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  1. No thanks. If I want to do my banking or other business with a foreign institution, that's my business. We are approaching an economic Iron Curtain as it is.

  2. It's the thing that is causing a runaway trim,

    No. Because the automatic trim command stops when pilots pull back on the yoke. So they think they've fixed it. Then the MCAS system resets and (given the continuing erroneous AOA input) it trims nose down again. So it sneaks up on the pilots.

    I can imaging the flight crew pulling back on the yoke and then checking the trim wheel. Which, at that moment will not be turning. So they go back to flying and it starts all over again after a short interval.

  3. Re:Coolest Job Title Ever on Meteor Blast Over Bering Sea Was 10 Times Size of Hiroshima (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It almost beats Space Shuttle Door Gunner.

  4. Re:Cue the Climate Change Crowd on Meteor Blast Over Bering Sea Was 10 Times Size of Hiroshima (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you taking into account all the meteors that would have flown by a flat earth if they encountered it edge-on?

  5. Too many patches to keep building newer technology airplanes that handle like the old ones. Just to save money on certification and pilot training. Stop already. Just design a new airplane.

  6. There's a switch, and a warning when MCAS activates

    But no pilot training. So "What's an MCAS?"

  7. .. some good revenge porn.

    I suspect that the wealthy husband of a lady I know slipped someone a few bucks to mistype a command line.

  8. Hah! I backed up all my stuff on Megaupload.

  9. Re: 128-bit phone numbers on Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The phone company could easily plant a few honeypot numbers in each exchange. Land on one of those and it's $9.95 plus $4.99 per additional minute. They'd be earning that fee, so there's their motivation

    Trouble is, I suspect that people dialing in through a VoIP gateway have some means of hiding their origin on the Internet side. And some poor gateway provider will get saddled with the charges. Which might not be all bad, as I suspect that gateways that do not authenticate properly will get hit and be motivated to tighten up their access and TOS.

  10. ... we need to remove the stigma surrounding psychological maladies. CFS may or may not have a psychological component. Find it, if it exists. Come up with a treatment. Cure the afflicted, or at least mitigate the symptoms so they can live nearer normal lives. Depression, anxiety disorders, fibromyalgia, panic attacks in the presence of WiFi routers are all real things. Psychological, but real. Sufferers should welcome a cure. Unless they have developed an unhealthy attachment to their ailment. Seeking the attention and handicapped status that it garners is in and of itself a psychopathology.

  11. They are quitting?

    They just don't have the energy to pursue the subject anymore.

  12. Re:How about getting your story to be consistent? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    skipping school

    Lots of kids hanging out in the neighborhood park, smoking weed yesterday.

  13. Re:How do you define "take action"?? on 3-5 Degree Rise in Arctic Temperatures Called 'Inevitable' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    or move out to the fucking woods

    Burning wood, coal or peat for heat. Driving the old pickup truck 50 miles into town for supplies. Subsistence farming. (I've got food to eat. Let the city folk starve.)

    Yeah, that's going to work well.

  14. Re:Ah cool! directed government spending on Kamala Harris Introduces Bill To Send Millions To Local Governments For Tech Support (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if your state is efficient and doesn't use all of it's allocation, there will be a year-end rush to spend it on something. Anything.

  15. Re:Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    It was controversial since the goal was profit

    I can see why California didn't want Enron (or anyone else) trying to get a 'piece of the action' yet again. But that's not a reason to drop what might otherwise be a worthwhile idea.

  16. Re:$31 Million? on Apple Dealt Legal Blow as Jury Awards Qualcomm $31 Million (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    iTunes gift certificate. Paid in full.

  17. Re:Climate change on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 2

    More energy leads to higher amplitudes.

    Just add more capacitors (but not the Chinese ones).

  18. Re:Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    replenish decades of draining all aquifers

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer_storage_and_recovery

  19. Re:Doesn't California still have a problem though? on California Declared Totally Drought Free For First Time in Seven Years · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget homeless

    Right. Flush them out to sea as well. Move tent camps into the LA river when?

  20. Re:First thoughts on Facebook Readies AI Tech To Combat 'Revenge Porn' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why were they in my barn in the first place?

    That was a baaaaaaaad joke.

  21. Re:Coming to a car near you on A Worry For Some Pilots: Their Hands-On Flying Skills Are Lacking (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Which one's the brake again?

    The one in the middle.

  22. Any other assumptions they want to make?

    Spherical cow in a vacuum.

  23. New Mexico will just unplug California.

  24. Re:Slayer and Megadeth!!!! on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Bah! If you want some good music, listen to some Beethoven

  25. Re:This is why.... on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I recently setup a new LG TV for someone and it was pissing me of with the stupid EULA to even turn it on.

    Don't you have a four-year-old around who can click 'Agree'? Sorry, LG, my kid can't enter into a contract.