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  1. Re:Comes with automatic switch on Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform · · Score: 2

    the rest is best done old-school with a billy club, much more stress relieving and tactile

  2. this was with 0.011 exaFLOPS on Researchers Determine Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid · · Score: 1

    We'll have +100 exaFLOP systems in five years, 100 times the performance. Major structures in cells, and complete viruses, will be modelled to the atomic level

  3. Re:Yes, it does. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    but coal power does have increased health problems correlated with proximity to plant.

    the average additional dose to those within 10 miles of Three Mile Island was 8 millirem total and the most to anyone was 100 additional millirem (about a third of normal yearly dose for region, but in other parts of the world that's also a natural background dose). Of course, not a single incidence of cancer has been linked to Three Mile Island accident, because that's totally off the bottom end of the scale of what could be expected to cause any additional health problems.

  4. Re:Farnsworth–Hirsch fusor on WY Teen Cut From Science Fair For Entering Too Many · · Score: 0

    it is still a fusion reactor, a worthy educational project. Easy? 9 out of 10 slashdotters couldn't build one as they only know how to plug things into motherboards.

  5. good news for you then, some humans are predicted to survive an impact even of asteroids twice the diameter of this article's one though most would die. Taking a philosophical view, something would "evolute" to take man's place even if all humans wiped out, so why not just care as much about the next kind of people as human ones? I don't see any reason to care more about future humans I''ll never meet as some other kind of people-creature.

  6. Re:a technology first developed in the 1890s on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    yes, it's quite a superior alternative to making sparks with a rock on iron alloy. That's what I use for my propane torch and for the lighter we use a few times a year on birthday candles.

  7. Re:a technology first developed in the 1890s on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    are you very sure that's flint and not the modern superior man-made high tech ferrocerium you're using?

  8. Re:I've never understood the fuss.... on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1

    But we're not talking of your views or my views, we're talking about how your dear departed mom or grandmother would have felt about such thing and it's not about "an adult view", it's about them (if they are like majority of women in USA) likely having similar feeling in their mind as some stranger walking up to them and ripping their clothes off would give. It's about them feeling violated and humiliated.

  9. Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    You are very silly, that formula will not give you the stopping distance of any car. Moreover, the only way to know the stopping distance of your car would be to experiment. Clearly you are the one talking other people's word for how and why things work, except you have built a false model in your head from it.

  10. Re:Why? on 4K Computer Monitors Are Coming (But Still Pricey) · · Score: 1

    so we're going to have 30 to 50 Mbps internet connection to drive this beast? something tells me most in the USA will be screwed.

  11. Re:Need it have been water? on Confirmed: Water Once Flowed On Mars · · Score: 1

    methane at earth atmosphere's pressure freezes at -296 degrees F (-182 degrees C). With a lower pressure atmosphere that temperature would be even lower! Mars is too hot for liquid methane. Note that there IS trace amounts of methane gas on Mars, and that is a mystery.

  12. Re:Analog hole on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 5, Informative

    it was the U.S. Marshalls who leaked pictures in Florida from Gen 2 mm wave machines, the machines for which was claimed the operators "cannot store, print, transmit or save the image"

  13. Re:I've never understood the fuss.... on TSA Finishes Removing "Virtual Nude" X-Ray Devices From US Airports · · Score: 1

    give more consideration to other's feelings. would your mother like this? your grandmother? your sister?

  14. not really, it would "kill the humans" but not all life. Earth took a 10km asteroid back in the day 65 million years ago and it caused mass extinctions, but still not complete obliteration of the biosphere.

  15. Re:Yes, it does. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    Bad to use Three Mile Island as a standard for your argument, it produced entirely negligible amounts of contamination outside the plant.

    You are somewhat incorrect about transportation, 65% of crude oil consumption by transportation is for personal vehicles in the USA

  16. Re:Hypocrites... on GMO Wheat Found Growing Wild In Oregon, Japan Suspends Import From U.S. · · Score: 1

    The companies like Monsanto that are doing it don't care about health, they only care about making money in the short term.

    And you are mistaking "what we want" (safe nutritious food) with "what Monsanto wants" (money in the very near term and to hell with consequences)

  17. Re:scanning students for bus? on Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission · · Score: 1

    if the DHS knew who had it. if the school kept the system they bought a decade ago without forklift upgrading to whatever shiny new thing the district superintendant got a blowjob to buy....

  18. Re:scanning students for bus? on Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission · · Score: 1

    seriously, you must not work in IT. And never been a contractor to federal or state or large city IT. I've done all the above. Uncrank your tinfoil hat

  19. Re:a technology first developed in the 1890s on New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    and you start that fire how? my stove has an electric sparker, and my furnace an electric ignition plug

  20. Re:Same people claiming global warming is false. on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    increasing ocean acidity of carbonic acid damages plankton exoskeletons. pollution causes human health problems. acid rain damages infrastructure, eats paint off cars, and harms plants.

  21. doomed to fail on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Environmentally toxic, short lived and manufacturing energy intensive battery power is not the way forward, biofuel from plants grown on scrubland (e.g. sagebrush) is the sensible carbon-neutral solution for long range vehicles such as we already have.

  22. Re:WTF is Mint on Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' Is Out · · Score: 1

    I don't view the big bang as the origin of anything, it is just piggybacks off of a neverending cycle

  23. Re:How long before this scenario happens? on Gene Therapy May Protect Against Flu · · Score: 1

    the human race would have ended long ago were it not so

  24. Re:scanning students for bus? on Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission · · Score: 0

    nonsense

    what you're missing it that "goverment systems" at local, state and federal levels are not well-connected heterogeneous systems, they're mostly islands without standard protocols or interchange formats. this local school's scans will not be available to say DHS or IRS or FBI

  25. turn in your geek card on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    superchargers are widely used on locomotives, ships, generators, the term will be around for many decades