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  1. Re:racism had been overcome on What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein · · Score: 2

    It's not racism. These are separate species. "Race", here on Earth, is used to differentiate between humans who have slight external differences but are genetically (mostly) the same. Is it raciest to say a gorilla is stronger than a chimpanzee? Or a cheetah can run faster than a lion? Don't forget, in the beginning of Star Trek species inter-breeding wasn't normal except for Spock and it required actual genetic manipulation.

  2. Re:This is just great on US Agency Lines Up Broad Support For ICANN Transition (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their doing a pretty shitty job with IPv6 too. I recently got the run-around with ICANN / AT&T trying to get IPv6 PTR records fixed. I was implementing a postfix server on an external IP, and google kept giving me "this message does not meet IPv6 sending guidelines regarding PTR 550-5.7.1 records and authentication. " This sent me down a rabbit hole, contacting AT&T and ICANN. AT&T said the SOA of my assigned IP was with ICANN, ICANN said the v6 was a multicast and AT&T needed to fix that...which then AT&T said the only was to fix it was to sign up for their "Managed Services" and pay them more $$$. This whole "we must transition to IPv6!" is being co-opted by corps into a non-technical money grab. I pay extra $$$ per month ALREADY for my subnet, apparently this doesn't cover IPv6.

    As it turns out, the REAL issue was implementing IPv6 on the mail server, adding my client's external IPv6 address into the postfix relay conf, and then it started working. Google is misleading with their "PTR" message; it can be fixed without SOA PTR. If anyone is curious, I made a tutorial on my site on how to figure out your IPv6, the conf files to edit, etc.

  3. "frequency of typhoons" on China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA says this is a danger. I could see this while building it, but would you even notice a typhoon happening if your 10,000 feet under, and anchored to the bedrock??

  4. T. Jack runs a prepaid company on Oklahoma State Troopers Use New Device To Seize Bank Accounts During Traffic Stops (news9.com) · · Score: 1

    So this device is just a mobile card payment system, just like in a store. If anyone wants to give him a call or Skype him, here's some contact info from https://www.ice.gov/doclib/aml...">2011:

    T. Jack Williams
    Paymentcard Services, Inc.
    Mobile: 502.609.0109 Office: 817.576.3655
    Skype: tjackwilliams
    Email: tjackwilliams@gmail.com

    His twitter account: https://twitter.com/tjackwilli...
    PEARS shows that number is still connected to a Cingular Wireless (AT&T) account, so it's probably still his and working.

  5. Re:Scientists have no sense of humor. . . on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "In other news, IUPAC promises that they will name one of the isotopes Elementy."

  6. Re:Elerium-115 on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    .I was just thinking the exact same thing. Too bad none of these elements have a gravity field that extends outside their own electron shell.

  7. Re: The reason is... on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was a pollutant, just that the rise in CO2 since the start of the Industrial Revolution would be noticeable with a spectrographic survey and would stand out. It would mean that the planet either had some massive volcanic activity, some other as-of-yet unknown geological outgassing, or atmospheric modification via lifeforms (ie us burning coal, or maybe a weird bacterial bloom that decomposes / lets off massive CO2)

  8. Re:The reason is... on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    I looked around for an actual number on the "200 light years" and couldn't find anything. However, I found a calculation hereof 14,600 stars within 100 light years based on calculations from here. BUT this is just a calculation based off average galactic density and not an actual catalog and seems way too high to be accurate. Many astronomers think that F stars might have habitable planets, and the K and M type would work as well...although there is an issue with habitable planets near K and M might be tidally locked so that could really screw up the planet's weather. K and M types also have periodic radiation outbursts; with their planets being closer that would also be bad for life.

  9. Re:The reason is... on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, then, I don't think a radar signal is modulated in any way to distinguish it easily as an "artificially created signal". But, if you were looking at the source, it would be really weird to see a pulsar-style signal coming from a G-type star lol.

  10. Re:Getting to a technological level is hard. on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you post some links to some scientific papers about the actual Earth itself flipping around? Not the magnetic poles, but the entire planet itself? There's a huge difference between a pole flip and a physical flip...I did some searches, all I can find is about the magnetic poles and some Bible quotes. I'm assuming you didn't actually read the links I provided that say "The Moon keeps the Earth from wobbling violently as it spins", The moon's gravitational pull may have been key to making Earth a livable planet by moderating the degree of wobble in Earth's axial tilt", and so forth.

    When I said unstable, I meant unstable as in the way of massive climate shifting as the Earth turns on it's side, ice caps melt, flood, refreeze, on vastly compressed timescales. Or rather, that's what all the research points to. The article about frictional forces has some actual numbers about the cooling that would have happened with the moon; you should read the links instead of just dismissing the science.

