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  1. Re:Look at the bright side on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Easier said than done. There would be a lot of new science required just for planet terraforming that does not exist today. An example, how to make the planet's core more active to support tectonic plates so that the rock material from crashing asteroids into the planet get recycled into larger rocks. Then there is calculating the right amount of liquid water needed to sustain the planet and somehow transport it whether its crashing comets into the planet. Altering the planet's rotation if its tidally locked, its axis if we want to have seasons (which I believe would be required), and potentially a moon with enough mass to exert influence to maintain them. The other issue is this isnt something that is currently completable in the average person's life time, it would be many generations down the line where they might be able to work on phase 2.

  2. Re:"...has identified several problem areas and... on US Army Developing Armor Tailored For Females · · Score: 1, Interesting

    1) The post said she was shot. It didn't say she shot back, so you don't know if she killed anyone.

    No it didn't. It said she was injured from the shells. As in, the stuff that remains when the bullet goes through. Which means she was doing the shooting.

    No but you must feel pretty stupid because the shells eject from the side downwards, not back upwards at the person firing the gun, that would be a stupid design. More than likely she was a passenger in the vehicle and one fell down on her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb3eoKhRS9A

  3. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 0

    I'm sort of confused, what do you think the cable does? Its a data cable with the ability to supply power. USB cables do both. In fact, the dock cable is *drum roll* USB! Maybe the first ever ipod connector with 30 pins was not USB, I dont know I started to buy apple products in 2007, but its nothing special other than a USB cable what you get today. The same video and audio can pass right over it, and with drivers so can everything else you said.

    Generic USB to Apple 30 pin connector ($19.99)
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA591G/B?fnode=3a

    Generic USB to USB micro cable ($1.20)
    http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030307&p_id=5457&seq=1&format=2

    The difference in cost is significant, so yes they are selling it for a mark up. Apple didnt innovate nothing other than pulling a Sony and creating a proprietary cable. The new cable will just be more of the same and the only difference will be the amount of money I have to shovel out for new accessories because the old ones dont have the same connector when I upgrade my phone.

  4. Re:Huge on Spanish Surgeon Performs First Synthetic Organ Transplant · · Score: 1

    Yes but there are other applications that this would be better suited. You could grow new arteries for bypass patients, instead of having to harvest from other parts of the body. That alone would allow people with clogged arteries the ability to be able to do strenuous activity. Eventually they will be able to do more complex but this is a huge milestone.

  5. Re:Good for Samba/Windows interoperability on Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000 · · Score: 1

    We use centrify express and the uid/gid conversion results in a number far higher than 1000. Its a good system if you start out that way but will be a pain when you change uid/gid schemes. I dont think its going to be a problem with a really good system administrator group because uid/gid combinations should have been standardized from the start for service accounts and users.

  6. minor change really on Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000 · · Score: 1

    This change doesnt really do anything important. It means that when you add a user without specifiying a uid it will default to the next available uid after 999. The only issue this will pose in a real environment is if there is no centralized account administration and sys admins are not paying attention. I honestly use centrify express, which uses arbitary high uid scheme, based off active directory (unfortunately a required to use it), which is something that can be configured for ldap/kerb setups too.

  7. Re:Journalism on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Or was it? Godzilla might have been the real cause of the earthquake...

  8. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Even in the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) the notion of conscience is recognized in the course of the execution of one's duty. If a service member is witness to criminal actions by his superiors, he is compelled by duty, honor and conscience to report it.

    Pretty sure, in the bolded statement that they meant report it to a superior officer or up the chain of command, not to media outlets....

  9. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    If he truely had the intention of trying to bring to light some questionable acts, he went about it the wrong way. To explain in IT terms, its like finding out your company is storing passwords in plain text files, do you A) tell your management or B) Post them on the internet? If your management does not listen, then you go further up the chain. That is the right and responsible thing to do.

  10. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    Sigh, you're trying to compare two different situations, like the replies to this post too. No one ever got hung for keeping secrets. They got hung because they took part in the act or ordered it. Manning was not in that helicopter shooting people, he is some guy who found the video and leaked it. Two completely different scenarios that people apparently just dont get.

  11. Re:No sympathy here, sorry on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    I rather JAG be notified and them handling the actual investigation other than some lowly private who sat and watched a few videos and came to his own conclusion without interviewing the pilots, the commanding officers, and etc.

    But hey I guess this private has lots of experience in this field.

  12. Re:Back to earth on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Wikileaks isnt the messenger, they're the people who obtained the message without being one of the parties involved and are making it public. I'm not stating an opinion but you can not use the "Dont shoot the messenger" and wikileaks in the same context.

  13. Re:Do not want on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    If I had a choice I'd extend my life so that I can enjoy life more by being able to do more. I'm 30 yrs old and I'm already slowing down. The notion that for me to enjoy life I must expect death, which can happen at any point along the way, is a crock of shit. The problem with saying let nature take its course, is what is the natural course? The idea of letting nature take its course would apply to other aspects like using our technology to deflect an earth killer asteroid. That is a natural death and yet we would try to avoid it.

