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  1. Re:This is how you create regulatory scrutiny on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    The regulations were there already, they were broken. The scrutiny happened. Offenders were caught. It's a good thing. You have no point.

  2. Re: Ion Thruster on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's a good place to learn of effects of living in a large can in space, weightlessness in space, etc.

    I know, back in 1970s we were all promised huge 2 km+ diameter spinning toroidal space stations built by solar power smelting from lunar rock and catapulted to assembly point....well that will take another century or so, real world space travel is hard.

  3. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 2

    I don't run Ruby on my embedded stuff. But you made me curious, so I just looked at rss of a 3 liner Ruby program that loops with a sleep, 4864 pages or 19.5MB. I also happen to know from experience that a Ruby forking daemon that does web-like or smtp-like stuff will use up 100MB.

     

  4. Re:What about the GPU? on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    That is the problem with the Pi's, the GPU is the main processor so booting has to get that going before the ARM is online. Comm with some devices is only through the GPU / The Blob. That keeps some very nice lightweight open source OS from running on it.

  5. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not everyone is a click and point GUI weenie, why don't you just buy a windows phone to run your .crapNET Studio bloatware?

  6. Re:Python 3 has been a great success. on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    You are funny, we don't use Ruby where I work. Plenty of Python 2.5 and 2.6 there though.

    Ruby I just use for personal things, it's fun.

  7. Re: planned? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Sad news for you, old neckbeard:
    1. You are not little.
    2. You are not a girl.
    3. When Republican taps their foot in the stall next to you at the bus stop, the service that they paid you to perform is not considered rape.
    4. Filing a police report was not wise, you are considered to have 'solicited'

  8. Re:Aussie gun laws. on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 2

    Reading how the events went down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... , one person with concealed carry could have stopped that deranged person with history of violence LONG before the body count went to double digits.

  9. Re:Python 3 has been a great success. on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    ha, never seen anyone use Python 3. Python 2.x frameworks are huge and everywhere though

  10. Re:Enjoy years of splitting between 5 and 6 on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    your saying someone would take the time to rewrite piles of perfectly working code? Nope, backwards compatibility is one thing more open source projects should learn to value.

  11. Re:The DEA is just doing their job on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Or a dictator head of state died and things went "apeshit" for a while in 2013? Yes, I admit there may well be reasons that have nothing to do with gun control at play there, but if so then that country is a lousy example to use by the poster to whom I was replying.

  12. Re:The DEA is just doing their job on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Except guns are not illegal in Australia! Certain types of guns are now illegal as on 1996, but types of rifles, shotguns, and pistols (for IPCC match shooting, .38 / 9mm or less caliber) are legal. Over 5% of Australians own a gun.

  13. Re:Perl is more expressive on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Nah, a programming langauge needs to be well designed, by an engineer type, so the clean and expressive way comes out naturally without a dozen hard to read and difficult to maintain variations.

    Lines.sort_by! { |hsh| hsh[:Name] }

  14. Re:15 years. That the new :O ==8 operator on Perl 6 In Time For Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    No, Larry and co. screwed around for 15 years, trying to throw in everything and the kitchen sink, and made a badly designed hodge-podge of a mulligan stew. And Perl 6 still isn't done. The world has moved on, only legacy code in Perl 5. Perl 6 is doomed if it even comes out, nothing of note will be done with it.

  15. sensationalist headline on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    so some random brain-fart email was sent, never acted upon, and this gets blown up into "planned to track owners"

    If someone wants to have a serious discussion of the decades of problems the DEA has caused legitimate gun owners, and how they've armed murderers and cartel thugs, let's have a different article series. But I doubt anything would be approved as "story" on this site, it's fading into a place where people just cut and paste "news" from other sites instead of writing original material with sources. Just clickbait tabloid trash site now, how sad.

  16. Re:The DEA is just doing their job on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 5, Informative

    You are a liar.

    Venezuela's gun murder rate went UP after guns outlawed in 2012, from 68 per 100,000 to 79 per 100,000 in 2013.

    Let's talk about another hispanic country that made guns illegal except for those who have signed paper by minister of defense, Mexico. A real crime free paradise there since citizens aren't allowed to have guns, eh?

  17. Re:Ion Thruster on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    many parts of the ISS were built using Space Shuttle

  18. Re:track record on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 1

    there is no message if people don't react with hysteria and just elect yet another politician. really, there is essentially infinite supply, an easily replaceable and interchangable commodity

    President of the US doesn't really "lead the free world" either, sorry. The existence of "the free world" doesn't begin or end or depend on a mere politician. The Free World is the people. The USA is We the People.

  19. Re: No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, nuclear reactors used in spacecraft have re-entered and crashed without issue already. Engineer a reactor to withstand such an accident, problem solved

  20. Re:And this is why burning Uranium is stupid... on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Wrong, look it up, depleted uranium (definition, U-235 content 0.3%) can indeed be used SOLEY as a nuclear fuel in the proper type of reactor. So can natural uranium.

  21. Re:And this is why burning Uranium is stupid... on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    You are wrong, even depleted uranium can be used in the proper type of reactor as nuclear fuel, and to breed fissionables out of things like thorium. In short, the earth will not run out of fissionable fuel.

  22. Re:Not gonna happen. on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    haha, meant no way, can't be done without hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure.

  23. Re:Not gonna happen. on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    no, a dirty bomb is not a nuclear bomb. Spraying radioactive material around is not the definition of a nuclear bomb.

    What "raw stuff" are you referring to, spent nuclear fuel? There is way for common person or terrorist to refine that.

  24. Re:Ion Thruster on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    You ignore anything that doesn't involve a man in a tin can? NASA's accomplishments in the past 30 years are huge, leading space exploration.

  25. Re:track record on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 1

    nonsense, politicians are as disposable and replaceable as toilet paper. we need to quit making the presidency some kind of royal position. other countries aren't so crazy about protecting their popularity contest meat puppet. A twin engine 777 is fine