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  1. Re:fuck CBS. on Falcon 9 Launch Aborted At Last Minute · · Score: 2

    Although the Saturn V's system design took place at the Mashall Space Flight Center in Alabama, lift systems design and production were done by Boeing, North American Aviation, and Douglas Aircraft Company. IBM was another primary contractor. In other words, a large part of Saturn V was private, purchased by the gov't. SpaceX is private from the bottom up.

  2. Re:Only 109 years after the invention of the diese on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    We've had semiconductor-microprocessor engine control technology for 105 years?

  3. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Sulphur compounds in Diesel exhaust are due to sulphur in the fuel. With advanced tech and regulations, the sulphur in the fuel has been reduced. Nitrogen compounds in Diesel exhaust are due to high temperature combustion causing oxygen and nitrogen in the air to combine. It's difficult or impossible to prevent that, so the NOx has to be handled by a catalytic converter.

  4. Re:Jevons Paradox on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Individuals may not drive more, but many of the people who currently can't afford to drive will be able to afford it with a massive efficiency gain.

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

  5. Re:Well let me be the first to say... on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Geez, do we have to deal with the oft-disproved claim that Hitler was involved in the design of the beetle again? About 40 years ago Fiat ran an advertisement in car enthusiast magazines showing that the beetle styling was almost identical to a Fiat design from a decade earlier.

  6. Re:Well let me be the first to say... on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    The whole point of multipulse timed direct injection compression-ignition is that detonation becomes a non-issue, and the octane number is "don't care".

  7. Re:Yeah, Vermont on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Vermont is the 5th slowest growing state in the union. With attitudes like yours, no wonder Vermont repulses perople.

  8. Re:how'bout u first prove beyond doubt that its sa on Vermont Bans Fracking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your breathing generates carbon dioxide which is alleged to harm every living being. Before you take another breath, the precautionary principle demands you prove your breathing causes no harm.

  9. Surprise, surprise on Senators To Unveil the 'Ex-Patriot Act' To Respond To Facebook's Saverin · · Score: 1, Informative

    Gee, corrupt Democrat bully Chuck Schumer threatens someone. And now slashdot helps him get more of the publicity for which he is so obviously whoring.

  10. Re:My prof dranks coffee like water on NIH Study Finds That Coffee Drinkers Have Lower Risk of Death · · Score: 1

    Both coffee and tea (particularly green tea) contain antioxidants that have been shown in hundreds of studies to be beneficial. AFAIK tea is probably the superior beverage from a health standpoint.

  11. Re:The answer was the same 6 years ago: on Ask Slashdot: Holding ISPs Accountable For Contracted DSL Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    On the right side of the table we have freedom. Falling off the left side of the table are the Republicans. The greasy mess on the floor off the left side of the table is the Democrats. The rest of the world has already washed down the sewer.

  12. Re:Junk food is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Naming insulin as the problem ignores the fact that in a healthy person insulin is produced in response to circulating sugar, which is in turn caused by consumption of foods that include sugar or are easily converted to sugar. Insulin is an intermediary; the primary cause of excess fat is excess food intake.

  13. Re:Junk food is the problem on The Mathematics of Obesity · · Score: 1

    Any time that you eat a diet that lacks an essential nutrient you're going to hurt your body, and there's a good chance that you'll lose weight, too. That applies to your "no carbohydrate" diet as well as "no fat" and "no protein" diets.

    A fairly large percentage of people have trouble digesting grains containing gluten; it can degrade bodies and cause weight gain. Not all people have this problem.

  14. Re:so what? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 3, Interesting

    requires him to do things that are not within the power granted to the president.

    When you write "power", I assume you mean "legal power". Exceeding the legal power of the president has been an almost monotonically increasing function for over 200 years, and Obama has so outrageously flouted the law that his actions bear no resemblance to the legal limits. It is precisely Ron Paul's greatest value that he will prevent this abuse by withdrawing previous illegal executive orders, vetoing illegal laws, and refusing to make new illegal actions.

  15. Re:so what? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    Gold has value (as a currency) because it has actual utility, is divisible, is widely accepted, is scarce, and has a historical record of stability much better than paper currencies. Its actual utility outside of its use as currency is not too far from its value as currency. Paper currency can be used as kindling, insulation, and not much else outside of its use as currency, and its trade value is a high multiple of its actual utility. Pre WWII German paper money, Confederate States of America paper money, etc. are practically worthless now. Gold, unlike paper, is not a solipsist fantasy.

  16. Re:so what? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 1

    What I wrote isn't remotely controversial.

    Correct, what you wrote is flat out wrong
    A short term swing in the value of gold is one of the things that make crashes and bubbles short and self-limiting. When the government can print money or borrow without practical limit, we have a great depression or the morass we're in now.

  17. Re:so what? on Ron Paul Effectively Ending Presidential Campaign · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So, no growth occurred during the period 1792 to ca 1920 when there was no net inflation? Your bogus hypothesis is shown false by history. Business does not like uncertainty, and having the quantity of money under the arbitrary control of government is a serious form of uncertainty. When inflation is high, wise people try to acquire things that maintain value. When possible, they also want things that are portable, like gold, so that if necessary they can flee the tyranny that is inflating the currency.

    Part of the reason the American economy is so huge and other countries' economies are so small is that America has lots of transactions...

    Congratulations You have just won an award in question begging.

  18. Re:Every Integer? on Goldbach Conjecture: Closer To Solved? · · Score: 2

    29-2

  19. Re:What's wrong with GCC? on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 0

    Libertarians understand that without the government stealing half of everything, we could have the same wealth with half the effort. Furthermore, technical progress would be much more rapid.

  20. Re:So What ? on FreeBSD 10 To Use Clang Compiler, Deprecate GCC · · Score: 1

    An FPGA will always be more wasteful of power than an equivalent hardwired solution.

  21. Never go through a US airport on Ask Slashdot: How To Secure My Life-In-A-Briefcase? · · Score: 1

    The TSA is rife with thieves; even the rich and famous are not safe in this regard.

  22. Re:Grab part of ham radio spectrum on American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum · · Score: 2

    A quick look at ham allocations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_frequency_allocations shows that they have 5 to 10 % of the spectrum. That's not enough to slake the telco power grab.

  23. Re:How is this a representative sample? on Why Forbes Says Immigrants Make Better Entrepreneurs · · Score: 1

    Whether an immigrant that moves into his ethnic community succeeds depends in part on the nature of that community. If it's Korean, Chinese or Japanese, they value work, study, and good nutrition. Those people have good prospects.

  24. Re:How is this a representative sample? on Why Forbes Says Immigrants Make Better Entrepreneurs · · Score: 1

    The point is that to succeed, they need to always seek opportunities and use them (not just keep doing drone work). The consistent seeking and use of opportunities, even if low among immigrants, is higher than among the general population, because they're the type of people who've already done seeking and using opportunities successfully by becoming immigrants.

  25. Re:Technology on Living Fossils: Old Tech That Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    A well-built, maintained push reel mower is OK under ideal conditions: short grass, no twigs or other stuff to jam the blades, no hills, no obstructions. If intermediate noise levels are OK and your lawn isn't too big, use a plug-in electric rotary mower.