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  1. Re:To see what happens... on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    Nasa should borrow the navy's rail gun for you know testing purposes.

    Rapid fire space shots who wants to watch?

  2. Re:Oh the humanity! on Why America's Obsession With STEM Education Is Dangerous · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Without a college degree your pay. Is capped at $40k a year which isn't enough in most areas to buy a house let alone have a family. Now that doesn't apply to everyone and some push beyond it but trade jobs for all but really good welders are basically capped at 50% more than poverty level for single people, and for under the poverty level for married with families.

    So trade jobs equals poverty. Do you want your kids in poverty? What we need is not to boost minimum wage but to boost median wage. This country needs the 20million people earning 40k a year to earn 50k a year. That would boost the economy more than all the we combined did and would cost significantly less.

  3. Re:The official Russian position: on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    Money, lots and lots of money, billions of dollars of money.

  4. Re:Only Republicans are stupid enough... on First Lawsuits Challenging FCC's New Net Neutrality Rules Arrive · · Score: 1

    True but the ISP are trying to deny equal opputunrity by charging three times for the same data. By creating fast lanes they are saying those with money are better no matter what. Which isn't true. The next google, Facebook or twitter will never be born with fast lanes.

  5. Re:I guess she got tired of blaming weed... on Child Psychotherapist: Easy and Constant Access To the Internet Is Harming Kids · · Score: 1

    Which is why kids long ago frequently committed suicide and hide the truth from their parents. That is why sucicde rates have dropped off dramatically. The other point is we stop to listen now as opposed to saying suck it up or die. Like they did before

  6. Re:I can't be the only one wondering on How To Encode 2.05 Bits Per Photon, By Using Twisted Light · · Score: 1

    But the Cheshire cat and SchrÃdinger's cat is one and the same.

    What is the difference between a dead cat and one that is invisible to your detection methods

  7. Re:Fuck ISPs on ISPs Worry About FCC's 'Future Conduct' Policing · · Score: 1

    Torrents should make the isps happy. A torrent duatrubtes bandwidth. Increasing the amount of data transmitted which helps their peering.

    Why isps hate symatrical peeering agreements is beyond me.

  8. Re:1930s Europe on Leaked Document Reveals Upcoming Biometric Experiments At US Customs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can understand mandatory voting, however I will only accept it if there is a non of the above option. Should non of the above receive the most votes then a new election has to be held and none of those candidates can run in the second election.

    I figure it will take one or two run off elections and the hardliners on either side will disappear for more moderate people.

  9. Re: What do you expect to find? on NZ Customs Wants Power To Require Passwords · · Score: 1

    This is very true, just see the number of people who posted doing ileagl things on failbook and then got arrested.

    I see this dying by corporate interests quickly though. It goes against money and thus will get wiped out .

  10. Re:How to not make moon shots. on How To Make Moonshots · · Score: 1

    According to you google itself shouldn't exist. As google the search engine was a moonshot. Hell ms DOS was a moonshot.

  11. Re:Must Eschew now! on Sloppy Biosafety Procedures Found At Federal Disease Center · · Score: 0

    Damn straight every state should have their own currency and military and if the Feds any to attack someone they have to beg the go snouts for permission to use those troops. That way the southern states can create the theocracy that they desire so badly and we can watch jobs return to the north east in re ore time.

  12. Re:Weong on NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive · · Score: 1

    Only some people learn from monkey see monkey do. It is a valid method for some, but not everyone learns from that method. Monkey see monkey do results in users complaining about changing user interfaces. See windows 8 for examples.

  13. Weong on NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive · · Score: 2

    The computer isn't learning from experience it is being programmed by a different method. basically they are copying other drivers reactions to a set of obstacles so that the programmers don't have to create all those rules themselves.

    Think of it this way instead of manually programming a replacement robot arm on an assembly line they are copying the program code over directly to save time. This isn't a bad thing. However it is far from learning.

