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  1. Re:A beam from the LHC can melt a 500kg block of c on Experimental Magnetic Shield Against Cosmic Rays · · Score: 1

    I would guess 100W lightbulbs would do the job.

    350 MJ in 86 us = 4 070 000 MJ in 1 s = 4.07 TW

    40.7 billion 100 W lightbulbs.

    More than 6 each for everyone on earth.

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    But only for 86 us at a time every 10 hours. I get 10 kW for the mean power requirement assuming it is constantly charging. That is only 100 lightbulbs.

  2. Re:Lawyers and clients on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Any non-dictatorial form of government requires rule of law, because the only alternative is rule by someone's whims. Rule of law requires fair trials even to the worst scumbags, because otherwise it can be circumvented by declaring someone a scumbag. Fair trial requires that your defense attorney and everyone else acting on your behalf keep on doing that work to the best of their ability, no matter how many vomit bags they might need to use in the process, because otherwise declaring you scumbag tilts the odds against you, thus circumventing the rule of law.

    Substitute "scumbag" with "witch", "communist", "paedophile", "terrorist" or whatever the latest bogeyman is. Very accurate.

  3. Re:Move to Arizona on Alternatives to Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Think of all the wasted sundials.

  4. Re:absurd on Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    The only notable exception is the same idiot state that brought us George Bush.

    Connecticut?

  5. Re:This type of thing is only going to continue on Spam Flood Unabated After Bust · · Score: 5, Funny

    Surely Joe the Plumber of all people should know how the tubes work?

  6. Re:Compensation? on Android Also Comes With a Kill-Switch · · Score: 1

    According to Computerworld, yes.

  7. Re:Waste Heat reclamation on Google Demands Higher Chip Temps From Intel · · Score: 1

    And when the photons hit a surface, the energy is absorbed. This is by conversion from light to heat. Therefore if you want heat, the light is just a transmission medium.

  8. Re:Shhh... Don't tell the terrorists on Qantas Blames Wireless For Aircraft Incidents · · Score: 1

    But creating an explosive from a bottle of world is trivial!

    You do need a big bottle though

  9. Re:How about other embeded systems? on EU Wants Removable Batteries In iPhones · · Score: 1

    "End of life" when referring to pacemakers is a bit of a different matter from that of an iPod.

  10. And what happened then? on Spammer Perjury is Worth Prosecuting · · Score: 1

    A spammer who lived in Washington appeared in court and claimed that he had never sent the spam in question and wouldn't know how. I then produced a tape recording of another conversation in which I had talked to him on the phone, again pretending to be an interested customer, and he talked about sending the mails from a server in China to make it harder for people in the U.S. to block them.

    Did the defence council object on the basis that you broke Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by not diclosing this information?

  11. Re:Not a patent on the dock on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 1

    With Also sprach Zarathustra playing in the background?

  12. Re:Series of tubes on How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? · · Score: 1

    The NSA might

  13. Re:Obligatory Simpsons: on Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe there should be a department for that or something.

  14. Re:Why on Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken · · Score: 1

    You use it in the sense of "I was mucking around" - you can't "run a muck" - it would have to be a noun there.

  15. Re:Wait, what? on AIDS Virus Now Estimated To Be 100 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Almost 30% of the population of South Africa have HIV.

    I wouldn't say that makes it a homosexual's disease.

  16. Re:Sure it sounds cool/hot. on Web Server On a Business Card · · Score: 1

    Does it even do proper PID control? I have only ever seen on/off thermostats, but I haven't looked that much.

  17. Re:well on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess that could theoretically prevent you from using the SDK again. But that would be all it could even conceivably do.

  18. Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    But the gp's comment was about DRINKING the carbonic acid. By the time it gets processed, it will be gone.

    It is an entirely unrealistic worry. Unless you are trying to drink the water in a CO2 atmosphere, it will come out of solution as soon as it is exposed to the air.

  19. Re:Solve the problem, for pete's sake on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    Ever noticed how soft drinks go flat? The carboNic acid isn't stable at atmospheric conditions - it isn't going to dissolve in water in the first place.

  20. Re:CO2 eaters on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    Okay, you find the appropriate organism and I'll nominate you for a Nobel prize.

  21. Re:CO2 Processing on Germany Fired Up Over Clean Coal · · Score: 1

    That is what they do.

  22. Re:Slashdot- your source for yellow (tech) journal on LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction · · Score: 1

    No - it's being commissioned at the moment. You know stuff is going to go wrong - that's why you put it through commissioning first rather than just pressing "ON"

  23. Re:The crossed the line this time on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    Wilson didn't have any nukes though.

  24. Re:What a pity on Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India · · Score: 1

    Well, when the IRA bombed Margaret Thatcher's hotel room and killed five people, they responded by getting a Marks and Spencers to open early to replace the lost clothes. Then continued as normal.

  25. Re:IT needs to serve the customers needs. on Researcher Publishes Industrial Complex Hack · · Score: 1

    The controllers DO use custom code. The HMI uses Windows.