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  1. If the rootkit can close the hole on First OSX Bootkit Revealed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Then so can Apple.

    From their reaction pushing out an automatically installed security patch for the recent NTP vulnerability, I'm hoping that Apple will furnish a patch before this ever becomes more than a Blackhat proof of concept.

  2. Re:Better way? on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1

    How lucky for all of us who do not have any Java services then isn't it?

  3. Re:Elon Musk on Reddit on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that! He said a LOT more, including the first details I've seen on a Mars Colonial Transporter or MCT which seems to be a MASSIVE reusable booster capable of 100 tons to Mars Orbit which he will officially announce before the end of the year.

    Back of the envelope calculations appear to get the MCT to about 3x the mass of a Saturn V...

  4. Re:How about no on Better Learning Through Expensive Software? One Principal Thinks Not · · Score: 2

    ...we can do what other successful countries have done, which is to:

    d. Focus on reforming the teaching profession, from the ground up, so that teachers are the best educated, most well respected, most prominent members of the community.

    Where exactly is this magical land where teachers are "the best educated, most well respected, most prominent members of the community"? I've been to a lot of countries talked with a lot of teachers & professors but none fit the glass slipper you evoke.

  5. Re: Hypersonic weapons lead to nuclear war ? on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    Says who & in what context? m.shenhav "guessed" that hypersonic weapons were something new that could destabilise MAD. Now you're arguing (for ? / against ?) in an incomplete & incomprehensible statement.

  6. Re:Maybe the world as we know it might change soon on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 2

    He also re legalized slavery, which most boney cheerleaders like to gloss over...

  7. Re: Hypersonic weapons lead to nuclear war ? on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 3, Informative

    Keep guessing then. ICBM's are by definition hypersonic weapons so nothing other than better targeting has changed since the 50s.

  8. Follow the money, coward. Republicans get peanuts from Hollywood whereas it is a major source of funds for the DNC. Stop ignorantly blaming republicans for everything, the impetus for extending copyright to its ridiculously long lengths came from democrats.

  9. Hollywood a republican fief?!? In what reality? Compare how much Obama & the Dems receive in contributions from Hollywood from openly democratic actors/producers/etc & how few are openly Republican. If Hollywood is republican then the Koch brothers are democratic.

  10. Re:Developing Story on AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore · · Score: 1

    In a word? Timothy

  11. Re:Article pretty much is off in left field. on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 1

    Timothy's fans don't like it when people point out that most of what he posts is clickbait.

  12. Re:Article pretty much is off in left field. on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: -1

    You need only look at who posted it to know that it's clickbait: timothy.

  13. Re:Really? on Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors · · Score: 1

    Windows not having the same system support as OSX for usb has everything to do with it. Itunes doesn't have any CPU/USB issues on OSX. That Apple's implementation on windows is a streaming pile is not in contention.

  14. Re:Really? on Former iTunes Engineer Tells Court He Worked To Block Competitors · · Score: 0

    On windows it's a cruddy pile of shirt, but that's mostly windows as it's much better on OSX.

  15. Re:The directive does not mention google. on Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs · · Score: 1

    It's illuminating that you think that I was referring to sex as the reason that EU polititians want the right to be forgotten as more important than free speech.

    The condemned past corruption in political candidates should NOT be forgotten.

    As a means to get their financial & corruption scandals swept under the rug, well, that's not crazy talk at all. Also note that while it may not be all polititians as you are attempting to paint it, it suffices that enough party leaders think so to influence the vote. Do you want to attempt to argue that the EU doesn't have enough corrupt polititians for this to be a factor?

  16. Re: Federal Funding is not contingent on speed lim on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    Nope, not me. Someone who believes that such a document exists would.

  17. Re: Federal Funding is not contingent on speed lim on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    Really good but still not was requested (which almost certainly doesn't exist): statistics on animal collisions where v=65mph.

