Yeah, this was a pretty intelligent discussion for /. until that one came over the transom.

No contradictions there. An insulator is a barrier to conductive and convective heat transfer, but as long as it's transparent to photons, radiative heat doesn't even notice it. Spacecraft instruments that need low temperatures have steered radiators that are kept pointed at dark space.

More precisely, it's a list of the most common bad passwords. If nobody cracks your password, it doesn't get on the list.

Reasonable nitpick, but yes: "signal" in the signal processing context means a detected quantity whose variations may tell you something. Vibrations in the earth, detected by a seismograph, are signals.

OTOH, she doesn't in King Ralph. (Although that one is accidental, not intentional.)

I take it he's posted a surety bond to back up his guarantee...

Well, I'm glad you have a handle. I can have faith in you.

Sometimes, when you overthrow a repressive dictator, the first thing you get is a look at what he was repressing.

"Perhaps they'll sing in tune after the revolution."

-Komarovsky, Doctor Zhivago

Over the years I've encountered two, maybe three people on these here intertubes who were convinced those were real laws of nature...

What tehcyder said...sorry I wasn't clearer. A lot of people (at least, in online fora) would indeed call you an ex-patriot out of semiliteracy. And it's misleading as to what the motivations of an expat are.

Your insurance company really fucked you, didn't they?

It certainly won't, because it will be too heavy to get off the ground.

More like 75, and they're still around.

Well, that's one way to wean yourself off the Internet...I usually grit my teeth and press on.

Though I still lose it when somebody writes "ex-patriot".