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  1. Re:Hey, let's speculate! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    I was not making statement about creator.

    If you want to use your gun analogy, guns are regulated, taxed, banned, etc. in various places in the world. For example, I have to have a license to buy one in my state, and my county charges an extra tax on them.

  2. Re:Dying? No. on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 1

    that's funny, you think your little part of the world is the whole?

    Ruby is quite popular in asia, used in huge projects.

  3. Re:CS is Race/Gender neutral on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? · · Score: 1

    Explain then how students from asian cultures are able to do so well in U.S. computer (and other science and engineering) programs. Shame on the blacks and latins and women who want someone to specially pander to them.

  4. Re:same old shit different decade on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 1

    those were working systems in the 1980s

    really, it's not new

  5. stifle yourself, Edith on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    you are the one flying off on a tangent. I didn't say has same mechanism as bleach, only that it was poisonous.

  6. Re:there is proof on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    did you read the article?, they tested in five second intervals for a whopping 60 seconds. Why did they not go for more than a minute, to minutes? I'll tell you why, because the bacteria would then be dead from destruction of lipids in their membranes, by the alcohol.

  7. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    actually, the silvering is on the back of household mirror, and it doesn't matter what the color of any coating on that side as it will soon be gone, and the laser will in fact have to burn away the "reflective" material (which is only 70-80% reflective even on the "shiny" side).

    Now think about this: those industrial lasers also can cut ordinary "transparent" glass.

    You're not going to make a missile or mortar shell an "optical mirror", smooth to millionths of an inch.....

  8. Re: Why not call it its actual name? on Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows · · Score: 2

    You're confused.

    you do know that over half of those those "getting free ER care when they get sick" are illegal aliens? I've got another solution for that little problem that doesn't need "Obamacare".

    Let's kick the freeloaders back to Mexico

  9. Re:Why not call it its actual name? on Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows · · Score: 2

    Nonsense, you live in alternate reality between your ears. "Obamacare" is still widely used, even by the White House.

    Here is email sent by White House to *millions* of subscribers, proof the White House calls it "Obamacare"

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    Subject: This is important:
    Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:08:18 -0600
    To: xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com
    From: "The White House"

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    The White House Wed., December 18, 2013=20
    =C2=A0=20

    This is important:

    Since October 1st, more than 1.2 million Americans are poised to gain cov=
    erage under Obamacare -- and more are picking plans every day.

    Now, the deadline is coming up to get coverage from the Marketplace in ti=
    me for the new year. You have until December 23rd to select a plan in ord=
    er for your health insurance to start by January 1st.

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  10. Re:there is proof on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    please provide link to bacteria that can survive 50% alcohol (it dissolves the lipids in membrane) solution or even 10% trichlorsan

    simply true

  11. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    for that matter ordinary transparent glass is often cut by laser too.

  12. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    lasers use an optical mirror at one end and partially reflective one at the other. you will be helping the "stimulated emssion" process with your hypothetical mirror.

    lasers of "mere" hundreds of watts under CNC control are in fact used to cut ordinary mirrors at many factories. note this article is about 50KW rig that will be upgraded to 100KW

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQxh8XvXdU

  13. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    but this is not mirror we're talking about, missile or aircraft is not optically smooth nor anything like 90% reflective.

    no need to increase anything, they're using 50 KW for this test and going to roll out 100 KW in production, doesn't matter what the fraction is, on 3 sq cm of area the flying thing will be toast

  14. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    there are "optical mirrors", probably this system has them. turning a missile into one is left as excercise for the student, they require a special substrate and a vapor deposition process

  15. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    a good aluminum mirror is 90% reflective, your bathroom mirror less so, and reflective mylar (with aluminum powder) even less and a bronze one of 2000 B.C. even less 80% of a 50 KWatt beam in the area of a quarter.....thank you for playing.

  16. Re:Reflective Armor on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, reflection from a plastic with aluminum powder embedded in it is only partial, the remainder of the energy is turned to heat. These high powered lasers can bore a hole through a normal household mirror, by the way, for the same reason.

  17. Re:there is proof on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 1

    there are chemicals for which no bacteria can have resistance, they are uniformly destroyed. These poison chemicals are what are used in the soaps (alcohol, chlorinated organics), they kill all bacteria, no exceptions.

  18. Re:there is proof on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 0

    clinical studies already done and that's why there are medical protocols that use soaps with anti-bacterials. but I don't expect the FDA to be educated in nor to do research in medical matters, being as they are merely paid cunts of large corporations.

  19. same old shit different decade on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 2

    Similar systems were announced in the 1980s in various popular tech rags. damn, live long enough and things just go in cycles.

    http://www.google.com/patents/US4768256

  20. Re:Testing Inaccurate? on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 3, Informative

    the main purpose of soap in washing skin is merely to make the slime coat of (most) the bacteria not cling to you so they can be rinsed away, not to kill them. That's why plain old soap is good enough, and these chlorinated organics are not necessary in normal household use. The chemicals and special soaps containing them do have some legitimate use in certain medical protocols, but not for any use by the average consumer

  21. there is proof on FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps · · Score: 5, Informative

    the "anti-bacterial" ingredients are chlorinated organics, they just poison bacteria. they are not in any way related to antibiotics and thus do not in any way conribute to resistance to antibiotics any more than your chlorinated kitchen cleanser does. Trivial to prove soaps with them they kill bacteria, that's already been done. they are even used to kill resistant bacterias on skin in certain medical protocols, look it up.

    I'm allergic to one of the chemical, so I won't be crying if they are banned. but the "tin foil hat" health sites make absurd claims about their contributing to the breeding of super bugs

  22. Re:Ice Insects on Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech · · Score: 1

    that's the thing about falling asleep in the Arctic, after the ice weasels get you, the ice insects finish off any traces.

  23. Re:Hey, let's speculate! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    governments are just starting to make laws and bans about bitcoins, some of them very unfavorable.

  24. Re:We vote on leaders not lightbulbs on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    the reflector also means less area covered, it is directional. I have a "current" cree bulb as gift, the tech still hasn't "arrived" to be fully competitive in the realm of actually illuminating an area.

    You make assumptions about type of "furnace" with your silly "carnot efficiency" remark. Getting fuel oil or tank of propane to a house is not as efficient as you imagine.

  25. Re:constructive criticism on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 1

    more than openbsd, you use wares produced by his projects.