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  1. Re:Cash grab of a bankrupt country on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Your self-made defininition of "bankruptcy" is nonsense, the USA is not bankrupt'; the national dept amount does not determine "bankruptcy".

  2. Re:PG-13 on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    The kid is fine, maybe you've been brainwashed by PC crowd though.

  3. Re:Utterly counterproductive on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    the boys, not needing actual classroom and teacher to satiate their need to learn and hack, will be driven to form online groups that collaborate on computer projects. Note the open source world is dominated by males; guess what, feminazis, it's going to get much, much "worse"

  4. Re:Yeah! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    they don't need to be heavy, there is archaic configuration mindset from brains stuck in chemical rocket rut

  5. Re:Is this news? on MIT Randomizes Tasks To Speed Massive Multicore Processors · · Score: 1

    but the typical workload of general purpose system is missing a few of those requirements, kind of like in the movie Sneakers where a character says of organized crime "it ain't that well organized". Our devices get more and more cores each year....

  6. Re:Cash grab of a bankrupt country on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    irrelevant, a US company has to obey the law of the US, including their behaviour in foreign countries. right or wrong or logic has nothing to do with the law.

  7. Wrong Move on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    These "equality" pushes always mean lowering the bar and suppressing those with actual ability.

  8. Re:Cash grab of a bankrupt country on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 2

    wrong, this is a tax against U.S. companies based on juristiction within the USA alone. It is the same as requiring U.S. citizen to pay U.S. income tax rate on any income from foreign company. It is of no concern to foreign companies and foreign governments, no treaties needed. These companies are already under the thumb of U.S. governement and must abide by U.S. law

  9. Re:Yeah! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    No reason they have to be heavy, there are reactors that are less than third of ton

  10. Re:It is still a freeking rocket! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    I am an engineer; real spacecraft using real applied physics are made by people like me. What is made by people like you? Sci-fi comics for kids?

  11. Re:No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Actually, many of the small space reactors DO use HEU; they also use neutron reflector (such as berrylium) so only kilograms of fuel needed.

    Even in a weapon less amounts than "critical mass" are able to be used by certain techniques: neutron reflectors, compression of fuel, burst of neutrons from initiator particle accelerator after compression

  12. Re:No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    just as example, the first TOPAZ (in the west this was called TOPAZ-I) reactor the soviets tested for space program used 12 kg of fuel, the whole reactor weighed 320 kg. It could make 5 kW of power for over three years.

  13. Re:No critical mass on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    No, you are confused. That badly named "critical mass" you speak of is really a "critical spherical configuration minimal mass". In other words, a sphere of material that will undergo self-sustaining fission by virtual of being large enough that enough emitted neutrons can interact with a nuclear rather than leaving. You can make a reactor or weapon with much less material. For example, in the case of a nuclear weapon, using compression and neutron reflectors and initiator (which makes burst of neutrons) means you can use a smaller mass (and indeed that is how it is done). In the case of a reactor, using a moderator to reduce the speed of fast neutrons to thermal neutrons (i.e. ones that hang around instead of running away) means you can use less material than that.

  14. Re:It is still a freeking rocket! on NASA Looking At Nuclear Thermal Rockets To Explore the Solar System · · Score: 1

    those tabloids you see in the checkout lines don't actually report reality, neither do the tin-foil-hat websites you frequent. There are no UFOs piloted by aliens visiting our planet, never have been.

  15. eh? you can already overrite known_hosts or put in any extra keys you want after logging in already. Really one could do such a thing as command argument to ssh already! there's not really much new risk introduced here

  16. Re:Attack surface on OpenSSH Will Feature Key Discovery and Rotation For Easier Switching To Ed25519 · · Score: 1

    logic fails you. we're talking about public keys; after logging into a server via ssh you can already replace or change lines in .known_hosts anyway.

  17. Re:Silly, silly, silly... on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 1

    we do know such and thing and have known it before we ever hypothesiszed dark matter and dark energy. We know the density of the early universe after it became transparent to EM, so we know the magnitude of total matter

  18. Re:Escaping only helps you until a war. on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    Many private armies are made of people alienated from family and society

  19. Re:Why Thunderbolt? on Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops · · Score: 1

    thunderbolt docking station working very nicely for me, don't know what you're whining about

  20. Re:Silly, silly, silly... on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 1

    you are silly, we know from observation the observable universe is on the order of 10E-23 or less of all the universe.

  21. already have it on UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit · · Score: 1

    psyops is old; but we don't need soldiers screwing around with social media when they should be putting ammo on target. Look what decades of screwing around by the CIA brought us

  22. Re:I'm 4 of 5 on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    back to your Jackass reruns, Philistine!

  23. Re:I'm 4 of 5 on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holly: "Strike a light! I'm a genius again! I know everything! Metaphysics, philosophy, the purpose of being-everything! Ask me a question, any question, and I'll answer it."
    Talkie Toaster: "Any question?"
    Holly: "Yes."
    Talkie Toaster: "How to break the speed of light? How to marry quantum mechanics and classical physics? Any question at all, truly anything and you will answer?"
    Holly: "Yes."
    Talkie Toaster: "OK, here's my question: Would you like some toast?"
    Holly: "No, thank you. Now ask me another."
    Talkie Toaster: "Do you know anything about the use of chaos theory in predicting weather cycles?"
    Holly: "I know everything there is to know about chaos theory and predicting weather cycles"
    Talkie Toaster: "Oh, very well. Here's my second question: Would you like a crumpet?"
    Holly: "I'm a computer with an I.Q. of 12,000. You don't seem to understand; I know the meaning of the universe."
    Talkie Toaster: "That's not answering my question."
    Holly: [irritated] "No, I would not like a crumpet! Now ask me a sensible question, preferably one that isn't bread related."
    Talkie Toaster: "Very well. I have a third question. A sensible question. A question that will tax your new I.Q. to its very limits and stretch the sinews of you knowledge to bursting point."
    Holly: This is going to be about waffles, isn't it?"
    Talkie Toaster: Certainly not. And I resent the implication that I'm a one-dimensional, bread-obsessed electrical appliance."
    Holly: I apologise, toaster. What's the question?"
    Talkie Toaster: The question is this: Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?" --- Red Dwarf ep. "White Hole"

  24. Re:FUCK YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS IOT on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    Mom: "How the *%*$ did you get an F in vocabulary??!!"
    Kid: "How the *%*$ should I know?"

  25. Re:That's nice, but ... on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    or not, if it deactivates itself because you changed a disk drive, and the indian argues with you