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  1. Re:Not going to happen on Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and better the evil you know, and may be able to impeach, than the potentially catastrophic alernative?

  2. Re:35 Years of Rank Incompetence, And Counting... on Microsoft Has Broken Millions Of Webcams With Windows 10 Anniversary Update (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Good plan, I like it. Let's hope they go with that ;)

  3. Re:Brought back from the dead on US Air Force Wants To Plasma Bomb The Sky To Improve Radio Communication (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    If we had the capability to do radio astronomy from the Moon, then we would still want to have the ability to do it from the Earth. That's a pretty impressive baseline distance to be able to perform interferometry using.

  4. If the range was very slightly higher, I'd be driving a Nissan Leaf to work right now, and it would have cost me £0. I did the sums, and what I would pay in rental payments and electricity, was very slightly smaller that what I currently pay in fuel costs. However, I was only 95% confident that the range was sufficient to get me home again at night, in the winter, with the cab heater on, after a couple of years of battery wear, etc. etc.

    Very, very close to being a 'free' car though. Give it a couple more years.

  5. Re: The Republicans want to make everyone work on The Case Against a Universal Basic Income (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you accept that the majority of people are not in a position to be able to do what you did, or are you really intent on extrapolating from a sample size of one?

  6. Re:Wrong, evil and going to happen on EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    You do realise that you've taken the matter as regards the UK out of the control of the EU, where TTIP will never pass due to strong opposition by the French, and placed it in the hands of a Conservative UK government that is strongly in favour of passing it?

  7. Re:Queue the feminists on NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    instead of being attention seekers

    I take issue with that kind of language being used to describe someone who chose his shirt for the day with two aims 1) To fight the stereotype of scientists as detached figures, unrepresentative as role-models for kids choosing their path in life; 2) To publicly show the female friend that had made it for him that he appreciated his gift.

  8. Re:The most expensive thing I own ... on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can highly recommend the SMART. I was very happy with mine. Do check how much it will cost to get it serviced though. In the UK, it was more expensive than other cars would have been.

  9. Re: I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could I be wrong? My life experiences say otherwise. What could you possibly say in the face of that?

    You didn't notice the behaviour of the drug users you met whose behaviour wasn't impaired. That's called an observation bias.

  10. Depends on how reliable the equipment is.

    Depends on how reliable the equipment is with a wooden shoe in it.

  11. Re:Here's an idea on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a spread-spectrum post.

  12. Re:The tech industry turned toxic. on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My IT job:

    1) 8% of salary goes to a pension that will pay ~60% of my final salary, plus a lump sum.
    2) 27 days paid holiday, + about 10 days of fixed mandatory holiday, + national holidays
    3) 36.5 hours workweek and TOIL if I work outside that
    4) The NHS (don't knock it until it's saved your child's life, for 'free')
    5) Niche speciality that's unlikely to be outsourced

    I'm the only male in my office.

    It's really down to what kind of 'IT' and where you are doing it.

  13. Re:Somewhere in the engineering process on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 3, Funny

    This supposes the drone is not full of weaponised swine flu virus. #tinfoilhat

  14. Re:TNG Commands ... on Talking To Computers? · · Score: 1

    :) I've done that due to a well phrased email subject in an actual physical meeting before.

  15. Re:TNG Commands ... on Talking To Computers? · · Score: 2

    They locked 'popsicle' out of the computer after Riker snuck up behind someone and yelled "Rectally!", just after someone got as far as "lemon".

  16. Re:The future of telescopes. on How To Build a Telescope That Trumps Hubble · · Score: 1

    Well, I reasoned this out myself, so maybe I'm wrong, but basically superconducting cameras are able to register every photon that sees them, sending off ~18000 electrons per photon hit. CCDs, on the other hand, send off 1 electron for every photon hit (I read that a while ago but I think those are the numbers).

    Since CCD sensors are so much less sensitive...

    Actually, they are equally sensitive. They are both capable of telling us that 1 photon impact occurred. You can't get any more sensitive than that.

  17. Re:I'm sure they're on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 1

    The V1 'Doodlebug' shows that this technology was achievable, if desired. The OP is talking about theoretical plans that never made it anywhere near implementation -- as you indicate, they are ridiculous. However, the ability to fly a predetermined flight plan with a crash into a city at the end, powered by an radioisotope to electric powerplant is reasonable.

  18. Re:I just love the "new" security features... on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hello! Your entire first grade class had the same teacher. Your friends know the name of your pets and the street you lived on. Your cousins sure as hell know the rest of the questions like mother's maiden name etc.

    Why not just give everyone the default code of 0000 or 12345? It's about the same level of security.

    Explains why social sites are always down when I try to sign up - little Bobby Tables was in my class.

  19. Re:Desperate for a Job on Which Language To Learn? · · Score: 1

    Love it or Hate it C# is pretty much the only langauge in demand by big business these days in the UK unless he's perfectly happy doing small freelance jobs etc which PHP is fine.

    That's not the number you are after though. What you want is ( num_jobs_lang_N / num_applicants_lang_N ). As someone earning good money with C and FORTRAN in the space industry who has never been unemployed, I really couldn't care what 99.99% of the jobs are. Being able to get the other 0.01% keeps a roof over my head.

  20. Re:Humans in the loop on Russian Cargo Ship Docks At ISS On Second Try · · Score: 1

    can only sustain 4-5 billion

    Proof?

  21. Re:tamper proof on SanDisk WORM SD Card Can Store Data For 100 Years · · Score: 1

    Tamper proof my arse.

    I can do this for you but I'll need a can of gap-gun and a pair of gloves. Are you sure you want to proceed?

  22. Faraday cage on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 1

    Why on earth do agents not have metalised bags to drop phones to be used as evidence into? Not to be opened until in a secure location with no network signal?

  23. Re:Spelling. on Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, u should be fine anywhere in the rest of the world outside of America too :)

  24. Re:Given two programmers on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Same length of commercial coding, and I hit maths problems every day - people problems, not so much. It depends on the field - space industry ground segments for me; you?

  25. Re:Failure is not a bloody option, blokes! on UK Space Agency Launched · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hello, Houston? Yes, sorry to bother you chaps, but..."