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  1. Re:Comment Trolls != Hacking on FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver · · Score: 2

    Oops, that 'hobbled" not "hacked".

    Still blaming John Oliver because people actually used the website is stupid.

  2. Re:His comments apparently crashed Comcast also. on FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver · · Score: 1

    This is the same as Dr Tyson talking on Cosmos about evolution not showing up on some flyover state's tv station.

  3. Re:john oliver is the troll... on FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver · · Score: 1

    People have been doing that for years with absolutely no affect. The FCC was going to ignore public comment anyhow, so I would say its downright time gets mad as hell and says they are not going to take it anymore. Also, HBO owns John Oliver. I would expect they would be against net neutrality.

    Granted, I don't see how defacing a website will do any good, anyhow.

  4. Comment Trolls != Hacking on FCC Website Hobbled By Comment Trolls Incited By Comedian John Oliver · · Score: 1

    What that doesn't even make sense. Yes, perhaps some people that troll comments also hack, but the claim itself is absurd.

  5. Re:Judicial proceedings should never be secret on Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance · · Score: 1

    True, no organization that has authority has ever wanted less authority.

  6. Re:Judicial proceedings should never be secret on Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I simply don't get it. If the police are just investigating normal crimes, why can't get get normal warrants? Are they just lazy, or is there some other motive?

  7. Re:Windows is now like Star Trek on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    All of the above.

  8. Re:even more telling... on A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" · · Score: 2

    is how management treats said person.

    Probably pretty well, considering management usually is the idiot.

  9. Re:Windows is now like Star Trek on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also, only the even Star Trek is good. Fuck it, this analogy is collapsing faster than a... something something.

  10. Windows is now like Star Trek on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 0

    Only the odd numbered ones are any good.

    Actually, who am I kidding? It's all shit.

  11. Reverse the question. on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 2

    I think it would be easier to ask "Does anyone think Snowden would get a fair trial?" It would be a much shorter list. And most of the people answering yes can be easily identified as flat out liars. (Kerry and pretty much any politician.)

  12. Re:we need to help ISP competition to return on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 1

    As long as it is cheaper to run competition out of business rather than compete with them; corporations will do so. And they will do so by every means necessary weather it is collusion, lobbying (bribes), or simply buying up the competitors and jacking prices way up.

    And they will do this while hiding behind the banner of the "Free Market".

    The problem is while I hate shooting down an idea without having a better one ready; I don't see how regulation will cause the ISPs to act in the best interest of the people. It most certainly will not cause competition to suddenly appear.

  13. Re:Sounds like police propaganda. on UK Ballistics Scientists: 3D-Printed Guns Are 'of No Use To Anyone' · · Score: 1

    "Have been successfully fired" does not contradict the conclusion: 'without additional expertise and the right type of ammunition, anyone attempting to fire one would probably maim or even kill themselves.'

    Technically this is true for a non-3D printed gun. Using the wrong ammunition and without training, any gun is going to be more dangerous to the shooter than anyone else.

  14. Re:95 years but on Happy 95th Anniversary, Relativity · · Score: 1

    Yes but you and the cat are only in one of those worlds. There is no such thing as "the same cat in a different world". It is a different cat that branched off at some time in the past. Therefore no matter which interpretation you use, the cat is either alive or dead, full stop.

  15. Carbon and Fiber on Is Bamboo the Next Carbon Fibre? · · Score: 1

    Well bamboo is primarily made of carbon, and it is fiberous... so now we can apply the term "carbon fiber" to anything made out of wood, I guess.

  16. So can books... on Teachers Union: Computers Can Negatively Impact Children's Ability To Learn · · Score: 0

    Anything used improperly can inhibit learning. Such as books. Hit someone with a book hard enough... and they will have trouble learning.

  17. Re:The Concorde failed too on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Of the examples given, remaining Spitfires are historical pieces, but there are 70 year old Dakota's still flying and doing work every day. Now that is a mark of a successful plane.

  18. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Wait, they were not sure mid air refueling could work, but they thought they could dock a fighter to a bomber in mid air? What sense does that make?

  19. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Successful people are those who fail and don't give up. The same is true for aeronautical design. If you don't fail a couple of times, you won't win either.

    Not when it comes to engineering. Failure is always an option. Some people are just terrible at it and should pursue other careers, preferably ones where people will not die when they make mistakes.

  20. Re:Descent: Freespace! on It's Time For the Descent Games Return · · Score: 1

    Flying at full speed for minutes to get from one end to the other of the enemy mother shit was amazing!

    I haven't played a game with the same sense of scale since (I lie, Shadow of the Coleuses and God of War get there at times, but not the same).

    Well...

  21. Re: Duh... on IT Pro Gets Prison Time For Sabotaging Ex-Employer's System · · Score: 1

    Let's just say that you should not do either. Don't do crimes... and don't talk about crimes you did not do.

  22. Re:Kawasaki disease on Mysterious Disease May Be Carried by the Wind · · Score: 1

    Anyone reading this is secretly boring.

  23. Re:So many mistakes. on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if I would consider trail-by-error as valid engineering or science.

  24. Re:Eric Burger asks, how did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    I guess it depends on how many times you reuse it. At some point the reusable bottle is cheaper when compared to 10 disposable ones. But with the stress these things are going through, I wonder how many times any single part will be able to be reused.

  25. Re:Eric Burger asks, how did it come to this? on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Falcon Heavy will be able to put kilos into orbit. The entire space station is listed at 419,455 k. So this thing could throw the entire space station up in just 8 launches. (including mass only, ignoring physical size limitations) AND Falcon Heavy will be the cheapest $/lbs rate of all time, at less than $1000/pound as compared to the shuttle's over $8000 per pound. It might have been able to do it for less than it cost to do a single shuttle mission.