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Comment Re:Stronger? (Score 1) 262

"Steel rotors" is probably another typo. I have heard of stainless steel rotors and the commonly used cast iron rotors but a solid steel rotor that is used on a motorcycle sounds like it would heat up too fast in this application. My guess that it is a standard cast iron vented rotor.

Comment Re:Episode V! (Score 1) 457

Imperial armaments were designed for shock and awe, to use fear as a weapon. There are some to attack a city and some for a village. When it came to real warfare their numbers and weapons power won, not their total design.
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What It's Like To Be the Scientific Consultant For The Big Bang Theory 253

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Science sits down with David Saltzberg, who's been The Big Bang Theory's one and only science consultant since it premiered. Saltzberg is an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He chats about how the portrayal of science on the show has changed over the years, whether it turns kids away from science, and how you can get your own job as a scientific consultant in Hollywood."

Comment Re:Even mechanical throttle is no cure... (Score 1) 664

How can users protect themselves from sometimes life endangering software bugs?"

Simple, with a car make sure it has a throttle cable and a clutch peddle.

I know I can hear it now, you can't buy a car with a throttle cable and you can't drive standard in a city.

If everyone stopped buying cars with throttle by wire, they would stop making them. The rest of the world drives standard in a city, you can too.

Comment Re:That's why I resisted as long as I could... (Score 1) 264

Don't forget to hard disable the microphone on the laptop if it has one. There is a malware that can communicate using high frequency sound, from a networked machine to un-networked one. Of course both machines have to be infected. Probably with a virus attached to a file of the networked box.

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