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  1. Re:An Old Idea Resurrected - Again on Optical Levitation, Space Travel, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity · · Score: 1

    Might as well wait until after landing to thaw.

  2. Re:That's quite a leap on Optical Levitation, Space Travel, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity · · Score: 1

    Can you get more acceleration out of scooping the interstellar hydrogen atom than you lose from that atom hitting your ship at high speed in the wrong direction?

  3. Re: people ruin everything on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In fact, sufficiently large non-violent protests would bring down the government -- if it can work in non-democracies like Egypt and Tunisia, it would certainly work in the USA. Guns would just provide the government with an excuse for terrorism charges.

  4. Re: what's wrong with public transportation? on Is Google CEO's "Tiny Bubble Car" Yahoo CEO's "Little Bubble Car"? · · Score: 1

    Well at least people are getting much closer to spherical, if not rational.

  5. Re:But Does It Support Subsidized Time? on Terran Computational Calendar Introduces Minimonths, Year Bases, and Datemods · · Score: 1

    Try the Chinese system, then. It's the year of the horse, brought to you by a consortium of horse racing interests, breeders and horseshoe companies.

  6. Re:It's still accepted... on Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity · · Score: 1

    An approximation for certain contexts, which happen to be the common ones in our everyday experience. Newtonian physics is wildly wrong on some things further from our regular experience.

  7. Re:Instead of a new TV I guess on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Once you have a monopoly, there's nowhere left to go but down.

  8. Re:Wound in the Force on The Andromeda Galaxy Just Had a Bright Gamma Ray Event · · Score: 1

    They were on route to Alderaan at the time Obi-wan says that, and arrive a few minutes later to a debris field and a death star that could've been hanging around for hours to days, so it could easily have been slower than light.

  9. Re:Summary starts with a foolish assumption on The Singularity Is Sci-Fi's Faith-Based Initiative · · Score: 1

    Is there reason to believe that people are smart enough to write programs that can learn to be smarter? The possibility of machine intelligence is limited by human intelligence. It's all very well to say that machines will learn to program themselves, but someone has to be the first to teach them, and it has not yet been established if we're smart enough to do that.

  10. Re:Firefox FTW! on Google Starts Blocking Extensions Not In the Chrome Web Store · · Score: 1

    Non-profit foundations aren't 100% trustworthy, but they have a better track record than individuals.

  11. Re:LOL on Robyn Bergeron Stepping Down As Fedora Project Leader · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There are quite a lot of web hosting companies which use Fedora out there.

  12. Re:Divide and get conquered on Robyn Bergeron Stepping Down As Fedora Project Leader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There've been both desktop and server users of Fedora for ten years. Giving them separate install images instead of making them choose differently from a single installer is not going to hurt anything, and might make testing and deployment very slightly simpler.

  13. Re:The Soviets did not sterilize their landers on Curiosity Rover May Have Brought Dozens of Microbes To Mars · · Score: 1

    Source please. Everything I'm seeing says the Soviet Mars landers were sterilized to prevent contamination.

  14. Re:Well, I doubt the russians were so careful by t on Curiosity Rover May Have Brought Dozens of Microbes To Mars · · Score: 1

    The USSR also signed the outer space treaty, and made every effort to sterilize according to their obligations.

  15. Re: Do the same for EMAIL on XMPP Operators Begin Requiring Encryption, Google Still Not Allowing TLS · · Score: 1

    Most computer-generated emails aren't spam. Email notifications from websites can't take a minute to generate.

  16. Re:Thinking inside the box on NASA Looks To Volcanic Rocks As Target For Next Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    We're nowhere remotely close to having the technology to drill through Europa or Enceladus. We've never drilled anywhere near that far into Earth, with all the heavy equipment we have here. The fact that it's ice doesn't really help, it's harder-than-rock ice and melting it will probably take similar energy to melting rock on Earth.

  17. Re:Based on a theory that may not be true on NASA Looks To Volcanic Rocks As Target For Next Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    Just a theory, but it's theorized that life on earth may have originated at deep sea vents. If we don't know how long life on Mars lasted or how far it colonized, it makes sense to look for it at the most likely origin point.

  18. Re:New improved formula! Radiation Free! on Fujitsu Is Growing Radiation-Free Lettuce In Japan's Fukushima Prefecture · · Score: 1

    More appropriate XKCD showing the amonut of radiation in one banana: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

  19. Re:probably related to current events. on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Three works, and it works because we're beholden as members of NATO to protect our allies.

    Erm, no NATO countries have been threatened by Russia.

  20. Re:The 1.0 release notes say it did on Mozilla Launches Student Coding Program "Winter of Security" · · Score: 1

    0.1 you mean. Firefox 1.0 was years later long after most of us had started using it.

  21. Re:yachts on Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War · · Score: 1

    Well they won't need customers anymore if they patent the propeller.

  22. Re:More government control, that's the ticket on Proton-M Rocket Carrying Russia's Most Advanced Satellite Crashes · · Score: 1

    In America, the life support machine stays on until the bank account runs dry. That's not a good thing. Length of technical "life" is not the goal, quality of life is the goal. And of course, the life expectancy still ends up being longer in Europe as well.

  23. Re:Sacramento is nice and all, but it's still... on Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub? · · Score: 1

    According to city-data.com, the cost of living in Sacramento is cheaper than the national average cost of living. And it's certainly cheap for me, though I can't speak to taxes on 6 figure incomes.

  24. Re:Hmmm... on Can Google Influence Elections? · · Score: 1

    Proof? Go to http://news.google.com/ and observe how each story has numerous different versions of it linked.

  25. Re:Assad on Journalist vs. the Syrian Electronic Army · · Score: 2

    Remove a dictator with a revolution and you're likely to get chaos and extremism, unless it was a short term dictator in a country with a strong history of bureaucratic institutions. Not unique to the middle east, the DRC after Mobutu is an obvious example.