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  1. Re: Kinda sounds like on Drone Hobbyists Find Flaws In 'Close Call' Reports · · Score: 1

    It's rather relevant. The scope and scale of the plane and quantity of people involved shouldn't be a defining factor. A smaller 1-4 passenger plane is going to be more at risk from a drone than a commercial passenger jet simply because of scope, scale, and redundancy. Further these planes are going to be operating out of smaller airports of which many people are ignorant precisely because they don't service jetliners. I live within 5 miles of one such airport which means I can't fly a drone at all without being in violations of the FAA's regulations. I'm about 12 miles from an airport which does service jetliners.

    The issue is when taking off or landing at an airport. That is the most dangerous time of the flight and what drone operators are neglecting is that it's not a matter of whether it's a near miss or not, it's a matter of an uncontrolled object flying in an area where a landing or takeoff is being performed. There's no clue to its intentions. Whether jet liners log more flight miles and hours is irrelevant as we are mostly concerned with the number of flights (take offs and landings) that are occurring and the risk that a drone's presence creates.

  2. Re:WTF? on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    If he were white then no one would care, unless he was that quite kid that nobody liked or trusted. Then he's be treated the same way.

  3. Re: Kinda sounds like on Drone Hobbyists Find Flaws In 'Close Call' Reports · · Score: 1

    Also, planes typically have only one person onboard?

    In general the majority of planes produced world-wide have been small craft that have one to four seats which means that the majority of aircraft that have been produced are quite capable of having on a single person onboard.

  4. Re:Those Anti-Science Liberals. on UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows · · Score: 1

    > But to say that often homeopathy is better than medical treatments as the GGP said is just plain false.

    That's being generous. Not only are they false, to propagate their usage over other medical treatments that do work is negligent and harmful.

  5. Re:Israel hasn't vowed to "wipe Iran off the map" on Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today · · Score: 1

    I would have said it was false more for the reason that Iran doesn't border Israel and any invasion of Israel by Iran would require the shipment of men and material across Iraq and either Syria or Jordan in order to stage an invasion. Well that or an amphibious operation that would make Overlord simple in comparison.

  6. Re:GODDAMIT, I THOUGHT THIS HAD FINALLY ENDED! on An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists · · Score: 0

    Is it sad that I ignored who the submitter was, scrolled a bunch of text, thinking it was a Bennett Haselton post, found the first comment, and became certain that it was a Bennett Haselton post?

  7. Re:I'm not saying it's an alien, but... on Researchers Say S. African Bones Are From Previously Unknown Human Relative · · Score: 1

    That's no alien, it's a battlestation.

  8. Re: solid. on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    Manussexual.

  9. Re:Needs and Wants on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Washable rags. Now you can store your shit on cloth until you're ready to wash it away!

  10. Re:A first-tier IT help desk person thought of thi on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    Compared to smell or sound, sight is easily controlled. You simply need to control photons in the room. Since the human body doesn't generate photons you only need to control for external sources. With both smell and sound the human body is capable of generating these stimuli on its own.

  11. Re:Overkill on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    Try your friendly adult toy store.

  12. Re:3a. left turn yields on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    The one making the turn yields if you both arrive at the same time. Just the same as if you both didn't need to stop.

  13. Re:culture dependent on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1

    Then there's the people that enter the intersection when it's green but they cannot clear the intersection and consequently end up blocking traffic once it has turned red.

  14. Re:I doubt it on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    Driving on a golf course is a relatively trivial problem to solve compared to driving on a road. Low speed, predefined routes, predictable conditions.

    Have you ever been on a public golf course?

  15. Re:12 Month Isolation on In Hawaii, a 6-Person Crew Begins a Year-Long Mars Isolation Experiment · · Score: 1

    They had to surface in order to recharge their batteries using the diesel engines, which required air. That's what made nuclear submarines a game changer in sub warfare.

