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  1. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 1

    with today's news the situation gets even funnier for the Obama / Feinstein talking points of going to anti-"assualt rifle" and federal background checks... perp used a shotgun (just like Joe Biden reccommended!) and moreover had fed background check for his contractor job (passed even with all his previous bad behaviour).

    Someone play Barack and the bitch (who built her millions on exporting assualt weapons while serving on committeee that authorized the same) the sad trombone

  2. Re:doesn't fit the stereotype and sound bites on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 1

    oh my, now it turned out perp didn't even use an AR-15, instead he used a shotgun just like Joe Biden said every American should use for home defense.

    passed federal background check for his contractor job too, maybe those wouldn't make a dent in gun crime?

  3. Re:How to make a battery on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    You need some remedial physics. A metal is mostly nucleons by mass and by simple count. Electron movement is always due to work being done on them. In this situation the metal and electrolytes are supplying energy which is equivalent to performing the work (work-energy equivalence). Yes, I'm a physicist.

  4. doesn't fit the stereotype and sound bites on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 0

    preliminary research indicate the shooter was registered Democrat, Obama supporter, muslim and gay. Obama's teleprompter is going to drill a hole in the ground with the spin job.

  5. Re:Will the cost be a barrier? on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 1

    yes, and firing that clay is very energy intensive.

  6. Re:Please Leave the Gun Rights Debate Out Of This on Reddit Bans Subreddit Dedicated To Finding Navy Yard Shooters · · Score: 0

    Compared to what? Japan where more people are murdered by their own hand? Syria? North Korea? Mexico?

  7. Re:Slashdot Think on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    I'm merely watching you dig a hole for yourself

  8. Re:Will the cost be a barrier? on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 2

    do tell, what "natural materials" are suitable for making a stove that don't require massive amounts of energy to modify for the purpose? If you are going to suggest a giant clay stove I'll laugh at you, they exist but only in places in no need of this article's stove, for an excellent reason.

  9. Re:Simpsons already did it... on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 2

    Enclosed stove with a stack and convection-based oxygenating of fuel, been done for thousands of years in various places in asia and africa. I swear, I get tired of reading of "innovations" that seem to be rediscovered every decade of my 50 years, but this is even more annoying.

  10. Re:We already hae better stoves on Engineers Aim To Make Cleaner-Burning Cookstoves For Developing World · · Score: 1

    nonsense, there are "traditional stoves" that look just like your 2nd picture. Designed by smart people who had a culture where they could pass good ideas along.

  11. Re:Clarification? on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    sure it would work grandly, but the metals would be eaten faster.

  12. Re:this is exactly what we needed! on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 2

    yes, we can call these electrolytes with dissimilar metals in them a "power cell", and if we make a group, a battery, of them to get either higher potentials or more current , we could call them.......batterized cells? hmnmm, maybe a single word could convey the meaning.....??

  13. Re:How to make a battery on Intel's Wine-Powered Microprocessor · · Score: 1

    It certainly is not the electrons, those are the things being powered, having work done on them. the metals and electrolyte are doing the work

  14. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    funny, another group of people went through something worse than that for much more than 100 years, and do much better than most. their culture and mindset made a difference

  15. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    call it anything you want, point is throwing money at that issue has not solved anytihng

  16. Re:The world oldest job. on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    That's just an engineering problem, it will be solved.

  17. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    The "chiners", as you call them, value education and hard work, like white people used to do. And as blacks should do. Go ahead and call me racist, for wanting people to have a good education and and opportunity to use it.

  18. Re:OLPC on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One basic education in reading, writing, arithmetic, speaking and science per child, using paper and pencil and no computers, would be a superior solution. That's all the education I had as child. I've had no difficulties putting computers to work on engineering, financial, and scientific problems since then. What a fallacy, to think children need "computer skills"; they need thinking skills.

  19. Re:3.3 million down the drain on No Child Left Untableted · · Score: 1

    How is the education in such communities now? Have you heard a black teacher from the south side of Chicago speak on TV? They only use one vowel (a schwa?) and horrible grammar. Throwing money at the problem has not solved anything.

  20. Re:The world oldest job. on 45% of U.S. Jobs Vulnerable To Automation · · Score: 1

    no, sexbot already exist, just not common yet

    automation of the human brain will be last

  21. Re:Difference? on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 1

    not very quickly, the pressure is a couple percent over atmospheric. it gets even more interesting with airships with their multiple chambers, an airship 600 tested by UK DERA took *several hundred* rounds of automatic gunfire and still floated for a couple hours.

  22. Re:Difference? on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 1

    now that's a funny question, only because the answer is long distance trips with helium were done over half a century ago and it was boring and common long before most slashdotters were born. the craft usually had mulitple chambers so not a single "balloon". So there is indeed nothing new here,

  23. Re:waste of helium. on Man Trying To Fly Across the Atlantic On Helium Balloons · · Score: 2

    sure it escapes but there is not a net loss, there is gain. 50 grams of helium leave while 67 grams are added to the atmosphere every second ,the concentration is slowly going up. but even with no replenishment the 3.7 billion tons of helium in the atmosphere would take a very long time to drop to 10% of its current value, tens of millions of years (rate would drop as concentration lowers)

    As far as extraction, just pointing out the helium is not going away so as last resort could be reclaimed though hugely expensive energy-wise.

  24. Re:Better technologies out there on Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon · · Score: 2

    That's because of the efficent use of bits by the kernel. All non-random stuff fed in gets further sorted to zeroes and ones, and the ones inverted to zeros. Those zeros are then fed out of /dev/zero, while the random stuff goes out /dev/urandom

  25. Re:No on How To Turn Your Pile of Code Into an Open Source Project · · Score: 1

    said your mother