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  1. Re:Boeing bought more politicians. on Sierra Nevada Corp. Files Legal Challenge Against NASA Commercial Contracts · · Score: 1

    There are a number of other organisations who are interested in putting people up.
    SpaceX has signed an agreement with Bigalow to launch their habitats and send people up to them.

    I'm sure the Europeans would buy rides on US launches

    So while NASA is the primary customer, there are others who will also use the facility once it exists.

  2. Re:Some details about the 3D printer on SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    You want a laser based 3D printer that fuses metallic dust rather than the plastic string melters.

  3. Re:Downloading music for free? Scandelous! on Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album · · Score: 1

    Even better as you can track the click-through and know they are good to target for more U2 merchandising emails.

  4. Re:I, Robot from a programmers perspective on Developing the First Law of Robotics · · Score: 1

    But if you then mugged the bank robbers - that's a lesser law broken and so not as bad bank robbery, although the rewards would be the same.

  5. Re:Seems like a circular argument on Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation · · Score: 1

    The State of Colorado seems to be profiting from weed rather successfully - something like $7 million a month in state income (tax, licence, etc)

  6. Re:Docker needs an OS to run, duh! on Operating Systems Still Matter In a Containerized World · · Score: 1

    I thought it was "A foolish man built his house on sand, while the geek built his house in Minecraft."

  7. Use a Cell ID identifier on a phone on UK Police Won't Comment On The Tracking of People's Phone Calls · · Score: 2

    As each cell has a CID (Cell ID) you can get software which will display this, and other, information.
    If you know what the CID should be for a specific area then you can restrict your phone use if you don't recognise the CID.

    eg. 2 phones - one a burner you NEVER use, but is always on so you can track the CID,
    Your main phone you only switch on when you trust the CID of the cell you're in to make the calls.

    A public database of Cell ID - http://opencellid.org/ Its a little out on some of its info, but its a good starting point.

  8. Offer to pay the bill with unlimited money on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    but limit them to less than $10 a day.

  9. Re:String theory is voodoo physics on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    I've got some testable predictions for other theories - but they're currently beyond our current ability to make a time machine and a FTL space craft, but I'm sure we'll get around to that at some point.

    If you can't build the experiment then it is untestable, even if you have some vague idea of what the experiment requires.

  10. Costs more per episode than Dr Who on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    The article states that even before the cast wages are included production costs are more than that of Doctor Who.
    HOW!?

    Either BBC is yet again showing what it can do on a shoestring budget, or Hollywood TV has over inflated production costs.

  11. Re:Just tell them that you died on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    "I'll need a copy of his death certificate and proof of your power of attorney over the estate as I'm not permitted to deal with anyone other than the account holder, or authorised by the account holder"

  12. Re:But Moonshot is years old on HP Claims Their Moonshot System is a 'New Style of IT' (Video) · · Score: 1

    Its because HP customers are used to printer ink cartridges being overpriced disposable units. They're thinking is to move this into computer components and release them as over-priced disposable units too.

  13. Leave a comment stating "unable to comment" on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    "Within the French judicial system, personal and honest reviews have been sued by the restaurant owners - as such I am unable to leave an honest review of this establishment without risking legal action."

    "Unable to leave an honest review"

    You're not saying the restaurant is bad, just that you're unable to leave a review.

  14. Re:Buzz elaborated on his reasoning yesterday. on Buzz Aldrin Pressures Obama For New Space Exploration Initiative · · Score: 1

    NASA has a reduced budget so has to do more with less.

    The overarching goal is Mars...
    The asteroid visit is a stepping stone, which they'll have to do anyway at some point.

    Just like when they were going to the moon, they did a few orbits of the Earth first before moving to to orbiting the moon, then finally landing on it. The asteroid visits, capture, asteroid insertion into lunar orbit, etc are all steps rather than a single shot system whose only purpose is to get to Mars. We saw how useful Apollo was at being reused for other purposes. So multi-mission capable systems are what they're looking towards.

