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  1. Re:What a gigantic lie on Earth Overshoot Day Came Early This Year. That's a Bad Thing. (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Already been answered. Not cost effective at this point in time.

    What could possibly make you think it literally isn't possible to mine another celestial body?

  2. That's because they forgot how, due to the radiation!

  3. Anyway, you wouldn't actually put a nuke on a plane; you'd use a big nuke to make synthetic fuel and put that on the plane.

    Them why even bring nukes into it at all? Fuel synthesis is a perfect application for intermittent power sources such as wind and solar.

  4. What nonsense. If you can figure out how to put a nuclear power plant on a plane with electric propulsion, you'd be able to fly it non-stop for years.

    Although, putting a fission reactor on a plane is also a bunch of nonsense.

  5. Re:Very legitimate reason for this on Mobile Devs Making the Same Security Mistakes Web Devs Made in the Early 2000s (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    TFA was apparently written specifically with you in mind.

  6. Re:Stopping distant on Tesla Starts To Release Its Cars' Open-Source Linux Software Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Stopping distant on Tesla Starts To Release Its Cars' Open-Source Linux Software Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe they'll release they're Stopping Distance Control Software source code. Seems like it could use some peer review.

  8. Very short lived vandalizm on Google Listed 'Nazism' as the Ideology of the California Republican Party (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Interesting that the vandalized version of the page only existed for about a minute, and Google somehow managed to run with it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...

  9. Re:I've got a better idea on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is no dark side of Detroit. Matter of fact, it's all dark.

    It's Pink Floyd jokes all the way down.

  10. Re:crypto-coins? on IBM Warns Quantum Computing Will Break Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What a strange and verbose way of saying "you're right, quantum computing will break HTTPS".

  11. Re:Not a fan of the death penalty but... on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    >Death penalty by helium makes more sense.

    More than... nitrogen? Why?

    It's a lot funnier.

  12. Re:Why has it been an annoyance? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wordpad is not a text editor. It's a *choke* word processor, and quite easily even more bad at doing its job than Notepad is.

  13. Re:Why has it been an annoyance? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're correct about Notepad rendering CR/LF as a single break, but Unix is not a text editor. Notepad is the only editor I've used in modern times that cannot deal with mixed line breaks.

  14. Re: We are burning fuel on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody knows you can't build a fighter jet without opposable thumbs, much less fly one.

  15. Not humans especially, that's silly. Humans have a rather unique ability to adapt to environmental changes - obviously, since we cover nearly the entire surface of the Earth.

    Maybe what you meant is modern society. We tend to get very upset when our houses blow away and our cities flood, even though we're in no real mortal danger. The "sucker-punch" will be largely economic.

  16. Q: Who will repair the repair robots?
    A: It's no use, it's robots all the way down!

  17. Re:LOL "auto plants"?? on The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Perfect, let's spend two years and several times the amount of money on a printed car than on a manufactured car :p

  18. Re:Not all can be hijacked on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I have used Windows 95. I wrote software on Windows 95 :( It was kind of like developing on DOS, but the write/debug/crash/reboot cycle took a lot longer.

  19. Re:Not all can be hijacked on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 95 didn't really have a BSOD. That was (is) an NT thing.

  20. Re:Motion is still lacking on AI Can Generate a 3D Model of a Person After Watching a Few Seconds of Video (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    Hating the inevitable doesn't seem very useful. It isn't "what if", it's "when".

  21. Based on the video, what we should really be working on is how to make such models move like a real human.

  22. Re:partial security / insecurity -- what's the poi on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then explain the merchants with the chip/contactless compatible terminals with signs saying “swipe only”

    I'm not sure about this, but that could be due to older POS software that doesn't grok the new reader features.

  23. Re:partial security / insecurity -- what's the poi on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree. Americans will never learn a PIN number, and they'll be forced to just deal with the identify theft that occurs because of it.

    What identity theft? With modern chip cards that are essentially impossible to clone will solve that issue almost entirely - fraud is already down dramatically because of chip cards, and many of them still support the old insecure mag stripe mode.

  24. Re:Who signs their real name? on The Long, Slow Demise of Credit Card Signatures Starts Today (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    These signing terminals have been a thing for a good 15-20 years now, yet I've never signed one. I sign either Foo Bar or Mickey Mouse, depending on my mood. All have gone through with 0 hassle.

    There's one store near me that rejected my actual signature on two occasions (many years ago). In both instances, a block printed "BOB" fixed the issue.

  25. Why not just make 10 the top number and make that a little louder?