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  1. Re:Makes sense on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    Assuming your sleep cycle is at all aligned with when you're needing to wake up.

    And if you don't think that matters, I would ask if you've ever done variable shift work. Shifting your sleep cycle 8+ hours in the space of a couple days just isn't happening without some assistance.

  2. Re:Makes sense on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    If you want your caffeine fix on a budget, get some caffeine pills. You can get a hundred 200mg tablets for about $7.

  3. Re:The truth about caffeine on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    Excessive caffeine can cause problems for some people. My grandfather, for instance, developed atrial fibrillation due to excessive caffeine. Though he regularly drank 30 cups a day. His doctor cut him down to 6 and it went away.

  4. Re:Abiogenic Petroleum on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    has anyone ever compressed a dead fish or tree and created petroleum in a lab? I'd be very interested if anyone has a citation for that.

    Not just in a lab, it's been done on a commercial scale.

    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2005/02/01/8250633/index.htm

  5. Re:That's life on the Bleeding Edge on Hybrid Seagate Hard Drive Has Performance Issues · · Score: 1

    I think I will wait until the ATA-8 spec is released with a standardized version of this.

  6. Re:SETI@HOME has 3 million or so nodes... on Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're gonna open it up like that, Folding@Home would almost certainly take first place.

    http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats

  7. Re:They'll just ban you rather than stone you. on Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons · · Score: 1

    The general rules among the states laid out in federal and state law regarding marriages and contracts say "yes."

    With the notable exception of the defense of marriage act, which will probably be found unconstitutional eventually, whenever there is enough of a controversy to get it to the supreme court.

  8. Re:Not so fast there... on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're already drilling a relief well, it should be really in about 2 months. IMO, the relief well should have been drilled when they did the original one, as is required in many other places, like Canada.

  9. Re:No plans on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    What do you figure will happen when the vehicle hits the ocean doing mach 6? I very much doubt there will be anything recoverable.

  10. Re:Always money for military space projects on Air Force Sets Date To Fly Mach-6 Scramjet · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the idea wasn't to put conventional explosives on them, but rather just load them with lead or something else cheap, heavy, and inert and use them as a mass impact weapon. A Trident II missile MIRV comes in at about 6,000m/s. a W88 nuclear warhead supposedly weights about 800lbs. Replace that with 800lbs of lead and when it hits, you'll get as much energy as about a ton and a half of TNT and a Trident can carry up to 12 such loads.

  11. Re:Sorry but you won't see electric cars any time on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    I like the Leaf, but the range is insufficient for anything other than daily commuting IMO. For me, even a day trip to the next city over would exceed it's limit.

    If they made something like a trailer with a diesel generator you can hook up to it to extend the range, I'd be sold.

  12. Re:Diabetics on Scientists Implant Biofuel Cells Into Rats · · Score: 4, Informative

    That should be hyperglycemic. Hypoglycemic means the blood sugar is too low.

  13. Re:Sorry but you won't see electric cars any time on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    But only about 10 or so of those 39 kilowatts are actually useful for moving the vehicle. The rest is just getting blown out the radiator as waste heat.

    I will admit that batteries are not yet there, which is why plug in hybrids are being made.

  14. Re:Water vapor on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    Water vapor gets removed from the atmosphere when it rains/snows/etc.

    CO2 doesn't do that unless you're on Mars.

  15. Re:Now that's.... on Would You Die To Respect a Software License? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I strongly suspect the D&R license is a BSD license fan responding to someone wanting them to dual-license something.

  16. Re:They fight for survival on Matter-Antimatter Bias Seen In Fermilab Collisions · · Score: 1

    In terms of raw energy levels, the LHC eats everyone's lunch, but the LHC does different work than the Tevatron. The LHC wouldn't be able to do any of the stuff they're doing in this instance, as the LHC doesn't deal with antimatter. It's a proton collider. the Tevatron is a proton-anti-proton collider.

  17. Re:Canada is already there... on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    Unless I am remembering wrong, the application for dangerous offender status has to be submitted at the trial, not years after the fact as it is in this case.

  18. Re:Scope on US Supreme Court Upholds Indefinite Confinement · · Score: 1

    Regarding the 18 yr old, it is not statutory rape if their age is withing 2 yrs of the younger person

    That depends on the state. Many do not have any near-in-age exemption.

  19. Re:Why do we need nuclear physicists? on Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill · · Score: 1

    Don't forget about not requiring a relief well.

  20. Re:Bad reporting on Obama Sends Nuclear Experts To Tackle BP Oil Spill · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And the Texas City refinery explosion also happened that same year and killed 15.

    Neither BP nor PDVSA look to be doing a great job.

  21. Re:They weren't jailed for possessing knowledge on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    The guy in the first article was. The 2 articles are about completely different stories.

  22. Re:Illegal? on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    The US army improvised munitions handbook is better IMO.

    http://cryptome.org/0001/tm-31-210.htm

  23. Re:Oh no am I in trouble. on In UK, First "Anarchist's Cookbook" Downloaders' Convictions · · Score: 1

    There are 2 articles about completely different cases.

    The first one is about the guy who compiled the instructions. This is utter insanity.

    The second one is about the guys who had a load of chemical weapons (ricin), and the instructions. This is entirely reasonable.

  24. Re:This will get no play because it is nuclear.. on Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke · · Score: 1

    Yes I know that, and it should be 25,000,000, regardless of which separator you use.

  25. Re:Broken Link In Summary on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 1

    It's working for me over here in Saskatchewan.