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  1. Re:So sad! on Mazda Stops Production of the Last Rotary Engine Powered Car · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I live in a snowy state and won't buy a front wheel drive, mostly because they are too hard to work on. Plus I love passing SUVs in my Mustang, all you need to do is add weight. I did get a 4 wheel drive truck so I can drive in 2+ feet of unplowed roads.

  2. Re:the axis on Electric Motor Made From a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the copper atoms count as another molecule making it a 2 molecule motor?

  3. Re:First w00t! on "Woot" Becomes an Official Word · · Score: 1

    I think coward is confusing w00t with pwned. I vote for the proper spelling with zeros to remain.

  4. Re:Doesn't matter what they report on UN Climate Report Fails To Capture Arctic Ice: MIT · · Score: 2

    How about the correlation between pirates and global temperature. It looks like this chart needs to be updated to show the recent increase in pirates and the contested decrease in temperatures.

  5. Re:TSA on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    Good catch, so I guess this is another civil liberty lost due to the patriot act.

  6. Re:TSA on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 0

    As far as I know there is nothing in the Bill of rights about freedom while travelling by air plane. If you don't agree with what they do don't fly.

  7. Re:No It doesn't on Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware · · Score: 1

    To do so only download from your operating systems repository or app store. If you OS doesn't have one, find one that does.

  8. Good thing on PayPal Predicts the End of the Wallet By 2015 · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a good thing I use a money clip then. I will never have anything to do with Paypal, in fact I no longer buy anything on ebay becouse everything seems to be Paypal only.

  9. Re:House, MD. on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    Most of use keep oxygen on hand, which will kill it in 5 minutes. The expensive medicine is imitrex shots which will kill it in 15 min.

    LSD is a preventative. Actually most use LSA. A preventative keeps the cycles from ever starting.

  10. Re:House, MD. on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    Don't get paranoid, get proactive. My CH started light, My 10 pain level is a 5 now. Everyone thought it was sinus. Read up on the illness, and learn what you need so in case it get worse you are ready. Remember it's not called suicide headache because it is easy to live with. Email me if you want links.

  11. Re:House, MD. on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 2

    Cluster headaches are a boring pain, usually behind one eye, but can also radiate to the ear or jaw. The hallmark of the pain is hard to stand or sit still and laying down is impossible. A migraine as you probably know is a pounding pain, that movement, light and sound makes worse.

    A CH will start suddenly, will last a standard amount of time depending on the person, and leave suddenly. They usually happen at the same times every day and strike while the sufferer is sleeping. I do know people who have had remission while using fentanyl patches, even though most other narcotics are a trigger due to their vascular relaxing properties.

    I hope you don't have CH but if you do get worse, there are treatments that can be done without insurance like welding oxygen and LSA/LSD.

  12. Re:I don't know what to say on LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches' · · Score: 1

    Sorry to hear you are getting screwed by the doctors. You are going to have to take this into your own hands, and try to get yourself off the drug. Is there any way you can take a few weeks off? You standard detoxifying methods might make if faster.

    I do have CH and most of us have learned that the docs will only do so much. We need to take care of ourselves. We take 1/3 shots of imitrex as the full migraine shot doesn't work well. Sufferers have developed an oxygen mask because they existing ones did not work well. Some have used an illegal drug as a preventative, while using low doses to not get the high.

  13. Re:Faster? on Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39 · · Score: 1

    LOL no I actually will try to give up. Even scientists now in reports start decades like there is a year zero. I couldn't care less about the masses, and their modems, I just play along. What I will try to give up on is professionals having any grasp of proper terms.

  14. Re:Faster? on Linux 3.0 Will Be Faster Than 2.6.39 · · Score: 1

    I think you are correct.

    From now on I will use (Hacker, cracker, script-kiddie), (virus, worm, trojan), (kernel, OS, windows) all interchangeably. I even think I am going to believe in a year zero too.

    No really, I give up.

  15. What next? on Caltech Scientists Measure Dinosaur Body Temp · · Score: 2

    Warm blooded? The next thing they are going to tell us is that dinosaurs had feathers.

  16. Re:Worried on Dying Star Betelgeuse Spews Fiery Nebula · · Score: 1

    I think you mean "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses".

  17. Was it just me on Decoding the Inscrutable Logos On Your Electronics · · Score: 2

    Was it just me or did the story actually say almost nothing. I was expecting a list of the syllables and what they meant.

  18. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Actually I have been following this theory since I first read about it. I was wondering what happened to the cloudiness that was normal for my area ( 53 sunny days a year). This was about 1997 or so. I was investigating what areas to move too since I cannot stand hot sunny days. I don't remember when I first read about it but it interested me as I might just have to wait it out and cloudy days will return. They did return, the past 3 summers have been great for me.

    You can deny everything that doesn't fit with your agenda or you can keep an open mind and look at all the theory out there. I understand that if you promote AWG because your in it for the money there is nothing that will persuade you to have an open mind.

  19. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    Thanks for correcting me. According to this I am just a lay person, I forget how badly my brain has aged.

  20. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 4, Informative

    The last paper I read on the subject couldn't disprove it. This was done in the lab because doing real experiments in the real atmosphere with real cosmic rays is very hard. The best they can do is measure cloud formation in relation to solar wind levels. It will take a full normal solar cycle to do this.

  21. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's pretty good, disproving a theory that is going to take another normal solar cycle to prove or disprove. I guess they have a time machine or something.

  22. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1

    I have no data, it is a theory, and like all scientist it is my job to disprove my theory. If I cannot disprove it then I will write a paper allowing others to disprove it. If they can't then it will eventually called a fact. This could take a while.

  23. Re:Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 0

    Then how come they ignore the science theory that cosmic rays seed clouds. A solar minimum produces reduced solar winds and magnetic field which means more cosmic rays hit the Earth. If they theory is correct then more clouds will form reducing the solar heating of the oceans.

  24. Of course Discover magazine would say this on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They are extremely pro AWG. They may be right but they only show one side of the picture. There is no room for debate in their eyes. I wonder if they are heavy invested in carbon dioxide credits.

  25. Re:And 64-bit Will Be Updated When? on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    Yes the 64 bit version of Firefox seems to eat more memory. But on the other hand I haven't run 32 bit Firefox since version 1.5 so it may just be feature creep.