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  1. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    Guess what?

    Here's a report from NASA essentially telling the FAA that they're a bunch of morons for thinking these things cause interference.

    http://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/rpsts/ped.pdf

  2. Re:burden of proof goes the other way on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 2

    Hahaha.

    From the article:

    The F.A.A. then told me that “two iPads are very different than 200.” But experts at EMT Labs, an independent testing facility in Mountain View, Calif., say there is no difference in radio output between two iPads and 200. “Electromagnetic energy doesn’t add up like that,” said Kevin Bothmann, the EMT Labs testing manager.

  3. Re:burden of proof goes the other way on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 2

    Guess what, we're already at those lower numbers. Most are not turned off.

    We still don't have problems.

    It's not a carefully controlled test. It's a live fire test with planes going up in the air every day like that. Random numbers of devices, (relatively) random numbers of frequencies & power strengths, random interference patterns.

    And we still don't have problems.

  4. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    iPads don't have the same effect as the switches in the cockpit.
    In fact, an iPad for every passenger, downloading data via wifi & cellular, while sharing photos & music doesn't have the same effect as any switch in the cockpit.

    But nice try.

  5. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    We have evidence that it's greater than 2-3.

    Complete and utter bullshit.

    Guess what? Every hour of every day, planes take off with >>3 devices running. Let me know when there's a problem.

  6. Re:Perhaps you forgot on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 0

    It's the ONLY form of Patriotic!

  7. Re:"Stifle descent?" on New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street · · Score: 2

    That's not a typo!

    Or a moon!

  8. Re:Anonymous Coward .... on What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web · · Score: 1

    It's not just ostracized.

    Killed, tortured, same to family, etc, etc,etc.

    Anonymity has a long and illustrious history, dating all the way back to nom de plumes in the Greek & Roman times.
    In fact, pseudonym is a Greek word.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym#Etymology

  9. Re:Can't handle the truth? on What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web · · Score: 1

    Perfect.

    There is nothing new under the sun.

  10. Re:Oblig. on What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web · · Score: 1

    In other words, Lanier is not willing to take the bad with the good of being anonymous. And so opts out of the discussion almost entirely.

  11. Re:Cool... on NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record · · Score: 1

    But it's still a lot better than the 8.6 hours it takes to drive across it.

  12. Re:Cool... on NASA's Ion Thruster Sets Continuous Operation Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    For a more earthly comparison, it would take about 8.6 seconds to drive across Kansas at that speed.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas

  13. Re:Passwordless login on Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" · · Score: 2

    Or a librarian.

    Or even Nicholas Cage.

  14. Re:*sigh* here goes: on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 0

    So ~90% of the world should move.

    Please, tell us where 7 billion people should move to that would include none of your issues.

  15. Re:Mississippi River and empire on 2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts · · Score: 2

    We made newer rivers.

    They're called railroads.

  16. Re:Wasnt there supposed to be some law passed... on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    Then you're an idiot.

    http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone5

    What’s in the box
            iPhone 5 with iOS 6
            Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic
            Lightning to USB Cable
            USB Power Adapter

    Guess what that last thing is?

  17. Re:Wow on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 1

    He guessed it would work with the iPhone 5, and guessed wrong.

  18. Re:When you do things that are bad on Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated · · Score: 0

    Their shipments are down on the year

    Apparently math isn't your strong suit.

    http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q4fy12datasum.pdf

  19. Re:TSA, terrorism, gun control, and mass shootings on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 2

    Well, not NO gun crime. but .5/100k population.
    Whereas the US is 6/100k population.

  20. Re:He is thinking of the children on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 1

    Ditto?

  21. Re:Article wrong on sodium-cooled reactors on Is Safe, Green Thorium Power Finally Ready For Prime Time? · · Score: 1

    Also, before they had subcontractors for everything so costs weren't orders of magnitude more than they should be.

  22. Re:How is this "chilling"? on Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement · · Score: 2

    You must be pretty young if you think embarrassing any government will get them to fix the laws.

    Most likely, they'll make it illegal for him to suggest guidelines that are not in strict compliance with the law. Thus able to send him to jail for embarrassing the gov't.

  23. Re:Interesting conversation at NASA: on Twin Probes Crash Into the Moon · · Score: 1

    He's the drummer.

  24. Re:Whatever will the world do on Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice · · Score: 1

    I believe he's referring to the cost of Facebook buying Instagram, $1B.

    But your point is still valid. Operating costs for a century might be higher than $1B.

  25. Re:it tells you one thing, at least on Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you might want to get your facts straight before you start jumping off the deep end.

    Switzerland has ~0.5 homicides per 100k population.
    US has 3.7 homicides per 100k population.

    In spite of having about the same number of guns per population.

    It's less a gun problem, and more a mental health problem.

    Feel free to try to reductio ad absurdum, but should mentally disturbed people really be operating cars or chainsaws?