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  1. Artist Rendition on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

        I don't so much mind a work of fiction bending science to align the story. That's what fiction does.

        I'm much more bothered by science adding fiction to their work by providing an 'Artist Rendition" of a planet that might be like Earth. NASA sees a reddish speck near a star and suddenly the article has a picture of terrain, instead of a picture of a speck. That is a crime.

    These science in fiction dicks need to stop picking on the wrong people.

    Thank you for listening.

  2. Re:There is no real shutdown on Pentagon Spent $5 Billion For Weapons On Day Before Shutdown · · Score: 1

    >> The NASA website is closed

    Damn, now where will I get my artist's rendition of the planets we can't actually see and can't get to from here?

  3. maybe I'm not understanding the situation of the gravity here.

  4. Re:Freenet, I2P, Tor - darknets on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    Another problem with most darknets is that they have to run across the oligopoly network (verizon, comcast, level3, at&t, sprint...).

    The FCC insures that only a few billionaires have access to useful spectrum and wattage. Running our own networks is highly discouraged. We need a way to take over some portion of the spectrum and make our own networks. One without a meter attached to each house.
    There will be issues of congestion and noise for sure but that might be better than dystopia.

  5. Re:Pegged as a Windows user!? on What Marketers Think They Know About You and What They Really Do · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's your problem with Pervert?

  6. Actually, you do not have the freedom to exceed... on EU Proposes To Fit Cars With Speed Limiters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...the speed limit (or the law) while enjoying the priveledge of being allowed to operate a vehicle. If you cannot do it safely (speed, wreckless or drunk), then you lose the priveledge. Driving is is not a freedom. Speeding is not a freedom. My Corvette will limit the RPM of the engine once I hit 141MPH, I've tried it twice a very long time ago. I was young, drunk, wreckless and speeding. Fortunately, no one was hurt. If we had provided this technology when cars where becoming mainstream no one would know the difference.
      Currently cars use several other technologies to prevent 'stupid' and everyone is ok with it.

    1) The engine will shut down if oil pressure to low.
    2) You can't put the car in drive unless you press the brake pedal.
    3) You can't full brake the tires when trying to stop on snow, ice or gravel.

    There are many more features working there way into all cars, all the time.

    We can try al we want, but we can't fix stupid.
    Cheers,

  7. Re: Yep. on Samsung Smart TV: Basically a Linux Box Running Vulnerable Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Real nerd here. My 55" Sansung Smart TV is just a monitor for camcast's cable box (soon to be verizon?) and a Ubuntu Gnome type setup. Why would you mess with some other interface when you could have pure linux or even a pure Android experience via HDMI dongle like the mk809's etc..

  8. Re:Corporate regime locking in. on FBI Pressures Internet Providers To Install Surveillance Software · · Score: 2

    Quick, Create a false flag by putting our middle east embassies on high alert. This will quiet most of the resistance!

  9. Re:Apropos lowest retail cost on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    I have a Murker Futur. It was $78...
    https://www.detailsformen.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=862&gclid=CPHB96_x3LgCFUei4Aod3k4AGw

    You can adjust the blade angle/depth to match your shaving condition. (I have an after five shadow by noon, same day, not three days later.)

    Blades cost about $20 for 100. I use one per week so that's $98 for two years of shaving. $20 for two years of shaving after initial investment.
    So much better than getting robbed by a 6 blade crook.

  10. Re:Well if you've nothing to hide... on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Yes, After they break in and search your house ...you had nothing to hide. good times brother.

  11. Re:Did you even RTFA? on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the feds offload the search task to the "local" level to remove themselves from the lense of scrutiny.

  12. Re:What MS must do is become less PROPRIETARY on Nokia: Microsoft Must Evolve To Make Windows Phone a Success · · Score: 1

    I think the problem for Microsoft is that no one will ever forget the exclusivity deals that manufacturers were forced into. The only reason Microsoft was on top is because no one carried a competing product (for fear of retribution). The convicted monopoly was hated by all (unless you where certified as an MSCE). Once some choices came about, thanks to the iOS and Android tablets, folks jumped as fast as they can. I can only hope that no one ever goes back once they break free.
    This is my dream. :)

  13. Re: LibreOffice & Apache OpenOffice merge on LibreOffice 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    ApacheLibreOffice --> ApLOffice
    (pronouced Apple Office) :)

  14. Re:University of Califonia? Oh, they'll love her. on DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns · · Score: 3

    Napolitano: "deploying record resources to protect our nation's borders"

    And here is the main clue for us all. "record resources" is just another way for the government to say "Transfered record amounts of middle class tax dollars to a few good friends."

  15. Re:How exactly do you anonymyze location data? on How To Stop AT&T From Selling Your Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 1

    This!
    And not only that but your commute is as unique as your finger print. You could link an employer address with a home address along with any patents that list both on it and know way to much about a person. The only satisfaction I get from any of this is that I keep my ad blockers on and treat ads like warnings. Don't buy anything that doesn't sell itself.

  16. Re:LOL on Why Are Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Might also be due to the One Percent moving all the jobs and hope to China, India and South Korea. Lots of U.S. "twenties" are also doing this as well. Those who control the monitarty policies and jobs know very well what they are doing. I am lucky to be in the upper four percent but an increase in H1-B visas could take that all away. We will just pretend that all these things aren't linked together. oh, and it's the porn, speaking of which, I need to go now.

  17. So. on Unlikely Planets Found In Violent Star Clusters · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone actually care about these other planets besides the folks who are trying to get more grant money from the tax paying middle class?

    Please. Stop it.

    There is nothing out there that we can reach.
    Anything that could reach us would kill or enslave us if they are anything at all like us.

  18. Re:That's the point of Tor. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    I am also All That!

  19. Re:That's the point of Tor. on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    No, I am Spartacus.

  20. Re:Here's the catch, on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 1

    So ....guilty until proven innocent.

    I wouldn't work quite as well if everyone was consider a US citizen until proven otherwise, comrades.

  21. Re:Anyone else notice a pattern? on Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA · · Score: 0

    Both. ...Mohammed jihad triple dirka rocket launcher!

  22. Re:Huh? The Microsoft Hamburger on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can feed it to my dog. ...and when he 'reboots', my other dog will try to eat it.

  23. Open Research... on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is great so long as everything is published as they go. Waveforms, Impulse frequency or duration, Pulse train frequency, electrode placements, signal voltage and current. Don't let this get taken over by the industrialists.
        Also, publish your data BEFORE you use the signal. If you die, we need to know what did it. :)

  24. Re:Facebook and Google and the NSA on Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA · · Score: 1

    I was seeing this at my old house via earthlink/covad DSL.
    Now I see it with Comcast.

  25. Re:Facebook and Google and the NSA on Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And why does traceroute show that EVERYTHING I ever trace goes through Washington, Ashburn VA. or McLean VA.

      I usually use the 'mtr' command (linux). I've been seeing this for years and have always been suspicious about it.
      The FBI wants us to report suspicious activity in case of terrorists. Well, I find this suspicious.