User: bra1n

God save the queen...

On: UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules

because we can't rip her to archival media.

Re:The trick...

On: Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph

Just give them a Voight-Kampff test.

Re:Who needs brakes?

On: The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC

Land speed record attempts require 2 passes, in opposite directions. So the vehicle has to be reusable.

Re:Militia, then vs now

On: Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment

Chicago has show some irregularities in the way they are reporting crime stats. That decrease may not be as dramatic as you think. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chic...

Discarding Sabot

On: Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7

I see that they are using a discarding sabot to keep from welding the projectile to the rails.

Re:Is racetrack memory even persistent?

On: Data Storage Pioneer Wins Millennium Technology Prize

I understand how it might be a viable substitute for ram, but I'm not sure if it's persistent like flash storage. Which would make it an abysmal substitute for hard drives.

The first line in the linked wikipedia page says its non-volatile, so it should be persistent.

Remember kids...

On: BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness"

STAY IN SCHOOL!

From the cable provider's perspective

On: Comcast Donates Heavily To Defeat Mayor Who Is Bringing Gigabit Fiber To Seattle

It's public tax payer money being spent to combat a private company. A company that made the investment in infrastructure and in hiring local people. There really needs to be competition. Maybe deregulation of the incumbant's fiber/coax needs to happen. When it happened to the telcos and all the CLECs popped up it didn't drive the ILECs out of business. It just doesn't seem "fair" to make the incumbant compete against the tax payers.