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  1. No, it is about people and their abilities with the things they own. Big difference.

  2. Really?, the people I know and myself have no trouble with those things. My dad and mom do those things!

  3. at least there are great you-tube videos for those who do want to learn such things; more people should watch them

  4. Yes, I see such helpless basket cases all the time, and they waste the most time of the IT department at work. However the percentage of the populace of those morons has been rising.

  5. Re:Dupe on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    My "actual data" would of course entail my relatives and friends, who indeed can "fix shit", while the current generation is mostly useless in that regard. Can't solder, can't crimp, can't change an oil filter or even headlight bulb, can't measure nor cut nor fasten lumber, etc. etc.

  6. Do tell where steam engines (aside from turbines in ships and power plants) are used in our society. I did not say we were taught useless skills.

  7. Re:This is exactly what OO solves... on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 1

    I get the same good results 90% of time with fuzzy toast logic

  8. Re:Dupe on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 5, Informative

    wrong, we over 50 were taught to fix shit, starting at age 10 in my case. Guys [1] usually fell into two categories, the electrical or mechanical.

    [1] sorry wrong headed thinking about women meant females left out, though sewing and cooking are good skills everyone should have

  9. Re:fixing modern gadget on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 2

    actually common cause of monitor problems now is with capacitors that can be replaced.

  10. Re:How is this supposed to work...? on Indiana Court Rules Melted Down Hard Drive Not Destruction of Evidence · · Score: 0

    so his buddies didn't get in trouble right? no problem then.

  11. Re: "Take your time for a thoughtful response" on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's considering special relativity only; general relativity allows an energy density field lower than vacuum to expand and contract spacetime around a region (the Alcubierre metric), and it is possible the Casimir vacuum between two parallel conducting plates might fulfill this condition. There are experiments in progress to detect the Alcubierre metric, very open question.

    As a second reason to point out FTL is not only possible but happening now, there are galaxies moving away from us faster than light speed and more and more galaxies join that number all the time.

  12. Re:Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    the expansion rate is believed to be about 75 kilometers per second per 3 megaparsecs (about three million light years). That is very small

  13. Re:This is exactly what OO solves... on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 2

    nonsense, procedural code cooks until the toasted flag is true.

  14. Re:Are there any planets to land on? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    one in five have rocky planet in habitable zone, we need ability to analyze atmospheres before we can say any more

  15. Re:"Take your time for a thoughtful response" on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    FTL is not forbidden by our best model of the subject, general relativity. A region of space moving FTL with an object inside it IS allowed.

    Don't make universal negatives, they're unprovable.

  16. Re:Are there any planets to land on? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    We now know, thanks to Kepler, that almost all stars have planets.

    http://www.space.com/24894-exo...

  17. Re:Can't DRM or Root Kit Vinyl on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Several methods of breaking that silly system have already been discovered by people using open source tools and playing around with settings and ripping methods. Google is your friend.

    Peace out and rip on!

  18. Re:Psssh on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    Used to? No asians in your house? "Good, your homework is done. Now you play the piano!"

  19. Re:Can't DRM or Root Kit Vinyl on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    several methods of breaking that have already been discovered by people using open source tools and playing around with settings and ripping methods. google is your friend.

    peace out and rip on!

  20. Re: Why? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    perhaps algae can be farmed from waste and CO2. Keeping the lights on and keeping warm should be a very small amount of energy compared to the amount getting to even five percent of lightspeed would take

  21. Re:Ok (where's yours, "Forrest"?)... apk on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 1

    The only thing you have blown is any shred of credibility

  22. Re:in other words, completely negligible on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Spirits planes are smaller, they're airbuses that go from 145 to 178 passengers. AA has big-ass 737, 757, 777 and 787

  23. 3 stars come within 3.5 lightyears in 60K years on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 4, Informative

    no need to wait that long, 3 other stars in the next 60,000 years will come less than 4 lightyears away

    http://simple.wikipedia.org/wi...

    note how alpha and proximy centauri do the Elvis thing and leave the building from 10,000 AD onward

  24. Re:Why? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    No, same amount of fuel, 5x the time. If you can make the one journey and live enough (or support descendants), you can make the longer one. spaceships don't stop when you turn the engine off

  25. Re:"Run, Forrest: RUN!!!", lmao... apk on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 1

    Do provide links to your identity, so we may marvel at your accomplishments and technical acumen.