    I'm not saying there wouldnt be challenges for the individual or the society but let the person deicde their own fate and do not dictate to them whether or not, if available in the future, if they could have this drug. I suspect the easiest thing that would be is if they decided to move on, they stop taking the drug.

  14. Re:Dogs made man. Was Re:Maybe, but... on Oxford Scientists Say Dogs Are Smarter Than Cats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think its comparing apples to oranges. No one is saying that cats were not as important in the development of man. I would think they got shafted because people sort of forget thats why people kept cats around (my parents always had a cat to keep rats away). The argument is over the intelligence of the two and stating that dogs are smarter. Taking the GP argument and moving forward 25,000 years to present day, the dog's role has evolved with society while the cats role really has not evolved. Taking out the companion role of both pets, you really dont see cats filling any gaps in society except maybe as a therapy animal and keeping rodents away. Cats certainly do not function for bomb detection, drug detection, search and rescue, and the various other needs that law enforcements use them.

  15. Re:Unsurprising on Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java · · Score: 1

    When you buy oracle products just make sure you dont forget the $4.99 bottle of lube, it wont hurt as much.

  16. Re:Fear & Ignorance on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    How do you explain that every republican president, since as far as I can remember which is Reagan, has tried the trickle down method for boosting the economy and we always end up in a recession. Then comes Clinton who reverses the idea and the economy bloomed? Its a proven fact that when the Republicans do the trickle down method they're only helping the rich make more money without that extra money really getting down to the middle class and poor to boost the economy.

  17. Re:Obama should just call for elections on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    That was the thing that really pissed me off. I started working at a new company in March and my healthcare with them was lower, then the healthcare reformed got passed and my costs went up a week or two later, as though it was planned. So now all my copays are more and I pay more per month...but hell if I go to any doctor I get slapped with a letter from my insurance demanding that I prove that my visit was not for a pre-existing condition. They can get away with it because those provisions have not taken effect yet.

  18. Re:does the 4th amendment apply? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine the 14th Amendment trumps it by saying that a citizen is guaranteed due process.

  19. Re:Haben wir allen vergessen? on Arizona "Papers, Please" Law May Hit Tech Workers · · Score: 0, Troll

    You do realize that whenever you are pulled over by a police officer that when he requests your license, registration, and proof of insurance...aka your documentation, if you do not provide it you can go to jail? All this is doing is making sure that they are here legally. It is not about hatemongering its about the safety of the people who are here by legal means and pay taxes, which illegal immigrants do not. When you have illegal immigrants there is a higher cost of living in the area, higher rater of crime.

  20. Re:What can be done? Nothing. on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    Thats what I pretty much do. Most of my money gets moved into a savings account that is not linked. I make sure that my bills are paid through an account that I do not carry the debit card regularly. That account is fed by direct deposit. I keep the card so as needed if I have to go to the bank to do some sort of transaction, which having the card is easier than remembering account numbers (since BAC and Citi use debit cards for transactions at tellers).

    It's a little over kill but I havent had a problem yet.

  21. Re:i beg to differ on Videogame Driving Skills Don't Apply In Real Life · · Score: 1

    I would play GTA4 and do head on collisions with motorcycles with a car...suffice to say in the first few days I would have the urge everytime I saw a motorcycle on oncoming traffic lane.

  22. Re:The big question on Scottish Wave Energy Plans Move Forward · · Score: 1

    It will create a rip in space and time where sean william scott will be the new messiah. We will also switch our dependence on oil to something called Fluid Karma.

  23. Re:web servers to app servers on The Final Release of Apache HTTP Server 1.3 · · Score: 1

    Apache's popularity is due to it being the swiss army knife of HTTP servers in that you can do almost anything with it. In an enterprise environment you have cookie cutter applications and then there are applications shoved down your throat that just apache handles much better. Every time I went to Apache Con I would attend the mod_rewrite lectures because its interesting to see how you can handle different unique situations with just that module.

  24. Re:Do any of them assess performance? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do realize it seems like that but let me add some clarity. The features provided by Netbeans out of the box is mostly what everyone would just use. The way they have distributed Netbeans is no different then the way I've seen eclipse distributed, except its centralized at their website. I can download ordinary eclipse which supports Java only initially, or I can download eclipse with PHP PDT from the PDT website. Netbeans provides the same functionality except I do not have to goto a different website. As for the other features, it just seems to be more work to install them. Again this is just my experience with it, I know others who love eclipse for its flexiblity which Netbeans doesnt seem to have because it did a trade off for ease of use.

  25. Re:Eclipse PDT? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    The old Zend Studio was great for debugging, but it suffered from the closed platform that you were locked into the feature sets provided. They moved over to eclipse to leverage the framework without having to do as much work for the IDE, the issue was they were suffering from lack of plugins that people wanted.