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  1. You forgot to say get off my lawn

  2. Re: How about on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    The definition of poor in the US is an absolute joke. There is a good reason why so many illegal immigrants sneak across the border, US poor is much better living then 3rd world poor.

  3. Re:Evade air defense? on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the power is spread across radio and tv transmitters, cell towers, and the like. The radar sites can be largely passive as long as they are synchronized.

    I don't know where you are getting your information but it is wrong, multiple transmitters cause a huge problem as the signals can only be synchronized in a line every where else the two signals will be out of phase. This will essentially cause one transmitter to jam the other.

  4. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    That is the same incident. Hillary was hosting her government email on her private server that was left vulnerable to simple attacks, she did this to control what was turned over as required by the Federal Records Act.

  5. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    She did both, she hosted government communications on her private email and scrubbed the communications that she deemed damaging or not related.

  6. Re:Just on Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes · · Score: 1

    You need to check your math again . $12,740 for the instillation, you are going to average 4 to 5 hours of generation per day best case. 912 days (2.5 years) * 5hours per day * 7kW system is 31920kW generated. $12740 / 31920kW = $0.40 kWh no where in the contiguous US is power that expensive.

  7. Re:What a load of nonsense on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 1

    Whiskey is aged in wood barrels or in glass containers with pieces of charred wood inside them, putting whiskey in an empty glass container is not aging so unless we are assuming the article is incorrect it's safe to say that there was wood inside the glass containers. It's tough to say if weightlessness had any effect or if the vibrations of the 4 year space flight accelerated the aging process. As for marketing, it costs about $10,000 per pound to put something in orbit so I doubt very much that they will be selling space whiskey any time soon.

  8. Re:Identity theft insurnce on Government Still Hasn't Notified Individuals Whose Personal Data Was Hacked · · Score: 2

    The good news is that data from the OPM hack has not been spotted for sale, this is likely because the OPM data is being used by the Chinese for espionage. The Chinese don't want your identity they want to know how they can approach you to get classified information.

  9. Re:Solitary confinement on Can Living In Total Darkness For 5 Days "Reset" the Visual System? · · Score: 1

    There is light in "the hole".

  10. Re:Like Tomato? on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 4, Informative

    The restrictions are only for the 5GHz band. The reason is 5GHz is supposed to use dynamic frequency selection and transmit power control this is to avoid interfering with weather radar and allow more people to play nice together. They just don't want Dorthy to get hit by a tornado because some one is crapping all over that frequency. They are using a cannon to kill a fly when all they have to do is require that any firmware follow DFS and TPC on 5GHz routers.

  11. Re:The market for this on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    If drinking was taking place then as long as the engineers are within the Ballmer Peak when they design the self driving carts there will be no issues.

  12. Buy /. on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would buy /. and make sure questions like these would be relegated to reddit & digg.

  13. Re:Get over yourself on Study: More Than Half of Psychological Results Can't Be Reproduced · · Score: 1

    Retraction in "hard science" journals is a good thing it shows that experiments were scrutinized and replicated. That's what publishing does it allows others unrelated to the original study to verify the study.

  14. Re:Simple solution on More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you can just match the rifling on the turds.

  15. Re:n=6? Seriously? on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 1
    I think you are missing a critical point. N=6 is perfectly fine for what they were trying to accomplish, they were simply doing a proof of concept.

    From the Article

    The [experimental] designs were different, but the end results were very similar and highly complementary, says Ian Wilson, co-author on the Science paper and a structural and computational biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. Its a promising first step, and it's very exciting to see this research come to fruition. Authors of both studies say the next step is expanding protection to other strains of influenza, namely H3 and H7.

    It does not make any sense to start out every new drug and vaccine with an N>100 experiment.

  16. Efficiency is important in any place where land is limited.

  17. Re:Why not both? on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    There are all ready refrigerators that can run on either AC or DC that are used for boats and RVs.

  18. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 2

    If he was shooting bird shot it certainly can't do much damage when it is falling down unless a person was looking up in the direction it landed and hit them in the eye. Buck shot is a little larger and would probably leave a bruise but I doubt it could penetrate the skin as it was falling down. That being said there are very good reasons why shooting firearms in residential areas is against the law.

  19. Re:If you have physical access... on Air-Gapped Computer Hacked (Again) · · Score: 1

    Changing the frequency band the data is transmitted on is not a significant refinement. You still need two compromised devices in close proximity to each other and the bandwidth is severely limited.

