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  1. Disabling a piece of equipment before it falls into enemy hands is quite simple. Especially if one of the pieces of equipment you still have in your own hands is a working tank, with a working cannon.

  2. Re:So much for less government regulation on Tesla's Next Auto-Dealer Battleground State: Georgia · · Score: 2

    You raise a good point. Perhaps there's a reason people are railing against the intrusive regulations that were signed into law by Gov. Roy Barnes (D) in 1999?

  3. Re:The 'evironmentally-friendly' fuel propane on Researchers Harness E. Coli To Produce Propane · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, if you had RTFA you would know that propane contains less carbon than most commonly used fuels (e.g gasoline). So recycling carbon and hydrogen into propane is environmentally friendly. You can learn all kinds of interesting stuff by taking a few seconds to actually read the citations...

  4. Re:Good on Hitachi Developing Reactor That Burns Nuclear Waste · · Score: 1

    Jimmy Carter ordered a stop to all reprocessing. His decision was shortsighted and ill-informed, but at least what we call "waste" is still useful a fuel as soon as the ban is lifted.

  5. Re:I never realized how bad it was on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 1

    I don't see where is says people complaining about extra charges are from the US. I'm from the US and get unlimited data and phone calls for a reasonable price.

  6. Re:Does it? on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 1

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

    There was a big debate at the time whether it should read "The powers not expressly delegated...", they removed the word "expressly" so the Federal government could pass laws without needing an amendment to the Constitution every time. Whether a law violates States' or people's rights is a separate issue.

  7. Re:Can see it now: on Can ISO 29119 Software Testing "Standard" Really Be a Standard? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even more likely response: "Have the secretary fill out the paperwork and change our website to say we're ISO 29119 compliant".

  8. Re:No blackmail here definitely not! on Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims · · Score: 1

    I say put the word out that Yelp reviews don't mean anything. Let them self-destruct.

  9. Re:Land of the corporations on Appeals Court Clears Yelp of Extortion Claims · · Score: 2

    Of course they have that right. Don't use Yelp.

  10. Easy solution on Amazon's Plan To Storm the Cable Industry's Castle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's nothing on TV worth watching anyway. Just turn it off.

  11. Re:misleading on Feynman Lectures Released Free Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    Feynman taught at Cornell for a few years after WWII before moving to CalTech. His alma maters were MIT and Princeton.

  12. Re:Incorrect headline, summary on States Allowing Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths · · Score: 1

    There wasn't a 25% difference in death rates. There was a 25% difference in the increase of the death rate due to drug overdose. It's also not clear if the deaths caused by opiate overdose were replaced by something else (suicide is pretty common among people in the final stages of a terribly painful disease like cancer).

  13. Re:This is the Congressinal Rocket not NASA. on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 2, Informative

    The rocket they really wanted was Constellation, but Obama cancelled that one.

  14. Re:Competition is good. on Battle of the Heavy Lift Rockets · · Score: 3, Informative

    Much of the progress in propeller driven aircraft happened during the 1930's by racers like Howard Hughes

  15. Re:One huge peoblem with this. on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 1

    Once your body is expecting a siesta you will drop right off at the designated time. It's an easy habit to get into and a very hard one to break. Back in the day we called it "meditating" rather than napping

  16. Re:Finally, an answer to my question... on IBM Opens Up Its Watson Supercomputer To Researchers · · Score: 1

    Ohare and Midway

  17. Re:Not A SW error! on Software Error Caused Soyuz/Galileo Failure · · Score: 1

    The satellites weren't trashed. They are in a perfectly good orbit, just the wrong orbit for their intended use.

  18. CentruyLink did this to me on CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories · · Score: 1

    About ten years ago they replaced the copper phone lines along my street with fiber. It made the land line phone connection a lot more reliable (cell service here still sucks), but they said we were too far from town to get DSL. Then about 5 years ago they called and asked if I wanted DSL. Cable is still a few miles away but they'll never bother running it out here because everyone who wants it has a dish and DSL already. Not the fastest broadband, but plenty fast for us up here in Appalachia.

  19. Finding work in statistics on Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students · · Score: 1

    I work with a couple of very good statisticians. What they do is a mystery to me, but one thing I can say for sure - a good programmer or DBA will find work much more easily than a good statistician. In large part because PHBs have no clue why they need someone with more than two semesters of probability in almost every application.

    Another problem with students going into statistics in the US is that virtually all of the instructors don't speak very good English. To this day I want to say things like "probabirity", "rotatation about the ashes", and the one that confused everyone in the class - "ashama" (eventually translated to axiom).

  20. Why dodecawhetever? on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 2

    It seems to me that if they used a bigger log in the center the profile would have more sides, making it easier to roll. I still wouldn't want to be the guy who pushes it up the side of the pyramid though.

  21. Re:Correlation Does Not Imply Causation on The Evolution of Diet · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised how many of those Amish "losers" are millionaires.

  22. Re:Average lifespan is misleading on The Evolution of Diet · · Score: 1

    We tend to make the assumption that an average lifespan of 30 means that nobody lives past 35 years old

    We who? I doubt anyone thinks that.

    Otherwise I generally agree with what you way - median life expectancy of those who reach adulthood would be a far more useful statistic here.

  23. Re:Global Warming? on Numerous Methane Leaks Found On Atlantic Sea Floor · · Score: 2

    This is unrelated to arctic methane release, so it is still a question.

  24. this is your (Robo) brain on LOL cats on Robo Brain Project Wants To Turn the Internet Into a Robotic Hivemind · · Score: 1

    Robo Brain will treat everything like a kitten attacking a laser pointer.

  25. Re:WTF is up with the title of this article... on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    I suppose either is acceptable, but "it says talk" sounds awkward compared to "they say talk".