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  1. Re:In the SIMULATOR? on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    A human can get an appreciation of velocity even without working pitot tubes, in a middle of a weather system

    Bullshit. In a airliner with narrow flight envelope, double bullshit.

  2. Re:self-flying planes on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    I could not care less about the attitude indicator, vsi, compass or any other instruments.

    Let me guess, you are still a VFR pilot only. Being able to fly with no visual ques (ie 0 visibility) is a basic requirement for flying anything beyond a hobby.

  3. Re:self-flying planes on Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel · · Score: 1

    Your asserting that because a machine didn't do these landing that they couldn't. We just don't let machines do it and that is not the same as they can't.

  4. Re:To what end? on Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament · · Score: 1

    most portable GPS receivers don't have very directional antennas. Jamers can have quite a range. Typically LOS considerations affect range first.

  5. Re:To what end? on Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament · · Score: 1

    So if the EU had put their system first. The US wouldn't bother with its own now would it. Of course it would. There is merit in maintaining capabilities locally for many reasons that don't include war.

  6. Re:What it will be used for... on Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament · · Score: 1

    In a decade or two from now you will be in a self driving car and won't be able to speed.

  7. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on U.S. 5X Battery Research Sets Three Paths For Replacing Lithium · · Score: 1

    Yea.. i am sure you will feel better about the 2100C fire rather than the 3100C one. Not.

  8. Re:Carbon politics on Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge · · Score: 1

    I don't know whether our CO2 is going to Venus the Earth.... What I am absolutely certain of is that we're going to find out

    Yes we do idoit and not we won't. Venus has an atmosphere more than 50 thicker and its almost 100% CO2. To even think that, is to show such gross ignorance of AGW and its predictions that you are a joke. I bet you brought a boat after Water World.

  9. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 2

    When i forgot to turn my phone off, it rang about 5min after take off...... i didn't answer it of course.

  10. Re:ironic idiocy on Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the ones you eat. Where we don't' even check how old they are.

  11. Re:I remember sars on We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment · · Score: 1

    3% mortality is also mostly bullshit. Guess how many people had SARS but didn't feel sick and didn't go to the hospital? We don't know because people that where already sick enough to get admitted where the only ones tested. Even then quite a few of those "tested" where only tested in the sense that a doctor decided they had it from symptoms. Our old group worked on the genetics of this. We say the data, or lack of thereof first hand.

    H1N1 was similar. In NZ if you had flu like symptoms you went down into the WHO database as another H1N1 case. Doctors simply didn't test because "This year its all H1N1". Now consider how many things give the same symptoms as the flu?

  12. Re:Interpretation of the 0.05 threshold on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    p values in this context don't tell you if something is true. It tells you that the data is unlikely to be from the *null* model. Its not the same as support for the alternative.

  13. Re:Or you know.. on Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility · · Score: 1

    You've got it all wrong. First they try the old fashion way. If that wasn't signification then try the Bayes way. If that wasn't significant, do something and claim its significant anyway.

    And don't mention that you had to try 30 different tests to finally find one that gives a "significant" result.

  14. Re:20% is bad... on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 2

    So because people are stupid hard drives need to be perfect? If you don't have backups you *will* lose your data one day. Even a 5x improvement in hdd reliability won't change that.

  15. Re:Not all good on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Ahh, but that is what i mean by restraint. I won't put money on a pool game if i am drinking. Where i have done so sober. And believe me its still a bad idea sober!

  16. Re:Not all good on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    My live is great. But i don't need lots of sleep. 6 hours every day on average with a sleep in on the weekends and i am good to go.

    Don't forget the variance or sample size on these so called studies. Also when they don't have a significant effect, they still claim an effect.

  17. Re:Meanwhile... on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 1

    So you scale the infrastructure to move and manufacture *and* install the largest turbine ever built by 100x just like that? In the ocean? Can i have whatever it is your smoking because its really good stuff.

  18. Re:Meanwhile... on Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Starts Generating Power · · Score: 1

    If what you say was true, no one would be allowed to live in Denver, or fly on a plane or have a xray.

  19. Re:Dread Pirate Roberts is a very appropriate name on Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I think they need to work on their retirement plans. So far arrested does not equal, living like a king.

  20. Re:Not all good on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    That is absolutely so. I haven't been drunk since shortly after college and it's because I hate how it makes me feel the next morning.

    You know i still drink quite a bit. I also just don't get hangovers since i have been in the EU. Don't know why that is. But as long as i get my min 4 hours sleep i am fine. And great if i get +6 hours. Otherwise i am a bit tired, but no headaches or anything like that. Sometimes i am really thirsty and drink lots of OJ.

  21. Re:Not all good on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    The problem depicted is not that of hangovers, but rather that of excessive drinking leading to a severe lapse of judgment and restraint. This seems like a smart consideration to make.

    I have always wondered about that. I seem fully capable of severe lapse of judgement and restraint without any alcohol. In fact alcohol seems to improve my restraint and cause conservative judgement.

    It also makes me a better dancer and pool player ;)

  22. Re:Each human sperm holds the equivalent of 37.5mb on NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone · · Score: 2

    Mass duplication of data doesn't count. If you used a compression method on that ejected DNA you would find that is probably not even 10-20Gbyte of data.

  23. Re:Duh on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    scientific citations.

  24. Re:Maybe replace with on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    Technology isn't anywhere near advanced as a human pilot in the seat. Won't be for a while.

    Wrong. Ask a pilot how good the AI bogies are. Then add that machines don't pass out in a tight turn. Lose the human pilot and just have a better combat aircraft. All you need is target authority if your twitchy about a machine having kill rights. But then machines are hardly going to worse that pilots. Especially ones that haven't slept and are on LSD.

  25. Re:Duh on Global Biological Experiment Generates Exciting New Results · · Score: 1

    High sugar intake weakens your immune system, and is inflammatory.

    Citation required. For both claims.

    Artificial preservatives kill bacteria in your gut.

    citation required. Including that these preservatives make it past your stomach. Given that most of the food i have still goes off, clearly its less preserving than your assertion.

    Reading about this over-use of anti-biotics in livestock is making me seriously consider becoming a vegetarian :/ I hope it doesn't end up in milk and cheese.. though it probably does..

    In many countries that allow this (NZ does not for example), it can't be livestock that is milked and if its to be slaughtered its need to have a antibiotic free period. Yes the meat/milk is often tested, at least in NZ. It does make it into the milk, as a dairy farmer in NZ if you need to administer antibiotics because the cow has an infection, you must keep that milk out of the main vat. They test and the fine is on the order of $100k. Same with meat. That even goes for feeding calves the milk from cows that are on antibiotics.