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  1. You mean like India just did for $240 million each?

  2. Re:Video of explosion on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I'm no expert, but that looks like either the self destruct or a fuel leak from the upper stage igniting, it looks right on the upper stage fuel tank.

  3. Re:My hovercraft is full of eels on Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way (grabitmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    That sentence parses fine

  4. Re:ENOUGH! on Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way (grabitmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't even read TFSummary "for PC and consoles"

  5. I've also heard scurrilous rumours the pope is a catholic

  6. Re:Qatar is not the typical arab oil sheikdom on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Aljazeera English is wonderful varied, and mostly balanced news source, Aljazeera arabic is horrible, Islamist and conservative

  7. Re:match-fixing and illegal betting is not cheatin on Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea (playerattack.com) · · Score: 1

    Paying someone to lose is not cheating? By what definition of cheating?!

  8. Re:Inflation, slow Internet, skill, slow PC on Valve Pulls the Plug On Paid Mods For Skyrim · · Score: 1

    You can speed run Super Mario in 5 minutes, can you do that with Skyrim?

  9. Re:Shocked I am! Shocked! on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 2

    A problem was found in a new library and fixed, this wasn't the PRNG itself, it was an interaction with the operating system. To quote (jandrese):
    1. Grandparent initializes SSL state, sends some data, then exits.
    2. Parent forks a child
    3. Child happens to get the same pid as the grandparent, and then uses the SSL connection.
    Why are you outraged? This was a subtle bug, that was tricky to exploit and couldn't be used to hack into the computer. You should be outraged that the heartbleed bug remain exposed for years due to awful coding practices

  10. Re:Will computers ever be as smart as us? Briefly. on Understanding an AI's Timescale · · Score: 1

    A neuron might be fast, but communicating the idea that neuron just came up with is billions/millions of times slower than that. You either have to write/type or speak it, THAT is the limiting factor with how humans might communicate with an AI (baring Sci-Fi neural interfaces)

  11. Re:Will computers ever be as smart as us? Briefly. on Understanding an AI's Timescale · · Score: 1

    The real problem is the time it takes for humans to express and communicate their ideas, speech is millions of times slower than a packet over the internet. The speed of propagation might be "fast" but the transmit time, or packet length of a word or conversation is epically slow compared to a computer. Typing at a keyboard is probably just as slow as speech. We can only receive data as fast as we can read it too, all of these thing ARE millions of times slower than a computer.

  12. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    That's a logical fallacy, just because your helmet broke does NOT mean your head would have. The helmet is, ofcourse, larger than the head, meaning things that wouldn't have touched the head, will still hit the helmet. Reflex actions that instinctively protect the head are hampered by the helmet, twisting forces can actually be made worse by a helmet.

    Then there's the whole subconscious "I feel safe so I can act more dangerously" aspect, car drivers perceiving you as safe so give you less room, and the tragic cases of children strangled by their cycle helmets [92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103]

  13. Re:Works for me on ARM Unveils Three Second-Generation Mali GPUs · · Score: 1

    -1 for deliberately playing the Americans don't do geography card

  14. Re:"shutters"? on Russian Wikipedia Shutters In Protest of Internet Blacklist Plans · · Score: 1

    Didn't we just have a story about grammar?

    Because that should have fixed everything...

    Is this a verb?

    do you never google?

  15. Public money on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Can local government just "give" money back like this? Seems like it's public money, surely it can't just be given to a private company?

  16. Re:don't be evil on China Approves Google Motorola Mobility Merger · · Score: 2

    No, the value came out of the pockets of other shareholders since their shares are diluted by the value of his created shares

  17. Re:How wonderful on Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes · · Score: 1

    What they've actually discovered is the pattern of someone's inner monologue saying "fuck it that's close enough"

  18. Re:What a bunch of complete and utter smegheads on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    They were ALL pardoned, that was right, hence all those convicted under this law should be pardoned, that would be fair

  19. Re:Something in the HoL statement makes sense: on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    I am opposed to this because it's unfair, unfair to single out one (very great admittedly) person persecuted under this law; all of the men criminalised under this law should be pardoned, since they did nothing that is wrong.

  20. Re:And the geek shall inherit the earth... on The Engineer Who Stopped Airplanes From Flying Into Mountains · · Score: 1

    CFIT - also know as "Cumulogranite" or "rock filled clouds"

  21. Re:Good luck on Project Bifrost: (Fission) Rockets of the Future? · · Score: 1

    By way of counter example, the Juno Jupiter mission uses solar panels for it's power rather than RTGs. They would generate 12-14Kw at earth but due to the distance to will only produce 486W at Jupiter.

  22. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1
    I didn't reply to dismiss your points, that has never been my aim, just pointing out the hypocrisy was enough

    "No true Scotsman"?

    You don't seem to understand the meaning of that argument, it's when someone tries to claim a member of their own group as not a true member of their own group, I couldn't make that sort of statement about libertarians, since I am not one.

    Keep trying to salvage victory tho :)

  23. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1
    I didn't reply to dismiss your points, that has never been my aim, just pointing out the hypocrisy was enough

    "No true Scotsman"?

    You don't seem to understand the meaning of that argument, it's when someone tries to dismiss a member of their own group as not a true member of their own group, I couldn't make that sort of statement about libertarians, since I am not one.

    Keep trying to salvage victory tho :)

  24. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1

    Quotes are intrinsically appeals to authority rather than intelligent argument, the quote in question is snappy but ultimately meaningless, the government controls the military so even if you have a hypothetical small government they will always have the power to take things from you via the police or the judiciary. All libertarians seem to forget a government is comprised of people, they do not become a hive mind, why do you think the phrase "activist judge" exists?

    I wasn't dismissing your post I was highlighting your hypocrisy about "ignorance and intellectual laziness" when you committed exactly the same crime.

  25. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 1

    ignorance and intellectual laziness

    Yes, well that label does apply rather well to you, since you blindly copied and pasted all that from somewhere without any checking or thought, proved by the fact that the 2nd quote attributed to Jefferson was actually said by Gerald Ford, yes that intellectual titan.