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  1. Re:No, he's not being a jackass on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The FCC enforces on a case-by-case basis. Unless someone has turned this situation (this SPECIFIC apartment being this close to a transmitting antenna) to the FCC, then chances are that they have no idea the situation even exists.

    Most urabn cell phone towers have a 20W average power (100W in rural areas), since they want a large coverage area the gain will only be 3dB (parabolic dish 25 dB gain) at 6 meters with a 100W power source and 25dB of gain the power density is 6.7718 mW/cm2 using typical numbers 20W 3dB 6 meters the power density is 0.0086 mW/cm2 the "safe exposure level" for 2.4 GHz as defined by national association for amerature radio is 30 mW/cm2 for uncontrolled and 100 mW/cm2 for controlled. A cell phone with 3W 2.2dB of gain (diapole) at 1 inch would have a power density of 61.4108 mW/cm2.

  2. Re:undefinitized contracts on The Difficulty of Dismantling Constellation · · Score: 1

    T&M can have the same problem most of the time they are funded in stages so cost can be controlled.

  3. Re:undefinitized contracts on The Difficulty of Dismantling Constellation · · Score: 1

    If it was a T&M contract it would be easy to track cost, all charges made by an employee are to a specific charge code which gets billed to the customer. The government requires a certain level of accounting practices for contracts to be awarded keeping track of money is not a problem. The problem is that the project simply can't be stopped immediately, NASA would own everything and will need to collect it, this means everything has to be inventoried and shipped most companies will charge for the space all the equipment is taking up as well as all expenses from inventory and shipping. Then NASA gets everything and has to account for everything and either store or destroy it.

  4. Nice Guys Finish Last on Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 1

    If your neighbors are assholes holding hands and singing ain't going to happen, it's best just to grow a pair and tell them if you don't have the balls create a login page to your hotspot that plays the recording of you neighbors having sex, or pictures of dog shit from your neighbors dog, just make sure your shit is in-order before you do.

  5. Re:Options on Space Junk Getting Worse · · Score: 1

    But then space will be weaponized, no matter how much space junk you promise to clean up it still will be able to kill live satellites.

  6. Re:Stupidity of leadership... on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 1

    It would be best if the Feds were simply used as the gopher (not the protocol) and simply told the telecos and other major players that the US in under attack and they will share all information. After all the feds are not responsinble for the net infrastructire the telecos are. Having people trained to handle attacks who understand the teleco's weakness would be redundent since the telecos all ready have people who know them. The feds would be much better at turning the offending country into rubble.

  7. Re:100 million lines? Sure, we will get right on i on NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota · · Score: 1

    Just look at any large software company they have people looking through the code and bugs are still found, if the bug was easy to find TOYOTA would have found it. The last thing we need in NHTSA injecting itself into the coding process.

  8. Re:Troll summary. on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    But the NRC, OSHA, and EPA are overseen by sociopaths (see politicians) as well. Companies lie to make money Politicians lie for money and power, putting your faith in either is foolish.

  9. Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    They don't even need to fund it, there are enough idiots in the world to fund it for them.

  10. Re:Heomeopathy = Placebo on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    Tell that to South American and African cultures still practicing this successfully after ages.

    So your reasoning is that because some "remidity" has been practiced for some time it makes it valid. I hope you have your vodoo doll so that no body can put spells on you.

  11. Re:Absence of Evidence on Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? Climate theory is so primitive right now that it's "disproved" all the time. If climatology were mechanics, we'd be at the "Big rock hurt more than little rock" stage.

    I would like to disprove your rock theory, a large pumice stone will hurt less then a smaller granite stone when thrown at equal speeds. Now I just need some grad students to test my theory on.

