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  1. Re:disclosure on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    "This guy's career is totally a product of having the "right" position."

    Which fits, because so do all his opponents. Scientific "consensus" is an indicator that something has gone horribly wrong with the scientific process.

  2. Re:disclosure on How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests · · Score: 1

    " if proper peer review is undertaken"

    The problem comes in when fads appear among the peers.

  3. Re:ATF Ruling 2015-1 Manufacturing and Gunsmithing on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    Which reminds me- is a firearm truly the best way to create a projectile weapon on a 3D printer?

    It seems to me that there should be a way to exceed a firearm's muzzle velocity, with a properly designed kinetic spring of some sort, thus building a weapon that requires neither metal nor gunpowder.

  4. Re: Thanks, assholes on Gun Rights Hacktivists To Fab 3D-Printed Guns At State Capitol · · Score: 1

    That doesn't look like a citation to me.

  5. Re:Airship one headed in the right direction on BU Students Working On a Cheaper, Gentler Suborbital Rocket · · Score: 1

    Seems to me a raspberi pi, four stepper motors, and a couple of good accelerometers could easily compensate for that.

    Either that, or just make your rocket bottom heavy.

  6. Re:Airship one headed in the right direction on BU Students Working On a Cheaper, Gentler Suborbital Rocket · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with using a balloon, to lift your rocket until the balloon explodes, THEN kick in the engines?

  7. Re:Hmm... on CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' · · Score: 1

    CIA agents wearing black suits? What do you THINK their uniform is?

  8. Re:Not Christ's Birthday on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    September was in winter?

  9. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowheel , thanks for reminding me that the word is gerbiling, not hamstering.

  10. Re:Kind of disappointed in him. on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 1

    But at least he taught me something: That Sir Isaac Newton was a proto-Mormon.

  11. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    I know 45 minutes in I was blowing a .00, but I have no idea how accurate the cheapo breathalyzer is (it even feels cheap with a battery case that doesn't quite fit, an LCD screen, and a "detector" behind the grill that looks like it isn't quite mounted straight).

    I do know this, it beeps quite loudly at anything over a .06. No way you could miss what it considers a fail. No idea what jurisdiction .06 is considered drunk.

  12. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    My wife gave me a breathalyzer as a joke. I rarely drink away from where I am sleeping for the night, to make the world safer for me.

    I decided to try this cheap-ass pocket AAA battery run breathalyzer out. I took a shot of vodka, blew a 0.07. I waited 15 minutes, blew a 0.02. How drunk do you have to be to not pass a breathalyzer?

  13. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    How about Bar Interlocks? "Want a drink? Blow into this device. I can serve you if you're under .04."

  14. Re:And who will collect the trash? on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    As I remember, the "happy ending" in Manna was only available to those whose ancestors had the foresight to invest in the libertarian Australia Project.....

  15. Re:Stone Age diet ? he wants to live all 20 years? on How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years · · Score: 1

    That was my thought. I want to know the location of his sea steading city so that if I'm forced to be a pirate, I know where to raid for supplies.

  16. Re:What should a smart watch do? on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Basis Peak, if they ever get the notification software, is a good start, but it needs voice recognition.

    Of course, I suppose, if you had a Pebble, you could just program it to bring up voice rec on your smart phone and use your bluetooth headset.

  17. Re:Priorities on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Then of course you wouldn't need weather to decide when to leave work (or IF it is worthwhile to leave work at all, I've had a couple of times when it simply wasn't worthwhile to leave work before midnight).

  18. Re:Mr Barone: on AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us · · Score: 1

    Free will is not an easy app to code.

  19. Re:This is the voice of world control. on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1

    by do a lot of damage, I mean completely collapse it. Most nuclear silos though are a hell of a lot deeper than 60 feet, and are built out of reinforced concrete, not packed earth.

  20. Re:This is the voice of world control. on Nuclear Weapons Create Their Own Security Codes With Radiation · · Score: 1

    Love it, but a nuclear warhead going off in a silo, especially where the United States and the old Soviet Union put most silos, is a meh.

    It'll do a lot of damage to the silo. It will kill the people in the silo. It *might* poison the groundwater for a couple of miles radius. But that's it.

  21. Re:Corn Subsidies on How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles · · Score: 1

    You've convinced Europe.

  22. What, no Lightsaber jokes? on Laser Creates Quantum Whirlpool · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did I get first post?

    Still, something tells me this is only a quantum effect, not macro

  23. Re: Let me butt in one second. on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    The Crusades? You mean, the military reaction after 700 years of terrorism from Islam, that was so concerned with their own eternal salvation that they sucked at being a military?

  24. Re: Let me butt in one second. on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    And his punishment for being a heretic was to be given a 47 room mansion with servants and a fully stocked laboratory! Technically house arrest, but would somebody please give me that level of luxurious house arrest?

  25. Re:Haleluja ... on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why this is news. How is this different from what the previous FIVE Popes proclaimed on the subject?