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  1. Re:Fine seems fair on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Never did. I prefer Pope Leo XIII to Lord Keynes. But that is because despite my nickname from when I was younger and more foolish, I now believe 100% in the universal right to productive private property ownership.

  2. Calling OSHA on Amazon Employee Explains the Poor Working Conditions of An Amazon Warehouse · · Score: 1

    Well, considering that until President Trump was elected, the unemployment rate was rather high,. I'd suggest laziness was the least of their worries in finding another job.

    But my question is, do we not have some rather stringent regulations for Occupational Health and Safety? How does Amazon get a pass on OSHA?

  3. Consider this on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That perhaps the real problem is that YOU are measuring reality differently than they are.

    They're measuring reality with the relentless mathematics of financial analysis.

    Your metric may simply be different.

  4. Re:Fine seems fair on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the other isn't that unbelievable....I get at least 20 advertisements in snail mail spam for 0% introductory rate cards a month.

    I just don't have time to mess with playing that game. My parents, who are retired, do- they just keep transferring balances to new cards.

  5. Re:Fine seems fair on A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just got one as I was reading this "Hello, this is an alert from Visa/Mastercard services"- actually one of the more legitimate scams out there, but I don't have a credit card with the big banks and anything real, my credit union would call me direct without bothering with them.

  6. That would depend on if the controlling agency and government was even still in existence. And the paranoia of what replaced it. ICBMs are also returning spacecraft with no identifying radio.

  7. I'd point out that Chris Columbus miscalculated the size of the ocean *by half*, and nearly lost his ship to mutiny inspired by starvation, before sighting land.

  8. Good luck not getting shot down coming in from orbit without a radio and without being expected.

  9. Re:Curious how this is really different on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    But why was it built with 9?

  10. Re:Wake me when they can actually... on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Intra-sub-system orbit != space

  11. Re: pulsars for positioning is idea with old roots on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Darn, I was hoping the alien invasion force would have a problem with scale and be swallowed by a small dog.

  12. Re:Talk about putting the cart before the horse! on NASA's Got a Plan For a 'Galactic Positioning System' To Save Astronauts Lost in Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    And I think we still don't have it.

    Unless you land a probe *on* the distant moon first, that starts broadcasting the moon's position relative to the rest of the galaxy, a galactic positioning system still is not going to help the hypothetical probe find its way into orbit.

  13. Re: Government guilty! on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Public documents on a public facing website are discoverable by the public.

    That some idiot in government didn't realize this is not the fault of the hacker.

  14. I see zero reason for doubt. Public documents on a public facing website are discoverable by the public.

    That some idiot in government didn't realize this is not the fault of the hacker.

  15. For responsible disclosure, shouldn't there be some indication that the documents were not public?

  16. Uh, were they not FOI releases? So, by definition, released to the public domain to begin with?

  17. Re: Draw a Red Line in the sand on Tech Group Urges US To Recruit Allies To Take on China, Not Tariffs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually you have two options there: 5.5 lbs of C4, per drone, with enough drones launched with sufficient AI so that you get multiple hits once the first drone connects. Or alternatively, a lot of little drones, each armed with thermite suspended in a gasoline gel, which explode at several thousand degrees on impact and melt through just about any casing by adding to the heat of re-entry pushing the warhead past re-entry design limits.

    Also, we're not talking Tsar Bomba sized warheads on an ICBM either; at worst, we're talking one gigaton warheads. That means if you are able to intercept > 62 miles from the target, usually even as close as 40 miles from the target, you'll end up with less damage than you'd get from a class 3 hurricane.

    Get it at 40 miles straight up, and the ozone layer will even absorb most of the radiation (that is, after all, what it does).

  18. Re: Draw a Red Line in the sand on Tech Group Urges US To Recruit Allies To Take on China, Not Tariffs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Post launch course changes are limited for ballistic missiles. And yes, you aren't going to escape with no damage, but the missile does not have to be intercepted "in space" for a drone cloud to work; it can be intercepted mere tens of miles from the target.

    Unlike missiles- a drone cloud that is launched and is not used as a shield can be landed, refueled or recharged, and used again.

    You don't even need to protect everything- a drone cloud based in each city, or even launched from naval vessels, will do. Just protect the high value stuff- the stuff that a small country like North Korea is going to try to attack.

  19. Re:Short term the best carbon sink is rainforests on XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that is one of several plans already being considered.

  20. Re:Short term the best carbon sink is rainforests on XPRIZE Projects Aim To Convert CO2 Emissions, But Skepticism Remains (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Not just tropical rain forests either, but coastal and temperate rain forests as well should be encouraged.

  21. Re:1st amendment zealots on Trump Signs Law Weakening Shield For Online Services (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention from a technology standpoint, porn is an incredible bandwidth hog.

  22. Re:Waste of money, invasion of privacy on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dubai has the 2nd most expensive standard of living in the world.

    They left buggies, horses, and camels behind over a century ago.

  23. Re: What is an unfair trade practice? on Tech Group Urges US To Recruit Allies To Take on China, Not Tariffs (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I like it. Too bad in most countries, you'll never get that close to a politician without facing down a goon with an uzi.

  24. Re: Fair Weather Federalists on Oregon Becomes Second State To Pass a Net Neutrality Law (katu.com) · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Fair Weather Federalists on Oregon Becomes Second State To Pass a Net Neutrality Law (katu.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Oregon,
    Your pond water is your neighbor's water, your internet bill goes to feed your neighbor's porn addiction (which is what net neutrality really is all about), if you can't feed yourself you can be starved to death (HR4135) and abortion is preferred in the tax system to pregnancy (in that you can get a free paid-by-income taxes abortion, but you can't be born on the public dime).