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  1. Re: regulation on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    if you decide to cut through a lipo cell make sure it's fully charge and record it. also make sure you have proper protective gear and fire extinguishers.

    On second thought, just make sure it's fully charged and record it.

    Protective gear around the camera. We don't care if he's damaged, but we do want to see the footage.

  2. Re:Autonomous "Driving" needs to be truly driverle on Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that the AI driving the car can probably "see" in the infrared and in all directions simultaneously so would likely have noticed the elk in the woods running towards the road long before a human driver and wouldn't have to brake hard to barely avoid a collision.

  3. Re:I'm confused on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I thought drinking age laws were coerced on the States with the threat of pulling road funding rather than mandated through the Interstate commerce clause.

  4. Re:The true max human 100m time is probably higher on The Physics of the World's Fastest Man · · Score: 5, Informative

    IAAF Competition Rules, Rule 143

    Shoes
    2. Athletes may compete barefoot or with footwear on one or both feet.
    The purpose of shoes for competition is to give protection and
    stability to the feet and a firm grip on the ground. Such shoes,
    however, must not be constructed so as to give an athlete any unfair
    additional assistance, including by the incorporation of any
    technology which will give the wearer any unfair advantage. A shoe
    strap over the instep is permitted. All types of competition shoes must
    be approved by IAAF.

  5. Re:I Would Like To Suggest "Accountability" on USPTO Asks For Input On Software Patents · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doesn't the U.S. Federal Government have Sovereign Immunity?

  6. but they can still cause a buttload of trouble in the U.N. if the U.K. does it.

    No they can't. The UK has a veto at the UN. If the UK abstains because they are directly involved in the incident, the US also has a veto.

  7. Re:What? Since when... on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick · · Score: 1

    If a state chooses to recognize a contract between two opposite sex, two same sex, or 3 same or mixed sex partners its the sates business, not the federal government.

    Does the Federal government give tax benefits to married people? If so, they need a definition of "married". That definition could be "as legally defined in your state" but I don't know enough about the US Constitution to know if it would be legal to have the Federal government tax people differently based on which state they live in.

  8. Re:Weak security questions on Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User's iCloud Account · · Score: 2

    Why do you have to answer the questions with the correct answers? As long as you remember how you answered them, it doesn't matter if the answers are actually correct. Your first pet could be George W. Bush. Your elementary school could be Starfleet Academy.

  9. Re:But ... on The World's First 3D-Printed Gun · · Score: 1

    If everyone in that theater was armed and had at least rudimentary firearms safety training... how far do you think the crazy guy would have gotten?

    Obviously, nobody can answer a hypothetical question. However, let me ask one in return. How many people would have died in the crossfire if everyone in that theater was armed, only had rudimentary firearms safety training, and all started firing trying to take the crazy guy down? It was dark and smoky. The movie special effects were ongoing. If everyone pulled weapons and started shooting, I'm sure that at least one would be hero would have been misidentified as an accomplice by another would be hero.

  10. Re:Do not use standard passwords on Lessons Learned From Cracking 2M LinkedIn Passwords · · Score: 5, Informative

    So what next?

    Two factor authentication.

  11. Re:Why? on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 2

    That may be, but DOS was 16-bit, as was Windows 3.0 and 3.1. Until OS/2 2.0 and Windows 95, there was no particular need for a 386 - a 286 would have worked just fine.

    A 386 provided Virtual 86 mode which was needed to multitask DOS applications.

  12. Re:This is why I don't believe in compulsory votin on Czech Nationwide Census Shows Jump In Jedi Knights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The US Congress declared war on Iraq, not Bush. The President of the United States does not have the power nor the authority to declare a war, which is why Obama broke the law when he had our military bomb Libya without cause, provocation or a declaration of war.

    Congress hasn't declared war on anyone since World War II. Congress did authorize the use of military force in Iraq in 2002 based on what Bush thought to be appropriate.

  13. Re:If this is true... on Can Relativity Explain Faster Than Light Particles? · · Score: 1

    In reality, it's traveling at exactly the speed of light.