  20. Re:Patriotism on Report: US Military Is Wasting Millions On Satellite Comms · · Score: 1

    They are not over charging the government, the commercial sat comm company is only turning about a 15% profit if all the costs are the same. 15% is not an obscene amount of profit and is probably in line with other large capital investments.

  21. Re:And since the Olympiad on US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years · · Score: 1

    The recruiter might have a contract to fill lower pay positions along with upper level, I've gotten calls for entry level positions with crap benefits before by some recruiter who was probably just cold calling.

  22. Re:Fucking SJW on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 2

    assaults? How does one assault another person when they don't know where they live or who they are? I think the term you are looking for is harassment, which can only be achieved if the harassee looks at the harassment. Comparing mean things people say on the internet to the civil rights movement shows a giant ignorance on your part when the mean people of reddit start spraying fire hoses at people that are strong enough to peel of skin, burning down houses, lynch people, or have their dogs attack other people then you can make that comparison.

  23. Re:what? on The IT Containers That Went To War · · Score: 1

    Jesus you're thick. If I'm on patrol 50 km north of Kandahar, I need to network primarily with in-theater units: my command, my own unit, neighboring units, and supporting units on standby in case I get in some shit. Datacenters like these are the core of providing a high-speed, secure, LOCAL network to people operating in-theater. Yes, the data that has to be sent back to the Pentagon is going to go over a high-latency connection. NO, all of the data generated during normal operations does NOT all go back to the Pentagon. Once again: a high latency, low bandwidth network is death on communications, and communication is about the most important thing that you can have in a fight. Planes do not have the capabilities to do an effective job. There is no magical wifi router you can just strap to the bottom of a fucking AWACS plane and blanket 100 square miles with secure wireless networking.

    I will try to make this very simple since you seem very slow, the only place you drop in data centers is remote FOBs, those remote FOBs are going to be very far from main bases. You need to be able to communicate from your data center to the main base. This can be done one of 4 ways. 1 hard line connections, not an option for any area where you can't truck in a data center. 2 Line of sight communication/ tower relay's, not an option as you need tall towers in line of sight with each other you will need to truck in lots of equipment to build a tower. 3 satellite as you have said latency and bandwidth are an issue. 4 AWACs and other comms planes communicate from main bases to FOBs.

    Right, because planes magically attain air superiority with no ground presence. And mobile SAM units are impossible to move around on the ground in the dark. And it's as easy as looking at your HUD to know that you've gotten all the enemy's SAM units. Who's too busy playing Call of Duty, again, friend?

    Your Call of Doodey training is failing you again. You are not gong to be dropping data centers from a helicopter before you have attained air superiority. You do know SAMs can be used against helicopters.

    Other planes can, you fucking idiot. So can drones. And you don't have to get your shoulder-fired rocket very high if you hit that magical AWACS just after takeoff, or on approach at an airfield. Further, given that there are literally on the order of "a few dozen" AWACS planes in the US Air Force's arsenal, the odds that they're going to be using them to provide any sort of continuous networking capabilities to units across the theater is pretty fucking non-existent. You have NO idea what you're talking about, and you're only demonstrating how stupid you are by continuing to argue.

    So you think heliocopters don't face these issues when they are dropping data centers? Do you think it is a good idea to put data centers in FOBs when the enemy can bomb them because they still have planes and drones? Do you think AWACs are the only plane that can handle comms? I listed 3 other that I know of off the top of my head that also provide comms, there are more then enough to provide coverage. Hitting a plane taking off or landing with a shoulder fired rocket is more difficult then you think, first the planes go dark so the enemy can't see them same with the runway, second they dive from a high altitude and land very quickly. I'm guessing Call of Doodey doesn't explain this.

  24. Re:Fallout on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    If China wants to cash in early they will do so at a lower interest rate or even below value or they will hold on to it and let it mature as they would have before. The only real problem is that they will start buying fewer treasury bonds which will move the interest rate up.

  25. Re:what? on The IT Containers That Went To War · · Score: 1

    My response fulfilled everyone of you requirements in your first rant. Now to dismiss your second rant. First let me ask you do you know how the dropped in equipment communicates to the outside world? You are limited in every way that you were just complaining about. You do know you can't put the internet on a hard drive right? All putting the data center on a plane does is remove it from remote isolated FOB where they have to be parachuted in and can be easily overrun.

    By the time you are dropping data centers all the SAM sites have been neutralized, shoulder fired rockets can not fly high enough to reach AWACS. I really don't know what your point was here. I'm guessing you don't know about max flight altitude of shoulder fired sams

    In conclusion go back to playing Call of Doodey because you are way out of your depth in the real world.