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Comment Re:inventor? (Score 1) 480

People have understood how fireworks worked for thousand of years. One might accidentally stumble across penicillin, but it beggars the imagination to suppose one could accidentally build a jet engine without some idea of how thrust works. Perhaps another aspect of the operation was not understood, but Frank Whittle et al. *intended* to build an engine, not some other device that turned out to be a great engine. I did as you suggested, and my searches turned up nothing other than what I have described. I would appreciate if you could supply one of the references you were speaking about.

Comment Re:inventor? (Score 2) 480

Ah of course, as PvtVoid already posted:

[T]he EM Drive’s thrust was due to the Quantum Vacuum (the quantum state with the lowest possible energy) behaving like propellant ions behave in a MagnetoHydroDynamics drive (a method electrifying propellant and then directing it with magnetic fields to push a spacecraft in the opposite direction) for spacecraft propulsion.

So the recent test was trying to replicate the results in a vacuum to eliminate some unknown other factor as the explanation.

Comment Shopped! (Score 1) 45

I always disliked these sort of images because I felt they were closer to an artist's conception than a real image, since they are processed and interpolated so much. Now I regret not looking at the recent /. article on that very subject.

Comment Re:Regulation is the enemy of free markets. (Score 2) 54

And example of a free market gone haywire due to lax or no regulation was the housing market.

Which regulations were lax or missing? From what I saw it was a pretty heavily regulated market even on the banking side.

And without the FDA, you'd feel perfectly safe getting your prescriptions from Joe's Medical Stuff and Bait Store, right?

No I wouldn't. Who said they would be? This is a straw man argument. And possibly a false dichotomy.

Or maybe you wish to turn safety entirely over to the airlines so that an acceptable level of crashes that can be insured against would work for you. Your car company would never think to cut corners and get you killed dead because they could save on not installing proper safety equipment in their vehicles.

I don't think the parent suggested that torts and other forms of liability should be abolished.

And so on. There are multiple ways that problems like these can and have been resolved, and centralized federal regulation isn't the only choice.

Comment Re:If you want me to see ads (Score 1) 286

In other words, go back to the way ads used to work in the paper era. Publishers vetted the ads and printed them themselves. If the sites did this the ad blockers probably wouldn't even work. I wonder why they don't pursue that option instead of trying to use the government to force people to do something they do not want?

Comment Re:Blocking AdBlock (Score 1) 286

That is interesting. I wonder how the 'you are using ad blocker' detection works? Our proxy doesn't block ads (i.e. does not return a 403 status) but it replaces the content with a blank HTML document. We did this to avoid any ugly block messages and such. But I have never gotten the 'you are using an ad blocker' message. Maybe there is something in the detection that triggers on the 403 status returns from your proxy and not the 200 status returns from mine. (Assuming your proxy returns 403 which could be wrong).

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