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  1. Let's imagine this is a MIRV with 15 separate warheads

    No need to imagine it's a MIRV. It actually is.

    From TFA:
    The prospective missile, weighing at least 100 tons, features a large payload capacity â" reportedly up to 10 tons â" and is expected to have up to 10 heavy or 16 lighter warheads, or a combination of a number of warheads with decoys and other counter-measures to suppress enemy missile defenses.

  2. Re:Headline bait and switch on Amazon May Handle 30% Of All US Retail Sales (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a bigger difference than most people will probably assume. Online retail sales in the US were around $300 billion last year while retail sales at brick and mortar stores in the US were around $4 trillion. Online is only 7% of the total.

  3. Re:Will he be extradited? on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    No. The US does not have an extradition treaty with Russia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. He also said he was going to become President on John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Apparently you defend a clique putting out the claims that all the autism cases are 'just' genetic defects of the parents

    That shows how very little you know about actual autism research.

    We know that it seems to be triggered by more than just genetics. Encephalitis in the child (which can be caused by a variety infectious organisms) and the mother contracting rubella during pregnancy are just two of the things that seem to be able to trigger it which have nothing to do with genetics. There are more potential causes as well, but you wouldn't know that because all you've bothered to read is anti-MMR propoganda.

    While there are genes that make it more likely that a child will develop autism, they do not guarantee that it will happen and no autism researcher has ever claimed anything of the sort. The only place that argument gets made is in straw man arguments put forth by anti-vaxxers like yourself.

  6. Yes, my response would be the same if it where Trump's email. Hacking anyone's email is illegal. Illegal actions do not become acceptable just because you don't like the person they're directed towards.

  7. The public is ignorant of the content of your emails. If you feel so strongly that the public should know everything, why don't you go ahead and post your username and password here so everyone can take a look. You don't want the public to be ignorant, after all.

  8. Apparently you don't understand the difference between holding an opinion and promoting false, misleading or deceptive information. Would you be as quick to defend Samsung if they had put out full page ads claiming that all the Note 7 fires were just scammers trying to get money? After all, it's just an opinion and it doesn't hurt anyone, right?

  9. Re:Just don't. on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Actually, at a wedding is probably the most appropriate us for this sort of technology out of all of the types of events listed.

    Almost every wedding will have a professional photographer trying to get really good shots... and almost every wedding will have some dumbass who picks an important moment to step out in front of that photographer in order to a shitty cell phone photo. Some people are just that clueless (and no... "don't invite them to the wedding" doesn't work because psychic powers aren't real and there's no way to know who is going to be stupid during the wedding).

  10. Re:Yet again... on 5-Year-Old Hosting Service AllMyVideos, No Longer Profitable, To Shut Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The federal interest rate has absolutely nothing to do with a business failing after five years of losing money. Some of the actual reasons are mentioned in the article that you obviously didn't bother to read.

  11. That's not Google you're looking at. It's a mirror.

  12. Pork explosion... really? on Android Devices That Contain Foxconn Firmware May Have a Secret Backdoor (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Security defects have to be explained to managers in order to justify spending time and money on fixes. Going to a manager and saying "we have a problem with pork explosion" is a good way to ensure that you'll be dismissed out of hand.

    I don't know what peculiar mental abnormality is causing security researchers to keep trying to top each other in coming up with the stupidest name possible for exploits, but they really need to re-think what they're doing and how it makes them look to the rest of the world.

  13. Re:Mistake in the mistake on You Can Now Claim Your Cash In the PS3 'Other PS3' Settlement (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you meant "Mistake in the other PS3"

  14. What you describe wouldn't be caused by the OS. It would be caused by the program placing the bad data in non-volatile storage and trying to use the data again when it's re-launched after crashing.

  15. Kuru is the term you're looking for.

  16. Re:the real criminal here... on RIAA Seizes Wrong MP3Skull Domain (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
  17. Nothing in the 15 point checklist requires perfect safety. In fact, most of the items are just "it should include something that tries to do X" where X is "obey local traffic laws", "refuse to go into automatic mode if sensors are damaged", "save data if there's a crash" and "switch safely from autopilot to manual control."

    The actual document can be found here and simple summary that leaves out a lot can be found here.

  18. She also wants to destroy all humans on Talking 'Sofia' Robot Tells 60 Minutes That It's Sentient And Has A Soul (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    She said so during a different interview, and surely anything she says is the product of a coherent thought process and not just a chatbot spitting out phrases.

  19. Re:Upstaged by Trump on WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would be such a good argument if Trump hadn't been fat shaming women, telling people to go hunt down porn and talking about a newswoman bleeding out of her "whereever" in just the last few weeks.

    Unfortunately for your argument, Trump's behavior has made it incredibly clear that he has not changed at all, despite his protests to the contrary.

  20. Re:Explained...by a dude who knows there's a webca on Bigfoot Spotted Sneaking Around Below Bald Eagle Nest, Multiple Outlets Report (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We should start a GoFundMe to buy Bigfoot a selfie stick.

  21. Re:WTF is "deplaned"? on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Parkways are where you drive and driveways are where you park.

    Deplane is in the dictionary and is a real word, despite your unfamiliarity with it.

    English isn't all that logical, so stop making an idiot yourself by pretending that it is and complaining when you see a word you don't agree with.

  22. Re:?No comprendo? on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    you cannot put out a lithium fire

    You're wrong. The FAA produced a video showing several methods of extinguishing lithium battery fires ranked in order of effectiveness using the things available onboard the aircraft.

  23. Re:The problem is the battery itself on Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phone Catches Fire on Southwest Plane (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you'd bothered to read the article, you'd have seen the part where it said "Green said that he had powered down the phone as requested by the flight crew." Flight crews don't ask you to power down your phone after the flight is over.

  24. OMG! Buzzfeed isn't a bastion of real news? on BuzzFeed Hacked By OurMine As Group Accuses Site of Publishing 'Fake News' (thedrum.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Right now, the front page of Buzzfeed includes such insightful articles as "23 Study Superstitions That Helped People Pass Exams", "We Know Your Fave 'Mean Girls' Character Based On Your Fave Cheese" and "All 47 Vice Presidents, Ranked by Hotness".

    The only shocking thing here is that the hackers seem to think that people see Buzzfeed as a source of real news.

  25. Re:The gauntlet has been thrown on Johnson & Johnson Discloses That Its Insulin Pump Is Hackable (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    No. It's RF, so line of sight isn't required, but the article says the range is about 25 feet.

    In addition, you have to capture packets from the remote in order to get the pairing key in order to spoof commands to the pump. Every pump in the vicinity would have to have been paired with the same remote in order for one broadcast to affect them all.