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Comment: Re:At that price (Score 2) 133

by MiG82au (#44016907) Attached to: A350XWB, the Plane Airbus Did Not Want To Build, Makes Maiden Flight
I'm a stress engineer working on the forward fuselage (S13/14) for build standards MSN5 and MSN17 and the skin, stringers, and frames are all carbon fibre. It's a shame you've been moderated to 5 because you're wrong. You also seem to be confusing frame with frame*s*. There isn't a frame with a skin just wrapped around for aerodynamics; the stringers and frames are there to stop the skin buckling and the skin takes most of the loads.

+ - Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison-> 2

Submitted by coolnumbr12
coolnumbr12 writes "In a recent New York Times article called “No TV? No Subscription? No Problem?” Jenna Wortham noted how she used, “the information of a guy in New Jersey that I had once met in a Mexican restaurant.” Dave Their of Forbes admitted that he used his sister’s boyfriend’s father’s account in exchange for his Netflix information. But this is stealing under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a misdemeanor with a maximum one-year prison sentence to “obtain without authorization information from a protected computer.” It is also a violation of the Digital Millennium Copy Act because it is knowingly circumventing a protection measure set up to prevent someone from watching content like “Game of Thrones” without paying. Forbes points out that a crafty prosecutor could also claim that using an HBO Go password without paying is a form of identity theft."
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+ - Enemy of HRM, Paul Revere, Identified Using Metadata->

Submitted by cervesaebraciator
cervesaebraciator writes "In the wake of recent revelations from Edward Snowden, apologists for the state security apparatus are predictably hitting the airwaves. Some are even 'glad' the NSA has been doing this. A major point they emphasize is that the content of calls have remained private and it is only the metadata that they're interested in. But given how much one can tell from interpersonal connections, does the surveillance only represent "modest encroachments on privacy"? It is easy enough to imagine how metadata on phone calls made to and from a medical specialist could be more revealing than we'd like. But social network analysis can reveal far more. Duke sociologist Kieran Healy, in a light-hearted but telling article, shows how one father of the American Revolution could have been identified using the simplest tools of social network analysis and only a limited dataset."
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+ - US immigration seize Bradely Manning Defence Fund records->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "“We announced some excellent news last night: the U.S. has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by David House over the government's 2010 search and seizure of his laptop and other electronics at the airport .. House's electronics stored the identities of members and supporters of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Given the controversial nature of that cause, House and others were deeply concerned that the government seizure of this material would frighten others from lending their time and money to the organization”

“The ACLU and the ACLU of Massachusetts brought the lawsuit on House's behalf, charging that the government targeted House solely on the basis of his lawful association with the group, and doing so violated his First Amendment right to freedom of association as well as his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure”"
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+ - NSA PRISM program linked to rendition program

Submitted by pocock
pocock writes "Blogger Daniel Pocock has hypothesised about possible links between the recently exposed NSA PRISM program and the mistreatment, rendition and indefinite detention of foreign citizens, including children in Australia. He makes various connections, including the timing of British GCHQ's PRISM-powered productivity spurt as a clue about when Australia's ASIO may have gotten their hands on the data and subsequently started rounding up foreign citizens, including one pregnant woman and her two small children. The case of Dr Haneef is eerily similar, the Government even admitted in that case that his lengthy imprisonment, without charge, was solely due suspicions about what they saw in his chat history. Unlike the United States, Australia does not have a strong, legally binding bill of rights and any data that Australian authorities get through collaboration with the US may be used for violations of human rights that may not be constitutional on US soil."

Comment: Re:Reasons (Score 1) 229

by MiG82au (#43921561) Attached to: Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts
"Can't fix stupid".
FFS, get out and live more. Perhaps you don't see the benefit, but for most people that "wish you were here" post is more beneficial than the remote chance that one of their friends will assist in their house getting broken into.
You need to stop and think about the big picture, and not get bogged down by tin foil fantasies (going by probability).

Comment: Re: Conservation of Energy (Score 1) 266

by MiG82au (#43906743) Attached to: Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction!
So, how about windmilling turbofan engines driving hydraulics (ram air turbines aren't as universal as you might think)? Or an autorotating helicopter where the rotor is acting as a turbine to maintain RPM? And on the basis of quantity, I wouldn't say that you typically feather props, as most in the world are fixed pitch, and regardless of that you never call them a retarder.

I think you're mistaking camber for angle of attack, but my point is: don't be an ass about semantics.

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