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Comment "Sustainability" kool-aid (Score 1) 973

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for using resources in an intelligent manner and getting the most out of them. The planet is a resource, eventually resources run out, no matter how efficient (or “sustainable” for the kool-aid drinkers) you make a process. Even if we destroyed every gasoline powered car, coal fired power plant and incandescent light bulb eventually we will use up all the resources on this planet. It won’t be in my lifetime, but it won’t be a million years either.

Comment Getting worse (Score 4, Interesting) 214

Still not as bad as the state of New Mexico, where you can be convicted and go to jail for driving "impaired" based solely on the officers "expert" opinion.
No breathalyzer.
No blood test.
You don't even have to fail the field sobriety test. All up to the police officers expert opinion. Some judges are convicting these cases when they should be tossed out.

The burden of proof is shifting to the defendant, not good in my opinion.

Comment More Executive power? (Score 1) 413

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/09/us/politics/20100409-stevens-candidates.html

Elena Kagan
49 years old
Solicitor general
Princeton, 1981; Oxford, 1983; Harvard Law School, 1986

With no judicial record, Ms. Kagan is less known. As dean at Harvard Law School, she hired conservative professors to expand academic diversity and has supported assertions of executive power.

Sounds like someone Bush/Cheney would have nominated.

Space

Submission + - NASA Orion Pad Abort Test Successful (spaceref.com)

space_hippy writes: "NASA successfully tested the pad abort system for the Launch Abort System developed for the Orion crew exploration vehicle at 9 a.m. EDT.

The 97-second flight test is called the Pad Abort 1 test, or PA1.

It is the first fully integrated test of the Launch Abort System developed for Orion. The test took place at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces, N.M."

Comment bueller? bueller? (Score 1) 554

If the student wants to waist their money by not attending, let them. They are adults.
If the student has something truly more important to do at that time, don't punish them.
If the professor's ego is so big that he has to demand the captive audience but is to lazy to take attendance, fire him/her.

How lazy can we get as a species?

Anecdotal evidence of a good professor, In a 400 level (senior) engineering class I had a professor that stopped one student from waking another student who had fallen asleep. The professor explained why he didn't mind as he knew his class was not boring and that the student put forth the effort to attend even though it was obvious he was exhausted. That is a good professor, one that can see things from the students point of view. A lot of college students are working thier way though school and realize the value of the education, sometimes they can not make it to class or should not make it to class. College age students are considered adults, treat them as such or they will never act as such.

Comment GPS Selective Availability (Score 1) 457

So what happens to private pilots and civil air patrol when the GOV turns on Selective Availability?
No personal electronic devices? what about the electronic E6B flight computers?
or the many iPhone apps that perform flight planing and navigation calculations?
or my hand held Garmin III+ GPS? etc etc etc .... and how the hell will the FAA know if I'm texting my friends in the left seat of a Cessna 172?

Comment Re:Truecrypt (Score 3, Insightful) 252

There should be nothing preventing you from putting a Truecrypt volume on the FIPS140-2 compliant drive. It would be similar to having a hidden truecrypt volume within another encrypted volume. So this would satisfy the 'pointy hair boss' with compliance to FIPS140-2 while keeping data secure from the 'crack' mentioned in the article.

Comment Re:Death is not an inconvenience? (Score 1) 361

[sarcasm] Yes by all means we must think of the children.[/sarcasm]

Even at the expense of condemning them to a third world quality of life. I suspect furby076 is the type of person that wants to live till he/she is 120 years old even though the last 40 are spent in a coma. For people like that life is about quantity not quality.

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