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  1. APRS on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    Pick up an Amateur Radio License and install a APRS beacon.

  2. WOW... on Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons · · Score: 1

    I have not seen footage like this since the Reaction Research Shot! Love the mechanical "noise" in the absence of air. With Frank Kosden gone, I have to wonder, who built the motor for you?

    Again Excellent!

  3. Right back at you.... on Marking 10 Years Since 9/11/2001 · · Score: 1

    With all due respect, it is this attitude that supports the use of nuclear arms.

    The United States Armed Forces systems bends over backwards to mitigate collateral damage; Despite this goal, the feed back is consistently one where collateral damage reported as a travesty. This makes the goal, one seemly shared by the US alone, as a waste of time and LARGE sums of money.

    War is ugly, uglier than anyone wants to admit. Just witness the Taliban, Vietcong, Khmer Rouge, or the freaks who attacked the school in Georgia who go out of their way to inflict civilian damage.

    Your picking the wrong side; I am beginning to wish the US was Imperialist pigs we are portrayed as at this point. I hate War, get it done, get it over with.

  4. So China, USSR, Syria, Iraq, North Korea are safe? on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Interesting that Wiki leaks is revealing (or has revealed) state secret information on countries trying to be democratic like Israel, Jordan, Iran, and Afghanistan.
    But countries that blatantly ignore or have questionable human right policies seem to get a pass.
    How can you like these guys?

    Thanks for the heads up!

  5. Running a Kool Aid Stand are ya... on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 2

    Well, logically if you want to blame a single administration, or really a point in time, look to the Urban Renewal and Development Program which looked to loan money to the disadvantaged. Now add Bank deregulation to aid the programs development, regulated capitalism which will punish all Banks which do not play the game, and you have set the stage for the nightmare we are in. A bunch of parties owing money they can never pay back.

    Thank you Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich.
    Sure there was a surplus....of borrowed money.

    Now had the money stayed in the country, it may not have been all the bad, but thanks to Ronald Regan and George H. Bush, money was traded out for foreign goods, many times to countries with less than good intentions for the US.

    Now enter dumb and dumber, followers of Keynesian economics. You cannot buy your way out of money being gone by borrowing more money. George W. Bush (large ears) tried with stimulus 1, then Barack Obama (larger ears) with stimulus 2 (now twice as big as stimulus 1).

    It's done now, US Presidents where not supposed to have so much power, and that is Congress's fault for not stepping up. You cannot place blame on this Congress's for trying to do what the previous congress failed to even address (even though it was their job, for two years).. And you cannot blame a group of good intentioned people for pointing out the obvious (The Tea party). We are screwed.

  6. It's all about the state change... on Building Material Absorbs and Releases Heat · · Score: 2

    Its all about bringing the state change into a temperature zone that can utilized, and it has to be cheap.
    Damp Magnesium Sulfate always worked for us.

  7. Banks, Insurance Companies on Study Compares IQ With Browser Choice · · Score: 1

    "I" am ignorant for allowing Banks and Insurance companies (even CNN) author sites that require IE to function properly.

    "Others" are much more intelligent than I for futility attempting to get theses sites to function with other browsers.

    "Kahn, I am laughing at your superior intellect"

  8. Figured that out by yourself did ya? on The Internet's New Alternate Reality · · Score: 2

    I'm sorry for the quip, but really this has been a reality from even before the internet. At first, CNN (read Cable TV) seemed to straighten out the other big three, now that is toast.

    As far as the Birth Certificate goes, I believe the undo attention came when a one million dollar retainer was put in place to protect it. I was latter led to believe that it became two million. Now one has to wonder if this was to divert the attention from something else.

    I hope Allen West runs and wins the presidential election. It would go far in erasing much FUD that has been spread through the decade.

  9. Surfing the net with a CRAY on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Who would have thought people surfing the net with a computer twice as fast as a CRAY1 and with hundreds of millions of bytes of memory would be ridiculed for using a computer that was not up to the task.

  10. Shuttle Action Plan - Solar System, here we come! on NASA Wants Spacecraft For Mars Return Trip · · Score: 1

    Do I detect an Engineer? :-)

    While your plan has large issues, it is MUCH better than anything I have seen lately.
    Just thinking out loud here:
    We could use existing heavy lift bird to get a refueled tank to LEO, but it (the tank) would be a very different monster than the gravity fed one that exists today.
    The mount points would have to change, and jigs designed that could be used in orbit to align the mount points up would be a new Engineering project.

