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  1. Re:In the NOT so distant future.... on Google Launches Identity Verification Badge Scheme · · Score: 1

    ME GUSTA

  2. Re:Score on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 0

    Until they come up with "god-guided falling" to replace gravity.

    Remember, creationism is fundamentally a new thing, unique to American evangelicals. Who's to say some wacko who managed to get elected somewhere high won't wake up tomorrow and decide Jesus told him special relativity/quantum theory/Bayes' theorem are the spawn of the devil?

  3. Re:Maybe next year... on A Decade of Haiku OS · · Score: 1

    We live in a quantized universe, everything is "discrete", continuity is a mathematical concept that doesn't exist in reality if you look deep enough.

  4. Re:The whole space program is private anyway on SpaceX Given Approval For ISS Mission · · Score: 1

    Roscosmos and the Chinese National Space Administration would like a word with you, at least as far as manned missions' survival ratio is concerned.

  5. Re:ITS NOT REAL-WORLD MONEY! on EVE Online Ponzi Scheme Nets $50k Worth of In-Game Currency · · Score: 2

    You can sell them on the in-game market for in-game currency. You can't (legitimately) sell them for real money.

  6. Re:Question about DRM on Early Look At The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim · · Score: 2, Informative

    In all of Bethesda's previous games, the answer to that would be an unambiguous 'yes'. They haven't indicated anything to suggest different for Skyrim.

  7. Re:Replicator economy or peak employment? on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 2

    Whoa.
    Whoa whoa.

  8. Re:Executive summary on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Vs. iPad 2 Review · · Score: 0

    Android has caught up and has, in fact, overtaken iOS on the smartphone in both polish and market share some time ago. You can't expect them to do it within a year of Apple magicking out a new category of devices.

  9. the password is "password" on Pakistan Tries To Ban Encryption · · Score: 1

    -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
    Version: APG v1.0.8

    jA0ECQMChZ3RwgUsAJdg0lEBYUPJE99vUuXd5HppJFBZM0enqVmr8C8x6BYdUtBi
    B1ndcpYpk8T7zotMlr/7SuS13rdg3gvvHsECU8sLNLIeUaWrWNGoMpIvRBosCuLa
    dvU=
    =OgVf
    -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

  10. Re:PC? on Raspberry Pi $25 PC Goes Into Alpha Production · · Score: 1

    I can't see a standard Ubuntu running well with only 128MB of RAM. They'll need to do some heavy customization to make it fit.

    It's already been done, it's called Xubuntu/Lubuntu (take your pick).

  11. Re:Payback for Mir on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    USSR/Russia had much more ambitious plans for Mir 2, but most of their modules failed to get any funding, and they managed to get some extra money by agreeing to put the remaining ones on Space Station Alpha instead of launching their own space station.

  12. Re:How do you bring this down precisely? on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    The Pacific is large enough, they can afford a, say, 1000km by 500km target ellipse. And most of the stuff that's likely to break off is also likely to burn up before it hits the ground.

  13. Payback for Mir on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    Mir was deorbited thanks to American politicians who were eager to get on with Space Station Alpha (later renamed to ISS and a couple Russian modules bolted on as a consolation prize). This is righteous retribution.

  14. Re:Unmanned I assume on Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS · · Score: 1

    I didn't say "comfortable" or "in control", I said "would have had a pleasant flight". The first flight only lasted a few hours, waste disposal facilities wouldn't really be necesarry as long as you remembered to "go" before the flight. And yes, people have routinely survived far more taxing acceleration and re-entry profiles than the Falcon-9's and the Dragon's, during the programs of the 60's space race.

  15. Re:Space on The Rain On Saturn Falls Mainly From Space · · Score: 1

    No, his answer is that in the age where events like rain were explained by "mythology/tradition", people couldn't possibly have known it if rain originated from the moon.

  16. Re:Unmanned I assume on Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS · · Score: 1

    It's unmanned, but fully pressurised. Even without additional oxygen, there'd be more than enough air for a single person to last the few orbits demo flight #1 completed before re-entering and landing safely.

  17. Re:Unmanned I assume on Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS · · Score: 1

    NASA's man-rating program is just bureaucracy. If a man wearing a shirt and pants were to sit down in the Dragon during the first demonstration launch, he'd have had a pleasant flight.

  18. Re:Twitter + on Is Twitter Rendered Obsolete By Google+? · · Score: 1

    That's cute, but even if you "follow" someone, you only see his public posts unless they also add you to a circle and share a post with that circle. And I have a feeling there won't be many public posts on Google+, seeing as how most people are treating it as Facebook without the privacy issues.

  19. Re:BFT on Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10 · · Score: 2

    >implying the ubuntu team won't lock thunderbird in with a gazillion "system integration hacks" just like they did with evolution

  20. Re:Animal torture on Homemade 'Mars In a Bottle' Tortures Bacteria · · Score: 1

    The ones with nervous systems complex enough to be considered "brains".

  21. Re:Life could have started anywhere on CERN Lends a Hand To the Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    The universe far older than our solar system or galaxy and keeps getting "older" with each generation of space telescopes.

    Yes, it gets a day older, every single day! Those darn kids with their darn space telescopes, get the heck off my lawn!

  22. Re:Duh! on Historic Pairing: Shuttle Docked To the ISS · · Score: 1

    Actually, NASA has three Space Shuttle Orbiters. But that photo wasn't taken from one of the other two (as two shuttles have never been in space at the same time), it was taken from a Soyuz spacecraft which was departing from the space station to land in Kazakhstan.

  23. Re:Ha Ha, mine goes to 11 on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    I think you need a real random source (as some device counting radioactive decay) to create the passwords in a secure manner.

    Done.

    What now?

  24. Re:He should not get shat on for this on RMS Cancels Lectures In Israel · · Score: 2

    I should have the freedom to choose any software license I want. I've had enough of his my-way-or-the-highway thinking.

    Are you saying you don't?

  25. Re:Vapor-where? on NASA Rejoins Space Race With Manned Deep Space Craft · · Score: 1

    The Sun has a stronger pull on the Moon than the Earth. However, the Moon has a much stronger pull on the Earth than it does on the Sun. The Moon-Earth system is essentially a binary orbit. The barycentre is just barely below the Earth's surface, and the moon never goes retrograde in it's heliocentric orbit (unlike the gas giants' moons, for example).