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  1. Re:Why does every energy topic become a flamefest? on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 1

    ok, had a good huffing session though that 10% ethanol really ruins a good pure hydrocarbon buzz.

    look at the prices they talk of at battery "exchange" (loan?), gasoline is cheaper where I live. and even without that when the heavy subsidies of government are factored in the cost is atrocious. well-to-do's toy, electric cars are.

  2. Re:weeeeak on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    unknown since no records kept

  3. Re:Why does every energy topic become a flamefest? on Tesla To Build Its Own Battery-Swap Stations · · Score: 1

    what has engineering reality to do with flames? electric cars cost more to buy and cost more to run, have limited range, and have toxic materials in them.

    we could have cleaner safer alternative to coal, it's called nuclear power from gen iv and iii+ reactors. but instead we are shunning nuclear for the much dirtier coal power.

  4. Re:Finally on Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise · · Score: 1

    people have never gone into my house and stolen my hard drive and backups, however the cloud.....

  5. Re:weeeeak on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 1

    nonsense, a centimeter of lead around most the tube will do the trick for device in vehicle.

  6. Re:weeeeak on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, you should read about the foot x-ray machines some shoe stores used in the 1940s, they gave some people 20 REM of dose! It doesn't take that much power to make dangerous levels of X-Ray radiation.

  7. Re:Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Router on Cumulus Releases GNU/Linux For Datacenter Routers · · Score: 1

    Hahaha, I'm going to trust the company that makes the biggest malware propogation systems on the planet, Microsoft, to build security appliances and secure platforms? bwhahahahaha! why don't we hire the russian mafia to protect the smithsonian?

  8. Re:Vax is probably alive and kicking someplaces to on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    not the same thing, as VMS was ported to Alpha and then Itanium. You can still buy machines from HP that run OpenVMS right now and it is still supported until Decenber 31, 2020 for version 8.4

    Yes, I used to be a vaxcluster admin. best microcomputer / minicomputer /workstation OS ever.

  9. sure, sure, but it doesn't have to be presented to those in emotional snit that way, and even the anti-mil folk can vote for it

  10. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    So to some up, in the world between your ears:
    1. the word "learnt" is not and never was a part of American English
    2. The leading standard dictionary of American English does not in fact research and track word usage language construction and is not authoritative?
    3. The leading standard dictionary of the American English in 1976 made up the word "learnt" and added its definition as a prank?

    You have completely lost the argument, are willfully ignorant of your native tongue, and moreover know nothing of how dictionaries are compiled.

  11. you forget politicians have to do something when people get into an emotional snit over something; the miniscule amount of money spent on space will never impact the defense contract or entitlement spending so no worries for them.

    and,there will be no lack of qualified and able volunteers

  12. Re:Finally on Jon 'Maddog' Hall On Project Cauã: a Server In Every Highrise · · Score: 1

    haha. I run a microframe with multiple VMs myself. I'm never going to trust "The Cloud" to not lose my data, nor to have sufficient resources when I need them.

  13. Re:Valence? on Shapeshifting: Proposal For a New Periodic Table of the Elements · · Score: 2

    though this one can't be viewed at present, various spiral tables in the past had such similar elements on same radius line from center. Another "hip" thing to do was include the neutron in the inert gas family and before hydrogen in outward spiral.

  14. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    There is a recognized standard dictionary of American English, which is also the oldest. They invest huge amounts of time and money in R&D. Your disembling is hilarious.

  15. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    you're confused, English as a second language for business, engineering and science in asia dwarfs that native american numbers. american english is not the main type of english spoken on earth.

  16. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    You have not been watching world events of the last two decades; things are going increasingly away from America, the United States is in decline as is American English.

  17. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 1

    You do not own an American English dictionary?

    "Learn: vb Learned also Learnt" -- Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, copyright 1976 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

  18. Re:And this needed research? on Trying To Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home · · Score: 4, Informative

    You should study English a little more, that is a perfectly valid past tense of "learn", that is used more commonly now in other English speaking countries than the USA. Those of us who are older sometimes use it, it seems to have fallen out of fashion in America.

  19. Re:Strange term on Facebook's Complaint Process Is Arbitrary — But So Is Campaigning · · Score: 1

    how about rabid man-hating femi-nazis who demean men and want superiority, do they need to reflect about their lives too?

  20. Re:sorry, don't trust redhat on Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release · · Score: 1

    yes, people are throwing out the Red Rat and last mid-year it was surpassed in use on servers. You are unclear how open source works. Redhat will never get those people back, we see the butt naked emperor and he's a dying fool

  21. Re:sorry, don't trust redhat on Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release · · Score: 1

    angry desktop users. we're talking servers here.

    Fedora means making QA department out of users. screw that mentality.

    we've been throwing out the Red Shat at my employer, things go much better on other distros. Red Hat is shaky jello next to Debian, for instance.

  22. Re:sorry, don't trust redhat on Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release · · Score: 1

    slightly superior but still crap.

  23. Re:Security begins with Linux on Confirmed: CBS News Reporter's Computer Compromised · · Score: 1

    FUD.

    BSD is a far more mature and tested codebase than Linux + GNU. Exploits and vulnerabilities found are quickly fixed. Compare that to Microsoft. All open source OS that are commonly used have the "thousands of pairs of eyes" going for it at least, way better than a "black box".

    I build my openbsd from source, that's how you patch it anyway. Never been p0wn3d in 12 years of use and I put my server right on the internet without firewall (it is a firewall among other things). Meanwhile, Windows.....

  24. Re:Transmitting from a Rotating Planet on Crowd-Funded Radio Beacon Will Message Aliens · · Score: 1

    yes we transmit (intentionally) on the directional antennas. really the right way is space based optical SETI, to transmit in very short pulses with laser directed at list of systems that can outshine our sun for a few microseconds every second. and that it how we should be listening. radio SETI from ground based stations is pointless, either for transmitting or receiving. space based radio seti has focusing, noise, and power issues.

  25. Re:sorry, don't trust redhat on Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release · · Score: 0

    yes, people do knock themselves trying to figure out how to compile that stuff, it's hard. Let me clue you in, a decent distro gives access to binaries. A decent distro doesn't have a second distro to make people guinea pigs for trial balloons while restricting access to the main distro. Your money is from support, not whether or not someone can get your binaries.

    I can get an evaluation of competing distros and get updates forever. That includes the distro that is eating Red Hat's lunch and has surpassed it in number of server installations. And the derived distro based on that which is dominating the Linux desktop.

    The biggest contributors to open source are massive projects, not companies.

    Red Hat's claim to fame really is just being certified to run expensive proprietary wares like Oracle DBMS or Websphere.. for 95% of business applications, there are superior robust open source alternatives of which none require red hat.