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  1. Re: Scare mongering on Watch What Happens When A Drone Slams Into An Airplane Wing (sacbee.com) · · Score: 1

    Are Airlines made out of wood? Last time I checked they weren't so extrapolation from a small wooden wing to an airliner is not possible.

  2. Re: Can this be prevented? on Google Search Now Uses Service Worker For Repeated Searches (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Hosting sites? You mean sites that already have full control over everything on the page?

    They are relatively tame, highly restrictive and can only affect the site they belong to. If someone can inject a service worker somewhere then you have bigger problems since they'd also be able to inject regular JavaScript with far fewer restrictions.

  3. Re:Unproven? on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    FDA typically approves things that are healthy for you, so I'm not surprised that N2 isn't approved for human use. :P

  4. Re:Not far enough on Facebook Fires Employee Who Allegedly Used Data Access To Stalk Women (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Has there been a police complaint? The police can't investigate unless someone tells them something illegal has been done.

  5. Re: Another client? on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    A wine and dined office would be using Outlook not Windows Mail. Which is still terrible but possibly slightly better

  6. Re:The Drone Drank Too Much Vodka Before Takeoff on Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Based on my experience with my 680 class hexacopter (with Pixhawk autopilot), there was certainly no software control of it when it crashed at all. The software just can't fly like that.
    Next guess would be a motor failure but that doesn't work either as hexes and octos can fly with diminished performance with a failed motor.

    It actually looks like half the drone lost all power, while the other half didn't hence the flipping motion.
    I wonder if they power it from two batteries, one handling half the motors and the other handling the other half.
    A dodgy connection for one battery would cause exactly what the video shows.

    If that is the case then a pair of back to back diodes between the batteries would have prevented that problem.

  7. Somehow I doubt your sensing of traction and brakes is anywhere as good as a car's electronic traction control and ABS. :P
    For sensing, computers can do everything we can do far better, more accurately and faster.

  8. Why?

    Humans use visual sensors exclusively for driving, humans would have had the exact same accident.

    Trying to say that autonomous cars cannot have any accidents is silly and is an arbitrarily high bar.
    I'll be plenty happy if they are just 2 - 3x less likely to have an accident compared to human drivers. That would be a massive improvement to society.

  9. Re: And suddenly... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow yep that completely makes it worthwhile!

  10. Re: I don't have any optical cables on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I too went straight from composite to hdmi. I have since gone back and now use a 10m optical cable to my wall mounted TV. No TV cabinet or anything, ultra clean and the speaker amp is at the opposite side of the room.

    It is quite a nice simple solution for less common set ups. It works fantastically.

  11. Re: the soundbar reason is bs.. on Is the Optical Cable Dying? (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Erm the coax connector is digital, in fact the exact same digital data as optical.

    Coax noise affecting the digital signal? Not Gonna happen.

  12. Re:The Smurfs 2? on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep because by downloading the key over the internet, it means it will never be left unencrypted and exposed in system ram at any stage.

    *facepalm*

  13. Re:But Google will get a free pass on Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome · · Score: 1

    Well considering NPAPI has already been killed off, I doubt that's much of a problem.

  14. Re:Microsoft == dumbass on Microsoft's OneDrive Web App Crippled With Performance Issues On Linux and Chrome OS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More likely the Program Manager is saying "Good work guys! It works perfectly."

    There isn't any legitimate reason for the useragent to be screwing it up like this.

  15. Let's assume that the modified version *only* has the licence crap removed.
    Then your liability issue is a non-issue unless it's a John Deere bug.

    Without evidence saying that something nasty has been added to the firmware (which could be checked) there is no reason to jump to that assumption.

  16. Re:Will probably also be useful for video keyframe on Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Until you read the bit about it needing 300mb of ram per megapixel of input data.

    I don't think we'll see any hardware encoders being able to implement the algorithm any time soon.
    And certainly not running in realtime on a CPU.

  17. Re:kill the salt, kill the sugar on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Those evil corporations force feeding everyone!

    Good work to eliminate 'personal choice'.
    If people didn't choose sugar/salt/fat then it would be very unprofitable to supply it.

  18. Nah your fridge will need to download new thermostat firmware on first powerup. :P

  19. Re:quietly? on 'Radioactive Boy Scout' Reportedly Passes Away At Age 39 (harpers.org) · · Score: 2

    It wasn't written in all caps?

  20. Re:Just more correlation on Deadly 1933 Long Beach Earthquake May Have Been Caused By Oil Drilling, Says Study (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Also since a earthquake is a release of tectonic pressure, wouldn't it implicitly mean that triggering the release in pressure prematurely caused a less severe quake than what could have occurred if it wasn't artificially triggered?

  21. Full redundancy still has outages, even significant ones.

    In my experience the more layers of redundancies, the more edge cases you need to catch.

  22. Wait there are 12 year olds who know what a cheque is?

  23. Re:"free of snow and ice" on Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    How many snow plows go on the sidewalk? Because that's where they've put them.....

    Check the photos. I can't wait to see it in winter because everything will be covered in snow except for a teeny tiny patch of ground that is clear (and likely wet and slippery) for no particular or useful reason.

  24. My S7 Edge is waterproof, sd card and a headphone jack.

    Oh and also dual sim which I didn't realise before buying.

    No compromises. :)

  25. Re:evidently on NYC Threatens To Sue Verizon Over FiOS Shortfalls (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah the mayor moved house and found out he couldn't get fibre.