    Don't neutrinos have mass? Can particles with mass be accelerated to light speed? Without reading the article or the paper and not having taken even a college physics class, I would have expected that a neutrino should have been traveling at near light speed rather than "exactly the speed of light".

  14. Re:Open Wifi Hotspot on IP Addresses Not Enough To ID Users · · Score: 1

    "We'll have a fair trial and then hang the guilty bastard."

  15. Re:Suggestion on Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear · · Score: 1

    For instance, off the path of the normal street view area, there area single pictures of things like shrines, etc.

    Those individual pictures are probably not taken by Google but rather are some individuals photos linked in from Panoramio.

  16. Re:Freenet on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    Hitting a corpse with a wrench will reveal the password how, exactly?

  17. Re:Who exactly is fighting back? on Climate Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's climate change, idiot.

    I think it's even more specific than that. It's about human influenced climate change. Climate Change is a fact. The climate on this planet is constantly changing and has been changing naturally for as long as we have any way of measuring. The causes may be something as simple a cyclical changes in the energy output of the sun, volcanic eruptions, meteor impacts, or a multitude of other natural phenomenons. There's not much we can do to change the normal cycle of climate change. The question is what impact we are having on the climate with the stuff we are pumping in to the atmosphere and what, if anything, we should be doing about it.

  18. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because everyone is a programmer, right?

    If you aren't a programmer and still care that much, you could always PAY a programmer to do the work for you. At least you have the choice. If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you.

  19. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    With Ubuntu I have no way of doing that.

    They took cron out of Ubuntu? That seems silly.

  20. Re:Because its a useles skill on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to know how to spell your own name in order to come up with a "Signature". Looking at mine you MIGHT be able to figure out my first initial and the first letter of my last name, but the rest is gibberish. Nobody cares what the signature actually says, as long as it matches whatever sample they happen to be looking at (e.g. back of credit card, drivers license, etc.)

  21. Re:26 years on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    If I'm trying to explain something while sitting on a terrace, I'm probably talking to the person I'm trying to explain the something to. The only use a pen and paper is going to be is drawing little diagrams to try and make the verbal explanation a little clearer. If I need to write something down to remember for later, I'll just jot it down on the smart phone that I "lug" everywhere with me anyway.

    Besides, the prerequisite to explanations on terraces is usually copious amounts of alcohol. Drunk writing is usually as illegible as drunk texting.

  22. Re:Who in their right mind would want to use FAT? on Linux Patch Clears the Air For Use of Microsoft's FAT Filesystem · · Score: 1

    and there are those who wonder why people don't use linux

    How many "normal" users would know how to format a disk in Windows? I would hazard a guess that most people get their storage devices pre-formatted and have never used the disk management interface.

  23. Re:As usual with new Firefox releases... on Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed · · Score: 2, Informative

    The opera menu item at the top is much better than the "Open All in Tabs" at the bottom of the bookmark folder? Personally, I don't really see a difference, but I guess there could be an issue with someone not having the attention span to read all the way to the bottom of the menu. Middle clicking on the folder is just an interface shortcut.

  24. Re:You've bought the rhetoric. on Crowdsourcing Big Brother In Lancaster, PA · · Score: 1

    In MD at least, the ticket does go to the car owner, and not the driver. The red light camera ticket I saw had only a picture of the rear of the car, and you could in no way identify the driver.

    In BC the registered owner can nominate the driver if they were not driving. However, if you do that, the driver ends up with the same fine and penalty points on their driving record. If you loaned your car out to someone and you later get a ticket in the mail because they ran a red light, get them to reimburse you for the fine. It seems to work reasonably well for car rental companies.

  25. Re:Subscription services and auto-renewal are new? on Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    I have a number of magazine subscriptions. One of them automatically renews but they will give a full refund for any remaining unmailed issues if I cancel the subscription. Would the "security" firms give a refund if someone cancelled before the automatically renewed subscription time had elapsed?