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  1. Re:I paid thousands of GBPs... on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    Well, I need them even if my vision was 20/20. Keeps stuff from flying into my eyes. They're called safety glasses. Sexier than an eye patch, for most of us.

  2. They're worried about the beer? on German Brewers Warn Fracking Could Hurt Beer · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about the water? I know it is the national drink in Germany, but they do drink water too, correct?

  3. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    And, if you have the proper credentials and paperwork and taxes paid, one can own damn near anything, I'm specifically referring to firearms that the average joe can own with the basic background check at commercial purchase.

  4. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but non sporting weapons over .50 cal have issues with rifling, IIRC. 12ga. with rifled barrel is way over .50" cal. But it gets a sporting purposes exemption. The rules are tricky.

  5. Re:Requires more metal on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    I believe you'll find that they are chambered in .45 long colt, with a rifled barrel. A .410 just happens to drop right in and function.

    There are some weird exceptions to the smoothbore rule, I'm an not an expert.

  6. Re:if there really is anything to this on The Body's "Fountain of Youth" Could Lie In the Brain · · Score: 1

    Start driving wooden stakes through their hearts? Or maybe the zombie approach, shots to the head?

  7. Re:Jupiter Tape? on Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't · · Score: 1

    By the time you get 1/3 of the population involved, there is bound to be a plateau of some sort, corruption, insider information trading, etc.

    Which makes me wonder, when someone with access to the information is able to exploit in for personal gain will come back to bite us in the ass. It's a matter of when, not if.

  8. Re:But i like to dim my lights on Cause of LED Efficiency Droop Finally Revealed · · Score: 1

    I dim my lights with a Variac, you insensitive clod!

    (I'll have to make my own custom solution)

  9. Re:Not really a treadmill on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 2

    Nice links. They need an omnidirectional treadmill on a Stewart platform, then you can simulate grades. maybe accommodate jumping and rolling.

  10. Re:NASA and secrets on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 1

    The same people and companies were involved, but there was separation as I understood it between the black side stuff and the civilian stuff. My father made a comment to the effect of, the classified stuff is better than the civilian stuff, gyroscope wise. Star trackers and such are probably not much different.

  11. Re:Barn Door on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 1

    sitesucker rules

    Dammit. now I'm gonna need more HD storage. Thanks?

  12. Another reason automatics are popular on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    Is with the towing trailer set. Or the pickup truck set. Try backing up a grade with a loaded pickup or with a trailer with a stick vs an automatic. The torque converter is a beautiful piece of engineering.

    With a stick, you'll burn the clutch trying to creep with it. With an auto, you get inching capability.

    In my automobile, I prefer a stick for reliability and control. I think autos have become more reliable than sticks today however.

  13. NASA and secrets on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 2

    My father worked at NASA for 30 years. He was involved in guidance and navigation. Worked on the IU on the Saturn V.

    In the '90s, he told me the only thing classified at NASA was the vehicle destruct system details. Don't want someone intentionally blowing up a manned rocket on its proper course. He said that they were denied access to classified gyroscope materials from the spy satellite and ICBM world. Other secrets may have fallen under "trade secret" status as NASA contracted the building of most things.

    However, just the other day I downloaded information about the F-1 rocket engine. At one time the documents I downloaded were classified. I guess they didn't want the Soviets to learn more about our tech.

    Then the DART mission occurred. Within the report, there was information that might make it easier for bad actors (terrorists/states) to use GPS navigation for munitions. That information is restricted as is some more recent information.

  14. Re:Ah! The life of a billionaire. on Bezos Expeditions Recovers Pieces of Apollo 11 Rockets · · Score: 1

    Ms. Hilton is neither super model or porn star. To use a car analogy, I'd say she's a Honda popular and reliable (in her own way), but I hate to insult Honda in that way. A Saturn would be more appropriate. Comes from big money, cheap and plastic. Poseur.

  15. This will never come back and bite them in the ass on China Using 'State Secrets' Label To Hide Pollution · · Score: 1

    Yeah, burying waste and information will never, ever come back to haunt them.

    It is an environmental time bomb. And there is plenty of blame to be spread around.

  16. Re:Hard to believe on Scientists Have Re-Cloned Mice To the 25th Generation · · Score: 1

    You had me at "servile sex kitten harems". I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  17. Re:You can on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Would relatives of the assassinated person have standing to sue or challenge the law?

  18. Re:MOVE anybody? on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    Yep, remember it. In 1996 in a civil suit, a jury found that the city had violated the constitutional rights of the members of MOVE.

  19. Re:You can on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Due_Process_Clause

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantive_due_process

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_Rights

    True, the constitution doesn't define what "law" is, but the Supreme court is the ultimate arbiter of the law of the US. And while "war" might be a mitigating factor, secret tribunals are not permitted.

  20. Re:You can on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that due process includes the right to confront your accuser in court and a trial by a jury of your peers. Not by getting the right signature from someone above your rank.

  21. Hydrazine icing? on SpaceX Pressure Hammers Stuck Valves; Dragon's ISS Mission Back On Track · · Score: 1

    Point taken, I was thinking the same thing. However, it is possible for hydrazine to "freeze" at aerospace temperatures, correct? We justified a shoot down USA-193 on the basis of its massive load of hydrazine, I recall some mention of some of it possibly being frozen.

    They are nasty chemicals, just keeping that system under control is difficult.

  22. What "backup rover" are you talking about? on Comet C/2013 A1 May Hit Mars In 2014 · · Score: 1

    That isn't a backup rover, it is an engineering rover with identical hardware sans the RTG power source. It is here to be used to figure out problems with the actual rover on mars. Kinda hard to send out a technician to mars to troubleshoot. It isn't a backup in any sense of the word.

  23. Re:Their "safety protocols" are crap on NASCAR Tries To Squelch Video of Spectators Injured By Crash · · Score: 3, Informative

    In addition to the chain link fencing, there are four or five tensioned steel cables on the lower portion to give additional reinforcement.

  24. Re:War with Europe? on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    Whoosh! Or simply a bad joke. Was going for the +1 Funny

  25. War with Europe? on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 0

    That would undermine the whole purpose of the F-22s radar-evading stealth design, and could pose a major problem if the Raptor and the Typhoon ever have to go to war together.

    If the Raptor and Typhoon have to go to war, we'll have bigger problems.