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  1. Re:Hope It Helps End the Fighting on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 1

    My primary weapon was an 81mm mortar. Not too useful when you're face to face with your opponent, and it's kind of hard to lug a tube and a rifle.

  2. Re:Also there is simply a weight consideration on US Army Unveils 'Revolutionary' $35,000 Rifle · · Score: 2, Informative

    That is true, but it is unclear how useful it is to give a weapon with such range to every single infantryman. You also need some decent optics to shoot at such distances accurately, while hitting a man at 200-300m is perfectly possible with iron sights.

    Standard annual Marine Corps rifle qualification requires 10 shots from the prone position at a man sized target from 500m with iron sights. I used to put 7-9 in the black every year. Even the less capable shots in the units I was in would put at least 50% on target from that range.

  3. Re:Just wrong, wear a mask? on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    How about a ring of infrared LEDs around your face, pulsing in a random pattern? I wonder what their analytics would do with that?

  4. Re:Not much on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought the same thing when I first read that post. But I heard the on coming whooshing sound early enough to divert it.

  5. Re:oh boy on Free E-Books, With a Catch — Advertising · · Score: 1

    The ads are in the ebooks themselves, not the reader. So this won't have any effect on the price of the hardware.

  6. Re:Just wondering... on Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously! · · Score: 1

    I'll wait until the second version. When there will be rainbows, and unicorns.

  7. Re:I Don't Get Chrome OS on Chrome OS Arrives On the iPad — No, Seriously! · · Score: 1

    But if you were to leave the range of your router. Or go out of the country where you really don't want to be using your 3g radio. You can still use the apps installed on the device.

  8. Re:So the Internet worked as it should... on Army DNS ROOT Server Down For 18+ Hours · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm upset that the Jaguar XKRs aren't doing well at Prtite LeMans, and the Europeans seem to be making a comeback at the Ryder Cup.

  9. Re:Woah, on AppleTV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Yes there are. Feel free to buy one.

  10. Re:Why Still Pursuing This? on First Human-Powered Ornithopter · · Score: 1

    But how many coconut sized bombs can it carry?

  11. Re:Bad article, Really bad summary on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 2, Funny

    There you go. Reading the article, and making sense, and spoiling everybodys fun. There's one in every crowd.

  12. Re:To the people modding me down - why hide? on Scott Adams On the Difficulty of Building a 'Green' Home · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points right now. I wouldn't know whether to mark you as funny, or troll.

  13. Re:Blended or Single Malt? on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    But a certain amount of the mash is reused in bourbon, and Tennessee whiskey. Hence the term "sour mash". The point being to help ensure consistency of taste.

  14. Re:Ah, the King's English on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    There are a couple of teams using it in the American Le Mans racing series in the US. One of them even won the last round a week or so back.

  15. Re:Back in the early 90's on F1 Simulators Revealed · · Score: 1

    Wasn't aware that Disney had installed that. Since the company that they had build it for them is based in Pa. It could be the folks we were partnered with on the human factors stuff, as the Navy centrifuge the original work was done was there. My employer sold off the rights during one of the aforementioned mergers to get back to core competencies.

  16. Back in the early 90's on F1 Simulators Revealed · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In another iteration of the company I work for (we've had a few mergers), one of the divisions ran a centrifuge for human factors research on pilots. Then someone had the bright idea to turn the technology, and software into an amusement park ride.

    It had an enclosed gondola with six axis movement and a display inside to show the environment that was being simulated. The arm spun at a constant rate, and with the gondola at a certain angle it could trick the inner ear to think you were sitting still while you were turning. And then by changing the the angle of the gondola in relation to the centrifugal force vector it could give the sensation of roll, pitch and yaw.

    Although the tech was cool, and some parks showed some interest. It never went anywhere because they couldn't figure out a way to get the throughput that the park operators where looking for.

    Sounds like that system would be the best of both methods mentioned in the summary.

  17. Re:*gate on Chip Guru Papermaster Loses Signal At Apple · · Score: 1

    It's not the crime that does you in. It's the coverup.

  18. Re:eh on Senate Confirms Elena Kagan's Appointment To SCOTUS · · Score: 1

    you'd hope they'd at least have a significant body of legal scholarship.

    Well since she taught at the University of Chicago, and was the dean of Harvard Law School. I guess she's got you covered on that count.

  19. Re:Use hydrogen. on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    Planes can't glide when the exploding/burning fuel in the wings removes/melts the wings.

  20. Re:Let me tell you... on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 1

    I was in downtown D.C. the other day, and saw a Borders a few blocks away from the Mall, and White House having a going out of business sale.

  21. Re:But what does the average USER use? on Average Cellphone Data Usage Is 145.8 MB Per Month · · Score: 1

    Ok, I'm no statistitian. But it sounds like you're saying that you'd rather see the numbers for the 20% with the lowest usage, and the 20% with the highest usage thrown out and the middle 60% averaged.

    Essentially re-averaging the middle of the bell curve. Doesn't seem like that would be any more valuable than the average of all users since it would be an average of users that are in the average range of all users.

  22. Re:And this one pays for itself... on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    Touche! Thank you for pointing out my short sightedness.

  23. Re:And this one pays for itself... on World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production · · Score: 1

    If I'm paying a lot of money for a car in order to have threesomes with barely legal chicks. I'm getting a gas guzzling Bugatti to attract shallow hot chicks that will shave their legs and pits.

  24. Re:The iPad is not that bad on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 1

    How many Android 1.6 phones that were released last year will never see 2.0? How many of those phones will never be able to run apps written for 2.0?

    With the pace that the mobile phone market, and smart phones in particular, moves. Three years is a pretty good run at this point. And beats the hell out of 1 year.

  25. Re:The iPad is not that bad on iPad Owners Are 'Selfish Elites' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. Because that G4 Luxo lamp iMac that I just retired was brand new! I can't believe that I had to upgrade from a machine that was built in 2003 just to run the latest OS.
    I mean really! Only 4 OS updates before they quit supporting the hardware from before they made an architecture change? I'm so sick of this treadmill where I have to upgrade every 7 years!

    BTW I bought both the G4 iMac, and the Intel Mac Mini that replaced it used.

    And I don't know what you're talking about with losing files. You make it sound like Apple routinely changes file formats with no backward compatibility. Unless you're referencing the 10.5.1 issue with moving files from local to network storage.