Comment POW! TH' FUTAR! (Score -1, Redundant) 131
you had me at LASER
Comment I reconsider my position (Score 1) 44
Comment DIY submarine, you say? (Score 1) 44
There's easier ways to drown yourself.
yeesh.
yeesh.
Comment Re:TPB isn't just cheaper. (Score 1) 126
TPB? No thanks.
eztv.it is where it's at. TPB is crap for searching and subscribing to specific shows and having a nice RSS feed filtered already for you.
Comment it's funny what people will spend their money on.. (Score 2) 398
That's interesting, I view all those safety features as protecting me from other idiots on the road.
Comment Re: What doctor? (Score 1) 164
nah, the witch doctor teaches "Cargo Cult Programming 101 - writing code with Google and Expert sExchange"
Comment Re:This could be really good for Debian (Score 1) 555
That's a feature, not a defect. I run Debian on a bunch of servers. I like that it changes slowly. I like that it's not trying to be the bleeding edge. I like that migrating from one major version of Debian to the next is reasonably painless. For running a bunch of servers, I want something that follows the tried and trusted, not something that rides on the bleeding edge and something that has an absolutely rock solid packaging system. This is Debian, and it's why Debian is the right tool for this job.
If you want a distro that develops, there's always Ubuntu or Fedora.
Comment Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate (Score 1) 398
Please follow at a safe distance, and go back to drivers training.
Comment Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate (Score 4, Insightful) 398
Easy solution, STOP letting for profit companies run these things. If a community wants red light cameras, they can buy them, install them, and manage them all under heavy citizen oversight.
Comment in a metal coffin, with spikes inside (Score 1) 239
People who use Facebook SHOULD be put in jail.
Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected 398
countach44 writes that (in the words of the below-linked article) "Chicagoans are costing the city tens of millions of dollars — through good behavior." The City of Chicago recently installed speed cameras near parks and schools as part of the "Children's Safety Zone Program," claiming a desire to decrease traffic-related incidents in those area. The city originally budgeted (with the help of the company providing the system) to have $90M worth of income from the cameras — of which only $40M is now expected. Furthermore, the city has not presented data on whether or not those areas have become safer.
Comment Re:It's not every day you get to... (Score 1) 164
10 wave magic screwdriver at it
20 RUN!
freakin'
Comment Re: Why? (Score 2) 109
Spying on their citizens - Check
The difference here is that we the people still have the right to question the government, and organizations like the EFF continue to fight for it.
Economic stagnation - Check
You must be joking. American economy is anything but stagnant. Between 2009-2013, the U.S. GDP growth 1.9%, which is pretty good compared to most other OECD countries.
It may be "stagnant" when you compare it to a country like China at 7.7%, but that is simply not sustainable, not without artificial currency manipulation.
Riots - Check
A few days of media blitz over a police shootout is not the same as protesters fighting for democracy.
High unemployment - Check
What on earth are you talking about? The U.S. unemployment is at 5.9% as of September 2014 and China's is estimated at ~4.5%.
Comment Re:Compelling, but a mix still better... (Score 1) 399
What do you a call a guy with no arms and no legs in orbit?
no, really, I want to hear your punchlines...
no, really, I want to hear your punchlines...
NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew 399
globaljustin writes "Alan Drysdale, a systems analyst in advanced life support and a contractor with NASA concluded, "Small women haven't been demonstrated to be appreciably dumber than big women or big men, so there's no reason to choose larger people for a flight crew when it's brain power you want," says Drysdale. "The logical thing to do is to fly small women." Kate Greene, who wrote the linked article, took part in the first HI-SEAS experiment in Martian-style living, and has some compelling reasons for an all-women crew, energy efficiency chief among them: Week in and week out, the three female crew members expended less than half the calories of the three male crew members. Less than half! We were all exercising roughly the same amount—at least 45 minutes a day for five consecutive days a week—but our metabolic furnaces were calibrated in radically different ways. During one week, the most metabolically active male burned an average of 3,450 calories per day, while the least metabolically active female expended 1,475 calories per day. It was rare for a woman on crew to burn 2,000 calories in a day and common for male crew members to exceed 3,000. ...
The calorie requirements of an astronaut matter significantly when planning a mission. The more food a person needs to maintain her weight on a long space journey, the more food should launch with her. The more food launched, the heavier the payload. The heavier the payload, the more fuel required to blast it into orbit and beyond. The more fuel required, the heavier the rocket becomes, which it in turn requires more fuel to launch.
