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Comment Re: I call BS. (Score 1) 169

Then you aren't paying attention. I have a couple of fairway drivers designed to hit off grass instead of tees. These are angled to hit farther than an equivalent 1 or 2 iron.

Not everyone plays golf smart. If the ground was mostly flat they may go for distance over positioning. If I can't get on the green I play short. But many people will play range of potential shot first. Instead of landing best for the next.

Comment Re: This is a glitch in the Matrix...... (Score 2) 142

The NSA is the exception. Still snowden proves the NSA relies on 50's era trust for documents. Why wasn't secure connections established for Hawaii? How many other sites does the NSA allow full access to their documents.

Also the NSA fired 90% of their Admins shortly afterwards. If they were that overstaffed what else is their bureaucracy screwing up?

Comment Re:sugar (Score 2) 703

because large chunks of land are currently frozen. Canada and Russia(the two largest countries) have tons of land but only a small percentage of those lands are farmable.

Of course this report doesn't take into account that changing weather will also change which places are warm in the winter and which are to cold to survive.

Comment Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... (Score 1) 298

and I would still take that manned fighter over ten unmanned ones every day.

You see you have a real brain in the manned fighter. in the unmanned ones you are limited by cameras, radar and your communications link.

See what happened to a recent lost airline flight when your communications disappear. radar can only tell you so much. camera's don't work well without feedback from the controls. heck a couple of modified ICBM's. can wipe out everything you just dreamed about. start blowing up satellites that only highly developed countries really depend on and watch those drones become expensive paper weights.

Comment Re: Sour grapes (Score 1) 381

My concern isn't content creators but all the middle men who get paid several times what the creators do. Why does an eBook cost more than a regular book and the author gets a smaller piece?

The authors work is unchanged. The publisher/editors work remains unchanged. Only the delivery mechanism changes. I have always had a hard time believing that prepress, printing and shipping, costs less than prepress and uploading to a bunch of servers.

Comment Re: I wouldn't worry so much about Chernobyl... (Score 1) 167

Actually that is safer.

At bikini atoll were the USA tested nuclear weapons on ships. The sunken ships pose no radiation hazard. You can swim through them safely.

The island itself is just as bad as chernybol still. As sea water is the natural moderator. The radiation particles get pushed around by the currents. Ideally if we could but a giant glacier over cherynbol by the time it melted most of the radiation would be gone as well.

Comment Re:BTC != Napster (Score 3, Interesting) 221

very few built the bit coin mining network. it was all just hackers throwing cpu power at it. however it is to the point where it is no longer cost effective to throw CPU power at it as the # of coins you get is worth less than the power to run them.

The problem of bit coin isn't whether or not it is useful but of it breaking down.

There are 44 quadrillion potential bit coins(21 million to the 8th power), but at the rate at which they are being permanently lost is just as staggering. every time someone loses 1 coin due to a lost password, bad hard drive etc, you really lose 8 potential coins. Real world currencies don't have to deal with "bit rot" (pun unintentional) You lose the combo to a physical vault there are other ways of opening it. even if the physical cash is destroyed you can always print more to replace.

Once a bit coin is gone. it is gone forever. Lastly we are already having to do transactions in milibits. what do we call .0000001 of a bit coin? Bit coin value has to go up in order to compensate for the inflation of number of coins and % of coins . however that means today's laptop at 1 BTC is worth .5 BTC tomorrow. People are already getting annoyed by such things. Purchase a product for 1 bit coin and two months later that one bit coin is worth 10 times what it was. Bitcoin might be a transactional currency, but it won't ever be a stable one. it's very design prevents such a situation from lasting more than a couple of years.

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