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  1. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2
  2. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    It would provide an easy way to determine which phones have backdoors.

    The door handle normally gives it away.

  3. Re:"but they don't own the airspace inside..." on Drone Flight Takes To Living Rooms, Gymnasiums, and Parking Garages (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it's a good thing it has a remote control.

  4. Re:the diesel car has always confounded me. on The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting and informative, but no mod points.

  5. Re:Here's a suggestion... on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It sounds like you're not in support of cheering for the troops? What kind of anti-patriotic soul are we dealing with here?

  6. Re:these arent negotiable, and never were. on Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A competing farm where the cows are free to post comments up 280 characters?

  7. Re:Did you hear the one... on Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does he wind up bumping into Uranus?

  8. The problem is the honey pot of information that the government has proven they can't handle securing.

  9. Re:Wonder if this can be used for some more items on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 1

    You can't just walk into an Apple store... and buy Plutonium.

    You will as soon as they put rounded corners on it.

  10. Re:Lighter than air craft? on DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Replaced DHS with TSA. Argument still valid.

  11. Re:Will it simulate drinking one's own urine? on NASA Is Creating a Virtual Reality Mission To Mars (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I got to go to Mars, I would drink my own pee if it came to that. No questions. I've seen much worse on Fear Factor and the like.

  12. The other Space Robot Operator. Watch your back once you get in though.

    Kinda hard with a VR headset on.

  13. Re:Easter Eggs on Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    If you, or your guys aren't getting bonuses, you need a different spokesman. Software engineers are an efficiency on the entire business model, when used appropriately and should be rewarded as such.

  14. Easter Eggs on Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Every program has them. Someone probably tied a bonus to the output readings, which cascaded down the line to "You get a bonus if there's a test mode"

  15. Re:Where are the famous Japanese honor on Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Why should they wait? They are trying to fish in unpolluted waters.

  16. Re:"Perhaps our lone star Solar System is the oddi on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 1

    Don't give Texas any ideas.

  17. Re:I support the telescope on Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    I know you were trying to be funny, but I just went through this mental scenario, which suddenly makes the biblical explanation seem a lot more feasible. The Bible was explaining fission and/or cloning, How else would you explain something that complex other than taking a visible/tangible part of something, such as a neutron (rib), proton (rib), or electron (looks like a rib), from the common drawing), from an atom and using it to create something else of similar value.

  18. Re: I support the telescope on Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives (khon2.com) · · Score: 1

    It must have something to do with the Westernized schooling process.

  19. Re:Sounds great - too great on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Only if it works.

  20. Re:most things are older than previously thought. on Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    This needs more points.

  21. Re:GM producers are shooting themselves in the foo on FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that part of the recipe, or just one cook's take on the dish?

  22. Re:Why humanoid? on NASA Selects Universities To Develop Humanoid Robot Astronauts (examiner.com) · · Score: 2

    Why not just send Big Dog? That thing looked like it could run across all Mars and over any terrain without a problem.

  23. Re:How much harder would it be on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Solution: more struts.

    So they can make a ladder out of the extra struts?

  24. Re:Science as a Service on Harnessing EVE Online For Science (mmorpg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's where aggregating and ignoring outliers would help stabilize the results. It would be similar to Googles reCaptcha, which crowd sources Google understanding the address numbers on pictures of houses it's taken.

  25. Re:Am I the only one that... on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Could we do tests on the Moon, to "tap" it back into place, so it doesn't wander off? I'd be afraid of it starting to spin though.