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  1. Re:QNX on Google Launches Android Automotive Consortium · · Score: 1

    on one hand the current in car interfaces are hideous.
    there NEEDS to be some brutal completion.

    on the other hand, if Google does for my car what they did for personal privacy, just shoot me now.

    now maybe if Apple was in on it, they'd have my location 5 km off in a random direction.

  2. Re:too many $ on Boeing Moving X-37B Operations To the Kennedy Space Center · · Score: 3, Interesting

    my guess would be they are going for the lower latitudes.
    launching from higher latitudes requires more fuel for the same orbit.
    so either they are lifting a heavier load or going for a higher orbit.

    to move just to save money would be totally out of character for the U.S. Gov.

  3. Re:Land of the Free! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    +1 if I had it

  4. Re:They can't stop unlockers on Apple Denies Helping NSA Subvert iPhone · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the link

  5. Re:TFA is full of crap ! on Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance · · Score: 1

    so what the NSA is saying is that "We don't want to spy on our own people. The People Made us do it"

  6. Re:The insecurity right now on NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity · · Score: 1

    William H. Pauley was Nominated by Bill Clinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Pauley_III

    You remember Clinton and Gore. They gave us Eschelon and NSAKey.

    Just saying

  7. Re:There must be a very good reason... on Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy · · Score: 1

    I've been watching/considering solar panels as a backup to the grid.
    just waiting for the price to be right.

  8. Re:Jailbreakingg on The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco · · Score: 1

    i'm no longer on an iphone, but it was itunes that i hated.
    with itunes i had to reboot into windows and then argue with itunes if it was the same PC i used last time.
    all i wanted to do was drag and drop my mp3's onto my phone so i could listen to them.

    the music player on cydia(i don't remember what it was called) let me do that.

    once jailbroken, iphones aren't so bad.

  9. and that's really the problem.

    let's set aside what everyone may think of the current or previous administrations.

    do we know we can trust future administrations with these tools?

  10. Re:Playing Devil's Advocate on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 1

    Remember the NSAKey?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

    MS gave the same song and dance

  11. Re:Wait a second... on NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so do we still need the new 1.2 billion USD data centers?

    http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57281931-90/agency-center-changes-data.html.csp

  12. Re:We have all the evidence! on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 5, Informative

    and this lame vague shit is the best they can do.

    100% of the NSA budget needs to be given to NASA.

  13. Re:Place your bets... on Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover Landing Slated For 13:40 UTC Saturday · · Score: 1

    on the other hand, if they are successful, then maybe, just maybe, the US will get off it's arse and send something interesting.

  14. Re:Pulsars need to eat, too on Pulsar Gets the Munchies, Snacks On an Asteroid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    all jokes aside, if something as simple as debris falling into the pulsar will change it's spin rate, then maybe using these for navigation isn't so reliable after all.

    just a thought.

  15. 80's hardware on Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation · · Score: 5, Funny

    So an emulator running on 2010 era hardware can almost run at speeds of the native technology on 80's era hardware.

    wow

  16. Re:I'm an atheist. on New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason · · Score: 1

    well said

  17. Re:No, they don't work on Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? · · Score: 1

    not only does it send the message that you don't need to exercise, many of these drugs have disclaimers(i've looked) that state that you should not use if you have high blood pressure. guess what, if you are over weight and don't exercise, there there is a good chance you have high blood pressure too.

  18. Re:Technically it is not a ship... on World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    to me it looks like a cross between the titanic and the Hindenburg.

    stand back.

  19. Re:Momentous! on 1.5 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts Online · · Score: 1

    I think it's cool that there is a baseline that we can compare and see what changed, but i'd be more interested in books like Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture.

  20. Re:Just wait until... on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sucks for those with a pacemaker

  21. Re:short story on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 2

    probably made from old microwave ovens.

    could be fun!

  22. Re:*sigh* on Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) · · Score: 1

    I wish these had been out when i got my G4.

    maybe by the time i get my next phone they will be here.

  23. every few years i get the crazy idea that we've out grown this sh#t.

    but no, not this time either.

  24. Wasn't Woz in there? on The Art of Apple, In Pictures · · Score: 1

    wasn't Seve Wozniak in there somewhere?

  25. Re:And how utterly pointless it is... on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 1

    I would rather get the owners of the content to offer the same services with the same banner adds.
    there is obviously a buisness model for it.