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  1. Re:Mph? on Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour (upi.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    6.7 billion (thousand million) furlongs/fortnight.

  2. Re:Yes and no on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    If the Ds pivot left, it's 4 more years for sure.

    Hillary cut off the oxygen/money to nationally electable Ds for so long, they've basically got nobody.

    Why would anybody invade Venezuela? It's a great 'living example'. They will be left to stew in their stupidity, until the Venezuelans hang their own problems from lampposts. What would be gained? It would just make the mess our problem.

  3. Re:Translation: More money to the big telcos on The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Cite the information they used to get to $400B.

    Because I've seen a TON of lies from 'those kinds'. Gas taxes counted as gas subsidies. Parking and vendor revenue ignored when discussing economics of airports. etc etc etc.

    The simple fact is that places like Huffpost don't have to backup their claims, just preach to the choir.

    A claim from a 'shitty rag' does not make a _preposterous_ claim plausible. If they got $400B in subsidies, they did an absolutely awful job of turning it into shareholder value. As there are yet no credible cites...

  4. Re:Using CNN as the source on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Schadenfreude.

  5. Re:Goal posts haven't moved on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    You too will learn to _love_ god emperor Trump.

    Nobody believes either side is for 'the rule of law', but good to see you're for it when a R is in charge. Exactly the same as the other side.

  6. Re:Cue the trolls on Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Always was. The trolls now have one less official position to troll from. But they've gained the house, so about same.

  7. Re:Wait a minute... on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    We will ship no code, until it compiles _and_ links. Then we zip up the source (for 'source control'), ship and go to the nudie bar for two weeks.

    Debugging is for the end users. It's all their fault anyhow, we hate them.

  8. Re:Translation: More money to the big telcos on The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    AT&T's market cap is 226 billion. Your 300 billion claim is not plausible. If you got that somewhere, post the link, so we can know who the liars are.

    The rest of your post is on point. They should just stop all M&A in the market until their is healthy competition.

    People get the local government they deserve. If your from Seattle, suck it, vote the bastards out or shut the fuck up. Don't ask for a federal solution.

  9. Get your Fiber from 'central services' today. on The US Desperately Needs a 'Fiber For All' Plan (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Central Services: We do the work, you do the pleasure.

    Fuck off EFF. Everybody _doesn't_ need fiber. Last thing we need is another billion/year going to rent seekers. Like all the rural electrification money we're still bleeding, 50 years later.

    Market is working, let it. Unless the bigs get their shit together, all those tiny ISPs will own them. Wireless network's fiber backhauls are in fine shape, again market is working.

    If you live out in BFE, you already know how to live with satellite or at best a cell data plan. No, _we're_ not paying to run a fiber 100km to your doomsday compound. Anybody who tells you they want/plan to is lying.

  10. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen the 'inconsistent sensor' emergency checklist page for a 737 Max posted. It exists. (Not sure of the term.)

  11. Re:I just don't get it on TypeScript's Quiet, Steady Rise Among Programming Languages (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Languages are _easy_, libraries are hard.

    But language features (or their lack) have huge consequences in the library.

    Everybody has to 'touch Javascript', if only to block 'big old steaming piles' of it. It sucks and everybody knows it. But until recently, it was the only game in the browser.

    Then you have the 'it's a pigfuck, but it's our pigfuck' people. They actually use JS on the server, just madness. In their defense, most don't know any other languages.

    Bluntly, it's kids reinventing _all_ the bad ideas again. e.g. lockless databases, just run all updates through a single thread...that will work. (/sarc) That's a few person decades of work that the kids could have saved with a few person hours in the library.

  12. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The first apparent fault is the inconsistent sensor(s). The pilots worked that problem until impact.

  13. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AC is parroting something he read somewhere else and doesn't understand.

    A 737's CG is not behind it's CP. He's 'not even wrong'.

  14. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Disable auto trim is on the MAX's inconsistent sensor emergency checklist?

    It is now...

  15. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    The thing being missed is the sensor fault _causing_ runaway trim (with the new system) and disabling auto trim not being part of the 'inconsistent sensor' emergency checklist.

    That should have been recognized as a potential killer and documented to hell and back the first time it was noticed and averted. Which it clearly was, at least once.

  16. Re:So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Old movies...Who's had a tire 'blow out' in there lifetime?

    Remember 'sawing on' the steering wheel to take-up linkage slack?

    If you do, you're either older than dirt or a car collector.

  17. Re: So, pilot error? on Pilot Who Hitched a Ride Saved Lion Air 737 Day Before Deadly Crash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears that a single AOA sensor failure at least somewhat constantly triggers runaway trim. Making the failure 'a double', which can overload the pilots.

    Which means that the emergency checklist for inconsistent AOA/airspeed sensor faults should include disabling autotrim.

    This new information makes Lionair look like clowns though.

  18. Re:Very Impressed - this woman has done her homewo on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on who the Ds nominate. But it sure is looking like four more years. The Ds have marginalized all their non-nuts.

  19. Somebody was using Myspace in the last 3 years?

  20. My Fields teacher was a couple of years from retirement. Nice enough old guy, but we still plotted his death in detail while waiting to see if he would show up that day. We were basically on our own, but still tested. He had years of test questions, we had files, even knowing what was coming, it was still a bitch.

    I had the 'cheat sheet allowed' type tests too. After all Medicine is the MD 'Memorized Degree'.

  21. Never change drinkypoo.

  22. Why is facebook not a force in China?

  23. Facebook is obnoxious. The reason they 'get away with it' is they have 'critical mass'. A functional social network interop would break that.

    Sure they would try and break the interop (to protect users from 'harassment'!), which will accelerate people leaving. In the end they would just be AOL chat, a ghetto full of morons. Disney will be their competitor in the 'nerfed internet' space, but Disney will do it better.

  24. Your the one that keeps repeating untrue claims, as if that makes them true.

    Tell me that glasses cost $400 'because monopoly'. I'll laugh again. It's simple minded bullshit.

  25. He understands it's a power grab. But, unlike you, he doesn't think that's good.

    The upside of balkanizing social networks? A future interop standard and the death of facebook.