    While NASA is harvesting resources from the asteroids, SpaceX might get their act together and propose their martian lander system. NASA can then throw resources at that, as they have done with COTS and CCDev.

  15. Re:Modern Day Anti-Evolutionists on Climate Change Skeptic Group Must Pay Damages To UVA, Michael Mann · · Score: 1

    Just because everyone thinks it is right doesn't mean that its correct.
    Scientific consensus once said that the world was flat, that the sun orbited the earth. It was once the consensus that an atom was like a plum pudding (JJ Thompsons model).

  16. Re:nice work on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    A GPS will tell you where to go.
    A map will tell you where you are and what is around you and where to go.

  17. Re:Phew, it was a near miss! on The Higgs Boson Should Have Crushed the Universe · · Score: 1

    Or we had it and that's what happened to all the anti-matter - they got kicked over the hill and into the valley of oblivion.
    Or just got invited to a wedding by George R.R. Martin.

  18. SpaceX, Tesla, Solar City on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He's building his framework of companies to support a colony there.

    SpaceX to get there and then Tesla electric propulsion charged via better efficient solar panels from Solar City, needed due to the dimmer sun further out in the solar system.

    Just needs a building system using Martian resources next (concrete based on martian dust)

  19. Re:Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    Totally missed the word franchise as its not in this thread, just dealership, so only spoke about dealerships.

    Perhaps you need to visit a reputable optician rather than a SpecSavers franchise.

  20. Re:It's the Native Americans' call on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    Only the Seminole Tribe of Florida sanction the use of the name, other Seminole tribes & nations disagree with the usage.

    http://usatoday30.usatoday.com...
    But dissent has been voiced within the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, primarily by general council member David Narcomey, but the council has taken no official position on the FSU issue, according to Jennifer McBee, the tribe attorney general. Narcomey, saying he was voicing his opinion only, wrote in an e-mail to USA TODAY of the decision: "I am deeply appalled, incredulously disappointed ... I am nauseated that the NCAA is allowing this 'minstrel show' to carry on this form of racism in the 21st century."

  21. Re:Chicago Blackhawks too? on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 2

    Rape, Pillage, Plunder with little repercussions - Vikings sounds like the perfect name for an NFL team :-)

  22. Re:We should have a choice on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 1

    Talk to Tesla about training, certifying and licensing your staff to sell/maintain Tesla vehicles. Get regular testing to ensure your staff stay fully trained.

    Tesla still get the sales, but now also get the fees for training, certifying, licensing logo and other trademarked materials. Just need to make it clear that they are are franchise/dealership and not the company so the customer has a choice.

  23. Re:Speculation... on NADA Is Terrified of Tesla · · Score: 0

    We have dealerships for almost everything else.
    Walmart, Giant Eagle, Kroger, Meijers, BestBuy, Target, Home Depot - all dealerships. You don't buy your corn flakes direct from Kelloggs, you get them through your local grocery dealership. That new hard drive isn't bought direct from Seagate its picked up from BestBuy.

    The difference is the competition - If you don't like the prices at Walmart you can go to Giant Eagle instead. The competition pushes the retail prices down.

  24. Re:Stopping this would stop snooping in the UK too on EU High Court To Review US-EU Data Safe Harbor Agreement · · Score: 1

    Even if the servers were located in the UK - they would snoop on them as they'd be snooping on overseas traffic coming into the servers, or just route the traffic offshore and back again (fat pipe to the Isle of Man or Ireland?) so they can snoop it.

    USA can route traffic via Canada to legally snoop on American citizens, as its being snooped in Canada.

  25. Retiring to Mars.... on Elon Musk's Solar City Is Ramping Up Solar Panel Production · · Score: 4, Funny

    SpaceX to get Musk to Mars.
    Tesla to move him around on Mars.
    Solar City to power everything on Mars.

    Musk is sticking with his plans to retire on Mars and all his companies are helping him get there.