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  1. Re:Does anyone have a map of where all the sats ar on Call In the Military To Blast Rogue Satellite? · · Score: 1

    I believe NORAD keeps track of most satellites and junk in orbit.

  2. Higher orbit on Call In the Military To Blast Rogue Satellite? · · Score: 1

    Isn't the "rogue" satellite in GEO? Although probabily there's ready ways to intercept something in a lower orbit would it be possible to do it in GEO?

  3. Re:Obvious outcome on US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update · · Score: 1

    Is a IBM BladeCenter that expensive for an enterprise (well, Air Force) grade cluster? A QS21 is about 7k (2 CPUs/2GB RAM). How it specs compare to a PS3? How much does a PS3 cost?

  4. Re:Club Of Rome Fascism on Ultrasound As a Male Contraceptive · · Score: 1

    And imposing your will at people is good? Or the people aren't really people for you just because they're "chavs" (wherever this may mean)?

    Promoting birth control practices is good. Educating the population is good. Forced sterilization is not only bad, it's evil. And evil shouldn't be seen as normal.

  5. Re:idea != fact on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    Filling it with hydrogen will generate more "bright" lights, though.

  6. Re:Google search API not applicable on Scroogle Has Been Blocked · · Score: 1

    Why can't a server side script make a JSON (or SOAP, or ..) request and serve the results in the same way the client side script do? It could use the API and still go through a proxy, can't it?

  7. Re:Suggestion on House Calls For Hearing On Stock Market "Glitch" · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm pretty sure Brazil imported this idea from somewhere else and I strongly belive this place is the US. I just don't know if 1000 points were enough to trigger it. Also, it closes the market for half or an hour for the first it's hit. If it's hit again it closes for more, until it reaches the end of day.

    Found it.

    If the Dow falls 1100 points before 2 p.m. we would see a one-hour trading halt.

    If between 2-2:30 p.m., there is a 30-minute trading halt.

    3 p.m. or later, there is no trading halt.

    source.

  8. Re:Speculation in the article on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Ops, shoud read "my last post".

  9. Re:Speculation in the article on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I'm a materials scientist. I went out the academia to found a startup. And I deeply disagree with the way most people in natural sciences deal with humanities but that's my opinion.

    But this doesn't matter. You're right. I was irritated when I wrote my last and I'm sorry.

  10. Re:Cloud? on Diskless Booting For the Modern Age · · Score: 1

    For sure it's not new. It's wide availability that's new. And algorithms and solutions using it for desktopish requirements were almost non existent.

    Cray then also used vectored processing now available on desktops as GPUs.

    Ways to develop for these technologies for sure exists but had another set of requirements in mind when it were made. A large number of programmers grew up without being able to play with it. It will take some time while people learn it.

  11. Re:Then the companies should not get copyright. on In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods" · · Score: 1, Informative

    A copyright is a legal device that gives the creator of a literary, artistic, musical, or other creative work the sole right to publish and sell that work. Copyright owners have the right to control the reproduction of their work, including the right to receive payment for that reproduction. An author may grant or sell those rights to others, including publishers or recording companies. Violation of a copyright is called infringement.

    From here.

    The information on given bytes are the work of the creator and it has rights to it, regardless of it reproduced through the sale of a good or the providing of a service.

  12. Re:Where can you register? on First Non-Latin TLDs Go Online Today · · Score: 0, Troll

    For Saudi Arabia SaudiNIC is the place to go. But I believe you need some kind of local ID to register a domain.

  13. Re:Speculation in the article on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I also wonder why idiots like you can't simply accept evolution theory. Either you fight (which doesn't necessarily mean war, but DOES mean you are prepared to go to war if necessary), or you die. Don't you socialist idiots prefer that to "Jesus loves us all" ?

    At first, I'm neither a socialist or an idiot. I just happened to be born in a family able to give me a good education and a wide exposure to different countries and cultures. I'm deeply saddened you hadn't the same luck, it seems.

    What you describe as "evolution theory" is not what evolution theory means. It's the lack of morality in politics. I'd, friendly, advise you to learn a little bit of political philosophy.

