Comment Re:What's new? (Score 1) 107
s/fuzz/fuss/
Comment Re:Why did he do it? (Score 1) 389
Maybe you haven't looked around recently, but the public is just as crazy. The ones in prison only got caught.
Comment Re:US technology (Score 1) 293
Genius.
Comment Re:My first thought (Score 1) 232
He should have said "zone" in WoW, but yes. Same thing.
Submission + - The ISA and Police State UK (telegraph.co.uk)
Brian Ribbon writes: "Using ineffective, feel-good "child protection" legislation to rob citizens of their inherent rights has become a favourite pastime of the British government. A particularly disturbing example is the creation of the "Independent Safeguarding Authority" (ISA), which will be tasked with ensuring that over 11 million adults are "suitable" to have even the smallest amount of contact with children. According to new guidelines summarised by The Telegraph, the ISA will collect and analyse information about the "interests, attitudes, relationships and lifestyle" of individuals, as well as their links with "anti-social peers". People who are considered "unsuitable" to have contact with children will be barred from careers or volunteer positions which involve any kind of contact with people under the age of 18, and those who pursue such a career but refuse to undergo the detailed analysis of their private lives could be prosecuted in a criminal court. The ISA is immune to litigation in relation to mistakes made when barring a person from a career, so anybody who suffers losses from false allegations made by the body will be unable to claim damages. The creation of a body to which 11 million people may be required to submit detailed information about their lives appears to be yet another excuse to monitor and profile millions of individuals. The power to block poeple on the basis of their beliefs is equally disturbing, as it could be an attempt to prevent people from influencing children if their beliefs are deemed to threaten the social order or the authority of the state."
Comment Re:Grrr... (Score 1) 853
A Yugo is the crappiest car ever made.
A swaybar is a device (basically a long metal rod bent to fit in the car) the controls the sway (side to side attitude change) of a vehicle by connecting the control arms (things that connect the wheel assembly to the car) at each end of the vehicle to each other. In effect this applies a force to talk the car into remaining flat as long as it can. It's very important for handling.
Comment Re:ROEI, Return on Energy Invested (Score 2, Informative) 867
And with good ventilation there shouldn't be much need for cooling.
You're insane. Current temp (US zip 75501) is 100.8 with dew point at 73.4. This means sweating will only get you down to 99.8. You need active cooling in some areas, it's a necessity of life.
Comment This is obvious. (Score 1) 712
Ever been on a running track? they're light red and have awesome traction. trade a little traction for durability and you have the perfect road surface. IIRC, this would also increase the ductility and increase it's lifespan in freeze country.
Comment Re:Knowing Government "Intelligence"... (Score 1) 589
Toe the line.
Comment Re:Is "Waste" Heat Really Free Energy? (Score 1) 214
cars have radiators for a reason. simply downsize/cover the radiator and the waste heat increases to a usable level.
Comment Re:Libel troll protection (Score 1) 182
It's nationalist. obviously.
Comment Re:Mass culture not ready for ... (Score 1) 116
I'd like this idea if you mentioned TORCS.
Comment Re:Not new (Score 5, Informative) 313
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html
http://scienceblogs.com/purepedantry/2007/05/monkey_economics.php
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/monkeys-practic.html
These links all point to the story, but not to any sort of brief from the research conducted by Keith Chen
http://www.som.yale.edu/faculty/keith.chen/
Anybody know where that is?
Comment Re:The niche that wants to stay dry when it rains. (Score 1) 394
it's called a velomobile.
you can send my consulting fee via PayPal.
Comment Re:Good - Assert control & prevent account hij (Score 1) 344
Except the mods come from third party sites Blizzard has no control over. All they're doing is shooting their fans.
Try google, I heard people use it to understand things, normally before they speak loud and ignorantly.
