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  1. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    It's not really woefully incorrect. Ask any electrician that has inadvertently grabbed 120v multiple times. Residential electricians tend to have it happen to them more often for some reason. I've touched 120v a couple times myself. So it still stands...if you drive a nail through 120v with a hammer, you are most likely going to drop the hammer (if that). Especially if you are wearing work boots. Pretty much the only major injuries/fatalities are from 208V, 347, 600, and up. The paper you quoted says it all...magnitude and duration. Current induced in the body from externally applied 120v is very low in magnitude, and the duration of conduction of a hammer striking a nail is very short.

  2. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Each live wire in the main feed to your house is only 120 volts relative to ground. It wouldn't be that bad, you'd probably drop the hammer. I doubt you would be in a box.

  3. Re:Wouldn't breeding licenses be more effective? on Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best · · Score: 1

    Because if it had done so, then we'd have the average intellect of a lizard by now.
    Based on what I have seen on YouTube, I would suggest that this is the case...
  4. Re:Since when? on Cell Hits 45nm, PS3 Price Drop Likely to Follow · · Score: 1

    Because some customers would be getting a PS3 with 8 active cells, and some would be getting one with only 7. Since they paid the same price they would be pissed off. If they always deactivate one cell, they can use all of the chips they make with less than 2 bad cells and everyone gets the same product.

  5. Re:VTech just kicked in, yo! on Student Expelled For Facebook Photo Description · · Score: 1

    White Oaks PS used to be 7 & 8 only, but as you say is now JK-8. Rick Hansen PS is still JK-6 though, and 7-8 move to White Oaks.

  6. Re:"Factual Content" ? NOT. on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually it is factual content; factual content about the series. It's not factual content about real life. You'd have to be a real Harry Potter nerd to get those two confused.

  7. Re:If you have physical access on Teen Hacks $84 Million Porn Filter in 30 Minutes · · Score: 1

    That's my point. If you restrict his use of Tor you aren't sticking with your original promise to not block anything.

  8. Re:If you have physical access on Teen Hacks $84 Million Porn Filter in 30 Minutes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So he will just install Tor and you will no idea where he's been.

  9. Re:Legal? on Circuit City and the American Dream · · Score: 1

    I don't know about in the US, but in Canada (Ontario at least) it is perfectly legal to fire someone without a reason given. However, it requires a compensation payment of one week's wages per year employed, up to a maximum of 8 weeks. If compensation is not received and no valid reason is given, THEN it becomes a wrongful-termination case at the Ministry of Labour/courts.

  10. Re:Science gone amuck again on The Molecular Secrets of Cream Cheese · · Score: 1

    It's actually three-score-and-ten. Two-score-and-ten is only 50.

  11. Re:Only can imagine the initial conversation... on Brits To Crash Test a Scramjet · · Score: 1

    No, it's obviously not, since Canadians generally don't say "aboot". I'm Canadian and been all over the country and never have I heard a serious Canadian say "aboot".

  12. Re:Parallel Path Plans posted here on Self Contained Power Source? · · Score: 1

    Electric motors are already in the 80-95% efficiency range. It is impossible to produce 3.5 times at much mechanical power with the same electrical input when you are already outputting 80% of the electrical power you put in.

  13. Re:Has anybody thought of this idea? on Continued Success for Space Elevator Tests · · Score: 1

    The problem is managing two cables withing metres of each other will be a pain in the butt. There would be so many tangles due to so many factors it would be rediculous.

  14. Re:Also look at Mercedes potential fault here on Need for Speed Unconnected to Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    A certain area of my city (London, Ontario - 2 hours down the 401 from Toronto) has massive "speed humps" intended to slow traffic down on the throughfares. Unfortunately they make slow cars bottom out and (fortunately?) fast cars driven by teenagers get some serious air :D

  15. Re:Precision on Rounding Algorithms · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not less prescise, it's less accurate. If you are retaining 3 sig digs, rounding 3.21 to 3.00 is inaccurate. You'd be prescisely inaccurate by 0.21. Prescision != Accuracy

  16. Re:Unfortunately, it's not a passive energy source on Harnessing Vertical Sea Temperature Gradient · · Score: 1

    But we ARE steaming oil out of tar sands. Suncor in Alberta is producing oil at a cost of $17-$26 per barrel. Oil will have to drop a lot in price before they stop making money at steaming oil out of the sand.

  17. Re:Authors in violation of the DMCA and on Xbox 360 File System Decoded · · Score: 1

    You can only violate trade secrets if you are authorized to know the info and you leak it, or if you steal the info and leak it. If you figure it out on your own, only the DMCA has effect. No?

  18. Re:Popular Attitudes on How To Fight Nigerian Scams as an Honest Nigerian? · · Score: 1

    I don't think government officials would agree to punish themselves/each other.

  19. Speaking of paranoia on Aluminum Foil Hats Will Not Stop "Them" · · Score: 1
    Woman tells jury attacker wore duct tape
    He wore a vest and hat made of duct tape.
    His first-floor apartment walls were lined with aluminum foil.
    There was no bed in his bedroom, but a deep freezer, also covered with foil.

    And, a jury was told yesterday, Ljubomir Ristic, 61, was convinced a woman who lived in his Huron Street apartment building was a government spy.
    Carmen Castillo testified that on Aug. 8, 2002, in his duct tape clothes, Ristic sprayed her in the face with a liquid, then hit her on the head with a small crowbar.
  20. Re:Get the facts on French Riots Lead to Crackdown on Blogs · · Score: 1

    Canada is the fifty FIRST state, not 53rd. My grade 3 teacher thought there were 52 states including Alaska and Hawaii. Count the stars.

  21. Re:You don't seem to understand on Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nuclear power plant employees would never be able to work in a coal plant, because the radiation dose from working in a coal plant is higher than the maximum allowed in a nuclear plant.

    They say that if you ground up all the waste from a nuclear plant and blew it into the air as dust, the overall radioactive discharge would be less than a coal plant.

    Pretty scary.

  22. Re:Magnetism Nanotech Blah on Magnetic Computing Takes a Step Forward · · Score: 1

    So, magnetic logic gates? Great.
    What about power? I seem to recall that one of the problems with magnetic microprocessors is that when you shut off the power, you lose your data...
    Not mentioned in TFA.

    What the heck? What happens then when you power down a conventional microprocessor? The whole point of magnetic is that you DON'T lose data (look up Core Memory).

  23. Re:So... on DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 · · Score: 1

    They have UAVs that shoot the enemy. Moot point.

  24. Re:TDI! on Hybrid Vehicle Conversion Services? · · Score: 2, Funny
    For the record, he's interested in an SUV because he's out in the country. A TDI isn't exactly SUV-esque.
    Neither is Barbie...
  25. Re:Use a Mac! on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1

    Sweet, Mounties rock :D They probably all use Macs in the office haha.