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  1. Re:How did they ID the part? on Researchers Claim Metal "Patch" Found On Pacific Island Is From Amelia Earhart · · Score: 1

    Those *actual experts* were qualified only to testify about Lockheed's repair techniques (that the plane would be rebuilt to specs). However, they were not qualified to testify about whether or not the panel came from her specific Electra, as it could have received post factory modifications of which they (the experts) were unaware.

  2. Re:An obvious mistake... on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    What did you tell them, when you called? Did you advise them that you were transferring an OEM copy to a new machine? 'Cuz you are violating the license, as Luckyo pointed out . . . getting away with it doesn't change that fact.

  3. Re:Time to "stock up" from NewEgg ... on OEM Windows 7 License Sales End This Friday · · Score: 1

    Except that you can get a few more years out of an existing machine, and you'll want/need to upgrade your system by the time you upgrade the OS again - this time to Windows 10. I've taken this approach for a few friends who didn't want the security risks involved with XP, but who also didn't want 8.x. (Another friend's box was too old - it was bought the year XP was released - and so we replaced it with a $300 refurb with Win 7 included).

    BTW, how often do you think the average user transfer the OS from one PC to another?

  4. Re: This is silly on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    You might want to Google "Piercing the Corporate Veil."

  5. Re:Being a computer scientist on Computer Scientist Parachutes From 135,908 Feet, Breaking Record · · Score: 1

    No, that's "whoosh".

  6. Re:Steering? on How To Beat Online Price Discrimination · · Score: 1

    They are offering a product at a proposed cost. How is this not advertising?

  7. Re:You sound old. on Tesla Teardown Reveals Driver-facing Electronics Built By iPhone 6 Suppliers · · Score: 1

    You left out the "vibration rich atmosphere of a car." Yeah, I've owned a few clunkers that would vibrate the cigarette lighter out of the socket, bot I'm not at all convinced that you will find any vibration in the Tesla's panel. Aren't the vibes somehow connected to the number of cylinders?

  8. Re:Pay me once, shame on me. on Amazon Robot Picking Challenge 2015 · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like a Mechanical Turk - and what would Amazon have to do with a Mechanical Turk?

  9. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    A bit of history: the 2 x 4 nomenclature is the size of the plank that is initially cut from the log. The reduced size is primarily a result of the wood drying out. This has lead to our oddball system where planks are listed with oversize numbers, but finished wood or plywood by actual dimensions.

  10. Re:Surprisingly on Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The problem only affects electronic displays. Aircraft with the displays are still required to have "steam gauges" - the old fashioned instruments (airspeed, attitude, altitude, etc.) which are physically driven by direct sensors (such as the pitot tube which measures airspeed). A couple of these instruments (artificial horizon, direction indicator) can be seen in the picture in the article, between the second and third display screens.

    The likely concern is that there is a reaction time required in order to revert to the manual instruments in the event of a screen failure. This shouldn't be a problem for a trained pilot, but the Korean airline crash in San Francisco was a classic case of trained pros getting it wrong . . .

  11. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    The ones that I've noticed (specifically speaking of over wing exits) had the hatch being removed inwards, and then being dumped on the wing. But I don't fly a lot, and I don't recall what models I was in.

    BTW, the new Boeing does have an outward opening door, apparently a sort of a gull wing action that lifts the door up and over the exit, out of the way.

  12. Re:Perfect? on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    The Martin Mars can drop 600 gallons compared to the 12,000 gallons of the DC-10.

    No, it carries 600 gallons of foam concentrate alone - it scoops up 7,200 gallons of water each time, and can make a pass every fifteen minutes. I think this throws your comparison off by a wee bit . . .

  13. Re:strongly doubting it on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    The Martin Mars (as mentioned elsewhere) has the option of mixing retardant en route - up to 600 gallons of concentrate, enough for up to 21 drops. IIRC, other aerial tankers can do so as well.

  14. Re:Hmmm .... on A DC-10 Passenger Plane Is Perfect At Fighting Wildfires · · Score: 1

    And yet, emergency doors typically open inwards.

  15. Re:Expense on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1

    A nit to pick: the batteries are different; it is the cells that are the same.

  16. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 1

    No - Archer is produced in Atlanta, Arrow is filmed in Vancouver.

  17. Re:The London Bus is a good place to start on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link, I was envisioning such a system and was wondering about its practicality.

  18. Re:Batteries? Seriously? on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    According to the article, charging time is 7.5 to 10 minutes. Not a lot more than your 5 minute swap, and a lot less infrastructure!

  19. Re:hmmmm on California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews · · Score: 1

    NDAs are simply a promise not to divulge a secret, typically signed by an employee or contractor who needs the info in order to do their job. They have nothing to do with consumer sales ("...the sale or lease of consumer goods or services..."), which this bill expressly targets.

  20. Re:hmmmm on California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews · · Score: 1

    NDAs are to cover technology or "trade secrets" - writing a review for "peppermint Coca-Cola" (making something up) saying "it sucks moose balls" isn't revealing their 'recipe' for making it or anything secret,[...]

    Let's sincerely hope that "it sucks moose balls" is not, in fact, actually revealing the recipe.

  21. Re:hmmmm on California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews · · Score: 1

    "Pursuit of happiness" is from the Declaration of Independence - it is not a Constitutional right.

  22. Re:Ineffective advertising on Dell's New Alienware Case Goes to Extremes To Prevent Overheating · · Score: 1

    5. It's small and cramped... which I'd expect from a portable design for lan parties... but it's too awkward to carry.

    5. Handles are built into each of the corners. Easier to carry (or tip forward, for connector access) than a typical box.

  23. Re:Home-made Hydroforming? on Watch UK Inventor Colin Furze Survive a Fireworks Blast In a Metal Suit · · Score: 1

    Check out this video of a guy using a pressure washer to form an expansion chamber.

  24. Re:A few small but significant ones ... on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    I have three Model Ms to my name, and they'll have Charlton Heston's guns before they'll have my Model Ms. And I've been using the Kensington Expert Mouse (a cue ball sized trackball) for decades - have three now, wouldn't give them up.

  25. Re:They could make a full circle on How the Ancient Egyptians (Should Have) Built the Pyramids · · Score: 1

    Read the article - creating a circle could be done, but would result in more damage to the roads.