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  1. Re:Slow news day? on EU Car Makers Manipulating Fuel Efficiency Figures · · Score: 1

    GM is particularly bad about keeping engine designs around for decades and designing them for low manufacturing cost rather than performance/(combustion chamber volume).

  2. Small town on Ask Slashdot: How To Donate Older Computers to Charity? · · Score: 1

    A small town library can often use an additional computer. Put office software on it, photo processing and drawing software, good browsers, and make sure it can work on a network where all the other computers run a Microsoft OS. Also make sure it can talk to networked printers. A page of instructions on how to use the computer would be helpful.

  3. Re:No spectrograph? on Astronomers Probe Mysterious Gas In Titan's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    So you're saying there's an abundance of carbon-11 (half-life 20 minutes) in the atmosphere of Titan?

  4. Re:Windows 7 on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    Geez, the dialog can be turned off, never to return. Or just ignore it.

  5. Re:Different jurisdiction on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    There's a hierarchy there that has been affirmed by the US Supreme Court, that ALL parts of the US Constitution (with more recent amendments overriding older parts) are superior to everything else.
    The second amendment needs no "solution", because it is a solution to tyranny.

  6. Re:Secret Treaty? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    It isn't secret anymore -- when they actually vote on it

    Although secrets may be difficult to keep, there's no good reason to believe that secret laws haven't been passed many times and kept out of the Congressional Record (and whatever the Senate's equivalent is called.) That's especially true of treaties.

  7. Re:What? Yes it can. on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    The ICC could probably do the same thing.

  8. Re:It's not that difficult on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    Obamacare popularity is under 50% and dropping. I'd hardy call that "incredibly popular", except that it stretches credibility that anyone supports it. Moreover, it is a hideous violation of rights and an act of tyranny.

  9. Re:Why not just ignore people who break the law? on US Government May Not Be Able To Fix Cell Phone Unlocking Problem · · Score: 1

    ...he put lower emphasis on enforcing immigration laws before the election to get more votes
    FTFY

  10. Re:Turns out on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    "Socially liberal Republicans" fall into two categories: 1. Rinos. 2. People who mind their own business and aren't thieves.

  11. Re:Turns out on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Being a Republican or a Democrat means you are registered to vote as such AND NOTHING MORE . This allows you to vote in the respective primaries and affect that party's policies thereby.

  12. Re:Vitriol by true believers, truth abandoned on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    So wing-warping was one of the things included in "The Wrights got all of it right"? And biplanes, with baling wire strung everywhere, disturbing airflow? And a pusher engine?
    The Wrights did a lot of things properly, and their disciplined approach gained them acclaim at a critical time.

  13. Re:Irrelevant to history on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Careful study of the Viking's decades in North America can shed light on modern events. For example, we know now that the Vikings established themselves in N.A. during a warm period, but couldn't maintain their settlements when the climate turned colder. Think about that the next time someone bleats about global warming.

  14. Re:lot of dead weight on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Try reading without bias. The wheel engine was smaller, and once in the air its power was transferred to the propeller.

  15. Re:Both are incorrect. on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Icky?

  16. Re:Yeah, right on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a photo of an AWACS plane? Or another plane carrying the shuttle or the X15? Lots of things that look like they shouldn't fly, do in fact fly.

  17. Re:Yeah, right on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    The irregular surface is surely a minus for Whitehead's design, but a low aspect ratio for a moderate sized aircraft wing does not mean it can't fly. ahref=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_wingrel=url2html-9722http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_wing>

  18. Re:Smithsonian on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Reproductions of the Kittyhawk Wright Flyer that successfully fly use modern engines, not the inadequate heap that the Wrights had. It took considerable improvements before the Wrights were pleasing crowds.

  19. Re:When will people learn on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 2

    individuals matter, and if you don't teach that to children, they're less likely to try. A society without heroes is a very poor society, culturally and economically.

  20. Re: What? on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like wing warping would be good technology for a 747. Have you ever looked at the details of how multiple ailerons are extended and drastically tilted for the takeoff and landing of a jumbo jet? Try to explain how you'd achieve the same effect with wing warping.

  21. Re:What? on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    What you wouldn't expect if for it to vanish without a ripple.

    The article gives the inventor's history, how after being cheated in business he gave up airplane manufacturing and built engines for hire for others.
    Money doesn't come from nowhere, and developing an airplane required money in addition to intelligence and effort.

  22. Re:Get a life... on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Accurate history is very important. Although who made the first good airplane is relatively minor, letting tyrants escape the proper judgement of history is not minor. Lies should not be allowed to rest unchallenged.

  23. Re:Gutenberg wasn't first either on For Jane's, Gustav Weißkopf's 1901 Liftoff Displaces Wright Bros. · · Score: 1

    Read the article. The acetylene powered external combustion engine weighed only 30 pounds. A tour de force for the day, and not shabby for a home-built engine even today.

  24. Re:I find this rather nauseous... on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 1

    Can anybody please cite me a truly humane, visionary leader who was embalmed in modern times, for public display?

    Nine words too many.

  25. Re:Embalming, shudder on The Science of Hugo Chavez's Long Term Embalming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Post-death processing is heavily regulated in most states, and like most regulation it tends to drive up prices and limit entry into the field. It is a splendid example of Fascism. My experience is in Connecticut: you can't process the estate to hand out inheritances until you have a death certificate. Only funeral homes can originate death certificates.

    Disposing of a corpse should probably cost about $200. In Connecticut, it's over $6000 (year 2009).