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  1. Re:Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    N-machine is just a homopolar DC generator, look it up. They have low internal impedance so can make very high currents if low impedance circuit attached...but there is nothing magical about them. They do have niche practical applications, some older synchotrons use them as high current source. They don't create energy out of nothing, they convert mechanical energy to electrical energy. Any commercial venture of a grid power plant trying to use one would fail to anyone who used good generator of modern design for the same task. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  2. Re:Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    The Bedini motor dose not put out more energy than it takes in, it's long been debunked as a magical energy source. Heh, even by Mythbusters(tm)

  3. Re: Heavier than air flight is impossible on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Several heavier than air flying machines existed at the time Lord K is alleged to have made that statement, that oft-quoted phrase is old urban legend.

  4. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Lead can in fact be turned into gold, so that particular one of the many goals of alchemy wasn't unrealistic, just the means they attempted were too feeble in energy density.

  5. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Yes, we in fact do recognize the some of Tesla's ideas were crackpot. Like the ineffecient "broadcasting" of AC power without wire as being suitable for city. Like the assertion that AC is always superior to DC for transmission of power over wires.

  6. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Saltwater fuel cell isn't new, and sensational claims of company looking for investors to make a $1M car can't be taken at face value. Your tin foil hat site article about cold fusion has no credibility.

  7. Re:Hope! on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    Not all programs use utmp logging so not the most useful thing. Text logs with the login info are. Nice try though, but I think you just pointed out problem with binary db vs. text for /var/log files

  8. Re:Hope! on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    funny I also have those logins and logoffs in simple text logs

  9. Re:Opposition was suppressed. on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    How many of thoe debian-women are there? is that the real problem with this systemd bullshit?

  10. Re:They used to call dbase 4th G on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 1

    and SQL and Prolog. You are right, that's some funny shit

  11. Re:Python on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 1

    You mean those Python front ends that call Fortran libraries where the real work happens?

  12. Re:OpenBSD + Truecrypt + Rip Anywhere MP3 player on The Public Patent Foundation Fights for Freedom From Bad Patents (Video) · · Score: 1

    how are you going to type in the password for truecrypt every time you want to listen to a song? otherwise, The Man will just yank the device from you while operating and discover your illegal wares. why openbsd? I like it for servers, good networked security for remote access but with physical access to an mp3 appliance there are probably no advantages

  13. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    you have no point at all, that linked site greencar usually converts all measurements to imperial from quoted articles

  14. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 3, Informative

    yes, many people in the world would be much more concerned about electric car with 32 degree F problem versus one that appears at 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C) Since the problem appears at 0 degrees C, that isn't very cold at all. It was -26 degrees C last night here

  15. Re:Whenever I hear about electric car failures on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 1

    but batteries depend on a current carrying path from anode to cathode for the "half -cell" reactions take place. Not quite like most living things

  16. Re:units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the article-linked site uses U.S. units. it's hard to figure out

  17. units please on Tesla's Having Issues Charging In the Cold · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "below zero' Kelvin? (is that you, Frank Herbert?) Centigrade? Farenheit?

  18. Re:Why? Lying isn't illegal on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    lying about blow jobs and his not considering that "real sex", totally on the same level as violating the constitution and turning the USA into a surveillance/police state

  19. Re:Upon orders of His Majesty on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    Obama is not "black", besides having none of the experience of a black who grew up in the USA, he's half white.

  20. Re:Whats so special about 30th on IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too · · Score: 1

    it's an auspicious number dear to those in open source, the number of years the GNU project has been flounding about still unable to produce a useble operating system. HURD is not the WURD; it's a TURD

  21. Re:What grounds? on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    and I'm saying that's nothing new, seen it again and again in my half century on earth

  22. Re:Say what????? on Why Linux Loses Out On Hardware Acceleration In Firefox · · Score: 1

    funny, I make two clicks in my distro and I get a stable binary nvidia driver that's never crashed. you using gentoo or some other time-waster?

  23. Re:Mmmmm Clams on ClamAV For Windows Open Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    you're a bit ambiguous yourself, are your "regular clams" the underwater or bearded variety, i.e. are you buttering and tasting marine bivalves or vulvas?

  24. Re:ClamAV is a big deal on ClamAV For Windows Open Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    oh no! and here I thought redmond was just being slow making my source printout request as per GPL 2. You really know how to pop someones bubble. Now what am I going to do about my nifty custom .bat file with included Windows 2008 Server R2 that's been so popular on megaupload?

  25. Re:What grounds? on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    The U.S. has been imprisoning and killing outside the law long before 2001. For example, we had concentration camps for tens of thousands innocent U.S. citizens in the 40s, we mass murdered thousands of innocent SE asians (and those were our ALLIES, not enemies!) in the 60s by deliberately killing their crops to force the survivors to move to cities under our control (and maimed hundreds more because of impurities in the defoliant used)