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  1. ship and trains ... in space on On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships · · Score: 1

    The Japanese have done that, in anime:

    Space Battleship Yamato

    and

    The Celestial Railroad

    for example.
    --
    Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong.

  2. immortal web on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 1

    github?

  3. ... we'll all be in driverless FLYING Teslas ....

    FTFY

  4. Infinity does not alwasy please on The Solar System Is Awash In Water · · Score: 1

    Just because there might be an infinity of alternatives does not mean all things are possible.

    There is an infinity of rational numbers between 0 and 1,
    but none of them is greater than 2.
    --
    Life is complex -- part real, part imaginary.

  5. Re:Or... on Japan To Build 250-Mile-Long, Four Storey-High Wall To Stop Tsunamis · · Score: 1

    Not to rain on your excellent rational prescription for habitat construction, but AIUI

    Japan exists because it sits on the edge of a tectonic plate. Fault lines underlie its very existence.

  6. Swatting in Europe on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    ISTR the French CRS have a bit of form.
    --
    Complex systems tend to produce complex responses to problems, which are not solutions.

  7. Cancer is not the biggest concern on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    It seems that Glyphosate is a neurotoxin. That will affect you much sooner than any possible cancer.
    --
    You may tell a man "Thou art a fiend", but not "Your nose wants blowing".

  8. Re:Build it yourself -- from source on Every Browser Hacked At Pwn2own 2015, HP Pays Out $557,500 In Awards · · Score: 1

    My first attempt printed out "Hello Wrold".
    --
    Life would be easier if it came with a debugger.

  9. Re:Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on El Nino Has Finally Arrived, Far Weaker Than Predicted · · Score: 1

    Using that perspective, why not rob a bank today ?

    What's the rush? Maybe tomorrow....

    --
    All models are wrong, some are useful.

  10. Re:New App! on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    ISTR there is one, using the forward facing camera.
    --
    The truth is, you never do get old enough to know better -- Joe Martin

  11. Re:Peak oil? on Oxford University Researchers List 12 Global Risks To Human Civilization · · Score: 1

    The only real scarcity is our understanding.

    FTFY.

  12. It's an opportunity! on FAA Proposes Rules To Limit Commercial Drone Use · · Score: 2

    I envisage a helicopter load of UAV operators in "line of sight".

    For the helicopter providers, it is a great opportunity.

    For the LOS UAV operators, it is a wonderful range extension.

    For the rest of us, underneath, maybe not so great.
    --
    Most people are not nearly as paranoid as they should be.

  13. Re:4 years??? on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    IS THAT YOU, B1FF?

  14. moderator fault on Extreme Heat Knocks Out Internet In Australia · · Score: 1

    posting to suppress mis-moderation

  15. Year of linux on the desktop? on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    There is a lot of heat in this discussion, but not much light.

    It seems the systemd developers and their managers have lost contact with some of the people that build and run linux server systems.

    I am not taking any position on whether systemd or sysVinit is 'better'., but

    What are the developers going to go off and change next?

    Has the master forsaken us?
    --
    The year of linux on the desktop approaches, because the server rooms will all be BSD.

  16. why can we trust systemd? on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 2

    It is monolithic. It has many components, but no alternatives to any of them.
    It encrypts (writes binary) logs and offers only itself as a way to read them.
    It encourages non-kernel systems to rely on it.
    NSA?

    How long can (Open)BSD and Slackware hold out against this perversity?

    Are you paranoid if they really are out to get you?
    --
    It was a dark and drunken night. Four shots called out -- drink me.

  17. Re:Toilet etiquette on New Website Offers Provably Fair Solutions To Everyday Problems · · Score: 1

    It has the advantage that the cat doesn't fall into the toilet, too.
    FTFY
    --
    "Gravity just affects how distances are measured." Tell that to a skydiver's next of kin.

  18. Ah, the possibilities on Disney Patents a Piracy Free Search Engine · · Score: 1

    (1) Buy/get Licence for cheap/free.
    (2) implement it, badly.
    (3) profit!

    or

    (1) Buy/get Licence for cheap/free.
    (2) implement it with a user-selected weighting
                1 - original Disney mode,
                0 - ignore Disney tool, or
              -1 - Arrr!
    (3) profit (it's only a beta, after all).
    --
    Is the opposite of evil, good? Not always. Not even usually.

  19. Re:Aging and Orphan Open Source Projects? on Xerox Alto Source Code Released To Public · · Score: 2

    Upload everything you have to an open repository (github, sourceforge?) and create a torrent on TPB. Once you have a few seeders, it could become immortal...

    ... or not.

    --
    You can learn a lot from how people used to do things. And why they stopped.

  20. I can't think of anything that's considered standard in a luxury car that the Tesla doesn't have

    a chauffeur?
    --
    I want to be like Elon Musk if I grow up.

  21. Re:hanger vs hangar on Air Force To Take Over Two Ex-Shuttle Hangers In Florida For Its X-37B Program · · Score: 1

    How does one get the job of "editor"

    Perhaps it is a punishment for not using all those moderator points.
    --
    If you believe everything you read, you are a fool. Believe me.

  22. WWYMD? on Should Cyborgs Have the Same Privacy Rights As Humans? · · Score: 1

    What would your mitochondria do?

    They don't get many opportunities to express themselves.
    --
    If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others - P K Dick

  23. Re:XKCD on XKCD Author's Unpublished Book Remains a Best-Seller For 5 Months · · Score: 1

    Somehow I think you're doing t wrong.
    Try pronouncing it backwards.
    --
    If you think this universe is bad, you should see some of the others - P K Dick

  24. Not FB 's problem on Ukraine Asks Zuckerberg to Discipline Kremlin Facebook Bots · · Score: 1

    FB is for pics of the grandchildren's birthday cake, for FBI agents acting like children, etc.

    Politics doesn't sell.

    Block them all and let God sort them out.
    --
    Kill them all and let God sort them out -- Massacre at Béziers, 22 July 1209

  25. Hackworthy or just snoop.gov? on DoT Proposes Mandating Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communications · · Score: 1

    In the proposed protocol, the Evil bit is always set.