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  1. Re:You're wrong on Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    The *external* part of the fuel cell should run much cooler, but the internal part may need to be quite hot, in order to work at high efficiency.

  2. Re:You're wrong on Storing Hydrogen At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    A fuel cell will create less heat as a by-product, but that doesn't mean the parts of the engine are running at a cooler temperature (e.g., you could have a very hot, but very well insulated engine that releases very little heat).

  3. Re:half million? on Gov't Funded Electric Car Company Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1

    Money is the abstraction of human effort. The point isn't who prints it or how much of it there is, the point is the hard work it represents, whether that work is pouring concrete or managing a hedge fund. To say that it doesn't really belong to individuals, but rather the government, is to say the fruits of their own labor does not belong to the individual, but rather to the collective. Sounds pretty communist to be.

  4. Re:half million? on Gov't Funded Electric Car Company Goes Out of Business · · Score: 1, Insightful

    But I'd rather fund a new startup that fails, rather than fund the good-ol boy network that siphons money off the top to fund their retirement account.

    Or they could refrain from confiscating people's hard earned money at gunpoint to hand out to favored group, whether it's the good-ol boy network or some green nonsense.

  5. Scary quote on Phone Customers Pay $2B Yearly In Bogus Fees · · Score: 1
    Wow, talk about a terrifying thing for a prominent senator to say:

    It's time for us to take a new look at this problem and find a way to solve it once and for all.

  6. Re:That's nice... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1
    To everyone saying "there's always waves!", see this quote FTA:

    There are often waves when there is no wind

    So, there's also often not.

  7. That's nice... on New Scottish Wave Energy Generator Unveiled · · Score: 1

    What's the cost? Since it wasn't mentioned anywhere in the press release, er, article, I assume it's still absurdly expensive.

    Also, I still want to know what happens when the wind stops blowing, the sun stops shining, or waves stop coming.

  8. No actual information on New Approach For Laser Weapons · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's no technical information here, just that they can now make a more powerful diode laser. More info here.

  9. Re:Does anybody really believe this? on Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning · · Score: 1

    The opening line in TFA says "annually".

  10. Re:Interesting 7-2 division on US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment · · Score: 1

    and the court is generally bound to prior rulings unless overturned by new legislation.

    Or the court overturns itself, which it usually reluctant to do, but certainly can be done.

  11. Re:Working for stock options on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    In all likelihood, your lawyer would not have advised you about the possible implications of that clause since it is simply something that is not done.

    IANAL, but that sounds like the sort of thing that would be legal malpractice.

  12. Re:Known issue on Amazon's Cloud Is Full of Holes · · Score: 1
    Sounds like this issue became known because of these guys:

    Once the problem was evident, Schneider said they contacted Amazon Web Services at the end of April. Amazon acted in a professional way, the researchers said, by notifying those account holders of the security issues.

    So it certainly was an issue until they looked into it (and still is an issue if some fraction of their users are too lazy to fix it).

  13. Re:Of Course Drone Attacks Are Hostile on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    A claim that the US is more of a terrorist organization than Al Qaeda, modded up to plus 5. What liberal bias on /.? (Incidentally, I'd be ashamed to be a liberal, with this kind of position being mainstream enough to warrant community praise through this moderation.)

  14. Re:Wave diode applicable to light? on One-Way Sound Walls Proven Possible · · Score: 2

    There is such a thing for light, an optical (or Faraday) isolator, which uses the Faraday effect. It relies on the fact that light is a transverse wave, not longitudinal, so it wouldn't work for sound. Note that because of the large magnetic field required, most optical isolators only have an aperture of a few millimeters (or less), so it would be impractical to build a "one-way" mirror of appreciable size out of it.

  15. Re:Bad. on Draft Proposal Would Create Agency To Tax Cars By the Mile · · Score: 1

    The federal gas tax has historically been about right, or a bit more, than enough to pay for the highway system. So the current gas tax is the proper gas tax.

  16. Re:So much for a fair trial. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Hahaha. Post of the day here!

  17. Re:So much for a fair trial. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1
    To give a semi-serious response to your not-at-all-serious post:

    You don't get a presumption of innocence in war. Or a trial of your peers. You find a desperate way to surrender, or you get a bullet in a vital organ. The military's job is to kill people and break things. If a so-ridiculously-below-contempt-scumbag like bin laden gets a bullet, I don't think you'll see too many people here crying tears. That is one objective tax dollar's fulfilled successfully.

    If you disagree, US citizen or not...well, fuck you.

  18. Re:It is helpful too on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    It shows that if you are the kind of asshole that stands against civilization, that just wants to kill and create havoc, you'll be tracked down and dealt with.

    That's all well and good, but how do you explain the past nine years? It's not like the people hiding him didn't know what was going on.

    Face the truth. There were dozens, hundreds, THOUSANDS of people, who knew where Bin Laden was. I could dance around the common factor, but quite simply it is that they, and he, are (*ahem*...were) muslim.

  19. Re:So much for a fair trial. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Nope. I understand Internet sarcasm, etc. This is too far down to be modded up. My entire respect for this community has had some serious testing recently...maybe it's time to move on.

  20. Re:Please: NO POLITICAL POSTURING. on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    Cheers mate. I've been reviewing threads like fark's (link) that brings it home. I can't believe how long ago it was, and how recent it seems. God Bless America.

  21. Re:Oh goody, another ten years then on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    the US managed to always find a way to kill a lot of civilians (by accident they claim)

    Yes, of course, the US kills civilians as a matter of policy.

    If this is the bullshit that gets modded up, why do any of us sane people even bother?

  22. Re:Hey Hugh Pickens, on Is Reading Spouse's E-Mail a Crime? · · Score: 1

    I found it to be perfectly clear. At the time of the reading, he was her husband, and she was having an affair with her second husband, making him (at least) the third husband.

  23. Re:Unsurprising... on Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    lol

  24. Re:Unsurprising... on Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    I'm glad to see someone admit something--all of the radical liberal movements in the US (environmental extremism, pro-gay, anti-military, pro-union, and most of the rest of the Democrat interest groups) are all just displaced Communists.

  25. Re:Maser on 'YouCut' Targets National Science Foundation Budget · · Score: 1

    Cool! He is my great-grandadvisor :)