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  1. Re:It's not ISIS, it's "Islamic State" on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    The Secrets of Isis.

  2. Re:Only a fraction of US munitions... on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    All 16% of it.

  3. Re:Only a fraction of US munitions... on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it is a genetic predisposition

    It's the food. Have you ever had tabbouleh?

  4. Re:matter of time on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Germans did it seventy years ago. And this was before miniature computers. All the countries were in on it too.

  5. Re:military drones on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 1
    It's already developed. Not a lot more to do.

    Anyone, with very moderate skills can build an aircraft to fly anywhere within a few dozen kilometers and 'land' within a 2m radius.

  6. Re:Remember to regster your drone! on ISIS Is Dropping Bombs With Drones In Iraq (popsci.com) · · Score: 2
    I'v been building "drones" out of balsa wood and glue since my first guillow's kit that I received when I was five years old (witha little help obviously, but not too much). Adding a gyro, arduino isn't exactly rocket science and adds $10-$15 to the project.

    And for those who can't afford to buy a kit, you can get free plans off the internet. I'm pretty sure you could build it out of toothpicks and tissue paper if you couldn't find balsa.

  7. Re:4GB is 20 copies of Red Hat Linux on Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But what's the advantage with a SIMM?

  8. Re:But it's not a murkan on Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Chill out. The processor is (was) American (now Singapore)

  9. I don't understand the rational behind a 4GB flash card? My rpi has a 64GB USB drive. Maybe speed perhaps (?), but even with going through USB it has enough throughout for almost any application in its class.

  10. Re: Drop enough bombs on Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code (ala.org) · · Score: 1

    I know quite a few who did

  11. Re: Better to spend on education than salaries on Google-Funded Project Envisions Nation's Librarians Teaching Kids to Code (ala.org) · · Score: 2
    Same here. Voluntarily retired, but get job offers all the time. Friend/former coworker quit a $125/hr job because he was "bored of it". And that was living in Iowa.

    Iowa.

    With a yearly cost of living of like $17. Anyway, he retired to California and is not yet 50 I don't think. Programing moisture vaporators (or real-time engine controllers, same difference) is not quite the same as throwing up a web page.

  12. Re:Why can't there be an open phone? on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    wow, I remember getting MINIX to boot on a homemade (wirewrap) SBC back in the mid 80's. I guess I haven't kept up with it.

  13. Re:Why can't there be an open phone? on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You should check out google news.

  14. Re:False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Geeks used to build their own computers.

  15. Re: False premise on Will The Death of the PC Bring 'An End To Openness'? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Including the screen real estate and keyboard?

  16. Re:So what? on SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not as expensive as building something like B737...but we build a couple of those a day.

  17. Re:"$1 billion in cash reserves and no debt" on SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is this any different than the "Billions of free money" IBM gets from government subsidies?

  18. Re:I saw an article about why Chinese did better on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting that the ONLY time that I've seen someone called a racial slur was from a teacher making an offhand comment about an Asian friend of mine. I don't think he intended it to be heard, but a lot of the class did and were like :O

  19. Re:Why does this come as a surprise? on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that you Ross?

  20. Re:The only thing cassettes are good for nowadays on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Toggling in bootstrap code is sooo much more painful than loading from a cassette. Not that there isn't significant pain there either.

  21. Re:LOLgasm on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Two words: statistically insignificant.

    What this website is striving to become.

  22. Re:8-Track Tape is next on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    There were some kids in my high school class that drove their van into a ravine and all died. When the van and bodies were found a week later, the 8 track was still playing Stairway to Heaven.

  23. Re:Cassettes are dumb on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    You could record on cassette, but not on vinyl. My friend and I used to make comedy programs on cassette, a la Dr. Demento in early grade school years.

  24. Re:No, they are not on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Tubes are quieter

    I keep my transistors and IC's immersed in LN2. I thought this was a nerd site.

  25. Re: It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    How else can you do a digitally remastered release?