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  1. Re:Google will have their way on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 2

    Easement laws in the US are a form of eminent domain.

  2. Re:really on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 2

    But without the drug war what excuse would you use to lock up all those undesirables?

  3. Re:Size, range and much hype... on North Korea Developing Electromagnetic Pulse Weapons · · Score: 1

    I thought EPFCG's were rather simple devices?

  4. Re:Red state on Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, as a texan, GM != Oil Company Most of our complaints about Tesla is they don't make a truck, Those pansy as electric sedan's are fine for the little woman.

  5. Re:Now it just remains to be seen... on Nissan's Autonomous Car Now Road Legal In Japan · · Score: 1

    A panic stop on the freeway can be pretty deadly

  6. Re:Is it really that easy? on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 1

    58 m/s is for the calculated impulse delta-v. With a lower thrust maneuver, your total delta-v is higher. This is the problem with ion drives.

  7. Re:Could only be better if: on US To Standardize Car App/communication Device Components · · Score: 1

    But that seems less susceptible to jamming.

  8. Re:PC is the new Mainframe on PC Sales See 'Longest Decline' In History · · Score: 0

    The mainframe today is just a bunch of PC Servers that happen to have infiniband.

  9. Re: Nothing new on Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil · · Score: 1

    Are there companies offering grav/mag drones? I've had surveys delayed months due to the pilot being unavailable.

  10. Re:Equal rights on So What If Yahoo's New Dads Get Less Leave Than Moms? · · Score: 4, Informative

    unpaid

  11. Re:Houston has 4 Major league teams on Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It's not a NHL team though.

  12. Re:So how does it work? on World's Most Powerful Private Supercomputer Will Hunt Oil and Gas · · Score: 5, Informative

    Processing Seismic Data takes a ton of power, There are techniques that are well known that we still can't use due to the lack of computer power. The last big advance was RTM(Reverse Time Migration). This was first done on 2D Data in the 80's, But didn't become reasonable to do on 3D's until about 2008-'09. This improvement in imaging is one of the drivers is subsalt exploration. The next big step is FWI (Full Waveform Inversion) We still don't have enough power to run this mainstream yet, The main idea is the stuff we mute out as noise is actually just data that we can migrate back to the original location. The other Item more power helps us with Is running Migrations at higher frequencies. right now we record at 250Hz(125 nyquest) but only process at 60Hz, This is mainly due to the price of computer time. doubling to 120Hz requires 4 times more computer time. But allows us to double our image resolution from to 50 meters to 25 meters. Considering some of our target reservoirs are as narrow as 20 feet, This type of thing is important.

  13. Re:Shared RAM on A New Approach To Database-Aided Data Processing · · Score: 1

    mmm.... Embarrassingly Parallel...

  14. Re:Too tenuous on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Chemical Thrusters don't have high specific impulses, They have high thrust. If you want a specific impulse engine you'd use an ion thruster or a even a nerva.
    The issue with any type of engine is first you have to arrest the asteroid's spin.

  15. Re:CRC Errors on Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? · · Score: 1

    Well with motor death(click of death) you can usually send it off to a clean room to recover pretty cheaply.

  16. Re:Methinks people don't appreciate the scales her on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    Lol, even at 1cm/s you could "literally anywhere in the reachable universe in a typical lifetime"

  17. Re:Drones strikes are great... on Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups · · Score: 1

    That's what these are for http://i.imgur.com/L68TB.jpg

  18. Re:Contempt of Court? on Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning · · Score: 2

    No, He Transcribed the conversation live, not from a recording.

  19. Re:Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway? on Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million · · Score: 0
    Fucking /.

    You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?

    You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?

    They should be making interest on it.

    Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.

    The government gets all abandoned property when someone dies. In this case they just don't have the burden of selling it for the funds. I mean if you have a person with no family and no will, where do expect his house and car to go to when he dies? The first squatter?

  20. Re:Wouildn't his kids inherit his money anyway? on Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million · · Score: 0



    <p>You mean the private business that safeguarded it for all that time?</p><p>You know banks arent charities, right? That they arent safeguarding your money and providing interest for the general good?</p></quote>

    They should be making interest on it.

    <quote>Seems perfectly fair if I agree to hold people's money and take liability for it for many years, and you disappear with no will or anything else, that I should keep the money (assuming no heirs or next of kin) rather than the government-- after all, the government already gets a big piece of the pie, but THIS piece they didnt earn.</quote>

    The government gets all abandoned property when someone dies. In this case they just don't have the burden of selling it for the funds.

    I mean if you have a person with no family and no will, where do expect his house and car to go to when he dies? The first squatter?

  21. Re:Opportunity on Why Mark Zuckerberg Is a Bad Role Model For Aspiring Tech Execs · · Score: 2

    My dad always said, " It's not what you learn in college it's who you meet."

  22. Re:Recursive? on The PHP Singularity · · Score: 1

    Personal Home Page

  23. Re:Interesting on Rockstar Creates 'Cheaters Pool' For Game Hackers · · Score: 1

    Well Most cheat packages in CS also let you see through walls, which when combined with aimbot made for some real... well....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZmuUGY-sZ0

  24. Re:We already have driverless cars on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    I want a johnny cab too

  25. Re:It just doesn'twwork on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 1

    Hell most of houston wasn't planned until post WW2