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  1. Re:Instead of a wing on a small private aircraft on Watch What Happens When A Drone Slams Into An Airplane Wing (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with wooden wings?

    This little beauty went like shit off a shovel and could carry two tons of bombs to boot.

    http://www.eaa.org/~/media/ima...

  2. Yerkes-Dodson meets Dunning-Krueger meets Miyagi on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    Alex Roy, founder of the The Human Driving Association, is proposing a third option called "augmented driving" -- allowing people the option to drive, but helping them do it better.

    Then he's a pillock.

    A wise man once said: "Should drive yes or drive no, not drive guess so".

  3. Re:Will be as successful as the horse and cart clu on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    There'll be an app for that.

  4. Re:Will be as successful as the horse and cart clu on Sentimental Humans Launch A Movement to Save (Human) Driving (freep.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been on an autonomous bus that was faster than that. Well, it was like a bus but longer and instead of running on a road it ran on two narrow ones.

  5. Re:Not quite as bad as it sounds on Zero-Day In Popular jQuery Plugin Actively Exploited For At Least Three Years (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You could make it so the types of files (though how it identifies them is another question) is opt-in. IOW it accepts nothing out of the box.

  6. What exactly is the SI unit of squishiness anyway?

  7. Re:Summary says "101,325 pascals (Pa)" on Earth's Inner Core Is Solid, But Squishier Than Previously Thought (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Also for we Americans, you could write 14.7 psi...

    How many standard[1] footballs is that?

    [1] i.e. not Patriot ones.

  8. Want to make millions of dollars come up with an uncloggable toilet.

    India already did it.

    P.S. There should probably be some punctuation in there.

  9. Manifest domain. Or eminent destiny. Something like that.

  10. Re:Popcorn, anyone? on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    note that it doesn't quite cover why pedestrians might feel endangered.

    Are you working under the assumption that being hit by a bike won't cause injury?

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

    There's also issue of robberies.

  11. Re:He found an Acorn on US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Likely more fuel was burned getting the item to your door within the US than was spent moving it all the way from China. And that is expensive road fuel not incredibly cheap bunker oil.

    The bunker oil probably generates more pollution though. Filthy stuff.

  12. Or at least, everyone who wants one.

    This sounds like your standard sigmoid growth curve; lower slope - early adopters, steep slope - going mainstream, flattening off near the top - saturation.

    But where's the story in that?

  13. Re:Bezos is a theif on Amazon Doles Out Freebies To Juice Sales of Its Own Brands (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sheila O'Neill.

  14. Re:Popcorn, anyone? on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that, in the UK at least, bicycles were considered vehicles from the outset.

    Though that was a little bit before my time.

  15. Bezos is a theif on Amazon Doles Out Freebies To Juice Sales of Its Own Brands (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    in which Amazon serves as a middleman between prolific Amazon reviewers and vendors eager for exposure.

    Bezos is keeping all the good stuff for himself and selling it on fleabay.

  16. So it's like a house? Why didn't they say that?

  17. Re:Throw them off of sidewalks on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Property left in the middle of a public sidewalk is not abandoned. It *might* be abandoned. It might also be lost, or mislaid.

    It's definitely obstructing a public right of way. I'm under no obligation to put myself at risk by walking in the road, so if it accidentally gets knocked over as I squeeze past it gets knocked over.

  18. Re:Popcorn, anyone? on Driverless Car Hype Gives Way To E-Scooter Mania Among Technorati (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, they are enforcing the "no motor vehicles on the sidewalks" laws with a vengeance

    As a pedestrian who walks a small child to and from school I don't see what's unfortunate about that.

  19. Re:Yes on Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't even use the darn thing and it depresses me. Its mere existence is enough.

  20. looks like an upside-down book

    Anyone else trying to figure out how that looks significantly different from a right-way-up one?

    Apart from the line drawing of an obscure animal, of course.

  21. Re:MongoDB.. more like EatYourDataDB on MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It means it doesn't use joins.

    It can also use /dev/null for storage, which is extremely fast plus you never run out of space.

  22. Re:A few things... on Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the things you wrote contradicts anything I wrote. Comprehension fail, you little Belgian twat.

  23. Re:Millennial murder spree! on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Arr, now aye sea.

  24. Well if the first sentence, of the article, is anything to, go by, then a plague of, commas probably didn't help.

  25. the IQ of a potatoe

    Sometimes it just writes itself.