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  1. Re:will be interesting to see what they do with it on Google Acquires Boston Dynamics · · Score: 1

    Then they can sell ads for medical services, home repair services, security services, law services....

  2. Re:The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    He means... if someone is going to rob his place with a gun, he would rather just see them rob the place and deal with the criminal suit and insurance claims, than having a shootout between the robbers and a good samaritan.

  3. Re:I hope they made it easy to get the data on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 4, Informative

    Considering GitHub is based off using git, every previous contributor already carries a complete download of the whole thing, including a history of all past commits and branches, at all times. At most, they would lose the handful of commits made since their last fetch.

  4. Re:The worst thing... on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 1

    If they can refuse service to anyone carrying a firearm, and can call the police to forcibly remove you from the premisis if you do not remove yourself, how is that any different from forbiding you to carry a firearm into their store? It just seems nitpicking on semantics at that point.

  5. Re:the question is on New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering · · Score: 1

    Is supraconduction something to do with the starter battery in a Toyota?

  6. You launch the seaplane from the catapult, the seaplane lands in the water, and you recover it with a crane. It's a method of added airborne capability to ships with a very limited runway. It was frequently used on battleships.

  7. Re:1KW/hour? on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    No you fucktard. It's sold by the kWh. No division. You divide energy by time to get power, its rate of change. You multiply power by time to get energy, its summation.

  8. Re:Dimensional analysis... on EV Owner Arrested Over 5 Cents Worth of Electricity From School's Outlet · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about? Watts, and thus kilowatts, are a unit of power. Power is the rate of change of energy over time. The rate of change of time, times the time, is thus energy. kW*h is a unit of energy equal to 3.6MJ. On the other hand, kW/h is the rate of change of power output over time, which is only usable in measuring how rapidly a power plant will ramp up in power output.

  9. Re:What are the odds? on Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a Typhoon class... only about an sixth the size...

  10. They'd have launched seaplanes - they could use the ocean as their runway.

    The submarines were fitted with a catapult. You can carry much more payload if you're not trying to take off from water.

  11. Re:Captured at the end of the War on Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii · · Score: 1

    Cruise missiles and soon drones are the exception that proves the rule - they're encapsulated and fit into standard torpedo tubes and thus do not impose notable restrictions on the boat.

    Actually, they're usually launched out of vertical launch tubes, similarly to ballistic missiles.

  12. Re: Noah on Research Suggests One To Three Men Fathered Most Western Europeans · · Score: 1

    "Can not" and "cannot" are two completely different meanings. "Can not" means you are physically able to not perform the action, but there is still a choice in the matter. "Cannot" means you are unable to perform the the action. It's the same as the difference between "may" and "must".

  13. Re:One Word: CNet on Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA · · Score: 1

    Empathy? I thought that was just something made up for counsellers on starships.

  14. Re:That's cool on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    Why geo? Drones are lot closer. Besides, spy satellites are leo.

    Because the summary....

    But satellite technology, remote sensing and computing have advanced to the stage where it's now possible to orbit a geostationary satellite that can reliably distinguish small, but spreading, wildfires with few false alarms.

  15. Re:That's cool on Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires · · Score: 1

    Can you actually get 10' resolution (they said 12 square meters, so 3.3m x 3.3m) in the infrared band from geosynchronous orbit, or is that just the minimum area of forest that must be burning to get a visible temperature spike?

  16. Re:Happens in real classes too on How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn · · Score: 1

    Considering the only people required to take Psychology are Psychology majors, it could be argued that taking part in some of these studies as the subject is a necessary experience prior to conducting them yourself.

  17. Re:I guess what is comes down to ... on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    How do drivers' inaccurate opinions of their fellow drivers mean their judgement of road conditions is also inaccurate? It's nothing more than a instinctive defense mechanism. If you think everyone around you is stupid, you will naturally act with more caution.

  18. Re:Trust the industry, what could go wrong? on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    I don't pass on the right. I merely drive on the right, where I'm fucking supposed to be if not actively passing someone else. It's not my fault people like to pass me backwards on the left.

  19. Re:I guess what is comes down to ... on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    Myth busted... how? They're claiming the fact that the study was performed nearly 50 years ago somehow means it's irrelevant. The study is based off human perception and reaction, not those of the car. Human abilities change on much longer time scales, and if you want to refute that study, you need to find some way in which their methodology was flawed, or perform one of your own. Instead, they bring up some independent study discussing the percentage of fatalities from pedestrian impact, showing a drastic spike around 40kph, or 25mph. Well what do you know, all the two lane city streets in my area DO have a 25mph speed limit. Higher speeds are reserved for high traffic, multi-lane roads, that pedestrians would be foolish to try to cross. We as a society do not need to penalize everyone to protect the foolish.

  20. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    When the people you're attempting to argue with have come to a conclusion before even looking at the data (hence, conspiracy nuts), all that's left is ad hominem attacks.

  21. Re:Now this sounds like a perfect job for on Hotel Tycoon Seeks Property Rights On the Moon · · Score: 1

    You need a whole lot of mass for any permanent structure, as you need to shield from radiation. The only reasonable solution is to build your structure using the available local materials. To that end, you actually can produce a form of cement using the lunar regolith.

  22. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    Poor signal to noise ratio. It's hard to pick out any arguments of real merit from the sea of worthless conspiracy nuts.

  23. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    You can't make a cell phone call from an airliner at cruising altitude.

    That's why they were made from the radio phones built into the aircraft. There were 37 calls made during that flight, and only two of them were claimed to be made by cellular phones.

  24. Re:TSA - sky nazis by any other name... on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    Or bomb sniffing machines... What ever happened to those things? I flew a couple times in the mid-2000s and those things were everywhere. Now we have those shitty nudity scanners that invariably cause me to get patted down.

  25. Re:That's No Gatorade on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 2

    No sir. This McDonalds cup is full of coke, not beer. No no no, not that kind of coke...