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  1. Re:Remote control? on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 1

    You may call me "English as a third language". How many languages do you speak on this level?

  2. Re: on Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Hate? I was ridiculing your statement, not hating on it.

    No need to hate on someone hopeless enough to pimp out windows 8 over windows 7. You can only either ridicule or pity such a person, and I'm not nice enough of a person to just pity.

  3. Re:Thanks, California taxpayers! on Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars · · Score: 1

    Even the old coal plants from 50s are far more efficient than best available automotive ICUs. Reason lies in the core design issues and economics of scale.

  4. Re:Remote control? on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 1

    No, it has less than 10% common parts. For rather obvious reasons too. The damn thing is bigger, which means everything except for frontal assembly needs to be sized up.

  5. Re:Remote control? on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 2

    All of these are minor evolutionary upgrades. Most of ones you listed can be summed up under "bigger aircraft" (more payload hardpoints, more fuel, bigger wing surface...) Avionics upgrades have been retroactively applied to C/D models.

  6. Re:Yay! on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 1

    Let me help you here. It's not about ground or suitability. The roads, like the old Turku-Helsinki road here in Finland on high speed portions near cities curve left and right and contain almost no straight sections. It's all geometrically even curves.

    It's about as "based on terrain" as North African borders.

  7. Re:This is only one tree in a big forest on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The main source of despots in Latin America has been US, which used despots to keep countries in severe poverty while it's multinationals shipped profits to US.

    "Bolivarian socialism" has evolved to prevent this exploitation, and succeeded in increasing quality of life in the region significantly. Obviously at the cost of profits for multinationals.

  8. Re:Remote control? on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 4, Informative

    F-18 E/F (aka super hornet) mainly differs from C/D varians (normal hornet) in size. It's the same air frame with increased size, enabling it to carry more load.
    It's reason for existence is in the cancelled naval F-22 variant, which meant that US Navy needed replacement for F-14s quickly. F-18 C/D didn't have the size to carry enough fuel for the maritime patrol tasks, so size was increased in E/F variant, which enabled it to carry more fuel and weapons.

    Calling it a "whole new beast" is a bold faced lie. It's the same airframe that was enlarged with minor evolutionary upgrades at best.

  9. Re:Yay! on US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Fun detail: our large intercity older roads are actually not that straight for most part, as they are intended to be repairable after B-52/TU-95 does a carpet bombing run. Large roads tend to slightly curve back and forth, so carpet bombing from a bomber flying in a straight line would miss most of its load. This makes road repairs much easier.

    Side roads on the other hand are often designed to be functional as small air strips, so they are straight.

  10. Re:Everybody happy with iOS7 jailbreak? on Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    There are companies on android OEM market that are actually getting cyanogenmod as their official ROM. I recall some oppo phones shipping with it as default.

  11. Re: on Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    "Seems snappier" is the hipster language for "can't really tell the difference but I need to pimp my favorite crap anyway".

  12. Re:Move to breeder reactors on Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of "follow the money" as well as "look for motives" principles. I'm also an avid fan of history and a ratio of sharlatans vs one of geniuses is a very bad one in human history.

    As a result, assumption that he indeed has discovered some reason why modern physics are flawed and exploited the principle for power generation raises several questions:
    1. Why is there no science behind it published anywhere? He'd be looking at Nobel and wide recognition at the very least with all the money that follows patenting application of said laws. This is billions in money and being widely hailed as savior of humanity at the very least.
    2. If "dirty power" lobby is indeed against his invention, why hasn't it bought him out to silence him yet? He's stringing some clients for millions as opposed to billions he could be taking for his silence or technology licensing.

  13. Re:Thanks, California taxpayers! on Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars · · Score: 1

    The least efficient coal plant is still massively more efficient in terms of pollutants and CO2 emitted per power generated than most efficient automotive internal combustion engine found in road cars of today.

  14. Re:Move to breeder reactors on Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars · · Score: 1

    Wasn't Rossi the guy who couldn't decide what his invention actually is? At one point its "cold fusion", next it's weak atomic powers", next it's something else.

    All of these connected by the fact that his "inventions" appear to be in direct conflict with currently accepted laws of physics. So it's a chance that one guy actually invented something that completely revolutionizes nuclear physics as we know it, as opposed to him being a hack who is after easy money.

