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  1. Re:Nobody goes to war anymore. on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1
    Yes, but World War II was mainly about fighting back against an invading force, though with the help of another invading army. The Germans and the Japanese were seen als invaders in most of the territories World War II was fought in. Their power came mainly from external forces, and only for a small part from local support.

    It's different if the dictatorship consist of native people. Then it has at least partly local support. And if the dictatorship was there for some decades, then you have a large part of the population whose whole life is based on the existance of that dictatorship, even though they may be opposed to the actual actions of said dictatorship. People tend to be wary if someone else wants to turn their life, even if he claims it would be better. And if he then makes some mistakes, he can easily turn the whole population against himself, good intentions be damned.

  2. Re:Turn it into glas / Correct on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    Glas material is prone to break if there are sudden temperature changes, e.g. if suddenly cold water runs over the slightly heated (due to the radioactive decay) glas bricks.

  3. Re:Would you like some cheese with that? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    He can't, because it's the official document of his import of a boat. If the sum in the chitty is wrong, and he knows it, then it's defrauding the IRS and avoiding taxes. So he definitely has to ask for the right information to be filled in, and that's what he did. You can't blame him for that.

  4. Re:Traps on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And this helps against a burglary when he's away exactly how? (Except that this gets more guns in the hands of criminals in the case of a burglary.)

  5. Re:buy a security system + cameras on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because pitchforks are tools, mainly made to shovel manure. They are only clumsy, makeshift weapons. Guns are built to propel projectiles at high velocity against a target, which makes them quite clumsy, makeshift tools for anything else.

  6. Re:Nobody goes to war anymore. on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    I'm tired of this line that we need to make sure that we're sensitive to the people that live there, when any one of them could strap a bomb on and kill twenty American soldiers.

    It's always a bad idea to lose support in the local population, even if it tires you.

    Fighting a war without local support means that most of your army has to stay behind in occupied territory busily fighting local insurgents, and as you rightly said, they can just strap a bomb on and kill twenty American soldiers.

  7. Re:type44q on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    Sadly, this would mean losing Danmark, as the Faroer Islands are danish. And I wonder why TFA calls the british jet Typhoon, because here, most people refer to it as Eurofighter.

  8. Re:Pro Exploitation CEO on US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day · · Score: 1
    Yes, it's quite possible.

    I fight all the time with american phone equipment which insists on a phone number being exactly 10 digits, with the area code being three digits and the extension having four digits.

  9. Re:You're wrong, in my opinion. on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    Maybe you've got inbound links only, and no outbound links. You're still a webpage.

    Yes, then you have a web, but you are not part of the public World Wide Web. Or to quote Tim Berners-Lee

    Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another.

    (Emphasis mine).

  10. Re:Like most overgeneralizations... on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 3, Interesting
    No, the World Wide Web was the vision which would emerge out of lots of HTTP-Servers serving pages of HTML with links to each other. Tim Berners-Lee explicely stated such:

    Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another.

    So yes, to be part of the World Wide Web, your site has to have at least one link from another site -- otherwise it's not part of the public World Wide Web. It's the same with the Internet. Of course you can create another network using IPv4 or IPv6 to connect the nodes to each other, but as long as there is no external link into it, it's just an intranet and not part of the Internet.

  11. Re:Like most overgeneralizations... on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    But the first webcrawler hitting your first link and then following it will index all 25 sites, and then there are external links to each of them.

  12. Re:be nice if... on Internet Poker Could Make a Comeback By Going Brick-and-Mortar · · Score: 3, Informative
    The main difference between lotteries and casinos is the number of rounds played. Even if a casino skims only a small percentage, it skims it every round, and that's where the money is made. Not many people enter a casino once a week to play exactly one round, as it is with lotteries.

    If you play for instance Roulette, your payout on average is 36/37 per round. After 25 rounds you have on average about 50% of your capital left. An evening of Roulette thus gives the casino the same share of your money as does playing one round in the lottery.

  13. Re:Like most overgeneralizations... on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 2

    What ever it is, it surely is not part of a world wide web. It's an island all of its own.

  14. Re:Assuming they're linked at all on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then maybe your blog is not part of the World Wide Web, it's just based on the same technologies and can be reached via the same means.

  15. Re:Like most overgeneralizations... on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your pages are not connected via links to any extern sites, then by definitionem, they are not part of the World Wide Web.

  16. And the undisclosed bus manufacturer... on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1

    ... is EvoBus, a subsidary of Daimler-Benz. And that's why the second test track is in Mannheim, Germany, because there EvoBus builds their busses (coaches are build in Ulm, Germany). To be more exact, it's a Citaro bus Bombardier is using.

