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  1. Re:Great for Cuba on Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US · · Score: 2

    Have you seen how much it costs to become a graduate of anything in the US?
    Perhaps the High tech companies should start training people. Even starbucks can train people to make coffee. Coding to the standard these companies seem to want is not that expensive and they may earn some loyalty.

  2. Re:Another language that has a fatal flaw on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Acctually it would be quite funny to have to use a code editor similar to wordperfect just to have the "display codes F4" popup to show the hidden meaning of all the whitespace :)

  3. Re:Another language that has a fatal flaw on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Part of the concept of writing is to make meaning unambiguous. It is a very hard problem even in mathematics which is pure in and of its self (unlike spoken language). Over thousands of years it was figured out how basic algebra could be communicated well. How precedent worked. How to present it without ambiguity (more complex math still has specialized peculiarities) and now someone wants to fiddle with that using hidden characters? Do they even know how many non visible characters are in Unicode?

  4. Re:Why isn't this influence peddling or corruption on How Big Telecom Tried To Kill Net Neutrality Before It Was Even a Concept · · Score: 1

    There are many such organisations.
    Be careful though as many have many more than one side to them. The lobbying is not necessarily what joe public thinks it is and is not necessarily what the companies paying into it think it is. The NRA is a prime example.

    Why do politicians get good pensions and health care and if high up security for decades after they have left office? Hrmm.

  5. Re:Why isn't this influence peddling or corruption on How Big Telecom Tried To Kill Net Neutrality Before It Was Even a Concept · · Score: 3, Funny

    Being sarcastic.

    That looks like a very very good return on investment :)

  6. Re:Why the United States Always Loses Its Wars on How Big Telecom Tried To Kill Net Neutrality Before It Was Even a Concept · · Score: 0

    Bing. The bell rings and we have a winner. Not a very astute one as this is pretty much copypasta but sort of proves the point I suppose.

  7. Re:Cranium reconstruction is not uncommon on US Military Working On 3D Printing Exact Replicas of Bones & Limbs · · Score: 1

    Also think of reducing the health care costs of older or retired soldiers. Hip/knee/shoulder replacements. They do not have to have been blown up of shot or anything violent.

  8. Re:Holy shit! on US Military Working On 3D Printing Exact Replicas of Bones & Limbs · · Score: 1

    Bones are not living. They are host to lots of living stuff but they are dead. There is lots of research and practice into building 3D frameworks for your body to grow back into. Not all three D printing is little plastic doodahs.

  9. Re:Another language that has a fatal flaw on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 2

    The manual does not even hint at why the experimental strong spaces may be a good idea. As far as I can tell they are a way to confuse people.

    People do not learn arithmetic that way for a very good reason. You can't write it down reliably. I would claim that anything you cannot write down or write as plain HTML (as we are in the interweb era) is sort of broken.

  10. Re:first the rats escape on Nim Programming Language Gaining Traction · · Score: 1

    Thats NIMH.

  11. Re:Martian Maintenance Infrastructure on 10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where you are going with that. Both rovers are still active even if one is stuck. The solar panels seem to work for them even if there have been issues wrt dust on them. Curiosity is Nuclear powered as it is much much larger and has vastly larger power requirements to even move let alone perform experiments.

  12. Re:if there is no evidence presented in how they.. on All the Evidence the Government Will Present In the Silk Road Trial Is Online · · Score: 1

    "The perverse effect of permitting police to go ahead with a mistaken reading of the law, she wrote, is to prevent or delay clarification of the law "
    And it is a good point. If the police can just say "I did not understand the law in question" where are the rest of us left?

  13. Re:As long as they get close it's a win on SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship · · Score: 1

    Facts are facts. If you decide that they are bad then you will not have much fun in life, perhaps you should look at the upside and what you learned from those facts. Even if the rocket breaks up and plummets into the ocean there is information there that may be useful for your perfect landing criteria.

    Only one of the goals is to land perfectly. Gosh who would have thought that there may be more than one goal.

