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  1. Re:meh on Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month · · Score: 1

    What has google done that makes their search page grind on javascript but if I turn it off it's very fast but almost unusable?

  2. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 1

    Note to self: Study first, post later.

    http://www.noonsite.com/Members/doina/R2005-12-09-3

    It looks credible so I'll go with it without further checking because I was lazy when I posted the original and I'm still somewhat lazy now. ;)

  3. Re:Why do they even bother? on BP Gulf of Mexico Rig Lacked Alarm Systems · · Score: 1

    Earlier I saw this and will attribute it to the author with a link http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1942186&cid=34806036

    That definition matches this case. The regulatory agency should be shattered and it's personnel dismissed without benefit or pension and disbarred from any government service. Those directly responsible charged with what ever crime is possible.

    Then the agency should be remade with some checks in it's ability to wave any regulatory requirement.

  4. Re:Don't worry on Internet Downloading Costs To Rise In Canada · · Score: 1

    That's one troll that sucks the life out of troll bashers. I wash away the need to bash them with liters of high gravity lager. I suggest you do too. They're less expensive than trying give them lead poisoning.

  5. Re:I have a better idea on New Laser Makes Pirates Wish They Wore Eye-Patches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Armed ships are forbidden by treaty unless the weapons are controlled by a countries military who happens to be in good standing with the rest of the world community, i.e. they don't commit piracy.

    There are weapons systems where it would be trivial to turn that boat to scrap from 1000 yards and it's cheap to run. It's not person to person sniping but it's close enough. I would prefer a system such as the one mentioned as it temporarily blinds them but I'd want the lethal system run by a competent military to back it up when the thieves figure out that device won't aim to more than one place at a time.

  6. It's an unclassified document. on US Government Strategy To Prevent Leaks Is Leaked · · Score: 2

    It's not even marked FOYO, For Official Use Only. I don't see where it was leaked other than the howler monkeys at MSNBC saying it is.

  7. Re:Non-human intelligences on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    We can get Mrs Cleo to tell us what they say, sign contracts, negotiate treaties and wag war.

  8. Re:Computer that happens to be a phone on Police Can Search Cell Phones Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    And the supreme CT will make some befuddled ruling that will allow them to rummage in any computer in your possession outside of a 'fixed location personal computer' without a warrant. So all the data collected by your phone, laptop, car and anything they connect to will be search-able without a warrant. And since it's sanctified by the SupCT it's LEGAL!

    All you can do is prostrate yourself in supplication to your lords and masters in Congress and beg them for protection.

  9. Re:Programmable CPU's on Researchers Claim 1,000 Core Chip Created · · Score: 1

    You should jump on some of the newer non-volatile FPGA's that can run a microcontroller core. I found one from Lattice who had it on sale for 29.95 with a jtag programmer. Now they are 50. There are other brands and I'm always looking for cheap dev kits. I think there's a devkit for Omap from Ti that's open source and not to expensive but I'm not finding it.

  10. Re:It is still different HW on AMD Radeon HD 6950 Can Be Unlocked To HD 6970 · · Score: 1

    283 watts for HD 4870 with two six pin connectors.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4870,1964-15.html

  11. Re:Drugs and their first use. on The Animal World Has Its Junkies, Too · · Score: 1

    Yes, hemlock is all natural, nightshade is all natural, petroleum is all natural, tobacco is all natural, nuclear fusion is all natural. How some thing or some process is used is what matters.

  12. Re:What's so new about single line queue? on Scientifically, You Are Likely In the Slowest Line · · Score: 0

    They give out free Ritalin?

  13. Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. on Navy Uses Railgun To Launch Fighter Jet · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_Aircraft_Launch_System

    The energy is stored

    Energy storage subsystem: The induction motor requires a large amount of electric energy in just a few seconds -- more than the ship's own power source can provide. EMALS' energy-storage subsystem draws power from the ship and stores it kinetically on rotors of four disk alternators.Each rotor can store more than 100 megajoules, and can be recharged within 45 seconds of a launch, faster than steam catapults.

    The A1B reactor produces about 312MW though an exact figure is elusive I found one article that stated they put out approximately 3 times the A4W reactors output.

    Oddly that article claims a launch energy of 122MJ yet the following statement matches your initial numbers. The EMALS' 300-foot (91 m) LIM will accelerate a 100,000-pound (45,000 kg) aircraft to 130 knots (240 km/h). it could be the 240km/h should be used in lieu of 240mph?

  14. Re:Centralaisation on Skype Outage Hits Users Worldwide · · Score: 1

    It no longer pays enough for a company to provide payphones. One of the few remaining companies had started abandoning broken payphones then all of them were removed in a short time period.

