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  1. Re:Saline? on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month · · Score: 1

    I say we define people whose animation is suspended by this technique to BE "zombies" and "the undead"

  2. Re:not FLOWMATIC per se on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    yes, if REENTRANT compiler directive used in Micro Focus COBOL, or RENT directive on IBM COBOL

  3. Re:Yes! on FCC Gets Go-Ahead For Plan To Expand Rural Internet Access · · Score: 0

    you're somewhat confused, the fire and police are done by local taxes. the ambulances are private except for the fire departments.

    the internet is censored, monitored, and not distributed evenly nor even accessible in all places. it is made up of telco equipment of private companies that charge money to their customers. what's "open internet" mean?

    postal service is in constitution but it is not absolutely needed anymore in this era of email and alternative private carriers. those out in the sticks with no internet might need it but the rest of us not so much.

    unemployment benefits are insurance by taxation that people pay into to get benefits, not really socialism

    we have a society but that doesn't mean we need socialism.

  4. Re:For the Americans on Hawaii's Oahu Used To Be a Bigger Island · · Score: 3, Funny

    how many Canadian Imperial Fuckloads is that?

  5. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    indeed, only takes 25MB or so of Java to control a single LED

  6. Re:Europe is pretty fucked up like that on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 2

    so had her cock been smaller than yours it would have been a fine evening?

  7. Re:Ramifications on German Court Rules That You Can't Keep Compromising Photos After a Break-Up · · Score: 4, Funny

    no worries, Germany has a stellar record of never actually falling down a slipperly slope

  8. Re:Godzilla! on Japanese Court Rules Against Restarting Ohi Reactors · · Score: 1

    for something that happened in 1986? why yes, we've waited long enough to notice the three legged children, the massive increase in thyroid cancer, the...oh wait, none of that is happening. you are funny.

  9. Re:but..but.. on Four Weeks Without Soap Or Shampoo · · Score: 1

    lookie there, another virgin who read some urban legend on the internet

  10. Re:Waiter! on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 5, Funny

    well, there's bing, IE 11, widows 8.1 and bing, that's not got much bing in it

  11. Re:Godzilla! on Japanese Court Rules Against Restarting Ohi Reactors · · Score: 1

    41 directly attributable deaths, but four of those from helicopter crash. Worst reactor disaster in the history of mankind and that's a tiny number. Industrial accidents with fertilizer have killed hundreds at a time

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

  12. Re:latest weather event alarmism on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    wrong, hurricanes are not getting worse and worse. In fact, we are having hurricane seasons with less than average activity.

    no evidence of flooding or drought worse than historically normal.

    no evidence whatsoever that wildfires are any worse than normal, in fact the only issue causing big wildfires is man's interference preventing the frequent small ones.

    maybe you should develop some critical thinking skills, and read some history. we have cycles of these events, that is all. but like most internet children, you have the attention span of a gnat

  13. Re:Nope. on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    you are so funny. you need exactly one LED with the words LOAD PAPER over it

  14. latest weather event alarmism on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: -1

    "climate change will make hurricanes worse and worse!", they said in a year with bad hurricanes
    "climate change will make flooding worse and worse!", they said in a year with bad floods
    "climate change will make snowstorms worse and worse", they said in a year with bad snow storms
    "climagte change will make wildfires worse and worse!", they said in a year with bad wildfires

    Climate change must be like the "Ever-so-much-moreso" ingredient in a once-popular children's story. That ingredient was of course snake oil bullshit sold by a scammer.

  15. Re:look, it's the moron AC again on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 2

    you lost the thread pal

    I was talking of "mundane uses" of the integrated circuits that were FIRST used to make computers for space-going (though suborbital) ICBM

    the computers you mention are made non-integrated discrete components, I'm talking about the improvements to computers like integrated circuit technology that were driven by space

    typical anti-space nutter, ignorant of science and technology and the history of either

  16. Re:look, it's the moron AC again on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Leo doesn't count because it uses discrete components only, no integrated circuits.

  17. Re:2.25 MHz, sort of on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 2

    yeah they should have used red mercury instead of mercury in those delay line memory tubes!

  18. Re:Offtopic: on the speed of electricity on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    But there are no true DC currents, real current flow is not of constant amplitude and not of infinite duration in time. Therefore, real DC current in the real world always has EM waves associated with it.

  19. Re:look, it's the moron AC again on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    ICBM go into space.

    Those commecial uses you mention came later after the military use, 1963 and later to be specific.

    And of course many, many other advances in computers driven by the space program since the military use.

    try again, try harder, you're losing the argument

  20. Re:That's ADMIRAL Grace Hopper on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, Rear Admiral, Lower Half. But during WW II, her rank was Lieutenant, Junior Grade. She retired with rank of Commander in 1966. But then returned to service and was promoted to Captain in 1973, and by act of Congress Commodore in 1983. That rank had its name changed to the RA, LH in the 90s

  21. Re:vacuum tube? on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Never heard of klystrons and magnetrons and traveling wave tubes and vacuum flourescent displays? my god you are ignorant of current 21st electrical technology!

  22. Re:Coined the term 'bug' on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    other critters have caused problems in electrical systems, we might be saying a snake or rat or spider.

    in not entirely unrelated concept, we have the molly-guard thanks to the toddler Molly who pushed the big red button on an IBM 4341 at UIUC twice in a day.

  23. Re: Grace Hopper and the Tech Ethos on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 2

    waddaya talking about, see those geek glasses and big honking nose, she wasn't sliding along on beauty, wan't hired for her looks. she got ahead on brains and accomplishment like a true geek icon

  24. Re:Not really on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    I meant didn't do, it did about 2000 ops per second

  25. Re:Not really on Grace Hopper, UNIVAC, and the First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    also, the Univac I did two instructions per clock cycle