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Comment Simpsons Did It! (Score 1) 411

Homer Simpson: Okay, boy. This is where all the hard work, sacrifice, and painful scaldings pay off.

Employee: Four pounds of grease... that comes to... sixty-three cents.

Homer Simpson: Woo-hoo!

Bart Simpson: Dad, all that bacon cost twenty-seven dollars.

Homer Simpson: Yeah, but your mom paid for that!

Bart Simpson: But doesn't she get her money from you?

Homer Simpson: And I get my money from grease! What's the problem?

Comment Re:Memory Part? (Score 3, Informative) 205

From: http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/Flight_Data_Recorder_(SSFDR).pdf

The SSFDR's crash survivable memory unit (CSMU) provides for complete data recovery when subjected
to the crash conditions stipulated in ED-55 and ED-56a:

Impact Shock 3400G, 6.5 milliseconds
Penetration Resistance 500 lb. weight from 10 feet
Static Crush 5000 lbs., 5 minutes
High Temperature Fire 1100C, 30 minutes
Low Temperature Fire 260C, 10 hours (per ED-56a)
Deep Sea Pressure and Sea Water/Fluids Immersion 20,000 feet, 30 days

Comment Re:NO... (Score 2) 292

SOMETHING needs to strip it out. Whether it's the preprocessor during compilation, or the guy who checks it into SCM.

Let's consider a shop with continuous integration of checked in code. EVERY TIME it compiles, that stuff needs to be stripped out. Might as well do it once and save the compiler farm's resources for actual compiling...

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 580

Being a "private entity" doesn't remove from you an obligation to act in Good Faith. This clearly sounds like it's not done in Good Faith.

( I use quotes because the 'privacy' of a registered corporation is something which should be quantified better, and depending on where you draw the line, pretty much every corp, llc, and llp can just STFU and obey whatever regulations are imposed. They always have the option, should they not like the regulations, of finding another way of structuring their business dealings which don't obligate them to obedience to regulation... )

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