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  1. Re:What can we file this under? on Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Its a sad fact that many niche apps like CAD and so on are written for Windows. Yes you can get a CAD program for Linux but tends to pale in comparison, it has to meet the requirements and *nix OSs have lagged far behind in applications which have efficient workflow the features needed for many situations. Linux is fine if you need a word processor but when you get into large, specialized technical apps falls behind.

  2. Re:They use windows on planes! on Boeing Hit By WannaCry Virus, Fears It Could Cripple Some Jet Production (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Its a sad fact that many niche apps like CAD and so on are written for Windows. Yes you can get a CAD program for Linux but it has to meet the requirements and *nix OSs have lagged far behind in applications which have efficient workflow the features needed for many situations. Linux is fine if you need a word processor but when you get into large, specialized technical apps falls behind.

  3. Re:I miss old NASA on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Trying to put people on the Moon isn't a good idea. In fact, its quite terrible. I can't imagine the vast amounts of money this would take, plus it would not be sustainable and would end up depleting Earths resources to supply the thing. You can buy thousands and thousands of science programs for what we would spend on a boondoggle like that. To illustrate the absurdity of it, Antartica is a paradise by comparison. We would be bettet to use money to harden our electrical grid because thats the really big and present danger we face. Also have some "Noahs Ark" survival bases buried in the desert somewhere on earth with seed vaults and so on. This makes much more sense than the Moon.

  4. Re:W Bush cancelled the shuttle 2004-Jan-14 on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Cancelling the shuttle was a good thing. The Shuttle was mainly a way to waste a lot of money on a rocket that was overly expensive and complex, when there are cheaper way to do things. The whole concept was flawed. It left little money for actual science programs, during the Shuttle era you got the feeling that NASA was mostly absorbed with launching the shuttle. The launch platform should be a means to an end, not the end itself. Its now obvious NASA can get out of being the core developer of rockets altogether with SpaceX providing cheaper options.

    SLS needs to be cancelled as well because this is another Shuttle boondoggle in the making. We dont need it with the BFR showing a better way.

  5. Re:Evidence please on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Some analyst a while back said this: NASA needs to get out of the rocket business and focus on its science programs. During the 80s it was far too focused on the bloated and wasteful contraption that was the Shuttle, a flawed concept. He said NASA had become consumed with rockets, rather than what you put on the rocket. A rocket is just a means to an end. The cronyism sucks up money out of the budget that they need to use instead on science programs. The government needs to fund a large number of COTS providers so they have to compete with each other to keep launch prices down, and its worked, with SpaceX , BlueOrigin, Orbital, Sierra Nevada coming online. ULA has been forced to adapt with Vulcan.

    SLS is an awful attempt to saddle NASA with another Shuttle albatross. The whole thing needs to be cancelled NOW.

  6. Re:Obama sold NASA out to the Russians on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Cancelling the white elephant that was the shuttle was a great thing for NASA. Now we just need to cancel SLS as well. Really all either of these do is suck up all the money on an overpriced rocket leaving nothing for the science programs. They can use the commercial launch platforms like Ariane, ULA, eventually SpaceX, Blue Origin, Orbital.

  7. Re:JWST is beyond NASA on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    the SLS should be cancelled. Use saved money on science projects like JWT. With the BFR coming, theres no need for the bloated waste of SLS cronyism

  8. Cancel SLS, used saved money for science on James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's Next Hubble, Delayed Again (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Best thing for NASA:

    1. Cancel SLS

    2 Use off the shelf commercial launch suppliers ( like Ariane, spacex, blue origin, sierra nevada, orbital, for high risk flights, Ariane or ULA for now, etc)

    3. Use saved money to resurrect cancelled programs and work on finishing delayed space programs

    NASA needs to focus more on the payloads, the science missions, rather than the rocket. The rocket is a means to an end. For too long, it seemed like under the Shuttle, the rocket was the end itself and much of the space program revolved around the rocket. By sucking up funding on a very expensive and flawed concept, the shuttle set the space program back by decades by taking money away from more effective technologies. NASA needs to get out of the rocket business and let commercial suppliers take care of that.

    The SLS must go so NASA can get back to science missions.

     

  9. How to prove roundness without endangering him on Flat-Earther's Steam-Powered Rocket Lofts Him 1,875 Feet Up Into Mojave Desert (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that 1800 feet is going to give you a good view of the curvature of the earth. I doubt that even 30,000 feet up which is cruising altitude of a jet plane would show it.

    So how best to prove to him that the earth is round? Perhaps the best way available at a low budget is to use a telescope to watch a sailboat coming over the horizon, the top of the mast should appear first before the rest comes into view. Maybe with this proof he will have to admit the earth is round, in addition, to stop further attempts at his rockets, saving his life.

  10. 1) Better, uncompressed quality on CD.

    2) No DRM crap to block access to the recording, its safely and durably stamped onto disc permanently and playable on any non internet connected CD player.

