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  1. Re:Sounds challenging. on European Space Agency Picks Site For First Comet Landing In November · · Score: 1

    I believe 67P is indeed tumbling, but I can't find a reliable reference to that information.

  2. A good slice of luck. on European Space Agency Picks Site For First Comet Landing In November · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Avoiding all of these dangers will require a good slice of luck as well as careful planning.

    "A good slice of luck"? Seriously?

    Whoever managed to get approved a project plan with that caveat, is my new god.

  3. Re:"One"? Seriously? on Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you can't have a main character named "Otw", or "Ethre".

    You'd have to go all the way up to 10 to get a decent name, and by then you'd be infringing Tolkien's IP.

  4. Re:$100 phones on Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones · · Score: 1

    Google and their hardware partners are doing a lot to bring the benefit of technology to more people than have had it before.

    Well... Yes. All technology corporations try their best to bring technology to more people than before.

    The opposite would be, thievery. Or, if instead of "less technology" you go for the "less people" route, murder.

  5. Re:Three phones on Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones · · Score: 1

    And there was hardly need to sell each of the three phones in a different online AND offline store.

  6. What percentage of smartphone owners currently use one that would cost 100$ to buy new?

    Is a 2014 cheap phone better than a 2012 good one? For how long?

  7. Re:What about Incognito mode? on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 3, Funny

    It isn't an onion routed proxy network like For.

    Fhe Onion Roufer?

  8. Re: So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Holy fuck! You're a cannibal?!

    A cannibal bank robber!

  9. Re:So-to-speak legal on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    Does it matter? What is the client going to do? Lobby more than Comcast?

    Laws are what protects lawmaker employers from mere people, not the other way around.

  10. Re:This is the guy who decides? on New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails · · Score: 2

    This guy can even classify himself and *Pouf* disappear in thin air. Like Keyser Söze. Or a ninja. Or WMDs.

  11. Re:Again? on New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails · · Score: 1

    It is a very dangerous game for the NSA to play. Presumably Snowden, being an intelligent guy, kept copies of those emails he said he wrote and will be able to produce them one day.

    And how would he prove they are real?

  12. TLA without accountability makes declarations on New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails · · Score: 1

    They should be required by law to start all declarations with : "Taking into account we can lie without any consequence, ..."

    Or, a more colloquial : "On this week's 'shit we just make up' : ..."

  13. Re: Jurisdiction 101 on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    (To pre-empt any smart-assery: yes, I'm aware there's no First Amendment in the UK.)

    OR, there but it's a crime to talk about it.

    Maybe the First Amendment of the United Kingdom is "you do not talk about the First Amendment of the United Kingdom".

    Once you start forbidding expression, it all becomes pretty confusing; or a crime; or both.

  14. Re:Might makes right ? on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as England remains a democratic country, that is ...

    I think that depends strongly on the definition of democracy.

  15. Wind and sunlight? on Scientists Confirm Life Under Antarctic Ice · · Score: -1

    These organisms survive by converting methane into energy, enabling them to survive where there is no wind or sunlight,

    The missed the part that makes this case unique. The organism could live with no wind, no sunlight and no cheetos!

  16. Re: Jurisdiction 101 on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There is no written law because writing laws about watching the video, is a crime.

    The Police Press Officer couldn't explain that because explaining that writing laws about watching the video is a crime, is a crime.

    Please don't mod this up, as modding up a post commenting the fact that explaining that writing laws about watching the video is a crime, is a crime.

    (Yes I did miss one "is a crime" a the end of that sentence, but, yep, you guessed it, not missing the last "is a crime", is a crime, is a c... hmmm...)

  17. xkcd on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Spirit

    Obligatory, because it's beautiful.

  18. Re:I'm shocked! on Netflix CEO On Net Neutrality: Large ISPs Are the Problem · · Score: 1

    In the presence of corrupt governments preventing them, they will too.

    All current forms of government are corrupt.

    Thus, both in the absence and presence of governments, quasi-monopolies will have great power.

  19. Re:At GenCon... on Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released · · Score: 1

    Pathfinder followed the right philosophical path. When the core spirit is right, the resulting product profits.

    D&D after 3rd edition had a rotten core. When the directing principle is short term benefit and sacrificing the core for a larger customer base, the resulting product fails.

  20. Re:What an odd name... on Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo · · Score: 1

    It's not a car name.

    It's the brand. The car was a "Condominium GT 350 Pipistrello".

  21. Re:Darwinism as a team sport. on Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted · · Score: 1

    While keeping the yearly Darwin Award, Maybe it's time to create a World Darwin Championship, every four years. With an opening ceremony, different disciplines and medals, a Shakira song, vuvuzelas,...

    As medal materials, instead of Gold, Silver and Bronze, I propose Polonium, Arsenic and compressed Gunpowder.

  22. Re:Sad state of affairs on Soccer Talent Scouting Application Teams Up With Video Game Publisher · · Score: 2

    It's a natural consequence of the underlying system.

    A slightly better soccer player can add millions of spectators to each match that team plays. So, the player is indeed causing a production that corresponds to his cost. It's not a player's "fault"; they are just a product. Arguing over a professional sports player price is like arguing about the price of a marketing campaign.

    A simple marketing campaign can cost more than the life's salary of an university professor, and yet it doesn't add any value to society. But that's a problem of capitalism, not of the marketing industry nor the sports industry.

    Services are not too expensive nor too cheap in themselves; they cost as much as the market values them.

  23. Re:Don't be silly on Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's no such thing as 'Peak Stupid'. Every time someone gets to the top of the current peak, the fog clears and another mountain of stupid looms in front of them.

    A phenomenon well documented in the study "the unpeakability of stupid".

  24. Re:Why isn't sandboxing standard practice? on A Look At Advanced Targeted Attacks Through the Lens of a Human-Rights NGO · · Score: 4, Funny

    had MS sandboxed Office, these attacks likely would've ceased altogether for lack of a vector.

    Had MS sandboxed Office, the attack vector would be MS sandbox.

  25. Dirty tactics on The Fiercest Rivalry In Tech: Uber vs. Lyft · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be able to correctly understand this piece of news, I'd need a definition on the criteria to identify a corporation's action as "dirty tactic".