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  1. Re:Not Verified At All on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    Conservation of momentum and energy. YOU must either conserve both OR laws of physics are different in difference places and times! Energy conservation is the same as momentum conservation. It is easy to prove. Very easy to prove. Not that you will listen.

  2. Re:Not Verified At All on Final NASA Eagleworks Paper Confirms Promising EM Drive Results (hacked.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no control, a 100% immediate reject if i am reviewing. You always have a control. A expected zero thrust cavity. There idea of a control is to point the thing sideways as to not swing the pendulum. However any "extra" displacement or thrust from the electronics etc will now also be aligned sideways! My reviewers wouldn't let me publish rubbish like this. How do they get away with it.

  3. Awesome...Totally Awesome. fuck your honda civic.

  4. Re:This is an older skimmer... on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 1

    It is important to note that this *only* clones mag stripes. My CC and bankcards from EU didn't have any. I had to get special ones issued for traveling to the US or other places that don't have chip and pin.

  5. Re:Phoning the police? on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 2

    In Austria they most definitely would. There is very little crime there, so they would be happy to have something to do. They even turn up if you be a dick about getting caught not paying 2EU for a train ride. I lived in Vienna for 7 years, and well skimming was a recognized problem. My bank would send out pamphlets on what to look out for. Despite the fact that my card was not really vulnerable.

  6. Re: How can this work with European smart cards? on Vacationing Security Researcher Exposes Austrian ATM Skimmer (carbonblack.com) · · Score: 1

    My Austrian bank gave me a magless card. And i have to apply for a US only card when i wanted one. Not the UK however. These the UK is on its own. :D

  7. People need to be retrained in riding horses. I mean how many people these days don't know how to ride a horse properly!

  8. Citation required.

  9. You left out lol cat videos.. That is all i watch. /me watches more cats.

  10. Or just do it like most other countries in the world. Make em illegal. If your really worth something if you work for the competition then they should pay the retainer.

  11. Re:Radio interference on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because of diffraction effects. You need both antennas to be very large as well.

  12. Re:Easy : a few AU less than a few ly on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    If if its not omni directional you still get 1/r^2 decay in intensity. Even with lasers. The beam is still spreading out even with diffraction limited "optics".

  13. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Quite a few. Even 5th generation. Why?

  14. Re:Technology can't stop these on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 1

    Many EU states do in fact have *less* gun control than many US states. Really. People have this perception of the US being the easy place to get guns. In many countries getting firearms is easy and cheap. The US is unique in that so many US citizen are itching for a reason to shoot fellow citizens.

  15. A despite terrible Tom Clancy book plots, practically impossible to pull off. Bomb grade material is *very* hard to hide.

  16. Re: Jeremy Clarkson lampooned the vehicle on Tesla: Model X Accident Caused By Driver Error, Not Autopilot (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Well you sort of have a point..But this is top gear (the old version) with 3 self professed idiots who have at many times admitted they are in fact mostly ignorant about cars outside of driving em (and lets face it, they are pretty shitty drivers as well). They have never been informative about cars and mostly don't even try to be. Clarson is constantly going on about his god given right to own the biggest gas guzzler SUV and drive like a total asshole. So if viewers think this is an informative show, well then they are the sucker.

  17. but as it's a piece of metal, it's not going to suddenly snap. Metal doesn't do that.

    Apparently you don't know shit about metal, metal fatigue, metal corrosion, or metal failure modes. Metal can and does snap. And well for example it doesn't even tell the full story. My breaks totally and instantly failed on an old hillman hunter 1975 car when the *metal* hydraulic line burst.

  18. Re:Never misplaced a 747 around the house. Floatin on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    What? About 20000-30000 larger aircraft have been built (737/A320 or larger). There are far more smaller planes but not as many as people think. Let just high ball it at 50000 aircraft flying. Each needs a 3 level GPS "ping" recorded every second (more than enough but we are highballing). Lets further assume that they fly 24/. For each axes we use a 8 byte (64) number. so 24bytes per second per aircraft, as in slower than a 9600b baud rate modem. Clearly this is a REALLY small amount. For all the aircraft of all the world we are talking about a total bandwidth of 1.2Mbyte (1.2e6 bytes). Or just 100G a day or less than 40T a year. That is nothing. And that is for ALL of the planes. With much higher precision than needed with much higher temporal sampling than needed.

    So no not even close to too much data.

  19. Re: Never misplaced a 747 around the house. Floati on Why Are We Spending Billions and Tons of Fossil Fuel On Search of Lost Planes? · · Score: 1

    Citation required. There are not that many planes in the world compared to tractors.

  20. It is one dude. Maybe he really did get the lemon, or maybe he is just one of "those customers".

  21. Re:Slams the door on his own leg? on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of cars outside of Tesla cars have self closing doors. Esp popular with the sliding doors in back seats of vans etc.

  22. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    In most "western" places in the world 2 strokes would simply never meet emission standards. Even motorbikes, jetski etc are all getting pushed over to 4 stroke. You just burn too much lube in 2 stroke engines.

  23. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets see even your part list is very poor. I have never seen a car with less than 3 piston rings per piston and there are usually different. (bottom one is typically a bit different), so that 12 piston rings but 2 parts. Con-rods need bearings, both big and little ends. The crankshaft needs some pretty decent bearings in the block. Typically a set between every big end. all these bearings need some from of retaining system, lock pins or other such things. And who the fuck would do a 2 stroke 4 cylinder engine (for cars). Your burning oil and gas and you would be illegal in many parts of the world. So now you need timing belts and gears. Rockers, cams, cam follows and values, springs, spring clips.. We need to get oil everywhere, we need to pump the fuel. Now gearboxes... Well modern syncromesh boxes have a high part count.

    We still don't have wheels, or suspension (lots of parts here), or a steering mechanism (CV joints!), breaks...

    We are not talking about a go cart. And even if you are. even a go cart will still have more than a 1000 parts if your counting the motors parts.

  24. And this will only get worse as companies grow larger..

    This is just totally false. Safety in consumer products has never been safer and it is constantly get much much safer. To the point of absurdity. It is often joked that you could never be permitted to add gasoline to a consumer product these days, or get aspirin approved. Cars in particular are far safer and crash far better(more likely to survive ) than ever before.

  25. What the fuck are you talking about? ISIS? Your fucking serious? You mean a few disgruntle teen ages with suicidal tendencies that have killed FAR LESS than your USA school shootings is *not* leaving or even having Europe defenseless. In fact if you lived there you would know. We just get on with it and don't get all scared at every fucking shadow? And don't assume a few dickheads in the media give an accurate representation of EU any more than FOX news does for the US. And how the fuck do guns help? I mean there wouldn't be any problems in the US right because you can defend yourself, like in Boston, right. Oh wait.... Also in many EU states it is far easier to own and have firearms than in the US. Really!