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Comment: Re:Laws of Thermodynamics... (Score 5, Informative) 197

by AI0867 (#37566090) Attached to: Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK

Actually, a softer (energy-absorbing) surface is more comfortable to walk on, provided it doesn't absorb excessive amounts.

The plastic tracks in stadiums are softer than asphalt, which again is softer than concrete. Guess which one people like to run on best?
Some athletes from poor countries practice on alphalt and find they run slower in a stadium. Concrete would be even faster, but it tends to wreck your knees unless you have good shoes, which, again, absorb energy.

Comment: Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 484

by AI0867 (#36050990) Attached to: Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets

Actually, the technique of creating a hole with a bunker buster and then destroying anything left in the crater with a normal bomb was used quite a bit in Iraq. It allows for the destruction of the contents of a building with minimal (perhaps the neighbours' houses) collateral damage.
In this case, the compound's walls might have contained the blast.

Comment: Re:Ok, but. (Score 1) 218

by AI0867 (#34512940) Attached to: BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking

You can automate the trust, or rather, make it implicit.

Whenever you favorite a torrent, you place some trust in both it and the publisher. That gets propagated.

I don't know the specifics, but I do know that people at my university have worked on this for years. (tribler isn't new, this is just a new release that has the P2P search)

Do not use that foreign word "ideals". We have that excellent native word "lies". -- Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

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