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  1. Re:A new definition for "walled garden".... on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 0

    It was a reference to Game of Thrones, idiot.

  2. Re:Zombies? on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Debate with delusional people isn't possible, even without insult. But thanks so much for making it about politics and YOUR delusional ideology when it wasn't.

  3. A new definition for "walled garden".... on Pentagon Creates 'Do Not Buy' List of Russian, Chinese Software (defenseone.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    What walls can we build next? Oh, right: 200-foot walls along all our borders to keep the monsters and zombies at bay....

  4. Republicans aren't retards, but they are some of the most highly tribalistic people on the planet, much moreso than those who self-label as Democrats. They are perfect followers, which is precisely why the Russian government has hitched its wagon to that party, not because their ideologies align perfectly.

  5. The Russian monarchy will cause the free world to go to war with Russia.

  6. Solution: stop being greedy on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    These wind farms turn a tidy profit, yes? Where is all that profit going? If they stop laundering those profits and bank some of it for future repairs or replacement, rather than holding out a poor beggar's hands and whining for another bailout, the problem is solved.

  7. Always has to be phrased like a competition, eh? on 'RSS Has Already Won' (brianschrader.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was it ever a competition? What was was there to "win"? Regardless, I've never stopped relying on them. I have several readers on my Android phone, and use Thunderbird on desktops to collect feeds for review alongside e-mail, which seems perfectly natural to me.

  8. Re:While I agree with you on some level Qbert... on Floating Between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres May Have More Water Than Earth (nasa.gov) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Have you considered that we evolve the species epigenetically through BEHAVIOR and the choices we make in our lifetimes? Perhaps what he suggests is precisely how we evolve ourselves to be less selfish and more cooperative: it's an endeavor that would require global participation and cooperation. That cooperation might be grudging during our lifetimes, but if that behavior becomes ingrained in our epigenetics then we might indeed achieve what you want at the same time. You think that these two activities must be separate and one precede the other, but I'm not so certain.

  9. Undiagnosed hyperaesthesia, most likely on Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You're Not Alone. (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    These people might have heightened sensory responses to normal stimuli, and that can lead to sensations of near constant itching all over, in the instance of tactile nerve response. That's not an invasion of parasites under their skin, it's their own damned brain reacting excessively to nerve signals.

  10. Yes, only "several" will be protected on Google is Adding Anti-Tampering DRM To Android Apps in the Play Store (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And the rest of us must suffer the mighty fist of dictatorial oppression?

  11. Yeah, let's pre-dox everyone! on Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This authoritarian idiot's solution to tyranny of the majority is to effectively pre-dox everyone? What could possibly go wrong with that idea?

  12. Re: And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep drinking that peculiar Kool-Aid. You can have all you want; no one else wants any.

  13. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you then also explain why the former CEO of Volkswagen is being prosecuted, and why CEOs of other car manufacturers may be next in line?

  14. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh how German engineering prowess has fallen. First the diesel scam and now this....

  15. Re:So... collective consciousness? on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What, me worry? Individual opinions that coincide collectively are a Consensus and a Movement!

  16. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't recall that being mentioned in the article(s) I read earlier about NASA's involvement.

  17. So... collective consciousness? on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Is this the beginning of the real life Borg, right here at home? I, for one, welcome our new Collective overlords who, being a collective, cannot possibly be as evil as the dictatorial monopolies and tribes we have now.

  18. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We all do, if we were old enough to witness the Apollo 11 crew set foot on the Moon in relative realtime on TV in 1969, or even witness the first Shuttle launch, or just watched too many damned episodes of Star Trek. We all want that future where the Bad Guys aren't human any more, and that all must begin with getting away from here!

  19. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can agree with tossing it out an airless/gravityless/fluxless window and letting it succeed or fail gloriously. :-)

  20. And if we individually sued them for something that is a collective wrong, we'd tie up the judicial system for decades with a waiting list encircling the globe several times, wouldn't we? I'm glad "you got yours", but that's not a solution for the societal wrong, is it?

  21. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know for a fact that the ISS is completely free of the influence of the Allen Belt? I didn't mention it as a possibility because I suspected that it's not but didn't know for certain and was too distracted to bother looking for an authoritative answer.

  22. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It was never being considered as propulsion for launch vehicles, period. It was simply a theoretical alternative to technologies like solar sails.

    Now we know that it won't even work as an alternative for that, either.

  23. Re:And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's even assuming that the effect was useful as propulsion in the first place, at any degree of Newtons. Have you looked at a diagram of the Earth's magnetic fields lately? The lines of force are not linear.

  24. And not just any magnetic field... on German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... it's the field being created by the planetary body we call Earth. Surprise! No one has ever tested an EM Drive beyond the influence of Earth. If they had, its efficacy would have quickly been dis-proven.

  25. Re:Speed Reduction on Google and Microsoft Disclose New CPU Flaw, and the Fix Can Slow Machines Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Intel has been getting a free pass from such consumer protections for decades now. Are we finally so enlightened that we can take away their hoard of Get Out Of Jail Free cards and make them pay for their failures rather than profit from them?