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  1. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    You mean like Railhead Treatment Trains (RHTT) with various attachments and devices such as high power water jets, anti-freeze sprayers, ice/snow scrapers, traction gravel laying?

    Yeah, existed long before you were born and in use now. They work fine, and without lasers.

  2. Re:Wait.... on How Astronomers Will Take the "Image of the Century": a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    It is possible quantum mechanics prevents formation of a black hole, instead there could be a form of degenerate or exotic matter. We don't have a useable theory of quantum gravitation yet to know what happens when the realms of GR and QM overlap

  3. Re:No longer safe. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    how about mild detergents instead of lye, would that be safe?

  4. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 4, Informative

    My point not shot down at all, shoes are replaced every 50,000km in the cars in my city. Brush of proper material could have huge life, wear not a barrier to use. In fact, they do put in "scrapers" next to the pickup shoes in the winter months for ice and snow. Is any of this getting through to you? can you connect the dots?

  5. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    yes gravity shoe is consumable, every 50,000km on the four-shoe cars my city uses. Brushes would have much less brutal a life than those things

  6. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 2

    you're wrong about that, try the filters in the HVAC system.

    Point is even a component that scrapes rail under brutal arcing conditions can last, so brush system would be non-issue

  7. Re:They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    gee I hope the third rail contacts on the electrical train I road to work don't hear you

  8. Re:stress of life on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 1

    cheese or dark chocolate. not liver, ew

  9. Re:I'm SURE Obama would sign such a bill on Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products · · Score: 1

    incidentally, we provided Saddam with the money and dual-use tech to make chemical weapons. How stupid and ham-fisted does that look U.S. to look to call those weapons we made possible WMD and then invade?

    U.S. middle east policy is beyond moronic

  10. Re:I'm SURE Obama would sign such a bill on Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products · · Score: 1

    or, that's no concern of ours what government of a backwards, third world toilet does. We only make things worse for ourselves intervening. We turned Iraq where Al-Qaeda wasn't into terrorist recruiting and playground...

  11. stress of life on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? · · Score: 2

    You may only need to cool brain down from fast paced stressful modern connected life. Get yourself a bottle of complex wine, like a Chianti, have a glass or two over twenty five minute time span. Then read. Put the cork in bottle and store in dark cool place (not fridge) for the next day's reading.

    There may be other ways to relax,

  12. Re:I'm SURE Obama would sign such a bill on Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    some of your items are funny, even though I'm not an Obama fan.

    "punishes Syria for using chemical weapons against its populace", not our problem how a foreign government puts down internal rebellion. If enough people in Syria think that's bad, they can make a new government. would you rather those people were killed with guns? dead is dead, and Syria wa not a signatory to any ban on chemical weapons.

    Hold Putin accountable for invading Ukraine..how would Obama do that exactly, we already have sanctions. Start World War III? Ukraine should have become prospective NATO member, but they turned that down and so get to go things alone.

    balances the budget - not with Congress porkers we'll never do that

  13. Re:Astrobiologist on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    And it was a waste of time for Higgs et. al. to make equations and addition to Standard Model with the Higgs field and boson in them decades ago when we hadn't actually found any such bosons?

  14. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 2

    Why are chairs not people? What exactly separates humans from furniture?

  15. Great News Everyone on Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby · · Score: 1

    Support the supposition is right, that the nearest world with any type of life (likely single-celled) is on the order of ten to a hundred light years away. Do you know what we call that kind of world? Ours!!

  16. Re:good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Chimps aren't people. The laws for humans don't apply. Chimps are not held responsible for their behavior under the law, can't understand contracts or laws or rights of humans. If laws for treating specific species of non-humans in a kind way are wanted, they can be made (some exist already such as anti-cruelty laws)

  17. good on New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails · · Score: 1, Insightful

    this nonsense needs to be shut down

  18. Re:Digital on MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity · · Score: 1

    HA !!!!! "national currencies are unlikely to fail". You never took history in high school? Major national currencies failed in the last 120 years, and the fallout of that HUGE, world maps rewritten for one particular case

  19. Re:Ideological purity ... on Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I find certain open source projects to be of high quality and very useful; I'm sad no equivalent things exist for many close sourced wares a business or person often needs to function. But I suck it up and go forward. In related news, at work Cisco told us a Windows FTP server is required to load wares into certain of their products, a Linux or BSD ftpd won't (and doesn't, we tried) work any more.

  20. Re:A nice dream on 'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life · · Score: 1

    My personal belief is that life is common in the galaxy, but complex multicellular life rare. We've had 3 billion years of the simple, then only half a billion of the complex.

  21. Re:A nice dream on 'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life · · Score: 0

    If age of A or B 7 billion years as some studies say then perhaps they did just that a couple billion years ago, found algae and fungus, and wrote the place off as totally boring.

  22. Re:A nice dream on 'Mirage Earth' Exoplanets May Have Burned Away Chances For Life · · Score: 2

    we will likely send our first interstellar probe to Alpha Centauri system (with three stars) whether it has "relevant" planets or not.

  23. Re:Not totally on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    yeah a lot of us do it bareback with disease free person and other birth control, much more enjoyable than screwing a balloon

  24. Re:Finally a way for geeks to get laid? on Who Needs NASA? Exoplanet Detected Using a DSLR · · Score: 1

    To name exoplanet after your SO, take your girlfriend or wife's first name, put apostrophe and s after it, and the word "ass"

  25. Re: Read for yourself, it's true on WHO Timeline for Ebola Containment Proves Hard To Meet · · Score: 1

    no evidence it is spreading globally at all, WHO is only concerned out what is happening in those countries. If they'd quit munching on bats and fondling infected dead corpses and breaking people out of quarantine the disease would die out. you can't help stupid