    CDs are sort of becoming a nostalgia item, hearkening back to the pre internet days, the era of fancy hi-fi systems and CD players with fancy controls and LCD readouts, while remaining the most practical and best quality format available, surpassing the durability of other nostalgia platforms such as Vinyl .

    Clearly, CD wins hands down. Super CDs are better, yet a premium item it seems, its difficult to find anything on a SACD, epsecially tasteful music for instance orchestra or jazz music, at least for a reasonable price.

  11. Re: If cell phones cause cancer on World's Largest Animal Study On Cell Tower Radiation Confirms Cancer Link (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 0

    This is incorrect. Radiation does not need to be ionizing. UV-A is not ionizing but can cause a sunburn. Broadcast RF can also cause RF burns if you are exposed to high enough of an energy. Anything that causes tissue damage, inflamation etc can be a problem. If it were not the case a sunburn would not be dangerous.

  12. Notice they said "adult". Not children, whose brains and personalities are still developing. I would exercise caution before assuming that video games have no negative effect on childrens behaviour. There is a lot of evidence that it does. For instance, there have been cases where stabbings had occurred over a fight over a video game among children.

  13. Re:Office air pollution is the worst on Air Pollution is Bad For Productivity, Even in Office Jobs (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I forgot to mention all the flame retardant chemicals such as PBDEs. Society is being poisoned and saturated with chemicals, you need a gas mask to go into these buildings.

  14. Office air pollution is the worst on Air Pollution is Bad For Productivity, Even in Office Jobs (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Offices are the worst. Many offices reek of toxic chemicals leaching from the furniture, the carpets, the toxic cleaning chemicals used, the air conditioning system, and so on. This together with the toxic white flourescent lighting, it really is a health hazard. The buildings are sealed up tight trapping all of the toxic air. The WORST is the hideous and health destroying LED lighting which should be declared a human health hazard. We really need OSHA regulations becuase it's such a workplace health hazard, both the air pollutants issuing from the materials and the headache inducing, nauseating LED and flourescent lighting. Whatever happened to the trend to build offices out of low emissions, low chemical materials and to use warmer, less harsh incandescent lighting?

  15. The Church of Global Warming on Extreme Winter Weather In the US Linked To a Warming Arctic (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    This is the contorted, tortured logic by desperate believers of the Church of Global Warming to explain away record cold temperatures and winters which contradict their global warming religion. That is, when its cold, its global warming, when its warm, its global warming. NEARLY EVERY kind of weather on the planet is one way or another now global warming, as well as EVERY social, economic problem! They can come up with a computer model and clever manipulation and disortion of data to blame nearly ANYTHING on global warming. If you question the Church of Global Warming, you are declared a heretic and it is now getting to the point that such people are nearly to the point of being publicly hanged. Obviously, the Church of Global Warming does not like its dogma being challenged and the difficult questions to be asked. Everyone just has to accept it, or else.

  16. Fraudelent figures, NO JOBS for americans on Demand For Programmers Hits Full Boil as US Job Market Simmers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    These figures have to be fraudulent and written by the corporations themselves who want to justify 20k per year low wage foreign labor. I know a lot, and i mean a LOT of programmers who cannot find work. Ask college graduates from US universities about this. I also know of many who have been laid off and replaced with indian workers. It is extremely difficult to find work with many months of sending out dozens of resumes per day. The entire H1B program needs to be abolished so these companies will be forced to hire American workers because as it is now, there are mass layoffs of Americans and It is very very, clear, that if you are an American, that the US government is not on your side and will do everything in their power to help foreign aliens steal your job and put you on the street. You need to fight back and to fight back you need to demand that the all immigration be stopped and the H1B programs and all like programs be terminated and all foreign visas be terminated and deported. Fight back, dont let them continue to do this to you.

  17. Re:Intel relies on a monopoly on Intel Fights For Its Future (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    You contradicted yourself here. On one hand you said x86 is "cruft", on the other hand, you admit its cheap to make x86 chips. There really isnt cruft in x86, its a perfectly useable design. Its not hard or expensive to implement any more than ARM. x86 instruction encodings can be weird, but not being aesthetic doesn't make them a performance problem or hard to implement on chip. Instruction encodings are things compilers need to be concerned with, not app programmers, anyway.

  18. Re:Intel relies on a monopoly on Intel Fights For Its Future (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel didnt do a 64 bit extension at first because they were invested in Itanium. They did have the skills to extend x86 to 64 bit, its not a very difficult thing to do. Itanium never caught on, it provided too difficult for compilers to make code that was well optimized for it. Backwards compatibility won out.

    You are correct that Intel played dangerous games and sold a defective product in order to give themselves a speed advantage over AMD, which did the right thing by its customers.

  19. Re:Intel did not turn down Apple on Intel Fights For Its Future (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I've heard from engineers is that there is very little or no overhead to support x86 on a chip. Its an infinitesimal part of the design. Its basically one of those urban legends that was cooked up in the 80s and isn't relevant any more. We've been in this situation many times before, people hear something and they keep on repeating it even though things have changed. I've looked at both x86 and ARM ISAs and its not much difference in complexity. We are in a post-RISC era. Even the so called RISC chips are complex with extensions for things such as SIMD instructions. ARM is not RISC, its a complex set with many extensions. With the engineering problems of increasing clock frequency, the chip has to be sped up by having a larger instruction set with more functionality loaded instructions which can allow for smaller code, allowing more to be done with each clock cycle. The worst kind of ISA to implement on a chip is one with a very small instruction set, such as stack based ones such as WebAssembly would be a very poor choice.