  14. Re:fuel weight on SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship · · Score: 1

    Many liquid fuelled rockets never run until they run out of fuel. They are shut off at the appropriate time/place/velocity. So there tends to be fuel "left over" anyway. Now the total mass of one of these 1st stage rockets is primarily fuel/oxidiser. They do not mass much without anything in them. So trying to land it is not quite as expensive as you may think if you take into account the left overs. I presume they are going with the "If there is not enough fuel left let it burn" approach. Sort of trimming the margins to make sure it gets up but possibly it will not get down but should if it all goes well.

  15. Re:As long as they get close it's a win on SpaceX To Attempt Falcon 9 Landing On Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship · · Score: 1

    A very negative point of view.

    The stage is a loss anyway if they did not try to get it back down and land it. If not it would eventually renter and burn. I thought that was the whole point. Trying to get it back in one piece where you want it to land. If you get it back in one or a few bits then it is a win over just just chucking it up there and knowing you have lost it (as most rockets do)
    There is cost in trying to do so. And yes they do need a perfect pinpoint landing to achieve it. Missing by a bit would show yet again that they can do it but have problems wrt navigation/mobility/finding the target pad or just going boom. But showing possibly that it can be done.

    I am not exactly a fan boy but it is interesting and lots could be learned even if it fails.

  16. Re:Also, in the UK on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 1

    Did you look at the low speed handling set up. Its brill. Lots of big model boats travelling very slowly with trainees inside them.
    http://www.warsashacademy.co.u...

    Low tech but it apparently still works well.
    Oh they have other bits to but that made me smile.

  17. Re:882 foot Titanic on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 1

    Oh I see what you mean by Gross tonnage. Now that is something I learned today.

  18. Re:882 foot Titanic on Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection · · Score: 2

    You are talking about water level volume and how that affects displacement wrt gross weight. I think the parent was talking about overall volume. As in the stuff above water. Cruse ships have a very shallow draft, they are wide and long. They are not liners. Ocean Liners where longer and much narrower with a deeper draft (and made with thicker skins) to enable high speed through very bad weather (but not ice burgs as it happens). They are built for different things. Cruise liners are a bit like a slightly streamlined barge with a 10 storey building on top. I think the only ocean liner still running is the Queen Mary 2

  19. Re:Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Your quality of life may be improved if you did not have to commute into the city thus saving you valuable time, reducing your taxes by not having to build ever larger free ways, by not having to pay more and more for gas and parking each year. A more worthy goal?

    Some people have to work were the retail centres are. Most other city business does not need to be done in a city centre any more. chucking more free ways at is does not solve the problem.

    And those few hours are the rush hours. What you are asking for is to scale the roads to handle the maximum possible capacity when in reality outside those few hours a day they have a 5%(or whatever) usage. And you want your taxes to do that? Have you ever done that in any other situation and do you know how much it costs to have that much capacity which mostly stands unused. (roads cost a lot to maintain.

  20. Re: Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Thanks for answering. I have only been to LA a few times and it was always a pain wrt traffic.

  21. Re:Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    A question. Is not some of the underground in LA being extended? Last I saw was lots of people complaining about the potential noise of construction.

  22. Re:Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    And where do you put all the cars when they get to the city? More parking spaces needed. This helps people move further out and require more transport to get to the city and requires even bigger free ways and even more parking. So all you end up doing is causing people to spend more time and money travelling. More on taxes for the ever larger free ways and ever more for parking when they get there. Yet it still will not remove the traffic problems. All traffic passing through the city (as in not stopping there) will still be screwed. And all to try to resolve a few hours a day when peak traffic occurs.

    Look up Smeed's Law (average speed part)

  23. Re:Move to a gated community on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Also know as Smeed's Law (well part of it)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  24. Re:California Drought on Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do · · Score: 1

    That is about 0.5% of California's water usage over the last two years and often at times when the water would not have been stored.

  25. Re:I want... on A Case Against Further Government Spectrum Auctions · · Score: 2

    There is not enough bandwidth for analogue tv AND lots of shopping channels.