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Comment Re:High security (Score 1) 114

why would anyone trust an anti-counterfeiting method from the chinese... a country that thrives on stealing state and industrial secrets, theft of intellectual property and trademarks, the piracy of all kinds of products and media, and manufacturing of counterfeit goods?

Because unlike people living in the ghetto like you, science doesn't discriminate?

Association by nationality doesn't make someone a criminal.

Comment Re:self-correcting problem (Score 1) 176

transmits to the booth as: Do it -static- do it -static- kill everyone!

Something vaguely similar actually happened, killing 500+ people. In 1977, two 747s collided on the runway in part due to miscommunication.

ICAO phraseology has since been changed to use separate terminology for positive and negative communications. For example, when an ATC controller asks whether or not your capable your aircraft is capable of maintaining straight and level flight at a speed of 80 knots, the pilot will not say "I don't think we can do that" or "we can not do that". He or she will say "Affirmative" or "negative".

Takeoff clearings are even more different. When ready to take off, a pilot will advice "ready for departure" and will only use the word takeoff when reading back a clearance (i.e. Delta 19 cleared for expedited takeoff rwy 19).

Comment Re:News For Nerds Please (Score 1) 265

Wrong!

Where exactly am I wrong? A presidential TFR is issued by the FAA in a NOTAM, and so are all other TFRs (which is something completely different than a Restricted Area, like the airspace over camp pendleton).

A TFR always follows the President (TFR POTUS designation)

Total bullshit again. They are designated Temporary flight restrictions for VIP Movement.

Have a look at tfr.faa.gov.

Comment Re:News For Nerds Please (Score 5, Informative) 265

Many cities already ban news flights over them and have done so for years

I call total bullshit on this.

First of all, cities are unable to ban anything, it is the FAA that sets up no-fly zones. Second, if there are no-fly zones, they would be documented as restricted areas on sectional charts. You show me any sectional FAA approved chart that specifically forbids news flights, and I shall eat the dust from underneath your shoes.

Even NYC has most of its airspace as open (class B and C). As long as flights maintain the proper altitude (usually at least 1000ft AGL), everyone holding a private pilot's certificate can fly there.

Comment Re:how is this news (Score 1) 357

Yet another reason to watch movies at home.

I haven't been in a movie theater in at least 4 years and can't say I miss them. Overpriced tickets, grossly overpriced undercooked popcorn, nasty people who call/text/fax/mail halfway through the movie and idiots bringing kids.

I'll wait until it's either on Netflix, Amazon instant, or The Pirate Bay.

Comment Re:Common Carrier (Score 0) 243

But with internet bandwidth, you have have overflow connections that are sitting dark and if needed just light them up and data will be flowing within seconds. This can even be automated. As traffic starts to fall off, turn those connections off.

This has got to be the biggest bullshit I have ever heard.

Sabri
JNCIE #261

Submission + - Highly Educated Foreign Workers Treated Like Indentured Servants

sabri writes: NBC Bay Area reports about indentured servants in Silicon Valley, primarily H1-B visa holders. NBC Bay Area and CIR’s team discovered an organized system that supplies cheap labor made up of highly-educated and highly-skilled foreign workers who come to the US via H-1B visas.

It virtually makes these employees a slave,” said one worker who came from India more than a decade ago.

Submission + - Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On U.S. Spying 2

blottsie writes: The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company in the world is bankrolling a technology news site called SugarString.com. The publication, which is now hiring its first full-time editors and reporters, is meant to rival major tech websites like Wired and the Verge while bringing in a potentially giant mainstream audience to beat those competitors at their own game.

There’s just one catch: In exchange for the major corporate backing, tech reporters at SugarString are expressly forbidden from writing about American spying or net neutrality around the world, two of the biggest issues in tech and politics today.

Submission + - CHP officers steal, forward nude pictures from arrestee smartphones

sabri writes: Following the initial suspension of a CHP officer earlier this week, the news has come out that apparently, the CHP has an entire ring of officers who steal and subsequently share nude pictures. The nudies are stolen from females who are arrested or stopped. Officer Sean Harrington of Martinez reportedly confessed to stealing explicit photos from the suspect’s phone, and said he forwarded those images to at least two other CHP officers..

Where is the ACLU when you need them the most?

Submission + - CHP officer steals nudies from arrested girl to his own cellphone

sabri writes: Apparently your cellphone is not safe in the hands of the CHP. CHP officer Sean Harrington, 35, of Martinez, was caught stealing nudies from the cellphone of a woman he had just arrested.

What did the CHP do? They must have fired the bastard! Nope. They gave him a deskjob: 'The five-year CHP veteran has been assigned to desk duties', the CHP explains.

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