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  1. Nuclear Winter - the solution to global warming on North Korea Claims It Detonated Its First Hydrogen Bomb (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    North Korea is trying to save the planet.

  2. When men were real men, and women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

  3. Re:Downloads that don't count against your limit on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    If you want to watch something else, turn it off and use up your data limit.

  4. Downloads that don't count against your limit on EFF: T-Mobile "Binge On" Is Just Throttling of All Data (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    You're getting free downloads, and you are upset that they are slow? Turn it off, get them fast and use up your data allotment.

  5. Re:More like 0.1% -- IPv6 traffic is special purpo on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am.

  6. Will last until ISIS attacks on Dutch Government Backs Strong Encryption, Condemns Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Then they will be tracking everything trying to root them out.

  7. Re:More like 0.1% -- IPv6 traffic is special purpo on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    My cell phone traffic has been IPv6 for years. Every time I watch a youtube video, piles of IPv6 traffic flow. A large amount of network traffic is now handheld related.

  8. In the year 2525, if man is still alive on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If woman can survive, they may find...IPv6 deployment completed.

  9. Protecting the minority view from the majority on When Hacking Vigilantism Infringes On Free Speech (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    "All . . . will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson

  10. Just because it has an archaic API doesn't mean it's not a computer.

  11. Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of them! on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    We could use them to plot the course of starships! What, that's already been done??

  12. Re:Alternatively... on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 0

    Windows is 30 years old, and still in use. Hard to imagine that Windows 95 was far closer to Windows 1.0 than today.

  13. Re:Copy skylab to do what exactly? on NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    Replace "Saturn V" with "Space Launch System." It gives you a large living space that is designed to be launched, hooked to and pushed around by other spacecraft.

  14. Re:Copy Skylab on NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't read so literal. Copy the IDEA behind Skylab. The new Space Launch System also has upper stages.

  15. Skylab was built from a Saturn V upper stage. Easy to put in orbit. Designed to be hooked up to other parts of a spacecraft. Quite sizable for the planned crew. Update the design with the technology we developed over the decades since then.

  16. Didn't they hit a pipe specified in the contract? on Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that they hit a pipe and keep drilling, even though the pipe had been identified and listed in the contract?

  17. Re:Further proof on Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content · · Score: 0

    Yes. Richard Nixon did a fantastic job convincing the world covering up the Moon landing conspiracy . Unfortunately he didn't do such a good job covering up an office break in.

  18. Re:Washington D.C. on DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative (energy.gov) · · Score: 2

    Since when has DC been worried about civilian power?

  19. Re:This is an irrelevant side conversation. on SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral (planetary.org) · · Score: 1

    You're right. Let's switch to OS/2

  20. Return Nicolas Cage to Mongolia on Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keep the skull.

  21. Washington D.C. on DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    They come up with the policy, make them live with it.

  22. Re:451 on HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages (mnot.net) · · Score: 1

    418: I'm a teapot

  23. Re:Typical statist fantasy on Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let them drink Coke!

  24. Re:Capitalism is Terrorism on Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A particular capitalist may be considered a terrorist, but not the system.

  25. This is from a man who thinks capitalism is terrorism.