  12. Re:Absence of Evidence on Debunking a Climate-Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    There are many questions that have not been addressed or poorly addressed that have a significant factor on Global temperature change. The first is the sun finally GW scientists are conceding that the sun plays a factor it's probably just a coincidence that this happened in a period of cooling. The next thing is the island effect while many have tried to study it, the problem is that weather stations have been moved during the urbanization of that area, so much of that data is inconclusive. Finally is cloud cover which also has not been studied as to the effect it plays this is a significant factor because cloud cover will increase with temperature so finding a CO2 correlation is even more difficult. All these variables remain unsolved yet there is a consensus on manmade GW. Most reasonable people would look at those factors and say that while increases in CO2 levels should cause a rise in global temperature there is not enough evidence to correlate the increase in CO2 levels with temperature change.

  13. Re:Step 1. on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    Yeah but the only sport is Hockey which they're not even good at.

  14. Re:To be fair on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 0, Troll

    The kid needs to shut his mouth they have a slam dunk case anything he says can only hurt his case.

  15. Re:Still can't, on School Spying Scandal Gets Even More Bizarre · · Score: 1

    Because the computer was the school's computer they probably had a remote desktop program on it, which is useful to patch, update, and troubleshoot the computer. Having those tools on the computer is not a problem it's how they were used that is the problem.

  16. Re:Move to Canada on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add the higher income taxes, for a family of 4 the average income income tax in Canada is 21.5% while in the US it's 11.9%.

  17. Re:High Deductible Insurance on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Get a High Deductible Insurance plan and an Health Savings Account.

    The only problem with a HSA account is the Obama's health plax axes HSAs and flex spending accounts, now why if health care is a right would Obama eliminate a system where people didn't have to pay taxes on the money used for health care.

  18. Re:Ill placed worries on New Plan Lets Top HS Students Graduate 2 Years Early · · Score: 1

    I could see your point if the students were going away for college but their not, mommy and daddy will be able to tuck junior in bed every night.

  19. Re:What's more fun than shooting fish in a barrel? on I Use Twitter, Please Rob Me · · Score: 1

    Depends on where you call home.

  20. Re:Why does there always have to be a bad guy? on Lego Creating Multiplayer Online Game · · Score: 1

    So you want Lego Sims

  21. Re:When do people get this on 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory · · Score: 1

    RAM is wasted when it isn't in use. The fact that the task manager in Windows says your RAM is used 95% tells nothing, and no it won't "result in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks".

    While there are approaches using virtual memory that will limit the slow downs, the data still has to come form the HD even SSDs are not faster then ram. Grandma checking her email may not notice but data processing and other memory intensive functions need memory and putting in on a HD will slow things down.

  22. Re:So Ignorant It Hurts on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    No matter how strong evolution's case it still conflicts with the bible banger's beliefs and forcing their children to believe something else is just as bad a ramming creationism down everyone's throat. A government agency should not tell children that their religious beliefs are wrong that is what separation of church and state are for. It's not a matter about who is right or wrong but a matter of religious freedom unfortunately evolution vs creationism creates a paradox where even though creationism is wrong they still have a right to believe it and the government should not force them or their children to believe otherwise.

  23. Mac Clone on The Worst Apple Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    Why isn't the mac clone line on here that was the largest disaster in Apple.

  24. The Snuggie on The Worst Apple Products of All Time · · Score: 1

    A product can only be bad if it doesn't sell. No matter how worthless the functionality is, if a product generates a lot of sales and thus a lot of profits, it is a success from a business point of view.

    So you think the snuggie was not a bad idea, it's high sales are a direct result of how awful it is. The Phantom Menace was a great product according to you because of how well it did in the box office it's single day (Wensday) nearly beat Titanic's weekend gross. Bad products can be popular, just because the masses purchase a product does not indicate that product is good or lacks suckyness.

  25. Re:So Ignorant It Hurts on Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War · · Score: 1

    All men and women are created equal. Everyone has a right to practice what religion they so choose. So keep your religious crap out of our public schools.

    If only it were that easy. Teaching evolution can be interpreted as religious crap, no matter the facts, in comes into conflict with the creationist beliefs and as you said they have a right practice their religion, the Texas board has chosen the approach of including both in text books because they don't want to deal with the headaches of leaving out one or another. Their only other choice is to leave out subjects that offend groups which is just as stupid.