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Comment Consider this (Score 1) 377

I've been living in the same neighborhood for 5 years. College town. The weeks after school gets out to when their leases are up and move off for the summer (this year was 3 weeks). Rash of break ins. Cars. Houses. Empty houses looking for loot. Same time. Same 10 block square radius. EVERY YEAR. Between 1am and 5am. Since I work at night, I'm up late, I see and hear things. How hard is it to predict that? Should they be spending more time patrolling the area during this time of year to 'predictively prevent' this rash of crime? Instead of parking their donut eating asses as close to the bar strip downtown patrolling for DUII's? I don't need a bunch of tax dollars wasted telling me what is going to happen when I've seen it for myself and KNOW it's going to happen.

Comment This (Score 1) 594

is why we will never get a cure for cancer or anything else. 10 people out of 1000 died because they had an allergic reaction to the 'the cure'. But millions of lives are saved. BUT GOD FORBID THOSE 10 PEOPLE DIED. I hate being a part of the human race sometimes. The things that prevent thousands of dying from polio, or mumps, or measles. Those 3 idiots sue everyone and make medical costs go through the roof. Their snowflake died. OH NOES. Let's dial back time to the cave man days. Squirt out your puppy without anything. In this day and age, without all these shots they'll sue. Give them the shots that prevent premature death, they'll sue. Squirt out your snowflake and it dies in a car accident because you didn't properly secure it in a car seat in a car accident. It's not YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT. It's the car, or car seat manufacturer, or McDonald's or AT&T because the coffee was too hot, or you HAD to txt back your BFF. Welcome to Idiocracy. The future is now. Nothing is your fault. The gene pool needs a lot more bleach. I'm personally going to recommend Napalm. Hell I'd even godwin this one. It's time.
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LHC Successfully Cools To 1.9K In Lead-Up To Restart 177

Smelly Jeffrey writes "The BBC is reporting that the LHC has had all eight of its sectors cooled to 1.9 Kelvin. Their tagline is that it is now 'colder than deep space,' referring to the CMB. LHC engineers have spent nearly $40,000,000 USD on a new system to prevent the 'quench' condition that caused the LHC to be down for warming, repairs, and re-cooling over the last year. The LHC is now cold enough to begin colliding particles in search of the Higgs Boson. High power collisions won't be started until late December, or perhaps early January. However, a low-power beam through parts of the collider could be tested as early as next week!"

Submission + - Solar Decathlon 2009 (solardecathlon.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Our team recently competed in the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is a 2-year competition that challenges university students from 20 US and international teams to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house. Objective scores are based on comfort control, appliance performance, net-metering, and home entertainment. Subjective contest scores are determined by juries that weigh the engineering design, architectural design, as well as marketing and communication strategies. Team Germany took 1st place due to a large net production of electricity while Team California claimed 1st place in the Architecture contest and Minnesota claimed 1st place in the engineering design. However looking beyond the contest winners, the main purpose of the event is to raise awareness about solar technology and sustainable design. As part of this campaign, products for all 20 homes are listed on the DOE website. The most exciting aspect is that the construction and engineering documents and communication materials from all teams are open-sourced for anyone to use or modify!

Comment You're on drugs. (Score 1) 281

have you played any of the top end games lately? FIFA? Madden 2010? Civ? Spore? The options are getting better every day as developers start further embracing the touch method as a platform. There's some damn cool games now. MYST I loved when it came out, the touch version is a wonderful adaptation. And that's just the tip of the touch platform. Go play your original NES some more and tell us that's good enough. New tech is here now, it may not be good enough for YOU, but it's good enough for the other 40+% of the tactile gaming market on portable devices. And it's not going to stop there.

Comment You can (Score 1) 419

turn off the Whispernet 3G service and put your own damned books on the thing. I've done so (200+) courtesy of Gutenberg. Just because they can remotely nuke your 'bought' books, you're more than free to put whatever you like on the device. I'm also pretty sure using the Stanza software you can ALSO convert any PDF into readable documents onto the Kindle as well. I enjoy my ebook device. I don't need Amazon to tell me what I can't put on it.

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