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  1. Re:Add a sensor and dodge on High-Tech 'Bazooka' Fires a Net To Take Down Drones (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't need to figure out the trajectory, if it sees movement, fly higher.

  2. Add a sensor and dodge on High-Tech 'Bazooka' Fires a Net To Take Down Drones (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Add a sensor to the drone that sees the net coming. Program the drone to automatically dodge. Problem solved.

  3. Re:NFL can use them on Windows RT Could Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    It was a news story a while ago, where people noticed that they had Surfaces, but had leaned their iPads on them and were using them instead. Their deal was with Microsoft, but they liked using Apple. It stopped right after the story broke.

  4. NFL can use them on Windows RT Could Make a Comeback · · Score: 5, Funny

    The NFL can use them to prop up their iPads like they used to.

  5. Re:algebra is not the problem.. on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Why?

  6. Re:Okay, so it makes some Americans feel bad... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    I have also had people who are experts in their field and are terrible at teaching it. That's the problem, you need to know the subject AND how to teach it.

  7. Re:No one needs algebra... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 2

    When I give her a quarter and a dime, and she types 40 cents into the machine, it will say return 5 cents.

  8. Re:No one needs algebra... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    I bought something at McDonald's and the total came to something and 35 cents. I gave the cashier the bills, a quarter and a dime. She insisted on giving me a nickel back as change. She insisted that a quarter and a dime added up to 40 cents. I finally took the nickel just to end the conversation.

  9. I bet they will end up using a spreadsheet on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As soon as you replace a number it a calculation with a variable like cell A1, you have jumped into algebra.

  10. Mars Rover spam on Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next thing you know, the Mars rover will be sending me spam emails. Something about good prices for property with views of Olympus Mons.

  11. Re:Kinda like Franco on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but at least he is still dead.

  12. She's really most sincerely dead on SCO Is Undeniably, Reliably Dead (fossforce.com) · · Score: 1

    As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead

  13. Re:The Trouble with Closed IP on FujiFilm Discontinues Last Film For Millions of Polaroid Cameras (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting comment since Fujifilm is stopping the manufacture of film for Polaroid cameras. Neither Fujifilm or Polaroid are ceasing to exist. The technology is no longer profitable.

  14. I guess I will finally have to upgrade from my Palm Treo.

  15. Do a million things right and three things wrong on Tackling The Future Of Digital Trust -- While It Still Exists (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you build a system, you almost entirely make the right choices and design it well. You have done a million things right. But, if you miss a few places and miss a couple of potential problems, it leaves an access for someone to exploit. Systems are getting to the point where they are to large to test for every possible potential problem. It isn't helping that people rush them into service.

  16. Re:Tyranny of the majority on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 2

    All will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression. - Thomas Jefferson during his First Inaugural Address

  17. Re:Tyranny of the majority on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    If he wins the election it's democracy.

  18. Re:Tyranny of the majority on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    Left off - quote by Lord Acton

  19. Tyranny of the majority on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  20. Logic is the branch of philosophy concerned with the use and study of valid reasoning.

  21. Re:No Neutrinos Supports This on Why LIGO's Black Holes Probably Didn't Come From a Single Star · · Score: 1

    You're right, supernova wouldn't leave black holes of 30M size. These were created by core collapse straight to a black hole without an associated supernova. Maybe that leaves enough remaining material to form a disk?

  22. Re:Disks and Fields on Why LIGO's Black Holes Probably Didn't Come From a Single Star · · Score: 1

    Black holes with accretion disks are pulling the gas from a companion star. Both these stars are now black holes, and underwent supernova explosions which through off any remaining gas. Unless they are orbiting a third star (which survived 2 supernova) or have run into a very dense gas cloud, they have no accretion disks.

  23. Re:Based on what we know about exoplanets on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Before we discovered exoplanets, our models didn't predict hot Jupiters circling in extremely close orbits around their stars. So we modified them to include information we now know. Yes, if we start finding small planets at reasonable distances from stars, we will include that data. Or, maybe we won't find any.

  24. Oh dear on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    `Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.

  25. The university could also do it just because on Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    If a university wants to break into TOR, it's perfectly legal. There are probably lots of people doing the same thing today for whatever reason they want to.