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  1. Hard to say how interesting this fact is without knowing the velocity. Should we assume c or 1m/day, or ...?

  2. Maybe the result of consuming milk processed with this new technique is similar to hydrogen formation from plate tectonic activity.

  3. Re:Because the shortest distance between 2 points on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Please read before you embarrass yourself any further. In fairness though, to maintain geostationary orbit (earth) requires a bit less than 7,000MPH, not 15,000.

  4. Re:Because the shortest distance between 2 points on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Physics fail.

  5. Re:This is better than an ICBM because...? on Russia Is Building a Nuclear Space Bomber (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:"Breaking news from a conservative viewpoint" on EPA's Gasoline Efficiency Tests Provide No Valid Information At All (hotair.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    BeauHD seems to like his hyperbole, and is still quite wet behind the ears. His naivete is amusing at times, but it'd be nice if he did a bit of background work and moderated the tone before posting all these "New law will shore up the USPS by taxing emails" type submissions.

  7. Re:Meh, i have zero interest in JJ Trek on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Supposedly this isn't the Kelvin timeline (JJ Trek). However, it might as well be if CBS is going to continue to play these games.

  8. Best guess is that he's running interference for Trump. While perhaps not quite as conspicuous as this, he has throughout his career taken up some rather crazy positions on things.

  9. Re:Not hard to work around... on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think you're missing something...

  10. Re:Will they ban browsers with JavaScript? Program on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wait... What...? Your credit card information is secure?

  11. Re:My illusions have been shattered on UK Gov Says New Home Sec Will Have Powers To Ban End-to-end Encryption (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They have their version of the "south" as well.

  12. Re:No, this has nothing to do with Google. on Google Deletes Artist's Blog and a Decade Of His Work Along With It (fusion.net) · · Score: 2
  13. Re:DEC Logo as icon? on Man Builds Giant Homemade Computer To Play Tetris (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll go with the first one. DEC would exclude the millennials and most definitely BeauHD. Now I'm feeling old. Thanks a lot Beau!

  14. Re:Not feasible, he's shirking responsibility on Elon Musk: Tesla's Autopilot Software Could Save Half a Million Lives Every Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tesla claims you still need to pay attention to the road around. Vehicle autopilot is no different than aircraft autopilot. It is a workload reduction device, and does not replace the driver/pilot. Interestingly this confusion about where the autopilot tasks begin and end is not limited to just cars, even aircraft pilots apparently goof this up. In the case of this Tesla crash the dumb*** was watching Harry Potter on his portable. The driver fracked up, by not paying attention. It's no different than if the pilot crew left the flight deck. Stuff happens and someone needs to be able to take over for the autopilot when it does. This driver's Tesla--which he nicknamed Tessy--saved him from another potentially serious accident of which he documented in his blog. Unfortunately that episode must have given him undue confidence/expectation in the autopilot system.

  15. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never heard 20% before, seems unreasonably low given reality. The calculation I've heard cast about more commonly is based upon monthly cost and can be used as a comparable to alternatives, e.g. public transportation. The numbers I've typically seen range between 25% to 30% of your take home pay.

    Regardless, new cars don't cost $34,000 unless you want them to. This is nothing but ad bait capitalizing on poor understanding of median vs. average. Nice sedans, e.g. Honda Civic, or Toyota Corolla, start around $17-18K and there are econo-box offerings e.g., Nissan Versa, Ford Fiesta, etc., that start around $13-14K. You'd have to be in a pretty bad way to not be able to budget one of these either on payments or lease. Even then you can get some pretty nice used cars for half that if that's where you're at.

  16. Popularity.

  17. It definitely feels like they only want short items that can't actually tell a complete story or compete with them in any meaningful way

    I'm confused, they both want fan films to compete and yet not compete?

  18. Re:A great way to piss off your audience on CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines (audioholics.com) · · Score: 1

    Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth saga has a rather large, creative, diverse universe that could be seed for an incredible amount of fan films.

  19. Re: Not necessarily on Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    No, because TLAs believe only the good guys (TM) can leverage backdoors.

  20. Re:Makes sense on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps they're similar to the ones that float the deep water oil rigs.

  21. AES? You mean the American Encryption System?

  22. Re:what this idiot dont get is on Non-US Encryption Is 'Theoretical', Claims CIA Chief In Backdoor Debate (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You make the probably invalid assumption that they care.

  23. Re:A symptom of a broken system on Social Media Overtakes Television As Young People's Main Source of News, Says Report (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Decline? I didn't realize there was sufficiently anything on TV (aside from PBS) that could be characterize one way or the other. A bunch of A.D.D. snippets introduced by washed up beauty pageant contestants with advertisements breaking up the monotony. I've never known anything else to exist. Meaningful news has always been in printed form. As print news transitions from paper to web I could see the term "decline" applied to paper.

  24. 3X Less reliability on Bluetooth 5 With 2x More Range and 4x Better Speed Coming Next Week (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we have 3X less reliability though please. I really hate how rock solid previous versions were.

  25. I'm not sure how reporting an issue to the NHTSA equates to participation in legal action against Tesla. Besides, contracts, are inferior to law so obviously it cannot mean that.