Comment Microsoft WSUS - Home edition (Score 1) 164
When is someone going to release a software package to handle a household's updates automatically? People aren't going to want to think about it.....
Comment Static Wick Equivilent (Score 1) 458
What would be needed (other than perhaps the deflector dish / Bussard Ram scoops mentioned above) would be a static discharger that would bleed off those particles as they built up.
Comment Re:No brakes!!! (Score 2) 458
Before we broke the sound barrier there were some calculations that showed that air loads would approach infinite as the aircraft approached the speed of sound. Obviously that proved to not be true, demonstrating that some models ought to be taken with a grain of salt.
Comment Re:it's (Score 0) 205
Monty Python's Flying Circus!
Submission + - Supreme Court upholds copyright Extension on Golan (mynorthwest.com)
Yo_mama writes: The Supreme Court has ruled on Golan v. Holder, 10-545, which sought to overturn the reclassification of previously public domain works as copywritten.
"Neither congressional practice nor our decisions treat the public domain, in any and all cases, as untouchable by copyright legislation. The First Amendment likewise provides no exceptional solicitude for works in the public domain," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in her opinion for the court.
"Neither congressional practice nor our decisions treat the public domain, in any and all cases, as untouchable by copyright legislation. The First Amendment likewise provides no exceptional solicitude for works in the public domain," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in her opinion for the court.
Comment Re:Vote third party (Score 1) 302
Too many issues. That's why it's a ful-time gig. Even if there's a lot of bloat in that "full time," the question is how you would choose the issues and how the laws would be written, if only voted on. If you're only voting on issues, who frames the issue?
Comment Re:All Americans fly American(Boeing) (Score 1) 366
The Army UH-72 Lakota, Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin and HC-144 Ocean Sentry at least partially disprove your military statement. We can expand the list further if we include license-built airframes, such as the Harrier and Goshawk trainer.
Comment Use flush cutters and not diags! (Score 1) 374
Stop using diagonal cutters and go to flush cutters. When we were using zip ties I was almost militant about this due to the scars I have on my hands from my time as an aircraft mechanic. Amazon has a Xuron set for $11 currently, and I'm sure there are cheaper buys out there, so it's a cheap investment.
Comment So that's where Chris Knight wound up! (Score 1) 156
But do they still file that under "H," for "Toy?"
Comment Incorrect... (Score 1) 457
Depending on faults, there is a very good possibility of Tsunamis within Puget Sound:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/activefaults/sfz/
Comment Re:Dazzle Camouflage (Score 1) 80
In addition to the pink spitfires, there were pink ships: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountbatten_pink [Wikipedia]
A couple of the photos in the "razzle dazzle" article were of WWII ships and not WWI as implied. Razzle Dazzle itself was not an official term used by the US Navy and I don't believe the Royal Navy either, albeit I'm less sure of that.
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
iamapizza writes "New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article; 'The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-center, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-center cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighboring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?' This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of 'sharing' a pizza."
Comment He dared.... (Score 5, Insightful) 1079
In a mature society, "civil servant" is semantically equal to "civil master." - Robert Heinlein
Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189
An anonymous reader writes "Nintendo is investigating potential copyright infringement by Nokia during some video demos of their N900 phone, which can be seen emulating Nintendo games. Nintendo spokesman Robert Saunders says: 'We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place.' In the video, Nokia says, 'Most publishers allow individual title usage, provided that the user is in possession of the original title.'"
Jetman Attempts Intercontinental Flight 140
Last year we ran the story of Yves Rossy and his DIY jetwings. Yves spent $190,000 and countless hours building a set of jet-powered wings which he used to cross the English Channel. Rossy's next goal is to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, from Tangier in Morocco and Tarifa on the southwestern tip of Spain. From the article: "Using a four-cylinder jet pack and carbon fibre wings spanning over 8ft, he will jump out of a plane at 6,500 ft and cruise at 130 mph until he reaches the Spanish coast, when he will parachute to earth." Update 18:57 GMT: mytrip writes: "Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers but five minutes into an expected 15-minute flight he was obliged to ditch into the wind-swept waters."
