welding?

    Nothing, but the GHWB administration did. Dan Quayle was a welder.

  3. Re:What time zone is the 10:20 PM? on The Best Way To Watch the "Blood Moon" Tonight · · Score: 1

    So American people now refer Tampa, FL as west coast?

    In Florida, yes.

  4. Infinite series on Mathematicians Use Mossberg 500 Pump-Action Shotgun To Calculate Pi · · Score: 2

    Just calculate 4-4/3+4/5-4/7+4/9-4/11... to as many significant figures as you'd like. It converges to exactly pi.

  5. Re:Annex? on Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd put a lot more reliance in the difficulty and expense of the enterprise than I'd put in the Russians honoring treaties...

  6. Re:Hardware requirements on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 2

    Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life.

    Or high-priced software they got through warez channels which won't run on 7, and which they can't "renew" because DRM got better...

  7. Re:Completely wrong summary on SF Evictions Surging From Crackdown On Airbnb Rentals · · Score: 1

    It's the amount a willing buyer and a willing seller will agree on if neither is under any external constraint (such as rent controls).

  8. Re:Okay, but... on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 2

    ...and it's not very hard to be covert when all you have to do is count the empty seats and subtract.

  9. Re:I think this is bullshit on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why do I run out of mod points just when somebody says something sensible?

  10. Re:Because Hollywood. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 2

    Speaking of "Airplane!"...

  11. Re:Because Hollywood. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    They put in what they assume the audience expects to hear. Ever notice that when there's a shooting, witnesses often tell a reporter "I didn't think it was a gunshot...it didn't sound like one"? What they mean is, it didn't sound like a movie gunshot.

  12. Re:He should be in a new Star Trek on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 1

    At least he and Riker were the only ones on the crew who knew how to climb a ladder properly...

  13. Re:Oh, it's on SyFy? on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 1

    Hey, anybody who kicks Sheldon's ass can't be all bad.

  14. Re:Truth to this on Crows Complete Basic Aesop's Fable Task · · Score: 1

    >It would be nice to see if such laws of volume displacement could be understood by this country's fast food connoisseurs.

    ...or air crash experts:

    http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...

  15. Re: Sigh. on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    Give him a break. He knows at least as much about physics as Mary Schiavo, with her black hole comment.

  16. Re:Showed this on Cosmos, Sunday night. on Waves Spotted On Titan · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I hear you. Interesting story about censorship in Oklahoma: http://arstechnica.com/science...

  17. Re:Showed this on Cosmos, Sunday night. on Waves Spotted On Titan · · Score: 1

    I was initially surprised by the fact there wasn't more outrage over Cosmos tipping over conservative apple carts

    Drop in on the IMDB.

  18. Re:yes, but on Fly an Aerobatic Quadcopter with Curtis Youngblood (Video) · · Score: 1

    No, but it runs...awww, I can't do it.

  19. Re:Suicide By Jet Plane on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    many supposed 'suicides' especially by younger people, are actually just acts of auto-erotic asphyxiation gone wrong.

    A junior high school classmate of mine managed to off himself that way. He did it outdoors, in some woods, and was found first by children so there was a crowd, including reporters, by the time the police got there. Nobody said anything about "suicide" -- the cops put on a show of hunting for a "crazed sex fiend" until it faded out of the papers.

  20. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    Because with the events of the last week or so, certain people have lost a LOT of money. Sure, it may not be his fault, but issues like this are sometimes settled...ummm...out of court.

  21. Actually, one of the aviation fuel companies makes a shipment of 115/145 fuel each year for the Reno Air Races...an experimental project could probably get in on that deal.

  22. sound-barrier-breaking X-1 aircraft on The Ephemerality and Reality of the Jetpack · · Score: 2

    ...as opposed to the rocket belt, which was merely eardrum-breaking...

  23. Re:What do the humans actually do on a ship? on Rolls Royce Developing Drone Cargo Ships · · Score: 1

    I remember reading about a plane where there was a crawspace so you could do maintenance on engines while in flight.

    The B-36 bomber and one or two others.

  24. Re:Can someone please explain on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 2

    What itsdapead said. Hot things glow. Very hot things glow very brightly. When that much kinetic energy gets turned into heat, things get very hot indeed.

    Turn on a light bulb and watch what the filament does. It's in a vacuum. Do you see any combustibles being burned up? Do you see any light?

  25. Whom to name the crater after? on Astronomers Catch Asteroid Striking Moon On Video · · Score: 1

    Considering the priorities in the news media today, I hope they don't name the crater Bieber...