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  1. Re:Ultramobile devices on Penny-Sized Flash Module Holds 16GB · · Score: 1

    Quarter VGA isn't a whole lot of screen space (320x240 pixels).

    Unfortunately, higher res wearable displays cost much more, and most are only really sold to the military, for whatever reason.

  2. Re:Show Appreciation on Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of the "No Amnesty for Illegals" drive awhile back when the Senate was discussing changes to our immigration laws.

    What I'm curious about is whether it's the same people opposing both of these "amnesties" or just one or the other (XOR?).

  3. Re:the only common sense reaction on Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate Today · · Score: 1

    Nine-eleven!

  4. Re:Just another hit against Apple... on A Little .Mac Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Why is that? Did they change something 10 years ago to make them different?

    Personally, I just don't expect a publicly traded company to look out for me (unless I am a shareholder, but even then...)

  5. Re:RANT: MPG vs L/100km - why not km/L? on Auto Mileage Standards Raised to 35 mpg · · Score: 1

    [...]but good luck performing that in your head at highway speeds if I didn't give you round numbers to work with You, Sir, must really suck at math.
  6. Re:10 factors to fall in love? on The Future of Love and Sex - Robots · · Score: 1

    There is nothing wrong with trying to assure your future baby is well fed!

  7. Re:your wife's water just broke on CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations · · Score: -1, Troll

    Have you considered that cancer, heart attacks, antibiotics allergies, and brain dementias are all Darwin's way of adding chlorine to the gene pool?

    The cute little dinosaurs were not fit to compete with mammals, so they died (and fuck them).
    But that lovely child with the Down syndrome that consumes resources of a half-dozen productive men (and whose children, if born, will also be Down's? I say fuck her too.

  8. Re:I was going to ask... on CDN Forces Reactor Online Against Safety Regulations · · Score: 1

    You stockpile a buttload of it. In 6 hours you have one half of a buttload left. In 12 hours, one half of the remaining half will decay, but the rest remain. So in 24 you still have 1/16th the buttload, and so on, but the point here is that you will always have some left over.

    If you make "enough" then your stockpile can last for years.

  9. Re:Should have bought Playstations on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 1

    [...] but that's what open source software and spare grad students are for. You can't use them for every kind of problem, but they're pretty flexible, and they're certainly good enough for most kinds of nuke design or fluid flow. You shouldn't trust your nuke design to a grad student. I learnt that the hard way...
  10. Re:Organise? on The Home Library Problem Solved · · Score: 1

    Books burn very well if piled into large bonfires, which makes for a fun communal activity.

    As an added bonus, this might make your trains run on time...

  11. Re:Hmmm on Copy That Floppy, Lose Your Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I welcome a new way to avoid paing electronics recycling charge!

  12. Re:So... on Picture-Sorting Dogs Show Human-Like Thought · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder if this dog was rewarded or punished:

    http://www.funnyhub.com/pictures/img/dog-dildo.jpg

  13. Re:I suppose... on Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns · · Score: 1

    a) IBM sold a lot of punchcards machines to Nazi Germany to monitor the Jews
    b) IBM sold a lot of video surveillance and face recognition hardware to China to monitor the "terrorists"

    Anyone else see a pattern here?

  14. Re:What are you talking about? on The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    In any case, I'd prefer it if they'd experiment with mouse retroviruses instead...

    I cannot use a keyboard, YIC.

  15. Re:I'd want a test for exactly that reason. on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is exactly the reason we need to get off the socialist society/welfare path we've been goning down. The reason "stupid" people reproduce so much is that they get paid to do that (by taxing "smart" people).

    Socialism means the end of progress; I though Nazi example should have taught us as much.

  16. Re:shut er down! on US Military 'Hacked' by Emails · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somehow McDonald's can find 100,000 American citizens to hire, yet LANL cannot?

    LANL is just trying to save money by hiring foreigners over quallified natives that demand better pay.

  17. Re:Real world people on Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A tiny vocal minority does not matter, in this case.

    Your vote does not carry a passion multiplier.

  18. Re:So rename your files and go on about your busin on Western Digital Service Restricts Use of Network Drives · · Score: 1

    You could save a lot of money buying crippled stuff.

  19. Re:Monsanto... on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: 1

    Yes, and something could happen to prevent American car owners from getting new oil from Saudi Arabia.

    So let's all stop driving now (and that includes all the asshole ambulances and firetrucks)

  20. Re:Maybe for now, but... on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: 1

    Putting a killswitch into GM crops is a great idea unless you want to "welcome our new flesh-eating herbal overlords" one day.

  21. Re:She deserves the fine on DoJ Sides With RIAA On Damages · · Score: 1

    And if you let your parking meter run out, you pay how much in fines for $0.25 worth of parking?
    Or as a doctor that saved a $1 by reusing one syringe (and infected someone with AIDS), how much will she sue you for?

    I honestly don't know, but the music fine seemed in the right ballpark (a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars per song).

  22. Re:We're all boiling frogs on Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals · · Score: 0, Troll

    First they came for the terrorists, but I said nothing because I was not a terrorist.
    Then they came for the child rapists, and I still said nothing because I am not a child rapist.
    Finally, they came for me, but the child rapists and the terrorists could no longer protect my freedom?

    Do you really think that's how it works?

  23. Re:pin sized hole hard to reach on Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your formulas are a good first approximation. However, since we are not dealing with a fluid here, they don't work very well (plus I think you mixed up your numerator/denominator somewhere in there).

    Anyways, I am sorry for not being very clear in my previous post.

    Here is the reasoning: number of molecules that escape depend on the opening area, the time, and the number of collisons. The collisions depend on the pressure, temperature, and the molecular mass only (the formula is p * sqrt(1/(2 k T m)) where P is pressure, k is Boltz. const., T is the abs temp in K, m is the molecular mass).

    The final formula looks like:
    M_lost=A * time * p * m * sqrt (1/(2 * k * T * m ))

    finally, the two m's cancel and you get
    M_lost=A * time * p * sqrt (m/(2 * k * T))

    Now, M_lost is 1.3
    p is 10^5
    m is 29 (for air)
    k is 8.3
    T is 300

  24. Re:Doing all the right things on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1
    Sounds like the poster has put the wrong spin on things. What he probably said:

    I was aware of this, and that I stopped these events after that occurrence What he should have said is:

    I was aware of this, and that I stopped these events after that occurrence He also probably went on about how the CD wasn't copyrighted thinking it vindicated him, but honestly they probably don't give a fuck since the keyword here is copying. The takehome lesson here is to know what the PHBs are looking for, and deliver it to them.
  25. Re:pin sized hole hard to reach on Minor Leak Being Investigated Aboard the ISS · · Score: 1

    You are making too many assumptions. It is simpler and more precise to go this way:
    escaped mass m = (hole area)*(time)*(number of collisions with the hole area)

    so you get 1.3kg = A * 86400s * 10^5 Pa * sqrt( 29/( 2 *Pi* k *T))

    Solving for the round hole A gives you about 33 micron radius (though you are close): 0.033 mm