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  1. Re:Is this even practical? on Flying the Airbus A380 · · Score: 1

    The video of that jacket being tested with the destruction of an engine was quite impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j973645y5AA

  2. Re:Actually... on CPR Not as Effective as Chest Compressions Alone · · Score: 1

    I would have shit myself then and there if that had happened to me. Funny how the brain works sometimes.

  3. Re:that sounds awesome! too bad its wrong on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    I've seen a marine diesel than used main valve solenoids. The failure rate and replacement cost was quite a show stopper apparently. I can't for the life of me remember the make of the engine at the moment.

  4. Re:1000psi is no problem on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The thought of having petrol under high pressure in an engine bay concerns me a bit. One fitting failure/debris impact and the bay will quickly fill with atomized fuel.....charming thought. I've been involved in the rebuilding of an engine room on a vessel that had burnt out from the result of pressurized rail failure. The result of that was over a million dollars in damage from a liquid that is vastly less volatile than petrol. I'd hate to see what the result from petrol would have been like.

  5. Re:Check out the 07 MINI - it has this stuff alrea on A New Lease On Internal Combustion · · Score: 1

    Ethanol is more volatile than diesel I believe and might compression ignite more readily than the diesel which would require it to be injected very late after TDC in turn negating the cooling effect it would have to the chamber. But it would work as you said it would if some other substance exists that would have a higher octane than the diesel.

  6. Re:Same problem on Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries · · Score: 1

    Most reasonable people should be able to discern the difference between fair post developing (as per your links) and forgery. It is actually very rare for a raw negative (film or digital) to go straight to print without being processed to some degree. Particularly with digital Raw where the format inherently records as much information as possible in which post processing is needed to improve the tonal balance etc of the final print. I'm not having a dig at you or anything, this is the subject that has been exhaustively discussed over the years and most people tend to agree that normal post work is acceptable.

  7. Re:Walk the Walk. on Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site · · Score: 1

    Someone please mod this dude up. Sensational comment.

  8. Re:MacGyver would be proud. on Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? · · Score: 1

    Excellent reply there, mate.

  9. Re:Usurpers on Music Execs Think DRM Slows the Marketplace · · Score: 1

    You know, I bet you are one kinky bastard in real life.

  10. Re:Horseshoe racket on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken · · Score: 1

    I could actually hear the sound of that one going whoosh over your head from where I am sitting on the other side of the world.

  11. Re:All DRM implementations will be broken. on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Protections Fully Broken · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was thinking along the lines of having the hardware on a platform in the middle of an aquarium surrounded by sharks with fricken tasers on their heads.

  12. Re:Mercury is as much a non-issue as it can be on Geo-Engineering to stop Climate Change · · Score: 1

    I'm a semi-pro photographer and one odd thing I found about the CFL's after I converted my house to them was that the recorded colour temperature from them was much consistently closer to 5000K than most incandescents. So as an unenclosed bulb they are more whiter than normal bulbs. Wish I knew that earlier.

  13. Re:Ok but that brings me back to the 2nd question on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1
  14. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case · · Score: 1

    And yet you so cleverly replied to the wrong parent.... Tool.

  15. Re:Scary on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    Quoting out of context is another angle that many groups like to use. What the Pope said incited sporadic violence around the world, mostly by those that lacked either the intelligence or the impartiality to recognise the statement for what it was; a quote from half a millennia ago that he was using to highlight the need for understanding between religions. This has been pointed out time and time again in various media for quite some time now and yet you still failed to grasp it.

  16. Re:The perfect crime? on Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I couldn't think of anything more fun to have.

  17. Re:Ebay - Where there is a sucker born every minut on How eBay Sellers Fix Auctions · · Score: 1

    I find it bizarre that people have such a hard time with Ebay. I've spent tens of thousands on Ebay (typically engine parts and camera gear) and never once have I've been burnt. It's not because I'm overly skilled in reading people or anything, I think a lot of people let themselves get excited over the item and get target fixation. It's common to see items get bid to death and go way over market value. Also it takes fuck all effort to just scrutinize the seller a little, the wankers are pretty easy to sort out from the pros. In private sales does the seller offer for people to come around and view the item? If so then go and have a look or send a friend. You can actually pay someone to go have a look.




    But you are right, plenty of idiots get hammered by places like this because they can't/won't get their act together and think for a change.

     

  18. Re:Urg - link mangled on Pentium 4 631 Overclocked to 8 GHz · · Score: 1

    The foot ones in Aussie are the ones that make my bloody guts roll.

  19. Re:Undermining Apple? on Music Companies Mull Ditching DRM · · Score: 1

    Come on, mate, what you're really doing is plotting the downfall of Britney Spears. Admit it!

  20. Re:Real evidence... on Listening Robot Senses Snipers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Typical sniper doctrine in urban areas is to layup far back from the window threshold and also camouflage themselves against the background I.E. appropriately coloured blankets. The developers would have no doubt studied sniper doctrines from various forces around the world and would have accounted for this issue.

  21. Re:who's saying that? on Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs · · Score: 1

    Come on, mate. Stop feeding the troll.

  22. Re:Pollution? on The World's Most Powerful Diesel Engine · · Score: 1

    Detroit is beginning to push 4 stroke now. In preparation for 2 strokes eventually falling outside emissions laws I guess. I haven't come across any of their new 4 strokes, but it will be interesting to see as we run a fair number of 4/71's that will be decommissioned soon.

  23. Re:right... I'll buy that bridge... on Demo PS3 Units freeze on Purpose · · Score: 1

    I had a good chuckle from that one, cheers. I'll try that next time.

  24. Re:I, For One on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    What an excellent site, thanks.

  25. Re:I, For One on George Orwell Was Right — Security Cameras Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1
    OK, I'll feed the troll. That, I must say, is some of the most ridiculous shit that I have seen posted here for quite some time. I can't help but notice that you are are of such a spineless nature that you can't even bring yourself to not post AC.

    The UK has a long and varied history, their institution's are born from evolving traditions, not created in one foul swoop of constitution. I'm not saying either is better or worse, but the point is that they are vastly different from each other. Perhaps one day the ranks of nobility will fade to nothing but memory, or maybe they won't. In either case it has little to do with the rule of law. The class divisions in the UK are nothing compared to even thirty years ago. It's changing shape in this regard at a remarkable pace given the historical age of the region. Just because you had a bit of a hard time getting served in a shop (perceived you nature perhaps?) is hardly solid ground onto which to build an argument on the United Kingdoms culture.