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  1. Re:I blame the crew and White Star by lordshipmayhem · · Score: 1 · on Weak Rivets May Have Sped Sinking of Titanic

    The captain was under too much pressure to make this the fastest crossing. Ballocks.

    The Blue Riband was awarded to the fastest ship on the North Atlantic run.

    Titanic had a design speed of 21 knots and a flank (emergency) speed of 23.5 knots. By contrast, the Blue Riband holder of the day, Cunard's Mauretania, had a design speed of 26 knots. Titanic hadn't a prayer of capturing the Blue Riband.

    http://users.accesscomm.ca/nsalway/titfaq.html

    They WERE travelling far too fast for the conditions, but then the attitude of the day was "when in ice, crack on the speed until you are out of it". At the time there was no appreciation of just how much harder iceberg ice was from your regular seasonal frozen-river ice.
  2. uranium mining by falconwolf · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Using Google Earth to See Destruction

    Coal CAN be extracted from the earth in a less destructive manner. It can even be burnt in a relatively clean fashion with minimal emissions, if one is willing to build plants that are marginally more expensive.

    Granted, nuclear beats coal on all of those counts

    Have you ever seen what uranium mining does? Many of those who live where it is mined are opposed to the mining, such as the Diné or Navajo and those in Saskatchewan. Aboriginals in Australia have fighting mining since before it started, the Mirrar and Jabiluka have been fighting it since at least the 1970s.

    Falcon
  3. Shameless plug by themusicgod1 · · Score: 1 · on Many Internet Users Happy With Dial-Up

    here, dialup is insanely expensive(~80$ a month if you consider cost of a phone line). alternatively, you can get 8.95$/month(wich works out to about 6$/month US) cable-lite-lite which is basically a 112k/s(?) cable box with dhcp/dynamic ip allocation. you do NOT have to subscribe to even basic cable to get it, either.

  4. Not all cable compaines are evil... by Nos. · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Congress To Force Cable a la Carte Plans

    In fact, mine just upped my limit on my cable modem. I went from 1Mbs/1Mbps to 5Mbps/1Mbps - without asking, or having to pay any more. Downladed some ISOs at combined speed of over 450K/sec :)

  5. Re:I probably can't get this, either by Dwonis · · Score: 2 · on 155Mbs Over Copper Lines
    I don't know about the previous poster, but I get symmetric 1Mbps on my cable modem with "unlimited" traffic (no exact limit, but they can kick you off the consumer pricing if you get carried away) from Access Communications.

    It's so nice to live in a small enough city that doing a complete rebuild of the cable system is actually feasible.
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  6. Re:Not all companies are this way! by Dwonis · · Score: 1 · on Dispute Over IP Sharing Escalates

    You said it. My local cable co., Access Communications, is very cool about that. In fact they advertise setting up your own web server as one of the benefits of using their cable modems. The tech guys there are excellent (one is a member of the local LUG), and they even have a Linux section on their website (you still have to set it up yourself).

    In other words, it tends to be the big nationwide companies that screw you around. Find yourself a local ISP!
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