depends, 80% in a criminal trial, no way. In a civil trial 80% sounds like a preponderance of evidence.

Disclaimer: I've only been called for jury duty once, and was going to college out of state at the time, so was unable to go.

Never said it was trivial, just "do-able" given enough funding, and talented people. Also note, that I agreeing for the most part with the article, and against the GGP, in that the loss of the F16 engine is basically a loss of a F22/F35 engine.

Nothing I saw reported to have been leaked by wikileaks contained info on on-going, or future-useful info.

To use a car analogy, at this point leaking the spec's to a horse and buggy would not be upsetting at all, but a '64 mustang would provide a substantial amount of the info needed to build a modern car. An out of date "un-safe" car, but a car none the less.

I think there is a difference between the info wikileaks was leaking (info on past events), and technical data for currently used devices. I would say that if wikileaks were to release plans to the engine in the P51 I wouldn't car at all. It is no longer in use, as it has been replaced by newer tech. I'm willing to bet that there is not a substantial difference between the F16 engine, and the F22/F35 ones.

I wonder how long it would take to engineer and build a jet engine with the info available on the internet about jet engines and various design issues, for example, keeping the inlet air at below super-sonic speeds while the aircraft is flying at supersonic speeds. There was an article on /. a while back about that, and I believe it included basic solution.

What do you propose we replace "the creaking DNS system" with?

So why is foxconn spending hundreds of millions on automating its factories in china?

If only i had the option of a train/bus/bike to get to work... Unless I start working the night shift here in the upper mid-west i don't have the option of the bus. Work is an a suburb 16 miles from home, and the bus runs from the 'burb to downtown in the morning, and back out again at night. There is a single run per day and if i miss the bus, I would need to call and pay for a taxi, in a low density area, and that would cost quite a lot of cash. Not to mention that if I wanted to stop off at the grocery store on my way home, that would mean I'd also not have a bus for the rest of the journey.

Biking would also be a thought, but have you tried to bike 16 miles to work, in a 15 mph wind when it is 10F out and there is 6+ inches of snow on the ground?

Ahh, but what would you do?

I know what i would be doing, designing/programming the robots that do service work, but then I'm a mechanical engineer, and I don't see that field going anywhere anytime soon (on a macro scale).

yes see Auto-Tune

I'd probably be willing to buy one at 1.5x the normal price if I could watch the manufacturing line make my burger. Even better if there are signs at each station explaining what it is doing and how the interesting part of the station works. for example, how they pick up a lettuce leaf at the condiment station.

Granted it is likely that even an automated burger joint would still need a small number of people, for things like unloading trucks, loading hoppers, fixing the machine when it breaks, cleaning the machine. I suspose i could a floor washing robot for the floors, but cleaning chairs and tables seems like it will be a long way off.

Lots of places are already semi-automated. Next time you are in a McDonalds, pay attention to the fry machine, most only require the human to add fries to a basket, and press a button. I'm not sure why they haven't gone a step farther, and decided to automate putting fires in baskets. they could use historical sales data, current orders, and what ever other info is relevant to adjust fry production so it would match demand very closely and reduce possible waste, and provide a higher quality product to the customer. I.E. hot fries.

some examples of breakage this would likely cause...

UK decides that it would like to have control over *.com. Implements rules for it, and give out www.google.com to Microsoft (they paid more). Now what happens in the USA when I ask the root DNS servers for the IP(s) for www.google.com? Do I sometimes get UK Bing?

If your answer was "simple, each country runs its own namesever!" How do I get to www.bbc.co.uk? Does the BBC have to setup a server in the USA?

Actully what i think should happen is all non-countrycode TLDs should go away. Then we could have a international internet body (IIB) that basically agrees that the only allowed TLDs are country codes and that each country is responsable for maintaing them. *.com would then become *.com.usa *.gov would become *.gov.usa. In Australia they could have *.com.au, and *.gov.au. This would allow each country to have control, and wouldn't break the internet.

Also it could be decided by this IIB that all servers must use the country code of the country they are located in. Recognized countries are the same set that the UN recognizes. So if google wants to setup www.google.bz they would have to have at least a forwarding server in Belize.

I agree with the games thing. There are many ways they could use more CPU/GPU and still be useful. For example when have you seen wind in trees in a game that actually looks like wind in real trees? Trees in games are always some sort of leaf pattern on a plane with holes in it. Any games with a good deform-able environment? How about reflection in water ripples? Bullets that are actually computed using wind and movement of the player? Actual gravity and friction?

As a note, last i knew incandescents were not explicitly banned, bulbs below some lumen/watt were banned. Normal incandescents happened to be below that line.

I will say that the CFLs I finally put in my kitchen fan/lamp have lasted far longer than the weeks to a month the incandescent lasted. I think it's been a few months. The incandescent didn't like the vibrations.

Take a walk to get the mail after getting home from work in January in MN. It was dark around 5PM today here. A minute or two round trip, and you just turned them on in -15F (sometimes down to -35F though that is rare these days) after they had been out for at least 12 hours (if not 24). By the time you get back to the house they have almost gotten to full brightness. A lot of outdoor lighting is short term most of the time around here, motion security lights, mail box runs, taking the dog out, etc.

Anyways, I agree that for shoveling the driveway a CFL would probably work fine as that usually can take double digit minutes.

i wrote a similar thing for mencoder when i ripped all of my DVDs. I was a bit lazier though. It trusts the disk name in the TOC and handled collisions by adding a time stamp.