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  1. Re:"Still in use by the US military" on U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX · · Score: 1

    how about being one of the two guys that runs along side after landing and slowing, to grab a wing end and put the wheel under it like the ones that fell off during takeoff?

  2. this paper is an epic fail on How To Prevent the Next Heartbleed · · Score: 0

    actually a couple more *bad* vulnerabilities were found in openssl, but the author of this paper didn't find them. arm waving ivory tower bullshit, that's how we got into this pickle in the first place

  3. Re:Not so fast... on Researchers Develop DNA GPS Tool To Accurately Trace Geographical Ancestry · · Score: 1

    no, we're more inbred than that. you did not have any ancestors from most towns 1000 years ago

  4. Re:Mathmatics is the single most important field on Mathematicians Push Back Against the NSA · · Score: 1

    I'll half agree with that, math and materials science is behind everythiing an engineering driven society does.

  5. Re:Perhaps a Dyson Sphere? on Frigid Brown Dwarf Found Only 7.2 Light-Years Away · · Score: 1

    the ratchets have been proven to be ineffective by Feynman for escaping the second law, they won't work as posited.

    Saying all life must follow some guidelines based on earth's composition or common factor of its life forms is using a sample size of one.

  6. how targeted on This Chip Can Tell If You've Been Poisoned · · Score: 1

    this is great, because people are dropping like flies from food terrorism, usually botulism, and nearly always the particular strain this detector can find. yeah, just like the recent article on all those nuke plant insiders ready to pounce to sabotage plants, fear mongering bullshit.

  7. Re:-1 Copied from Republican Talking Points on HealthCare.gov Back-End Status: See You In September · · Score: 1, Interesting

    you missed the memo where administration claims 8 million plus subscribers, supposedly 2.7 million appeared out of nowhere after March to give us this 8M total. In short, it's lies and bullshit and the adminstration still can't prodce an accurate state breakdown supporting their rather incredible assertion

  8. Re:Fear on Security At Nuclear Facilities: Danger Likely Lurks From Within · · Score: 1

    no, there is 200 square miles with dust you wouldn't want to eat. The real "bad stuff" is inside a structure called The Sarcophagus, and no worries no bad guys will be going inside there to steal the "corium", the rad levels are 10,000 rem / hour, their nervous system would shut down prior to their rather prompt death. A new project called the New Safe Confinement is underway to surround the Sarcophagus, and then to dismantle that and remove the curium and other contaminated materials.

  9. hysterical analist on Security At Nuclear Facilities: Danger Likely Lurks From Within · · Score: 0

    no, it is hysteria-mongering. much ado about nothing. there is no credible evidence sabotage has *ever* caused dangerous release of radiation at any nuclear power plant. the 2012 event in the USA was more likely mistake than sabotage, see my other comment

  10. wtf, sabotage of a diesel engine? on Security At Nuclear Facilities: Danger Likely Lurks From Within · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that's the best example they could come up with for the USA in the past few decades? Let me tell you about that incident, it was found that some dumb-ass had poured engine coolant into the oil tank. "Suspected Possible Sabotage" read the headlines, but smart money would be on stupid mistake as that would not have caused damage to reactor even if generators needed, it was part of redundant set which is required in USA.

    Sabotage at nuke plants is largely a non-issue, too hard to make something bad happen. Worst case you'd trip the reactor offline and make the shareholders angry at the lost power generating time.

  11. Re:I'll just say it on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 1

    you are funny, with your imaginary "surrounding evidence" while presenting none. Even in primitive cultures without clothes, the truth of what I posted exists. You are the one with imaginary beliefs that don't hold up in the real world

  12. Summary Incorrect on Frigid Brown Dwarf Found Only 7.2 Light-Years Away · · Score: 2

    Brown dwarves are not stars, this astronomer did not find a star nor the 7th furthest star from the Sun. Brown dwarves are known as "sub-stellar objects". No fusion, no star.

  13. Re:I'll just say it on Amazon Embodies the Gender Gap in Tech · · Score: 1

    don't have children? the small amount of extra testosterone little boys have make for a huge difference in behaviour. For 95% of the human race, the difference is biological and deep. Nothing will change it, sorry femi-nazis

  14. Re:What size does one take? on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    rather 18.6 x 65.2mm, and the "about" in my sentence was due to the allowed variation in AA battery of 13.5 to 14.5 diameter X 49.2 to 50.5 mm length

  15. Re:And they've already stopped on OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    yes we can, they are both projects of The OpenBSD Project:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

  16. Re:Some (backward) progress on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    you're confused, this is OpenBSD patching openssl that comes with that distribution. However many of their patches will help the openssl project if someone on that team can be made to have an interest in actually improving the security of openssl.

  17. Re:Don't be ridiculous on Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun · · Score: 2

    why do you mention "if you're an enthusiast"? If you are an enthusiast, you can legally build a gun, and moreover make on that is much safer and robust than 3D printed flimsy rubbish. If one wants to 3D sculpt plastic for frame of gun, Injection molding of a polymer into handmade mold is much faster, cheaper and cost effective. 3D printing only raises the issue of stupid people trying to make a gun that is not safe.

  18. Re:What size does one take? on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 3, Informative

    It takes something a little bigger than an AA battery. the 11 battery "sectors" are built out of 18650A lithium ion batteries , 651 in each, The 18650A form factor are about 1.5 cm longer and 0.4 cm thicker than an AA battery.

  19. Re:WTF is a 'gigafactory'? on Why Tesla Really Needs a Gigafactory · · Score: 1

    so why not a MONSTER (tera) factory, it wouldn't be quite that big? I guess Telsa's future Chinese competitor can grab that one

  20. Re:Worst thing possible on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    You are ignoring WHO is making these changes, they prize correctness, robustness and security above all else. they know what they are doing,

  21. Re:THROUGH North Korea?! on Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt · · Score: 1

    Yes, very sure Russia could destroy them in few days. In N. Korea there is extreme central control and micromanagement over troops with vastly inferior weapons and poor resupply/logistics capability.

  22. Re:Number of commits is meaningless on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    it means something when coming from the people who made openssh

  23. Re:Rights and Wrongs of good code. on OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    wrong, goto can be used properly, the most secure and competent code on the planet has goto's. look at the source code of openssh, dozens of them

  24. Re:THROUGH North Korea?! on Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt · · Score: 1

    N. Korea wouldn't last two days under war against Russia, that would be the end of chubby-spoiled boy's reign

  25. not a single mistake, symptom of bigger problem on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 2, Interesting