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  1. Space junk on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Greeat, so China can muck up LEO with even more junk: wrenches, shovels and shit load of gravel, dust. We might be stuck here forever if the mining plan works out.

  2. Re:Try asking him in Dutch on Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran · · Score: 1

    of the neighbor, Mrs. Jansen.

  3. Re:Maybe they should just make them on One Final Manufacturing Run of Touchpads · · Score: 1

    They are not selling for $200... a simple Ebay search shows they are selling currently between $230 and $280... plus shipping.

  4. Re:Try asking him in Dutch on Another CA Issues False Certificates To Iran · · Score: 1

    Er staat een paard in de gang.

  5. Does APT worry you... on Ask Kevin Mitnick · · Score: 1

    Does it worry you that while the contemporary problem is advanced persistent threat, people are looking out for and protecting against script kiddy type attacks?

  6. Re:There Ougtha Be a Law on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    This would mete punishment related to the toughness of the criminal's face rather than the intent, damage and category of the crime committed.

  7. Re:He needs cell phones to drive on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    This why I love Slashdot.

  8. Re:Fine with me on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    Think:
    prisoner - warden
    parolee - parole officer
    patient - doctor

    Actually, without having RTFA this Missouri law actually sounds intelligent and forward thinking.

  9. Fine with me on Missouri Law Says Students, Teachers Can't Be Facebook Friends · · Score: 1

    The teacher-student relationship is a professional one, and it's fine for it to be treated as such.

    There are many other cases where rules exist to obviate a conflict of interest, which infringe on people's ability (otherwise) to do anything they want. Example: in certain jobs, you're not allowed to have a romantic relationship with a certain class of coworkers.

    The only unfortunate part about this is, unlike most of the other precedent for this, the student can't easily opt out of being a particular teacher's student.

  10. Re:The bug is called "Java" on Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug · · Score: 1

    I mean get real. It's a shell interpreter. It runs commands for you. It's not a programming language.
    In sh you wouldn't even be able to sort a list if the 'sort' command wasn't installed. Let alone incrementing an integer without 'bc' or whatever.

  11. Re:The bug is called "Java" on Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug · · Score: 1

    IBM produces a Java. sh is not a programming language.

  12. Re:Well depends on how it increases on Linguists Out Men Impersonating Women On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Ponies.

  13. Re:Body Language on The Internet's Age of Rage · · Score: 1

    You must not do internet dating.

  14. Re:Tautoligy on Flood Berm Collapses At Nebraska Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    I am alert during my routine workday. What seems to be the problem here?

  15. Re:OS X - Plain old search on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 1

    What gets me is how often you see people complaining about how "bad" Spotlight is, and how they really missed the boat. I don't get this at all... I search on my computer the same way I search on Google, and find the stuff I want. I couldn't be happier.

    Now, compare that with an absolute crap search implementation like Ebay, and grrr...

  16. OS X - Plain old search on Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a Mac and it's not the greatest OS, but I love the search. I search all my old emails and a horde of other documents all the time.

    I'm sure other computers can do this just fine, but I was never satisfied with a desktop search implementation until OS X. And I used to be a search index consultant.

  17. Re:Why no word to ATC? on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    They were not, and could not have been in VHF radio contact with any ground based control. This was normal for their location.

  18. Re:Remember this is an initial report on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    Ah, I get you now. I would call that "a downdraft" and "an updraft" and in terms of my training I don't think of them as related, although of course in a rotor or a mountain wave they are.

  19. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is exactly what the report linked from the article says! Hardly anybody commenting here caught this.

  20. Re:Well, this should be interesting... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    Where did you get the idea for a dive? It says the angle of attack was nearly 40 the whole way down!

  21. Re:Well, this should be interesting... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    I recommend finding and watching the Nova video on this (youtube). They covered this question pretty well.

  22. Re:Well, this should be interesting... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    I don't think rudder means what you think it does.

  23. Re:Well, this should be interesting... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    That's the big mystery of this, I think. Why did he keep the fully developed stall going? The obvious GUESS to me is they had no idea they were falling in a stall; i.e. no situational awareness. He might have even thought he was in a climb (slow airspeed, high power, high angle of attack). Remember in the early minutes of the problem they fell and he climbed back from 35000 to 38000.

  24. Re:Well, this should be interesting... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    They had 35 angle of attack, not attitude. Angle of attack is the 35 angle the airflow was hitting the wings. That's easily double the stall angle, although I don't know the exact figures.

  25. Re:Remember this is an initial report on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    I don't agree with you at all. Thunderstorms carry more energy than a hydrogen bomb and no airplane I know of is designed to happily operate within one!

    Commercial jets all have weather radar and they use this to avoid storms. I'm also skeptical because "corresponding volume of lift" isn't an aviation term I've ever heard before.