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  1. Re:Even China is getting tired of their shit on North Korea Conducts Third Nuclear Test · · Score: 1

    That's what the DPRK has been doing for 60 years. Hasn't prevented the US from "interfering".

  2. Re:Ok on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    I was doing that with Freshdirect in 2005. Except for the heating oil part.

  3. Re:Boring, show the thing in use!!!!!! on Solowheel is for People Who Think a Segway is Boring (Video) · · Score: 1

    Search Solowheel on youtube. Or follow the link in the summary.

  4. Re:iterative innovation on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Memristors, Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, nanoscale 3D printing, DNA sequencing, and many, many more...

  5. Re:Go back to living in a cave, hominid on Architecture Firm and ESA To 3D Print Building On the Moon · · Score: 1

    No liquids of any kind plus no sedimentary rock plus no volcanism (ie lava tubes) for eons means no caves.

  6. Re:How people talk?! on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Again, it's not "bullshit," it's hundreds of thousands of entries like this one for "pirate"

  7. How people talk?! on IBM's Watson Gets a Swear Filter After Learning the Urban Dictionary · · Score: 2

    I'm still boggling at the idea that anybody thought Urban Dictionary was going to help Watson sound human.

    "Bullshit?" Sure.

    All that bullshit on UD describing sex acts that exist only in the imagination of 11 year olds? And described using not really the best prose those 11 year olds can muster? Not so much.

  8. Re:Fallout on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    That's why you get a shrinkwrapped copy of CS5 on Amazon and upgrade to that.

  9. Re:The latter. on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    They sure as shit don't have progress bars for the file open command. Try accidentally opening a 1 GB PSD over a VPN tunnel sometime.

  10. Re:How will this affect the industry? on Adobe's Strange Software Giveaway: Goof, Or Clever Marketing? · · Score: 1

    CS2's native high bit depths are pretty limited. Just about the only thing you can do in float space, for example, is color correction, gaussian blur, and downconversion. Even the 16 bpc mode lacks a ton of features and is generally a pain in the ass.

  11. Re:Oooh shiny!!! on German Laser Destroys Targets More Than 1Km Away · · Score: 1

    Except scorched tank armor is black. 100 ms later, it's black and melted.

  12. Re:Boggle on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    We use 11x17 (aka Ledger or Tabloid) all the time; it's probably the third most common US paper size after Letter and Legal.

  13. Re:Cooling is the issue on Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs · · Score: 1

    recessed cans, yes. Those square fixtures with a metal frame around a frosted glass/plexi lens is what the OP is referring to. You generally don't see those in commercial settings; just residential construction between 1965 or so and 1990.

  14. Re:walled gardens don't work on 'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a fair description of a cable box/DVR?

  15. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    Gosh, whatever did they do before the invention of the taser?

  16. Re:the other side on Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam · · Score: 1

    WTF is Starck doing taking a 6% commission? Starchitects take 15%-20%. Perhaps Starck was taking 20% of the interiors budget, with the shipwrights taking 10%-15% on the hull/mechanicals design.

  17. Re:Buy plain bricks.... on Has Lego Sold Out? · · Score: 1

    The keyword you're looking for is "Lego Education." Search that on Amazon.

  18. Re:Why the lower receiver? on Makerbot Cracks Down On 3D-Printable Gun Parts · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that replacing the barrel is something a gun owner might reasonably need to do occasionally, while the lower receiver is both not particularly failure-prone (not subjected to high stresses when firing), and holds all the other parts of the gun together.

    Sort of like defining a car as the frame, despite the engine, drivetrain, and interior components contributing many more of the qualities we consider essential to that particular model of car.

  19. Re:Jack Thompson is already on the case on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    I'm saying that the irony of a founding father exhorting gun ownership as a means of averting "slavery" in a slaveowning society is a bit rich.

    More generally I'm alluding to his likely belief that women and white males without property similarly need not be armed either.

    And that his enthusiasm for personal armament as enabling "freedom" in a society where many were decidedly not free has strong echoes today in the way people on both sides of the gun control debate perceive the social meaning of guns (freedom-preserving self-sufficiency-enabling tools for independence on the pro side; democracy-thwarting social-contract-breaking unequalizers on the anti side).

    Which gets at the heart of why the gun control debate goes nowhere - guns mean such different things to the people on either side that arguments to statistics, reasoned solutions, and history don't carry much weight.

  20. Re:Jack Thompson is already on the case on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether the actual slaves were counted among that "whole people." Maybe they got 3/5 of a musket.

  21. Re:Unauthorized export resale? on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um, that's not what the cops are supposed to do when someone does that. They're supposed to arrest them for trespassing. The taser is supposed to be a last resort before/instead of using a firearm.

  22. Re:please clarify on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    We give both Israel and Egypt billions in foreign aid as an incentive to maintain the peace of the Camp David accords. Also, the foreign aid consists of gift certificates to ATK, Lockheed Martin, etc. so the treasury is actually being emptied into the pockets of domestic war profiteers rather than actually sent overseas.

  23. Re:Best of luck to them on Golden Spike Working On Private Moon Flights · · Score: 1

    Well, there's Elon Musk, but something tells me he's not going to be buying...

  24. Re:Why would that be the first step? on Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon · · Score: 1

    No, the isotope separation to get the fissionable material is the step that costs lots of time and money. The gas chromatography separation setup in Tennessee druing the Manhattan Project was the largest industrial building ever constructed at the time.

    See also how Iran has the means and know-how to produce nukes (the engineering of a simple implosion-activated fission device is a solved problem for almost 70 years now, and even in 1945 they didn't even bother testing the gun design), but the isotope separation facility is using hundreds of centrifuges 24/7 over a period of years.

  25. Re:Summary on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much what the preamble to the GPL does.