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Comment Re:Why is it so fragile? (Score 4, Informative) 152

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @08:42PM (#43789285) Attached to: Transporting a 15-Meter-Wide, 600-Ton Magnet Cross Country

Well, we might be idiots, but that's not the problem. It's a set of three very large superconducting coils, custom wound on-site in the 1990s, built into cryostats that can't be disassembled, and being moved as a set of monolithic units. They were never designed or intended to be moved, and significant engineering work has gone into determining the mechanical loads they can be safely subjected to.

How much would it cost to build another one at say, Fermilab?

Here's a hint: that information is in the article.

Comment Re:Of course (Score 0) 260

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @06:55PM (#43788451) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback?

What does 'bimbo' add to the discussion that wouldn't have been covered by, as just one possibility, the word 'idiot'?

I read AVFM and other MHRA sites daily, and even I have to wonder what your word choice brings to the discussion.

Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 273

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @10:20PM (#43778265) Attached to: Uptick In Whooping Cough Linked To Subpar Vaccines

Or, maybe vaccines aren't effective period. Just a thought.

I always wondered if Jenny McCarthy had an account on slashdot.

Comment Re:So how long... (Score 1) 83

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:55PM (#43778149) Attached to: Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute

...until the total length of video on YouTube is greater than the age of the universe?

Considering the universe is 6000 years old, 6000/100 HPM= 60 minutes.

Comment Re:WGET? The Devil's Tool! (Score 1) 120

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:43PM (#43777783) Attached to: Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole

I read this in the voice of Sheriff J.W. Pepper (see The Man with the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die)

Buford T. Justice is also acceptable.

Comment Re:I've got one (Score 1) 112

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @06:20PM (#43777039) Attached to: Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo

So they made 22-caliber torpedoes also?

.17 HMR

Comment Re:On the history of guns (Score 1) 578

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:46AM (#43772043) Attached to: Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns

Perhaps it's worth noting that, when the Second Amendment was instituted, gunsmithing and the manufacture of firearms was a cottage industry.

The Beretta family begs to differ.

Comment Re:Poll of 1000 (Score 1) 578

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:43AM (#43772031) Attached to: Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns

A well done poll of a 1000 people is actually pretty acurte. The Law of Large Numbers kicks in well shy of that. Apparently a stats class is not necessary to be a Slashdot editor.

How would they have time with all of the journalism and English courses they obviously take?

Comment Re:Also (Score 1) 368

by gmhowell on Monday May 20, 2013 @03:27AM (#43771803) Attached to: Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber

Van drivers don't know what mirrors are.

That's the past. I was there before. i want to see new stuff, like the stuff in front of me.

Comment Re:whats that on your website soldier (Score 1) 94

by gmhowell on Sunday May 19, 2013 @08:10PM (#43770255) Attached to: Apple Mobile Devices Cleared For Use On US Military Networks

What's your major malfunction numbnuts, didn't your mommy and daddy love you enough?

Comment I've got one (Score 4, Funny) 112

by gmhowell on Sunday May 19, 2013 @08:06PM (#43770249) Attached to: Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo

Yeah, I've got a 'Howell torpedo' myself. Banned by the Geneva Convention as a weapon of mass destruction.

Comment Re:Might have been me (Score 1) 6

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @11:18PM (#43728263) Attached to: Slashdot bug-of-the-week

Busted in IE8 as well. I click on soulskill's zoo pill and get a page with the following:

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Your Relationship with Soulskill (1459)
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OK
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, admin@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
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Basically the same as Firefox. Any differences are likely due to presence of AdBlock on FF and variations in handling of css.

Comment Might have been me (Score 1) 6

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @11:13PM (#43728237) Attached to: Slashdot bug-of-the-week

That might have been me. No Chrome at work, but I can try, ick, IE.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 146

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @10:20PM (#43727831) Attached to: BBM Coming To iOS and Android

No, Telecoms want users to PAY for more data and not use it because it saturates their networks. For someone who works in the industry you seem to know very little about it.

and you still didn't answer my question.

"Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped conjure up the stolen data tapes..."

Comment Re:Pretty bad (Score 1) 3

by gmhowell on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @07:17PM (#43726555) Attached to: Does anything work anymore?

It's pretty bad, with all the "improvements" that they've made. I still get by here every once in a while - more, lately, in fact - but there's not much to see.

I hope things are well with you.

As a wise man once said "and so it goes..."

Life, it beats the alternative. Hope things are well in your neck of the woods as well.

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