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  1. Re:Redbull on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 2

    He did not have full video downlink from the cameras on his suit, only on the capsule. Either they didn't want the extra weight of a downlink, battery and antenna system or they didn't want footage of spins etc going live. I suspect the former since weight would be an issue with a jump like this. We should see that footage in the director's cut.

  2. Re:Really?! on U.S. Defense Secretary Warns of a Possible 'Cyber-Pearl Harbor' · · Score: 1

    Remind me never to hire you as a security consultant. A DMZ is designed to provide access to limited services on machines in the DMZ space, but those machines are less or untrusted by the main network deeper in.

    If your DMZ has unfettered inbound access, then you are overexposing yourself unnecessarily. Any machines in a DMZ are still properly protected, but do not pose as great a threat to the internal network if compromised as one hosted on the internal network itself.

  3. Re:Are the real currency? on New Zealand Turning Hobbits Into Actual Cash · · Score: 1

    The article says the coins are legal tender if that answers your question.

  4. Re:Terminal velocity? on Felix Baumgartner Prepares for Supersonic Skydive Attempt in New Mexico · · Score: 2

    Terminal velocity is a product of the gravitational acceleration versus the air resistance. The resistance is dependant on the density of the atmosphere and is much less at the 100,000 feet point where he will try and hit the speed of sound. As he comes lower, the increasing density will slow him down to the terminal velocity at that altitude.

    There actually a difference in terminal velocity between ground level and the 10,000 feet that routine skydiving happens from, about 2% per 1000 feet.

  5. Re:That's fine on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 1

    A default that is explained to the user, with a prominent disable button on first use.

  6. Re:That's fine on Think Tank's Website Rejects Browser Do-Not-Track Requests · · Score: 2

    Pray tell how that is different except to make me have to do something manual every week or sooner to update the file again.

    Adblock+ blocks even better because it removes the code from the page, I don't get wide-open blocks and they never see the hit in the first place. Even better, I can click on a little button and block any new sites with zero effort.

  7. Re:drones on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    Manned fighters will be back. We'll go UAV for a couple years until the jamming of the remote control makes them impossible to use, then we'll got Autonomous AV for a while until their algorithms max out and they run into stalemate. Then we'll bring pilots back because eventually technology runs out and we need a mind capable of creative thought in the cockpit.

  8. Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that, I went via the link in the GP and the books listed there had no Kindle options.

    If the epub isn't encrypted, you can sideload via Calibre.

  9. Re:Shocking to watch live on A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet · · Score: 1

    DMCA. Serious here, try and file a fake DMCA if you really want to get it off Google. Or let Fox know and get them to file a real DMCA as it is their footage. I'm sure they'd like to dump it.

  10. Re:Nerds Ruining Entertainment on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    Bugger, no Kindle editions and the only non-stolen ebooks on Google are NOT FOR SALE IN YOUR COUNTRY. Damned Luddite author.

  11. Re:And while they're at it on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    At which point one chap now introduces an unpredictable variable into the equation with a wave of human operated fighters who aren't bound to the algorithms.

    Look at drones now, the US uses them because they are safer than fighters as far as piloting them is concerned. Once the other sides develop sufficient counter-drone technology, you'll go through from UAV to AAV and then stalemate once the algorithms max out. Then they'll bring humans in cockpits back again.

  12. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Newly Spotted Comet May Shine Among Brightest In History · · Score: 2

    Kohoutek was supposed to be a brilliant comet once it emerged from behind the sun on the outward leg of the orbit. What came out was what in pyrotechnic terms was a damp squib.

    One theory I heard posted about was that the comet's trajectory came too close to the sun and the heat actually burned the surface and fused it into a organic mess, like tar, and it was unable to vent as it should have. Another was that it broke up behind the sun.

    As with all things in Yankee culture, the name became a brand name for duds and failure.

  13. Re:Could it be? on United States Navy Names Ship After Neil Armstrong · · Score: 1

    Quatrain 62: Nostradamus Mabus will soon die, then will come, A horrible undoing of people and animals, At once one will see vengeance, One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass. I know I'll get modded down, or flamed, but what the hell.

