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Comment Re:Make love not war (Score 3, Insightful) 370

The Fundies support it, even if not openly, when they hide or relocate a priest that diddles boys.

Thats one of the most retarded thoughts I've seen in ages.

You think that hiding something you aren't proud of is the same as consenting? Wow, just wow. 'Fundies' don't 'support it' you idiot, otherwise they would be all about letting people know they do it. You typically hide things you don't want others knowing you do because you don't think its acceptable to be doing it. Your logic is about as ass backwards as it gets.

If you think it's unacceptable, then why hide it and HELP the perpetrator? A criminal should be dragged to court and receive trial. Hiding his crime(s) so it doesn't make your community look bad is dishonest and hypocrite at best. If one claims morals to be important, one should follow them and set an example.
In my opinion everyone involved in such hush ups should be arrested as an accessory. They are basically saying "Well this guy raped you, but it would be bad PR to call the police. He's probably sorry, so we'll just give him a new job in a place, where no one knows about his special interests. - Oh and don't tell anybody or we'll make your life even more miserably."
If you hide evidence of a serious crime you are at the very least obstructing justice and have voided all authority to speak on morals.

Hardware

Submission + - Cree releases landmark 200 lumen-per-watt LED (extremetech.com)

MrSeb writes: "One of the ways — if not the best way — to track the progress of LEDs over the past few years has been through the metric of lumens-per-watt. As you can gather from the name this is an efficiency rating that is based on the amount of visible light emitted relative to the amount of power consumed. A lumens-per-watt (lpw) rating is especially interesting because it works regardless of the light source — the lpw rating for an incandescent bulb is a lowly 15 (or so) while newer LED bulbs are in the range of 75. While 75 lpw is plenty efficient, it’s no where near what manufacturers like Cree are working on. In fact, the company has just put out a 200 lpw LED known as the XLamp MK-R."
Space

Submission + - How would you build a micro satellite?

Dishwasha writes: "After reading about the possibility of an earth-link planet "only" 12 light years away, I instantly thought about the possibility of sending an amateur micro satellite. Although such a thing would not reach 12 light years in my lifetime, perhaps the satellite would be a legacy that I could hand over to my children and they to their children, etc. From my perspective, the sooner we start sending out probes in to the universe and the more we send out, the earlier the start we get in exploring the universe beyond just our singular earth perspective.

A fellow co-worker of mine turned me on to the CubeSat standard and apparently there are commercial space companies that will launch CubeSat systems from their payload for a modest fee.

Is anybody in the /. community involved in amateur micro satellite systems? How would I go about getting involved at an amateur level? Are there any amateur user groups and meetups I can join? I have limited background in all the prerequisites but am eager to learn even if it takes a lifetime. Any links to design and engineering of satellites would be appreciated."

Comment Re:typical (Score 1) 471

Bad move. Cutting off lots of users because of a disagreement with the local law (which favors the users by the way) will make it clear for other users, that facebook can cut of their service at anytime they like. This would also be very, very bad PR in Germany and probably the rest of Europe and make the look even more Big Brother than they already are. Many companies will drop their ads from facebook (at least for a while) in order to profit on the good pr they would get for doing so.

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