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  1. Re:let me tell you WHO will take your rights away on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    so you're basically talking about women who always have had a man provide and protect them?

  2. Re:Illinois tried last week. on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    my .380 (9x17mm) PPK has a 7 round magazine. Too winpy? well, my P-38's magazine holds 8 rounds. that's close, isn't it?

  3. Re:Hmm on Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD · · Score: 2

    no, there is still Eta Carinae 7800 light years away, and if it is part of binary system there is non-zero chance the pole might be oriented at earth when it blows. That would produce ten times lethal dose for anything on that side of Earth when it goes. It is near the end of its life and could hypernova at any time.....

  4. lose of water wouldn't happen for that long. my cousin used to work in the water works in large midwestern city, that shit can run with or without computers. in the suburb where I grew up, they still have the switches for the water work's pumps roped off, because they're fucking knife switches from the 1930s and you can electrocute yourself to death by touching the contacts. you can really hack those with your scada rootkit, NOT!

  5. Re:We've been down THIS road enough on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1

    on the other hand, computer systems that design computer systems are a done deal

  6. Re:You have to start somewhere. on Why Ray Kurzweil's Google Project May Be Doomed To Fail · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that passes for intelligence in college, so what's the problem? most people on the street don't even have "book smarts", they're dumber than a sack of shit

  7. companies such as siemens have plants in India and China, sure, but look where else they have plants to make generators and turbines, etc. USA, Europe, south america...

  8. false, china did not make the generators, U.S. and Japanese companies did

  9. nonsense, the very worst you can do "hacking" a nuclear power plant is trip the reactor offline. that's even the worst that can happen if terrorists take over the contorl room. why? because their are safety systems OUTSIDE the realm of computer controlled systems that are mandated. sorry about your TV and Hollywood fueled fantasies, but having been engineer in the field reality is you cause inconvenience and that's all.

  10. true, but I was just giving specific examples. but again, who has died thus far? wouldn't "the terrorists" have done it if it were possible. reality is you cause inconvenience by messing with SCADA systems, the engineers already put in other safegaurds to any halfway well designed system. for example, "hack" a nuclear power plants systems (or even manually manipulate the controls in the control room) and the very worst you can do is trip the plant offline and piss of the stockholders for downtimes. that's alll you can do.

  11. Re:Brain on a stick on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    "false" is not the issue, that is from the realm of philosophy and of no import. a scientific model is USEFUL for predicting behaviour of natural phenomenon or it is NOT USEFUL. there are several quantum mechanical models that are very useful. you are presently using devices engineered with useful quantum mechanical models. scientific experiment has shown other quantum mechanical models to be useful.

    Interestingly, there have been recent astronomic observations in the realm of the intersection of quantum mechanics and GR, and more to come. We will soon see if Hawkings model is USEFUL or not

  12. Re:Brain on a stick on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    all systems of mathematics are

  13. Re:Brain on a stick on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 1

    all of the commonly used and useful quantum models also do exactly those things

  14. not worse on Kaspersky Says Cyber Weapons "Cleaner" Than Traditional Weapons But "Much Worse" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    defacing websites? taking down SCADA systems of those stupid enough to internet connect them? who has died as direct result of cyber crime?

  15. Re:So people are mean in places with lower octane on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 1

    kids these days. resistance to detonation DOES in fact mean how much it can be compressed before detonation (compressibility).

      "leaded" gasonline, with tetraethyllead, does have higher energy content and higher octane number. just because you live in the era of the idiocracy, with ethanol, you think higher octane always indicates less power. octane number says nothing about energy density in itself.

  16. Re:So people are mean in places with lower octane on America's Real Criminal Element: Lead · · Score: 1

    absolutely wrong. Octane number is not a measure of energy content, only anti-knock (compressibility before detonating). It is possible to raise the octane number while lowering energy content (e.g. ethanol), and also to raise the octane number while raising energy content (TEL)

  17. Re:Brain on a stick on Intel To Help Stephen Hawking Communicate Faster · · Score: 2

    Hawking was the first to make a cosmological model by unifying general relativety and quantum mechanics. That's not easy, Einstein couldn't do it.

  18. Re:but on Intel Demos Optical Data Transfer For Servers · · Score: 1

    my computer has a clock line, and bus lines..

  19. Re:rob this person for guns here on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    that's one 2007 survey, there are others with switzerland and finland at the top (maybe the phrase "privately held" is qualifier that makes difference in your suvery?)

    anyway, why are the states with the highest per capita guns
      Wyoming (59.7%)
    Alaska (57.8%)
    Montana (57.7%)

    not the cime centers of our country?

    And I say "best" where you say "worst" if your survey is true. Note the people who live in the crime cesspools like chicago, washington D.C. couldn't even have guns until recent supreme court ruling, but they have the violent crime. because of who is there, subcultures where family structure has broken down

  20. Re:Corollary on Bad Grammar Make Bestest Password, Research Say · · Score: 2

    yourplaceormine,bitch?

  21. Re:rob this person for guns here on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    and of course, there are places in the world with even more guns per capita but less crime. so the problem can't be guns just as it can't be race in itself.

  22. Re:rob this person for guns here on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    quite true, those people are in a different subculture. over here in the USA, we have certain inner city subcultures that are violent. Obviously, the problem isn't race, but of course I did phrase things to provoke response and hopefully thought.

  23. Re:irony on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    news for you, your first amendment rights have limitations as to hate speech, inciting riots and crime, *privacy* and *harassment*.

  24. Re:Let me be the first to say. on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    you are deluded, the same thing is true in socialist and communist states. hmmm, maybe those "capitalist" pressures are universal.

  25. Re:rob this person for guns here on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    your assertion about Swiss not having ammo is wrong. They can buy it at ranges and gun stores. you are perhaps confused by the "emergency packets" distributed by the government that need strict accounting.

    most all the (non-suicide) gun crime is committed by two (non-european descent) minorities in our population, in inner cities. Take those away from the stats, and an amazing thing happens, our gun crime rate is in line with Europes. (Watch some idiots raise "racist" smokescreen out of my factual observation.