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  1. Re:Dangerous Thinking on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1
    Also the F-4 Phantom (from wiki)...

    The F-4's biggest weakness, as it was initially designed, was its lack of an internal cannon. For a brief period, doctrine held that turning combat would be impossible at supersonic speeds and little effort was made to teach pilots air combat maneuvering. In reality, engagements quickly became subsonic. Furthermore, the relatively new heat-seeking and radar-guided missiles at the time were frequently reported as unreliable and pilots had to use multiple shots just to hit one target.

    They left out machine guns, because the new missiles were so great, and then ended up putting them back in after combat experience showed otherwise.

  2. Google Apps on Microsoft vs. Google — Mutually Assured Destruction · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Someone please tell me how free online versions of MS Office in Office 2010 are not a response to Google Apps. It's likely that MS will have to make a similar response to Chrome OS.
    Google makes money off of advertising, and MS makes money from software. If Google can get MS to lower prices or give software away for free (like Google does), it's a win for Google.

  3. Re:Err.. on Harvard Study Says Weak Copyright Benefits Society · · Score: 1

    I think concerts are where musicians make most of their money, whether they are signed to a label or not. Plus concerts do a lot to promote the music they create. So, weak or strong copyrights really don't make a difference in this case. No touring for most artists means no money.

  4. Recover pics from SD card on How Does Flash Media Fail? · · Score: 1

    I had a 2GB SD card from my camera show up as empty when I put it into my card reader a few months back. I used the (free) utility that I found on Lifehacker to recover the 4-5 months worth of family pictures off the card. It worked great. The pics all had strange filenames and I had to sort based on the pictures metadata rather than the file creation date, but that's to be expected.

    http://lifehacker.com/software/file-recovery/recover-a-borked-flash-drive-with-photo-rec-314963.php

  5. Re:Say you legalize everything on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    ... and this is the problem with government healthcare. If the government is paying your bills, they get to say what you can do with your health.

  6. Re:And we're suprised by this why? on Senator Questions Rise In US Texting Prices · · Score: 1

    Email addresses for text messaging various cell phone providers: (for example: 8885551234@vtext.com). Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com at&t customers: 10digitphonenumber@mms.att.net Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com Virgin Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com Alltel: 10digitphonenumber@alltelmessage.com OR 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com CellularOne: 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com

  7. Warbreaker on Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel? · · Score: 1

    Brandon Sanderson (the guy finishing up the WOT series) published one of his books, Warbreaker, under a CC license. I think there might be some community editing, but his site is blocked from where I work.
    Great book, by the way!