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  1. Re:tough justification. on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Cat IIIc refers to zero visibility / zero decision height landing conditions. Cat IIIc is not required for autopilot landings, just autopilot landings in zero visibility.

    Autopilot landings are possible on any runway with an ILS system.

  2. Re:tough justification. on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Don't fly then. Most commercial airliners and airports are equipped for it and it is used all the time. Pilots are recquired to make a certain number of manual landings to maintain their skills but otherwise there's no reason for them to land manually.

  3. Re:Launch them out of the hangar on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 1

    I don't think we're really talking about remote control here. Just a switch that once flipped prevents a terrorist or anybody else from disengaging the autopilot which will then proceed to land the plane at an airport which is equiped for automatic landings (most of them).

  4. Re:Problem with your method on Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all commercial airliners can and do land automatically. I'd be interested to hear of any that can be confirmed as not capable of automatic landing. Of course the more modern the plane the more capable the autopilot ... for example I think the latest 777s only require a pilot to take the plane up to a few hundred feet before the autopilot takes over.

  5. Re:Marketing for Lemmings on Major Broadcasters Hit With $12M Payola Fine · · Score: 1

    After two years of Sirius I can't imagine why people would listen to XM so much. Seriously I have XM from directv - but it just lacks something.

  6. Re:Nature of the beast.... on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    No - but generally business decisions should be geared toward producing a better product than your competition rather than looking for ways to eliminate the competition so you can sell your product no matter how bad it is.

  7. Re:People get what they deserve on The Assassination of Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Actually a septic tank provides a home for bacteria & enzymes which break down the waste.

  8. Re:Moot on Is "Making Available" Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 1

    Ever sent a CD out for duplication ? If you are the copyright holder you can't sue the duplicator for making copies after you instructed them to do it. Assuming Bob Dylan is the holder of the copyright on his recordings he really can't sue somebody for copying his work after he asks them to. Distributing copies without permission to somebody other than the copyright holder is a violation.

  9. Re:Moot on Is "Making Available" Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not the only stupid one then : http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2005/09/02/p2p-de fendant-riaas-own-downloads-cant-prove-infringemen t/ - lawyers who know more about this than me use the same arguments.

  10. Re:Oh please on Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient · · Score: 1

    Those were two different observations .. I wasn't suggesting that the OEM sticker contained a volume license key - I should have made that clearer.

  11. Re:Moot on Is "Making Available" Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Third party or not he's doing this on behalf of the RIAA which means that it's as if the RIAA is doing it. The infringement does not exist because the RIAA can't infringe their own copyrights. Simply sharing the folder isn't infringement, the RIAA needs to provide some level of proof that a non-RIAA individual actually downloaded the file. Otherwise no copy has been made, copyright law deals in the right to copy.

  12. Re:Oh please on Windows Genuine Advantage Gets More Lenient · · Score: 1

    I thought the main problem with validation was that microsoft had cancelled a number of volume license keys because of piracy. I've had HP computers that will happily install using the license key on the "Genuine Microsoft" sticker on the computer, only to have them fail at activation with "Your license key is invalid"

  13. Re:Moot on Is "Making Available" Copyright Infringement? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem for the RIAA is that their investigator can't download the song himself and then use that as an example of infringement because it is a legal impossibility to violate your own copyright. So the courts are being asked to find against somebody on the basis that somebody else probably downloaded the song. This is a poor standard of proof.

  14. Re:The requirement is for the unopinionated. on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    The other reason for making it required is to stop the insurance beancounters coming in and deciding they'd rather pay for 100 cases of cancer than 1,000,000 vaccinations.

  15. Re:A little perspective first on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    You really don't need to have sex to get HPV - although the chances are much lower. Papillomaviruses can be contracted without skin to skin contact.

  16. Re:A little perspective first on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    I don't like this because it forces young girls to get vaccinated against a disease that they can prevent by simply not having sex

    Yeah that's realistic - other than nuns who never has sex ?

    HPV can survive outside of the body for some time so it's possible to contract many HPV strains without any direct contact.

  17. Re:Yes, yes they will on Consumer Revolt Spurred Via the Internet · · Score: 1

    As a person who has been through the process - it's not as easy as it sounds - it takes forever for an application to get processed. During the processing period you are deemed as authorized by the secreatary of state to remain in the US - but it's not like they give you a piece of paper that says that. You get a cash register receipt which I suppose is proof of a pending application and a work permit card that disclaims any use as proof of immigration status and they take your entry/exit receipt from your passport so you can't use that to prove legal entry.

  18. Re:Yes, yes they will on Consumer Revolt Spurred Via the Internet · · Score: 1

    I was actually told i couldn't open an account with a green card and had to go get a drivers license. The licensing office looked at me funny when I asked where the check writing test was.

    The other problem with a green card is that it takes about 3 years to get one even though you are here legally for that time but have nothing to prove it other than a laminated employment authorization card which almost everybody claims is not valid ID.

  19. Re:Yes, yes they will on Consumer Revolt Spurred Via the Internet · · Score: 1

    I don't think the law spells out which forms of documentation you're required to produce to prove your identity. If it does then the banks don't know about it because they act really confused if you don't produce a drivers license.

    Additionally - what does immigration status have to do with bank accounts ? there are a lot of people that spend a lot of time legally in the USA without ever obtaining permanent resident status (business visitors and such) should they be denied access to banks too ?

  20. Re:yummy on Colossal Squid Landed Intact In Antarctica · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was he referring to size or taste ?

  21. Re:Good News, Everyone! on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 1

    But have you considered that the ice cube would likely be freshwater (most of them are) which is itself less dense that salt water.

  22. Re:Well, Jobs gets it on Jobs Favors DRM-Free Music Distribution · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_st andard)

    This clears up most of the methods. Also I've heard of discs deviating from the standard by reducing the error correction data in the audio tracks to leave room for the data track.

  23. Re:Anti-competitive and suppresses free speech... on Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough the perjury thing rarely applies because :

    Big corporation owns ABC

    You post XYZ

    Big coporation serves notice saying that under penalty of perjury they own the copyright on ABC. XYZ appears to infringe this copyright and must be taken down.

    See how it works? - they only thing they swear to is ownership of ABC, not that XYZ is in fact a copy of ABC.

  24. Re:Well, Jobs gets it on Jobs Favors DRM-Free Music Distribution · · Score: 1

    Philips has been very clear informing trademark licensees that the words "Compact Disc" and the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logos may not be used on discs incorporating DRM.

  25. Re:Could be a good thing on NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space · · Score: 1

    I'm getting bored of typing this stuff. Private industry is the one doing it and they're not doing it cheaper :

    The united space alliance (Boeing & Lockheed) handles servicing and prep. on the space shuttle - Nasa runs mission control
    Orion & Ares will be built by the united space alliance.
    The Rovers on mars are operated by JPL - which oddly enough is a LAB at CIT operating under a contract with Nasa.