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  1. Re:mistakes on Europeans To Monitor American Voters · · Score: -1, Troll

    The election system is OK. It's lawyers, the Democrat party, and the press that are, and were, trying to steal elections. They failed in 2000, and they're likely to fail again.

  2. Re:Bootlegging concerts... on US Judge Strikes Down Bootleg Law · · Score: 1
    Try stealing some minor toy at Disneyland. If you don't steal a 2m high Winnie the Pooh, they will let you get away with it.

    Sorry, tain't so. I lived in California for a while, and read several stories about Disneyland acting very nasty when some one-year-old grabbed something when mommy wasn't looking, and mommy insisted on putting it back instead of paying for it.

  3. Re:Government should not support this on US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion · · Score: 1

    By the time that analog broadcasts are forbidden by law, digital TVs or converters will be so inexpensive that the only people who will be complaining will be those for whom complaining is their favorite sport.

  4. Re:No thanks, spend the money elsewhere please. on US Still Dithering Over Analog-Digital TV Conversion · · Score: 1

    Just how much bandwidth do you think is needed for emergency communications? By itself, the 4 MHz gap between TV channels 4 and 5 is sufficient for 800 unencoded SSB voice channels. Any emergency so severe that it would require more than than 800 channels would justify shutting down a TV broadcaster for the duration of the emergency.

  5. Re:Golden Age on Tuberculosis May Become A Global Threat Again · · Score: 1
    Bullshit.

    Technology advances and will keep providing ways to fight diseases. Beyond that, there is a rapidly increasing body of knowledge on how to make your body healthy, which helps fight and prevent diseases. In short, exercise and keep trim, eat well and use supplements (especially vitamin C), sleep well every night. Don't do obvious dangerous and damaging things. Keep away from sick people.

  6. Re:How green are photovoltaics? on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 1
    To build fields of solar arrays or mirrors in the desert wrecks the desert,

    You're joking, right? It's called a desert because it's deserted of anything of value. Adding solar arrays improves the area.

  7. Re:Clean power needs natural resources... on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of thermal delays for motors before. I have heard of centrifugal switches to shut off the start winding. Is this not practical?

  8. Re:gcc! on Comparing Linux C and C++ Compilers · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere (don't know if it's true) that Intel's compiler is very good at finding code that can be parallelized and producing output that includes MMX/SSE/SSE2 instructions. This can give enormous speed boosts, usually far beyond what's available from loop unrolling.

  9. Re:Start the invasions... on Saving Energy Without Derision · · Score: 1

    Power plants are nowhere near 80% efficiency.

  10. Re:A big stick and a dead horse on Star Wars TV Show, And An Unmade Trilogy · · Score: 1

    Book store organizations are only marginally related to proper understanding of genres. Science fiction pretends to stay within the limits of what is known to be possible (with certain common exceptions, such as FTL), fantasy blatantly ignores known science. Since it's sometimes hard to tell the difference, since some authors write in both genres, and since the fan bases overlap, bookstores dump them all on the same shelves, sometimes labelled "science fiction/fantasy".

  11. Re:Interesting... on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 1

    With respect to the claim that conservatives have the ultimate power to determine what gets on the air - does the name Ted Turner mean anything to you?

  12. Re:Interesting... on Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004 · · Score: 1
    all of these 'censored' stories reflect a left-leaning viewpoint.

    Almost true. The draft story tells that the draft is being promoted by democrats, who are sponsoring bills. There's nothing the left would want more than the draft; it's win-win for them. They get a supply of slave labor in accordance with their views of "public service", and they boost their political support because the general public views the draft as something that conservatives want.

  13. Re:Fair enough... on Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 · · Score: 1

    Matrox Marvel G200 on Win98, now in its sixth year.

  14. Re:Would that rebirth include... on Cold Fusion Back From The Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In the same era, the first "high temperature" superconductors were invented/discovered. Not all of the early attempts to duplicate the original results were successful, although when early confusion was cleared up, repeatability improved. In the P&F case, it has taken longer to clear up the confusion.

    Cold fusion does not deserve the label "junk science", which refers to pseudoscience and experiments performed in defiance of known standards and practices. At worst, early cold fusion experiments were "science performed poorly", with inadequate control of variables that were not known at the time to be important.

  15. Re:fact and fallacies on Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering · · Score: 1
    There are several definitions of "fact". Some, like yours, require a statement to be made but do not require the statement to agree with reality. This is not the common understanding of the word "fact" and would get you into a world of hurt in a court of law.

    Try this: 4 a: something that has actual existence... b: an actual occurance.

    Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

  16. Re: Fixed point math on Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering · · Score: 1

    PL/I has a fixed-point format, according to the ANSI standard. I've read that there are fixed-point extensions to C. And although I don't know it for a fact, I assume someone has written a fixed-point class for C++. 18 years ago, my employer wrote fixed-point routines for Turbo Pascal, by carefully handling the real datatype (or whatever Pascal calls it. Not the best approach, but adequate.)

  17. Re:1000 writes? on New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    This isn't bearing lube, it's surface lube.

  18. Re:What happens when you lose power? on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 2, Informative

    The mechanical springs are still in place and will support the chassis with power off. However, the ride is likely to be bouncy then.

  19. Re:Comparing Apples to Oranges on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1

    The article claims less power than the air conditioner, so figure 1 or 2 horsepower. If that's an average, it could escalate dramatically or rough or twisty roads.

  20. Re:Typical Bose on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1
    The "magnetic ride control" used by GM and similar systems by others alters the performance of the shocks, but does nothing to help hard static cornering or a heavy load in the trunk. It's a lousy approach compared to what is possible.

    One company with a system that sounds similar to Bose, for mobile homes, (Aimright or Coast) went bankrupt a couple of years ago in California.

  21. Re:Not me... on Electromagnetic Suspension System · · Score: 1

    He said "a mechnical fan, connected to the engine shaft". That means the drive shaft; no belt. The problem here is poor efficiency at high RPMs.

  22. Re:Can't you already buy SiC products? on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 1
    The new process improves defect density by a claimed factor of 100. This means that it's practical to make ICs with an area 100X larger than previously.

    Also, consider that defects that would kill a digital IC might not harm a SiC LED (Cree's main product.) Who cares if a small portion of an LED is dark?

  23. Re:Sounds like big dollars on New Solution For Your Transistor BBQ · · Score: 1
    "ARM and MIPS devices run cool. Why does x86 have to be hot?

    Different markets. X86 is under extreme competitive pressure to produce the fastest possible processors in the medium price range. This means more complicated circuitry to produce the same function. (As a trivial example, compare a simple adder to a look-ahead-carry adder.) The complication adds heat.

  24. Re:Do you believe in God? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    You mean like the good republican that ran in 1996 because Bush senior lost in 1992?

  25. Re:Courage? I think not... on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1
    "This is not bravery, it's lack of moral and responsibility.

    The US should reinstituted the draft ASAP."

    So your method of encouraging morality and responsibility is to institute slavery.