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  1. Re:It was 30 years old, 50 million years ago. on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Why not prefer the frame of reference of the hole itself, where the age is zero?

  2. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the black hole is actually zero years old, not 30, and not 50M+30.

  3. Re:Because everyone else will say it too... on NASA Announces Discovery of 30-Year-Old Black Hole · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's an obvious universal frame of reference: measure everything relative to the place where the big bang happened. Your choice of axes is somewhat arbitrary, though.

  4. Re:Not Aliens on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    No, what you're missing is that ALL the 'humans' and 'mutants' in the movie were aliens. EVERYONE WAS out to get him, and it was a huge alien conspiracy.

  5. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    (I was joking).

  6. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced that more people will watch 'Real people dying on Mars' than watch the superbowl. But even if you do get the $50M per week, every week, you need 'Real people dying on Mars' to run successfully for several years to pay off the mission cost.

  7. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    For a guy with 'Conspiracy' in his name, you somehow missed the obvious fact that it was all Aliens masquerading as humans trying to kill him?

  8. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Just in case that wasn't intended as a joke:
    Most shows are funded for less than a thousandth the price of an expedition to Mars.

  9. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's trivially solved with a mirror orbiting the sun in counter-ecliptic orbit, though.

  10. Re:Little difference? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    Define "worked".

    How about: eliminated problem with existing population?

  11. For what purpose? on Ears Might Be Better Than Fingerprints For ID · · Score: 1

    If you want to identify a user for a locked system, is an ear going to be harder to fake than a fingerprint?

    If you want to identify the perpetrator of a break-in, is an ear likely to be an identifiable leave-behind?

    I don't understand who they are proposing would find significant advantage to this.

  12. Re:The pilot thing shows how stupid it really is on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    To be fair, on virtually all commercial flights there are two people capable of flying the plane in the cockpit, so if only one was a terrorist, he'd have to overcome the other to crash the plane. With a bomb strapped to his chest, he no longer has that hurdle.

  13. Re:A non-partisan no-brainer on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    People need to get over being seen naked - do they avoid the doctor's office as well?

    Those people make use of the privacy screens, paper modesty guards, and backwards opening robes at the doctor's office, none of which is effective/allowed with the TSA.

  14. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    And how many terror attacks were there in North Korea in the last decade?

  15. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    The terrorist definition is usually attached to warfarers who intentionally target civilian targets, in an effort to promote fear (terror), with the hope that said fear will cause the target to come to the bargaining table.

  16. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between being able to afford flight training and a plane, and being able to afford a 747 class plane. It's in the ballpark of two-three zeros!

  17. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    Actually, in terms of hard numbers, there are far better ways they could have spent the same amount of money, but this is the way that makes people FEEL safer.

    If it's admirable for your leadership to target feelings rather than risks, please let me opt out of your organization.

  18. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but technically that meant he went to hell (even according to his own worldview) so there's definitely a hurdle there, you need someone religious enough to commit suicide, yet willing to go to hell for their political views.

  19. Re:The privacy/security scale tips again. on National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches · · Score: 1

    If they did, and it was one terrorist who otherwise would have successfully brought down one plane, would you then vote this measure up or down?

  20. java drying up? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    Dice.com: search for java:
    1 - 30 of 14750 results

    with backend or back-end, about 1K results.

    Maybe you're just not looking hard enough?

    For all of oracle's silliness, java is not going away. IBM would never let that happen, and they have the power to prevent it.

  21. Re:Really? on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    Would seem to depend on whether or not you consider the risk of jail acceptable.

  22. Re:Depressing. on World's Northernmost Town Gets Nightlights · · Score: 1

    Well, those people are left with a surplus of cholesterol due to wearing sunscreen all the time, preventing it from being turned into D.

  23. Re:Congratulations! No "loosers" in this thread! on Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay · · Score: 1

    I could loose the weight, but if I loose my way in the Gobi desert next weak, I will not have enough fat on me too survive the harsh winter, and than I will get all week and dye. You don't want that do you? F

    FTFY.

  24. Re:Illegal? on Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is another, entirely real option, liposuction. Guaranteed results, unlike any attempt to diet.

  25. Re:Cry some more please on After Online Defamation Suit, Dismissal of Malicious Prosecution Claim Upheld · · Score: 1

    Most to nearly all lawyers will take bad cases, and so ensure the continuation of said horrible legal system.