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  1. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    Certification.

  2. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    The pilot could have locked himself in the cockpit and killed himself. The plane would have flown on under the law of the fly by wire system until it ran out of fuel and crashed.

  3. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 1

    >the FDR's record everything they say. The FDR's record the last two hours of everything they say. After two hours the last two hours is written over. So depending on when it all happened we might not learn a whole lot from the FDR.

  4. Re:Flight recorder on How Satellite Company Inmarsat Tracked Down MH370 · · Score: 2

    Even if they pick up the black box we still may never know what happened. If the events that caused the aircraft to crash happened more than 2 hours before the plane crashed, and it looks like those events happened probably 5 hours before, then the black box will not reveal much, as it only records the last two hours of data.

  5. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    Although 60% of Texas might come from Spanish or Mexican backgrounds I think you'll find the number of Texans that self identify as Mexican over Texan is very small. Which is not the case in Crimea.

  6. Re:If time machines exist, what should warrants me on NSA Can Retrieve, Replay All Phone Calls From a Country From the Past 30 Days · · Score: 1

    There is an already existing tool that could handle this: statute of limitations

  7. Re:In South Korea... on Low-Protein Diet May Extend Lifespan · · Score: 3, Funny

    In North Korea all people do low protein diet.

  8. Re:Already Lost on Bugatti 100P Rebuilt: The Plane That Could've Turned the Battle of Britain · · Score: 1

    Those didn't exist in 1940

  9. Re:A Complete waste of Energy on India Plans Mission To Probe Sun By 2020 · · Score: 1

    As much as we love to hate, the US is far less corrupt in basically every way measurable than India and China, and India makes China look like Northern Europe.

  10. Re:He's winning b/c he gets the right answers on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 1

    If no one watched the show it would be cancelled and there would be no further prize money. Sure there would be a slight time lag, but the drivers of the system are the viewers and they pay for shows by selling their advertising time via an intermediary (the TV station) to advertisers.

  11. Re:He's winning b/c he gets the right answers on Audience Jeers Contestant Who Uses Game Theory To Win At 'Jeopardy' · · Score: 1

    They pay in the time they dedicate to watching the show, advertisers pay directly proportionally to the amount of viewer time a show can attract, so yes they do pay in a rather direct way.

  12. Re:What about the SR-72 on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 1

    Good point...

  13. Re:What about the SR-72 on Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances · · Score: 1

    Don't they have already? Isn't that what all those spy satellites do better and cheaper?

  14. Re:Mysterious quantum mechanical connection? on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Maybe they just forgot to declare the random number object as static?

  15. Re:Mysterious quantum mechanical connection? on A Link Between Wormholes and Quantum Entanglement · · Score: 1

    Is that not already weird?Now add the extra weirdness that you can't know what either envelope contains until you open it at which point whatever you find in the first envelope you will find the exact opposite in the other envelope. It's like if you had two dice, you can't tell what number is going to come up next just by looking at it. You roll the dice, which don't stop spinning until you focus your eyes on one die, at which point both stop spinning. You look at and note the result of the first die, then you look at the other die and it is always facing exactly the opposite of the first die. That's a bit weird.

  16. Re:Maybe on Most Sensitive Detector Yet Fails To Find Any Signs of Dark Matter · · Score: 1

    >"dark matter" really has little more definition than "gravity generator" does it?
    If you're making a pretty big assumption there in assuming that a "something" is the causative agent by virtue of it's being a thing in a specific place. The real cause of these gravitational effects could be something out of the scope of this assumption like the structure of the universe itself.

  17. Re:Well... on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 1

    Wow and I thought it was all about the board game Risk.

  18. Re:Well... on The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist · · Score: 1

    There were radio controlled guided bombs developed and used (mostly anti shipping) in world war two mostly by the Germans but US also.

  19. Re:Nah. on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Well you have to leave the basement to fully appreciate where the basement is located. Otherwise it is just the all providing womb.

  20. Re:Market share vs Profits on Did Apple Make a Mistake By Releasing Two New iPhones? · · Score: 2

    The interesting thing is that Apple really has become a mobile phone company. But if you cast your mind back to the time of the iphone launch, version 1, you might remember that their definition of success was to capture 1% of the global market. From that perspective Apple have done quite well.

  21. Re:Rubbish on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    It does still have chemical weapons, but yes it has signed the convention and is trying to destroy the remainder.

  22. Re:Resorting to Nonviolence on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1

    Having the worlds second largest stockpile of nukes tends to indicate that nukes = ok.

  23. Re:I still want... on US, Russia Agree On Plan To Dispose of Syria's Chemical Weapons · · Score: 1
    There are many indiscriminate weapons currently in use by the USA and rest of world:
    • * Napalm
    • * Cluster bombs
    • * White phosphorous
    • * Incendiary bomblets
    • * Land mines
    • * Claymores
    • * Thermobaric bombs
    • * Nuclear weapons (although there has only been one nuclear war so far, they are still part of the US arsenal, unlike chemical weapons).
  24. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    I like your analysis except for the last point: they've stated they won't be going after the chemical weapons -- might cause more harm than good, spreading toxins through the environment.

  25. Re:Here we go... on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    >So did saddam, and he also gassed the Iranians, and we turned a blind eye. Only if by turning a blind eye you mean that you supplied Iraq with weapons, then yes.