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  1. Re:US paying Europe for emissions... on Up To a Quarter of California Smog Comes From China · · Score: 1

    If you keep in mind that the US doesn't really produce much
    basic stuff ( which tends to be pollution intensive )
    and China is riding the tiger of industrial growth they
    are actually trying very hard.

    Successfull at that.

  2. Re:Logs indicate no overcharging on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    .. of peeling back all the layers of subcontractors. Just like an onion. Tears and all.

    Well put. I like that wording. .. And tears there will be.

  3. Re:Logs indicate no overcharging on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    Thales is the system integrator
    GS-Yuasa in their US subdivison makes the cells and the battery enclosure
    supervisory circuits are from Canto Japan
    the charger is from Securaplane USA
    the APU starter is from Securaplane USA

    I have doupts that Thales was the primary decider of components here.
    your turn.

  4. Re:Logs indicate no overcharging on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 1

    A case of hurt Jingoism?

  5. Re:Logs indicate no overcharging on Dreamliner: Boeing 787 Aircraft Battery "Not Faulty" · · Score: 0

    Yes the batterie ( bus ) voltage is monitored and stored in the FDR.
    The per cell data is stored either on the pcb in the battery enclosure
    or the charger.
    Going by the notice that the values are unexpectedly
    not available my guess is in the battery and those pcbs are toast.

    Dumb design. The enclosure looks positively american.
    I've never seen something so superficially designed from japanese engineers.

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

    yes!.
    capability of fixing problems.
    Though I would rate the ability to nix design problems before they endanger customers significantly higher.

    Every oaf can do colorfull leaflets and produce problems while offshoring all responsibility.

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

    What I'm curious about is whether Boeing will get them all sorted out quickly enough...in which case they will be superbly positioned to compete, having mastered the many challenges around making the 787 what it is.

    You will find that Murphy has a big bucket of bugs to keep dishing out from for the Dreamliner and Boeing.
    IMHO This is a product jinxed by management hubris.

    I hope they get it all fixed in time, personally. The 787 is a hell of a plane. Check it out here: http://www.newairplane.com/787/

    PR drivel, the only vector of exellence for Boeing these days.

  8. Re:here, save about $120e6 on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 1

    too many options ( for politicks ).
    Who can count beyond three ;-?

    Machiavelli, paraphrased:
            "soldiers can always bring you rare earth"

  9. Re:What about mining your own stuff ? on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 2

    Political interest is also about not having to restart highly toxic rare earth mining at home with all the consequences that it brings.

    But China should bear the consequences without compensation or limitation?
    The US has ofloaded/ofshored significant elements of it's Carbon Footprint to China already.
     

  10. What about mining your own stuff ? on US Gives $120M For Lab To Tackle Rare Earth Shortages · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The US has sufficient resources.
    see:
            http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/mcs-2012-raree.pdf

    Political interest actually is about getting _cheap_ access to china's resources.

  11. Re:Disappointed on John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize · · Score: 1, Troll

    Think about how nice the world would be if
    the "right" million US citizens would be incarcerated ( instead of a bunch of unfortunate blacks and latinos ) ?

    Always interesting to see that Americans seem to think that there is no law except US law in any country
    they visit as guests.

  12. Re:I'm half trolling... on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 1

    "According to Madeline Albright, the sanctions, absolutely necessary to keep Saddam from starting ANOTHER war in the middle east, was killing 50,000 Iraqi kids per year. "

    Poppycock.
    Saddams first war against Iran was done with help and towards interests of the US.
    For the Kuweit affair he first got approval from the US.
    Madelaine Albright born as Marie Jana Korbelová was on her very own and personal Jihad.
        Especially for US citizens it is naive to believe in the exhalations of their politicians.

    Problem with Saddam for the US was that he was too successfull in establishing a stable state
    leading its region in education, gender equality and health care that could potentially be a
    threat to Israel. So it was back to the stoneage by any means.

  13. concept is from before 1997 on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives · · Score: 3, Informative

    and has been used heavily since.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APOPO

    known original work:
    http://www.apopo.org/cms.php?cmsid=16&lang=en

  14. Re:If you post before this on 50% Efficiency Boost From New Fuel Injection System · · Score: 1

    So it uses diesel type combustion to achieve diesel type efficiency ( a bit less actually ).
    ( And requires hefty preheating to get past the high octane rating of petrol )

    Whats new?

