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  1. Re:Is this for real? on DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) · · Score: 1

    What evidence do you have that they care about our lives? Psychopaths rarely care about anything but themselves.

  2. Re:Remember this is an initial report on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 2

    The training has proven to be entirely inadequate. This type of accident is far too common, since the earliest days. One guy should always be flying the plane, but all too often everybody's trying to troubleshoot the problem. and even in a storm it is possible to maintain control with a working artificial horizon and a fixed power setting as you point out.. Key word is 'situational awareness'. Lose that, then indeed, all bets are off. A lot more hours in the simulator are needed to burn this into the guy's head.

  3. A failure in training on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    If all this is true, it appears the pilots 'froze up; and failed to monitor the instruments that were working properly, namely their HSI or artificial horizon.. 'Partial panel' training, or learning how to fly with what you have left is part of every pilot's training, but under high stress situations like this, it a llgoes out the window, and the result is a form of tunnel vision, focusing on the malfunctioning instruments. This is what happened in the BergenAir crash when its pitot tube was obstructed, and AeroPeru with the taped over static port.. A similar incident happened to Eastern's flight 401 in 1972 when the nose gear down light didn't light up. All three crew members were trying to troubleshoot that and nobody was flying the plane. A very common cause of these things when situational awareness is lost.

  4. Re:Bill Stuck In Senate Plumbing on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Means nothing.. He ended up voting to renew it.. but let's all continue to ignore that little tidbit

  5. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Not sure yet, but I think I like you... Haven't detected any spam yet, so let's see how it goes..

    TNX.. I'll be looking forward to more profundities and other deep thoughts

  6. Re:Search engine over HTTPS without logs of any ki on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    ...Duckduckgo...

    "Results by Bing"... Oops! I don't think so...

  7. Re:+Insightful on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    RICO isn't supposed to apply to a guy caught with a roach in his ashtray, but somehow Sheriff Lobo will end up with a free new Suburban in his driveway at the end of his shift...

    DMCA will apply to whatever the government says it applies, and if you make too much stink about it, you will end up being charged with resisting arrest, or creating a disturbance.

  8. Re:Wyden's been a on a roll lately on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    pffft.. I might be impressed if he planted some land mines to actually kill the thing... This is nothing but a carny act..

  9. Re:Bill Stuck In Senate Plumbing on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    It's very easy for them to take a 'controversial' stand when they have no real influence on how the vote will turn out.. Learned that little lesson with Kucinich... they pretend to take the opposing side when they know full well the thing will pass with the remaining votes.. If this and the patriot cat depended on their vote, they would be all for it, which preaching against it.. It's a very common ploy to play both sides.. Too bad people still fall for this old gag.. The party will replace these guys right quick if they don't play ball

  10. Re:This is a claim, and not a 'report' on New Book Reports Soviets Behind Roswell UFO Scare · · Score: 1

    Heh, not by much... 'surgically altered (by Nazis no less) childlike aviators from Russia' is damn near as loony as it gets.. I'm looking forward towards the movie.. It would be right up Oliver Stone's alley..

    Straighten Up and Fly Right

  11. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Soooo... then it would be the end of SSL, and therefore HTTPS, and therefore pretty much all e-commerce?

    Not at all.. You will just need to prove to your service provider that you are officially authorized to use encryption.. and violation of said rules will carry a very harsh penalty. Just look at how places like Burma do it. And don't think for a second that the average voter would be against such a scheme. The public relations department already has that covered

  12. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    The crazy man in the pinstripe suit will not be swayed by such arguments.

  13. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 2

    I can assure you I give very little, but that's all irrelevant when I consider that we all constitute maybe two percent of the economy that doesn't even amount to a tick bite.. At this point going underground is the only way, but we are still tethered to their wire.. We are sitting ducks...This is the first thing that must be dealt with (Well, actually the first thing is to be aware that we are dealing with psychopathic authority. Forget about applying 'pressure' to that).. And then fill the system with noise to avoid raising suspicion by our absence (ie: 'what are you trying to hide?').. Comparatively speaking, the rest will be cake (but but but the cake is a lie!)

  14. Re:Bill Stuck In Senate Plumbing on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Strictly a PR move for the folks back home. He's fully aware that this is only a speed bump, not tire spikes.. It's the same game Kucinich played over the health care law. Someone will read him the riot act, and he will back down..

  15. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 2

    It won't.. It will get to the point that if the ISP can't decipher your packets, they will simply be dropped.

  16. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Well, I hope you can find a way to economically connect to an off shore service service provider at the same time.. Otherwise you will simply be redirected back to Google.us

  17. Re:Upgrade network infrastructure on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    That is probably a good start, but how does it protect you from the actions of your service provider who will, in the name of 'god', be spying on your every move? We need real P2P and to prevent what we say and do from being used against us.. My question is, how do we achieve that? Preferably in a peaceful manner, but ultimately, any way we can, if that's what it takes.

  18. Re:Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    That will do nothing to protect you from DPI and other offensive behavior by your service provider.. We have yet do devise a truly P2P internet, free of the corporate wire(less). To me, this would be the utmost priority. From there we can communicate our ideas about how to protect other essential freedoms, like the right to exist without having to declare ourselves any authority, to move about freely, etc. Even the right to produce our own food is coming under threat.. We are very close to being under a true Stalin like collectivism in order to protect commercial interests. And it will produce the same results... Maybe killing people off is the real intention.

  19. Re:NOT the PATRIOT act on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not really.. Both are grievous offenses against our rights, just in different areas. Resistance to both, and all the others that are on the books are equally important. The idea is to fight infringement by the authorities and make them ineffective.

  20. Instead of complaints, we need answers on US Senate Committee Passes PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) How do we route around this damage?

    2) How do we protect our natural rights from a majority that votes them away?

    Let's stop focusing on the distractions of greed and corruption and the psychopaths in positions of power and get to finding real solutions to render all of that irrelevant.

  21. I'm calling 'dupe'! on Senate Passes 4-Year Re-Up of Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 1

    Not so much with the story, though it does apply, but with the comments... just more of the same old crap... and here we are, with even a worse law than before. In fact, I'm calling a preemptive 'dupe' for the story that will pop up when it renewed in 2015.. and the time after that... turtles all the way down...

  22. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all.. on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    :-) yeah, we crude primitive savage neanderthals still haven't figured out how to use a computer without turning it on first.. In fact we don't even have self starting machines.. gotta hand crank em to fire em up, and man! it's a real knuckle buster when they backfire... And the fact we like to perform experiments on them only makes the situation worse.. damn lucky to keep them running for a week before something pops... lots of steam and hissing noises and the occasional connecting rod stuck in the ceiling.. the kids sure get a kick out of it though..

  23. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all.. on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 2

    You're not trying hard enough... I've locked them both up plenty of times. And I'm not just talking about the applications.. Complete lockup.. frozen solid...

  24. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all.. on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    Name one...

  25. Re:They forgot the most important feature of all.. on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 1

    Killing the power puts a lot of stress on the components. A reset switch avoids that issue. I would expect people to understand that. Not a lot of hardware folks around here, is there?