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  1. Re:Why all the whining in the first place? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1

    If you mix that with other sources of random then it does not matter does it?

    So long as that is not the only source of random data it should be fine.

  2. Re:Marital/Money problems??? on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Based on what?

    He has always spoken this way to those who deserved it. Notice he does not go after noobs or people who do not ask for it. If you put up a petition to get something changed, you should at least know what you are talking about.

  3. Re:Linus an example of ... on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its just a shame that morons like you value social graces over the ability to do real work. This is why companies fail, especially as they get better, playing well with morons is valued over the ability to get shit done.

  4. Re:you have the source on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So what you are saying is you don't know how and would rather not learn how. Then maybe you should keep your trap shut and let Linus do what he does best.

  5. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    Because there is so much of, and in that area will evaporation occur faster than rainfall? I never add water to my pool, it fills via rain faster than it evaporates.

  6. Re:Windmills do not work that way, Human! on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    That was my sly joke.

    What he supposed was happening is currently impossible.

  7. Re:deal bad-terrain yes, bad weather no. on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    They hope to use their ability to manage their buoyancy to fix that. Also the fact that this craft is designed as a lifting body. So it could if need be in theory become heavier than air and glide to the ground in poor weather.

  8. Re:must we endure.. on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    Even if you can refuel the chinook in flight, helicopters burn fuel like that is their job. Not a cheap way to move cargo.

  9. Re:Because I had to look it up... on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    Road on totally flat terrain is still not cheap, you have to truck all that asphalt out there and cut down all that brush. 1 million dollars might get you 10 miles of single lane. More likely half that. Australia is big.

  10. Re:must we endure.. on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 2

    I don't think you read the article. What I am talking about is what it says.

    They want to move remote or oversized cargo. They can become heavier than air and the airship is shaped as an obvious lifting body.

  11. Re:Windmills do not work that way, Human! on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 5, Informative

    They compress the helium into fabric bags, then this makes the some of the gas cells/bags inside the rigid frame deflate, that deflated volume is replaced with air. Then when you need to become lighter you allow the Helium to go back into the gas cell/bag and thus the bag inflates pushing the air out of the craft.

    If they could do what you are suspecting is going on they would have no need for helium. They could just have a big rigid bag of vacuum.

  12. Re:Nice... on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    Have fun waiting, they are using He not H.

  13. Re:must we endure.. on Aeroscraft Begins Flight Testing Following FAA Certification · · Score: 1

    These can also be used in places that cannot afford those things. Imagine you have a large mine in some third world nation and need to get your product to port, but there are no roads for large vehicles. Since this craft can become heavier than air at will it is easier to land and can deal with weather far better than previous airships.

  14. Please tell me it is even taller/longer on The iPhone 5S Hasn't Been Officially Announced, Already Has Line · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please tell me this thing is even taller, I want the iPhone to end up looking like one of those satellite tv remotes.

  15. Re:The Stupid. It Burns on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    So they can't ever take the fifth?
    Because that is what it sounds like, since the judge could still charge them with contempt even if they claim it would incriminate them. In that case the 5th sounds pretty useless.

  16. Re:Considering the buyers of these cars on Cadillac SRX Converted Into Self-Driving Car · · Score: 1

    We have some of those here, they put $100 fart cans and $100 erector set wings on the $50k car their parents bought them. If they have extra money they stance it.

  17. Re:Considering the buyers of these cars on Cadillac SRX Converted Into Self-Driving Car · · Score: 3, Funny

    No one who listens to that has ever bought a Cadillac.

    Rap music or whatever was popular in the 1890s are likely the only options on a Cadillacs radio.

  18. Re:absence of malice on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Fanfiction is not really interesting to me. If one could tell an interesting tale he would not need to borrow another writers universe.

  19. Re:The Stupid. It Burns on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    Which leads me to my followup question, why not just commit a crime with your source if you are a reporter?

  20. Re:The Stupid. It Burns on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    So what if revealing the source and answering questions about that source would incriminate yourself? Perhaps that source is your drug dealer, how is that handled? Can they then use this testimony to charge you with a crime?

  21. Re:Why is Apple the one being sued? on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    What I am talking about is a set of very simple scripts. You can test season length via episode count of previous seasons or length between airdates. Very easy to automate.

  22. Re:Why is Apple the one being sued? on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    "Season pass" is the name of the AMC product?

    I believe Season pass is a supposedly descriptive term itunes uses. In cases when it may be confusing they could include an air date range or number of episodes outside the fine print.

  23. Re:cement filled barrels? on Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem · · Score: 1

    Tritium is not a major issues. It is a very short lived beta emitter.

    Where are you going to find this much concrete? You are look at hoover dams worth of the stuff quite likely.

  24. Re:this is why on Cadillac SRX Converted Into Self-Driving Car · · Score: 1

    This seems way less self driving and more like poorly assisting then.

    I want a car that can drive me home from the bar. Anything short of that and I would be unlikely to be interested.

  25. Re:absence of malice on Apple Sued For Dividing Final Season of Breaking Bad Into Two On iTunes · · Score: 1

    Sorry I was being trollish. My spouse actually likes the series quite a bit, much to my dismay. I have tried on several occasions and it is simply too childish for me. I can't understand how a college educated woman can read what is maybe a year further along than one fish two fish.

    I tried to watch some of the movies and they were just as bad. I watched one quite drunk and that made it pretty manageable.