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  1. Re:As the actual submitter I'll post my thought... on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that a spelling error or not? As 'effect' is quite accurate in this case...

  2. Re:Interrogation probably just a delaying tactic on CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border · · Score: 3, Informative

    If they think he's carrying around a simple solution to breaking AES256 in a timely manner maybe they did fail the minesweeper cert after all..

  3. Already been done on Coming To a War Near You: Nuclear Powered Drones · · Score: 1

    This has been done already, check out the (slightly environmentally unfriendly) Project Pluto.

  4. Re:But how do you know if you know? on US Appeals Court Upholds Suspect's Right To Refuse Decryption · · Score: 1

    This can consist of a DA saying, "This guy possesses child porn. Here are some pictures exactly like the ones that we suspect are on his hard drive." Jury sees those, convicts.

    DA then arrested for possession and distribution of CP?....

  5. Re:ACTA Represents the End... on Thousands Take To the Streets To Protest ACTA · · Score: 1

    Back when this this was made?

  6. Re:So now what... on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    Except it can't be *UTC* anything as UTC wouldn't exist..

  7. Re:Even Chinese must obey laws... on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    of Orbital Mechanics. Physics, too... when convenient.

    1. Let's start with the mass of this asteroid, so we can determine the VAST amount of energy it will take to "nudge it." Recall that the 365-foot Saturn V pushed a capsule the size of a VW Bug.

    Simple, park a few solar powered ion thrusters on the asteroid, turn them on in the required direction(s) and leave them going for for however long it takes to adjust the orbit enough....

  8. Re:"Russia and its partners"?! on Space Station To Be Deorbited After 2020 · · Score: 1

    We could send it to mars, attach a VASIMIR Ion Thruster which pushes at about ~5000 mN against the 420,000kg mass of the ISS at an acceleration of about 1.1 * 10^-5 m/s^2. Might take about 16 years to get the delta V to get to low Mars orbit, but it will do it eventually...

  9. Re:Safari on Katamari Hack For Chrome (and Compatible Browsers) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok I spoke to quickly, it just kills the visibility of the katamari, you can still play and everything thats stuck to it is still visible (until shot as well)..

  10. Re:Safari on Katamari Hack For Chrome (and Compatible Browsers) · · Score: 1

    You can play both at once but it gets boring quickly when you kill the katamari with the asteroids spaceship gun and just have the music playing against a game of asteroids...

  11. Re:Why the password? on Employer Demands Facebook Login From Job Applicants · · Score: 3, Funny

    my.lawn->get_off(you);

  12. Re:Why scale down? on US Navy Breaks Laser Record · · Score: 1
  13. Diagram incorrectly caption on Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission? · · Score: 1

    The article needs a minor correction, the diagram is labelled as showing the front of a monolith but it is clearly a rear view.

  14. Re:Magical thinking on Auditors Question TSA's Tech Spending, Security Solutions · · Score: 2

    That't right folks. The only people who have fashioned a beverage container bomb is the TSA.

    At least its slightly better than the game of catch up they've been playing of late, ie someone fails to blow up a plane with shoes then everyone has to take their shoes off etc etc..

  15. Re:Petaflops per second? on Windows Cluster Hits a Petaflop, But Linux Retains Top-5 Spot · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure that Google's data centres could qualify as a single super computer with each node solving a different part of the same problem...

    World domination isn't a single problem?

  16. Re:I'm surprised this is just now getting an artic on Laptop Heat May Cause 'Toasted Skin Syndrome' · · Score: 1

    The reason why the Balzac hangs out there more or less unprotected is that the equipment is heat sensitive.

    I thought it hung out half an hour north of Calgary.

  17. Re:Do No Evil on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    Damn I should have waited just a little longer to register...

  18. What only a windows version? on Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is there an iPhone version and/or will they jailbreak it for me to get it running?

  19. Windows only in France? on Tech Specs Leaked For French Spyware · · Score: 1

    Will this run on an iPhone or will they have to jailbreak it for me to run it?

  20. Re:Link to the original on Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor · · Score: 1

    I just came here to correct the link too. Which it looks like its been done already... /redundant

  21. Re:The problem is.. on Google's Free Satnav Outperforms TomTom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps..

    Open Street Maps

    'nuff said.

  22. Re:Not your home network? No right to complain on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 1

    Deep packet inspection, anything that doesn't contain a GET/POST or whatever just gets quietly dropped..

  23. Re:Location on My Location the Next Google Privacy Controversy? · · Score: 1

    Couldn't we have an ESSID and BSSID swap day when we all trade our router configuration details with someone else elsewhere on the planet. Then anyone trying to use their services near my house would be told they were in alaska.

    Unfortunately I'm pretty sure its based on MAC address not ESSID/BSSID, but then you can just use a decent AP that lets you annually assign a MAC address instead. You can probably use it to make yourself the foursquare mayor of your (least?) favourite cafe by using the mac address of their hotspot on your home AP.

  24. Re:Google is getting scary on My Location the Next Google Privacy Controversy? · · Score: 1

    How does your friend using from your house give them that information as opposed to the van outside? Albeit it might be slightly more accurate with lat/long than outside but its unlikely to help with the floor (ie altitude)

  25. Re:Ridiculous on Australian Women Fight Over "Geekgirl" Trademark · · Score: 1

    I thought the in-crowd were those people with a prime UID of which i'm unfortunately not one.