  17. Re:Big deal... on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 2
    Maybe it's because there is no real debate, only a fringe group of deniers and a large group of the world which basicly agrees on the facts? Why should the U.S. government, the UN and the majority of the world population do something else than just shrugging about those strange part of the U.S. population, that denies evolution, climate change and believes in a young earth?

    They may cry that they are not the same fringe, but from the outside, they all look alike. Just ignore them.

  18. Re:Big deal... on Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network · · Score: 5, Insightful
    You can get the raw data since some time, but the problem was not the University of East Anglia, it was a lot of stations in different countries not wanting their data published without a fee. I know, this can be easily overlooked if you want to blame the evil and conspiring scientists. But this is the reality in Intellectual Property County, where even for raw data someone wants money.

    And now, all the data is in the public, but there is a profound lack of climate models contradicting the ones used by the IPCC. As ever, there are some differences about the details, and a lot of people delightful point out that there are models predicting 4.2 degree temperature increase and others predicting only 2.5 degree. But that's basicly complaining about the wet paint not being completely even on the building. It doesn't break the building down.

    So please tell me: Now, that all raw data the IPCC is basing the climate model on, is out in the public, why are there no competing models out there? Maybe, just maybe, it's because the raw data actually points to an AGW? And futhermore: Why is it that only the U.S., Russia and China seem not happy with the results of the IPCC, and the population of all other countries seem to agree that the models are quite correct, and actually describing what they are seeing?

    Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the respective ideologies in all three countries, for which the mere existance of an AGW is dangerous, and thus all the prophets of the ideologies try everthing to make even the aknowledgment about facts unhappen by crying wolf and starting ad hominem attacks (you know, "characteristics of a cult" - purely an ad hominem attack without any argument supporting it) against people actually knowing what they are doing?

    So basicly: Put up, e.g. provide better models based on the raw data (which is aviable since 2006), or shut up!

  19. Re:He is out of order on Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene · · Score: 1

    Judicial Activism is as old as courts are. You always had judges who were quite ingenious when it came to interpreting the current law.

  20. Re:TWO years?? on CERN's LHC Powers Down For Two Years · · Score: 1

    There are 3D printers who do ceramics and others who can print metal objects. Both use powders as base which they either glue together with a fluid to be burnt later, or electrocute the powder to provide a first melting together for later sintering.

  21. Re:His story is verified on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 1
    You didn't read the UPDATE, did you?

    UPDATE: A source who has seen the data logs explains how it's possible how Broder and Musk could both be truthful but sort of wrong. The high-voltage battery in the pack, allegedly, had enough power to move the car a much greater distance than needed to move the car onto a flatbed, maybe as far as five miles, but the 12V battery that powers the accessories and gets its juice from the high voltage battery shut down when Broder pulled into the service station.
    When Broder decided to turn the car off, which was a mistake, the parking brake (operated by the 12V battery) was rendered unusable. If Broder was told not to turn the car off, it's his mistake. If Tesla told him to do it, or didn't inform him he shouldn't do it, then it's their mistake.

    Everyone can manage to stall a car completely by misusing it. Elon Musk just said, that the car was intentionally stalled, and he provides log data to prove his point.

  22. Re:Google just fell prey to a common phenomenon on When Google Got Flu Wrong · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. You only hear in the media about epidemic and pandemic estimates of the upper range. The prediction "we'll have 30,000 deaths in 2013 due to the normal flu" wouldn't make any headlines, because every year, about 30,000 die after getting sick with the flu. But most predictions of epidemics and pandemics are exactly like this -- it's just the expected behaviour. There is a big difference between the average estimates coming from the scientists and the single highest estimates reported in the media. And of course, "everything is normal" is no news, thus it doesn't get reported that often. Information is the inverse of probability, and reports about highly improbable events have higher information content than reports about average events. Highly improbable events happen and contradict our expectations, and thus it is important to report them. Normal events happen, but we were expecting them anyway, thus there is no point in reporting them. Your "ALWAYS" is probably more due to confirmation bias on your side than anything else.

  23. Re:Make the penalties lighter? on Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers · · Score: 0

    Yes, first persecuted, until the police gets hold of you, then prosecuted in court.

  24. Re:Make the penalties lighter? on Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then he should be prosecuted for what he actually did. You seem to conflate the means to commit a crime with the crime itself. If you stab a person in the back, you get persecuted for murdering a person, not for wielding a knife.

  25. Re:Why... on Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He violated Terms of Service of JSTOR. And he took responsibility for it (by handing over his HD to JSTOR and admitting what he did). Everything else is overboarding prosecution and trying to boost one's career at the expense of someone vulnerable.