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  1. Re:Cops do whatever they want on Texas Sheriffs Crash $250k Drone They're Not Supposed To Be Flying · · Score: 1

    Ha!
    That movie is on right now

    Thanks,
    Major Major M. Major

  2. Re:Come to me Google Fiber! on Comcast Offers To Shed 3.9 Million Subscribers To Ease Cable Deal · · Score: 1

    And the Comcast doesn't? ;)

  3. Come to me Google Fiber! on Comcast Offers To Shed 3.9 Million Subscribers To Ease Cable Deal · · Score: 1

    Got the news earlier this year that the area I live in is on the short list for fiber next year.
    Crapcast can bite me if it shows up.

  4. I'm Confused on Siphons Work Due To Gravity, Not Atmospheric Pressure: Now With Peer Review · · Score: 2

    Does it suck or blow?

  5. Re:Any chance of finding gravitational waves? on Astronomers Discover Pair of Black Holes In Inactive Galaxy · · Score: 3, Informative

    . Also, their separation is by a couple thousand light years,

    TFA reads:
    "The separation between the black holes is quite small: 0.6 milliparsecs, or about 2 thousandths of a light year. That's about the width of our Solar System."
    So gravitation waves might be seen AT that distance

  6. Re:Remember Oliver North on AMD Not Trying To Get Its Chips Into Low-Cost Tablets · · Score: 2

    No, they won't be selling ARMs to Iran.

  7. Re:So I was all "Social contract, move to Somalia" on Beer Price Crisis On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    And how many people will consider beer waste handling as an important enough issue to vote out someone? None. They're going to be more interested in big ticket items like gay rights or abortion. This is how the government stealthes in an array of regulations that eventually consume our every moment.

    So, if you think the "big ticket items" are gay rights and abortion, you've bought into the democrats (and most republicans) stealth plan to hide from the "real big ticket items".

  8. Re:Good PR Move on Fluke Donates Multimeters To SparkFun As Goodwill Gesture · · Score: 2

    Yeah we call support when it comes back from failing the yearly calibration that the FAA requires.
    And guess what Fluke says?
    "Failed calibration??? We'll send you another if you'll give us the bad one to study"
    I've owned Fluke meters for over 30 years, and you can tell these guys care about the product the make.

  9. Give It Ten Years on Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year · · Score: -1, Troll

    And the federal budget will be nothing but entitlement spending and interest payments on debt if we keep on the path Congress has us on now.

  10. Re:If it's not being reused - go full industrial on Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die · · Score: 1

    Hard Drive meet Hammer Drill

  11. Re:So a good match... on New Russian Fighter Not Up To Western Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wasn't it Stalin that said "Quantity has a quality all it's own" when the Allies told him USSR's equipment was inferior?

  12. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 1

    Too viscus ;)

  13. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 2

    I've been working on turbine powered aircraft for over 40 years and have never seen ANY jet fuel delivered that had avgas blended into it.
    A 70% gas blend would hot start any engine so bad it would be destroyed before it reached idle speed.
    Rolls allows, on it's turboshaft engines, 25 hours total with 10% mix of avgas for starting in very cold weather. Any more than that and you throw the turbine wheels away. (70 grand or more for 4 wheels)
    Pratt doesn't like any avgas in their fuel at all.
    The problem is the lead and sulphur in all avgas blends. It does bad things to the high heat materials that turbine components are made of.
    BTW, I run lots of JetA in my '83 Mercedes 240D.
    Just add some 2-stroke oil for lubrication.

  14. Re:Jet Fuel? on New England Burns Jet Fuel To Keep Lights On · · Score: 5, Informative

    "No, they mean kerosene-gasoline blend, more commonly knows as jet fuel."

    Jet fuel has no gasoline in it.
    In fact most turbine aircraft engines are limited to just a few hours of operation with any amount of gasoline mixed into the fuel.
    After that you you get to overhaul the hot-end with the added bonus of tossing some very expensive turbine wheels of blades away

  15. Everybody Knows on Translating President Obama's NSA Reform Promises Into Plain English · · Score: 1

    He's promising bulk data will go to a third party so the NSA can't see it. Okay, who is this magical third party?"

    Google?

  16. Re:but .. on New Treatment Kills Metastatic Cancer Cells · · Score: 1

    We all hope so.

  17. Re:Totally Underappreciated Taiwanese Geeks on Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? · · Score: 1

    Mod this post up

  18. Re:Except you don't have a 100% link to your db on Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze · · Score: 1

    "honor system"
    Don't live in ATL do you?

  19. Re:We have all the evidence! on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    And it's grown around privets to hide them.
    Which came first ?
    The bush or the shitter?

  20. CHIPs? on Meet Paunch: the Accused Author of the BlackHole Exploit Kit · · Score: 2

    You mean Eric Estrada was a malware kingpin?
    I don't believe it!

  21. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    It's not the slightest mistake that gets you. It's "cutting doughnuts when the tires suddenly hook-up" that gets you.

    Google "motorcycle highside" to see the equivalent on two wheels.

  22. Ha! on U-CAT Robotic Sea Turtle Set To Explore Shipwrecks · · Score: 1

    When I first glanced at the title I saw : US Robotics.

    They gonna run a POTS line to the ocean floor?

  23. Re:Inaccurate supposition on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    As an A&P for over 35 plus years I've known a great deal of commercial rated pilots.And it seems that over the last fifteen years or so I've seen the basic competency of younger pilots degrade to the point that I sure as Hell wouldn't want to be in the same plane with them during an emergency.
    They lack a basic understanding of the systems and how they work, and don't seem to be interested in learning them.
    If I was getting into a plane everyday and climbing to 40 thousand feet in it I'd at least want to have a clue of "how does the fuel get from the wing to the engine"?
    This does't mean everyone of them is like that, but many seem to be nothing but button pushers.

  24. No ELT? on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    On these things?

  25. Re:I'm all for it on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1

    Damn, where are my mod points when they are needed?