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  1. Re:I've got this one on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    Blaming the person who implemented the laws instead of blaming Congress for passing laws and allowing these programs to be created in the first place is silly.

    "I was just following orders" wasn't good enough to protect Nazi war criminals, and isn't good enough to protect Napolitano.

  2. Re:University of Califonia? Oh, they'll love her. on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    If you think that impotence and balding don't cause suffering, you are indeed ignorant. Furthermore, both are symptoms of more fundamental flaws which, if solved, would provide longer and healthier lives. I'll grant you that angst over balding is somewhat shallow, but that doesn't make the resultant depression unreal.

  3. Re:OFFTOPIC: Slashdot Kremlin story just pulled? on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You misspelled Congenital Liar.

  4. Re:OFFTOPIC: Slashdot Kremlin story just pulled? on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 1

    Obama's signature legislation is the takeover of the medical industry, which is one sixth of the economy. Government increase of ownership/control is leftist, decrease is leftist. ObamaCare is the most leftist, vile, evil, nasty, immoral act in the history of the United States.

  5. Re:Got ride of BOSE in my Murano... on Sound Engineer and Entrepreneur Amar Bose Dead At 83 · · Score: 1

    My '84 Corvette had a Bose sound system. The tape player was made in Japan by someone else, and had the Bose name slapped on it. It was already dead of mechanical failure when I bought the car in 1990.

  6. Re:Bose Suspension System on Sound Engineer and Entrepreneur Amar Bose Dead At 83 · · Score: 1

    Many companies make active vehicle suspension systems.

  7. Re:Eh on Sound Engineer and Entrepreneur Amar Bose Dead At 83 · · Score: 2

    The advantage of 1 ohm speakers in car stereo is that it's possible to get almost 100 watts from a car's traditional 14 volts (when charging). 4 ohm speakers are limited to 25 watts. This saves the money of building a boosting power supply if more than 25 watts per speaker is desired.

  8. Wrong date on Mastermind of 9/11 Attacks Designs a Secret Vacuum Cleaner · · Score: 1

    4/1

  9. Re: The urban poor subsidized the rich for a while on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    Capital gains, when applied to stock market gains, means that a company's worth has increased by making more money, on which the company has been taxed. Thus, the money is being taxed twice, first at the corporate rate, then at the capital gains rate. That takes it out of your lying claim of "quite regressive."

  10. Re:Inefficient on Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize · · Score: 1

    It may be that rowing would make control more difficult, since the pilot's center of gravity would be constantly shifting.

  11. Re:biggest quadcopter ever? on Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize · · Score: 1

    I think leaning is at least part of the steering. At one point in the video, he's clearly leaning to the viewer's left.

  12. Re:Thrust on Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize · · Score: 1

    I'm not an aero engineer, but I think that ground effect is becoming significant when the area swept by the blades > the periphery of that area times height. That appears to be the case here. If the lift area becomes smaller, there's less ground effect for the same height.

    Even ignoring ground effect, smaller rotor area is similar to smaller aspect ratio in wings, and leads to less lift for a given power input.

  13. Re:Awesome enviro-friendly battery tech on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    Most electronic devices, even very complex ones, can be designed to run off a single voltage without converters or regulators, provided that you're not looking for high performance.

  14. Re:thing of the past on Wood Nanobattery Could Be Green Option For Large-Scale Energy Storage · · Score: 1

    gerund-noun.

  15. Re:Nope on AOC's 21:9 Format, 29" IPS Display Put To the Test At 2560x1080 · · Score: 1

    I'm running 2 1920x1080 over/under, for 1920x2160 overall. It's a reasonable work setup; a full page of newspaper can be displayed legibly.

  16. Re:No it is to better match our eyes on AOC's 21:9 Format, 29" IPS Display Put To the Test At 2560x1080 · · Score: 1

    Thinner film?

    In film, thickness/thinness refers to the smallest dimension, through the film, less than a millimeter. The film runs through the projector from top to bottom, the width of the film corresponds to the size on which the left-to-right dimension of the image resides (8 or 16 or 35 or 70 mm). Widescreen might use less film because the images aren't as tall, i.e. there are more images per running foot of film.

    Historically, widescreen was not an economy move but a quality move, sometimes necessitating 70mm film where 35mm film had been standard, or the use of anamorphic lenses.

  17. Re:NOPE! on AOC's 21:9 Format, 29" IPS Display Put To the Test At 2560x1080 · · Score: 1

    There's this feature called "wrap". If your editor doesn't have it, you need to use an editor that wasn't written before 1970.

  18. Re:Not a troll on the surface. on Boston U. Patent Lawsuits Hit Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Others · · Score: 4, Insightful

    why Apple?

    Looks like BU failed to secure a patent outside the US, where, in all likelihood, the LEDs are being manufactured. Well, I believe that BU's patent gives them the right to exclude the patented devices from being brought into the US. Since they aren't being seized by customs (which may be what should be happening), BU is going after the organization with deep pockets that's importing the devices in a finished product.

    Two things are outrageous here. BU appears to be suing for dollar amounts absurdly in excess of the marginal utility of its invention. And BU is suing long after the patent was issued, never having defended the patent before, which weakens their case considerably (because it is similar to entrapment.)

  19. Mistake on Opinion: Apple Should Have Gone With Intel Instead of TSMC · · Score: 2

    Many people are posting as if Intel would be involved in chip design (for example: "Intel doesn't want to make ARMs."). Intel would be acting only as a foundry: Apple does the design work, sends Intel a set of files specifying mask geometry; Intel makes masks and fabricates the chips.

    The questions thus become, who has good enough technology and who is a reliable supplier? If Apple doesn't need the finest tech that only Intel can provide, then using Intel isn't necessary.

    TSMC having production capacity limits can be a problem, and it's likely to have delayed deliveries in a crunch. But foundry is their only business, not producing is not an option. Intel on the other hand, can decide "we need all foundries for internal use. Make your lifetime orders now; no new business will be accepted." 33 years ago (the only information I have, from a then-Reticon employee) was that this was a substantial risk in dealing with Intel as a fab.

  20. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    There are very few honest people left in either house of Congress, and none of them are Democrats. There is nothing Obama can do that would result in his conviction in an impeachment trial, the corruption is that bad. But he has done far worse than what would result in that conviction, he is guilty of treason, and should suffer the penalty for that.

  21. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    In the United States, the primary examples of "Train owners driving people from their homes and taking their property" have been government land grants to railroads. Without the massive government force used by the corrupt collusion of business and government, such abuses are much more difficult.

  22. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Just so you know; assigned homework doesn't help anyone. It should be done away with.

    Do you think most people at MIT could pass tests without doing assigned homework? Do you think history, which requires very extensive reading that cannot be accomplished in classroom hours, can be learned without reading history, which is most of what the "assigned homework" consists of?

  23. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Not spanking produces children who don't think they'll be shot when they hold up a bank.

  24. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Motivations that work are age-appropriate, and need to be adjusted to the individual. One of the causes of the problems seen today is the failure to use corporal punishment as required. Less than a century of limp-wristed modern "child psychology", applying a hypothetical regime of no punishment, does not overthrow the thousands of years of experience behind effective traditional parenting.

  25. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    Capitalism - early industrialization - made it possible for people to live who would otherwise died. Stop lying about the history of capitalism.