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  1. Re:Commercial aircraft connected to the Internet? on US Government Probes Airplane Vulnerabilities, Says Airline Hack Is 'Only a Matter of Time' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    it's interesting in that report they say attacks were done from passenger's seats

  2. Re:70 year claim is bullshit on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    no, they did not have hurricane tracking back then, impossible. Taking local weather measurements from points hundreds of miles apart is not tracking. Your complete ignorance is incredible.

    you are spewing without a clue

  3. Re:70 year claim is bullshit on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    nonsense, you're delusional if you think your ancestor was capable of tracking hurricanes across the ocean or anywhere else. there weren't even hurricanes where he lived!!

  4. Re:Commercial aircraft connected to the Internet? on US Government Probes Airplane Vulnerabilities, Says Airline Hack Is 'Only a Matter of Time' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    who said the attack was via internet? planes act on received radio signals, have internal signal buses, etc.

  5. they all have autopilot that can work those hydraulic controls, the autopilot is a hydraulic system that the flight management computer directs

  6. 70 year claim is bullshit on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there was no way to accurately track and measure hurricane velocity 70 years ago. through the 60s there were sporadically weather satellites each of which did not last very long. in the 70s and beyond, yes I'll believe claims of hurricane tracking/velocity

  7. Re:hahaha "even 911 calls" on A Nationwide Comcast Landline Outage is Affecting Thousands of Businesses (theverge.com) · · Score: -1

    that's okay, they can use their cell phones

    even the poor have their Obama (Bush/Reagan) cell phones

    so we're all good

  8. Re:Take your pick on Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage (npr.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    it's even better than that, look at the alarmist predictions over the years that get altered to fit current news. Climate Change will Cause More Hurricanes! but it didn't. More powerful Hurricanes! Slower Hurricanes!

    also, in past years, more droughts! more floods! more snow! less snow!

  9. hahaha "even 911 calls" on A Nationwide Comcast Landline Outage is Affecting Thousands of Businesses (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    love that bit of unnecessary sensationalism under the headline at the link, yeah duh, if the phone is down it won't call 911 either. Let's make it really spicy and say that "even calls to pro-Democrat fund raising and lobbyist organizations"

  10. Re:Can’t sweep heat under the rug. on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    hahaha, you know all the power consumed by human civilization, if converted to heat and dumped in the ocean, woul not make an iota of difference compared to the sun. Even the natural variation in solar output totally dwarfs the heat output of mankind. We do NOT have a mans-waste-heat-warming-the-earth problem.

    Pollutions making gases that trap a bit more SOLAR heat, pollution darkening ice and snow to trap more SOLAR heat...yes, those might be a problem.

  11. Re:More global warming hysteria on Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    the overall span of the modern max actual went 1915 to 2007, and we're headed for a "grand minimum" in 2050 now. Let's see how much that affects global temp.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  12. false, can't make a claim of efficacy of a treatment based on one person. That's not how the scientific method nor clinical trials work

  13. Re:When you continue to milk the cash cow.... on 'Solo' Will Lose $50+ Million In First Defeat For Disney's 'Star Wars' Empire (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    in this case, it's a bag of moldy leather bag full of bone fragments and they're squeezing it like an empty tube of toothpaste hoping something comes out.

  14. Re:In Other News . . . on Company Takes Over Well-Known OSS Developer's Name Because the Domain Was Free · · Score: 1

    whoa, I've been saying that as $5 at Starbucks for years...is coffee at Starbucks that expensive now??

    I drink tea so out of touch.

  15. Re:If this went on long enough, Moon day = Earth d on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    you can look that one up, about 50 billion years, and the latest calculations (educated guesses with numbers) are that the earth won't be vaporized by the sun when it becomes a red dwarf but instead Earth's orbit will expand enough to save it

  16. Re:Billions of years? Come on! on An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually the latest thinking is the the orbit of Earth might expand enough to avoid the incineration Mercury and Venus get. Then the only question is how long it takes the Earth's orbit to decay into the "black dwarf" that the sun will cool into. that timescale is unbelievably huge.

  17. Re:I Could't Say on PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    the only other major one costing money I know of that restricts access to repositories is SLES. Their OpenSUSE is not the same thing.

  18. Re:I Could't Say on PC Software Piracy Decreases Worldwide, But Remains Rampant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    HUH??!!! Free RHEL is called CentOS. No piracy required.

  19. Re:average cycles per second per second on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    of course the important thing is how much work a CPU can do, a phrase that could give a notion of that graph's increase over the years would be more meaningful

  20. nope, developing 3rd world will eat that stuff up.

    burn baby burn

  21. Re:"center divider and lane markings" on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    that's true, invented decades ago. Wedge a snow brush between seat and accelerator, tie the steering wheel, and relax....

  22. Re:Follow the money on this on Hawaii Passes Law To Make State Carbon Neutral By 2045 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    carbon offsets are a scam, they are the stupid equivalent of buying medieval indulgences to get pass to sin.

    billions of euros of scam known about, plus even the "non-scams" are just mostly just funding things a venture capitalist wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

    bullshit, is what it is.

    the only proper and real solution is adopting alternative energy, and Hawaii is a fantastic place for at least 4 techs. Wind, solar, wave, geothermal....but no, the easy "wave of the pen" solution is done instead.

  23. Re:average cycles per second per second on Intel Hits 50 Years and Its CPUs Hit 5.0 GHz (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    no, clock speed the one thing that flattened out years ago, about 2004

  24. Re:The details on SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    don't compare today's bottle rockets with a Saturn V

  25. Based on sample size of one woman? Nope, let's see 100 women treated