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  1. Re:blackboxes already in most 21st century vehicle on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Then stop driving in the left lane!!! Geez nothing is more infuriating than people with no highway courtesy.

  2. Re:blackboxes already in most 21st century vehicle on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Its a recording of the few seconds before and during an event impact. Seconds, not hours or days.

  3. Re:Engineering on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    We should be free to choose what car we drive, not forced to drive whatever the government dictates.

    If that ever happens then I plan on surrounding my car with sharp spikes and gasoline cans to keep the idiots away from me.

  4. Re:Engineering on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 2

    Or, be very stiff and hit something else that is absorbing the impact energy. As long as something absorbs the energy you're fine (except for the poor guy who is absorbing all the energy. That's why you're safer in the biggest thing you can be in if you are going to collide with something like a transport truck. The worst thing is to have two stiff vehicles colliding.

  5. Re:Advice on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    And for the exact same reason I don't want my tax dollars (or if I paid them, my insurance premiums) paying for idiot smokers who then end up with expensive medical procedures as a result.

  6. Re:Advice on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you lived in a sensible country like Canada everyone would have medical care.

  7. Re:Advice on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Your prints on the tire iron and tire iron marks on the black box are pretty conclusive..

  8. Re:Libertarians? on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 1

    No, you republicans use the word socialism as a fear word, much like red and commie was used in the 60s. Democrats and Republican policies are nothing like socialism, and clearly you do not know the meaning of the word. I stand by my original statement and would go further to say that Republican policies are inherently anti-freedom. But clearly you are not interested in the truth as you posted as AC.

  9. Re:Libertarians? on Are Engineers Natural Libertarians Or Technocrats? · · Score: 1

    Libertarian is far closer to Democrat than the current mindset of the Republicans. You just have to look to personal rights and freedoms issues such as gay marriage a pro-choice to see that,

  10. Re:Idk... on New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End · · Score: 1

    With an ass you have weight, shape, position and behavior, but it's only possible to get a few limited data points out of each.

    It's measuring 360 distributed pressure points.

    A good fingerprint reader can achieve 99% accuracy.

    Unless you cut your finger. I've had my laptop biometric sensor lock me out since I do construction and occasionally tear up my fingerprints. I have yet to cut up my ass though.

  11. Re:They may be mocking the price but on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    Except speakers are AC devices and as such a thinner wire means less skin effect.

    A thinner wire also means much higher resistance, and can alter audio quality especially with 4ohm speakers. That's why they make stranded cables, and the best stranded cables are individually coated to reduce the skin effect even further.

  12. Re:So it's time to drill? on Life Possible On 'Large Regions' of Mars · · Score: 1

    Yes there are!

  13. Re:Finally, not a scam on Ticketmaster Customers, Get Ready For Your (Tiny) Class-Action Payout · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a complete scam along with most class action lawsuits as the only ones who profit from this are the bloodsucking lawyers!!! Want proof? Ticketmaster is required to pay out $11.25 million in customer refunds, although this could increase based on how many people bother to dig up their tickets from 10 years ago. The two plaintiffs who started this each get 20k. And what do the lawyers get? $16.5 million. Biggest scam on the planet.

  14. Finally! on EU Court Adviser Says Software Ideas Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Some common sense! You can't copyright software on its own! It must be part of a device that you are copyrighting.

  15. Re:Not needed any more on The Political Assault On Los Alamos National Laboratory · · Score: 2

    We dont need to invade, we can just cut off your oil. We supply far more than any other country, and about 25% of the total US imports.

  16. Re:1,382 degrees F on NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating · · Score: 1

    And 1382F implies a precision that isn't there. I highly doubt the process needs to be heated to the exact degree. This is simply a conversion from 750 degrees Celsius. Most likely 750 is rounded and would be +/-5, which is +/-41 F. If they were going to convert then 1380F would have been more informative or even 1400F.

    The act of conversion from on unit to another does not add precision.

  17. Re:The math is even simpler on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    But I bet I still get higher density than the mathematical solution.. Besides, metals expand by maybe 0.2% of volume when melted so the impact is insignificant.

  18. Re:The math is even simpler on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1, Funny

    The math gets really simple if you solve it as an Engineer. The highest packing efficiency and theoretical maximum density can be clearly shown to be achieved if the volume of the spheres added is equal to the volume of the container itself. This can be shown for any number of spheres of any diameter and any size container, assuming no one sphere is bigger than the container itself. The practical engineering solution then gets applied by heating the container so the spheres melt and form a liquid, thus achieving the theoretical maximum packing density.

    Take that math nerds. Boo yeah.

  19. Re:For those of you wondering on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suppose I should expect some irrational number expressed as a power of some rational number to pop up, but 5 seems like such an innocuous number

    Because 5 is the number of points on a pentagram which is the sign of the devil. Any math with 5 or sqrt(5) should be avoided at all costs lest the devil take your soul and you are then stuck being an accountant.

  20. Re:Had to be asked. on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 2

    You mean meatballs?

  21. Re:Had to be asked. on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 2

    For me personally working in computer graphics, packing spheres as tightly as possible into other spheres has practical application in computing efficient bounding volume hierarchies as an acceleration structure for efficient ray tracing

    Well that's easy - just put them all at the same origin. That way they overlap like an onion and occupy only the volume of the largest sphere. Duh.

  22. Re:Haught isn't in favor of creationism on Censored Religious Debate Video Released After Public Outrage · · Score: 1

    I consider myself a Christian but everything you said is just nonsense. Having free will does not equate to sin, nor do we do good deeds solely to please God.

  23. Re:Jeez, what are you doing??? on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    Average per household per year in Canada is 17000kwh. That means I'm just about right on average.

  24. Re:6/kWh on US Funds Aggressive Tech To Cut Solar Power Costs · · Score: 1

    Well I just used my browser to connect to my smart meter. It says 65% of my use is off peak, charged at 5.9c/kWh. 18% is on peak at 10.7c/kWh. Total of about 1400kWh for the month. A little over half of our supply is nuclear. Distribution adds about 30-40% to the bill.

  25. Re:Department of Agriculture on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    Food safety inspections are necessary for public health and welfare, but I would not expect most people to understand that or the need for it.

    Exactly. Which is why people think government regulations are a bad thing until companies are caught doing stuff like adding Melamine to baby milk and dog food so it looks like it has higher protein content. Only when pets or babies die do people get up in arms and demand that their government do something.