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  1. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 1

    The first paragraph of your link describes how water is compressible, and not only that, how the compressibility changes with pressure.

    You can't standardize pressure because to even define pressure you first have to define a kilogram. Circular.

  2. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 2

    But you can't define 1 atmosphere without defining the kilogram first.

  3. Re:Impossible on Kilogram Gets Controversial; Why Not Split the Difference? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Such a definition is ultimately circular. The volume of water depends on pressure, which itself has a mass component.

  4. Links wrong on Facebook Launches Social Login and HTTPS · · Score: 2

    I'm able to change the protocol to https for any page, successfully. But all the links on that page point back to http. So... That's pretty limited https support.

  5. Mid-range? on Nvidia Unveils New Mid-Range GeForce Graphics Card · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somebody dropping two hundred and fifty big ones on a video card is mid-range?

  6. Re:as opposed to IPv4 brokenness on Yahoo IPv6 Upgrade Could Shut Out 1M Users · · Score: 1

    Because people with no IPv6 support are entirely unaffected. This only affects people with broken, not absent, IPv6 support.

  7. Loyalty on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 0

    Look, I'm all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I'm being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.

  8. Re:Skimpy data on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 1

    I keep seeing people saying that temperatures have not risen since 1998, but nobody ever cites any real data to back up that assertion. Care to step up?

    http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/06/global-temperature-trend-upate

  9. Re:Utter utter rubbish on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Money" is just a medium here; it's a matter of where it makes sense to focus our efforts and resources. You're endorsing misallocation on an unprecedented scale.

  10. "Since people have been keeping records" on NASA Says 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record · · Score: 0

    So that's the most recent 1.3% of the time that's passed since the end of the last ice age.

  11. The Practice of System and Network Administration on 10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article author is also behind The Practice of System and Network Administration, truly an excellent text into the practicalities of work in IT.

  12. Re:Too Easy on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 1

    Can you tell us more about this? What library, what app, what service? Thanks.

  13. Re:This is cool, but not revolutionary... on Auto Industry's Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right about buying from GM. But Ford in fact has had Bluetooth connectivity for a few years now via their "Sync" system.

  14. "Immaculate Conception" on Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In Roman Catholic theology, the Immaculate Conception was the conception of Mary, whom they hold to have been conceived without original sin, that is, immaculate.

    This has nothing to do with the Virgin Birth, which appears to be what the summary is aiming for.

  15. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    Because the volume of water depends on pressure, which has a mass component.

  16. Re:Question... on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    2.20462262 pounds per kilogram. It's defined in terms of the kilogram. If it weren't, there wouldn't be global agreement on weight of things (which there is). This is why the US cares what the mass of the kilogram is.

  17. Re:Weight a minute... on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    But this situation means there's no reason to NOT hold out. Everybody agrees on the definitions, they just use different ways to express the same measurements. Agreement on the fundamental definitions is what's important, and we have that.

  18. Re:Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    No, because the volume depends on pressure. Which has a mass component. Circular.

  19. Re:Weight a minute... on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because this prototypical kilogram is what the definition of the pound is currently based on.

  20. Get rid of the artifact? on US Objects To the Kilogram · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Last I heard, nobody had come up with a way to define mass without referring to an artifact. It seems easy but they all turn out to be circular.

  21. Re:When it's done on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    They DO use kilobytes, just a lot more of them. :-)

  22. Re:When it's done on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    I think we have an order of magnitude problem here... K != M

  23. Re:i'm sorry... on NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

  24. Re:i'm sorry... on NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents · · Score: 1

    Did you even read that page? It describes how the top 5% of income earners are shouldering 59% of the federal tax burden. That fact doesn't directly have anything to do with rates.

  25. Re:Myopic view of how browsers treat SSL on How To Protect Against Firesheep Attacks · · Score: 1

    Had to be for what? In order to display at all? In order to get the error message?

    I believe the rule is just what I said.