    The document itself states that animal collisions are merely reported as the authorities do not compile stats on accidents implicating animals, nor do they have _any_ stats on the speed at which accidents occur.

    Again, no verifiable stats on the existing speed limit being a problem so claiming that 80mph will be a major problem in animal collisions is overblown. People claiming otherwise need to come up with the stats...

  18. Re:environment on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    I've driven through much of the USA & Europe.

    A few things you seem to be missing is that TFA isn't about the general state of highways in the USA but specifically the Interstate highways in Montana.
    Germany has dividers between traffic directions that US interstates often lack but traffic directions on US Interstates are often separated by over 50 yards, rendering the dividers moot. Where the two directions come closer together in the US, as in urban areas, there are dividers and the speed limit goes down.
    Also, Interstates in Montana aren't in a densely populated area like Germany but are 99%+ straight lines that were also built before the 70's slowdown with smooth curves for higher speeds.

  19. Re:Wildlife Fencing on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a problem back when Montana didn't have a fixed speed limit & people were driving that fast, so there is no reason that it should become one now.

  20. Re: Federal Funding is not contingent on speed lim on Montana Lawmakers Propose 85 Mph Speed Limit On Interstates · · Score: 1

    When there are zero incidents of v=65 accidents with elk on highways in Montana, that "little two above the v" makes no difference to the severity of accidents. You want to say different? Come up with the stats in Montana highways.

  21. Re:oh great on Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? · · Score: 1

    You know the video everyone has seen where a guy open a faucet, lights up the output & blames it on fracking? My father lives near the town where it was done. The town is called Wellsville from back when it was America's first Oil boom region in the late 1800s and it's surrounded by tens of thousands of primitive oil wells that they just filled in once they stopped producing enough oil to be profitable around 100 years ago. It's funny that the people blaming fracking for all the methane in the groundwater never mention that people in Wellsville have always been able to light off the output of well water from a faucet installed without the filtering systems everyone who uses a well installs to avoid going boom.

    Naaaah they just believe the background commentary blaming it on fracking.

  22. Re:(Most) nuclear waste isn't waste. on Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? · · Score: 1

    The elephant in the room is Nuclear Proliferation.

    Most of the danger in country X having civilian nuclear reactors is that the byproducts like Plutonium are only available if the fuel is reprocessed.

    By using specifically designed "military" reactors to breed PU & foregoing reprocessing of the output of it's civilian reactors, the US has been able to take a stance against the reprocessing of civilian reactors. Yes, there are exceptions to that stance (La Hague here in France for example), but the pretence that if the US doesn't cross that line, neither can other states with reactors, but not the bomb. It does make it harder to steal PU out of old reactor fuel when it's left in highly radioactive used reactor fuel & not in a nearly ready to be used for a bomb reprocessed state.

  23. Re:Junk science/reporting on Swiss Scientists Discover DNA Remains Active After Space Journey and Re-entry · · Score: 1

    Precisely. Nothing in their test is new or surprising. We've known for decades that DNA can survive the environment in space and sheltered nooks on a sounding rocket gives no info on how meteorites moving much faster prove anything about panspermia.

    Junk science/reporting...

  24. Junk science/reporting on Swiss Scientists Discover DNA Remains Active After Space Journey and Re-entry · · Score: 2

    So they use a sounding rocket and paint it with a substance including DNA.

    Launch the sounding rocket into a brief experience of no atmosphere & where some parts (but not all) of the rocket are heated to 1000 degrees.

    Then, after recovery, they scrape the paint out of recesses like the screw heads.

    Oh, gee so a brief exposure to no atmosphere, Zero G & no extreme temperatures doesn't destroy DNA? Who'd a thunk it?

  25. Re:Federal law has an effect, too on Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election · · Score: 1

    So? As long as the gerrymandering respects the law, Dems cannot be complaining about a system that on the whole has been benefitting them disproportionately for decades. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.