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  1. Re:Lots more information on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 1

    Read again: 6Gb every 17 seconds (reading a big sensor is slow work)
    That's 353Mb/s, which neatly fits in a Gig-E pipe and can be recorded by the puniest 5" HDD out there.
    To sustain that rate for the whole night (10 hours or 36ks), you need about 12.7Tb of storage... a 3TB drive will do with room to spare.
    Build a good size RAID, put tape backup (you have the whole day), not exactly a challenge.

    (FYI, the LHC is many orders of magnitude higher: http://home.web.cern.ch/about/...)

  2. Re:Because we are distracted by "global warming" on Nearly Every Seabird May Be Eating Plastic By 2050 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, if we keep having 3 cat4 hurricanes churning the Pacific garbage patch, you could easily argue that it's going to be one and the same problem.

  3. Re:Distance? on World's Most Powerful Digital Camera Sees Construction Green Light · · Score: 2

    Seeing its own construction light would make that the world's biggest selfie. XXIst century priorities, you see...

  4. Re:History. Leran some. on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    Yup, but they were good at selling shopping carts.
    Both Apple and OS/2 were available before W95. Young me had OS/2 for months before 95 came out: it never crashed (YMMV), it did more, cleaner, but i couldn't recommend it to my friends because of driver support (thanks, IBM neighbor) and games...

  5. Re:All bullshit on Harshest Penalty for Alleged Rapist Was For Using a Computer To Arrange Contact With Teen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > It was statutory rape. They sued for regular rape hoping to send him to jail for longer.

    Because our goal in life is to make sure people spend as much of theirs in jail as possible...

  6. Re:The more things change... on Learn FPGAs With a $25 Board and Open Source Tools · · Score: 1

    Then you need to pay more attention...

    The FREE Vivado Webpack gives you access to chips up to Artix 200T, Kintex 160T and Zynq 7030.
    Those are bigger devices than any tinkerer or beginner ever has time to fill. Most 65nm FPGAs are smaller.

  7. Re:That's how we CS people roll on Computer Scientist Parachutes From 135,908 Feet, Breaking Record · · Score: 3, Funny

    CS people are raised on "Do or do not. There is not Try"

  8. Re:The law is for the little people on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 1

    Plea accepted.
    I thought I had gone far enough beyond believability on that one.
    It says a lot about the state we're in, when even at that level it can be taken seriously.

  9. Re:Stop Now on Cost Skyrockets For United States' Share of ITER Fusion Project · · Score: 1

    It's similar to saying nukes are a proof that you can make nuclear reactors.
    It's kinda wrong, but it points out that once you know a way to release a massive amount of energy, the next step is to find a confinement to release it in a controlled and safe manner.

    We know, at the fundamental level, that we have the math, techniques and materials to initiate the release of energy. There is no indication that we can't contain and channel it with current or future techniques.

  10. Re:The law is for the little people on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 1

    Whoosh!

  11. Re:Stop Now on Cost Skyrockets For United States' Share of ITER Fusion Project · · Score: 1

    At last check, the sun was still working.
    Did you systematically disprove the theories used to underpin the construction of ITER, before you so vehemently claim that it won't pay off?

  12. Re:The law is for the little people on Can You Buy a License To Speed In California? · · Score: 1

    That's a dumb comment for the 2014 US, because it's like money equaling free speech.
    You are free to spend up to $10k to be above the law, in the same way that you are free to spend millions to get your favorite congressman elected.

    Don't blame the rich for doing something advantageous, blame the idiotic "little people" for not participating too.
    Thanks to living in the Land Of The Free, they are allowed to!

  13. Re:It's not a bug on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    National Spying agency...

    They do provide the right companies with expertise on security for securing important technology, and justifying compliance to said recommendation for sale of sensitive products. I don't know how many of the 40000 employees do that, but that's one "Security" feature that they _do_ offer.

  14. Re:Stop Now on Cost Skyrockets For United States' Share of ITER Fusion Project · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm so glad you're smarter than all the scientists working on it.

    On the other hand, how does $3.9B over 6 years compare to the annual cost of securing US fossil energy sources?

  15. Re:Godwin's law. on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1

    Jest if you want, but the "One $company" slogan has been used by my last two employers and at least 4 companies I worked with.
    While it somewhat makes sense in the case of recent mergers, it's mainly just one of the recent CEO buzzwords.
    We know that most CEOs are sheep who just follow groupthink to be safe ("everybody else agrees it's the right thing now")
    Wouldn't you, if you had that much at stake?

  16. I've got mod points on How Cochlear Implants Are Being Blamed For Killing Deaf Culture · · Score: 3, Interesting

    but I can't find how to mod TFS as troll.
    Glad the comments are unanimous so far...

  17. Re:And? on In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, the people with enough disposable cash to use in-flight internet are the most likely to have an impact if they protest being spied on.

  18. Re:Hoping to catch procrastinating terrorists? on In-Flight Wi-Fi Provider Going Above and Beyond To Help Feds Spy · · Score: 1

    At least one was eager to find out "how to light my wet shoe/underwear bomb"
    The problem is that he first needed the answer to "how do I fend off a hundred angry passengers?", which is harder to type than he expected.

  19. Re:What happened to C#? on Microsoft To Allow Code Contributions To F# · · Score: 0

    Let me elevate the question: why do we need yet another programming language? (insert oblig XKCD here)

    Outside of not being on anyone's resume but necessary for that next job (with 10 years experience, of course), what is the benefit of F# ?

  20. Re:Reality Check: Go for your dreams on App Developers, It's Time For a Reality Check · · Score: 1

    Stats are formal that the average person with a degree makes a lot more than the average without. It's still true, even if the numbers have been changing.

    And when HR is sorting through 20+ (or 2000) resumes for a position, failing the "BS required, MS preferred" is the easiest and most lawyer-free way to send yours to the recycle bin.

    How did you finance your startup? Can you still afford to finish college? The bankers prefer to lend money to people with a real degree...

    YMMV, but the odds are against you. It's just gambling the rest of your life.

  21. Re:Clarification on NYU Group Says Its Scheme Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible · · Score: 1

    Fine, I'll just go buy N wrenches.

  22. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced the weapons manufacturers agree with your simplistic view of their design and qual processes.

  23. Re:Somewhat cheaper... on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have a camera embedded inside a side panel and it needs to be replaced, the cost of the camera will often not be your biggest issue...

  24. Somewhat cheaper... on Will Cameras Replace Sideview Mirrors On Cars In 2018? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you see the cost of replacing a mirror, it'd be cheaper to have a camera and a 7" screen inside.
    On the other hand, night vision would suffer from having a screen on.

    And I know more than one person who has saved their cars' doors by having the mirror remind them how close they really were to that post...

  25. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 2

    Use your gun analogy properly: make the astronaut push the launch button, and the manufacturer is immune from any harm...