Comment Re:key (Score 1) 496
I believe he can burn through between 3 calories and 4000 calories per day.
That's a pretty big range there. Are you sure you didn't mean to write 3000 there?
Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste 344
separsons writes "A group of French scientists are developing a nuclear reactor that burns up actinides — highly radioactive uranium isotopes. They estimate that 'the volume of high-level nuclear waste produced by all of France’s 58 reactors over the past 40 years could fit in one Olympic-size swimming pool.' And they're not the only ones trying to eliminate atomic waste: Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin are working on a fusion-fission reactor. The reactor destroys waste by firing streams of neutrons at it, reducing atomic waste by up to 99 percent!"
Comment Re:Need Basis for Comparison (Score 1) 325
I'm wondering how much of the high IE value is from AOL users. The AOL client still uses IE. If they had switched to Netscape all those years ago, how would the balance of power be tipped now?
Comment Re:Admin permissions (Score 2, Funny) 396
Funny looking at this post and then seeing your signature
Comment Re:News For Nerds (Score 1) 2044
Someone in Congress described this as a "VA-like" system. Have you ever dealt with the VA? That's Veterans Administration. I work with a lot of former military, I get to hear horror stories about VA hospitals. Think about that before you start cheering for this.
Comment Re:So (Score 2, Informative) 260
However, his healing factor results in massive scar tissue causing his appearance to be severely disfigured.
No scarring with this stuff.
Comment So (Score 4, Funny) 260
We can all be Wolverine now? Cool!
Comment Flashlights (Score 2, Interesting) 430
I love my LED flashlights. I was a fan of Maglights, but the stupid bulbs would break. My five LED flashlights last a lot longer and I have yet to break and LED. Plus they put out more light than incandescent bulbs while using the same amount of battery charge.
Comment No one's thinking long term anymore (Score 2, Interesting) 324
For the same reason they aren't drilling for oil off the coasts. You know, if you don't start now, it's going to take even LONGER before production is spun up. And by then, we'll have yet another dumb ass in office and we can't mine this stuff out for whatever reason (NIMBY, clean air, whatever). Even if the company stockpiles it, the material is still an asset and can be used when the Chinese decide to close their borders because of another cultural revolution.
Comment Re:Fuck exceptions for religion (Score 4, Insightful) 615
Make no law respecting an establishment of religion, my ass.
So, where's this Church of the United States you're bitching about?
Comment Re:Who has authority to confirm something as good? (Score 1) 305
How about an antivirus program that BLOCKS file writes to the operating system UNLESS that file can be confirmed to be "good"?
Who has the authority to confirm, say, your shopping list as good? Or, if you're considering only files marked executable, a shell script that your co-worker wrote?
Reading comprehension FAIL. What idiot types their shopping list and saves it in the Windows system file directory?
Comment So what else is new (Score -1, Troll) 794
Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn. Surprise! A Democrat from Brooklyn wanting more regulations. But wait, this time for food! Next they're banning sugar and caffeine.
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 276
You obviously never met my ex-wife.
Comment Re:The important questions... (Score 1) 155
I'm sorry, I don't know these computers you speak of. Can you put that in a car analogy?
Don't put unleaded in a diesel.
Yeah, but where can you even get leaded gas these days?
Airports. Single engine propeller planes still use leaded gasoline.
Comment I hope (Score 1) 214
I hope no one was walking on those eggshells.
