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  1. Re:Oh? on NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government · · Score: 1

    Nuremberg was not US jurisdiction.

  2. Re:Pretty amazing tech on Air France 447 Black Boxes Readable · · Score: 1

    Nothing can withstand Chuck Norris.
    The one that impresses me most is "High Temperature Fire 1100 C, 30 minutes".
    That's really hot. Either they can make the thing with no polymers, or some polymer can endure 1100C. Whichever it is, it is amazing.
    The document GP linked to also says the High Temperature Fire test was done for *60* minutes, and the Low Temperature Fire test was done immediately after the High Temperature Fire test. Wow.

  3. Re:Yey for solid-state memory! on Air France 447 Black Boxes Readable · · Score: 1

    That or Dieu.

  4. Re: Wie, bitte? on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    Nein! Das ist verboten!!
    Das Fehler ist in keiner Weise akzeptabel!

  5. Re:You're making Hell look good on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    Maybe he was thinking of ABBA. (I like some of their songs btw, and heard that John Lennon thought that SOS was the greatest pop song ever).
    Overall, there does seem to be a dearth of good or well-known musicians and composers from Sweden.
    I thought Russian women was inapt, but that is based solely on looks.

  6. Re:Cultural Identification in Food on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    I ate some Indian food (which I love) in Scotland and drank cider with it (I don't know why). I didn't keep that meal down but it was not the best Indian food I've ever eaten.

  7. Re:Cultural Identification in Food on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    0.11kg avec fromage?
    Nah, probably "Quarter Pounder with Cheese".

  8. Re:Ironically on Think I'm Not American? Pass the Hamburgers. · · Score: 1

    And cheeseburgers are from Cheeseburg!

  9. Re:Derhythmed on The Rise of Filter Bubbles · · Score: 1

    "Occasionally" is a critical word in your post. If I click on "conservative" articles one time in twenty, that may be enough to keep me reasonably informed about conservative views, but might be below Google's (or whoever's) threshold and result in filtering out all conservative pages. Just seeing the search result listings without clicking on them might be enough to keep me informed about something, that filtering out prevents me from knowing about.

  10. Re:Nuke power on Japan Widens Evacuation Zone Around Fukushima · · Score: 1

    Yes. Meltdowns are bad. Just like running an engine after it has run out of oil is bad. It destroys the engine. But it doesn't necessarily kill or injure anyone. A common conception of meltdown is that many people will be gravely harmed and that is not necessarily true.

  11. Re:Pedophiles! on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    Like Crater Lake?

  12. Re:2 questions for the TSA on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't we hear about it? If the purpose of the screening is to deter, wouldn't it be a better deterrent if they could point to successfully catching would-be terrorists?

  13. Re:Osama Bin Laden on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    "Homeland of the fee"

    Either Freudian slip or intentional typo, I think it is quite accurate, taxes == fees.

  14. Re:Pedophiles! on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    Here in Portland, OR there was a story in the newspaper about a guy who commutes to work in a canoe. I kid you not.
    OP should have used Seattle to Chicago instead of Atlanta to Denver. No rivers be crossin' the Continental Divide.

  15. Re:Didn't prevent anything on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1

    More like a phone call got him killed. That the courier also used email in the past is circumstantial. He probably also delivered food to OBL at some point, but you wouldn't say that he got killed by a falafel.

  16. Re:Why didn't he just use on Bin Laden's Sneakernet Email System · · Score: 1

    But they are tasty.

  17. Re:kool aid on NASA Banned From Working With China · · Score: 1

    Selenium and barium are not rare-earth metals, and selenium is not a metal of any kind.

  18. Re:make your own opportunities on Do Geeks Make Better Adults? · · Score: 1

    English words in the twenty-first century that came from Latin words of the first century often don't mean the same thing as that word they came from. Memorizing facts has always been an important part (not whole) of education.

  19. Re:But.... on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    My clothes washer and my dishwasher both have several different cycles all of which use different amounts of hot water. I think it would be wrong to try to figure out what time I take showers from my energy usage. Oh, and my water heater uses natural gas, not electricity. So it doesn't matter.

  20. Re:Octaves? on Glove Emulates Musical Instruments · · Score: 1

    Exactly right. More than just different octaves. One can play the harmonic series on a brass instrument without any changes to valves that are depressed.
    The harmonic series are multiples of the fundamental frequency of the horn, so the notes get closer together as you ascend the series.
    (e.g. A=110Hz, A'=220Hz, E'=330Hz, A''=440Hz, C#''=550Hz , E''= 660Hz, etc.)

    These notes are all accessible by the same valve combination, which means the same length horn. A change in valves just changes the length of the horn, which gives you access to a different harmonic series. (e.g. if you have an F horn, depressing the second valve makes it an E horn, depressing the first valve makes it an E flat horn, depressing the first and second valves (or just the third valve) makes it a D horn, etc.)

    In the case of the French horn, which I play, the instrument plays high enough in the harmonic series that one can play a full chromatic scale just by the embouchure and right hand (which also bends the pitch as it goes into the bell to different degrees, the left hand operates the valves).
    And I can cover four octaves (plus a little on a good day).

    There is no way gloves can simulate the most important inputs to a brass instrument (embouchure and breath), only the less important valve combination.

  21. Re:But.... on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    This is already done, albeit not to the degree you suggest.

  22. Re:But.... on Is Your Electricity Meter Spying On You? · · Score: 1

    And the water heater knows whether it is supplying a shower, or the dishwasher (which has a time delay on mine at least), or the clothes washer, and then it tells the smart meter? Dang appliances talking to each other. Shut 'em up!

  23. Watch out! It's radioactive! on Google To Offer Chrome OS Notebooks For $20/month · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/reCenter.jsp?z=24&n=24, Cr-48 is is radioactive, with a half life of about 21.5 hrs.
    It decays by inverse beta decay (electron capture) which is funny since Google applications seem to stay in beta forever.

  24. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    OK. What data do you have?

    I know Gasland is not a scientific documentary, and of course it "dramatizes" the situation, but it does seem reasonable to assume that these extraction techniques are to blame for some of the water problems experienced by people in the movie when the water was OK before and is not OK after commencing the extraction operations. Occam's razor and all that.

    He should have done more rigorous water analyses on a range of locations at varying distance from the extraction wells. I do recall that they identified glycol ethers in a tapwater sample, which is indicative of fracking fluid, and not something one would expect to find naturally in groundwater, or even as a result of common industrial pollution.

  25. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    It's not just methane, but you should really watch 'Gasland' and see for yourself.