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  1. Re:Last time one was used? on SpaceX Testing Passenger Escape System Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    If the superdraco engines and the associated tankage were only used as abort insurance (thus tomorrow's tests), maybe -- but you'd have to convince nasa for whom it is a manned certification requirement (even though the shuttle didn't have an equivalent system for many conditions - see challenger). In addition you completely missed the fact that the same engines and tankage are planned to be used for capsule recovery.

  2. Re:Looks like the prophet's gunmen on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    I have no doubt that the anonymous coward troll without the courage to post under his own name would want to carry a gun because he is afraid of the police (because...). However, I doubt that that is the reason eth1 does.

    People with legal arms are very rarely those who have anything to fear from the police.

  3. Re:Suicide mission on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see nothing unfortunate in two men willing to take lives over cartoons being killed themselves before they were able to kill anyone.

    You find drawings of Mohammed offensive and want to organise a non-violent protest? I support your right to do so.

  4. Looks like the prophet's gunmen on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 5, Funny

    were slow at the draw - texas style...

  5. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Sure, lets ban that. Then we can ban all images of the unveiled female face given that many people find that equally provocative.

  6. Re: She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Why stop your censorship at that image? Many people in the world consider the unveiled female face to be sexually provocative. To be logically coherent you also need to ban the images as well but I see nothing in your posts calling for this too. Why are you not sensitive to their views as well?

  7. Re:She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    You need to be voted up as both informative & insightful. Unfortunately I don't have mod points at the moment.

  8. Re:What's the point ? on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Launches Its First Rocket · · Score: 1

    And what happens when there is the least problem in Bezos' spanking new engine? BOOM as there is no redundancy & no way to add it in later.

    I prefer the non BOOM version.

  9. Re:Instead... on 'Mobilegeddon': Google To Punish Mobile-Hostile Sites Starting Today · · Score: 5, Informative

    The list of sites where the mobile version is poorer than the normal one includes /. with beta and those sites that refuse to let me zoom into the content instead of forcing me to see tiny text next to oversize ads.

  10. Snort! Sure it would...
    By your logic offering puppies would also be a valid incentive to getting criminals to turn themselves in.

  11. Thanks for this & your other posts which spell out how I feel as well.

  12. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    F9R & grasshopper were ballasted to a weight within the throttle limits of the engines, even empty...

  13. Re:It's been nice knowing y'all on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    Way to go there, champ: When you cannot address the fact that the study made claims with what should have been clearly evident invalidating flaws, use one pirouette after another to avoid addressing the flaws themselves. What's next? A criticism of my grammar or punctuation?

    The topic is not ocean acidification (which no-one is contesting), it is whether the species extinction which occurred after the Permian mega eruptions are uniquely incumbent on acidification due to augmenting CO2 levels without attempting to take into account (for starters) the accompanying sulfur & ash emissions would have on the global climate.

    It's not attacking the messenger when one points out that a position has invalidating flaws (nor is it when noting that such flaws should have been self-evident).

  14. Re:It's been nice knowing y'all on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    So, in your opinion the climate effects of sulfur and ash from mega volcanoes sufficiently active to cover a surface equivalent to Europe is directly equivalent to the passage of CO2 from 300ppm to 400 or even 500ppm. Care to justify what is clearly an enormous mistake? How about trying to explain how any serious scientist could make such a mistake?

    Please do so without referring to anyone capable of making such an elementary mistake in a derogatory fashion, we wouldn't want you to again ignore the forest because of the trees in the way.

  15. Re:Wouldn't be a problem for Shuttle or DreamChase on SpaceX To Try a First Stage Recovery Again On April 13 · · Score: 1

    Because side-stacking has been proven to be an inherently dangerous technology?
    Because the shuttle launch-refurb-refurb-refurb-refurb-refurb-refurb-launch cycle has been proven to be extremely costly?
    Because the cross-range capability that wings add has zero utility and even the AF which forced it's adoption on the shuttle doesn't want it anymore, other than for two x vehicles that they have launched a grand total of twice?
    Because the shuttle was only 1970's tech and only somewhat viable at great effort & cost?
    Because, contrary to your misguided opinion, no-one in the last century had the guidance and computer capability necessary to make landing a first stage reliably possible?
    Because the rational among us are glad to see the end of that white elephant?

  16. Re:It's been nice knowing y'all on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    The Idiots publishing this "study" also completely overlook any side-effects of gargantuan volcanic eruptions on the climate. Atmospheric CO2 causing acidification is apparently the same the same to them as as gigatons of Sulfur. Climate effects of all the ash in the atmosphere? No incidence, apparently...

  17. Re:Patent? on Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue · · Score: 4, Informative

    Non-use of the _trademark_ for a commercial product puts the trademark,up for grabs after 30 years. This is what is happening here.

  18. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    Did I say that CP was a solution for the general public or covered all cases? No. I said that CP is generally useful in the absence of anything better in the browsers to the /. public.

    Other than junking the present certificate system & replacing it with something else, do you have a better suggestion than CP? Anything useful today?

  19. Re:Mozilla formulating a plan? on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless this has changed, deleting the ingrown CAs in chrome & Firefox has little effect as they reappear if you quit & relaunch the application. It's why I installed the Certificate Patrol plugin which at least lets me see when certificates change.

  20. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 2

    That any of the "trusted" CAs could issue a cert for any site is why we should all be using the Certificate Patrol or another equivalent plugin that also notifies when ANY certificates change instead of just blindly accepting them. It adds a little admin to browsing the web as I have to accept/reject expired certificates.

    In a number of cases it has alerted me when on client sites that they perform SSL inspection so that I can avoid using anything sensitive like banking.

  21. Re:Will no-one think of the consequences? on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    Well of course, better US than THEM, no?

  22. Will no-one think of the consequences? on NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens · · Score: 1

    First the Chinese with their ASAT test that polluted LowEarthOrbit with thousands of fragments. Now the europeans want to zap a asteroidal moon! when will the madness stop?

    (/humor) for the slow witted...

  23. Re:I hope this is a april fools. on Amazon Moves "Buy Now" Into the Physical World, With the Dash Button · · Score: 1

    I never used it for it's intended purpose but I found the cuecat (along with a 50 line perl script) to be a great help in cataloging all my books years back.

  24. Re:Yawn on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 0

    Do you think that there are few women in tech because many of us found the pink OMG Ponies theme to be funny? The surprise & amusement that we felt in discovering the pink theme is no more sexist than the humor we all felt when a previously bearded colleague came in clean shaven one morning.

  25. Re:Yawn on Tatooine Youth Suspected In Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    OMG Ponies! was funny even if it's been a loong time.