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  1. Re:That irony can be so ironic sometimes on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 2

    HBO publishes it's programming schedule, then it puts the programs behind a firewall, what is up with that?

    Censoring phone calls while they are underway is not the same as a pay wall.

  2. Re:I hate the iphone. on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Canyon has a Y in it.

    No one has to "Jimmy Rig" a fix for the antenna, a small percentage of iPhones 4 had problems, all cell phones can have reception problems if held wrong.

    iPhone 1, 3, 3GS didn't have the issue iPhones 4 sometimes had.

  3. Re:Pertinent part of the article on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    Or, F-22, Typhoon, Su-33 - I fly so high those barrages of explosives can't reach me.

    SR-71 - I'll just outrun a barrage of explosives.
    http://gizmodo.com/#!5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird

    The pilot referes to going well over Mach 3.5, thats damned fast

  4. Details? on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    What's flying really high and who is involved?

  5. Re:best tweet ever: on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    Yes, a Wild Weasel should have all it's stuff secure.

  6. Re:"Propaganda Planes" cover the skies on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    Don't paint the GOP as the ones screaming about the Constitution, some of the Democrats are doing it as well, hell Kucinich thinks the President could be impeached over it.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/dennis-kucinich-obama-impeachment_n_838502.html

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51595.html

  7. Re:So I use trackmyflight.something - on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    It has a *H-60 or two on board.

  8. Re:Pertinent part of the article on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 2

    Some of these are particularly stealthy aircraft, Rafale, F/A-18 E/F/G aren't stealth, but they are stealthy compared to F-15E, F-18C and Tornado.

    B-2 bombers spoofed the ATC watchers by using a tanker/transport call sign on the transponder the entire trip over and back, those are really stealthy.

    Think of stealthy this way
    MiG-21 through MiG-29, F-16, F-15, F-18 A/B/C, Tornado, Mirage F-1, Mirage 2000, Super Etendard - really not stealthy

    Su-27-33, Rafale, F-18 E/F/G, B-1B, Tomahawk cruise missile - getting stealthy

    F-22, Eurofighter Typhoon - pretty stealthy

    B-2 - really stealthy

  9. Re:Pertinent part of the article on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    Encrypted transponders would mean everyone's transponder would have to be graded, in every aircraft, every airport, every ATC on the planet.

    Similar to asking why every computer in the world doesn't have Wi Fi.

  10. Re:Hope he doesn't get into trouble on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    By broadcasting when planes are leaving airfields and identifying airfields and runways being used.

    There were rumors about plane spotters in Italy telling Serbia when planes left airfields in '99.

    Also, Gaddafi was alerted to the 1986 airstrike when he was called and told American planes had just overflown Malta.

  11. Re:Hope he doesn't get into trouble on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 1

    He isn't updating 16 hours a day now, he said he had to go back to work. Most of the traffic was during the weekend.

  12. Re:Count down till.... on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 5, Informative

    He did the same thing on forums during the '98 raids on Iraq, '99 in Serbia/Kosovo, some of 2001 in Afghanistan, IOF in '03, etc.

    If the US military wanted to "talk to him" they would have before.

    Some of the stuff he passes on is helpful, like identifying a plane that has a transponder set to the wrong setting, and passing it on to Africa Command.

  13. Re:Years long... on NASA Picks Up Rainstorms On Titan · · Score: 1

    Polar night varies from 20 hours at the Arctic Circle to 179 days at the pole, places like Barrow Alaska do polar night for 65 days, but that doesn't mean it's night outside every where, it gets a strange twilight for most of the area.

    Past 84 33' theres no twilight, but there are no permanent human settlements that far north/south, just science stations.

  14. Re:Deal still subject to regulatory approval on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    I fled T-Mobile in '09 for AT&T, T-Mobile in Portland and Seattle had been dropping calls for about 8 months, got into rural Washington and there was nothing.

    My mother is on a jailbroken iPhone 3GS on T-Mobile, wonder when she's going to email me to complain.

  15. Who has had the most? on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    I had 40 Gray to the head in 1980 and another 40 Gray to a soft tissue tumor in 1982, both go arounds were in 2 Gray doses.

  16. Re:Gas, booze and guns on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    OK, couple half gallons of booze.

  17. Re:Fairly well prepared. on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    If its between living now and dying 20-40 years later from cancer, I'd shoot a pig that'd grazed right next to the concrete coffin of Chernobyl.

  18. Re:I live in Ireland on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 2

    No volcanoes? Really?

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1271645/Iceland-volcano-ash-cloud-Planes-grounded-Ireland-Scotland.html

    Someday something big in Iceland could erupt and Ireland could get ash fall.

  19. Gas, booze and guns on Ask Slashdot: How Prepared Are You For a Major Emergency? · · Score: 1

    I'm in Alaska, Tsunami won't get us at work or home, so always half a tank of fuel in both vehicles, have at least a hundred rounds for each gun, couple bottles of booze and beer ready to go.

    Medical supplies are always in a go-bag, I could be out of here in 5-10 minutes.

    The plan is though to hunker down and wait i out unless the gas lines break, if the DPRK, PRC or Russia nukes the base, well we are close enough we'll get taken out at home or work, so nothing to worry about there.

  20. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    If Manning had given them straight to the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times or even the Podunk Penny Saver, he'd have alot more rights and protections.

    But he didn't, he is alleged to have offered them to that dude from Wired and to Wikileaks, Wikileaks took him up on it and now he is in jail awaiting trial.

    He didn't give them to the people he is alleged to have given them to a foreign national.

  21. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    Find an Army recruiter, sign a contract, go through basic and MOS school, pass the security checks, get posted somewhere that gives you access and be a traitor.

    http://www.goarmy.com/

  22. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    When the military court finds him guilty, then we can all call him a traitor.

  23. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    You don't know what I've done in my life, I might very well be a hero.

    Or I might just be a schmuck schlepping through life, like Manning is.

  24. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    Those documents were classified just sitting on servers, not killing Jews, Gypsies, Communists and Homosexuals.

    If Manning had "followed orders" and not leaked them, it wouldn't have led to a train of Jews going to the ovens, it would have lead to the documents just sitting on servers a little while longer.

    Godwining an argument just makes the crimes of the Nazis seem more mundane than it was.

  25. Re:Okay... on How Is Obama Doing On Open Government? · · Score: 1

    What "situation" is happening with Manning exactly?

    He is held in military pre-trial confinement, as you may or may not know, military life can be a little harsh and shockingly military jails aren't Club Fed.

    Manning should have known that if he did something that embarrassed the US Army and State Department, when caught they might push every legal limit during his confinement.