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  1. military-industrial complex on Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that the F-35 is a problem (1) too reliant on a much too complex maintenance system (2) wanting to do all in one (multi role) (3) a product of the military-industrial complex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex) - but now I see I'm not the first one with that idea. wonder why...

  2. Re:I've been scanning plates for months from my ca on New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet another prediction that has turned out being wrong...
    https://github.com/sujaybhowmi...

  3. Re:So ... on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 1

    mmm... chickens [Homer]

  4. hi tech. on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1

    ... with built-in shades that drop automatically when a BSOD is detected.

  5. Re:SneakerNet on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    sounds like good old cold war spy practices (arranging handovers, dead drops, etc...) might come back...

  6. Re:Just try... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    darling, did you switch off the reactor when we left?

  7. health? on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 1

    How about educating people to eat more healthily, and investing in healthy food, so that there will be less GI problems?

  8. boredom on What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty · · Score: 1

    maybe the problem of boredom is that too experienced pilots are tasked for drone piloting. maybe drone pilots should be recruited separately, and be given an adapted training. a real pilot is trained all day long to try to save his own life, while a drone pilot can step away and hand over to someone else while going for lunch. -alex-

  9. pictograms on Touch Interfaces In Cars Difficult To Use · · Score: 1

    I noticed a similar issue on some types of buses (Belgium): there is a small greenish monochrome 6inx6in display that seems to offer space for inch-wide pictograms to show info such as brakes, lights, etc. Problem is that the display is empty by default, and pictograms appear in a stack-like fashion (stacking in "reading order", from left to right): when eg beamlights are switched on, a pictogram for the lights appears in the next free spot, rather than in a fixed spot. So it is not possible to know what system is actually active other than by reading the entire display, because the pictograms do not have a fixed place.