    On the upside, even though the nozzle geometry of the existing liquid rockets would not probably be optimum for operation in a vacuum, we do not need much energy to get things done as we already are in space.

    Heck as the whole platform would be already in orbit, a tank with anything close to the amount of fuel as the original could be viewed as wretched excess.

    All in all, I find your idea AWESOME! The more I think about it, the more I like it.

  11. Rockwell? on NASA Wants Spacecraft For Mars Return Trip · · Score: 1

    Is the exclusion of the existing contractor Boeing (Rockwell) indication that Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are at the core of the bureaucratic problem or at least pointing towards it?

  12. Re:Waves hand through the air... on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, I just posted something similar and just saw your post...funny...

  13. Star Wars on Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators · · Score: 1

    "These are not the droids you are looking for"
    "These are not the droids we are looking for"

    BAWHAHAHAAA...

  14. Re:This one got me... on Linux.conf.au Talks Available Online · · Score: 1

    Indeed, I need multiple Video cards, a feature he described as not functional at this time in GEM and 'hard' to implement. He also berates the socket/network interfaces to the server, which I use heavily. He seems to view judisious memory use in low regard.

    But that said, there are is allot to be said for tidying up decades worth of code bloat, and revisiting the general graphics structure.

  15. Hardly pointless... on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 1

    The 'edited' version could had pointed out that the air/ground force strike was all due to someone mistakenly calling it in. The WHOLE problem was with the spotter. The rest of what happened is exactly what you can expect when you call armed forces to act. Soooo.... who was the spotter? Why not the call for why he called in the strike? Who was this moron...

    War is brutal; no sane man is eager to bring it forth. Equally insane is the expectation of restraint from parties in the conflict, no matter how hard they may try.

  16. RE: Anonymous Coward 5?!?! Bunch of idiots. on Openleaks Goes Live · · Score: 0

    Insightful? Only if you have your head stuck up your own anatomy where photons cannot penetrate. Articles published will point out what you are seeing today in Arab unrest seeking political reform was brought about in part by Condoleezza Rice's speech in Cairo. And who is calling for stability in lew of democracy? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton! Of course you probably have been sucking from that portion of politics for a long time to garnish the opinion you just spewed out.

    The only thing Assange sites have done is attack the very democracy's he claims to be aiding. That due to the fact that the portions of the world that are free are the only place such information can make it way out. In short, do to laziness and sloth, he is doing mankind a great disservice.

    Provide some leaks we can use, like how to bring down truly oppressive governments in the world.

  17. 100mw Laser pointer for what, burning holes!?!!? on Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise · · Score: 1

    A 100mw "Laser Pointer" for what, burning holes in the heads of you audence who may have dosed off?
    4mm to 8mm divergence at 3 miles, how much did you spend for the collimator?
    How a device like this works its way into the public sector labeled at a "Laser Pointer" is beyond me.
    I looked around and 100mw green lasers do seem easy to aquire, which is surprising as it was my understanding that publicly accessible "Laser Pointers" had a emission cap of 5mw which is plenty for "pointing".
    There are a ton of regulations that have to be followed when putting on a laser show utilizing such power levels.

  18. Traitors on GE Venture Will Share Jet Technology With China · · Score: 1

    Some of the technology that GE seems so willing to part with came from US tax dollars under the defense budget. It is not theirs to give.

    Japan and China are very different situations. China does not play the same game as anyone else. They are stealing from the Democracies of the world while forcing their population to be subservient to a Socialist/Communist government which holds them back. The Japanese moved from Imperialism to a Representative Democracy.

    In short, GE should be held accountable to treason.

  19. Drop Lockheed-Martin on Low Quality Alloy Cause of Shuttle Main Tank Issue · · Score: 1

    Ever pulled together the correlation between ALL external fuel tank issues and the contract being moved to Lockheed? Yes the foam as well. Somebody has to say it.

    They where even granted a exception by the EPA on having to switch to a different foam, but they did it anyhow.

    No conspiracy here, just a Bird Colonel that favors Lockheed.

  20. Yeah, like who would regulate the bandwitdth, Al? on Al Franken's Warning On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    With BitDefender parental block blocking Fox News but not MSNBC out of the box, I allready have a taste of what Mr. Franken might be fighting for.

    I don't care who the ruling party/class is, I just do not care much for being "ruled".

  21. Screaming Recal Cancer on Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested · · Score: 1

    Screaming Rectal Cancer, Screaming Rectal Cancer for all of you....humph...