    Considering that he hails from Milan, has convictions for fun stuff like dumping toxic waste (which means that he has connections with mafia and does work for them, as that particular business has been in mafia hands for decades in Italy), your beliefs strike me as either exceptionally naive.

  15. Re:Lets call this what it is on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 1

    1. Google will be pulling out of pretty much everywhere by US within months after leaving Brazing because of this issue. That much is pretty obvious to anyone not living in a bubble, as the mess with the NSA spying is becoming more and more dangerous by the day.
    2. Gone the next hour more likely. Whoever would be a google CEO that would be so incredibly stupid that is. Current one sure isn't.

  16. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it's the same here. I'm guessing they want to avoid overdosing people.

    A quick look through description of stuff in my kitchen just a few minutes ago showed added vitamins on cereal, milk, apple juice. Also salt has added iodine. I guess they figured that by adding to very specific stuff intake of which you will naturally moderate (i.e. juice vs milk, both controlled by thirst) people will not overdose.

  17. Re:In other words ... on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 5, Informative

    You'd actually be surprised to hear that mother's body prepares itself for giving birth by allocating a number of fecal bacteria to the vagina, which baby licks up on its way down the birth canal.

    So yes, nature intends for babies to "eat shit". Because it's needed to establish appropriate gut flora. To the point where nowadays doctors take vaginal swabs and put them in baby's mouth if baby is born of cesarean section and cannot get these naturally.

  18. Re:I KNEW IT! on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you consider what allergic reaction is, your observation makes sense.

    Allergic reaction is your immune system looking for enemies, not finding them and attacking benign or even symbiotic cells instead. When you get a dog, alongside all the hair you get those foreign microbes and suddenly your immune system has proper enemies to fight - so it can "recalibrate" itself to combat those instead of friendlies.

  19. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    Where I live (Finland) effectively all milk, the handy source of calcium needed for bones is also fortified with vitamin D among other things. Drink a couple of glasses of milk every day and you're set on both calcium and on vitamin D. Not to mention the couple of other vitamins that are also included.

  20. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, both in EU and many developing countries fortifying basic staples such as serials, rice, milk and so on with variety of vitamins has been a norm for a long time. It is largely aimed at people with imbalanced diet, to help them get their necessary basics and as a result significantly reduce pressure on various medical and social systems of the society.

    This has been done for longer than most people on slashdot have been alive and has been very effective in eliminating vitamin deficiency from most countries.

  21. Re:supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults on Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits · · Score: 1

    I would begin by looking at a placebo effect, which can be achieved by healthier means that pill popping.

  22. Re:Finally. on Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors · · Score: 1

    Installing and maintaining them is costly as well.

    Finally managing vast amounts of data is difficult as well.

  23. Re:Lets call this what it is on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fact that both of these companies have CEOs that would like to keep their jobs would suffice. Any CEO that would try to exit a country of size and importance of Brazil in the name of "not following local laws" where local laws are about protecting locals from spying will be gone next day.

    That goes even for Google. This isn't "we're protecting users (actually protecting our source code from being stolen)".

  24. Re:Obama forgot he works for the Americans ! on Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA · · Score: 1

    The reason this is happening is because he knows very well who his bosses are.

    It's just that ignorant people think they know better and like to quote various papers. They are wrong, as papers don't decide who rules. Power does. And power is firmly in the hands of those that Obama and his likes serves.

    So he'll rule just fine, people will feel they have been wronged, and do nothing about it. Because those in power will tell them through the mass media that life is unfair, that this is normal, and that they should just focus on beating their neighbor at the competition of who has the greener lawn. After all, that's a competition they can win!

  25. Re:No Sympathy on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 1

    There is a VERY good reason to write it for windows - that's what everyone uses.

    Car analogy: you are arguing that all cars should have a tracked version, because you can't expect everyone to use roads.

    As for your other claim, keep reading this thread. I secured a vanilla no updates XP machine for years while it was connected to the internet via an open static IP. Infection requires three things: vulnerability, vector and source. Securing potential vectors and sources is, in my experience, far more effective than securing vulnerabilities.

    On the other hand, I've also been using 3.6.28 FF ever since it came out. It's supposed to be supervulnerable and massively exploited. Infections so far: zero.

    Think on why.