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  1. Re:Blowing out of proportion on Fusion "Breakthrough" At National Ignition Facility? Not So Fast · · Score: 1

    No one seems to realize the NIF is just to study fusion for weapons research. It has no hope of ever leading to an energy source.

    People don't realize this because it is NOT true.

    NIF does not have a single mission. A big part is weapons research, but that's not all they do.

    Below is a quote from their web site:

    Achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory is at the heart of the directorate's three complementary missions:

    * Helping ensure the nation's security without nuclear weapons testing (see National Security).

    * Blazing the path to a carbon-free energy future (see Energy for the Future).

    * Achieving breakthroughs in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, materials science, the use of lasers in medicine, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment, particle physics, and X-ray and neutron science (see Understanding the Universe).

  2. Re:Don't count on tasks relevant to your skillset on Foxconn Accused of Forcing InternsTo Build PS4s Or Lose School Credit · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... We must be getting a better crop of interns than you. Our interns start out testing products and a year later are usually writing code for testing those products. Several interns have written code that ended up in our products -- these are the ones that we usually hire when they graduate.

  3. Re:Why is Wal-Mart always the bad guy? on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    All but one. That one was a Shopko and is now a Hobby Lobby. There are also a number of new stores in the area.

  4. Why is Wal-Mart always the bad guy? on Digital Revolution Will Kill Jobs, Inflame Social Unrest, Says Gartner · · Score: 1

    When the Wal-Mart opened near my home, many of my friends who were working elsewhere jumped over to Wal-Mart. Obviously they thought Wal-Mart a better place to work.

  5. Go back and read that again... on Whirlpool Ditches IBM Collaboration Software, Moves To Google Apps · · Score: 1

    The comment you're quoting does NOT say it's not about money. It asks if the poster who said that "IBM moved a lot of them out of the USA" is a racist.

  6. Re:"The only problem? It's GMO." on Interview With Professor Potrykus, Inventor of Golden Rice · · Score: 3, Informative

    Last sentence of your quote from Wikipedia:

    "Since then, improved strains of golden rice have been developed containing sufficient provitamin A to provide the entire dietary requirement of this nutrient to people who eat about 75g of golden rice per day.[4]"

    Average rice consumption per capita per day is higher than that it the Philippines according to a number of sources.

    So it is "high enough in and of itself to solve vitamin A deficiency."

  7. Even better! on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    Google hybrid vigor...

  8. Not Rockwell anymore... on Confirmed: F-1 Rocket Engine Salvaged By Amazon's Bezos Is From Apollo 11 · · Score: 1

    "Following the 'peace dividend' after the fall of the Soviet bloc, the company sold its defense and aerospace business, including what was once North American Aviation and Rocketdyne, to Boeing Integrated Defense Systems in December 1996."

    Fourth paragraph

  9. Huh! on MIT Attempts To Block Release of Documents In Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 0

    Admittedly, he did wrong things. However, how is this the equivalent of books that were "rare, old, in bad shape, etc."? Accessing physical books may damage them. Accessing data on a network doesn't.

  10. Re:nothing new... on The Little Bomb-Detecting Device That Couldn't · · Score: 1

    I told my son he had nothing to worry about because the Boogie Man lived down in the basement and was my best friend. Worked well.

  11. Re: Florida on Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment · · Score: 2

    If she pleads and gets probation, she's still a convicted felon with all that goes with that. Try thinking about what that means.

  12. Re:I won't be buying one... on New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer · · Score: 1

    I don't have to -- the only thing remotely resembling a safety on my Ruger Security Six is the transfer bar system. All that does is prevent the gun from firing if you drop it on the hammer.

  13. I won't be buying one... on New Smart Gun Company Hopes To Begin Production This Summer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I pull the trigger, I want the gun to fire. I doubt this will be reliable enough to depend upon.

  14. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    BTW, I don't know anyone who owns an AR16. In fact, I'd wager that no one anywhere owns an AR16.

    The AR-16 was Eugene Stoner's last design for ArmaLite. It's possible that a prototype still exists somewhere. It was a selective-fire, gas-operated rifle in 7.62 NATO (similar to .308 Winchester).

  15. Re:Bellesiles!? Seriously!? on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    Read some of the linked articles and you'll understand how it is relevant. The man was caught falsifying data for the book the interview was about -- including data on the cost and availability of firearms during the colonial period. My link to the same site is not ad hominem, that's providing additional data that contradicts the data provided in the interview.

  16. Bellesiles!? Seriously!? on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 1

    From the same web site you cited: http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_bellesiles.html Seems your expert is not very well respected...

  17. Re:More laws is not the answe on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 2

    You keep talking about the "arsenal" that the Mom had. How many guns do you have to own before you have an arsenal? 'Cause I suspect most hunters own more guns than she did.

  18. Re:The Stupidity, It Hurts! on Video Game Industry Starting To Feel Heat On Gun Massacres · · Score: 1

    Ow. It Hurts!!!

    My deer hunting rifle has never killed anyone. It must be defective.

  19. Re:What's the point? on Technology To Detect Alzheimer's Takes SXSW Prize · · Score: 1

    So you would rather the medicine not exist because it cost too much?

    It has to be paid for somehow.

  20. Planning and Fun on Technology To Detect Alzheimer's Takes SXSW Prize · · Score: 1

    My grandmother had Alzheimer's. My mother is now at the stage where it may show up and has been under the stress of that knowledge for at least 6 years now. She may have liked to know 6 years ago what she should try to plan for the future.

    Me? I'm not sure if I would want to know or not -- might be able to decide depending on whether mom starts showing symptoms or not -- right now the risk seems a little removed yet.

  21. It's you on Open Source Software Seeping Into the .NET Developer World · · Score: 1

    Not only do I see multi-threaded .Net apps, I have worked on several -- starting back when you had to start your own threads. The threading features in the newer versions of .Net should make threading relatively easy.

  22. Re:Replace the windows! on Could New York City Cut Emissions 90% By 2050? · · Score: 1

    If you bought a piece of property that has deed restrictions that grants an HOA power over certain things, and then you want to do something that the HOA doesn't allow, you're pretty well stuck.

    And considering that you agreed to those terms when you bought the property, there's not a whole lot you can do.

    And from you description of the problems your father had, it sounds like it wasn't the HOA exercising it's power, just his neighbors being buttheads. You can get that without any HOA being present.

  23. I think I have some clips around here... on 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws · · Score: 1

    for an M1 Garand. En bloc clips to be exact. ;^) Lighten up a bit. Please.

  24. Coffee Strengths on 'Hobbit' Creates Big Data Challenge · · Score: 1

    Lutheran churches in the US seem to operate as much on coffee as they do on faith. However, there are great differences depending on the nationality of those who started the congregation. Go to a German Lutheran church and the coffee is a little on the weak side. Go to a Norwegian Lutheran church and your eyes will pop open after the first sip.

  25. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    At the bar where I worked when Suzie B's first came out we chucked them under the cash drawer becaues there was not a slot for them. This worked well until one day when the bar owner confused them with quarters and stocked the cash drawers with them. She gave them out in change as quarters all day before one of the night bartenders told her what she was doing (she asked him why we kept putting quarters under the drawer). She never made that mistake again, but we kept chucking them under the drawer.