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  1. Re:wtf kind of post is this? on New NASA Launch Control Software Late, Millions Over Budget (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Besides, we have to keep all of those ADA programmers employed!

  2. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    The Actual term is Railway Engineer or Operating Engineer, as opposed to Mechanical Engineer or Ellectrical Engineer.

  3. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2

    A friend told me about a railroad that had excess engineers and firemen due to closing down a line. The union wouldn't let them lay-off the excess, so the road had them sit in a classroom 8 hours a day doing nothing, no radio, reading, talking or sleeping until they quit.

  4. Re:Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Reinvesting additional revenues into system maintenance and upgrades, what a novel idea, pity it'll never catch on.

  5. Re:People say "custom-made" like it's a bad thing on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    When a thyrister gets fried by hitting a section with 2KV on track instead of 1KV, you've got some serious design deficiencies. A well designed power circuit should run happily at 4 times expected voltage and power all day long and survive transients up to 10 times.

  6. Re: Answer on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Wear dark clothes and angle the phone to reflect your clothing.

    Nah just pull your dark clothing over your head and hold your phone under your armpit and twist neck until you can see the screen, answer the phone by saying, "I am Cornholio! You do not want to face the wrath of my bunghole, for I need TP!"

  7. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What most People refuse to realise is
    the World Trade Center was the World Trade Center,
    the Pentagon was the major forces supplier to NATO,
    SHAPE is Headquarters in Brussels; this is an attack not on a country but our modern way of life.

  8. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I was stationed in Germany from 1974-1978 and more changes in alert status were from terrorist groups like Baader-Meinhof/Red Army Faction and German Autumn events, then anything the Soviets did. Provisional Irish Republican Army was responsible for almost non-stop terrorist actions in Britain, Munich massacre, the Pan Am Flight 103 or Lockerbie bombing.

    It wasn't a matter of no "significant Europe terrorist attacks" as much as there were so many they lost there significance. When the Soviet Empire Crumbled in economic collapse from trying to keep up with Reagan's military buildup in America, the Communist/Socialist revolutionaries lost their funding and logistics support; during the hiatus you just forgot how thing were. No worrys though, Muslims are filling the vacuum.

  9. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    You cannot deny that Radical Islamic terrorist are at war with you. You are their enemy. Do you think that because you have nothing against them that they dont want you dead?

    Sadly the use of the word Radical before the word Islamic and the use of the word terrorist after the word Islamic is redundant. Being a Radical Islamic terrorist isn't a fringe condition in the Muslim world, it's a goal to achieve. Remember the Dracula learned Cruelty as an art form from being a hostage of the Muslim sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed II.

  10. Re:Relationships? on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 1

    There was a car who driver had stopped a a red light, massively encroaching on the cross-walk markings, it took every once of self-controll I had to walk around it rather than walking over his hood as I crossed the street.

  11. Re:Repetition leads to suicide on Autism Associated With Shorter Lifespan, According To UK Charity Study · · Score: 1

    Biggest stresses Autistics have is Normals. How often do you hear about normal children being the victims of filicide? How often do you hear about a normal kid that's bullied year after year in school after school? Who gets the police called on them while waiting for a bus or the Library to open because "They look suspicious" and often end up being shot by the police?

  12. Re:I routed for the Marines and the Colonel on Pentagon Office Planning 'Avatar' Fighters and Fighter-Launched Drone Swarms (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that was Americans?

  13. No the advantage of bottom up measurement is the rent-seekers can "adjust the data" to fit their preconceived prejudices, besides we have a perfectly good means of measuring from the top down, it's a satellite called OCO-2, Orbital Carbon Observatory"USE IF OBSERVING: Sources and sinks of CO2 with high precision and resolution" and the data is Publically Available; it just doesn't agree with what the redistributionists want to see.

  14. Re:Who was talking about WW II? on France's Oldest Nuclear Plant To Close This Year (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Germany marched on Paris in WW I, you insensitive clod.

    It's why they constructed the Maginot Line in the 1930's: "Never Again".

    Boy, that didn't work out so well did it.

  15. Re: Nukes rule on France's Oldest Nuclear Plant To Close This Year (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Your log(delta(T)) just isn't high enough with roof-top units; if it doesn't ignite birds in mid-flight, it's not efficient enough to put a dent in energy consumption.

  16. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The few chemical and biological weapons found were old and unusable, with many having been lost or misplaced by the Iraqi government over the decades since they bought many of them from the US.

    We'll never know for sure, but more and more stories are surfacing about soldiers finding chemical munitions that were covered up. Additionally this was a quantitative matter, not qualitative; I know Everybody was lying from day one. You simply can't have a chemical defense program as big as Iraq's without having live agents, if for no other reason than to validate your simulants. Personal Protective Equipument has to be tested for penetration, and under a wide array of conditions. When the official line was "We found nothing" everyone who has been in the business knew they either were lying, or hadn't looked hard enough; Gulf War Syndrome wasn't caused by oil well smoke.

  17. Re:And by that he means on Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The main attack was on the World Trade Center, which was located in the Host City for the Headquarters of the United Nations, it really was an attack on western culture and values, not just a country.

  18. Re:The Angry Mob on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    People keep citing the grand ole' 90% tax rates as if they were ever actually paid.

    Not even close to what I said, let me clarify, the top 20th percentile of income earner, pay 90% of the tax revenue.

  19. Re:Really? You think Trump gives a toss? on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    American Workers buy the goods and services guys like Trump sells (if not directly then indirectly), there is a point where outsourcing comes back to bite you in the ass. Sure it looks good for some short term profits, but if you over use it you end up destroying your market.

  20. I don't think Hilary is electable, but she'll probably be the Democratic nominee. I didn't think Trump was electable but he'll probably be the Republican nominee. I don't think our election has been this choiseless since Nixon vs. McGovern in 1972.

  21. Re:Trump vote on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All it would take is for the DOJ to indite her over the classified Emails stored on her personal machine, or obstruction of justice over destroying Emails on her personal server.

  22. Re:The Angry Mob on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The Bern is just another delusional socialist, there is no money to do what he is promising. The top 20%tile are paying 90% of the taxes, where you would normally expect them to pay 80%, jack up taxes any more and you'll see even more assets leave for tax havens.

  23. Re:Constant measuring on Scientists Plot Sea Levels Using GPS Satellites (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    When your measuring millimeters change against 10 meter waves, the data will always disagree.

  24. Re:a year ago? on Radioactive Material Stolen In Iraq Raises Security Fears (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You might think that a strong gamma source would be quite visible to appropriate detectors; I have heard from reliable sources that when the radiation detector were installed at the boarder, the Canadians had to seam clean all of the trash trailers, before they could get them through customs, even empty they were too radioactive to be allowed over.

  25. Re:I can see it now... on Judge Tells Apple To Help FBI Access San Bernardino Shooters' iPhone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They are trying to unlock a phone, only 1,000-1 different combinations, the problem is the phone data wipes after so many failed login attempts. They want Apple to disable the data-wipe so they can brute force the pin number. The court is trying to force Apple to assist with the cyber equivalent of a "No Knock Search Warrant". I'm not sure how I feel on this issue, but I'm leaning toward forcing a private company to assist law enforcement executing a warrant against one of it's customers is a bad thing.

    If Apple is forced into this, they likely will move off-shore.