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Submission + - Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System (umd.edu)

Trax3001BBS writes: Last year on July 27, 2012.

  The delayed announcement? Voyager 1 observed no change in the direction of the magnetic field, as had been expected.
"According to conventional wisdom, we'll know we've passed through this mysterious boundary when we stop seeing solar particles and start seeing galactic particles, and we also detect a change in the prevailing direction of the local magnetic field. "

Comment Re:Embrace? check. Extend? Ah, there's the problem (Score 1) 629

Oh, but you're fine with blocking Google's ads and then playing the martyr when they ban your app just like you banned my xbox.

I looked at the EULA and yep: "Microsoft may block or otherwise prevent delivery of any type of email, instant message, or other communication to or from the Services as part of our effort to protect the Services or our customers, or otherwise enforce this Agreement." http://www.xbox.com/en-US/legal/livetou

Not that I didn't believe you, just want to add something antiMS, due an OS I have to prevent the "required" Internet Explorer from operating.

Comment $500, 112 page book on ship avoidance? (Score 1) 98

They could of linked to this page alone,reviews aware of the attempted rape of their bank accounts
http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/product-reviews/0870334336/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

"Capt. Trimmer's book were none too useful in my efforts to avoid huge ships, as I was recently struck by a very large ship indeed, a cruise vessel called the 'Costa Concordia'....Capt. Trimmer's advice would have been immensely beneficial to humans, fish, seabirds, and other animals, but I am none of those things. I'm a big rock."

Comment Re:Easy solution (Score 1) 209

Just shoot a high power laser on a very short duration wherever this quality is found, and you'll burn out the CCD of any nearby digital camera.

It's claimed LED's will obscure your face; LED's can be placed in a base ball cap

The Anonymous Guide to Hiding From Facial Recognition, or the Long Arm of the Law (shows the use of a laser pointer)
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/08/the-anonymous-guide-to-hiding-from-facial-recognition-or-the-long-arm-of-the-law/

So I bought a LED cap at a gun shop of all places for $12.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Huntworth-Men-s-Lighted-Baseball-Cap-Oak-Tree/15111206

I've had it for a month now and haven't tested it to see if it block out my web cam or if I'll need to replace the LED's with IR LED's (I'm sure I will)
but I have a base, all the hard work is done.

Comment Nuclear Waste Policy Act (Score 1) 258

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act [wikipedia.org] I'm pretty sure this is over. The US was to of had
a permanent storage area for nuclear waste long ago.

This area (East Washington State) would liked to of had the waste and was working on a repository (testing). West Washington State
and the political power didn't; work was stopped and Nevada's Yucca Mountain became the designated (and only)
high level nuclear waste burial site.

Something does need to be done with the nuclear waste, other than storage pools at each nuclear plant.

Comment Where stealth isn't an issue. (Score 1) 127

Besides the hearing loss of those who fly without hearing protection, your not going to be sneaking up on anything.
I can see one at every circus or event that want themselves noticed, loose gravel/dirt flyover areas to really get some attention.

On the other hand for Wildlife management this would be very helpful if there's a need to constantly "herd" animals;
not to mention being fun as heck to fly.

Submission + - Appeals court rules NRC in violation for not ruling on Yucca Mountain (go.com) 1

schwit1 writes: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the commission to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy Department's application for a never-completed waste storage site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

In a sharply worded opinion, the court said the nuclear agency was "simply flouting the law" when it allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The action goes against a federal law designating Yucca Mountain as the nation's nuclear waste repository.

"The president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections," Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a majority opinion, which was joined Judge A. Raymond Randolph. Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland dissented.

The appeals court said the case has important implications for the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government.

"It is no overstatement to say that our constitutional system of separation of powers would be significantly altered if we were to allow executive and independent agencies to disregard federal law in the manner asserted in this case by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission," Kavanaugh wrote. "The commission is simply defying a law enacted by Congress ... without any legal basis."

Comment Re:At first there was nothing then it exploded (Score 1) 190

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/files/2013/07/kozm_LSS.jpg
shows stuff coming towards us.

No, it doesn't. Perhaps the color coding was chosen poorly, but it doesn't show things moving towards us at all. Quite the opposite.

Tossed that out for a response, thank you.

I did search it out first
http://www.aao.gov.au/2df/manual/2df_manual.html
and
http://www2.aao.gov.au/2dFGRS/Public/Publications/colless_specz.pdf

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2dF_Galaxy_Redshift_Survey

I couldn't find anything to grab on to, other than "8.2 Simple redshift completeness mask" of the PDF but figure I was on the wrong track
(ie: made no sense to me).

Comment Re:And why should people trust it (Score 1) 118

AdBlock/Ghostery helps a lot. But yeah, I agree that they have intruding ads

It's been mentioned that Windows will disable a HOSTS file, I've wondered about mine recently as sites are getting through that shouldn't.Logging on to /. Ghostery claimed it was blocking two Google analytics sites and doubleclick; Ghostery should of never seen them.

Ok, my bad; Ghostery doesn't block sites, it blocks scripts "which are objects embedded in a web page"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery so even when it mentions what it's "blocked" it's already been blocked by the HOSTS file.

Is interesting to see just what's blocked for each web site/page.

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