    The last time I used a payphone was...years ago.

  15. Re:What a suprise on Obama FCC Caves On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Money rules Obama and the FCC.

  16. Re:HONEY TRAP!!! on Cablegate, the Game · · Score: 1

    It might be or you are but I know I am cause I'm hot and sticky sweet from my head down to my feet.

    I want a way to be able to kill the karma of a tagger for bad tags. I suppose a slashdot style system could be set up. The firehose can weed out the obvious crap and then come the taggers spraying graphiti on the cables, then come the karma killers....

  17. Re:Oh wow. on UK Gov't Wants To Block Internet Porn By Default · · Score: 2

    That's a good excuse to not raise your children but let government discipline them later.

    An adult would try and make it hard for the kid to accidentally view such images but kids are resilient; if it's not the game or information they were looking for they close the window and go elsewhere. If they are curious they come and ask their parents who if they are adults don't freak out and scream at them or other histrionics but have a suitable explaination which is not derogatory or insulting to the child, isn't an outright lie and fits what the child can understand.

  18. Re:With all his nightmarish illustrations on H.R. Giger Returns To the Alien Franchise · · Score: 1

    He had night terrors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

    I wondered when his offspring would do something like this. They'll squeeze that franchise for money with ever tentacle they have until it's a dead husk.

  19. How quickly they forget George Gordon on Sheriff's Online Database Leaks Info On Informants · · Score: 1

    http://deoxy.org/lawenfor.htm

    Here is who it really benefits.

  20. Re:Almost Kernel.org on Hidden Backdoor Discovered On HP MSA2000 Arrays · · Score: 1

    Serial port to ethernet, you access it with telnet. They're ubiquitous.

  21. Re:Some Questions on EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was an article posted on /. a while back that showed a two pronged attack on the bees by I think a mite and a pathogen that caused the death of whole hives.

    This sounds like some anti-pesticide religious fanatic trying to whip up hysteria while trying to make the FDA and the pesticide industry look bad.

    The FDA screens pesticides for how they will be used, how mobile the pesticide is and how long the residue lasts. If this was not done then cry foul.

    This is what I could find in a few minutes searching http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2006-12-13-E6-20898 I have not found the application for use as a seed coating but Bayer would have needed to go through a process to get that approved by the EPA.

    Ah, here is the fact sheet http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/factsheets/clothianidin.pdf

    Endangered Species
    Clothianidin is expected to present acute and/or chronic toxicity risk to endangered/threatened birds
    and mammals via possible ingestion of treated corn and canola seeds. Endangered/threatened non-
    target insects may be impacted via residue laden pollen and nectar. The potential use sites cover the
    entire U.S. because corn is grown in almost all U.S. states. The registrant must provide information
    on the proximity of Federally listed birds, mammals, and non-target insects to the proposed use sites.
    This information may best be provided via the FIFRA Endangered Species Task Force, but may be
    produced independently, providing the information is of sufficient quality to meet FIFRA and
    Endangered Species Act requirements. The information will be used by the EPA to develop specific
    recommendations to avoid adverse effects to listed species.

    To address ecological concerns, labeling will be required that mandates treated seed bags be printed
    with advisory language regarding hazards to wildlife and will include specific instructions to cover
    or collect clothianidin treated seeds that are spilled during loading. In order to fully evaluate the
    possibility of chronic exposure to honey bees, a complete worker bee life cycle study will be
    required, as well as an evaluation of exposure and effects to the queen. Sediment toxicity testing
    will be required to address the uncertainty of possible risk to communities of invertebrates and fish
    that inhabit or come into contact with sediment from fields planted with treated seed.

  22. Criminal class on US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct · · Score: 1

    Nope, your debt is never paid. You can't get a decent job. You can't vote or hold public office. You cannot join the military. Several 'inaleinable' rights are out right infringed or curtailed.

    Crime empowers politicians and the more criminals there are committing crime the more power they accrue.

    I could throw out some Roman era quotes if you'd like. I suspect I'd get ruled a troll if I threw out some by Ayn Rand or one of the communist philosophers like Trotsky.

  23. Re:Everyone has skeletons. on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    Your employer sucks.

    I get PTO days and vacation days. I can take PTO for any reason with no explaination and my boss can't ask.

    Vacation is at their discretion up to a point and I can appeal that.

    We don't have a union but it's a one owner company and it's a good one.

  24. Re:The latest five pictures... on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 1

    I am a picture of a stack of Commodore 64s! LEET!

  25. Re:Lived through it? I programmed something like t on 'I Just Need a Programmer' · · Score: 1

    Opinion on this website?

    http://www.microtronix.com/

    Warning: You will need hearing protection and probably brain bleach.