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  1. Re:Unlikely to be discontinued altogether on Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations · · Score: 1

    Because this problem hasn't been solved for decades with various shapes of grille that minimize turbulence?

  2. Re:"fan guards in the system" on Apple To Discontinue Mac Pro In EU Over Safety Regulations · · Score: 0

    Which is in no way a good reason not to add safety requirements that would make corporations make products that wouldn't be as likely to cause harm?

  3. Re:Anyone ever read the constitution? on EU Citizens Warned Not To Use US Cloud Services Over Spying Fears · · Score: 1

    Notably, psychology of slaves, which is studied quite significantly, suggests that they are in fact slaves in their minds and most end up playing a very-slave like role in their lives even if freed. This was observed in US after they were freed in the states where there were many slaves.

  4. Re:Since when? on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    You pretty much described planetside 2. It's pretty popular since it's free to play title too, but it will need a fairly beefy PC because zerg of hundreds of players takes a lot of machine power to render.

  5. Re:USA! USA! on What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco · · Score: 1

    If you think that this has changed, you're rather naive.

  6. Re:USA! USA! on What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco · · Score: 1

    You're thinking US style. In Russia, government doesn't own corporations. It controls them. There's a difference.

  7. Re:USA! USA! on What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In Russia, power is money.
    In USA, money is power.

  8. Re:Poor summary on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 1

    Stupidity reigns supreme. You do not know that you exist. You merely believe that you do given the available knowledge.

    As a result, I present on the same merits as you that as there is no confirmation as to do you exist or not, your opinions do not exist either.

  9. Re:It was just $6.37 for the actual infringement on NZ Copyright Tribunal Fines First File-Sharer · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like your average parking fine. Quite reasonable considering that violation is in the same ballpark.

  10. Re:North Korea? on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: 1

    You seem to have this idealist image of what democracy is, that is about as removed from reality as USSR's "communism".

  11. Re:No specs? on Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787 · · Score: 1

    It's economically practical once you consider the costs of failure if you do not.

  12. Re:No specs? on Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't apply to anything large and non-physical (like software). You should carefully plan, measure, build, prototype, and only AFTER all this is done, release something.

    Releasing something half finished that isn't software typically means a failure of epic proportions. You can't easily fix something that is already built in real world. Only software is easily fixable via patches. In real world, flaws in build can mean anything from having to fully disassemble your build item to actually having to dump whatever it is you built and starting from scratch.

  13. Re:Which way will it go? on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    A350?

  14. Re:Which way will it go? on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing due to the fact that you need wiring to get energy out of the box. Fire in airliners propagates along the wiring as that is one thing you simply cannot fully isolate with fireproof blockage. It's the same thing that can't be fully secured in military subs either. There's also the factor of temperature, where even if you had a fully fire proof box, it would heat up due to internal fire and start melting/igniting surrounding materials.

  15. Re:Which way will it go? on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    One has to understand the main difference between civilian airliner and a military fighter.

    Military fighter needs to spend tens of hours on the groud in maintenance for every hour in flight. Civilian airliner needs to spend a whole lot more in the air to be viable. As a result, "bleeding edge" military tech is simply dysfunctional in a civilian airliner due to lack of necessary maintentenance time.

  16. Re:Since when? on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    Planetside 2 sounds to be close enough to what you're looking for, though some of your requirements are dubious at best (real world based?)

  17. Re:So why the hell does Flash get a pass? on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    Adblock plus had an option to allow unintrusive advertising for years now. They even maintain their own database on which advertising is intrusive and which is not.

  18. Re:So why the hell does Flash get a pass? on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    This is basically yet another case of mozilla trying to implement functionality that is already done better in a widely used plug-in or extension. It's also yet another case where they do it in a much worse way.

  19. Re:So basically... on Mutations Helped Humans Survive Siberian Winters · · Score: 1

    Fun detail: beauty used to be seen in fat, matronly bodies. These embodied wealth which was rare back in the day. We keep finding statues and images which all suggest the same thing all over the world. Fat was beautiful before food became abundant in very recent history.

  20. Re:North Korea? on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: 1

    That is dramatically incorrect. In many democratic countries, even large minorities get no say in it. You must be a minority that has a position of a decider, a minority with ties to extremely wealthy individuals or families that are willing to support politicians or a minority with something else important to give to politicians to matter.

  21. Re:North Korea? on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: 2

    In other words: they are a very traditional Western country in spite of being located in Far East.

  22. Re:North Korea? on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: 2

    There's a lot of "young farts" and "middle aged farts" thinking the same thing. Make no mistake, while Japan being a classic East Asian country with extreme interests in keeping their face and therefore only aim to show their "civilized" side to the outside world, the nationalist pride is present and going stronger then ever after WW2 defeat. Look no further then Japanese PMs visiting Yasukuni shrine in spite of massive problems this causes to their foreign relations. They simply have to do this, because if they didn't, voters with that particular point of view would likely not vote for them in next election.

    It's not terribly different from US bible belt folks and US presidents having to pay significant lip service to the Christianity regardless of their own thoughts on the matter.

  23. Re:North Korea? on Japan Launches Two New Spy Satellites · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NK is essentially an arm of China. One has to understand that China has a lot of control over what NK does due to leadership ties, and NK has traditionally served as an agent of Chinese interests when really shoddy stuff has to be done.

    That in addition to the old animosity that most Koreans, North or South have for Japanese and the fact that NK has a very strong spying presence in Japan to the point of kidnapping japanese to get them to teach japanese customs and culture to their agents, NK is a very credible threat to Japan, and far greater threat then China in short term.

  24. Re:So let me see if I have this... on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 2

    Study in a nutshell:

    "By taking in account a best case scenario, our number just barely miss the 2.0-4.0 increase prediction by 0.1 degree. We agree with the fact that global warming is man made and happening but we think that numbers should be lower then expected if best case criteria are met".

  25. Re:Poor summary on Norwegian Study: Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared · · Score: 4, Informative

    Tipping point is typically considered to be the point when waters get warm enough for methane emissions increase from sediment becomes self-sustaining. We have significant evidence from excavations that suggests that once methane saturation in the air reaches certain point, it will become a self-sustained and very fast paced acceleration.

    This is known because we can assess methane content from excavating ground layers. In other words, we know that this has happened in the past, several times. We also know that sediment contains high amounts of methane that is currently not being released into atmosphere in significant amounts and we know that warming water on top of that sediment will cause these emissions to increase rapidly.