  14. Re:"Publish or die" killed the science star on Scientific Study Finds There Are Too Many Scientific Studies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe the fact that there are more scientists publishing today than there were 20 years ago.

    The article not the study, completely ignores one fact. The world population has tripled in 70 years. More papers being published is a result of more people existing. While not the sole reason, it is something to remember.

  15. Re:It will never work on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah but you can get WiFi enabled ones, that can adjust color/light levels in conjunction with whatever TV show is on.

  16. Re:if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 0

    Show me one president in the last 10 that hasn't been caught in a lie. Maybe carter.

  17. Re:Not sure what they're looking at? on Ultralight Convertibles Approaching Desktop Performance · · Score: 1

    Smart phones are tapering out faster but they went through a similar effect. the processor and gpu of the original iPhone vs any smart phone now for example.

  18. Re:how much it took on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Name one thing the A-10 can't do in support of ground troops the F-35 can? The A-10 can loiter longer, fly lower, stay on target longer. It can fly from forward unimproved airstrips. It has longer range. It can carry far greater number of missiles and bombs.

    So just where is the A-10 deficient in support of ground troops? The F-35 is an expensive fast moving, carries less weapons, can only stay on target for a limited time. The only plane better than the A-10 is the AC-135, and the AC-135 isn't as effective against heavy armor.

  19. Re:how much it took on Laser Takes Out Truck Engine From a Mile Away · · Score: 0

    The a-10 was designed in the 70's. Tens of millions maybe. Another hundred million to refab parts from non existent blueprints 30 years later. Hardly billions. And far far less than its replcent at $500 billion for the f-35.

    What gets me is they could design a new a-10 for 30-50 million a plane. They won't as the chair force goes for faster only.

  20. Re:Not in these activist's style on White House Threatens Veto Over EPA "Secret Science" Bills · · Score: 1

    So move to china. you can get all the smog you want since you think trying to make clean air is irresponsible.

    That's the thing you can theorize all you want. but some day you actually have to try it. Go back and look at the "scientists" who said the LHC would create a black hole that would consume the planet.

    Each of those people equals the "irresponsible" part of your equation.

  21. Re: Best idea is not to hide. on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Because the initial outbreak no one will admit that they are zombies and so won't be prepared and instead panic stupidly.

    Because most people panic first and then act.

  22. Re: Right, but does it correctly model... on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    That was my thought. In world war Z the governor tells everyone to head to Canada without proper planning and then moves the entire Armed forces to California and defends the west coast only.

    If the government tells people to head for the hills the safest place will be a high rise tower that you empty and block the lower levels on. My personal favorite would be a 2-3 story warehouse so you can store equipment inside. Warehouses have limited stairs to make securing the upper levels easier.

  23. Re: Jerri on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it was bush that set the terms for the Iraq pull out of newly independent and soverigen country of Iraq.

    Obama wasn't stupid enough to force an issue where if he left troops in Iraq against the sovereign wishes of Iraq those troops would be subjected to Iraq and international war crime laws.

    Of course republicans don't care about such issues as sovereign countries having rights too.

  24. Re:Best defense is not to care on Blu-Ray Players Hackable Via Malicious Discs · · Score: 1

    I was using my samsung Smart tv for youtube, as Roku didn't have a youtube. That changed ~6 months ago so I started to use both. Then Samsung tried to insert ads into my playback , so I disconnected the TV from the network.

    What will it take for companies to learn if you don't want to provide support for 10 years don't design a device that requires your constant support for 10 years?

  25. Re:Poor choice of example on We Stopped At Two Nuclear Bombs; We Can Stop At Two Degrees. · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Even more so when you think no one else had a good reason to use nukes againist an enemy. Even today the estimates for bringing an end to world war two wa hundreds of thousands of lives, and another 1-2 years of fighting. Unlike Germany fire bombing Japanese cities wasn't having the desired effect.

    No wars since then have been that desperate for those with nukes. Which is the only reason why north Korea is troubling. North Korea or Iran will feel desperate enough to use them.