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  1. Re:It is weird. Even if it's largely inaccurate. on Chernobyl, In Games and In Real Life · · Score: 1

    Hell, I remember when I was in Paris... I found a catacombs entrance without looking up directions simply because I recalled the intersection mentioned in Deus Ex.

    (heh of course that one was completely wrong once you are down there)

  2. Re:Also credits the dude that keeps it running on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting about those electrolytic capacitors that tend to be clustered around the CPU... those will (eventually) dry and CPU/RAM voltages will begin to fall out of tolerance.

  3. Re:Duck and cover on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    No more than the desk would...

  4. Re:There's a reason books can't be updated on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 2

    Sure, if you're towing an antenna capable of sending a buttload of power with a wavelength measured between 10 and 100 kilometers...

    Those high frequency emissions that any consumer digital device would emit (even when being tortured with a car battery) aren't going to make it very far with any appreciable strength.

    You'd be better off trying to detect the sub by looking for magnetic flux disturbances (eg large conductive object moving within the earth's magnetic field) - they mount them to helicopters.

  5. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 0

    You're not weightless, you're just falling while moving so fast forward you miss the ground.

    Have you ever fallen off of anything from height? Bungee jumping or parachuting perhaps? Then you've already felt it.

  6. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1

    ... until they counter with "well, how high have you been" and you have no answer better than 40,000 feet...

  7. Re:Typcial on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 1

    Port Security.

    There's no "no" to say. "We're sorry, only devices installed by IT can access the network."

  8. Re:Definitely a new low. on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 1
  9. Re:180 nests gone, at 6 nests/monkey/day? really? on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 1

    The catering monkeys can wear that hat too.

  10. Re:Birdpocalypse on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 1

    Dogs are not so good at climbing trees to remove nests.

  11. Re:Talk (concepts) is cheap on Boeing Unveils Cabin Design For Commercial Spaceliner · · Score: 1

    Are you stupid? 600 * $250k = $150 million. That's not chump-change.

  12. Re:Talk (concepts) is cheap on Boeing Unveils Cabin Design For Commercial Spaceliner · · Score: 1

    Oh? Compare the night sky in, say, Los Angeles to that on a mountain in the middle of nowhere on a clear night.

    It's even -better- outside the atmosphere.

  13. Nope. on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, do they want Chrome to be the next AOL?

    No. Show the URL. Start trimming that down and next thing you know we'll be back with keywords...

  14. PC's are not morphing on Figuring Out the iPad's Place · · Score: 2

    Stupid-ass designers are forcing that shit down our throats without our willful participation.

  15. Re:is american like the soviet union? on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    You're making just as large an assumption by assuming access to "fresh, healthy, and affordable food" is actually present in these cases. I'm not trying to claim that I'm an expert on this, or that I have the knowledge required to assert that. You seem to be doing so, however.

  16. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good, when you're not talking about people's lives.

  17. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 1

    A psychopath would be ideal for it. Don't confuse terms. Someone being able to turn off their switch and just do the job is arguably better than someone doing it because it has to be done (and suffering mentally for it)

  18. Re:What's the problem? on Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would prefer the guilty walk free over the innocent being condemned.

    You can't "undo" an execution or imprisonment. The guilty still have a chance at getting theirs.

  19. Re:not only that on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    So, that's why my serum levels were dangerously low despite doing exactly that, and I had to find a sublingual supplement for any respectable improvement to be made?

  20. Re:Why did he do it - and why didn't they ask? on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    This was I4 near tampa during morning rush.

    There was no 80mph going on. More like 5.

  21. Re:Why did he do it - and why didn't they ask? on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    Yep. In fact the Sheriff's radios were disrupted while they approached.

  22. Re:Another valuable investment of tax payer dollar on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    I think driving on it in the morning was punishment enough.... (that's live - check it out during east-coast rush hour)

  23. Re:He wasn't just jamming cell phones on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sheriffs around here (FL) use the 800mhz public safety allocation (digital trunking /w encryption in their case - which requires a good signal to function), and a cell jammer would need to smash that range as well because some networks use frequencies around 800mhz or 850mhz.

    This highlights why jammers are such a bad thing. The spectrum is crowded, and what might be perceived as useless by someone with a jammer might be neighbored by something important.

  24. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    There's a fun sign on the expressway near where I work. It shows a guy behind a wheel trying to collate documents or something while holding a phone to his ear with his shoulder.

    The caption says "Your car is not your office. Focus on the road!"

    I love that sign :D

  25. Re:not only that on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    Sure, and you realize almost all of that is destroyed before you can absorb it? Why do you think the doses are so big?