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  1. The aviation industry has been doing this for many decades and no doubt have pre-built solutions that could be adopted.
    The medical equipment industry has similar software.
    It's a matter of obtaining the intellectual property for the real-time OSs and such. The apps would be different but the underlying real-time kernel could be the same. The value of well-debugged real-time software would be high. But would management recognize that?
    The old question, build or buy?

  2. The tech manual will be automatically installed on your smartphone when you buy or rent the car.

  3. Re:I thought it was solar wind+no magnetic field on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, TFA is Tata Football Academy?

  4. Progressives are wrong choice. on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1
    Ask your optometrist for "Computer glasses". They know what they are:
    1. Wider field of view that doesn't change prescription going left to right or up and down. The whole screen in in focus and is clear at once. Also the other screen. So you can change what you're looking at by moving your eyes, not your head.
    2. Focused about an arm's length away. Not close like reading. And not "Distance". This is the key.
    3. Can be the upper half of visible-line bifocals, with the lower half a reading prescription.
    4. None of the shape-distortion that happens with progressive lenses, where straight lines can look curved.

    This is especially important as you get older. Half the problem with elders failing to use computers is they can not read the screen. And be sure to keep your computer glasses near the computer, and don't wear them for driving, running, or even hiking. You may need a pair of "distance" glasses for that.

    Your prescription may vary. If you're 18 years old with good vision, you don't need any glasses at all.

  5. Re:Panama Canal took 33 years, 4 countries on With Chinese Investment, Nicaraguan Passage Could Dwarf Panama Canal · · Score: 1

    Or this: A dragline.

  6. Re:Summmary seems very one sided on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    And if that Bolivia was between Mexico and the US, and kept on sending rockets, suicide bombers, and kidnappers, America would quickly get completely fed up and blast 'em to smithereens. Instead of 1700 dead there'd be 17,000. Or more. Arguments over news reporting would be a footnote.

  7. Re:Qatar is in an arms race with Saudi Arabia, Wha on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    Just web search for 'Qatar vs Saudi Arabia' and you'll see over a billion results. Hot enough for you?

  8. Re:Sources? on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    There are no independent sources. I suppose we could imagine a super news organization that ran its own spy network. But on this planet, media get their information, especially on military matters, from the interested parties.

  9. Re:Misleading headline on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    We already knew Israel had a high-tech military. But who of us knew Hamas was going that way too?

  10. Re:Hamas are Terrorists on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1
    1. We don't have a good definition of "Terrorism" that is shared among us all, so the term becomes kicked around and abused. So I've stopped using it. By the way, the Hebrew word for terrorism does not involve the concept of terror or fear.

    2. The governments involved, including the PA, have come to believe in a "Two State Solution", but Hamas does not. And Hamas is in a position to threaten the success of any 2-state plan, by taking over the West Bank, and starting another war with Israel. I believe this is the reason that Hamas is being destroyed. I think this is why the PA and several Arab states are very muted in their criticism of Israel during this war: Hamas is their enemy too.

      If Israel does not destroy Hamas this time around, then my theory is probably wrong.

    3. Hamas never sought anything peacefully. The PA has engaged in diplomacy, but Hamas, not. The rest of your narrative is one-sided, propagandistic and tendentious, too.

  11. Tech vs Tech on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    As war becomes more Tech vs Tech, slight technical advantages can snowball into huge military advantages. Especially if you can modify the actions of your enemies systems in real-time.

  12. Re:Billions? on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    The Times of Israel article doesn't say Hamas is funded with billions. It says Qatar spends that much on defense, some of which goes to Hamas.

  13. Re:Sheldon's Solution? on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    I propose direct intervention by God. He should give precise instructions to each individual and group regarding where to live and what to do. We've lost the message.

    Lacking that, some level of violence will continue.

  14. Re:Ok: you have everything backwards. Everything. on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    The article you link to was from June 30. It was after then that Hamas increased its rocketing big time.

  15. Re:child casualties on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1
  16. Re:When did the Jews become the Nazis? on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    If Israel wanted to kill masses of Arabs, they would have. Instead, the populations of Gaza and the West Bank are soaring.

    The Arabs are free to leave. There are practical difficulties, but the Israelis aren't preventing departure.

    In Israel, Arabs and Druze have equal or nearly equal rights, and are judges, soldiers, lawyers, doctors, and businessmen. Arabic is one of Israel's national languages.

    The acid test of whether criticism of Israel is really Jew hatred is if the standards applied to Israel are the same as for other countries. Compare the performance, for example, of Israeli air power on Gaza to the performance of American air power on Afghanistan. It turns out the ratio of civilians killed to bombs dropped is higher for the Americans.

  17. Re:Terrorism on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Exactly correct.

  18. Re:100% Israeli Propaganda on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    That was in June. Hamas started rocketing again later in July, in a big way.

  19. Re:Hamas Is 100 Percent of the Problem on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    The smuggling tunnels go from Egypt to Gaza.
    The terror tunnels go from Gaza to Israel.

    Pretty easy to tell them apart.

  20. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that Iran has one Jew in their rubber stamp legislature.

  21. Hamas also cut electricity on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 2

    Several of the power lines bringing power in from Israel to Gaza were cut by Hamas rockets. Oh the irony!

    And Hamas is hundreds of millions of dollars behind in paying their power bill. I get cut off if I'm behind a few months. Hamas gets a better deal from Israel than I get from my power company. Life just ain't fair.

  22. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Hamas was already as much of an enemy as it could be.

  23. Re:Not surprising. (97% ?) on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 2

    You exaggerate here: "readily observable and incontrovertible". The study of abstracts of assorted scientific papers was done very subjectively. Some authors said they were counted as on one side when they were aren't on any side. And so on.

    That said, it's clearly a majority of climate science.

    Climate science finds itself in the unusual position of making quantitative predictions of chaotic systems based on numerical digital simulations, which in turn are based on limited data. Compare that to, oh say, evolutionary biologists, who spent a 100 years proving their theories about the past were correct, but don't dare try to predict the future course of evolution.

  24. Re:CAGW is a trojan horse on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 2

    Curious about this:

    ...companies that make profits off of fossil fuels have armies of people scouring their data

    I hear all sorts of stories but never see these sorts of accusations verified. Do you have evidence of armies?

    It reminds me of the study that showed the Koches et cetera were spending billions on blogs and propaganda. Sounds reasonable. Until I realized there would have to be some newly rich people on the receiving end of all this dough. I haven't seen them. Got data?

  25. Brain Science on When Beliefs and Facts Collide · · Score: 1

    People who disagree with Yale professors have brain damage. This finding makes it easier for Yalies to hold on to their prejudices without considering ideas that make them uncomfortable.