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  1. Holy shit on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    23lb = 10.43kg
    5000mph = 2235m/s

    1/2 * m * v^2 > 26 MJ

    Put into perspective, 26MJ / 3600s ~= 7.2kWh, or about $1 worth of electricity.

    How much does 100lbs of black powder cost? (or however much they use to launch shells from battleships?)

    I see a huge cost saving for the military depending on how many shells they fire every year in training.

  2. Re:Vaccines are homeopathy, too on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    Vaccines are not medicine, as they are not designed to prevent, treat, or cure any disease. The vaccine itself only prompts your body to manufacture its own response capability. So, receiving a vaccine (you receive a vaccine, you do not "take" it) is not "being medicated against your will."

    Besides, you do not have any right at all to put everyone around you and the entire human race in immediate danger just because of your delusional paranoia about vaccines.

  3. Buy my new 10000X Cure for Cancer! on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    The most powerful cancer treatment EVAR! Diluted an incredible TEN THOUSAND TIMES - this new revolutionary cure has so little active ingredient, it is not measurable using any modern measurement technique. Never before has any alchemist been able to achieve just high levels of potency.

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  4. Re:Energy on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    True point, but if the process is efficient enough, and a nuclear energy source can be used to pull CO2 sequestered in the ocean (which came from fossil fuels) to make fuel, rather than pulling new oil out of the ground, then perhaps we could dial back the amount of new carbon being pulled from the ground and dumped into the atmosphere, thereby slowing the growth rate of the concentration of CO2.

    Besides, we all know there is not an infinite amount of the stuff down there to drill for, and some day it will be so hard to find and extract that this method will be cheaper anyway. So, why not develop and commercialize it now?

  5. Re:It's simple on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    This, except you forgot illegal immigrants.

  6. Re:I don't think this is going to fly... on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    Because being licensed and qualified is not the same thing as being proficient. In fact there is absolutely no correlation between being "qualified" and being "proficient."

  7. Re:General Aviation is dying, somthing needs to ch on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    1) The vast, overwhelming majority of commercial pilots fly in the GA industry.

    2) The FAA is under immense pressure from the major airlines to get rid of GA entirely

    3) This is demonstrably commercial

  8. Re:My opinion as a pilot on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 1

    Hear hear... as I stated in another post (and was promptly vilified for), I wouldn't fly with most of the pilots I know. Too many pilots think that having gone through the training makes them a good pilot, when in reality, walking away from your checkride with your signoff means you are just barely good enough to pass the government's very very low standards. It certainly does not mean you are a "good" pilot, and absolutely does not mean you are a "safe" pilot.

  9. Re:I don't think this is going to fly... on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 2

    Point was, if you look like a charter, and act like a charter, chances are the FAA is going to look at you and see a charter.

  10. An FAA Interpretation on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 4, Informative
  11. I don't think this is going to fly... on New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas · · Score: 2

    ... I'm a pilot, and I wouldn't fly as a pax with most of the other pilots I know, especially not under circumstances they are unfamiliar with - like loading down the plane with people and luggage close to gross weight and doing a cross country with it.

    Also, this is in some pretty serious gray area. A pilot may not "hold out" for passengers to share fuel on a trip he/she is planning to take. Any kind of "if someone else is going, I'm not going" makes it a Part 121 charter. If pilots start deciding not to go if they don't get a full plane, or if they wait around for an hour for the person who is late, I think they might find themselves violated.

  12. Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you simply change everyone's temporal frame of reference by the exact same amount, you have done nothing, really. Everyone will simply account for the 500ms delay, and trades will still execute in the same order.

  13. Re:You people are so ignorant... on Why There Are So Few ISP Start-Ups In the U.S. · · Score: 2

    You will never convince local governments to give up such a lucrative revenue source.

  14. I can't bring my Chevy to a Ford dealership on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    I can't bring my Chevette to the local Ford dealer to get repaired, no more than I can bring my Pinto to the Ferrari dealer for service work.

    So no, nobody should be forcing MS to do anything. Microsoft has never advertised any of their products as being "good forever," so there is no duty to hold them to.

  15. Re:Blender should take them to court on Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't have to donate to that case because cases of willful criminal violations of Law are supposed to be prosecuted at taxpayer expense by the State.

  16. Re:I don't get it on Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    You need to read the summary again, more carefully this time.

  17. Re:Removed firefox from my computer on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    I did the same thing. But, this was only the straw that broke the camel's back. The whole "I'm gonna suck down 2GB of memory caching every JS routine you've ever come across on the Interwebz even though you haven't needed it in weeks" thing was really the bulk of it.

    I got used to having to reboot Windows every few days, but I draw the line at having to restart firefox once/day because it's greedy with RAM.

  18. Is anyone really surprised? on The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind of a Mess · · Score: 1

    There have been dozens of attempts at a "set top box" like device that aggregates all of the major online streaming service. They are all abysmal failures. Did anyone expect Amazon's shot at it to be any different?

  19. Re:Bad idea to begin with on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    Hahah yeah, a smoke detector with a "Snooze" button.

  20. Sometimes smart is stupid. on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    Keep it simple, stupid.

  21. Better watch out for himself on Hacker Holds Key To Free Flights · · Score: 1

    "he's saving that for his talk at Hack in the Box in Amsterdam next month"

    He'll be in a CIA torture chamber before then if he's not careful.

  22. Re:Wood for biofuels? Slow and wasteful. on Cheaper Fuel From Self-Destructing Trees · · Score: 1

    Hemp is pretty low in recoverable energy compared to many other... oh wait... nevermind...

  23. GameSpy ruined FSX MP on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 1

    Flight Simulator X was pretty awesome, but multiplayer sucked because of GameSpy.

  24. Re:I uninstalled Firefox because of this. on Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO · · Score: 1

    I have done precisely that. I have never seen such a deplorable display of intolerance and bigotry until I saw how he was treated for expressing his absolutely-protected right to freedom of speech and expression.

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and nobody should have to leave their completely unrelated job because of how they voted.

    Shame on the gay community for this. Absolute shame.

  25. Re:This is paid advertising bullshit. on An SSD for Your Current Computer May Save the Cost of a New One (Video) · · Score: 1

    "SSDs are NOT a good thing. They are smaller than normal drives for MUCH greater cost/GB, and they fail just as fucking much as normal HDDs anyway."

    My experience has been that SSDs fail MUCH more frequently than HDDs. What's worse, when they do fail, they usually fail catastrophically with no practical or affordable way to retrieve your data.

    SSDs DO have an enormous performance benefit in random read/write operations, but the risk just isn't worth it IMHO. I do have several machines with SSDs in them for that benefit, but they all do an incremental backup daily to my server, and I don't keep any data on them. Not even pictures of my cat.