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  1. Re:This tech is going nowhere on The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yup post it anonymously, so you won't be accountable as one of the people trying to derail fusion. Fools like you used to claim space travel and airplanes were impossible because of all the failures that came before it was successful. We have ITER, MagLIF, and loads of other promising concepts left to try.

    Post a proof that fusion is impossible and then maybe we'll listen. You know a proof is something other than "fusion didn't work when we cut the budget by 90%".
    We know fusion is possible not only because the sun is powered by it, but also because the thermonuclear weapons work.

  2. Any proof this is actually happening? on Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California · · Score: 1

    I've never seen or heard of it. I live in California.

  3. Use an escalator or have people sit in chairs on Hajj Pilgrimage Safety Challenges Crowd Simulator Technology · · Score: 1

    Use a wheelchair to wizz them around on a conveyance system. Then hand them a science book and tell them to GTFO. Don't forget, charge them money too. That's always a good way to thin the the crowd. Start charging a fee .. when the Saudis run out of oil it will happen. Then you could have some rock star throw concert on top of the rock. But anyway not to distract from my idea of having the crowd sit in open air train carriages or wheelchairs as they are automatically taken on their pilgrimage. Yes it means they might get fat but remember these are psychos who believe in religion -- fat is the least of their problems.

  4. Shocked on Kids Prefer To Play Games On Mobile Devices Over Consoles · · Score: 1

    I'm shocked. I really had no idea. Seeing kids locked into their mobile devices 24/7 did nothing to clue me in.

  5. woooh technology is out to git ya on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Technology is very bad. Fool. Technology is gonna git ya. Fool. I'm telling you, we don't know what technology will do next .. therefore let's try to stop it. Let's stop evolving. Are you a fool who panics when something goes wrong because you don't understand a system and think all problems are unsolvable because you yourself can't think of how to solve them? Well then technology isn't for you. Technology is bad. You don't know nothing about technology, so it means technology will always be bad. Because if a fool like you can't solve it, it must mean non-fools can't come up with a solution either.

  6. A 5-7km size asteroid? How would you house it in a space ship efficiently? You would need some sort of spherical spaceship. It might look like a moon from a distance, but what would aliens think as they got close to it?

  7. Re:Very loose interp. of the 2A ? on Counterterrorism Expert: It's Time To Give Companies Offensive Cybercapabilities · · Score: 1

    Under the castle doctrine you can't attack someone who is not on your premises or engaged in an attack. They have to be either in your castle or attacking it. Furthermore, if they are attacking from outside .. you can't fire haphazardly hurting bystanders. When you hack back, you could very well end up flooding networks and slowing the internet for everyone.

  8. Evidence on Counterterrorism Expert: It's Time To Give Companies Offensive Cybercapabilities · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's look at something nobody does, which is look at evidence. OK, I know that sounds like a bad idea .. but anyways .. RIAA, MPAA, and SPA already does this exact same thing. They have ruined lives for no reason. What happens when the company hacks back and causes more damage than what was stolen? We don't let the victims decide punishments. If victims could decide punishment even petty thieves would be murdered. If you think that sort of draconian punishment helps a society, then you probably want to move to Saudi Arabia or ISIS.

  9. Where's the CIA on this? on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 1

    If we had an intelligence agency that was actually trying to win this war, they would be doing operations like this times 100. Unfortunately we don't. The CIA doesn't even bother to call and ask for information from people who were kidnapped by and escaped from ISIS. At a minimum the CIA should at least act like some of the people going over there are agents and spies, then there would be division within ISIS since they wouldn't be able to trust each other. Psychological operations like that cost no money and have no attached risk .. yet our agencies can't be bothered to do it.

  10. The bad news on Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code · · Score: 2

    6000 lines of code, that's the good news. The bad news is that it's written in perl and makes heavy use of regular expressions.

  11. Re:Neutrino detector on Analysis: Iran's Nuclear Program Has Been an Astronomical Waste · · Score: 1

    Sorry the subject of parent says muon detector .. I meant neutrinos.

  12. Muon detector on Analysis: Iran's Nuclear Program Has Been an Astronomical Waste · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whenever a fission reactor operates, it produces neutrinos. In fact, high grade fissile material can produce it too. Neutrinos are also impractical to shield against. It has been known and proposed for some time that if we built a network of neutrino detectors for about $10 billion we would be able to monitor and prevent anyone including ourselves from building nukes, anywhere. Yeah ourselves too, so gee I wonder why nobody is funding it.

    If you dont believe me just google these three words: neutrinos fission reactor

  13. Promising what? on Weather Promising for Sunday Morning SpaceX Launch · · Score: 1

    What is the weather promising? A hurricane?

  14. Pluto was on away at the time on Why Didn't Voyager Visit Pluto? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pluto was on away on a planetary midgets conference.

  15. Ownership on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    In the future, money will be made by owning things. Wait, I am sorry that's not just the future that's how it has always been. If you don't own property, or part of a company, or some intellectual property. There is no money in work, unless the work is generating property for you. In the future as robots do most of work .. it will be even harder to get income without having investments.

    Instead of worrying about unemployment, government should worry about the uninvested. Government can tax the factories and give out shares to the uninvested, so they casn get dividends and live off that. If you won't have any investment, how do you expect to retire? Oh yeah by investing in social security. Not bad.

  16. Re:NSFW on Adam Nimoy "For the Love of Spock" Documentary On KickStarter · · Score: 1

    NSFW? In this context you must mean Nude Super-sized Fat Women.

  17. Re:Not the link you're looking for... on Adam Nimoy "For the Love of Spock" Documentary On KickStarter · · Score: 1

    What are you like on a high meds day?

  18. Fail on Toshiba Introduces a Cortana Keyboard Button For Windows 10 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you need to press something to activate voice control, it has already failed.

  19. It's transparent on Amazon Publishes Opaque Transparency Report · · Score: 4, Funny

    They made it transparent so you can see its total opacity.

  20. Affirmative Action on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 1

    Is taxing foreign goods like affirmative action for inefficient workers? I mean seriously people talk about reverse discrimination and then they are willing to discriminate? How is that even possible?

  21. What? on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 1

    If someone else is willing to work for less than you, why do you want to force me to hire you? You are preventing the product from being made cheaper just by your existence. How is that a contribution to the world? At least the business owner is making something useful.

  22. win32 really? on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 1

    I don't see nowhere in the article where it says win32. Maybe you talking about win64?

  23. Jesus on Scientists Discover Sawfish Escape Extinction Through "Virgin Births" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sawfish must be a lot smarter than humans since they didn't form a nonsensical religion around it.

  24. More needed to be used as a heart valve on New Alloy Bounces Back Into Shape 10 Million Times And Counting · · Score: 1

    Ok lets say it has to be a permanent heart valve.

    For math ease, let's say a heart beats at 60 beats per minute (once per second .. though average resting heart rates are usually a little faster than that).

    So to calculate how many days it will take to go through 10 million cycles we do Number of cycles / (Hours in a day x Minutes in an hour x Beats in a minute) = 10,000,000 / (24 x 60 x 60) = 10,000,000 / 86,400 = 115.74 = about 116 days .. nearly 4 months.

    So unless they can get say 100 million or more out of it I don't think this will find much use outside of a temporary heart valve.

  25. Re:Then let us sue the government! on Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Patent Troll · · Score: 1