lake_rogue

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by lake_rogue 12y ago
At first I thought this was a trojan horse for the NYTimes to gather demographic information about their readers (household income, age, employment status). But then decided the A/B answers were probably too broad to be very informativ
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by lake_rogue 12y ago
Agreed, there is no 14 CFR (part 61 or other) regulation that I'm aware of. But the regulations are very concise, and not thorough enough to evaluate every possible scenario. The point of the FAA's letters is to address the many v
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by lake_rogue 12y ago
Pilot, not attorney. I'll be shocked if FAA permits this -- though happy to see anything that helps make more general aviation enthusiasts. What I infer through having read various FAA letters in the past is that there needs to be a pe
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
The effects of hypoxia are profound on human performance -- it's not as simple as being unconscious and incapacitated, it can be irrational and incoherent. As an example, listen to the incoherency of this professional pilot suffering e
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
My guess was a variation: as a warning to ground personnel not to touch that area of the fuselage, as after any recent firing of the GAU-8 that area would be "HOT PLATE".
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
When I decided I was going to get my pilot license I planned to do so efficiently, without burning cash unnecessarily (yeah, right) -- I was prepared with my own plan for every flight... I'd heard numbers in the $8k to $10k ballpark an
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
New York Times intro paragraph on the topic: The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data fought back against his critics on Monday,
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
Yahoo is not acquiring Tumblr in the traditional sense. Tumblr is the new Yahoo. What has been Yahoo up until now will begin to play a secondary and support role to Tumblr. So Flickr becomes the preferred photo sharing service for Tumblr. U
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
Perhaps rather than killing the technology off this time they tried to get rid of the person in charge of the technology. Of course, if this isn't fixed soon...
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
The biggest reason we wanted to use iCloud is: background syncing (i.e. not just when the app is in the background, when the app isn't even running). For apps that get a fair bit of off-line data creation this is a nice feature. There's no
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by lake_rogue 13y ago
I tried to add iCloud features to an app as part of a contract gig. It was disastrous. The paying customer knew we were capable, but began to wonder what was going on with us -- it was frustrating to have our client lose a bit of respect fo
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by lake_rogue 14y ago
Don't you all know what this means? Someone gone and caught the big phish. Bruce's site is hacked. Clever self-referential hackers. We're all done for.
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by lake_rogue 14y ago
or this boat just made him happy twice in one day.
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by lake_rogue 14y ago
Can another tactic be employed in this battle against patent trolls?... Public education programs targeted to residents of East Texas. Documentaries, billboards, sophisticated advertising campaigns, unsophisticated advertising campaigns on
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by lake_rogue 14y ago
How does this hurt Microsoft? If everyone is tossing their netbook every 6 months, doesn't Microsoft get them to pay the Windows licensing fee more frequently?
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by lake_rogue 14y ago
The captions on the video are epic. Don't miss a watch with the CC on.
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by lake_rogue 15y ago
149 kts occurs daily -- at altitude. For example the current winds aloft forecast for BML shows 155 kts at 30,000 feet: http://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fdwinds/dynamic/bost... While 149 kts at the 2,000 ft to 12,000 ft typical of