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  1. Re:Just keep them out of my head on Targeted Advertising Coming To Cable TV · · Score: 1

    actually, there was no such episode, however Fox did beam a trailer into people's dreams prior to the start of the first season.

  2. Re:Back to the future on Filmmaker Working On Eye-Socket Camera · · Score: 2, Interesting

    yeah, yeah, I saw the "Final Cut". the guy gets killed for what he's got in his head

  3. porn for women on Is Salacious Content Driving E-Book Sales? · · Score: 1

    Really, soap operas and romantic novels have been porn for women for decades.

  4. Re:the good old days of data storage on A History of Storage, From Punch Cards To Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    students learning to code generally didn't punch the sequence number field, sometimes they would lay the cards out the floor in order to re-order a few statements, and let loop starts and conditionals stick out to the side a little. I know, I'm old.

  5. Re:Here we go again on Sheriff Sues Craiglist For Prostitution Ads · · Score: 1

    New York city has had runaways being grabbed for prostitution for decades (and some just voluntarily taking up that profession), way before Craigslist. It will continue to have a problem with or without Craigslist.

  6. Re:Gravity model on Gravitational Waves May Have Been Detected In 1987 · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by this attempt at nailing jelly to a tree. Is that like a car with back-up lights that are so strong they push the car forwards?

  7. Re:In other news... on Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe · · Score: 1

    you're supposed to go *all the way* left to right across one of the three rows of alpha keys to make your password, you lazy git!

  8. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 1

    I'd look at something real, like increasingly acidic ocean and damage it is causing, and act from that rather than any silly model

  9. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    you should be LOL because his meter is showing peak half-cycle voltage when it should be showing average of ripple voltage in that no-load case

  10. Re:another asteroid...another day on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 1

    Rummy wasn't talking about body count. He was wrong in that it has become long and protracted with civil war and insurgency, with foreign powers coming in to supply and to wage war against our soldiers. And more and more division here at home over it.

  11. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    w0h00! better response. little problem though, if you're putting out regulated voltage under load, you'll find you're not able to do 170 VDC anymore.

  12. Re:another asteroid...another day on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 1

    both you people entirely miss the point, Rumsfield was not referring to possible body count (though the real body count of the Iraq war is something over twice the official 100K estimate). And he was very wrong.

    That "war" was mismanaged

  13. Re:another asteroid...another day on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 1

    hide mostly meant "keep officially declared", plenty of early sightings of that bird.

    But very large nukes such as that Tsar bomb can't be put on even the largest of our rockets, just too damn heavy.

  14. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    ah, so you're a theoretical plug-values-into-my-lspice boy. In the real world, you'd lose voltage across the rectifiers and about 10% from capacitor and everything downstream. but I suppose if you ever actually picked up a soldering iron and some wire, you'd fucking electrocute yourself from inexperience.

  15. Re:another asteroid...another day on Small Asteroid To Buzz Earth · · Score: 1

    the U.S. has no such thing, the biggest bomb ever was soviet made

  16. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    that has nothing to do with your statement that 120VAC was somehow equivalent to 170 VDC, it isn't. What is true is that 120VAC has about 340 V peak to peak, or goes to almost 170V about zero. Full -wave rectifying that and putting the charge on a capacitor will not give you 170VDC on the capacitor, it'll give you about 120VDC! And a switching mode power supply is just going to cause power loss due to inefficiency, what does that have to do with saying x VAC is somehow y VDC?

  17. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 1

    but in the case of climate modeling, just as with gravity, we don't even have a useful model.

    In the last 15 years, climate models predicted drought, then more rain, then rain in some places drought in others. stronger hurricanes, same but more hurricanes....in short, climate modeling is a useless money sewer promoted by people seeking to justify their existence, that only a complete idiot would use to make policy. We can't model earth's climate, the system is too complex.

  18. Re:Wow on Solar Panels Reach $1 a Watt · · Score: 1

    you're confused, the 120VAC means the same power is delivered as 120V DC. Anyway, as others have pointed out, must AC devices will not only not work with DC equivalent power, but will just "make heat". Which I find somewhat of an understatement, as you'll get explosion with fireball

  19. Re:The employee responsible is SO toast. on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    you're ignorant of how aircraft are designed. they MUST be and ARE designed on networked CADD / CAE systems. Welcome to the late 20th and early 21st century.

  20. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 2, Informative

    you're deluded, most of the results of modern physics are in fact statistical. Every new particle "found" in the last few decades was in fact just a statistical clustering of results that conformed within statistical margin to model being tested. And our physics most certainly does NOT describe all that is known. For example, we don't have a gravity model that can be verified. We don't know if the Standard Model will hold at higher energies. We don't know how many dimensions the universe has. We don't know why high temperature superconductors work. And the list goes on and on.....

  21. Re:The employee responsible is SO toast. on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    specifically, the network engineer that set up their routers and firewalls should be toasted, medium well on a spit

  22. Re:CO2 causes Global Warming? on Is Climate Change Affecting Bushfires? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Science is a human endeavor and subject to limitations of humans. There is one thing that has and will continue to often trump and cause the revising of science:

    reality

  23. Re:Poor kamikazes on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I almost did, but now you've reminded me again. aw crap.

  24. Re:I won't believe its alive until ... on Florida Lab Gets Pregnant · · Score: 1

    obviously, a scientist that an albino retriever leg humped

  25. Re:Once again... BFD on Confusion Reigns As Analog TV Begins Shutdown · · Score: 1

    when I went to flat CRT the images looked concave for a while, brain must have built a compensation neural net.....