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  1. Re:Who's fault is it? on Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts · · Score: 1

    I'm curious. How do you turn over an email account from a parent to a child?
    I'll assume that the parent's info (birthdate etc.) was used to set up the account but the child's name was used.
    How do you get the birthdate corrected once the child is 13 and is allowed to access the account?
    I just made my son (who's 12) a gmail account and used my birthday but if there is a better way, I'd like to know.

  2. Re:Methane emissions not tied to modern warming on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 1

    Me gusta frijoles!

  3. Re:Why don't U.S. carriers also use ski-jump? on Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 1

    Submarines were traditionally named after fish (Flying Fish, Bluefish, Sandlance, Albacore, Tunny, etc.), then people (SSBNs Simon Bolivar, Francis Scott Key, Kamehameha, et al.) then states (SSBNs - Ohio; SSNs - Virginia, etc.) and cities (SSNs - Los Angeles, etc.).
    Seawolf class, of which the Jimmy Carter is a member, is weird in that one (of only three) is named after a state, one is named after a person, and one is named after a fish (the class name).

  4. Re:Take advantage of the effect on Out of Sight, Out of Mind · · Score: 1

    True enough, but avoiding all unpleasant events has the disadvantage of causing one to miss out on pleasant events as well.

  5. Re:Take advantage of the effect on Out of Sight, Out of Mind · · Score: 1

    Better yet, *while the unpleasant event is still in progress*, get up and walk out and go somewhere else. Works for me every time. At least as far as I can remember, it does.

  6. Re:Or maybe on Out of Sight, Out of Mind · · Score: 4, Funny

    He would but he just walked through the door from the bathroom and has forgotten them.

  7. Re:Jesus on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Not a character. More like a FLIR camera in your backyard. And you get to keep it. A cool toy.

  8. Re:You know what this means, don't you? on Scientists Create World's Smallest Steam Engine · · Score: 1

    All they need to do is make a few of them and use them to power a nano-knitting machine and it's a shoe-in for Boing-Boing invention of the year.

  9. Re:Misleading Headline on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    Seeing how he or she commented as AC, possibly not logged in, it is entirely possible that he/she could still log in and moderate.
    I know I have logged out just so I could comment as AC after having moderated.

  10. Re:Misleading Headline on Rats Feel Each Other's Pain · · Score: 1

    You know what a toymaker has, bro?

  11. Re:Cheaper on Clothier Slammed For Using 'Perfect' Virtual Model · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's looking for an athletic midget. Hey, to each his own!
    Laughing at overweight women at the beach? Maybe that's why the women he's interested in are avoiding him.

  12. Re:500 or so? on NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks · · Score: 1
  13. Re:radioactive plutonium on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    All of these replies assume that Pu-238 does not have decay products which are also capable of emitting decay heat, that the only nuclide present initially is Pu-238, and that it is starting at exactly 500W, not 550W, etc. But they are probably reasonably good lower bound estimates.
    I know about half-lives. My main impetus for replying to GP was to correct the notion that watts were not the correct unit.

  14. Re:radioactive plutonium on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    No, just 500W. As in Joules/second. The real question is "how long does it give off 500W?" Just the first day, or for one year, or for ten years, etc.?

  15. Re:Nuclear power efficiency on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    I would have guessed that radiation was needed for that , too.

  16. Re:I was waiting... on GE To Turn World's Biggest Civilian Plutonium Stockpile Into Electricity · · Score: 1

    "Is the sodium radioactive? "

    If it is exposed to a neutron flux, then, yes, it is.
      It might be so only for a short time after the neutron flux is removed.

  17. Re:I use on Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT · · Score: 1

    Me too, though I can do without the sopranos. I especially like Wagner, although I'll admit I've never sat through an entire Ring cycle.

  18. Re:Opera is best! on Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT · · Score: 1

    I started with NCSA Mosaic, and have cycled through a bunch of browsers including IE, Firefox and Opera, lastly Chrome.
    But lately Chrome has made my laptop very sluggish when I have many open tabs (as I usually do), so I've switched back to Opera, and I'll see how it does.
      I guess I treat browsers like furniture arrangements: I like to change them up every once in a while to keep things fresh, but there are only so many possibilities, so eventually I'll come back to an earlier one.
      Actually I usually have IE, Chrome, FF and Opera all installed but I change the default to the one I'm currently using. I probably could make sure all the bookmarks are aggregated and get rid of a couple browsers, but I don't. I think I'm a software packrat.

  19. Re:Billion? Billion? on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    Successful troll was successful.

  20. Marketing's Excel spreadsheet on AMD Downgrades Bulldozer Transistor Count By 800 Million · · Score: 1

    Good stuff: =ceiling(A1)
    Bad stuff: =floor(B1)

  21. Re:What? on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    Karnak the Magnificent FTW.

  22. Re:HTTPS becomes more widespread on New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication · · Score: 1

    Seriously? You're going to start a business for the sole purpose of making your use of encryption look "legitimate"?

  23. Re:And the shit that is broadcast in corporate tv. on TV Ownership Declines For Second Time Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, flannel shoes are a huge turn off for most women.

  24. Re:Old family? on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "..Ford was not elected to the Presidency."

    Yes, he was. When people vote for a vice president, they know that they are "just one heartbeat away" from being the president. Usually, that's why the VP candidate causes people to vote for the other guy.

  25. Re:scientists and the End on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    No, not seriously.