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  1. Re:Public safety should be the priority on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 1

    Combining bleach and ammonia does not make chlorine, but combining bleach and a strong acid would.
    It would take a lot of bleach (5% sodium hypochlorite) to make enough chlorine gas to really flood the plane with it.
      People will smell it, and nearby, have symptoms, but they won't be incapacitated by the amount you could make with what you might get on board, certainly not most or all of the passengers.
    Combining bleach and ammonia makes chloramines, thus my comment.

  2. Re:Pics on Publicly Shaming Laptop Thieves Catches Bystanders in the Crossfire · · Score: 1

    It is certainty that someone does. He just won't admit to it.

  3. Re:If EPIC doesn't prevail in this case on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 0

    Posting in EPIC thread.

  4. Re:Public safety should be the priority on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 1

    Whether it works by detection or works by deterrence does not matter. It works. It doesn't expose people to radiation or groping. It perhaps requires more time, more skill, and less equipment.

  5. Re:Public safety should be the priority on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 2

    A piranha bath, in the semiconductor industry, is a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid, not caustic (alkaline) but definitely corrosive, and used to clean organic residues from silicon wafers. I've seen chromic/sulfuric baths used to glass labware, but I've not heard that referred to as a piranha bath, and it is also acidic.
      Did you mean something else?

  6. Re:Public safety should be the priority on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 1

    Ewww. Chloramines. Give people a nasty headache. Terrorist!
    Or were you looking to clean and sanitize the plane by using them separately? In that case, hats off to you!

  7. Re:Strip the machines for parts and move on on EPIC Files For Rehearing In Body Scanner Case · · Score: 2

    Theory should not trump empirical evidence. Evidence for rock is solid.

  8. Re:Nah. Let's be serious on A Look Back At the Career of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Uhh, he was referring to the "possibly of all time" bit?

  9. Re:Misleading summary is incomplete. on Verizon Kills Free FTP Access · · Score: 1

    Last week it was all "Good Luck CmdrTaco, we're going to miss you, fine job you did, thanks for everything, yada, yada, yada."
      Now it's back to "lousy editors, lousy CmdrTaco, why can't we have a good editor, yada, yada, yada."

  10. Re:Fun with sigs... on Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Christians believe that salvation/eternal life/entrance into God's Kingdom/heaven comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone (that's why the word "Christ" is right in "Christian"). Faith that He died for our sins and was resurrected and is Himself God, and that we are set right with God through our acceptance of Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. That is the sole prerequisite.
    God does decide who will have faith, but there is debate about that point within Christianity (Calvinism vs. Arminianism)

  11. Re:Hey, worked for Napster on The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles · · Score: 1

    You will never shut down the real Napster.

    -from "The Italian Job" (2008 remake)

  12. Re:On a completely unrelated note on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 2

    Funny you should mention those specifically. I remember hearing a story about Toxoplasma causing people to behave in higher-risk ways, like driving faster.
    As for how that relates to how it makes mice (that may be harboring Toxoplasma) attracted to the urine of cats that will want to eat said mice (to aid its spread), I cannot imagine.

  13. Re:Overlords oblig! on Gut Bacteria Exert Mind Control · · Score: 2

    Yeah, yeah. Whatever.

  14. Re:But it's typical Slashdolt fare. on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    I've never been in a horrific car crash, so the existence of a "next time" is not possible.
    But if it were to happen, I'd keep your comforting words in mind. Thanks.

  15. Re:But it's typical Slashdolt fare. on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    After this, either would be fine with me...

  16. Re:But it's typical Slashdolt fare. on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    No. If you have one choice, and it is "bad", whatever that means, then something comes along that is "better", then the coming into existence of the "better" alterantive is a "good" thing. It's quite simple really.

  17. Re:You're wrong about addons on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    Well, I would do so now if I were still using FF, but when I moved away from FF, I don't believe that extension existed yet. If it did, it was not well "advertised".

  18. Re:But it's typical Slashdolt fare. on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    No, it's not "it could be worse", it's "this other actual thing IS worse."

  19. Re:I really really hope this is appealed on Mass. Court Says Constitution Protects Filming On-Duty Police · · Score: 1

    Whether 'pubic' was intentional or not, it's a funny.

  20. Re:Suggestion on SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights · · Score: 2

    Socialism keeps getting redefined. Yours is not the original definition.

  21. Re:But it's typical Slashdolt fare. on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Yes, less bad is good.
    Thanks for that insight.

  22. Re:Protesters on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Since it's on the moon or Mars, and it taking off from Baikonur maybe, it's not NIMBYs it's BANANAs. (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone)
    I'm not even sure that works since it's not near anyone.
    Hmmmmm.

  23. Re:You're wrong about addons on Updated: Mozilla Community Contributor Departs Over Bug Handling · · Score: 1

    I might still be using Firefox if I had been given those very simple instructions to keep using add-ons that I liked. Did not know that could be done until just now.

  24. Re:Ford Trimotor on Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' · · Score: 1

    My first thought after RTFS, too.
    Maybe it should have used the example of John Sculley going from PepsiCo to Apple and having Apple start making beverages instead of computers.
    Apple Juice?

  25. Re:Lack of on CERN Studies Connection Between Cosmic Rays and Climate Change · · Score: 2

    "the day" being pre-classical Greek civilization, say, pre-300BC?