  11. Re:Getting to a technological level is hard. on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Venus is tidally locked to the Sun, and it rotates the opposite direction of all the other planets. Theory is a major impact did this; so that puts comparing it's tilt to Earth and Mars non-comparative. And there is considerable theories that radioactive decay is not enough to explain the total core heat; both radioactive decay AND tidal frictional forces add together. And there is a large difference between "million or billion"; current estimates are that our core won't cool off until long after the Sun is a white dwarf. The axial tilt idea has been verified by hundreds of computer simulations and has been known about for at least few decades now. The core frictional dynamics is far more contested, though.

    And their not "statements", but links to sites. If you have a spare $39.99 you can go read the actual paper. Like I said, this is still controversial and even the paper says "we suggest" and "we propose". But as for the axial tilt, even NASA agrees. So, you should show your math and argue with them and not me.

  12. Re:Getting to a technological level is hard. on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Getting to a technological level is hard. on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    You also need a large moon to stabilize the planet's axis, keep the core churning, etc.

  14. Re:Universe teeming with O'Neil Colonies on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    Mars actually needs a much larger moon, to get it's internal dynamo running again. Without a magnetic field, any long-term habitation is not going to work. It needs something like the mass of Vesta in orbit to get it's core churning again.

  15. Re:The reason is... on Researchers Say The Aliens Are Silent Because They Are Extinct (theconversation.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looking at our own "ability" to "regulate greenhouse gases", we just might "cease to exist" too. Technically, another civilization would have to be within 130 light-years of us to pick up on our radio signals. Those signals have actually been tamped down recently with the rise in fiber optics...aliens might be able to detect "life" here by spectrographic analysis of our atmosphere, especially if their within 200 light years they might see an unnatural rise of CO2 from the use of coal and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. But, there aren't very many stars within that radius we think might have any life, much less an advanced technological civilization.

    As for the Fermi issue, IMHO radio signals just degrade too quickly across the vast distances for us to pick up currently (if ever). Even if the theoretical Alcubierre warp drive actually works, it's still only 10x the speed of light. In Star Trek terms, that's just a little over warp 2. Fermi was talking about a time period of millions of years though.

  16. Re:Tread Carefully on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO, the only "real resolution" is an assassination of Kim...he's far too crazy to be able to deal with on any rational trust level.A coup isn't going to work; he purges anyone he remotely suspects might speak out against him. I'm not advocating killing him; but I don't know what other path is available. Right now our "sit and wait" isn't doing much except allowing the NK people to starve while their leader attempts to create WMD.

  17. Re:Tread Carefully on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, it's not like even China really likes NK. Honestly, this announcement is probably 95% PR / blustering than anything real. "We're restarting!" probably means "we turned the lights back on in the factory and have sent in some janitors to start cleaning the place up" as opposed to actually spinning anything up.

  18. I'd be worried on North Korea Restarts Plutonium Production For Nuclear Bombs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If I was a North Korean citizen living anywhere around the potential launch sites, seeing how successful their launches are. Seems far more likely these bombs would turn into a local dirty bomb than actually manage to get to whatever target. I would say it's getting close to Stuxnet them, but it seems like NK is doing enough damage to themselves.

  19. Speak for yourself, my driving style involves smashing the accelerator into the floor at all times, ESPECIALLY in reverse.

  20. Re:Not user-posted content at issue here on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt it; I would assume it's pretty much a free-for-all. Anyone with a camera can claim to be a "photographer". My comment was in reply to the fact that Model Mayhem has seemingly not yet done anything to mitigate these issues that brought this legal judgment against them; specifically guruevi's comment of "whether they had made a promise of background checks and legitimacy of all parties and failed to fulfill that promise." MM has made no such promise; so therefor technically they didn't "fail to fulfill".

    And, many time the answer is yes in the US as to a failed background check causing someone to essentially be unemployable. Is this the correct path? I personally don't think it is, especially if whatever crime that was committed was a singular event, unrelated to new job duties, etc. However, many US corp's HR departments are highly risk adverse and equate "failed background check" with "rampaging murderer" or such.

  21. Re: Did they know who the culprits were? on Judges Rule Raped Woman Can Sue 'Enabling' Web Site (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    so, your not a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania?

  22. Re:Even at $7.50, they still will save money... on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless the situation has radically changed in the past 5 years, your wrong. The person on the register almost NEVER goes into the back and does any cooking, and the cooking crew NEVER comes up front unless there is something wrong. At least that's how a typical fast food place is run.

  23. Re:Where are the robots from? on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    The other 95% are used as "source material" for the hamburgers, of course!

  24. Re:McDonalds won't be 1st, but they will be 2nd on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    when I tried to order a monolith burger, a bunch of apes showed up and beat me until I looked like a space baby / old man. Hal told me not to...

  25. While their at it... on Google Is Developing an AI Kill Switch (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    We should also remove those videos of the engineers at Boston Dynamics kicking that robot repeatedly...