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  1. Re:Business Oportunity on Boeing Studies Planes Without Pilots, Plans Experiments Next Year (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Windshields are heavy and can break. They will install litle windows oblique to the front and still charge a huge premium.

  2. Where he landed was dictated by the planes energy and avoiding bridges.

  3. Re:Explosion on cargo compartment vs cabin on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why I pointed out that a 3.5 inch drive worth of high explosives is still a lot. Boot the machine off a microSD card and the hard drive is easy free space. Wrapped in metal too so partially X-Ray obscured. The bastards could melt the high explosives and pour them around the physical hardware in the drive, leaving it looking almost stock.

  4. Cockpit will be gone. Seats with front views will be very expensive though. Even though the 'windshield' will be tiny windows.

  5. Re:"mounting scrutiny of ties" on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So your bitch got whipped by an imbecile? What does that make her?

  6. Re: "mounting scrutiny of ties" on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ask your unnamed IWW friend from Washington state how that works. If he's out of the ICU.

  7. Re:"mounting scrutiny of ties" on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They are investigating. It might lead somewhere, it might not.

    Have been paying any attention to what happened today? It's now confirmed that Bill and Lynch conspired to interfere with Hillary's email investigation.

    There is a difference between supporting looking into issues and having already decided he's guilty (and Hillary is innocent).

  8. The Rs dream she will run again. Anything that forever stomps that dream in the mind of Hillary die hards is good for the democrats.

    Now they need to find someone else to run. From near the center, unless they want eight years of Trump.

  9. Re:It is pretty shocking and telling of our times on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It's what Michelle Obama's doctor has...ducks.

  10. Re:"Vote of confidence" on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the technology, not so much the prototype.

    Wanna bet the between flight overhaul cost is a big % of the per unit cost? How would we ever know?

  11. Re:Why make this into yet another gender thing? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry 'bout your job. Don't believe the boss, it's not 'like this everywhere'. Quit.

  12. Re:"Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Professional environment?

    At the titie bar, at lunch with my co-workers...the raunchy joke not the slur. Or at the tittie bar, near the hotel, while on the road with the company president. Or at the tittie bar near the airport, while waiting out a long delay. Strippers are professionals...

    BTW Have you ever tried to get a receipt from a stripper, for tips from gyno row? They really ought to have them tucked into their panties.

    Women aren't even going to want to be invited, we speak in code about it anyhow. Once, one of them figured out what 'free lunch' ment, saw the sign I guess.

  13. Re:"Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Dicks, pussies and assholes...

  14. Re: "Feel uncomfortable"? on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the boss is positioning the company for sale and wants seat warmers, knowing he'll be gone before the shit hits the fan.

  15. Re:how 25 versus 15 percent is six times more like on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Words change meaning. Liberal once meant 'in favor of liberty', not for 200 years though.

  16. Re: how 25 versus 15 percent is six times more lik on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    Just try and be a straight fashion designer.

    I was once bitching about the price of ladies swimwear. Was challenged to 'make one'...refused to even try it on. Made of clear plastic wrap, dental floss and clear tape, it was a thing of beauty, I've been denied millions by their heterophobia.

  17. Re: Then there's the obvious on Why Women Devs Are Hard To Recruit and Even Harder To Keep (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 1

    I had an 8.5 month pregnant hippo spill a large cup of water in her lap, just to watch me run like a Frenchman.

    I'd do the same thing again, put in the same situation. I don't know much, but I knew she needed a mother to help.

  18. Re:"mounting scrutiny of ties" on Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    She's on death's door. If she's going to wear orange it has to be soon.

    Trump has to actually commit a 'high crime or misdemeanor' first. Not an imagined one...

  19. Netflix wanted to cut backbone traffic by putting servers in the ISP's data centers, for free. Claimed being charged for rackspace was a violation net neutrality.

  20. Re: People don't know what they are talking about on Americans From Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality, Poll Shows (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    How much total traffic was there before QoS? What you describe would be 'breaking the net' to 99% of ISP customers.

    QoS is not implemented 'in Ethernet'. It's in the routing not the switching.

  21. What do you do with the asshole who runs his Torrents on a common gaming port? His Torrent client distro? It won't work, rule is too simple and open for abuse. All packets on port x are not the same.

    You realize the problem is: Lawyers won't write the law relatively simply and reflecting a technical understanding. They will write it so every ISP needs three staff lawyers...funny how laws always end up like that. Somebody has a basic conflict, 'they' see additional shystering as a positive outcome. e.g. The actual proposed, but never enforced, net neutrality rules.

    Let's not forget the discussion started with Netflix claiming that Comcast wanting money for rack space was a net neutrality issue. It's not so simple, even before lawyers get involved.

  22. Re: seriously? ugg on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    How do we convince the TSA to ban women wearing bras on flights? Require yoga pants, commando. Exceptions for old and otherwise not hot women.

    And turn up the AC!

  23. Re:Two to three hours ahead of time on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    It will kill commuter airlines.

    The middle hour of that two hour block is likely about 450. Leaving about 300 for the first and last half hours. And that's a jet, breaking even at about 1 hour flight time (and neglecting airport delays on arrival). Turboprop puddle jumpers will be out of business. Jet flights under 1 hour will be greatly reduced.

    All for theater.

  24. Re:Explosion on cargo compartment vs cabin on TSA May Recommend Stowing Laptops In Cargo For US Domestic Flights (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes no sense. A laptop worth of high explosives is _a lot_. A 3.5 inch hard drive worth of high explosives is a lot.

    Didn't you go through a pyro stage as a teen?

  25. If the routers don't prioritize gaming packets over FTP, torrent etc your pings will go to hell.

    Less so for VOIP but still true.

    All packets are not the same. It's called Quality of Service (QoS). Deciding just what is and isn't QoS is tricky, I don't want it codified by lawyers.