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  1. Mini Sample on US Justice Department Urges Supreme Court Not To Take Up Google v. Oracle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of what the TPP is going to do.

  2. You don't have to go faster on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 1

    Just as close as possible to C
    https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship...

    Time dilation allows for interstellar travel, of course speeding up and slowing down throws off the numbers.

    How far can one travel from the Earth?

    Since one might not travel faster than light, one might conclude that a human can never travel further from the earth than 40 light-years if the traveler is active between the age of 20 and 60. A traveler would then never be able to reach more than the very few star systems which exist within the limit of 20-40 light-years from the Earth. This is a mistaken conclusion: because of time dilation, the traveler can travel thousands of light-years during their 40 active years.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. What a load on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 1

    "You can travel faster than the speed of light" If you slow light down....

  4. Re:Nokia phones did this years ago. on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    Polish? Wasn't that Arabic?

  5. Re:Nokia phones did this years ago. on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there some Windows Net Send bugs too? I seem to remember screwing around with people back in the NT4 days.

  6. Re:You shmucks! on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    Or mine 867-5309.

    Oh Jenny.

  7. Re:Why is Apple's Unicode support so buggy? on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    The Chinese market? I dunno...

  8. Re:Message coming in from the ghost of Steve Jobs on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    I want a new .sig, One that won't make me sick...
    One that won't make me crash my phone, or feel like a dick

    Oh Huey....

  9. I miss winnuke on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Monitoring might not be the best solution on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    No this...

    That's a nonsense argument in such a general form because your life is constantly on the line. You ever drive a car?

    Is nonsensical.
    As I am in control of my car and he/she is in control of the train, and we don't want them on their phone, or drunk, or sleeping.
    I didn't read past that, if that's your best argument forward you're not worth reading further.

  11. On a lighter note on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 1

    Self parking car runs over pedestrians because "owner" didn't pay for "pedestrian detection"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    http://www.independent.co.uk/l...

    The most amusing part is the dullard just stood there when it is evident the vehicle is going to fast to stop.

  12. Re:Where companies can record on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    When people are on the job I see no reason they can't be monitored, that's why cops wear body cameras, their cars have dash cams, that's why trains should have cameras, and so should pilots, because if you knew what pilots were doing you probably wouldn't fly.

    You make your statements as though I am suggesting they be watched off the job, which is not the case.
    There's no good reason NOT to have a camera in a train cab, cockpit, body cam, dash cam, etc, if it's ON THE JOB.

    Video of the train engineer would answer a whole lot of question.

  13. Re:Where companies can record on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    Whether or not it's "law" he has no right to privacy when my life is on the line.

  14. Re:Monitoring != micromanaging on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    It's a train he has no right to privacy.

  15. Re:"Distracting effect"? Citation please on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    Exactly, that comment in the article is disingenuous at best.

  16. BS on Amtrak Installing Cameras To Watch Train Engineers · · Score: 1

    More than a century of research establishes that monitoring workers actually reduces the ability to perform complex tasks, such as operating a train, because of the distractive effect.

    Don't but that at all, my personal experience has been the cameras become just another thing you don't notice, the implication of the above is the employee is constantly aware of the camera.
    This just isn't how people function, the get used to and ignore everyday things.

    Additionally I suspected this engineer was on his phone, but I read 2 different versions, one where his phone was locked into a box in the cab, the other where he "pulled his phone from his bag" immediately after the wreck, implying it was out of "the box".

    The manually controlled train should have been slowing to approach the curve with a reduced speed limit of 80 mph (130 km/h) in its approach, and 50 mph (80 km/h) within it.[2][11][13][14] But instead, the train had accelerated into the curve and was traveling at 106 mph (171 km/h) when its engineer[6] applied the emergency brake, and 102 mph (164 km/h) when it derailed, according to Robert L. Sumwalt, the National Transportation Safety Board's lead investigator, who cited the train's onboard event recorder recovered from the wreckage

    If it is manually controlled, and he entered that turn at that speed, how could it be anything but engineer error?
    He was on his fucking cell phone, and that's why they are dragging their feet releasing details and trying to get the media to focus on an impact mark on the wind shield.

  17. Competition? on Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable · · Score: 1

    competition in broadband Internet.

    There really isn't any.

  18. This just in on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1

    Paranoid police ruin poor man's life.

  19. Re:Hmm on Machine That "Uncooks Eggs" Used To Improve Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    Yep that was pointed out.

  20. Re:Hmm on Machine That "Uncooks Eggs" Used To Improve Cancer Treatment · · Score: 1

    liquefying the protein-containing material and running it through a fluid vortex

    LOL, OK that answers that.

  21. Re:FFS on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 0

    After a decade of reading and discussing 9/11, and other "incidents" I came to one inescapable conclusion...

    Look out for #1, try to take care of your family and real friends, there isn't much else you can do.

  22. Hmm on Machine That "Uncooks Eggs" Used To Improve Cancer Treatment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder if "untangling" proteins could help with Alzheimers and "Mad Cow?.

  23. Re:FFS on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 2

    I don't believe I mentioned 9/11, What I am trying to say is that every bit of this terrorism you see today is manufactured.
    I was pretty specific about this.

    As far as 9/11 goes, well maybe it was a straight forward attack maybe it wasn't, but the people in charge needed something like 9/11 to put their agenda into action.
    Little chance the US would have gone to war and occupation of Iraq without it, and no way you get the PATRIOT act and the NSA issues without it.

    By the way if you're under 30 I really don't want to hear from you again, you're too young to grasp this bit of history.

    Here are the choices I think you have for 9/11.
    A: Factions in the government not only knew, but assisted in it.
    B: Factions in the government knew there was an attack coming, ignored warnings and allowed it to happen, but did not participate further than that.
    C: Your government is telling the truth.

    My personal choice is B.

    9/11 can not be discussed rationally online, I realized this a long time ago, Just take a look at how you posted...

    you need to get your head screwed on straight.

    There are only 2 paths of discussion for the majority of the people out there.
    A: The government told the truth.
    B: Conspiracy nuts.

    There is no "in between" has been my experience, no room for conjecture or debate. (again see your response)

    What Eisenhower stated in his speech came true, every bit of his concern exist and thrives today.
    ISIS and Al Q are manufactured crisis for the MIC.

    I'll leave you with a saying that illustrates the above points.

    You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

    Rahm Emanuel

    9/11 was the crisis, the Never Ending War on Terrorism is "the opportunity".

  24. Re:Sadly I already answered in this topic on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 0

    But not so sad as to stop and offer an insult.

  25. Re:FFS on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 1, Informative

    Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US "Created" ISIS As A "Tool" To Overthrow Syria's President Assad
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

    Saudi Arabia-funded Islamic State
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

    CIA-funded al Qaeda
    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03...

    Start with the top link it leads to all the others, and there are a LOT of them.