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Comment Re:Love the key part (Score 1) 231

I have been fighting the ad wars for a decade plus now. Ever since ads became larger than the websites they serve.

This is just a new battlefront. Fortunately I still have a few tricks up mysleeve. I will modify host file to block local host. (/sarcasm). Though I am getting ready for MAD. That's where I say f it all and cut the ISp right out.

Comment Re:Coming next ... Office desk telephones (Score 1) 395

This is what surprises me. Why don't we have multiple profiles for a given phone so you can pop in a new SIM card and have your company load and manage their stuff seperateely from your personal stuff?

That way businesses can remote wipe employee phones when the employee leaves.

It is just a software why hasn't some one done it yet?

Comment Re:I know a lot of this is cutting edge... (Score 1) 41

a lot of parachute issues are deployment problems at speed/ heat.

Take a spacecraft which is flying at thousands of MPH toward the ground, burning at 2000 degrees, and then deploy a soft fabric.

If you don't unfold it perfectly you lose everything. if one strand of folding rope is out of place you lose everything. The amount of engineering going into just the folding of a parachute would surprise you.

Comment Re:intuitively I would think steam would be better (Score 4, Informative) 217

Catapult launches have specific power requirements to get a given mass to a specific acceleration. This has to be exact. To much or to little causes issues to the airframe in question.

Steam has minimum power/ pressure requirements just to get the system moving. That means there is a minimum load that can be launched. For fully fueled jets or cargo planes that isnt a big deal. For a UAV at half the size it means you have launch issues.

Emals always a much larger load range at launch. You can tailor the power requirements for the mass/ acceraltion ratio you want at launch. This means you can launch a quarter size drone and a full sized jet easily. Something steam struggles with.

Seriously this is Slashdot and basic physics.

Comment Re:Squeezing the balloon (Score 4, Interesting) 80

Exactly crime is a business. as long as someone is willing to do the work and make a profit at it they will do so.

Prisons are part of what makes crime expensive. Another thing is flooding the market with low value goods that simulate high value goods.

Look at car radios. since manufacturer's started putting high quality audio and navigation systems into cars, car radio theft has dropped off considerably. It isn't worth it to steal the radio.

Tv's aren't big ticket items anymore. neither are dvd players. Computers are a mixed bag but even they are so cheap now a days. jewels always will be. Though if you want to protect your diamonds the best way is to put staged storage areas filled with fakes. the crooks will steal the fakes.

Crime falls when the standard of living comes up, and inequality is lessened. As inequality is increased so does crime.

Comment Re:1947... (Score 1) 65

Well considering that the scanning electron microscope wasn't developed until the late 60's and it took 30 additional years to make a decent one it makes sense.

I dare you take a modern computer tablet back to 1947 and ask them to make sense of it. I bet they struggle just to keep the battery charged.

Now you want to figure out anti grav?

Comment Re:Overblown (Score 4, Insightful) 396

exactly. I bet they also had all sorts of contingency plans, and meetings if Scotland voted to leave the UK too.

The USA has military plans to invade Canada, and the UK. and they keep them updated. it is war game scenarios just in case and it makes for easy test cases for new people to think about.

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