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  1. Re:old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be better to have discontinued the 3 that failed and save even more money?

    : - )

    Or is it more dependent on in whose Congressional district which ones are made?

  2. Re: old, really old, news on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that a lot of those million men would have died fighting suicidal women and children.

  3. Re:A little drastic but... on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was 9 when this happened also, living about 3 counties Southeast of the crash site, certainly close enough to have seen a very bright light and heard a very loud noise if anything went off.

    The B-52 in question was trying for an emergency landing at Seymour Johnson AFB, where my Dad did his active duty Reserve obligation every summer back then

    Chances are if one of them had gone off it wouldn't have been over Wayne County but "in" it, as in buried in the dirt.

    The one with the parachute wound up with about a foot and half of the nose underground but the other one, falling unimpeded, hit a field near a swampy area, and despite digging down over 40 feet, they still haven't recovered all of it.

    Most of the stuff in this latest release was already known, though.

    http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2011/01/23/the_bomb_one_click_from_armageddon/

    http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/story.html

    http://www.restorationsystems.com/uncategorized/whoops-atomic-bomb-dropped-in-goldsboro-nc-swamp-neuse-huc-02/

  4. Here Comes Lootin' Putin.... on Russian Government Takes Over Country's 289-year Old Scientific Academy · · Score: 1

    After he separates them from their liquidateable assets, do you suppose he'll let the R.O.C. start officially deciding what it and isn't science?

  5. Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans on Dogs Love Robots, Prefer Humans · · Score: 1

    Well, obviously, humans are easier to chew.

  6. Re:Why record more than one channel? on Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos · · Score: 1

    I can see there's a specialised need for multi-channel recording but can't understand how there can be a domestic need to record more than one at a time - are there people who honestly enjoy so much of the current programming that there's things on more than one channel for any time slot that they're interested in?

    The few shows in which one is interested are always scheduled against each other.

  7. Re:Well, it's an advertisement ... on Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos · · Score: 1

    This is /.

    It must be a car analogy or as close as it is possible to get to one.

    Monster truck is closer than what you're talking about.

  8. Re:Well, it's an advertisement ... on Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos · · Score: 1

    and if you don't want to mention it here, you should be able to figure out how to reach me at coastalnet.com, or PM me at TCF if you hang out there.

  9. Re:Well, it's an advertisement ... on Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos · · Score: 1

    What exactly was wrong with that S3, was it the 648 or the 652, and was it lifetimed?

  10. Re:Private company delivering a Public good on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    You didn't say people using the same service for shorter distances or higher volume destinations, you said people not using the service.

  11. Re:So does anybody... on Cisco Can't Shield Customers From Patent Suits, Court Rules · · Score: 1

    Your car analogy is better than mine was.

    There must be a good car analogy of how unfair that is.

  12. To bad that guy wasn't available... on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 1

    ...to notice the lack of an ending to The Colorado Kid before they sent it off to the printers.

  13. Re:Stephen King is Dead on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 1

    But has Netcraft confirmed it?

  14. Re:Private company delivering a Public good on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    Since all of the USPS income comes from their customers, how do you figure people who aren't using the service are paying for or subsidizing it?

  15. Re:Private company delivering a Public good on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 2

    The USPS is not losing billions of dollars.

    They're being forced to convert it into government bonds.

    (Which helps disguise the budget problems of the government and let Congress spend more)

    If not for the extreme burden imposed by the 2006 law (FedEx and UPS aren't putting billions away now to fund the pensions of employees that haven't been born yet), they'd be turning a healthy profit.

  16. Re:USPS setup for failure on UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail · · Score: 1

    How many private companies do you know of that are being forced to set aside money now to fund the pensions of employees not yet born?

  17. So does anybody... on Cisco Can't Shield Customers From Patent Suits, Court Rules · · Score: 2

    ...have an idea just what this TR Labs outfit has a patent or patents on that are the ones supposedly being infringed?

    It's got to be something a little less generic than "networking computers together with Cisco gear", doesn't it?

    Because so far it's sounding like suing people who own automobiles because somehow you got a patent on the idea of using them to drive somewhere.

  18. Re:how can you not play a 9 year old digital tape? on Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape · · Score: 1

    Do you mean a PC running Windows XP?

    Close as Craigslist.

  19. Re: how can you not play an audio file? on Why Steve Albini Still Prefers Analog Tape · · Score: 1

    Standard audio tape speeds are 30 inches per second and reductions by half, so 15, 7.5, 3.75, 1.875, with that last being the standard for cassettes and 3.75 being the next step up for specialty applications.

    3.5 is a floppy size, but not an audio tape speed one is likely to encounter on properly functioning equipment.

  20. Re:For those that didn't RTFA... on Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guilty or not, I smell a frame.

    National security? Really? That's the best reason they could come up with to try to stop an inquiry into how they "found" their evidence?

    And this guy's supposedly clever and knowledgeable enough to fake a call from his home phone but doesn't know there's a record of his map search left on the computer?

  21. Re:Denies Anonymous Exposed Their Members on Syrian Electronic Army Denies Anonymous Exposed Its Members · · Score: 1

    Maybe so, but that was definitely exposure of someone's member.

    So to speak.

  22. What happens if they skip the body? on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    What if they don't bother with the video of the person's back, and just flash the light in sync with the previously recorded heartbeats?

    It's not like flashing light by itself can't affect someone's brain.

    Besides, how familiar is anyone with what their own back looks like that it matters that the video is of them?

  23. Re:Oh great... on Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops · · Score: 1

    I wasn't asking, I was speaking from experience as someone who popped and bagged a lot of that popcorn.

    : - )

  24. Re:Oh great... on Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops · · Score: 1

    Works for me; I cant wait for Fast and Furious 28: Who Gives A Shit What We Call It Because You'll Watch It Anyway.

    Of course the working title is The Fasterest and the Furiousest.

  25. Re:Oh great... on Wikipedia Can Predict Box Office Flops · · Score: 3, Informative

    In other words, they're a popcorn store selling movie tickets as a loss leader to get you in the door.