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  1. Re:Is that all that it takes? on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which implies that shutting down an entire airport when a single drone is spotted is over reacting to state it mildly.

  2. Re: Is that all that it takes? on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And that would work when the speed differences are so extreme between two moving objects? I can see that this is used for cruise missiles but they move quite fast as compared with the slow speed of a drone vs the airplane that it wants to hit.

  3. Re:Is that all that it takes? on London's Heathrow Airport Halts Departures Over Drone Sighting (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be more interested to know if it's even possible to divert a drone into the path of an airplane flying at 180-238mph with such a precision that you can hit the engines.

  4. Re: This is why we can't have nice things. on Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading After Double-Spend Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The same can be said for millions of IT projects. It's the "how hard can it be" and the non understanding that existing systems and infrastructure are designed the way they are for a reason and not just because every one else in the world is so much more stupid than you.

  5. Re:Extreme dumbassery on both sides. on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    That is when you drive aggressively right at you as to actually drive right into your car but then swivel away at the last second.

  6. Re:I really don’t get it on Anti-Tesla Pickup Truck Drivers Take Over a Supercharger Station -- Again (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    And, Tesla is coming to take my truck away ha-haaa
    Tesla coming to take my truck away ho ho hee hee ha haaa
    To the funny farm
    Where life is beautiful all the time
    And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
    In their clean white coats
    And Teska is coming to take my truck away ha haaa

  7. Re:This should be illegal on YouTube's Biggest Stars Are Pushing a Shady Polish Gambling Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really wonder if the TOS with "During using the services of the website You may encounter circumstances in which Your won items will not be received" is actually legal in Poland to begin with.

  8. So he pays 3.2 billion, gets back 4.55 billion and have to pay at least 9 billion rebuilding it, that still leaves him 7.65 billion in the red, not to mention all the missed rent that he could have collected for all these years. But no of course he plotted to kill 3k people just to be 7.65 billion in the red, you people are truly insane.

  9. Almost but not really: https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...

    Moreover, upon signing that lease, Silverstein was obligated to insure the World Trade Center. There was nothing strange, suspicious, or “fortuitous,” therefore, about his purchasing an all-risk insurance policy — which at that time would have automatically included terrorism coverage — two months before 9/11, because that’s when he became contractually responsible for doing so. Ultimately, Silverstein wasn’t even solely responsible for the total dollar amount of that coverage ($3.55 billion) because that was the minimum demanded by his lenders, according to a 2002 report in The American Lawyer.

    And he got back $4.55 billion when the rebuilding cost was estimated to be $9 billion so he lost a ton of money here, so no there where no "funny how a jew profited from terrorist attacks" at all.

  10. Re:And who is going to pay for all the updates? on EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And who do you think will pay for what happens if any of the software on that list gets hacked and comprises some governmental or commercial data? Funding research that benefits us all (or most of us) is exactly the thing that tax money should be used for.

  11. Re:we believe on Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also we have to accept that Google somehow knew that adding a blank DIV would throw a spanner in the works for Edge. We also would have to accept that Google never thought that Microsoft would be able to code around it with an update either.

  12. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So exactly how is now MySQL not a "real" relational database? Please enlighten me on this with your insight. But since you compared InnoDB with a NoSql when it comes to consistency you are either delusional or just a failed troll.

  13. Re: Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And who have used that in the last decades? InnoDB have even been the default since v5.5.5 which happened 8 years ago.

  14. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So is this one of the old "I've only heard of MyISAM and never about InnoDB" kind of posts? In fact using transactions is one of the ways to increase write performance, so no MySQL is not fast only if you throw away transactions.

  15. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that what is considered a high number this days? For comparison I have a MySQL server where one of the tables gets 45 million new records PER DAY and it works flawless on a commodity Supermicro (X9DRW) server. And the other tables gets a total of 3.4 billion write transactions PER DAY on the same server.

  16. Re:Mock Me Regarding Fashion on Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme (droid-life.com) · · Score: 2

    At least Polo Ralph Lauren lost that legal battle: http://www.rugbytoday.com/rugb...

    The US District Court of Southern New York dismissed all of Polo’s claims, and they did it with prejudice, which means they can never sue Carlberg, Rugby America, Liquid Rugby or Barbarian on this matter again. While that doesn’t mean any other rugby-related retailer is immune from being sued by Polo Ralph Lauren, it does make it a whole lot harder for the retailing monolith.

  17. Re:So choppy animation is "all good things"? on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    So you think that film-making is far to cheap today, ok.

  18. Re:Always wondered what this was on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Many thanks for the super informative videos. Cry and shame that his videos does not have more views.

    Also if beyond 24fps for movies would have shown any benefits then I'm quite sure that the movie industry would have gone that way back when TV where becoming a real threat to the cinemas which lead Hollywood to experiment with the aspect ratios which was the reason it moved away from the old 4:3 format. So one would think that the framerate would have gone the same way if any one would have found any benefits vs TV there as well.

  19. While alcoholics prefer the buzz they can sustain their addiction with low alcohol content. The alcoholics that gather in parks around here usually buy the cheap "folköl" that is between 2.25 and 3.5 vol% since they cannot afford the real stuff (and when they do it's christmas but they can sustain on the folköl).

  20. and then you realise that none of that needs a block chain

  21. Re:Python or Java Couldn't Exist w/o C/C++ on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but JX uses a microkernel as well. It was in my initial list.

  22. Re:Python or Java Couldn't Exist w/o C/C++ on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So why do all Java OS:es use a microkernel written in C to handle all these things if it's possible to do it in Java. Why does there not exist such a pure Java OS anywhere?

  23. It depends on whether you need to be as big as Google to make that happen or not. I.e due to how big Google are they can manage to get all the advertisers for their service, something that a new small player will have a much harder time doing. Anyway it will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the end.

  24. If I recall correctly the thinking was that Google blocked Spain because Spain is small so if "we" expand the same legislation to the whole of EU then Google will abide due to them not willing to miss out on the larger EU market.

    That is more or less what the printing industry claimed in the news over here; that they was not afraid that Google would simple go away. So hopefully Google will just go away and then we will see how long it will take for the printing lobby to double back.

  25. Also the lobby of the printing press managed to convince the politicians that all grass root opposition to this legislation where just paid lobby groups from Google and Facebook.