  15. Re:One of friends saw the flight... on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well the dreamliner is supposed to replace the 767 and compete against the A330
    and the nook upwards.
    It was sold to customers as being 20% more fuel efficient than a 767 and thus slightly
    besting the basic A330 specs from around 2002.
    But the current implementation is about 10% overweight ( seemingly for the forseeable future )
    moving it into A330 ballpark figures ( Similar empty weight ). Improved engines with better SFC are
    available for the A330 as well. One reason the A330 has sold quite well in the last 2-3 years
    while dreamliner sales have tanked shortly after the initial rollout 2.5 years ago
    ( i.e. after it was obvious that the dreamliner was a potemkin liner )
    Quite a lot of customers currently seem to stay the ride more for cashing in on penalties
    than actually receiving any planes later on ( The current backlog will not be satisfied before
    2020/2022)

    The A350XWB on the other hand is not a direct competitor to the dreamliner.
    It fits above the 787 and below/into the 777 space. Which is rather typical.
    Neither Boeing nor Airbus stage new types spec by spec against a competitors
    distinct type but try to hit the weak spots in between with the initialy
    produced version.

  16. Re:Suspect?.... on Investigators Suspect Computers Doomed Air France Jet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Good observation.

    The NTSB made an unexpected announcement on the B777 crash in LHR due probably to ice slurrie
    in the fuel with uncalled for blame shifting just before the primary investigators in the UK
    did their public announcement.

    The NTSB going for partisan announcements is a very bad sign directly connected to
    Boeing being in dire straits these days. So any published findings of the NTSB
    may be completely worthless.

    G!
    MACC

  17. 5 Seconds. No more on PC Makers Try To Pinch Seconds From Their Boot Times · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "It's not about booting faster, it's about booting in 5 seconds."
    http://lwn.net/Articles/299088/
    http://lwn.net/Articles/299546/

    or a bit more involved:
    TCCBOOT compiles and boots a Linux kernel in 15 seconds
    http://lwn.net/Articles/108341/

  18. Re:Tcl -- don't miss the wiki, it's full of stars on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.tcl.tk/
    The site has a plethora of
    reference and example pages.

    if you can't find an answer
    ask in comp.lang.tcl ( the most polite and helpfull ng i know of )
    or go to http://wiki.tcl.tk/1299
    and describe / post your problem
    on the latest "Ask" page.

    G!

    MACC

  19. Getting rid of incriminating evidence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 4, Informative

    Scientology will be taken to court in France
    for "organised fraud":
    > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/7604311.stm

  20. Re:NASA Engineers on Ares V Rocket Bigger and Stronger For Moon Mission · · Score: 1

    NASA Engineer: "Why African American of course."

    To be PC or not.

    MACC

  21. Re:Possibly. on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 1

    the original list was OK.
    The credit card processor "corrected" the list.
    about a dozen countries not accepted due to
    excessive fraud.

    G!
    MACC

  22. Re:Interesting story... on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 2, Insightful


      Are French, German, or United Statesian children in a situation where they require the assistance of UNICEF?

    Well, for the US: the high underage pregnancy numbers would indicate so. ( about 20fold compared to OldEurope )

    G!
    MACC

  23. Re:Interesting story... on A Cautionary Tale of Open Source Social Technologies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The inital list was "feature" complete.

    Israel, Egypt, Turkey, Russia and a couple of other countries were ommited via the credit card processor.
    ( professedly due to exessive fraud.)

    The person from israel who could not donate
    found instant and easy issue with Palestine
    being included.

    The author blew it up for clicks or a donation
    from Bill of Borg.

    End of story.

    G!
    MACC

  24. Re:Well on US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris · · Score: 1

    actually Bush said:

          "Space is ours to decide on."

    insinuating that select nations
    would face active denial
    to space access by the US.
    http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/19/bush_asserts_right_to_deny_space_access/

    and the Chinese said:

            Think again.

    It is still a lot cheaper and easier
    to take stuff down than to get it up
    in the first place.
    Jerry Pournelle has understood this
    quite a while ago.( and used it in his
    CoDo Novels and still boasting to have
    advised Reagan on Star Wars )
    And the US is quite a lot more dependent
    on Space Comms Structures than the Chinese
    are or anyone else at that.

    G!
    MACC

  25. Re:apple fanboys on Apple Files for OLED Keyboard Patent · · Score: 1

    in 1980something a PC keyboard with
    LCD displays in at least all the function
    and aphanum keys was advertised in
    trade publications and could be bought
    in Germany.
    I may even have a photocopy of the advert
    somewhere very far down in my archive "stack".

    G!
    MACC