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Comment Re:And when the video feed dies... (Score 5, Informative) 468

Simple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

"In 1929, he became the first pilot to take off, fly and land an airplane using instruments alone, without a view outside the cockpit. Having returned to Mitchel Field that September, he assisted in the development of fog flying equipment. He helped develop, and was then the first to test, the now universally used artificial horizon and directional gyroscope. He attracted wide newspaper attention with this feat of "blind" flying and later received the Harmon Trophy for conducting the experiments. These accomplishments made all-weather airline operations practical."

And yes it was the Jimmy Doolittle. If you do not know about him you should read up on him.

Comment Re:Don't let politicians control the discussion th (Score 1) 725

Seriously... Al Gore has personally done more damage to the AGW cause then anyone else in the world.

THIS. He massively increased the politicization of the issue and almost single-handedly created the incentive to turn climate denialism in the US from a fringe conspiracy theory to a mainstream belief. I don't think things would be massively different today if he had stayed out of climate issues, but the brakes wouldn't be dragging nearly so hard on the science train. I don't think climate policy would be more contentious than any other environmental policy issue.

I'd say the biggest catastrophes in climate policy are:

1. Al Gore, for contributing massively to the politicization of climate science

2. Disinformation campaigns funded by fossil fuel companies and conservative think-tanks

3. Michael Chrichton's State of Fear, the Book of Revelation for climate denialists.

Comment Re:Not really surprised... (Score 2) 206

Russia worried about privacy? Yeah....
Just makes it easier for them to get their own citizens data, easier to tax and demand bribes from companies doing business in Russia, and hopefully makes it easier to spy on other nations because some of their personal data could end up in Russia.
Anyone that thinks that Russia is open or pro privacy is living in a fantasy world.

Comment Re:Security through legislation is no security at (Score 1) 206

You must have stopped reading after the second sentence of my post. Please allow me to repeat the third sentence:

It's a transparent and comically unenforceable attempt to keep Russian data precisely where the Russian government wants it: on servers they can put their hands on.

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