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  1. Re:Google Maps in China is a quarter mile off on In China, Fears That Pokemon Go May Aid Locating Military Bases (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought you could not use Google Maps at all in China.

  2. Re:What "discredited notion"? on How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I call it the "monkeys in a can" approach to space exploration

  3. But under what circumstances?

  4. Re:Legacy on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia mentions there were three hijackings which somehow used this door, but doesn't provide details on the other two other than it was in 1972.

  5. Re:How, with such crappy diet and pollution? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How can you claim there is an increase in the rate of transgendered individuals? Granted there is certainly an increase in people stating they have this condition. But there's no evidence for an increase in numbers, merely more open attitudes towards it.

  6. Re: What typically happens on Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable · · Score: 1

    I love when you get this sort of thing, but from the same person. I have in my inbox right now an email from a "support technician" asking me for information in a reply to an email which provides the information requested. And that was the only topic in the original email, not something buried below a bunch of other stuff.

  7. Probably false on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably isn't true. By which I mean the communications from the seller are a bunch of BS. They are just trying to cajole him into changing the review. Note how the communications moves from coaxing to begging to threats.

  8. Re:Written by the Reptilians on DMCA Notices Remove 8,268 Projects On Github In 2015 (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that you David Icke?

  9. Re:manishs, can you please try to edit properly? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    Your idea sounds like more fun though

  10. Re:Most A/A kills result from not being seen on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    For current mission profiles, ALPHA’s red forces are handicapped with shorter range missiles and a reduced missile payload than the blue opposing forces. ALPHA also does not have airborne warning and control system (AWACS) support providing 360 long range radar coverage of the area; while blue does have AWACS. The aircraft for both teams are identical in terms of their mechanical performance. While ALPHA has detailed knowledge of its own systems, it is given limited intelligence of the blue force a priori and must rely on its organic sensors for situational awareness (SA) of the blue force; even the number of hostile forces is not given

  11. Re:Most A/A kills result from not being seen on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    It is explained, to a large degree, in the serious paper a few links away from the story.

  12. G forces on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I dug around, and didn't find any specific mention of the G factor. But since the primary purpose of the system is training human pilots, I doubt the simulator's planes are able to take stresses a human pilot could not. That would make it useless as a training tool.

  13. Re:manishs, can you please try to edit properly? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was meant to say "take knock off indie game"

  14. Streisand on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many sales they will get as a result of this free publicity?

  15. As in "well regulated"

  16. Re:Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Ho on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultimately I would like something like that. But the devil is in the details. The battery life could be addressed maybe by not having a screen. So if there is a personal computer that I could put in my wallet like a credit card, and then provide ad hoc (and secure) interfaces to various proximity device like displays, keyboards, voice, etc. I would be interested in that. But you are right it's dumb to want an "all in one" device much smaller than what we have now. I already have to avoid the tiny USB drives that are around, they are too easy to lose. I just end up putting a bulky lanyard or something on them so i can find them.

  17. Re:Why would I want 2 step on Google Is Finally Making Two-Step Verification Less Annoying (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't just an app you install on the smartphone? No telephone number involved. You could get an affordable Android phone and only use it with wi-fi.

  18. Re:Protects against hacking on New 'Hardened' Tor Browser Protects Users From FBI Hacking (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    yes. And to the majority of the world, the FBI is not the primary threat.

  19. Re:technical literacy is lacking. on New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not always clear to the user what constitutes "Running executable and/or scripted email attachments", especially when the OS helpfully hides the extensions and allows assignment of arbitrary icons supplied by the attacker.

  20. Re:Sand fucking box on New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows can tag files based on their origin, in the metadata. They could maybe implement a 'restricted mode' for scripts downloaded from the Internet, or from emails. Of course, the user would probably just ignore or disable any warnings.

  21. Re: Disabling attachments is not enough on New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Ransomware is a simple concept, other OSes are not immune to it. All it needs is some way to get the user to execute a script or binary.

  22. Re:Sand fucking box on New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    It comes in as an attachment, once pulled from the email it is just like any other file.

  23. Re:So how do we miss a 300 foot object that has be on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    IN the USA, we have no way to even know which of our neighbors are chemists.

  24. Since "United States of America" doesn't lend itself to an easy identifier like "Bolivian" or "Mexican" the term "American" gets used instead to avoid ridiculous tongue twisters like "USAian" . The terms "North American" and "South American" are used to indicate continental residence.

  25. Low robot prices every day on Walmart Experimenting With Robotic Shopping Cart For Stores (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It will be destroyed by the mob at Christmas who are trying to buy it