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  1. Re:job killer! on Dear Museums: Uploading Your Content To Wikimedia Commons Just Got Easier · · Score: 2

    Counterpoint. The number of people who visit the British museum to see the Rosetta stone

  2. Re:Bragging Rights on China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC · · Score: 1

    There was a largest collider competition towards the end of the cold war. Hard to say if CERN was part of it but the LHC did get some parts cheap due to the other projects being cancelled.

  3. Re:And I thought on A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet · · Score: 2

    Cleaning out old lab stores is always interesting. Open the wrong thing you end up up breathing hydrogen chloride. Mind you the worst I've ever found is sodium cyanide. Others have found human heads.

  4. Re:"Security" on A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet · · Score: 1

    Nukes are unlikely. However I'd bet there are a few physics labs with poorly documented collections of radioactives.

  5. Re:No they're not on Thousands of Leaked KGB Files Are Now Open To the Public · · Score: 1

    Pretty typical for dead tree sources. Thats actualy slightly lower than the requirements the British library put in place when I wanted to look at a load of Amiga Action stuff. Also don't try and read a years worth of Amiga Action in one sitting.

  6. Re:And when the video feed dies... on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    Pilot salaries are fairly low these days. Still if you can get rid of them you gain room for more seats.

  7. Re:How to prevent this from ever flying... on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    I don't think Airbus can build a plane that big.

  8. Re:NO-NO-NO, a thousand times NO! on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 2

    Rather fewer than the number that will die if you keep letting half evolved monkeys mess with the controls.

  9. Re:What could go wrong! on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    Doubtful. In the context of industry weight is rarely much of an issue. If you high pressure vessel already weighs 50 tonnes the weight of a viewing port is unlikely to be an issue. For things like cars cost is going to be more of an issue than weight savings. For optical aplication CaF2 is mature tech and likely a better option.

  10. Re:And when the video feed dies... on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Last time Airbus allowed an actual pilot to control one of their planes they crashed it into the south atlantic. Given the development cycle for planes if Airbus were to introduce such a feature it will be after the biologicals have been removed from anywhere they can cause problems.

  11. Re:Yeah, right. on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 0

    Thing is by the standards of the average housing project that's "tuesday".

  12. Re:Beach Volleyball on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Doubtful. Even hormonal young men are capable of focusing on other things. If they are watching a DOTA game they want to see the best non rat DOTA game possible and are prepared to stop thinking about sex long enough to so.

  13. Re:simple fix on IeSF Wants International Game Tournaments Segregated By Sex [Updated] · · Score: 1

    In most physical sorts women wouldn't make the male top 200. Getting hurt isn't the problem. Female competitions seem result in injuries at much the same rate as male ones. The problem is purely that men are on average bigger faster and stronger.

    Why female sports mostly exist because of tradition they provide a useful purpose in providing structure to women to exercise within and provide more sport that can be watched for those who enjoy that.

  14. Re:Yeah, right. on NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists" · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Eh its got more to do with nerds tending towards white and middle class and thus generaly being left alone by the system.

  15. Re:I'm waiting for "bait" files to hit the news on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Err quite a while. The reality is that with enough effort the police can probably get you convicted of something. There are a lot of laws and you don't know them all. The last thing you want to do is make them look more closely at you.

  16. Re:Correction...That you know of... on Use of Encryption Foiled the Cops a Record 9 Times In 2013 · · Score: 2

    No but I'm also going to be somewhat surprised if someone has a bunch of 1,024 MB blocks of /dev/random on their hard drive. Well I guess a few statisticians might.

    In practice odds are I simply don't care. Most criminals leave far more evidence than the police actually need to get a conviction. If I can't open a file with one click I'm going to go back to looking at your bank statements for interesting payments.

  17. Re:Deleted on US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Enough third party reliable sources to write a neutral article. In fact TV triva isn't what it used to be. Astroidcruft on the other hand.....

  18. Re:Deleted on US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    The problem is that untill very recently (at the end of the day Elliot Rodger had an impact) there was very little in the way of third party reliable sources covering the mens rights movement and related groups.

  19. Re:Deleted on US National Archives Will Upload All Its Holdings To Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall this case. If its the one I think it is "multi-platinum recording artist" turned out to mean "had some minor roles on other people's albums that the reviewers generaly hadn't noticed". Think Clare Torry but without the same level of fan obsessiveness.

  20. Re:Next in pipeline: Honking Humugous Telescope on Construction of World's Largest Telescope Finally Underway in Chile · · Score: 1

    I think it is political. When you need a name that doesn't favour any member of the ESO references to its size are the best option. I guess ESO 39.3 meter telescope would be about the only other option.

  21. Re:it was bound to happen on Thai Police: We'll Get You For Online Social Media Criticism · · Score: 1

    It was implied that alphas did from time to time and got sent off to various islands.

  22. Re:Oh the humanities! on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    Depends how you define important. Things like history tend to be significant in terms of how we define ourselves so you get the odd war and revolution. Maybe those are important? From time to time people insist on not killing people from other countries so working out what the people who talk funny are actually saying becomes important.

    Depends on the field of humanities in question.

  23. Re:Ran out of easy thesis paper topics on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    I think you overestimate how original the average STEM PhD is. Remember you can only get funding if people think you have a reasonable chance of getting positive results. Which means in practice doing much the same as everyone else.

  24. Re:Because... on Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. · · Score: 1

    Thats because the other type of liberal arts students work in advertising.

  25. Re:Fake news on UK May Kill the EU's Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    seizing the server is only an option if the server is in the UK. Otherwise not all police forces cooperate with the UK goverment.