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  1. Re:The Fascists Have Won on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Switzerland?

  2. Re:Grow a fucking spine on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    This may have been the only way to defend everyone who sent her email about issues they were involved in. There's no defense against a secret order issued from a secret court, tied with a secret gag order, and she may have known more than you do about her operations and who she communicated with via Lavabit.

  3. Re:Where will this end? on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    My guess is that he communicated with Snowden via his Lavabit email address. He's worried that the NSA will come in with a blanket order to see everything he's got. This is the only way he sees to protect everyone else he's communicated with.

  4. Re: It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    s/This isn't party specific either/This is endemic to both the Democrats and Republicans, as well as some third parties/

  5. Re:It was a myth on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    You didn't have to own slaves. You could, but you didn't have to. Sure, it wasn't as progressive as we are today, but to be honest it was still ahead of the game for the time.

  6. Re:There's a big difference between on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    You slow down for the turns and turny areas. As it explained in the document.

  7. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    He does talk a bit about the positioning of the pumps, and there would be enough of them to constantly run and keep it evacuated, as well as to provide redundancy and keep up with minor breaches in the integrity of the tube. .001 Atm is definitely low pressure, and I'd like to see a large scale experiment held on this. That's the fun thing about this document, though, is that with its open nature, we're welcome to test, add numbers, and make improvements to it.

  8. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or if it can transport the car with you (it can), it leaves more often (it does), it travels faster (much, much faster), and will be an order of magnitude less expensive (got this one too). But other than being better in every way, there's nothing better. Read the document. All of it. It's awesome.

  9. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    It's steel, not glass.and since it's round, it'll scatter the light, not focus it. And most of the light above it will be absorbed by the solar panels which will line it.

  10. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't disagree about them protesting it, but it should be relatively silent, being that it's inside a tunnel. It's solar powered. The ground impact is about the same as telephone poles. You can't hit animals, because it's elevated and enclosed. It's basically a hippy's dream. Naturally, they will still try to kill it because science and advancement are evil, but they shouldn't.

  11. Re:Burning bridges on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Because no one sells IT or engineered products, and no one that would sell one of them would have an active interest in science, geeky things, or consider themselvf a nerd, and they definitely wouldn't want to keep current on tech things.

  12. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 2

    This. He does all that work for you, with less armchair quarterbacking and more scientific engineering.

  13. Re:Sure it's a loopy idea on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 2

    This was discussed in the document that you didn't read. They build it above ground, on stilts, primarily through the I-5 Corridor. It does have to veer periodically across, but there is no chance of hitting anything since it's 20-100 ft in the air and the foot print for each pole is relatively small, only a few feet across every hundred feet. This could easily be met privately with most land owners, and eminent domain for the rest.

    The real trick will be to fight off the lawsuits from all the podunk towns it bypasses.

  14. Re:I think that the party you don't like will get on Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain · · Score: 1

    Until it is later mandated that their way is the right way, and they regulate what insurance is allowed to cover, and that isn't part of it. And then mandated that you have to use their insurance only. And then that only procedures that are covered are allowed.

  15. Re:Looks like it's time on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't mind launching the materials to build the initial foundry, it's that foundry which will provide the materials for the other ones. Everyone knows that's how you play an RTS.

  16. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    I guess you have a point if you're selling to China: http://www.ie6countdown.com/

  17. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    Just like you never installed the plugin for Flash? Or Java? If enough websites use it people will install the plugin.

  18. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    Been running on HTML5 for be for close to a year. But I guess that I'm just on the cutting edge. And I hate Flash.

  19. Looks like it's time on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like it's time to build a foundry in space so we can begin the construction of satellites, space stations and long range spacecraft with materials readily available in space, so we don't have to keep carting it up there. Between that and robots and assembly machines, we should be able to build out stuff in the next couple decades.

  20. Re:Removing bins will not fix underlying problem on London Bans Recycling Bins That Track Phones · · Score: 1

    If my elevator starts jumping onto random wifi networks, I think I have bigger problems than being able to remotely work on it.

  21. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    Been to youtube lately?

  22. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    You're talking about .1% of the internet: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp

  23. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 1

    And with a plugin readily available for Chrome, at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegkhpodgoaeamnpckdbblp and a patch outstanding awaiting approval based completely on the low utilization for apng, which the buy in on a project like this could easily spur Google to include... you're looking at 50%+ market share of browsers, by just about everyone that measures usage.

  24. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Insignificant until you have 30,000 people a month pull it from your server. Then it's 60 MB saved, per pic at a tiny picture size. If you look at the top two, they're 52 and 57 KB. At the number of hits on that, it's 1.5 GB per picture, which starts to add up, even at that tiny number of hits. For a site that gets that per day? 450GB / month, which isn't a tiny number in bandwidth charges. That's $600 per year in bandwidth at many hosts, per picture (I know at that usage pattern they get special rates). That's just on the server side.

    On the client side, what if they're on cell modems, in rural areas, sometimes on the 2G networks getting 110 kbps (that's bits, chief). Or satellite internet. Or anything that measures bandwidth used. I know my parents saved 5-25% bandwidth on all the images that were downloaded, it would make their satellite internet a hell of a lot more usable. Even on 3g, or in congested areas, it could make a difference.

  25. Re:You know on Obama Administration Overrules iPhone Trade Ban · · Score: 2