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  1. Re:They can carry guns? Oh no! on Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening · · Score: 1

    A third person enters the cockpit while the co-pilot is in the bathroom. Otherwise, there would be a single point of failure for the plane--if just one person died, nobody else could enter the cockpit.

  2. Re:And that is the logical failure. on Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter how small the airline is, they all would have to go through the same TSA screening to get the pass.

  3. Re:How is this a problem? on Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, your counter point is a flight where everyone died? You might want to work on the argument there.

    The correct security screening for pilots is not the same as for passengers, TSA is dead on with this policy.

  4. Re:It's symbiotic on Why Google Needs Firefox · · Score: 1

    Eroding Safari is like eroding a grain of sand.

    And MS bought a big chunk of Apple back in the day as a method of cash infusion to keep them from going under and MS from getting chased for being a monopoly. Since then Apple has done... uh ... a little better, and MS has divested.

  5. Re:not about the economy on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 1

    Yes it is, they can only sell you the tools necessary to pass the solo games in there store if they force you to play solo with stuff you purchase form Blizzard.

  6. Re:It has been seen before on Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses · · Score: 0

    Yeah, I was thinking to (a) buy an android device and (b) continue to use gmail, but with google focused on server-client computing and shuttering stuff faster than you can say, "wait, I rely on that." neither of these makes much sense.

  7. Re:It has been seen before on Google Pulls Plug On Programming For the Masses · · Score: 1

    well, MS likes forwards-self-compatibility, yes, but backwards-compatibility and non-MS-compatibility... not so much.

  8. Re:Mica Discs on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing sapphire, what the little stones in sand paper, and high end watch crystals are made of. There is already patents for data storage on it, and it is incredibly heat resistant. I don't know about die free writing.

  9. Re:Article is crap on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 1

    Do you have your WPA key memorized, written down next to your laptop, or do you use a keychain?

  10. Re:Article is crap on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 1

    The Apple OS automatically starts using the keychain for lots of stuff. It does not automatically place your passwords on post-its under your keyboard.

  11. Re:Article is crap on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep, that one is copyright Apple. Here is NSA's guide to hardening OS X. It does not recommend turning off keychain (though there are several other items it does recommend turning off).

  12. Re:Article is crap on Do Macs Have an Edge Against APTs? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The NSA's guide to security Apples talks about how to make the keychain reasonably secure here. They notably, do not recommend turning it off or using third party software.

  13. Re:My guess on NASA Briefing on New Mars Finding This Afternoon · · Score: 1

    And they found the second one just two blocks from it.

  14. Re:Change for the sake of change? on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure exactly how much you are using Windows when you are on the CLI with Cygwin.

  15. Re:Change for the sake of change? on Linus Torvalds Ditches GNOME 3 For Xfce · · Score: 1

    examples:
    Saints = we'll put you your ancestors in the canon
    timing of christmas (hint: Dec 25 is not in any texts), inclusion of evergreen tree = solstice celebration

  16. Re:Never going to happen. on Wall Street Predicts Merge of OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So should scroll bars be the other way around then?

  17. Re:ARM laptops on Wall Street Predicts Merge of OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    The analyst is claiming Apple will release an A6 MBA in 2012.

  18. Re:This just in on GAO Report: DoD Incompetent At Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    I agree that medicare should be expanded to cover everyone, but the satisfaction is unconditional--a random sample of all people covered by Medicare are asked how happy they are with it, and they (presumably) take into account how easy it is to find a covered doctor.

    I'd amend you quote to, "this is very convenient if you are covered by Medicare."

  19. Re:quantity over quality? on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Because I've worked with audio.

    Ask any audio engineer and they will tell you that you always have some stuff past the max, and digital is a PITA because you have to make lots of stuff too quiet to make headroom.

  20. Re:Simple solution on GAO Report: DoD Incompetent At Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    There is this thing called an embassy and they are supposed to be able to communicate sensitive information in real time with HQ...

  21. Re:Carriers vs Battleships on GAO Report: DoD Incompetent At Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Until about 1940, he was right. One usually doesn't append obvious modifiers to their claims like, "right now." or "in it's current state."

  22. Re:This just in on GAO Report: DoD Incompetent At Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    Medicare is administrated by the US Government, has lower overhead than any private sector health insurance plan and has the highest satisfaction rating of any health insurance plan in the US.

    You don't write articles about how great the government is at administration, just about when it messes up administration.

  23. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish on Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins 'Open Surface' · · Score: 1

    I don't think that works for "open surface" with MS.

    It is, by your standard, designed to be broken.

  24. Re:quantity over quality? on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Solid state is really linear until you hit the top hat--then it is incredibly non-linear.

  25. Re:It's all in the encoding on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    CD's are digital and are very, very good audio quality. The one issue is what happens when you are out of range. CD's just cut off the audio while analog media tend to just attenuate it (i.e. twice as loud as represented as 1.8 times as loud, 1.4 times as loud).