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  1. Re:One system to rule them all... on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's the battery again... if it is, that's not exactly a small subsystem.

  2. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    So flip burgers while you do it, if you've no other choice.

  3. Re:Quite so! on Electrical Engineering Labor Pool Shrinking · · Score: 1

    Intern != Unpaid Intern

  4. Re:Farts in their general direction. on Dropbox Wants To Replace Your Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    I don't see how their having copies of the keys precludes end-to-end encryption.

  5. Re:QA is not the problem on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 1

    That works if it's a solid item that you can mold like that - but if it were sheets of metal, you could bolt it on wrongly etc. Granted it would certainly reduce the chances...

  6. Re:QA is not the problem on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 1

    What stops the key from being installed wrongly?

  7. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    You'd see lots of clbuttic expansion errors, I'm sure.

  8. Re:you're victim-blaming as well. on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    "I hate seeing cyclists on the road! roads are too dangerous for bikes, period."

    That one doesn't seem to fit - he's pointing out that riding a bike on a road is dangerous, not assigning blame. I totally agree, it is dangerous. Please do not try to tell me that riding two wheels connected by 40lb of metal sticks at 20mph on the same path used by multi-ton vehicles going 50mph is not dangerous.

  9. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    Lights and hi-vis on your clothing.

    It's kind of hard for a driver to miss a strobing red light...

  10. Re:Banning loose change? on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    When was the last time you used a wheel? Lever?

    Oops, you're a criminal!!

  11. Re:Florida on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Even worse, simple machines such as the lever fall into this as well!

  12. Re:Geotag those military bases! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    Let me clue you in on something.

    You're at a checkpoint. There's a guy in the crowd who is clearly got something bad planned. You can do nothing, because he is "not a threat."

    The guy whips out a gun and sprays the checkpoint. Several of your guys get injured. You can do nothing, because he is in a crowd of innocents. He runs into a building and drops the gun. He then walks into the street. You can do nothing. Why? Because he is "not a threat" anymore.

    Our rules of engagement are over-the-top in trying to protect against collateral damage. I'm no soldier myself, but I got to listen to three of them bemoaning about this situation - a corpsman, a SIGINT guy, and a guy who's position was unclear to me but was in charge of 20 infantry.

    Yet you still have people like you, who think we mow down dozens of children at a time, just for giggles.

  13. Re:Geotag those military bases! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    I think this points out the problems with alcohol, not with firearms...

  14. Re:Geotag those military bases! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    Yep, they shoot into the air like fucking idiots, getting innocent people in the area killed by falling bullets.

    Though they don't deserve to be shot for that, I don't have all that much sympathy for it.

  15. Re:Geotag those military bases! on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Clicking a few at random, they all seem relatively justified.

    Suspect refuses to drop knife. Suspect gets up and approaches officers - suspect gets shot.
    Suspect hiding in a drainage pipe. Suspect is belligerent, and aims gun at officers - suspect gets shot.
    Suspect escapes from handcuffs and aims gun at officers - suspect gets shot.
    Suspect drives car aggressively towards officers - suspect gets shot.

    Notice a theme, here? Most of these involve the suspect threatening imminent harm or death to the officers, so they respond with force.

    This proves nothing beyond the fact that the USA is a large and diverse country.

  16. Re:All guns are dangerous... on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 2

    <joke> Well, they might see it and suffer a panic attack! </joke>

  17. Re:neat idea on Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost · · Score: 1

    Well it might interest you to know that some of the encoding methods used at these lower frequencies can be used on the higher ones, too.

    For example, Olivia MFSK, which can be copied even when buried 10dB under the noise floor!

  18. Re:Infringer? on How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear · · Score: 1

    Soundcloud is pretty popular, though some of the processing they do murders a few styles violently.

  19. Re:ONE THING I agree with Chomsky on on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And yet there's any difference if it the D/Rs were reversed?

  20. Re:Video Games have no affect on people's behavior on New Study Fails To Show That Violent Video Games Diminish Prosocial Behavior · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing training with desensitization.

  21. Re:Video Games have no affect on people's behavior on New Study Fails To Show That Violent Video Games Diminish Prosocial Behavior · · Score: 1

    I won't say it's not, because it is - but there is a difference between violence acted in offense vs defense.

    Is the latter really so bad?

  22. Re:Outsourcing on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    True, but I was suggesting that rampant Binging is like rabies :)

  23. Re:Why hasn't the board fired Ballmer? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    I meant you could have trimmed that off as you posted it :P

    But I've seen far worse, so whatever!

  24. Re:Outsourcing on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    I am now, as you can imagine, a rabid, frothing Binger.

    There is no cure. We have to shoot you, just to be sure.

  25. Re:And all I know... on Florida Keys Prepare For Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    You are a shill. Your purpose is to serve as fuel for an exothermic chemical reaction. Please go die in such an exothermic reaction - it is your destiny.