    At second, UN does not grant permission. What does matter is not a single political body but the whole of Western international governance practices and agreements. Putting aside years and years of cooperation is barbaric. Unfortunately, for people like you this doesn't seem to matter. But it does. International police should follow this framework. This doesn't means a hippie-like peace wish but a serious and coordinated effort for the peace of nations.

    Intervention on another country maybe justified like in genocides. But should take in account the international community of nations not only the will of the strong.

    At last, in regards to your barbaric world view. I know life is hard. But you should try going back and finishing high school. College would be nice too. Find a psychiatrist to help you too. The world doesn't need to be an eternal fight between men. Maybe you were bullied or abused, or who knows. It might help you see that the world is not necessarily a fight between the weak and the strong, or between nations. Life is complex social dynamics. And it should be regulated, both by law and convention, to achieve morally binding objectives such and peace and the dignity of human life.

  14. Microsoft LifeCam Cinema on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: 1, Troll
  15. Re:Chrome ad blockers use up your transfer cap on Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome · · Score: 0

    From Wikipedia page on bandwidth cap:

    Many broadband Internet Service Providers in North America and Europe introduced bandwidth caps in the early 21st century. The same practice has been in place in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and South Africa since the release of broadband.

    Isn't this a sizable sample of the Southern Hemisphere population?

  16. Re:Can it display PDFs? on Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome · · Score: 1

    It works the way you want both on Windows XP 32-bits and Windows 7 64-bits, at least for me. Maybe it's something specific to your configuration?

  17. Re:Can it run adblock, flashblock and noscript? on Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome · · Score: 1

    mvps.org hosts lists is a nice start.

    I usually combine it with chrome ad hiding capabilities.

  18. Re:what are the chemical dispersants? on Hundred-Ton Dome To Collect Oil Spill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting. Do you have a source for this?

  19. Re:Control on Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups · · Score: 1

    I believe it refers to the server news.microsoft.com (or nntp.microsoft.com, I used it a long time ago) that hosts microsoft.* groups.

    And if I recall correctly, they already have a web interface to them. So, they're probably just closing the NNTP interface due to amount of spam. No problems, IMHO.

  20. Re:Recover, Repair, Refuel Satellites on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Sure, we could almost certainly do better starting over, but the belief that the Shuttle has stood still is false.

    I'm aware of this. But, were it ready for creating scale at the time the Shuttle was made? Sometimes a slower pace will do it better even if less "news-worthy".

    I understand the believe it would be economically better. But I also believe the pace the transition was made from never-functional X-level planes (such as the X-20) and full fledged fleet of planes was too much fast, in my point of view.

    I disagree that you need a high flight rate for getting engineering data. Although I never worked on a manned project (and, also, never in north american projects) a lot of designs in the aerospace industry is one-of-a-kind and has never flown before. A few flights is a lot of data for review and, for sure, will wield better designs.

  21. Re:Speculation in the article on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Like invading Iraq without a UN resolution? US is not by far the most abiding of UN members. And, also, what treaty does Middle Eastern countries violates by being in the top 10 per capita emitters of CO2? The Kyoto Protocol was put aside mostly due to the US resistance to it.

    And if you believe that only Middle East profits from oil, I would like to present you this, this and this.

    For sure, UN is not a deterrent for foreign attacks. But putting the UN aside and behaving like peace doesn't matter is way more than stupid, it's psychopathic.

  22. Re:Recover, Repair, Refuel Satellites on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    I've never understood why building identical shuttles instead of getting more data and building ever improving designs. Technology was not ready for "mass" manufacturing anyway.

  23. Re:Nasa should reclaim this on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    You do realize that all newfighter jets do supercruise right? That means Mach speeds without after burners not even the concorde could do that.

    I'm sorry but you're wrong. Concorde cruise speed, without afterburners, was Mach 2.02. With a range 4,500 mi. Take that, F-22.

    And, if I recall correctly, a major limiting factor was nose temperature and thermal insulation not engine design.

  24. Re:Forking on Microsoft .Net Libraries Not Acting "Open Source" · · Score: 1

    I've downloaded the public symbols less than a week ago. Maybe its an intermittent issue with their servers.

  25. Re:Three things on US Air Force Launches Secret Flying Twinkie · · Score: 1

    Do you have any reliable source for you data on a KH-12?