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  1. Re:A ton/tonne is a unit of mass - wrong on Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record · · Score: 2

    no, long ton and short ton (what is meant in common speech) are units of force. in the UK (long) 2240 avoirdupois pounds, in the USA(short) 2000.

    Metric ton is unit of mass

  2. Re:well.... on Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    indeed, fuck Detroit. over half of U.S. cars are made by foreign owned companies. Start the discussion there, and we can further beat Detroit down. they became arrogant in the 1970s, building uneconomical cars the public didn't want ("they HAVE to buy whatever me make!"), and so the floodgates of foreign cars and foreign car companies opened

  3. Re:Blank is to Blank... on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 1

    before your head bursts, keep going....I think you can go all the way back to Windows 3.1 at least

  4. Re:Useless on The Internet of Things Comes To Your Garden · · Score: 1

    I do; my wife

    actually, she loves gardening

  5. Re:more toys... on The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses · · Score: 1

    most of the things you list are due to warfare, not having fun

  6. location of nearest nuke power plant? on The Military Is About To Get New Augmented Reality Spy Glasses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    now that is funny, even a basic non-smart net10 phone with primative browser can pull up that info, it's quite public. Information about people and resources moving in and out of one might be better example of something that might be transmitted

  7. Re:Praise the Courts on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    nope, much cheaper policies were available for non-smokers and other parameters. the policy my company had even included checkup and test, and had lower rates for staying under weight or losing pounds!

    forty and more years ago people drank sugary drinks but worked harder and weren't so fat as now, stats prove it

  8. Re:Praise the Courts on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 2

    we don't have socialized healthcare in the USA, so piss off

    and before Obama, I didn't have to be in insurance pool with smokers and lard-asses

  9. Re:Deniers can't make up their minds on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    there is always ice in arctic, there is ice-free area around pole. The minimum of september "average extent" was in september 2012.

  10. Re:I eagerly await ... on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    yes you can, many places still have gobs of them in stock for $10-20

  11. Re:New term on Google Building a Domain Registration Service · · Score: 1

    you can pay money to google or their competitors and get service level agreements. if it's important, pony up

  12. Re:I am fine with sharing as long as QoS and firew on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 1

    maybe your neighbor had equipment that couldn't deal with particular security method, and so had open network and really felt you and others were stealing from him. how moral would that be?

  13. Re:New term on Google Building a Domain Registration Service · · Score: 1

    sa you yourself said, google usually lets free services go on for YEARS. so what if they drop it three or five years from now, then you go find someone else. I'm amused at people who are not paying customers who think google owes them something, and they whine when something provided for years gets culled. move on, it was nice while it lasted.

  14. Re:Deniers can't make up their minds on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1

    yes, arctic ice went to a minimum in 2012, then a little more in 2013 and (thus far) 2014...the "braindead idea" is straight from NASA,must hurt to hear something that conflicts with your religion

  15. Re:I eagerly await ... on How Vacuum Tubes, New Technology Might Save Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    how about little nixie tubes on the CPU giving stats?

  16. Re:Deniers can't make up their minds on NOAA: Earth Smashed A Record For Heat In May 2014, Effects To Worsen · · Score: 1, Troll

    science has proved what?

    this isn't the hottest year on record, and artic ice levels are greater than last years which were greater than the year before

    antarctic glaciers not melting because of global average temperature rising, but volcanoes

    in fact, science says the hottest years in the last 13,000 years for a whopping 3,000 year stretch occured over 7,000 years ago, hotter global average temperatuer than now.

    what is it with the guilt over progress, the hysteria you warming alarmists have?

  17. Re:I had a cool idea for asteroid collection on NASA Funds Projects For Asteroid-Capture Plan · · Score: 1

    one idea is to have nuclear powered water cracking station on icey asteroid, to produce fuel for rockets

  18. Re:soo close.. on Scientists Measure Magnetic Interaction Between Two Bound Electrons · · Score: 1

    gravity is unlike any other force, there is no way to reconcile a force carrying particle for gravity with observation, hence the Standard Model does not include gravity. Gravity defies quantum mechanics and general relativity. we are far, far away from having any useful theory for gravity

  19. Re:I am fine with sharing as long as QoS and firew on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 0

    oh, sharing wifi is a moral obligation and "the right thing to do"? you are funny

  20. Re:Strategies to Defeat Age Discrimination on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    bahaha, single-colored hair (that isn't white or grey) on a white guy over 40 is so obviously fake

    what principles for working with old hardware or languages are really obsolete? I shouldn't mention the old mainframe and minicomputers and supercomputers I've worked on over the years? Shouldn't mention assembly on microprocessors that are the forerunners of todays? shouldn't mention languages that are less popular (but still around, or that were forebearers of todays)?

    nonsense, my resume goes back decades and I'm over 50. It gets me interviews, which is its only purpose.

    my degree and year I mention too

  21. Re:Software Patents Are Just Wrong on Red Hat Assistant General Counsel Analyses Supreme Court's Patent Ruling · · Score: 2

    ask anyone who codes on multiple machine architectures, Intel's sucks. There are many boot PROM far superior to brain dead BIOS. It would have been a better world had alternative machine than IBM's PC become the standard, and we could have had real operating system for them instead of DOS and the crippleware windows that descended from it.

  22. Re:Fuck 'em on Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring · · Score: 1

    the only meaning "Willis" has to me is the character played by Todd Bridges, with the voice of Gary Coleman asking a certain question.

  23. Re:I am fine with sharing as long as QoS and firew on EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement · · Score: 1

    funny you have no conditions regarding the legal framework; you are perfectly fine with getting blamed for the actions of those who use your network (e.g. door getting kicked in at 3am and armed statsi knocking you and your loved ones to the floor)

  24. Re:Fuck 'em on Chicago Adding Sensors For Public Monitoring · · Score: 1

    yes, I work in downtown Chicago. I see Willis tower every f'ing work day. People with back packs loiter everywhere around the former sears tower. people with back packs go to work in the former sears tower. People with back packs shout slogans and pass out pamphlets near the former sears tower, and I walk by them wearing a back pack.

    do you even have a point, you ignorant shit head?

  25. Re:AMD IS NOT US on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 1

    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the United States of America

    Something's gone to shit around here indeed, and it's between your ears