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Comment Re: Delivery drones (Score 1) 162

Dude : droning on against disbelievers is not helpful to your cause.

Stop the frankenstienish stretched analogies. Some folk here have creative alternatives and are not trolls ; they deserve serious answers.

And yes, they are right about the danger - a sudden gust of wind that lifts a large, twisting, plastic sheet can foul all of a drone's propellors - whether 6 or 16. Which can fly it into a powerline, a soft skull, another drone, or your windshield doing 67 mph.

  You do.not.want to be below one of these when it happens in crowded skies.

Comment Re:Hasn't worked since at least 2008. (Score 1) 40

-ftrapv hasn't worked since at least 2008.

...but you're right, the logical thing to do would be to just check for this shit at runtime. Do you want fast code or do you want secure code? I can buy a faster computer, but I can't buy a more secure one.

clang -fsanitize=undefined, since signed integer overflow is formally undefined.

Comment Operation Downfall (Score 1) 341

The number killed was very approximately 100,000. It is plain that not even the majority could possibly have been military personnel.

Clearly. However, the most important thing is to compare the Bombs to the estimated casualties of Operation Downfall--a hell of a lot more Japanese people would have been killed by the Allied invasion.

Comment Re:Permian–Triassic (P–Tr) extinction (Score 1) 74

Not if the asteroid hit between 300 and 600 million years old, and the Permian-Triassic boundary is at 252. The other issue is that people have already looked for signals of impact at the P-Tr boundary- iridium, shocked quartz, spherules like you get with the Chicxulub impact that wiped out the dinosaurs- and found nothing. The leading hypothesis right now is that massive volcanic eruption drove the P-Tr extinction.

Comment Re:Slashdot reports on an obscure mice experiment. (Score 1) 109

Well, Biogen's drug may have its place but it isn't exactly a Speedy Gonzales, and its side-effects include brain swelling.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ma...
"Wall Street analysts predict could get the drug to market by 2020"

Also, this research is more elegant - it uses your blood's own cleanup cells to fight the plaques, versus injecting you with a foreign antibody like Biogen's does.

Comment Re:Steampunked (Score 1) 389

The mind boggles....

Corded Wifi!
App Cartridges!
Or, for the ultimate in convenience -- Dial-an-App! Just dial "C","r","a","z","y"," ","B","i","r","d","s" using the convenient 26-character dial to enjoy the latest in fist-pumping, arcade-style gameplay in the expansive 2x60 character display

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