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Comment Re:stupid observation... (Score 1) 909

You're talking about the size of the fitting attachment from the ratchet to a socket? "Drive" isn't that common of nomenclature, in my experience anyways. We referred to it as the socket "head size" oddly enough.

I do know that they are ONLY measured in English fractional inches, and that those sizes are used internationally. There are no metric-sized socket fittings.

Comment Mormons got xenophobia. (Score 3, Informative) 540

If you're living in a predominately Mormon area, and you're not one of them, you're a lot less likely to be part of their circle, do business with them, marry their children and so forth.

This as told to me by various Mormon and non-Mormon friends from SLC.

I suppose this isn't a lot different from other religious groups. But it's worth pointing out.

Comment Re:Google-Funded Drones To Hunt Rhino Poachers (Score 1) 177

How did you determine it's illegal? Flying aerial surveillance drones over what is very likely public land? It's clear you don't know anything about the law.

In the U.S. and many other countries, public photography is permitted where there's "no expectation of privacy." You have no control over whether others take your picture in public. That goes for drones, CCTV, and photo joes with digital cameras.

I can't imagine that taking pictures of poachers killing rhinos on public land is illegal. And if it is, the government(s) in question would probably look the other way, given this project is helping them solve a very real problem.

Comment Re:Corporations are people (Score 2, Informative) 238

I hate to spoil the fun, but oil companies don't "set" the price of oil. It's ultimately determined by futures contracts for delivery of the various crude oil products.

Plus supply, demand, production rate, and other smaller factors.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled conspiracy theory.

Comment Re:Cap and Trade solves everything! (Score 1) 623

Detroit have dragged their feet on every little government-mandated change over the decades. I don't expect Detroit will change, I just hope it perishes AND IS REPLACED by newer, faster, upstart companies that design emissionless cars from the ground up.

While Fisker and Tesla are interesting startups, they're aimed squarely at the luxury market. There needs to be an everyman emissionless car.

Comment Re:Over private property? (Score 1) 733

Would you shoot someone holding a camera on the edge of your property for allegedly violating your privacy? Probably not- the state would probably take that up as murder or manslaughter. With an RC copter, it's about the same distinction -a nuisance, but was it necessary and lawful to shoot it down?

Can you determine that a moving RC vehicle is recording you from a couple hundred feet away? Those cameras are awful tiny, lately. Though, once downed you'd be able to see the camera and claim your privacy was being violated, even if you weren't *truly* aware of it at the time.

I suppose it depends on the state in which the shooting occurred. I could see this swinging from unlawful property damage to the drone (urban area/blue state) over to self defense/trespassing (rural/red state).

I get a strong "shoot that varmint down" vibe from this thread. That's a vestige of the old days, the time when people had to fight off bears, coyotes and Indians. This ain't the same thing.

Comment Re:Really? Woz? (Score 2) 333

Try Start8: it does away with the Start screen, and returns the Win XP/7-style Start Menu, and plus other adjustments to the GUI.

A much better experience if you're not using Win8 from a touch device. When I get one, I look forward to Metro - it just doesn't help me on a desktop with a mouse and big monitors.

Comment Good if the aliens grasp human aesthetics (Score 3, Insightful) 282

Without the context of human perception and aesthetics, many of these images may appear as random noise to an alien species!

Abstract artistic expression works for some of us, but might not be communicating directly enough to clearly convey ideas, concepts, facts, history, even human being's notions of beauty, the latter of which clearly was the curator's primary objective.

I'm not knocking the images themselves. But without the context of human eyes, human life and experience... these will have little or no meaning to anyone who has never lived earth.

Comment Re:Wifi-type radiation CAN cause harm... (Score 1) 217

Just to be clear, I'm talking about microwave ovens, whose power rating is typically reported in watts, as are wifi APs, and they have similar wavelengths.

Certain radar systems have wavelengths in the microwave range (E band), and if you get close enough to the dish/grid/horn of one, you will feel it and it won't be psychosomatic.

For those lacking the sarcasm idiot light, my previous post was laced with it.

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