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  1. Re:Why does Congress get involved? on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why did congress get involved in the MLB steroid scandal? It is what they do.

  2. Re:Terraforming Mars? on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be one hell of a ski run. I wonder how long it would take to get from bottom to top to bottom again.

  3. Re:Terraforming Mars? on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    You might be better off using Mercury. Venus + Mars might be too massive for us to survive on the surface.

  4. Re:Magnetic field and open terraforming not needed on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    If terraforming is your goal, Venus would be a better target. While being terraformed, there is a spot at altitude where pressure is Earth norm, and temperature is livable. The atmosphere also has everything we need to produce CO2, O2, H2O to have a life sustaining habitat built.

  5. Re:Yoda Headline on Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period · · Score: 1

    Did samzenpus go to Yale?

  6. Re:Yeah, that's sound about right on FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use · · Score: 1

    Well, since the FAA has regulated RC aircraft and manned aircraft for years, and now congress wants them to regulate drones, perhaps someone gave a definition for drone.

    https://rcflightline.com/drone...
    http://www.informationweek.com...
    http://boards.straightdope.com...

    That last link has a quotation from an actual bill that congress passed
    https://www.modelaircraft.org/...

  7. Re:Yeah, that's sound about right on FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use · · Score: 1

    It has to do with how it is controlled.

    RC Aircraft are controlled by watching them, they can't go too high, and can't be controlled where you can't see them

    Drones are controlled by watching through a remote camera or by GPS waypoints

    They are different to the FAA; RC Aircraft already have laws regulating them and have for a long time. Drones fall under a mix of manned aircraft rules and RC aircraft rules, so congress asked the FAA to properly regulate them.

  8. Re: same as guns on Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption · · Score: 2

    Sure, before abortions were legal, desperate women would use coat hangers, or go to the local witch doctor.

  9. Re:Righthaven on All Malibu Media Subpoenas In Eastern District NY Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    I can understand where you are coming from, but I was responding to this:

    The "Motion to Quash" (gotta love that name) references Righthaven as an example of abuse of copyright.
    Federal courts have addressed such practices regarding plaintiffs "attempt to create cottage industry of filing copyright claims, making large claims for damages and then settling claims for pennies on the dollar." Righthaven LLC v. Democratic Underground LLC, No.2:11-cv-01356 (D. Nev. April 14, 2011).

    Somehow I find it unsurprising that pornographers and right wing nutjobs try and use the same scam.

    What is right wing about filing a lawsuit to unmask a doe, suing that person, then settling for a much smaller amount. It seems this is used by many different trolls, and likely doesn't have any political ideology behind it. It is sleazy though. Filing a lawsuit with the intention of settling just to get a payout is wrong. It is short circuiting the justice system for personal profit.

  10. Re:Yeah, that's sound about right on FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use · · Score: 2

    What you have isn't a drone, it is an RC copter. Video transmission or autonomous flight is required to be considered a drone.

  11. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    Do you often miss jokes? I even tried to explain the joke for you, but you are persisting in taking the joke as literal.

  12. Re:De-fund the FAA on FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use · · Score: 1

    I doubt it is serious, it is just the Liberal version of the conservative troll. He attributes incorrect policies to a political movement, then demonizes them for it.

  13. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    No, literally killed.

  14. Re:Righthaven on All Malibu Media Subpoenas In Eastern District NY Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    What is right wing about that process? The Democrats support the movie industry, not the Republicans. Or are you one of those Europeans that thinks all of america is right wing compared to them?

  15. Re:How about the QA index? on Researchers Create 'Habitability Index' For Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    repeating the same tired space age clichés that will never, ever happen, ever.

    I think it is you that is living in fantasyland. You are claiming that it will never happen, which the evidence contradicts.

  16. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 1

    I'll bet that killed the file server...

  17. Re:So to get this straight... on On-Chip Liquid Cooling Permits Smaller Devices With No Heatsinks Or Fans · · Score: 1

    Somehow I don't think the working fluid in a liquid cooling setup will be kept at quite the temperatures in a refrigerator. Rather, the temperature of the working fluid will be in the biological "danger zone"

    https://www.google.com/search?...

    which encourages the growth of microorganisms which can clog a liquid cooling setup. I believe this is why many use antifreeze or special fluids designed for the purpose, but I could be wrong about that.

  18. Re:Dashboards on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    What about when your GPS tells you to turn while inside a tunnel or on a bridge?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

  19. Re:Dashboards on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    On one trip from Maryland to Massachusetts, going on the lower level of the George Washington Bridge, my Garmin said I was moving south on the river at 700mph. I kept that record on my GPS until I gave it away.

    GPS through tunnels, double decker bridges and in cities is unreliable. In cities, the buildings can block enough of the sky to prevent you getting a lock, and if you have ever driven through New York, you will know you don't want to get lost there.

  20. Re:Dashboards on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying that a NAVIGATION system needs volume controls? It couldn't have anything to do with improving the navigation by having real data from the car to augment the GPS, or replace it in scenarios where you lose signal (GW Bridge, tunnels, also much of NY due to the buildings). There are good reasons to want this data in a built in car system. Even the gear shift position is useful...for turning on a backup camera.

  21. Re:Dashboards on Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data · · Score: 1

    The glorified stereo/nav system doesn't really need the info.

    Reread your sentence and rethink that. What could a nav system possibly use throttle position, speed, steering position for?

    The rest of those are probably to allow display of these values back to the user.

  22. Re:Forget about the neighbourhood e-cat on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I want those to come on the market, I'd invest in one.

  23. Re:Just on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 1

    http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/a...

    Not even close unless you come up with some other cost to tack onto the fossil fuel generation that doesn't actually exist on people's electric bills.

    BTW, those are 2020 rates, not current, so they take into account how much it takes to build the power plants rather than relying on already built plants vs plants that aren't built yet.

  24. Re:Popcorn ? on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    It is Boy Scout popcorn season...

  25. Re:Sarah Sharp .... on Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    Because she talked all about her butthurt yesterday?

    http://linux.slashdot.org/stor...