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  1. Re: Only if it works on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    A steam turbine requires a thermal sink; usually water cooled condensers, sometimes air-cooled.

    The question in my mind is whether current assertions of energy balance/overunity of Tokamaks includes the thermodynamic waste streams for the generation of the electricity required to run the ohmic and RF plasma heating or not. I haven't found a good answer to that yet.

  2. Just run Windows under a VM on top of some *nix.

  3. Re:Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industr on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Running NoScript; it boggles my mind how many domains are required to get some sites working (particularly MSM sites). Sometimes I just give up on trying to access the content.

  4. Re:Only if it works on MIT Designs Less Expensive Fusion Reactor That Boosts Power Tenfold · · Score: 1

    As all thermodynamic systems require a source _and_ a sink, the cooling requirements are going to be mind-blowing.

  5. Re:Drone It on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    Reply to undo ham-fisted mod.

  6. Are they LEOs on San Bernardino Sheriff Has Used Stingray Over 300 Times With No Warrant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is an apparent law enforcement officer (or group thereof) who is conducting their work illegally, really a law enforcement officer?

  7. Re:Huh? on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    As far as implementing the "universal competency of critical thinking"... I said no such thing and I don't think any sane person would think it is possible.

    You actually did say such a thing. You said...

    Demand that children are COMPETENT in critical thinking...

    Now, words have meaning, you know? The word "demand" tends to mean:

    a forceful statement in which you say that something must be done or given to you.

    The word "children" was used as a collective with no qualifier, which implies universality, at least from the point of implementation of whatever grotesque plan you had in mind.

    Your demand was competency, in capital letters no less. Therefore, you are suggesting that at some point in the future, there is universal competency in critical thinking skills.

    There you have it; that's my critical thinking of your forceful suggestion.

  8. Re:Ohhh, Democrats!!! on Obama: Maybe It's Time For Mandatory Voting In US · · Score: 1

    How will you implement the universal competency of critical thinking? Will that be with the use of enforced education camps?

  9. Re: Uber: It's UBER Safe! on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    The taxi industry's "safety fee" is embedded in the fare and regulatory cost burden. There is also the inference that the regulations provide some guarantee of safety, which is disingenuous also.

  10. Re:With Uber at least there is tracking and identi on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 1

    Oh, the demonstration of humanity. You must be a taxi driver.

  11. Re:The real way to make moonshots on How To Make Moonshots · · Score: 2

    That's the mooney shot.

  12. Re: the establishment really does not like competi on Uber Shut Down In Multiple Countries Following Raids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think they call that "commerce". The drivers are probably exploiting Uber for their own enrichment.

  13. Re:There is other evidence on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if the metabolic wastes of the internal gut flora played a significant role in what nutrients get digested and absorbed and what otherwise would pass through. Perhaps a significant proportion of the nutrients we absorb is not from food, per se, but from the metabolic wastes of gut flora.

  14. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    Residual hand heat on the keypad tends to identify the numbers (and sequence) contained in the PIN. This is easily seen with FLIR cameras (there's an iPhone FLIR adapter available), apparently.

  15. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Capitalism isn't the problem. State-sponsored capitalism is the problem. Those who accumulate the wealth should bear the financial burden of protecting the wealth. Currently, the most egregious accumulations of wealth (by absentee owners) have its protection subsidized by the middle class taxpayers (financing the law enforcement and judicial system) and the general obedience of a polite society (indoctrinated into accepting nebulous property rights, such as IP).

  16. I'm up all night... on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    These regulations were sponsored by Jim Ardis. He was up all night working on this; amongst other things; and now has blood-shot eyes.

  17. Re:FCC on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you sign it with your real name.

  18. Re:If he actually did all that... on Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial · · Score: 1

    People with arrest records and those who might be vulnerable to critical thinking skills tend not to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome quite so readily.

  19. Re:Not over the phone on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 1

    HTTPS/SSL does no protect them from sending the information to an unintended recipient.

  20. Re: Not a laywer. on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 2

    OpenPGP. Signed and encrypted; eliminates unintended recipients from reading the contents; guarantees the sender.

  21. Re: just put a motor on the elevator itself on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    If I were in the elevator, I'd rather it didn't break at all.

  22. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 2

    Knowing that there's an investigation is the key part; Viz. ...or influence the investigation or proper administration... If you pre-emtively design a self-destruct system, you've no knowledge of an investigation.

  23. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 0

    Including all those who inadvertently exceed the speed limit.

  24. Re:What an idiot on Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much" · · Score: 1

    I think you're really talking about a narcissism.

  25. Re: Understand your rights!! on Innocent Adults Are Easy To Convince They Committed a Serious Crime · · Score: 1

    Whether something is asked in a form of a question or stated in the form of an announcement has a big difference to the psychology of the situation. You should have a look at Neuro-Linguistic Programming. While this isn't NLP exactly, it's kinda close.

    Coppers invariably begin fishing encounters with small-talk; as if they're being friendly and courteous. They'll never be explicit about you being detained or otherwise. On the surface, I suppose they are being courteous; except, since I view them as professional predators, I'm aware they invariably have an ulterior motive. A general member of the public, if they have need to stop someone to ask something, will usually express an apologetic tone for their intrusiveness, and thank profusely for your help, even if you couldn't help. Whenever did you encounter such a tone with an LEO? I'm betting never.

    In the instance you relate, the coppers started telling you they were looking for a suspicious person; which is small-talk. You could simply say, "sorry, I don't know that person, I cannot help you." and "Have a good day sirs!". On you go. They never were explicitly detaining you (according to your account), so you should, IMHO, presume they're not. Of course, if they become agitated and edgy, you can always wind back the indifferent assertiveness and go with their flow.

    The political class and their praetorian sycophants have way too much power, simply because power is there for the taking.