Comment: Irrelevant (Score 2, Interesting) 182
It's irrelevant to boast the best spam filters when you hard code spam into people's outgoing mail below their signature.
Comment: Re:Complete Non-sense! (Score 1) 394
No you don't get it.
It's WiFi, which means it's both electronic and electromagnetic. It'll only become safe after first class and business have been milked long enough.
Comment: Re:Harmless junk? Somehow I doubt it. (Score 1) 394
spy sats have predictible orbits. SR-71s were outlived by U2s (to be retired soon) and comparable drones
Comment: Re:I guess that answers my lift question (Score 1) 93
if it's not accelerating to the ground, of course it is generating lift
Comment: Re:First Post (Score 1) 330
4 inches is what I'm not showing to you
Comment: Re:Up to them (Score 2) 1319
If I drop a rock 1000 times and it falls to the ground. The only thing I can say for certain is that the last 1000 times I dropped the rock, it fell to the ground. It requires faith on my part to believe that the 1001st time I drop the rock it will also drop to the ground.
Faith is not incompatible with science. The difference is that a scientist will change his beliefs to accomodate new facts, a religious nut will deny new facts to uphold his beliefs.
Comment: Re:Simple Solution (Score 1) 35
then the only patents will come from the industry, and no small guys would ever file one
Comment: islands (Score 2) 216
What I'd like to know is: "are there islands", i.e. groups of people completely unrelated to other groups? And if there is no such island, what is the max distance between any two people?