    And me with no mod-points to preserve this better. The great prophet was once again out with his timings.

  14. The fine even speckling is the CCD pixel resolution, you can ignore that, but the blue, red, green and other coloured specks that are not evenly spread are galaxies similtar to the prominent ones, just further out.

  15. Re:Permission not needed on GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline · · Score: 3, Informative

    Clause 1 in GPL2 and Clause 4 in GPL4 require all extant license notices to remain in the files intact. Both define the minimum for the notices to contain " (c) Copyright Joe Soap Industries 2012"

    For modifications, Clause 2 in GPL2 and Clause 5 in GPL4 requires the developer to adhere to the verbatim copying clauses as well as the conditions in the modification clauses.

    To me that's pretty clear that the original copyright statements must remain prominent.

  16. Re:this really happened on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 1

    It was an actionable threat, the British sent troops to tackle the threat, and they lost the fight over it.

  17. Re:Why have backup generators? Or backups? on Microsoft Wants To Nix Data Center Backup Generators · · Score: 1

    You know there's this magical thing made of long-chain lipids and cellulose fibres that makes light for you? No reason to cook in the dark.

  18. Re:There is another issue and it is a constant one on 100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television · · Score: 1

    They need it to backhaul multiple sources from studio to vision mixer. They're wanting to use 100Gbe instead of whatever super-high-def SDI type solution they're currently using that is probably distance limited. If you can trunk 4/5 camera sources over one cable instead of multiple cables, you've got a simpler infrastructure.

  19. Re:How many votes are they counting? on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The technique being used is wrong. High speed manual counting doesn't need optical machines, it needs a separate ballot page for each vote item ie president, mayor etc. Those ballots get seperated at the polling station when they are placed into the sealed ballot boxes.

    Once counting starts, two people take a box, dump it out and seperate the ballots into piles, one for each candidate. You use two so that nobody can cheat. Then you count the piles. That's the basic methodology.

    South Africa takes it further, we validate that the ballot has been stamped by the IEC, the elections body, and have party representatives involved in the verification. Our last national election had 17,919,966 ballots cast, 239,237 marked as spoiled and we counted in under a day and ran live TV broadcasts following the results.

    The practice of putting many choices on single forms complicates the counting to the point you need optical machines to count it for you, and that is bad.

    All that is needed is a simple ballot and polling stations spread with a suitable density, normally 6000-8000 voters.

  20. Re:Right is better than fast on Election Tech: In Canada, They Actually Count the Votes · · Score: 4, Informative

    In darkest Africa us 40 million South Africans vote manually, count manually and verify by holding each ballot up so that the polling station members can all agree. And we still finish counting by the next day.

  21. Re:Wrist slap or a bullet? on China's Yangtze River Turns Red · · Score: 1

    The last one was a pair of illegal dye factories. They got shut down and their equipment dismantled. Now all depends on whether this is an illegal operation or in the Party's good books.

  22. Re:We care about ad networks? on Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting · · Score: 1

    Ah, the memories. The TV station ran the video again as part of their 50 year anniversary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5sPgV61bw

    This must have been one of the first truly viral videos

  23. Re:Isn't that per socket, not per core? on VMware Back-Pedals On vRAM Scheme, Back To Per-Socket Pricing · · Score: 2

    Yep, reading the linked PDF. "For this example, a user has two 2-CPU (each with 6 cores) hosts with 128GB of physical RAM each that they wish to license with VMware vSphere Enterprise edition. Each physical CPU requires a license, so four VMware vSphere 5 Enterprise licenses are required. No additional licenses will be needed regardless of the number of virtual machines, amount of virtual memory (vRAM) or physical cores or RAM."

  24. Re:memories of Hubble on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Allen Commission found that the null corrector used to test the mirror had a lens installed 1.3mm out of position. Citation The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report chapter 7.

    The mirror was wrong when it left the factory.

  25. Have they been properly collimated? on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please tell me they have been collimated properly and we aren't going to get another Hubble problem, this time at L2 with no hopes of a monocle to fix it.