  22. Re:Climate change is a security threat on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    Deniers? Research?

    Using your analogies, I guess I am a agnostic. But I confess you look allot like one of those holy rollers you see on TV. They say some interesting things, grab you attention, but can be just annoying.

    I am no researcher, but throw some of that money this way, and I feel fairly confident that I would be able to trump many of your arguments.

    But here, have some data and math that you probably have seen before. Feel free to go ahead and correct the data and math. Figures posted 2003:

    “To finish with the math, by calculating the product of the adjusted CO2 contribution to greenhouse gases (3.618%) and % of CO2 concentration from anthropogenic (man-made) sources (3.225%), we see that only (0.03618 X 0.03225) or
    0.117% of the greenhouse effect is due to atmospheric CO2 from human activity. The other greenhouse gases are similarly calculated and are summarized below.

    Anthropogenic (man-made) Contribution to the "Greenhouse
    Effect," expressed as % of Total (water vapor INCLUDED)
    Based on concentrations (ppb) adjusted for heat retention characteristics

    %ofGreenhouseEffect %Natural %Man-made
    Water vapor 95.000% 94.999% 0.001%
    Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 3.618% 3.502% 0.117%
    Methane (CH4) 0.360% 0.294% 0.066%
    Nitrous Oxide (N2O) 0.950% 0.903% 0.047%
    Misc.gases( CFC's, etc.)0.072% 0.025% 0.047%
    Total 100.00% 99.72 0.28%



    The Kyoto Protocol calls for mandatory carbon dioxide reductions of 30% from developed countries like the U.S. Reducing man-made CO2 emissions this much would have an undetectable effect on climate..."

    "Such drastic measures, even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about 0.035%."

    "This is much less than the natural variability of Earth's climate system! “

  23. Re:Climate change is a security threat on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    Nice, my 7th grade education was many decades ago. I grew up in a defense park. We were all learning at the time. The space race had not even started yet. Thanks for the info on Mars, but you failed to mention any reasoning for the other planets warming such as Uranus, maybe Neptune’s warming.

    You know, I will recant my attitude, somewhat. I really enjoy science as it is supposed to discover the truths found in around us.

    The problem I have had of late is the disingenuous and outright lies made in the name of science.

    Your statement of consensus of CO2 relating to Global Warming is such example. While CO2 may indeed be a contributing factor, you fail to mention that the factor may be as little as a fraction of a percent. It may be a whole bunch larger. There is no consensus on the impact. If you keep water vapor in the picture, CO2 is finally in the strong single digits of a percentage of a greenhouse gas present in our atmosphere.

    Another example someone gave was watts per meter. The Earth showed warming of about 1 watt per square meter. When the author looked over the tundra, he imagined all the little light bulbs placed per square meter. As my wife switched on her 1500 watt hair dryer, I imagined the 1500 square meters lighting up from just the BTU’s displaced! When you stand next to a fire, do you feel warm because of the radiant energy, or the CO2 being created? Point being, the whole picture needs looked at to see if a problem can be solved, what to do to solve it, or even if a problem exists.

    We all hate pollution and waste. I want energy efficient cars because I dislike purchasing oil from peoples that care for us even less than we do for them. This should not result in me coming up with all sorts of poor ideas that need to be pushed on people to get them to stop driving their cars. Rather, to keep looking for a real tangle solution to using less oil. Cap and trade is not a solution, it’s a money making parlor game.

    In short, the IPCC and Al Gore were busted for pushing a money grubbing agenda. We all smelled it along time ago. Lets stick with tang able facts and truths so that we can advance a better way of life for everyone involved, without sacrificing what right we have already.

    I assume you maybe a researcher in the climate field. If so you have the not so enviable task of becoming a credible information source after some serious damage has been done.

    Regards

  24. Re:Climate change is a security threat on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    Wow, thanks for the heads up on that current scientific revision. For years I had been taught that Venus was blanketed in clouds of Sulphuric acid which also contributed to its greenhouse environment. Now half the WebPages state a nebulous collection of gasses with CO2 concentrations over 90%, others still state the sulphuric acid composition. Take down notices have probably been posted.

    I am sure a CO2 answer is forthcoming on the current warming trend on Mars and other planets in the solar system

    Truly amazing.

    While I must yield to your knowledge at this point at sulphuric acid lowering the radiative equilibrium, the term “scientific” continues to be maligned in the climate (ahem) “discipline”.

  25. Re:Climate change is a security threat on CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate · · Score: 1

    Riiight. And Venus is so much hotter than its radiative equilibrium temperature because......?"
    Sulfuric Acid