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  1. Re:Have they solved liability? on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    IF it's due to improper maintenance? then it's your fault.
    Manufacture defect? Manufacturers fault.

    This is no different then if a hand brake fails and a car careened down and his some one.

  2. Re:UK vs US roads on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    Did you tell him you were surprised Australians need so much hand holding to get around? :)

  3. Re:New flash: Humans get bored on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    " after which the crew reacted incorrectly and ultimately led the aircraft to an aerodynamic stall from which they did not recover.["

    It was the crew.

  4. Re:A Progression of Complaints on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    The rage comes from fear they will mist the ride. Once there, no need to rage. Baring unusual circumstance.

  5. Re:A Progression of Complaints on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    People will get used to it in a hurry. Too mach gain.

  6. Re:A Progression of Complaints on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    The statement you quote could very well be correct. Pretty much everyone will be dead at 65MPH, so at 85 you can't get deader.,

    It's like the falling cat question.
    How com cats the fall 13 floors seem to live as much as cats that fall out of the 6th floor? Because almost no one takes a dead cat to the vet.

  7. Re:Figures it would not be the US on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    America is not actually litigation happy. Stop using the news and pundits as is they are accurate.

    The insurance is not that big of a deal.

  8. Re:good they have NHS so one some gets hurt on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 2

    The same person whose at fault when there is a issue with current cars.

    If it was improperly maintained? the owner.

    Manufacturer defect? The manufacturer.

    Was it a random unforeseeable event? No one.

    Really people, this has been solved.

  9. Re:Dark? on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 1

    "(which would be an extremely odd, and frankly, a not very believable aspect of cosmology"
    says someone, every time something new is found.

  10. Re:Why is the Local Group moving closer? on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 1

    "Pass me that last piece of pie, would you?"

    No. Lose some weight.

  11. Re:Kevin Sorbo will be pissed... on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 2

    OTOH, Quark's garbage route will be shorter.

    I saw your bad SCI-F, and raised you :)

  12. Re:What about the supermassive black hole? on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 1

    Since E=mc2, have a negative mass would mean negative energy.

    How do you have negative energy content?

  13. Re:Start from scratch on The Milky Way Is Much Less Massive Than Previous Thought · · Score: 1

    "I read an article recently about scientists saying the speed of light is not constant. "
    scientist selling a book. Not scientists, and certainly not consensus.

    And what do you mean so fundamental?

  14. Re:Limits of Measurement on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 1

    Reading both your post is like watching dogs try to explain airplanes.

  15. Re:Quantum mechanics is real, like it or not. on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 2

    "but it's the way the universe really works. "
    at the quantum level. The macro universe is also how the universe really works.

  16. Re:Not only not common, but not allowed on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 1

    "Unless *all* datafiles on your client's system are encrypted,"
    haha.
    If I can get into your system(I can) then I can install a number of tools to find you keys. Or install keyboard sniffers and have everything sent to me.

  17. "Security through obscurity is not secure at all."
    false.
    It's one of many layers of security.

    Here is the code for my car:
    7261

    Good luck finding out where my car is located.

  18. Re:Windows firewall? Who cares? on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 0

    A) the MS firewall works well.

    B) There are more then on vector into a network.

    You are taking a risk. The issue you have are dealt with by being a professional and documenting them.

    I'm not saying they other guy did it right, only that I would fire you for incompetence.

  19. They won't meet on Ask Slashdot: Is Running Mission-Critical Servers Without a Firewall Common? · · Score: 1

    PCI compliance.

    I hate these crappy 3rd party vendors who don't know how to write software. I just dealt with this with some 3rd party products here. We were finally 'Get it to work with the firewall or we'll send you your crap back'

    Magically, the "impossible to do" was done in a week.

  20. Re:500? on Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink · · Score: 2

    It's has a tremendous surface area. For more then you fins.
    For comparison, then on the surface area of a brick cs the surface area of a sponge.

  21. Re:"unrealistic expectations of the Air Force" ? on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 2

    Do you know why they want to get promoted in missile command? to get out of missile command.
    Look, I was in Missile Command(F.E. Warren*). You're whole view on this is wrong. Your view is based on a school math like grading system. That in no way applies here.

    *Fuck Everybody Warren.

  22. Re:"unrealistic expectations of the Air Force" ? on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 1

    You're wrong.
    It's a specific set of procedures. You know them and can preform them or you can not.
    They aren't doing calculations.
      They aren't composing a sonnet, they aren't reciting history dates.

    But I've been there, and you just an ass on /.

  23. Re:The Air Force is also making an effort to repla on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 1

    That begs the question. Why do you assume they are currently secure?

    That said, these system are typically engineered, that alone will make them have a high level of security.

  24. Re:Not sure how well this will stop cheating on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 1

    "because their jobs are basically so damn simple it's going to be very hard to realistically rate one crew as being notably better than another. "
    I was SAC, and that statement is laughable.

  25. Re:Not sure how well this will stop cheating on Nuclear Missile Command Drops Grades From Tests To Discourage Cheating · · Score: 1

    In randomly given test to check exactly what you describe scores were into the 90%

    The issue is about 1 or 2 percent difference in the 90 percentile.
    While you test would work, it is much simpler to grab everyone you suspect of cheating, and give them a test under controlled conditions and see how they fair.