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  1. Re:Noise figure on Plasma Resonance Could Overcome Radio Silence For Returning Spacecraft · · Score: 2

    A directional ground based antenna with high output power will overcome the RX noise. The military use for this technology is obvious, you can re-target your balistic missiles (or abort) or use radar to see incoming interceptors and avoid them.

  2. Re:Oh Boy Chinese Science on Plasma Resonance Could Overcome Radio Silence For Returning Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Japan was once considered a third world country, with third rate science and technology. They deliberately worked to fix both those problems, and now they are considered world leaders of science and technolgoy. Given strong central contol and plenty of dollars from their massive manufacturing industry they will achieve their goals.

  3. Fake ID on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So what happens if you send them a (poor) scan of fake ID? You're not impersonating a real person, and you're not interacting with the government, so I don't see any actual legal consequences of this. Do any lawyers out there have any idea on this?

  4. Re:At the risk of getting downvoted into oblivion. on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    The United States has this wierd thing called free speech zones. If the government doesn't like your message they will try to force you to use them instead of the public square.

  5. Lack of Magnetic Field on Venus May Have Active Volcanoes · · Score: 1

    It is generally believed that the earths magnetic field protects the atmosphere from being stripped away by the solar wind. Given that Venus has no (very small) magnetic field, this explains why the planet has such a dense atmosphere. Can anyone explain why a volcanicly active planet doesn't have a magnetic field? Isn't the liquid core what generates the field?

  6. Re:Devils advocate here on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    It's also much harder for the school bully to swipe your lunch money. Now he has to actually make you get stuff for him.

  7. Re:Oh no, on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 1

    You leave your fingerprints everywhere you go, it would be easy for anyone to get it. Of course this way the taxpayers pay for the collection instead of the corporation.

  8. Size is bad on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 0

    Large corporations are risk averse. They avoid innovation because that is a massive gamble, and you don't gamble with the money of the rich. Many small companies is better for the market (and the world) than a handful of huge American heavyweights.

  9. Re:Bruce Schneier the paranoid cryptographer on Schneier: China and Russia Almost Definitely Have the Snowden Docs · · Score: 2

    From a security stantpoint, "they don't know what he took" is the biggest problem. It means they don't have a logging file system. If you don't log access then you can't look for unusual patters of access, like some guy taking everything in the computer. It means the Russians only need to recruit 1 contractor with skills, and they get anything they want, forever.

  10. Re:Never ? on The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot · · Score: 1

    If the robot was sentient, and if you couldn't get parts anywhere else or by 3d printing, and if the robot went through parts unusually fast because of poor design or designed obsolescence, then shutting down the spare parts supply would be murder. Miss any of those "if's" and it's just a business choice, just like shutting down the only hospital that can do organ transplants to extend the life of the rich. In practice someone will take up the task of making aftermarket parts, just like the car industry does when a car maker stops making parts.

  11. Re:Sigh. on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    I'm not worried about my neighbour having a howitzer. Do you know how much that ammo costs? He's not going to be shooting squirrels with that thing, let me tell you.

  12. Re:Inevitable escalation of a broken philosophy on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    The German invasion of Russia (WW2) is a clasic example of what a huge but poorly armed force can accomplish. At the start of the war 90% of the russian soldiers were unarmed, they had no airforce, no tanks, few artillary, and terrible leadership. And they stopped the best equipped and best trained military on the planet.

  13. Re:If it ever takes off, no stopping it on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 1

    In many parts of the world, a drug or virus you inject to ensure you only have male children would be worth several years salary. Also a virus that causes infertility, but only against a specific racial group, would be a very desirable biological weapon.

  14. Re:Time to recompile humanity on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 1

    There are 2 ways to handle this: 1-map out everything and figure out what/how everything works, so there are no unexpected results. 2-try stuff out and see what happens. Obviously plan 2 requires a corporation and a 3rd world military dictatorship, as they don't have moral values and human rights laws to block this.

  15. Re:Popping the popcorn on Julian Assange To Be Interviewed In London After All · · Score: 1

    You are assuming they intend to follow legal proceedings, like extradition. The asumption is they intent to abduct him and put him in a secret American prison. They would have difficulty with extradition because he's not an employee of the US Gov and HE didn't break American law to get the secrets, so his posession of American secrets isn't illegal.

  16. Re:time for guns on Journalist Burned Alive In India For Facebook Post Exposing Corruption · · Score: 1

    In a gun fight, the person who shoots first often wins. The bad men/corrupt police will have their guns out and pointed at you before you know they are there, so they will usually shoot first.

  17. Re:Nothing on Journalist Burned Alive In India For Facebook Post Exposing Corruption · · Score: 1

    Maybe Wikileaks needs a Facebook page. You send them stuff and they publish where it will be seen.

  18. Re:so trade bills on Trade Bill Fails In the House · · Score: 1

    Many of the Asian countries hate China. And not just "they are spying on me!" hate, this is personal. They joined the TPP trade talks as protection against China, so there is little chance they will join with China any time soon.

  19. Re:Why DMCA take down notice? on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 2

    A computer virus is copyrightable, just like any other code. What the code is used for has no effect on the copyright status.

  20. Re:Airtel got caught, what about others? on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 1

    Http should prevent code injection, provided the server that handles the http stuff isn't compromised. When the ISP that owns the server is the one doing the injection, the server is compromised.

  21. Re:Of course, it's likely copyrighted. on Developer Draws Legal Threat For Exposing Indian Telco's Net Neutrality Violation · · Score: 1

    Publishing on the internet does NOT extinguish your copyright. The author (web page owner) legally requires permission from the (slimeball) corporation to publish their copyrighted material. The author might be able to sue for impersonation (they pretended the stuff they served was from the author), and they (corp) might be liable for defamation (they served up adds on his website without consent and made it look like he (author) was doing it), but they most certainly have the right to block him publishing their code.

  22. Re:It's not sharing if you are paying for it. on A Music-Sharing Network For the Unconnected · · Score: 1

    I like their rates, waiting for that on Itunes. Oh right, region based prices. Of course once we make a darknet that actually stays dark, we'll all be able to pick and choose where we buy things.

  23. Re:Free Speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    You are suggesting the East India company was small? How about the Hudsons bay corporation? As well the smaller multi-nationals were willing to work together for mutual benefit, example the corporations that staged the American war of independence to protest English taxes.

  24. Re:Free Speech on Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted · · Score: 1

    You don't need all the voters, you just need half to show up at his office. If half the registered voters (in a single riding) show up it means they will vote against him because of this single (fixable) issue, meaning the money (bribes) won't work (get him elected). People keep calling our elected reps stupid, but our actions keep proving they're not.

  25. Re:Encryption users agree: on Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! · · Score: 1

    Letting the corporations run the world as a collection of fiefdoms isn't better than what we have now.