  20. Theres no way this is better than simply taking an airplane between the cities. The whole thing is a boondoggle. Cancel the whole thing. Probably a racket here, some Democrat giving kickbacks to a contractor. Would be better to subsidise an express bus service for people needing a lower cost option. Florida wanted to build something similar. It was realized it would be a wasteful boondoggle. It was cancelled by Rick Scott, the wisest decision he ever made.

  21. Sitting around watching people get killed and pulling a trigger over and over again is liable to lead to anti-social and compulsive behaviours and weaken inhibitions. I've had personal experiences with this, i can instantly tell someone who is a heavy video game player and/or heavy drug user, rarely am I wrong. Ive always been aghast at what drives people to play these horrible games and almost always they are the ones who end up with major problems in their lives They tend to be more self absorbed, they tend to lack empathy or concern for others or to be interested in things other than themselves and more or less exhibit manipulative and psychopathic tendancies.

    There are numerous studies to back up that heavy video game use leads to poor socialization and anti-social behaviour. SSRIs and video games were major factors in major school shootings, such as Adam Lanza who was on both. He had been turned into such a zombie he didnt know what he was doing. This is why we need to keep both out of the hands of kids, we need to crack down in a big way on Aderall, Ritalin, also linked to empathy deficits as well as SSRIs, making it illegal to prescribe these, and keep kids away from violent video games, movies and other media. More needs to be invested in more sound methods of mental health that they need, mainly counseling and outdoor activities, not sports or games, such as camping, rather than on chemicals. The government has a way of cancelling the programs that actually work like outdoor based ones such as Outward Bound which showed great success. I can;t really think of much the government has done which has actually been effective at anything and in fact most of societies problems are due to the bad programs and influences of governments programs and mistakes on society, such as how welfare programs caused the breakdown of the family, along with the corruption of Hollywood

    The big question is how to keep them out of the hands of the youth. Video game ratings and requring photo ID at sale has been tried before. The problem is there parents can still break down and buy it for them. Really they shouldnt be using violent video games at all, it should be no part of growing up. Increasingly with online distribution the photo ID becomes less doable. Even if you require them to snap a picture of their photo ID, its hard to determine if this is the person buying the video game.

  22. Re:Oh FFS here we go again.. on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And for people that do have deficencies, it does? Its like you worded that to make it look like its not a problem when you admit that it is. What I have seen of violent video game use was that maladjusted, mentally instable persons would often be attracted to it in particular and it has a reinforcing effect on them.

    I also do not believe it could not damage a normal person and cause a change in their behaviour. Shooting people dead over and over again on a screen has got to cause some changes in a person.

    The video games were a major factor in the Lanza case, he heavily was absorbed into it. It developed in concert with the SSRIs he was taking, which is another thing that should be restricted and is being overprescribed. Very dangerous drugs

  23. Re:Benefits those of us who don't use Netflix on Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Its true they could offer some tiers that are for burst use and some that are for continuous streaming. The burst plan would allow for burst downloads but would have a throttle algorithm, while a continuous bandwidth plan would be more expensive but have no throttle. The burst plans are for people that dont do a lot of streaming but want downloads and page loads to run fast. None of this requires any destination based rules that would discriminate against one site or another, and would not require an obnoxious download cap.

  24. Benefits those of us who don't use Netflix on Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    One of issues cited by cable providers is the explosive growth in Netflix and other streaming use. The existing system was never designed for this high bandwidth use. It was assumed people would get most video from the cable companies own service and that cable modem would be mostly for static content and short pieces of video, with brief bursts, not continuous high bandwidth streams and so on. So the growth in netflix, in order for cable companies to be able to keep up with demand, and to prevent congestion, would have to make very expensive investments in new infrastructure, which would have to be passed on to subscribers. This can hit subscribers who don't use these streaming services as well. So the idea is to cause Netflix to have to help fund these upgrades and that therefore the netflix subscribers would have to help pay for the upgrades, which actually helps those of us who don't heavily use video streaming services, since we won't have to pay for the expensive upgrades to make Netflix, which we don't use, work properly. Should I have to pay a 20-50% higher cable bill so some netflix user can run HD streams 24/7,

  25. Saw this coming on FreeBSD's New Code of Conduct (freebsd.org) · · Score: 2

    FreeBSD deleted the fortune program, I then knew that the system was really in decline at that point and has become self obsessed and moribund. Its like any other institution that becomes infected with the disease known as Liberalism, rather than being bold and innovative, creating new things, all it does is loath, become overly self critical loading itself down with endless rules and regulations, attacking and penalizing the more productive elements of society, while producing nothing of real value. It is an example of O Sullivans law.