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  1. Re: Conventional warfare is dead on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The B52H can deliver 20 times the dumb bomb load with only a 55% higher cost per flight hour. If you're looking at cost per pound of bomb delivered, that's impossible to beat. The same can be said, mutatis mutandis, for other loads.

    Given the types of wars in the future, cheap cost per bomb delivered is best for conflicts with nations with inferior defenses, and no-coming-back blast-them-to-hell tactical nukes for others. It's the only deterrent that will work with the Russians and Chinese, given that NATO is unable to secure eastern Europe for more than 3 days after an attack. In both cases, the possible civilian casualties are the same as holding the enemy's population hostage. Everything else is untenable. The nature of war has changed.

  2. Re: Conventional warfare is dead on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    With today's computers, there's no reason that mission profiles can't be generated pretty much on-the-fly before launch.

  3. Well, you sure must like slashdot enough to keep shit-posting this same comment in different threads.

  4. Re:But can it handle DOS attacks? on The World's Most Secure Home Computer Reaches Crowdfunding Goal (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1
    This is marketed to paranoid dummies who don't realize that they will irrevocably lose all their data if someone chills it with a spray can of freon. Or stick it in the office freezer.

    The microcontroller in the ORWL monitors temperatures and any drastic change can trigger an alert and nuke the encryption key.

    Or just microwave it. That should really go over well with the mesh screen. Also, powering down the USB ports isn't going to save the machine - a good wack of 120v will fry the port anyway, and again, the machine will go "omg - time to self destruct."

  5. Re: F-35 is an amazing airplane! on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the deposit never made it. Stealth sucks when there are multiple radars from different aspects, or using longer wave radar that stealth can't hide from.

  6. Re: Conventional warfare is dead on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Cruise missiles and ICBMs do just fine without either a pilot or a radio controller. Getting rid of the requirement to return to base gives way more bang for the buck and more mission flexibility. As for unintended civilian deaths, collateral damage is just a bonus (if we have to attack you, remember what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Civilian deaths are acceptable as long as they aren't ours).

  7. Not to worry - once the F-35 is scrapped / sidelined, they'll re-re-refurb a bunch of B-52s as attack craft. New delta wings, new engines, new avionics, new weapons systems - see "Flight of the Old Dog",. Further variants of the EB-52 Megafortress.

  8. We can see that with the claim that Trump is encouraging people to kill Hillary again. All he said was, she is against guns, let her go for a while without armed bodyguards. Hillary should have been indicted, and Sanders running instead, but the investigation into her was purposefully hobbled right from the beginning. Anyone else, the evidence would have been put to a grand jury. While not the best source, this list is pretty damning, as was her refusal to turn over the actual server, and instead sort through the emails herself to see what would be turned over, which she had no right to do.

  9. Re:we're happy... on Web Security CEO Warns About Control Of Internet Falling Into Few Hands (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Still be worth it, even if the rest of us had to go to some type of bbs/usenet-style store-and-forward mesh network.

  10. Re:slashdot on Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    and it leads me to posts like this which are basically apropros (sic) of nothing

    So's your post. You must be from the department of redundant redundancies.

  11. Re: trans-Neptunium object? on Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    The "largest small planet" should more likely be the Earth. Certainly the discrepancy between Earth and ANY of the Jovians is huge, and the Jovians are very different beasts. Even the least massive (Uranus) is 15x greater than Earth (and Jupiter is more massive than every other planet combined).

  12. Re: Are you for real? on Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Who's to say it was her ex who distributed the videos? It's not like he was the only one she sent them to. Anyone she sent them to could have spread them around, and that's pretty much inevitable nowadays when you share salacious stuff too widely. Two people can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.

  13. Re:Dude on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    In this universe, electrons are for all practical purposes, immortal. No need to worry about running out of them.

  14. Re:How about 2020? on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Grow a pair. It's not like you wouldn't get bailed out again if it went south.

    It's going south anyway - Mexico, for the cheap labor.

  15. Re:They are pledging to something in 30+ years on GM Commits To 100% Renewable Energy By 2050 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Worse, this has nothing to do with the vehicles that they sell - it's just using renewables to power their plants, which is a no-brainer because the cost of renewable energy is dropping year-over-year.

  16. Re:Was the bubonic plague started by cats, deer or on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Fleas.

  17. Re:Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We better hope we don't encounter aliens that feel the same way about us and see us as pests on "their" new planet.

  18. Re:Liquid nitrogen would be more humane on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe someone should get them to watch Apollo 13.

  19. Re: Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's Chicago. How much more damage can some C4 do?

    It's like a tornado sweeping through and doing $10 million of improvements.

  20. Re:Charter schools are parasites. on Laurene Jobs Awards $10M To Pet Charter School Network of Zuckerberg, Gates · · Score: 1

    If they really wanted to help, they'd spend the money commissioning the writing of textbooks that anyone can print, copy, or download in ePub format for free. As it is, schools have two options - keep using outdated text books, or spend money on textbooks by taking it out of the budget somewhere else.

    And unlike this project, free textbooks can be scaled out across the nation instead of just a few areas. And save kids the hassle and danger of spinal damage of carrying a ton of books.

  21. Re:Don't you people have better things to do? on 23 Years Later: the Apple II Receives Another OS Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe he's practicing before he gets into updating orphaned Android smartphones? (we can only hope)

  22. Re:innumeracy overload on 26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year, Says Survey (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    People are always saying they're going to cancel. When push comes to shove, they want that one sports channel that is only available by cable or satellite, or the cost of just internet access comes out to only a few dollars less, or the company offers them a deal that is too good to pass up. The cable companies and satellite providers have way more experience playing this game than the 26% who say they're going to leave.

  23. Re:Yes, I too wonder, where SJWs stand on this on Right To Be Forgotten? Web Privacy Debate in Italy After Women's Suicide (ndtv.com) · · Score: 0

    Copyright is no defense for stupidity. Unless she had previously registered the copyright, all she could ask for would be revenue from lost sales due to the unauthorized copying. If you don't register your work with the government, you get zero statutory damages, just lost sales. Since she was distributing it for free, and there is no indication that she ever wanted to sell it for profit, the monetary damages are $0.00.

    Also, I doubt that there was any copyright notice or credits in the video, or that she obtained releases from the men she had sex with. She was obviously not that smart. The men, on the other hand, could have sued for damages for loss of reputation since they didn't sign a release to appear in a porn video.

    Anyone who thought that this was a good idea, it's a wonder they made it to 31.

  24. There was more than one sex session, and more than one man (sometimes at the same time). Moral of the story: The desire for revenge, when acted on, can destroy you.

    If you really want revenge, wait 5 years and see if you still feel the same way. If you do, wait another 5 years, and if you still feel the same way, see a psychiatrist. Time heals (almost) all wounds.

  25. Re: Tax avoidance vs. Tax evasion on 'Paying Taxes Is a Lot Better Than Phony Corporate Courage, Apple' (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes they do when they are lower than they should have been. As forgone revenue, they are just as much an expenditure as any other in that they affect the total balance on the books. And subsidies appear in official budgets. This was just an off-the-books subsidy. If all such tax expenditures were properly recorded on the books, there'd be hell to pay because we'd see plainly who is screwing over the public (hint: politicians and their corporate masters are pretty obvious answers).