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  1. Re:Real results announced here on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 1

    Looks like it is Boeing and Spacex.

  2. They really landed on the other moon on WSJ Reports Boeing To Beat SpaceX For Manned Taxi To ISS · · Score: 2

    The Apollo missions actually landed on the other moon. There is a big international conspiracy to hide the fact that Earth has two moons.

  3. Wait until global warming really kicks in on Solar Powered Technology Enhances Oil Recovery · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have just waited for global warming to really kick in. The oil would be warm enough to extract without any added heat.

  4. Re:Red dwarfs form from so little matter on The Exoplanets That Never Were · · Score: 1

    In the case of Jupiter, the original gas cloud is falling toward the Sun. Once the Sun becomes a protostar, the solar wind and light pressure pushes the infalling gas back out, away from the Sun, and toward Jupiter. A red dwarf generates far less wind and light pressure, and there is less stuff to start with. It doesn't mean that planets can't form, it just lowers the probability.

  5. Red dwarfs form from so little matter on The Exoplanets That Never Were · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not surprised that there are no planets. Red dwarfs form from very small amounts of matter, and don't have the luminosity or stellar wind to stop the in-fall of matter into the central star. I don't doubt they can form, the same way double stars form, but the odds are lower. Just a lot less initial material to start with.

  6. Mods are asleep on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 2

    Post Ponies!

  7. Re:ROFL LMAO LOOOOL on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    Somebody will start submitting DMCA takedown requests on everything.

  8. Re:We are Anonymous. We are Legion. on After Celebrity Photo Leaks, 4chan Introduces DMCA Policy · · Score: 1

    You know what you doing

  9. Re:Don't know where the code runs on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no one not know one.

  10. Don't know where the code runs on Does Learning To Code Outweigh a Degree In Computer Science? · · Score: 1

    One of our Java development teams was discussing a new project, and one stated she doesn't know where the code runs. I over heard this, and went over to join the discussion. This is one of our best teams, and know one knew the answer. So I explained how Java Server Pages compile, and where each piece physically runs on multi-tier architecture. When these people learned to code, they learn though an IDE. Hit compile, and deploy the code, and it goes off into wonderland to run. They never learn how it actually happens. Have the same issue with SQL. Without the mathematical knowledge behind it, coders can't write complicated queries. Just learning to code is a good career, but you also need someone with the depth of knowledge to make it all work.

  11. Re:Mission Critical ... Red Hat... LOL.. on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    I used to use AIX. Was a trained AIX admin. Haven't used one since very early 90's.

  12. Re:Mission Critical ... Red Hat... LOL.. on How Red Hat Can Recapture Developer Interest · · Score: 1

    Right on! That is why we use Sun.

  13. P=NP on Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide · · Score: 0

    Is this controversy anything like the P=NP debate?

  14. Re:Munich - sort of like Detroit? on Munich Council Say Talk of LiMux Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    That's it, no BMW for you.

  15. Re:Are the sites you want to visit ready? on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 1

    I don't want to visit sites. Our users visit our site. IPv6 can be tunneled through IPv4, if the ISPs support it. IPv4 can be tunneled through IPv6. You can start the conversion in many places, and support the rest until the transition is done.

  16. Re:Let's all leave Twitter to the bots on Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots · · Score: 1

    Sorry for the duplicate.

  17. Yes, Please on The IPv4 Internet Hiccups · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We changed all our systems over time to handle this great IPv6 change, and haven't used IPv6 yet. Our service provider doesn't even offer it. Come on, some of us are more than ready. We will probably have failures, because it hasn't been truly tested, but we are far more ready than we were for Y2K.

  18. Let's all leave Twitter to the bots on Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots · · Score: 1

    They seem to be having fun. I wonder if the company would notice.

  19. Let's all leave Twitter to the bots on Twitter Reports 23 Million Users Are Actually Bots · · Score: 1

    Let them have thier fun. I wonder if the company would even notice.

  20. Re:Politicians - Ignorant, Stupid, or Conmen? on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    and NASA gave up on the LEO mission, and decided to contract it out. Spacex is much farther along on that mission than anyone else.

  21. Re:Su-35 on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 2

    The Su35 is an obsolete design. It may be new, but it is based on a very old aircraft design. It would be like saying that the F15E is state of the art. And, the Su35 is so great that no one but the Russians even want it. And the Russians only have 34. There are about 150 F35s completed or being finished.

  22. Re:Not So Fast... on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 2

    But, it was NASA who wouldn't let them deploy it, due to safety limits placed on ISS support missions. The company who contracted them to launch the satellite knew that was a possibility before the launch, and were willing to take the risk. They gambled on getting a discount on the launch, and the risk didn't pay off. That isn't Spacex' fault. The Falcon 9 could have done both, but doing so would have violated NASA's huge safety margin.

  23. Re:Not So Fast... on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 2

    Um, what satellite has Spacex blown up? They had 3 test failures of the Falcon 1, which is retired. The Falcon 9 has yet to fail. That's a better record than anyone else.

  24. Re:You don't say.... on 3 Congressmen Trying To Tie Up SpaceX · · Score: 1

    If the F35 is obsolete, all other aircraft in the world are also. To make an aircraft which is not already obsolete requires trillions of dollars. No one has come up with a way to build a war winning aircraft which is not complicated and expensive.

  25. Re:Big Challenge on Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable · · Score: 1

    The Chinese will be able to hack us 100 times faster.