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  1. Re:Not Much You Can Do About That on 'Social Jetlag' May Be Making You Fat · · Score: 2

    well then, enjoy dying 10 years sooner then you need to.

  2. Re:Finally...the future on Disney Research Can Turn Nearly Any Surface Into a Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    Of course we have that stuff. remember when we built the forget ray so the stupid people wouldn't.. ohhh
    Nevermind.

  3. Re:Actually not a touch_screen_ as such... on Disney Research Can Turn Nearly Any Surface Into a Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    well, your site just went straight into my bookmarks.

  4. Re:A non story on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    This isn't support. This is a big gaping FLAW in their product. So they should fix their flaw. They can patch it or give away CS6, I don't care.
    This isn't a feature I woudl like. This isn't wanting more default objects. This is a major flaw.

  5. Re:This is nothing new on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    " can't be ended and renewal depends solely on the price offered (not charged) so fuck you peon."
    not true. A government agency can put out a request for a bid on something else.

  6. Re:Car analogy on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    oh, well a EULA. stop the presses.

  7. Re:What a scam on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    I would love to see it.
    Adobe made a defective product. A recall should happen.

  8. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    Not only that, the next round would be perfect~

  9. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    "provide any economic or "practical" payback to those of us here on Earth in the utilitarian sense you seem to advocate. "
    But a lot of tech developed to get there will have payback.

  10. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    BIt I can get 3 feet of soil samples.

    Look, human and robots will be doing this together. Both have strong advantage of the others.
    Would I want to send a human to talk around with a camera and test the top millimeter of soil for a year? no.
    Would I want to send a human to make a judgement call on which crevice to clime down and get samples from an areas that never sees the sun? yes.
    I would also send a lot of supplies before I launched a crew.

  11. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    You asked speculative question to something that has zero chance of happening. And she agreed you say? shocking.
    Yeah, I have an agreement with my wife to be able to sleep with then playmate of the year.

  12. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    Nothing happened. Please name a time, and time in human history, we're people went to explore and stay somewhere with no food, water or air? go on, I'll wait...no I won't.

    Planning properly and advancing is a Smart thing.

  13. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "My point is that the exploration of Earth was made by heroes willing to risk their lives and often without any hope of returning."
    I here that a lot when discussing Mars, but people seem to over look a tiny factor:
    There is Air everywhere on earth. Three is food everywhere on earth, and there is water almost everywhere on the earth.

    Columbus did not need to bring all his food, water and air for the entire duration. Also, he went home.

    If mars was habitable, you would have a point. Also, we would have a shit ton of people there already.

    NO one way is not the best, the people who would volunteer are mostly unstable type who have no clue what would be involved

    It would not be cheaper because you would be constantly sending supplies. Every week, for decades.

    Yes, if we could make it happen, there would be even more rewards.

    Remember, you can just send people. You have to send people, food, air, water, tools, lab equipment, vehicular, robots communications equipment. 100+tons of stuff.

    Is getting a permanent station a worth goal? yes, absolutely. Are we ready for that? no.

  14. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    1) No he doesn't.
    2) No, you're numbers aren't even close.

    The point of having an astronaugh is to bring back the samples.

    So, how much would it cost to bring those robots back? hmm? how much to manage 2000 robots?

  15. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    It's not the hole that we want, it's the stuff that had formally made the hole not a hole.

    " be happy to have the entire complement of NASA astronauts come by and help me out."
    Have you priced astronauts?

  16. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1, Insightful

    How many jumbo jets planes have been built?
    How many shuttles?
    How many shuttles exploded on the first few take offs?

  17. Re:HIPAA on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    Which confirms what he said.

  18. Re:My old Uni did this. on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    "Google is mining all those accounts for data and showing ads."
    It depends on the agreement. You can get space from gmail where they don't do that. Last I checked was 50 bucks an email account per year. It's all set up to look like you're organizations system.

  19. Re:We went with google on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    You left out all the expensive bits.

    Back up, electricity, manpower, space, maintenance, yada yada yada.

  20. Re:We went with google on Complaint Challenges Univ. of Hawaii Email Partnership Wth Google · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot, or have never worked with any large project.

    I work on 12 projects they will run a decade or longer. During the time there will be dozens of stake holders, plus legal requirements to maintain a history.
      1 penny per email? are you stupid?
    First off, it's about size, not number of emails.
    Secondly, the cost per email goes down depending on how many emails you have, tapering off as you approach 0. Obviously you don't achieve zero.

    Thirdly, That's an outrages prices. either you are being screwed by someone, or have grossly incompetent IT management. I suspect the latter since the metric you gave is uninformative in any real sense.

    And with all internal emails, we used shared documents, so thats generally not the issue. We do have outside people for a variety of reasons, in that case, yes we are saving attachments. And yes, I am working to getting people to evaluate a larger shared system. FYI it's not a technical problem, it's a legal one. Otherwise I would have done it.

  21. Re:Good science and hats off to him on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    Temperature keep increase regardless of 'normal' cycle.
    CO2 is a known green house gas.
    Humans releases more gas then can be absorbed in the same time period as the release.

    Those are facts. Not opinion, no actual controversy, facts.

  22. Re:No Alaska on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    true. You should write a book with the information you calculated in it. Might be valuable to others.

  23. Re:Most of the Rest of the Planet, However.... on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 0

    He is talking about the POOHA trend.

    Pulled Out Of His Ass

  24. Re:wink wink nudge nudge on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1, Interesting

    " it's not going to be the end of civilization."
    yeah, lets see what you have to say when we hit 500ppm

  25. Re:what you should do? on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    They're not mutually exclusive.