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  1. Re:The US is broke for these kinds of projects on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    The $17 billion Nasa will get in 2014

    So that just about pays for one whole Super-Sexy K-9050 Uber-Abrams Mark V, right?

  2. Re:This could be a big problem for Republicans on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    The Troubles began in the late 1960s and is considered by many to have ended with the Belfast Good Friday Agreement of 1998. However, sporadic violence has continued since then.

    Ours, however, only lasted 4-5 years. Which I guess reinforces your point that we can't really meaningfully compare the two (?).

  3. Re:This could be a big problem for Republicans on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    The other side of the coin would be, if the parties are too fluid in their stances, why would I want to vote for anyone if they're likely to switch to the other side of the issue that gained them my vote in the first place?

    Not that I'm defending our "dig your heels in and scream NOOOOOO!!!" system :P Although I would settle for the campaign platform actually being followed after election.

  4. Re:good lord on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    I would assume they're both named after the Phoenician princess rather than Europa being named after Europe.

  5. Re:Just proves the anticensorship case. on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    Ah. I was having a rather difficult time deciphering your boolean logic. Although if we're talking about an automated filtering process, you just know that there will be false positives and negatives pretty much no matter what, too.

  6. Re:Bullshit! on Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs · · Score: 1

    This is what we get when the journalists get ahold of some technical info and start waving it around with the safety off. I assumed from reading the summary that even if the functionality was "permanently disabled", if the code was already built into the browser, you would just have to find the right bits to twaddle in the binary to enable it. Although I guess that is indeed "permanent" for the vast majority of users.

  7. Re:Just proves the anticensorship case. on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 1

    <pedant>How would porn not count as an "artistic value"? And wouldn't putting on a wristband or something technically disqualify you from being "completely nude"?</pedant>

    Like they say, "I know porn when I see it." I posit that you can't legally delineate child porn vs. family bathing pictures because the difference is psychological rather than physical.

  8. Re:Headline Contradicts Summary on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I have for a long time now assumed that every article summary is out to mislead us somehow (malice vs. incompetence etc.) so I can't say I'm surprised.

  9. Re:Well, at least... on Government Accuses Sprint of Overcharging For Wiretapping Expenses · · Score: 1

    Basically the government is complaining that when they told Sprint to bend over and prepare for right violations, they didn't lube up sufficiently before the NSA went to town...

  10. Re:Open Source it on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Well if we take that software development observation into account, "More workers make the project take longer," we'd basically be in a race with the heat death of the universe for the project finishing if there were a million people involved.

  11. Re:Open Source it on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    I think a million is being grossly overoptimistic. Maybe several thousand.

    For comparison, there were 1,316 kernel devs involved in Linux 3.2.

    http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/...

  12. Re: They would have to take budget from somewhere on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    Sure.

  13. Re:They would have to take budget from somewhere e on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 2

    I don't mind paying taxes, I just wish they wouldn't be spent idiotically on unnecessary military bloat and partisan posturing.

  14. Headline Contradicts Summary on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    No, nobody "forgot" how to do it; the hardware simply doesn't exist anymore. It's an implementation detail, not a knowledge gap. (Unless it's the other way around and the summary is wrong while the headline is right.)

  15. Re:Restore from backup on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Assuming that the backups have the same or better security and a sufficiently short backup period, sure.

  16. Re:Why?? on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 2

    Yeah, because obviously they'd design a secure, self-destructing phone to be trivially abusable over USB. I bet it even has autorun enabled by default.

  17. Re:Real Costs on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Yes, we're replacing the capabilities he compromised.

    Well that's the problem right there (if true).

  18. Re:Capcom suicide on Inside Boeing's New Self-Destructing Smartphone · · Score: 1

    As we're going along here, we seem to be getting tighter security for the cost of a steadily increasing chance of one of these customers accidentally destroying all their data.

  19. Re:What do they expect it to say? on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    *"GEMA ist Scheisse" would be the correct way to spell that (or es-tset if you prefer).

  20. Re:And when the came for me... on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 1

    You have no chance to survive make your time.

  21. Re:heresy, everywhere heresy on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 1
  22. Re:heresy, everywhere heresy on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 1

    Not sure which is worse: you calling someone a faggot for not reason, or not even knowing how to spell it properly...

  23. Re:What did you expect? on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 1

    Although after watching a show quite a number of times, I'm no longer convinced Mal was this ethical paragon that people make him out to be. He seemed to go out of his way to make his crew think he was about to do something bad and say, "Just trust me." It turned out a minute of screen time later that that *wasn't* what he was going to do, but he seemed to be intentionally misleading.

    That, and his whole "you're on the crew, you're family" mantra seemed to be veeeery malleable when he wanted it to be.

    Although this reinforces my saying that there's a Firefly quote for every occasion ;)

  24. Re:And when the came for me... on 'Obnoxious' RSA Protests, RSA Remains Mum · · Score: 1

    (sig)

  25. Re:Why SHOULD there be acceptance? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Kind of surprised that nobody brought up this good point earlier in the conversation...

    And was this gal at a bar by herself, i.e. not with any friends along? Can't say that sounds like a good idea either, unless you're in a posh restaurant bar or something. (Just observing reality, but I suppose I'll be accused of blaming the victim.)