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  1. Re:This is why I like analog gauges... on Ammonia Leak Alarm On the ISS Forces Evacuation of US Side: Crew Safe · · Score: 1

    True, however many of the gauges are selectable for individual cylinders of each engine; head temperature and the others in the left bank of six columns. Power was six Pratt & Whitney R-4360 radials, each with 28 cylinders in four banks of seven. Having an individual cylinder drop out was not uncommon apparently.

  2. Re:This is why I like analog gauges... on Ammonia Leak Alarm On the ISS Forces Evacuation of US Side: Crew Safe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You want analog? Check this out. This is a 360 view of the engineer's station of a Convair B36. I'm not quite sure where I'd stash my slide rule, but I'm sure there's a spot somewhere.

  3. Top Right Desk Drawer on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    >the sample is now expected to go back on display at Seaborg's old office at Berkeley.

    Because every self-respecting academic has the odd bit of plutonium lying about. It really helps with the mad scientist cred.

  4. Dear Paul and Christopher... on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 0

    You have too much crap on your phones. If you bought a 16GB iPhone, you bought a phone with enough capacity for your contacts, calendar, email, etc. It's not for storing all your music and photos. If you want to do that, buy one of the phones with more memory. Idiots.

  5. Re:No Kidding on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 1

    I was a bio major. General ed requirements were perhaps broader than they are now.

  6. No Kidding on Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God." This is not news. It was not news a hundred years ago. This is pretty standard stuff from any general education philosophy class in any decent university. Don't people go to school any more?

  7. Actually, Rolex and a lot of others care deeply about that. In Italy, the Guardia Finanzia has units financed by Gucci, D&G, et al. that go after counterfeiters from the top on down to chasing street peddlers. It's all about how much you care about your reputation.

  8. Re:Oh rearery? on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 1

    >That said, reprisals are a terrible idea.

    Who needs reprisals? They're stuck in North Korea. What could be worse? The Dear Leader is a bat-shit crazy reincarnation of Stalin. Half the country is starving to death. Even if your are relatively well off, you could be taken out and shot any minute, and every known relative of yours hauled off to a camp for generations.

  9. Re:Country that forbids use to internet on North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation · · Score: 1

    Of course they have top notch cyber techs. The Dear Leader needs access to the latest in 4K pron video.

  10. Dumb and Dumber on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    How do we have to threaten to get all of these movies nuked?

  11. Re:What are they going to do? on "Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the terrifying North Korean hit squads will nuke the theatre in Whitefish, Montana as soon as the movie starts. They will also hit every other theatre in the US at the same time. Since there are maybe two movie theaters in all of PRNK, they probably think it's the same here.

  12. Re:Knowledge is the solution on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do not have a personal freedom to infect others with Yellow Fever, Tuberculosis, Typhoid, or Cholera. Isolation of infectious or potentially infectious individuals has long been the duty of government pubic health programs. The fact that these and others have largely been controlled through vaccination programs and/or improved public sanitation (also a government program) has let people forget the dangers that exist. I am old enough to remember when public places like swimming pools and libraries were closed in the summer due to polio outbreaks (thank you Jonas Salk.) So, while you have a right to risk your children's lives by not vaccinating them, you do not have a right to risk my grandchildren's lives by sending them to public school.

  13. Won't Last on Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary? · · Score: 1

    I remember when this was fairly common in the late 90s. It got dropped, because it slowed the line to a crawl. "Turn it on" meant waiting for Windows and the usual overhead of HP or Dell bloatware to load before you could shut it off. Few people would hibernate one of those things, because it usually locked up and/or crashed. These days, I get pre-check about 75% of the time, and never even open my computer bag.

  14. Re:Great on Curiosity's Mars Crater Was Once a Vast Lake · · Score: 1

    None of the rovers are set up to look for microfossils, which can reasonably be expected to be the most common if any are present.

  15. Re:Have the Germans threaten to invade on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    This after suffering 1.4 million military dead in the previous generation during WW1. US losses during WW1 were about 117,000.

  16. Superposition of results on The Moment of Truth For BICEP2 · · Score: 1

    So, either primordial gravitational waves have been detected or they haven't. The cat box will be opened on December 22. Meaningful discussion can begin then.

  17. I Told you So on US Weather System and Satellite Network Hacked · · Score: 1

    See, there is no global warming. It's those liberal, Obama-loving hackers. If it wasn't for them, it would be 75 F outside in Denver right now.

  18. North Dakota on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 2

    I'd be pretty seriously disgruntled if I was stationed in North Dakota. Being in a deep hole in the ground might be the best part of it.

  19. Re:When pet theories die... on CERN May Not Have Discovered Higgs Boson After All · · Score: 1

    >What makes horses simple and zebras complex?

    Depends on where you are. If you're in Nevada, horses are the simple explanation. If you're in Kenya, zebra's are the simple answer. Without adequate location data, neither is simpler than the other, since both exist.

  20. Re:"The data come from" on Decades-old Scientific Paper May Hold Clues To Dark Matter · · Score: 2

    Depends on whether you are speaking the Queen's English or Murican.

  21. Re:Ok, but on FBI Says It Will Hire No One Who Lies About Illegal Downloading · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am over 50 and an Eagle Scout. I downloaded warez over a Hayes 2400 modem. Most of the Eagle Scouts I know enjoy the Good Herb. I was thinking of a good retirement career. Maybe the FBI would suit.

  22. Re:Wow on Symantec To Separate Into Two Companies · · Score: 1

    I had forgotten that too. I use GPG.

  23. Wow on Symantec To Separate Into Two Companies · · Score: 1

    I'd forgotten they still exist.

  24. Re:I dunno about LEDs, but CFLs don't last on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I don't know why Americans don't have a dual flush system on their toilets like all of Europe does.

    I do. Most of the hotels I stay in do.

  25. But Do They Blend? on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    Yes. Yes they do.