Congratulations, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever read on /. I don't even know where to begin, except to say that it sounds like your thinking seems to be, "Let me pick a position which I know will be unpopular, which must mean it is more correct than the popular position, and then go through some inane line of reasoning to support said position."

"They are the only people who would have actually earned it."

Everyone here is dumber for having read that.

Wonder if it could be retrofitted to LV-FPV.

Had Germany put all its solar subsidies into nuclear over the last 8 years, they would be on track to have many times more carbon free electrical generation than they will.

An even better idea would be to put all of the "renewable" subsidies into nuclear. Which is more truely described as "renewable" anyway.

The thing about solar is.. it requires huge amounts of space and it's fucking expensive to maintain.

A big problem with both wind and solar is that output can vary effectivly at random.

Like for example the fact that these download snoopers so far have not shown to have legal status to be enforcing anything. Like the fact that most of these "investigators" don't have anything that qualifies as legal evidence. Like the fact that they have been shown to be breaking the same laws they accuse others of breaking (you can't break the law to enforce the law).

Rather you can only do this if you are an actual "cop". Another Issue is if these people do have the authority to represent the copyright holder they also have the ability to create a "legal torrent".

The conclusion is that chess is not a good measure of intelligence after all. We don't have a good grasp of what intelligence really is, let alone how exactly to measure it. IQ tests have all kinds of problems, not least that the typical IQ test is very narrow.

It's also rather hard to design a test which dosn't require "general knowlage" or which isn't "ethnocentric" in some way.

That's assuming the planes aren't all the same spec, and the probably are (at least at this level since interiors haven't been fitted).

Looks like Boeing currently have five 737 varients in production. Those being the 737-700, 737-700ER, 737-800, 737-900 & 737-900ER. So they may not all be of the same spec.

The closest one looks like's it's cracked almost in two, but the one one land might be salvagable.

Even if there is no obvious damage inspecting them to ensure that they are airworthy might not be worth it financially. There's also the issue of avoiding damage when attempting recovery.

I think the cost will be picked up the the railway, and by insurance so no biggie for Boeing except that they will be late in delivering those planes.

Wonder which airline(s) will be waiting longer for their planes.

There needs to be a cost for issuing overbroad DMCA takedown notices.

If a court finds out later that a company had no standing or no good reason to make a DMCA claim that resulted in a takedown, there should be statutory damages. Let's start at $10000 per infraction.

Alternativly if the claimant does not represent the copyright holder treat their actions as copyright infringement with statutory damages according to how many times the file could have expected to be accessed whilst it was unavailable. Based on pre "take down" logs.
If they did represent the copyright holder then copyright is transfered to the person or company which was the target of the bogus takedown notice.

The real trick would be to put your unix-like box behind your gateway, routing all traffic through it. This has the massive advantage of not requiring you to go around, reconfiguring all suspect devices to use a proxy server (if they even can).

I assume this is possible with a mac, its certainly relatively easy to do with linux.

1. It shouldn't be. That's why we're having this debate. It would be one thing if our government found evidence of something shifty going on... spied to confirm or refute that, and then took action. That's not what they are doing though. They're bugging every world leader, tapping the phones of damned near every citizen, reading our mail... this is Orwellian blanket surveillance which is a far cry from "Spying" This isn't "Spying" it's totalitarianism and it's wrong.

Yet appear to have completly missed ISIS (or whatever they are calling themselves today). About as effective as the DDR knowing about the fall of the Berlin wall.

2. Comparing what the rest of the world does to what the NSA does is a joke. Yes, they spy on us, but they're not intercepting ALL of our phone calls. How many countries do you think have the US presidents phone tapped? I bet it's just one... take a guess who I think that is.

It's been fairly well documented which the beginning of this century.

Plastic has lots of energy (try burning it) and thus could be a food source in and of itself. Thus there could be a bacteria that is eating it.

There isn't one thing called "plastic" anyway. Some types are even intended to be "bio-degradable".

Also the fish that eat it may now have a gut bacteria that will break it down.

Plenty of animals eat all sorts of things that they cannot digest at all. Apparently beta glucose polysaccarides are ment to be good for humans to eat. Even in quanities beyond the ability of gut bacteria to handle. Quite a few plants even rely on their seeds passing through the gut of an animal.

So you still need a lot of natural gas plants that can be started up when the wind fails.

More likely these are "idle" rather than "off". So consuming fuel even when producing no electrity.

And notice what is missing from my admittedly stupid and simplistic analysis: the cost to run a standby generator, the cost of power storage, or the maintenance cost of the turbine, which I assume like any complex machine requires periodic maintenance.

Note that "standby" in this context means something like "spinning standby" where a power plant will still be consuming a sustantial amount of fuel even when producing no electricity at all. Even gas turbines can't be brought up from "cold" fast enough to cope with variations of the output of wind generators.
This is part of the reason that wind can end up having a substantial "carbon footprint".