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  1. Re:Killowatts are power, not energy on The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC · · Score: 1

    Then why on earth are they shattering aircraft brakes? Just whack on any old brakes from your local auto shop.
    Braking from 160mph is a lot for a regular car, but isn't out of the ordinary.

  2. Re:reading comprehension? or network "news"? on Google's Rogue Internet Balloon Test Spurred UFO Reports Nationwide · · Score: 1

    It is beta so if you submit your feature requests they'll probably add them. ....if you like that kind of thing.

  3. Re:Throwing out all compatibility hooks makes it e on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 1

    Oh its insecure? Heatbleed is fixed. What *useful* exploit do you know about that the rest of us don't?

  4. Re:Repeatable as Fuck on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Many people don't actually know they have blind spots so I'd say we don't need to fix it.

  5. Re:OpenBSD time... on 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    Oh don't worry too much about it.

    It is only notable because everyone is desensitized about commercial software bugs.
    Compare it to Windows. How many patches do they make which are major or critical each year?

  6. Re:Useful on Standards Group Adds Adaptive-Sync To DisplayPort · · Score: 1

    LCD's refresh the entire screen at once, no scanning.
    It also has its own frame buffer. You could update it once a second if you wanted and it would work fine.

  7. Re:Autoimmune disorder... on Canadian Teen Arrested For Calling In 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Yep it is a no-win situation.

    However I have limited sympathy.
    It is like leaving your house unlocked and complain that you always get broken in to.
    If they don't even bother attempting to stop swattings, then too bad that is their problem.

  8. Re:"GM thinks" there's your problem. on GM Sees a Market For $5/Day Dedicated In-Car Internet · · Score: 1

    But then what happens when all the phone sanitisers are gone and we get killed off by a plague spread by telephones?

  9. Re:Lol... on EA Ending Online Support For Dozens of Games · · Score: 1

    Who can't spin up an Amazon instance whenever they want to play?
    Hell if someone made an AMI for the particular game, it would be trivial to set up.

    You could even stop paying for it when no one is playing.

  10. Re:Wow! on Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Pretty lame either way.

    Now if we sprayed nanobots in to the wind at disaster sites, they could coalesce together around people who require assistance and build them whatever they need.........

  11. Re:Django. on Australian Government To Standardise On Drupal · · Score: 1

    The Australian Government isn't looking for an app development environment, so they naturally aren't going to use one.

  12. Re:Those poor bastards on Australian Government To Standardise On Drupal · · Score: 1

    The majority of Facebook is still PHP.
    A lot of it no longer runs on the official PHP software but on their own called HipHop (uses a Just in Time compiler) but the code their programmers write is PHP.

  13. Re:Wow! on Foam-Spraying Quadcopter Becomes a Flying 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    A quadcopter could just drop a tarp and water?
    Slightly easier than trying to spray plastic on a overpass?

  14. Re:Holy legalese crap Batman on Why Disney Can't Give Us High-Def Star Wars Where Han Shoots First · · Score: 1

    Although I'd love to invest in a movie personally.

    Have you seen the return on a average movie? Incredible! Better than a term deposit.

  15. Re:just set noatime. That's 90% of nginx on Netcraft: Microsoft Closing In On Apache Web Server Lead · · Score: 1

    People still have atime enabled on production servers? Wow.

  16. Re:please, don't call them monkeys on China Using Troop of Trained Monkeys To Guard Air Base · · Score: 2

    In my country we have a relatively small military so most of the monkeys miss out.

    As a fall back they become politicians.

  17. Re: Hiding shady practices on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    These aren't those cameras. Those ones are for registration checks (who knows about storage), but the story is about a third party commercial database which is collected any way the company wants to.

  18. Re:Thank you summary guy on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 2

    So buying a product based on a single statistic where the bigger number wins isn't right for every single person on the planet?

    Wow!

  19. Re:Gun nuts on "Smart" Gun Seller Gets the Wrong Kind of Online Attention · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that the number of illegal guns is constant regardless of whether guns are easily available legally or not.

    Here in Australia its a pain in the butt to get guns - legally or illegally.
    So much so that *every single time* a gun is used in a crime, it makes the news.
    You can't exactly say that about the US.

  20. Re:Efficiency? on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    So...it needs what a low end smart phone or a Raspberry Pi can provide without breaking a sweat?

    Doesn't quite explain the last 10 years. We've had plenty of computing power for ages.

  21. Re:Efficiency? on Toyota Describes Combustion Engine That Generates Electricity Directly · · Score: 1

    Does that include using it to drive the wheels?
    I assume the petrol/diesel stats do.

  22. Re:First.... on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    It's not waste if we pump it in to the air? Cool! I have a whole pile of non-waste CO2 for you.

  23. Re:First.... on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey if all the hardcore greenies die off, that will leave plenty more of the Earth's resources for the rest of us, and we could have clean nuclear energy without any issues.

    And yes Coal does release more radiation than nuclear. Funnily enough they keep the radiation in the nuclear plant extremely well.
    Coal contains radioactive compounds in small quantities, which are then burnt, sent up a chimney and left to spread wherever the air currents want to take them.
    http://www.scientificamerican....

    Who is so stupid again? The people more educated than yourself?

  24. Re:Still waiting to see 3 things on Google Using Self-Driving Car Data To Make Cars Smarter · · Score: 1

    Many Infrared frequencies will quite happily go through rain and fog. Not sure about snow but don't assume all wavelengths are affected the same way.

    Anyway its not like a car would try driving anyway with bad data. It would just pull over to the side of the road and say it can't continue, please drive manually.

  25. Re:Obamacare exists because... on $42,000 Prosthetic Hand Outperformed By $50 3D Printed Hand · · Score: 1

    Some of us in Australia are even luckier.
    I live near a walk in clinic which bulk bills. Never paid them a dime - its all covered by medicare.
    I actually don't think they have any cash/eftpos at all.