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  1. Re:No more on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Where do you suppose they get their data?

  2. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Uh, not sure if you know this but private schools suck about as bad but just get richer parents who, despite hiring tutors in addition to paying for private school, do not increase scores any more than their public counterparts.

  3. Re:So what if your standing IN FRONT of the wall? on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 1

    radio waves are very low power per photon and so are called non-ionizing radiation under the theory that what applies to pure metals must apply to everything else.

    But in the video radio-waves are ionizing water. When the radio waves ionize the water it releases hydrogen and oxygen. These then combine right above the test tube to form a flame in the reverse reaction.

    Is radio safe because it is non-ionizing? Before I saw this video, I would have said yes, only heating is an issue. Afterwords, I'm not so sure.

  4. Re:Cool on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 1

    Why would you do A, C if you used a Dvorak keyboard?

  5. Re:So what if your standing IN FRONT of the wall? on Seeing Through Walls · · Score: 1

    Have you seen this?

    So much for non-ionizing radiation doesn't ionize.

  6. Re:PGP, GPG, etc. on Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Because none of these are easy and free. Even really easy and cheep would be good, but really easy would require something like storing your private key on a server so it can be replaced when you delete it.

  7. Re:Already Have It on Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you believe that the USG operates or owns the internet... they don't.

  8. Re:Implying.. on Feds Shy Away From Raiding Email Without Warrant · · Score: 3, Informative

    The CIA is for international (or at least not on US soil) work.

  9. Re:Siri and translation on Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri · · Score: 1

    If google voice's speech to text is any indication, google just can't do speech to text (i.e. "Hi, it's Seth calling" was written, "It's me calling.") too much Bayesian (misses the important part like names and surprising words), too little results.

  10. Re:Hate to say it... on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    luanchd is the slightly more advanced crontab, but yes, you can (and I do) still use crontab in Lion.

  11. Re:Hate to say it... on How To Catch a Laptop Thief? · · Score: 1

    Apple has something a little more advanced than crontabs (which is great for servers, but not so much for laptops which are not always on). It can launch once, launch on the xx clock, or launch after x time has passed and the computer is on.

  12. Re:I guess I'm not fully understanding the problem on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    The other issue is that, if you read the article, there is no smoking gun.

    All it says is that they were aware of the deal before it was public and were concerned about the spin.

  13. Re:I guess I'm not fully understanding the problem on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    You need a new lawyer, google 17USC506. Other sections of the law define other roles for the USG as well.

  14. Re:No Surprise Here on US Copyright Czar Cozied Up To Content Industry · · Score: 1

    You do realize that there is no smoking gun here. Just that people got emails that regard this deal before the deal was public.

    This only adds up to something if you have conclusions in search of facts.

  15. Re:what would impress me on Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas · · Score: 1

    "I hereby put the above thoughts into the public domain: screw you patent system."

    You are assuming that you own this idea. You would have to patent it before anyone else does for that to be the case.

  16. Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame on Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, he wanted to check if the milk was expired before he shot his way in to an overly thick but poorly insulated refrigerator? Is this because the door weighted too much?

  17. Re:about time on Google Buzz Buzzing Away · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter who's fault it is, he won't use G+ anymore.

  18. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised that post/rant didn't end with, "wow! something shiny!"

  19. Re:Hawk-Eye, and done on Ask Slashdot: Project Scope For MLB Robot Umpires? · · Score: 1

    It's not that simple. Strikes and ball depend on the stature and even stance of the batter. The current system uses three cameras and the makers say it is not ready to take over officiating. As for "did he get tagged" that is really hard to say.

    The best I can see is augmentation.

  20. Re:Customers on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    Ahem, this is how consumers punish a supplier. You can't punish them directly, you have to punish them by not buying from the final point of sale.

    It's like saying if I boycott OPEC oil, it's a shame that I'm punishing BP who is just trying to sell it.

  21. Re:Waste of space on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    You do not need to know why something works to patent it, just that if you do A then B then C that you get D.

  22. Re:Too little too late on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    People who want to know what they will do with their products in the future?

  23. Re:Waste of space on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I don't really care, both are second only to black hole's for energy efficiency.

  24. Re:This is scientifically impossible on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 2

    iron is the minimum, but start with some more hydrogen and you make a host of new possibilities (there is lots of potential energy in that proton).

    The real problem is the idea that it is clean. Cu is 70% Cu-63 and 30% Cu-65. Add a proton to these and you get Ni-64 and Ni-66. But Ni-66 is not stable, so you will get a radioactive material.

    I guess it could be that only the Cu-63 reacts... yeah, that even seems likely that one isotope would work and the other would not. Anyway, also a way to produce pure Ni-66.

  25. Re:Where are the patents? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    No, in the US you have to be able to build a widget using the instructions for you to have patented the process.

    However, much like the recipe for coke/pepsi, there is no reason to patent it when you could just keep it proprietary.