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  1. Re:Python on Interview With Python Creator Guido Van Rossum (techrocket.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?

  2. Re:Misleading headline on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says It's 'Very Likely' The Universe Is A Simulation (extremetech.com) · · Score: 1

    But every simulation simulates a universe. Its may not be as fancy as the universe we live in but it would look pretty impressive to anything living inside it. A universe which hosts our simulated universe would obviously be much larger than ours.

  3. Re:How does a plastic bag get to 1700 feet? on Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Drones set up to broadcast video should be detectable with the right gear. I am sure Thales would sell you an integrated drone detector for a few hundred kEUR.

  4. Power lines can't carry momentum. They carry energy.

  5. Re:More likely explanation on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But you said it was in the southern hemisphere.

  6. Re:More likely explanation on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So at what fraction of c do seismic waves travel? Can they go from Louisiana to Washington in 7ms?

  7. Re:"Half a second" is a lifetime... on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah but photons are delayed when propagating through gas or plasma because they get absorbed and re-emitted. Photons from SN1987A arrived (IIRC) 14 seconds after the associated neutrinos.

  8. Re:Engineering is Applied Science. on Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not but there are plenty of scientists doing menial work. I know of some who do quality control in factories for example. Analyzing materials.

  9. and the signal from the star was presumably modulated (or whatever the correct technical jargon is) by the comet's atmosphere, producing a signal you would not see when looking at either a comet or a star alone.

    That would have to be a hydrogen laser, which is unlikely, but a Hydrogen fluoride laser seems possible.

  10. All the ATC systems I worked on up to 2012 were airgapped, apart from a few very low bandwidth links which would be used to pull in meteo type data. No opportunity for a DOS there.

  11. Douglas Trumbull could have used this on New Bipedal Robot Demoed by Google X Company (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the drones from Silent Running

  12. Re:No helmet??? on Jet Pack Company Executive Crashes During A Test Flight (kdvr.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with hang gliders is that the pilot can swing forwards and up, and strike the keel with his head. A lot of people get paralyzed that way. The risk of head injuries in that scenario is clear as well, so you wear a helmet.

    My impression about this incident was that was more likely to be an asymmetric power failure, which he didn't have control authority to offset. If he had been at higher altitude and able to deploy a parachute the result may have been better. At low altitude you are truly fucked of course.

  13. Re:No helmet??? on Jet Pack Company Executive Crashes During A Test Flight (kdvr.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in airliners but I do when hang gliding or riding a bike.

  14. Re:A Very Stupid Question - on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah once it has been in the water it has to be rebuilt, rather than fueling it up again and lighting the fuse.

  15. Re:"Now that I got a strike, I can win at bowling! on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    About half their issues have been fixable engineering problems, and the other half have been bad luck, so their success rate from here on should be about 50%.

  16. Re: Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: -1

    Then they have an operational problem at the outset. They should be selling all the capacity they have available.

  17. Re: Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes but the unused fuel represents payload mass which can't be delivered to orbit, which reduces revenue.

  18. Re:So what? on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    not presently exploding

    Just like the North Korean nuclear arsenal.

  19. Re:So what? on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Posts elsewhere concluded it was C4.

  20. Re:Subtitle on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But not in terms of absolute markups, like 400 dollars on a phone vs 1 dollar on a packet of biscuits.

  21. Some companies just want their email to work so they can get on with earning money.

  22. Its a blast from the past on 13-Year-Old Linux Dispute Returns As SCO Files New Appeal (theinquirer.net) · · Score: 1

    I can't wait.

  23. Re:Aw, come on ... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you must put "null" in a text field then put json in the text field.

  24. Re:Aw, come on ... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is always that one developer who just knows that his SQL is 1.9 times as fast as the SQL used by frameworks, so he hard codes it.

  25. Re:Aw, come on ... on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or format is address, first name, last name and the address is "2, 24 some street" and the last name is Jennifer.