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  1. Give firefighters shotguns on Why We Need Certain Consumer Drone Regulations · · Score: 1

    Let them clear the airspace.

  2. Re:maybe robots can fly the drones on USAF Cuts Drone Flights As Stress Drives Off Operators · · Score: 1

    Nah, any program running a game like that would be a dead-ender.

  3. We need to update RFC1149 on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 1

    And replace 'Avian' with 'Cuban'

  4. Re:Ahhh... Toolbars! on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I have seen something nearly identical to this in the field. I was truly amazed.

  5. Even more reason to encrypt everything on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 2

    The ISP can't inject stuff like that if your site is encrypted. This may irritate the 5-Eyes, but this isn't really to prevent content from being read by the government (they can read the page like anyone else), but to keep it from being molested in transit.

  6. Re:Share your "encryption network" with Suckerberg on Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that's what's happening here. Providing Facebook with your public key doesn't share with Facebook (or anyone else) anyone else that may use encryption to communicate with you. After all, it IS your public key, and one you should be willing to share to anyone that wants to send you encrypted email. Facebook and the NSA already knows who your friends are - so this just provides a way to help distribute your public key. I would prefer if Facebook required you to be friends first, since the public key is tied to the email address. And allowing people to scrape public keys (which would require associating it to your Facebook email address) would just be an email harvesters wet dream.

  7. Re:No self driving trains? on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    We got rid of some railway workers, but it was only allowed through attrition. There used to be a crew that was in a caboose at the end of the train. They weren't needed anymore, but existing caboose crew continued to work until they retired. So over time, you saw fewer cabooses until now, where there are none.

  8. Re:Agile. on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 1

    I see this, too. The Manifesto states "Working code over Comprehensive Documentation". Not "In Lieu Of" Comprehensive Documentation.

  9. Re:No. on Is Agile Development a Failing Concept? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Skip QA/QC procedures? Then you're not Done. That means you've completed 0 stories and get to finish them on your next Sprint.

  10. Re:Looks like the prophet's gunmen on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    Yeah Plano!

  11. They should run OpenVMS on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 2

    OpenVMS systems have had many systems up for several years without rebooting. Their equivalent of the "ps" utility had to fixed one time because systems were exceeding 9999 days uptime.