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  1. Re:Illegal and Dangerous? on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    So because a deranged person might conceivably drive a car through a playground, nobody should drive because it's dangerous?

  2. Re:What with all the other debris? on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They are unpowered shells shot from a mortar, not rockets. If they hit the copter (unlikely), they will explode lower than planned, but still well up there and over the water. Considering that the copter was flying around their planned burst altitude anyway, it is likely that only the pilot would notice the collision.

  3. Re:Not a good thing on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    A 3.0 is noticeable without a seismograph. While a single 3.0 is no big deal, 240 of them in a year can crack your foundation.

    So if you prefer, "Your honor, I assure you, his house would have been condemned eventually, I just got it over with 40 years early.

  4. Re:Illegal and Dangerous? on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 1

    Even granting the unlikely event of a collision, The shell weighs more than the copter, it isn't going to stop dead and it's not going to go near people. This is especially true since you might have noticed that the higher flying shells were bursting at the copter's height.

    Since you believe the people not worried by this are fucking, I guess that means you're not fucking? Perhaps that's why you're so uptight? :-)

  5. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 1

    The parents set it to NO in app purchases. They have good reason to believe that they have controlled the risk. Then Amazon sneaks in and un-sets it. Perhaps they should take some "Fucking Responsability".

    I suppose if an airplane crashes on the house you'll blame the parents for the kid's injuries too?

  6. Re:Illegal and Dangerous? on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 2

    It was over water, so even if it caught fire, it would just splash.

  7. Re:this is why we can't have nice things... on The View From Inside A Fireworks Show · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you look closer, the fireworks and the drone are over water. So much more likely, drone struck by fireworks makes a splash, fish startled.

  8. C is a mid-level language. It is low level compared to Python but high level compared to assembler.

    If forced to choose low or high to describe C, I would reluctantly say low.

  9. Re:The Amazon AppStore Auto-consent on Amazon Fighting FTC Over In-App Purchases Fine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    THIS!

    All of the excuses about how parents should know how the device works and blah blah blah cannot overcome this. Even if the parents do exactly what the scolds demand, Amazon goes behind their back and un-does it, contrary to reasonable expectation.

  10. Re:Not a good thing on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    Your honor, I assure you those people would have died eventually anyway. I didn't kill them, I just got it over with a few decades early!

  11. Re: A good thing on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 2

    Except that it increases the energy in the next sticking point causing it to build faster than the little quakes they naturally have can release it. So they get a big quake they never would have had.

  12. Re:A good thing on Oklahoma's Earthquakes Linked To Fracking · · Score: 1

    And build pressure upstream at the next sticking point so those people can have the big quake instead.

  13. Re:Buddhist meditation... on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it also means the world is effectively run by three year olds.

  14. Re:Faith in God on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    I certainly agree we shouldn't sterilize the environment the way we do now, but I don't see the harm for shelf stable foods that will be cooked anyway (or that have to be pasteurized).

    In any event, it wouldn't be the radiation itself that constitutes the problem. There do seem to be an awful lot of people who think it will make the food itself radioactive and give them cancer.

  15. Re:"Good faith" on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    But if someone else created the file, they are the copyright holder, not Bieber or his lawyers. That means the notice was NOT sent by someone authorized by the copyright holder.

  16. Re:"Good faith" on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 1

    In theory, that should make every mistaken identity perjury. In this case, I'm fairly sure the Linux Foundation did NOT authorize Qualcomm's lawyer to DMCA GitHub.

    That will, of course, be ignored by the courts.

  17. Re:Faith in God on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    What in the world makes you think a quick blast of radiation to food would weaken our immune system or increase allergies? What's that tugging sensation on my ankle?

  18. Re:two words on Radar Changing the Face of Cycling · · Score: 1

    Now how am I going to connect that to my anti-collision missile system?

  19. Re:E-mail? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    If GS are mere mortals, why are they paid like gods?

  20. Re:E-mail? on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    Eventually doesn't matter. The encryption just has to make breaking the encryption cost more than the information is worth, keeping in mind that the value of the information will depreciate over time.

    This weeks insider tip is next weeks old news. Current passwords become worthless after they are changed.

  21. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    You have a funny concept of zero cost. Spending the same money but enjoying none of the benefit is not zero cost. Otherwise, perhaps you'd like to give me your projected mortgage payments for just a few months. It's zero cost, you're just staying with mom and dad a little longer.

    "zipper merging" is already supposed to be a thing here, we just have too many pricks that ignore it. They will ignore everything else too. It works in Germany because of the culture, not because of the driving test.

    If you want to see a real difference, get rid of long reds and dumb lights that stay green when nobody is there while holding up traffic that is there.

    We've managed for a century, we can manage another 20 years until automated cars take over.

  22. Re:Faith in God on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    It's not exactly a strawman and the horde of idiots is far from imaginary. There are people who go into a panic if some reactor somewhere on the other side of the world vents even an insignificant trace of radiation. The same people don't think twice about the coal fired power plant they live near even though it exposes them to radiation on a continuous basis.

  23. Re: Hmm on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    Then there's the opportunity to study the after-effects and the efficacy of the treatments.

  24. Re:But WHY are they demolishing the room? on Site of 1976 "Atomic Man" Accident To Be Cleaned · · Score: 1

    I believe he's wondering why not clean up and then leave it standing but closed to minimize stirring up anything they missed.

  25. Re:OR on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    So yeah, unfunded mandate. You mandate and figure everyone else can pay for it.

    Better traffic engineering will fix a lot of the problems.

    I find it interesting that all of the extra things you want covered and tested will do nothing whatsoever to address the actual problem of people trying to beat the light.

    You should look at the history of the driver's license in the U.S. Even having licensing was quite controversial at first. We never threw out the long test. Before the current licensing, none was required at all. Some did indeed argue that driving was a right.

    If you want to put your proposal through in a way that will actually fly in the U.S., offer an optional advanced license that enjoys a ceiling on insurance rates.