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  1. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong, stock will melt if left under vehicle curved window in summer. I speak from experience.

  2. Re:I saw this movie on High-Tech Walkers Could Help Japan's Elderly Stay Independent · · Score: 1

    Came for the Robotics Notes reference to Mizuka Irei's prosthetic legs walking her off a cliff, and left hungry

  3. Re:Buried under rubble on Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster · · Score: 1

    How about an "I'm dead" button, cool creepiness factor there.

  4. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a very good theory known for over two centuries to explain heat meaurements, disimilar conductors in an electrolyte form a galvanic cell. Ascribing that to fusion is junk science. Storm seeks popularity and hooplah, never mind his credentials.

  5. Re:There is no such thing as a "safe" fission reac on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    no, you are confused. The worst case is exactly what LFTR addresses and of course its engineers talk about that. Blow a hole in a LTFR reactors, the fuel drains into collection tanks and cools like glass. The salts are chemically stable and don't burn, decompose or explode.

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

  6. Re:Fission is Dead on Fusion and Fission/LFTR: Let's Do Both, Smartly · · Score: 1

    Smarter countries than the USA are racing ahead with smarter U235 reactor designs and thorium reactors. Growing, not dead.

  7. Re:Why Cold Fusion (or something like it) Is Real on The Physics of Why Cold Fusion Isn't Real · · Score: 1

    Reality proves you wrong, Storms only claims it's possible, he has not demonstrated cold fusion. Almost all nuclear chemists and physicists would agree cold fusion is pretty much like trying to crack a bank vault with a boiled noodle.

  8. Re:Don't leave us hanging! on How Curved Spacetime Can Be Created In a Quantum Optics Lab · · Score: 1

    Never. This is is only building a model for something which might not even exists (GR may lose to quantum effects in extremely curved spacetime)

    Title is even wrong, curved spacetime is NOT created by the hypothesised experiments.

  9. Re:Remove It on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 1

    if your system is hacked and they rewrite the binary database logs of systemd, how are you to know?

  10. Re:Remove It on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not FUD, if something wrong you'll never get to the part where you forward to syslog. Logs should be simple text files, that can be read even without the OS. ASCII text is viewable on just about anything

  11. make it option for aunt minnie on Debian Talks About Systemd Once Again · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I could see why a desktop user might want to have such a thing as systemd (not me though), or someone with no admin skills having a canned all-in-one solution for their little business or hobby website.

    But for where Linux dominates, server and embedded systems, I don't believe it fits into the Unix way of doing things and makes admin harder.

  12. Re:The quesiton that interests me on Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 1

    Just lucky, no trees means no lumber means no crosses to be crucified upon.

  13. Re:That's No Moon on Saturn's 'Death Star' Moon May Hide Subsurface Ocean · · Score: 2

    Boom, you're in a trap set to detect when possible competing sentient life in the galaxy arises on Earth. The aliens come and scrub the planet clean of big brained primates. GW Bush and Rush Limbaugh are of course left to live, but there are no women at all.

  14. Re:Timeline! on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Ever feel the stuff? I seriously doubt you could generate enough negative pressure to get it up your nose, it's denser than steel (8.3 g/cm^3 vs 7.75)

  15. Re:Linux never focused on anything on Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux · · Score: 1

    You are silly, Linux manages what goes into the kernel, there is no option of not listening to him for those who contribute code to the LInux kernel

  16. Re:Bitch-ass whiners got their feelings hurt on Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux · · Score: 2

    would Jobs still be alive if he weren't an asshole to whom no one could tell anything?

  17. Re:Torvalds smells! on Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux · · Score: 1

    like Mac OS X?

  18. Re:The language in the old west on Torvalds: I Made Community-Building Mistakes With Linux · · Score: 1

    By your explanation, New York City or Jersey people should have the most refined and polite speech in the USA. That's fucking rich.

  19. Re:Wait, how is this possible?? on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Are you young? You certainly are confused.

    Of course at time of invasion Iraq had old, UN tagged, long-expired weapons. That was never in dispute, Saddam had used some of those on Kurds. What Saddaam did not have was current, ongoing program or functioning weapons; but Bush administration claimed they did.

  20. Re:Are the republicans retarded? on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Are you retarded? Those old UN-tagged long-expired weapons were publically known at the time, you can even find photos of them in news. Those were not the weapons claimed by Bush, he was claiming ongoing active weapons program and functioning maintained WMD.

  21. Re:Timeline! on Pentagon Reportedly Hushed Up Chemical Weapons Finds In Iraq · · Score: 2

    Actually, it's so heavy it's impossible to even get enough up your nose to get heavy metal poisoning...the stuff is pretty much harmless. It's just various uranium oxides made by acids acting on uranium ore, usually made near mine at mill. Can't make a bomb with it: not nuclear, dirty or otherwise. Radioactivity is not a problem, your skin will stop alphas it emits (same as natural uranium). Even eating it to try to get heavy metal poisoning is futile because it's so inert (moreso than metallic elemental uranium) you'll just poop it out. Now if a country has an enrichment facility then yellow cake is a concern.

  22. Re:Walmart on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    In the south side of Chicago blacks have been packing for decades, carry permit be damned. You're funny.

  23. Re:and penguins aren't horses. Your point? on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    false, most modern guns don't give you the choice and will not function with black powder.

  24. Re:Powder is 9th century tech, easy to make on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    No, primers are very hard to make because the chemicals are difficult to make and handle safely.

    Modern powder (excepting for light target loads such as Bullseye(tm) is a mixture of two or more chemicals, not easy to make

  25. Re:This device is not new or interesting on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    No you can not. The barrel and chamber require special machines.