  16. Re:When The Lunatics Take Over The Asylum on French Woman Gets €800/month For Electromagnetic-Field 'Disability' · · Score: 1

    .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_identity_disorder

  17. Re:You Can't prove Nothing on Federal Court Overturns Ruling That NSA Metadata Collection Was Illegal · · Score: 1

    Neither a victim or a witness are bringing forth the case. In the case of murder the state has standing by virtue of the fact that an individual ignored a law that it set forth.

  18. Re: Ban all NUKES NOW - accident waiting to happen on Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective · · Score: 1

    U-236 undergoes alpha decay. Alpha radiation has such a low penetration power that your bare dead surface skin is usually enough to block the radiation from causing you harm. You have to ingest the material for it to be a radiation risk.

    The only thing I know of that has a kill time close to 5 minutes is the elephant's foot in the Chernobyl reactor building, certainly nothing close to a hospital. Shortly after the time of its formation the highest contributors to its radioactivity were a lot of isotopes with shorter half lifes, typically under 30 years. That lump has already lost over half it's radioactivity from it's formation.

  19. Re: Ban all NUKES NOW - accident waiting to happen on Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective · · Score: 2

    Thyroid cancer in these individuals is caused by iodine-131 that was absorbed by the thyroid shortly after the Chernobyl incident. Anyone who is wearing a Chernobyl necklace was exposed to fallout within mostly the first eight days after the incident or to put it another way anyone who was in the area of fallout after May 5th, 1986 is unlikely to wear one.

    Your statement is rather pointless as it does nothing to refute his point regarding long term habitation in the area post accident.

  20. Re:Simple solution on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    Better idea. It's not a credit against the license but rather a check sent to the submitter of the dog shit. This way non-owners can clean up other people's shit and get paid for it. Require the shit to be sent via the post-office.

  21. Re:I'll believe it when I see it.... on US Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    I personally only consider the first one a cure. Under the second definition you are still negatively impacted by the disease which is, to me, a perversion of the term cure. You may not be at risk of death or injury from the disease but your life is still negatively impacted by the disease by requiring you to upkeep treatment in order to avoid the death or injury.

  22. Re:I'll believe it when I see it.... on US Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells · · Score: 2

    The radiation therapy for the blood cancer kills off most of the marrow cells but not all of them. The remaining living cells could still harbor the HIV virus. They were unsure if the HIV was eradicated because the donation occurred and the donor's T-cells attacked the hosts marrow eradicating hiding places for HIV or if it was because the donor's T-Cell were mutated in a way that made them resistant to HIV. The radiation played a part but undoubtedly the transplant was the reason for it.

    While it is a treatment that has cured someone of HIV. I don't personally consider it a cure because you're just removing the diseased region. For comparison, if I had skin cancer on my left forearm I'm not "cured" of it if I amputate my left arm.

    It's great that this guy is cured of HIV but they need to find out if it was a mutation in the donor or the donation itself and even then it's not a cure as long as it's reliant on donors because the number of people that can be cured is going to be smaller than the total pool of HIV infected individuals. We need to be able to synthesize the cure so that it can be distributed to most of the victims.

  23. Re:The cars can detect gestures. on When Should Cops Be Allowed To Take Control of Self-Driving Cars? · · Score: 1

    I can't think of a valid reason an individual LEO should be allowed control of an individual self-driving vehicle, ever. There is simply too much potential for abuse.

    The vehicle was used to flee the scene of a crime.

  24. Re:I'll believe it when I see it.... on US Scientists Successfully 'Switch Off' Cancer Cells · · Score: 4, Informative

    We have not found a cure for either. What we have found is more effective treatments that reduce the rate of mortality. Earlier detection of cancers allows doctors and surgeons to treat and operate on cancers before they have time to grow and spread. We can get to a point where we no longer detect cancerous cells in your body but you are by no means cured because the detection is not absolute.

    Treatments for HIV has helped many people avoid having it develop into AIDS but we haven't cured HIV. The people going through treatments still have HIV and are still at risk of it developing into AIDS.

  25. Re:Space taxis are for cows. on Calls For Funding NASA Commercial Crew Grow · · Score: 1

    I'm a potato. How are you?