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  1. Re:Difference on Ohio Prison Shows Pirated Movies To Inmates · · Score: 1

    They should be busted

    Or it should be used as an example of why the civil dispute of copyright infringement shouldn't carry criminal penalties. Why should a government be an unpaid enforcer for Hollywood on commercial matters? It's stupid on a variety of levels and costs a lot to lock people up when they should at worst be paying damages.

  2. Re:History? on ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double · · Score: 1

    "International Geophysical Year Antarctica" is a useful google search term for those that should have know better before posting something putting down the expertise of others.

  3. Re:Smarter people... on ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double · · Score: 1

    Where else do you put a port city near the mouth of the biggest river in North America?
    See also San Francisco for another "smart people" disaster area. Add in another New Madrid event and you can include everything between and including Memphis and Chicago.

  4. Re:0.43 mm per year, eh? on ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double · · Score: 1

    It became an issue where two political parties could define a difference for their voters. With such petty tribalism the truth became secondary to slogans. Now it has got the the point where experts are demonized just for being experts and not cheerleaders. That there are "sides" in this issue at all is just a political artifice to pander to the "God created the Earth and he was such a puny God that nothing could change since then" crowd.

  5. Re:0.43 mm per year, eh? on ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double · · Score: 1

    In the US, we have spent the last 40 years on conservation and pollution controls and the result has been an export of much of our industrial base to China

    Actually a lot of that was due to protectionism pushing local steel prices high enough that it was much cheaper to move any industry that relied on steel somewhere else.

  6. Re:Stupid question on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Can't people study on their own

    Most people find that difficult. Even Feynman learned a lot at University.

  7. Re:"We choose NOT to go to the Moon..." on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Johnson's administration was looking for a way out and even contemplated doing joint missions with the Soviets

    Which would have been far better than Nixon deciding to let Skylab fall when it was still new and the end of the era. It's a pity LBJ decided to fuck around with a French Colonial War to try to get a cheap victory and be remembered as a "War Hero President" instead of doing something like joint missions. If we'd got a moonbase out of it would it really have mattered if it had two flags on it? Russia with the smaller stuff for orbital missions and the USA with the Saturn V for the really heavy lifting would have covered a huge range of possibilities.

  8. Re:So many mistakes. on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Most european countries have their worst governments since

    You should be old enough to remember when Greece was run by a fascist government. Then there's Spain, Romania was a horror story, and that's not even getting started on the bits of Yugoslavia when it first broke apart.

  9. Re:Trump on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 1

    Why? He's got negative net worth. On paper a homeless person has more money than Trump and things like the todays IRS result against a Swiss bank may make that reality.
    There's plenty like Gates, Buffet, Murdoch etc who didn't have to hide their money due to epic failures.

  10. Re:Fact-Checking on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 1

    but..how do we know Snowden is NOT pulling stuff out of his ass

    Investigate, charge and try the people he has accused of crimes. For some reason nothing like that is happening.

  11. Re:the question is on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They didn't with Grenada but apparently Thatcher verbally tore strips off Reagan in a prolonged phone call afterwards.

  12. Re:the question is on The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call In the Bahamas · · Score: 2

    Not quite so stupid as it sounds since they are still a colony so the legal machinery doing the suing would be the UK government.
    I can't see that happening though because the British spooks probably already knew.

  13. Re:Bullshit. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Also I don't see how you dumbing it down to one factor and deliberately ignoring climate is agreement.

  14. Re:4th gen reactors consume old waste as fuel ... on Radioactivity Cleanup At Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 25 Years On · · Score: 1
    OK - I missed that.

    By the way, one source of info for the above: the people who have been building reactors for decades

    You have no need to "educate" me. I saw Synroc in 1986 and I've worked with a couple of materials scientists from a research reactor.

  15. Re:Bullshit. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    you are literally agreeing with me

    Who said this was supposed to be some sort of debate? I'm just filling in some gaps in your knowlege from a different perspective.
    Also - where is the insult?

  16. You didn't understand the comment. I was referring to congress making laws

    Sticking to terms of contracts is also legally binding so I don't think the above poster is doing the misunderstanding.

  17. Normally it's a condition of sale. They know what they are doing and they don't care if it creates difficulties for others.

  18. Your internal NAT IP address is not routable from the internet.

    That only keeps out the good guys. The term you should google is "NAT traversal exploit".
    NAT is not security, however often it's supplied by the same box that does real firewalling so that fools people into thinking it does.

  19. Re:An...accident..? on Emory University SCCM Server Accidentally Reformats All Computers Campus-wide · · Score: 1

    Cool. ISS photos.

  20. Re:Bullshit. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile in Australia people are considering about seven triggers for the fires - one of which is fuel load and another how dry the place is (thus climate). All seven and you get huge fires. Nobody paid attention to those arguing against reducing fuel load from way back when you poor suckers had Reagan as a governor. Americans had the same information and gathered a lot of it. Don't blame the messengers just becuase you've got a bunch of losers worried more about their property values than lives.

  21. Re:The Golden Age of Programming on Fixing the Pain of Programming · · Score: 1

    You can't put a developer on a locked down system and expect them to get anything done

    Nobody is suggesting that. A sensible suggestion is a system that is not locked down for the devs but is not currently being depended on for production. Unless the chages are minor developers shouldn't be doing anything new on a production system without kicking it around on a test system first. Production systems are typically heavity locked down against devs due to an incident where a developer has gone too far (eg. overwriting with no way to get back to the initial state or a reboot of the entire system when their process gets out of their control). If the developer does not grasp the implications of multi-user systems and the consequneces of downtime are large enough then that's where they have to be watched. A few cowboys ruined it for the lot.

  22. Latest press report alarmism on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    News just in! Reporters will comment on anyhing they think is related to the topic of the day.

  23. Re:Bullshit. on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I can't speak to Arizona but I can to California

    On nearly every issue whoever is governing California at any time acts as if they are too full of LSD to be able to find their pants. Please do not extrapolate your basket case to a world that is laughing at you - things are not quite as insane outside.

  24. Re:lol on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    No wonder so many people think climatologists are idiots.

    That actually took years, a lot of money spent on PR, a lot of political involvement and a large supply of gullible people willing to regurgate the party line.

  25. They were "flying car" articles on Studies: Wildfires Worse Due To Global Warming · · Score: 1

    There were some idiot future prediction cooling articles to provide "balance" after reports or warming were published. I'll go with the scientific community instead of whoever picked a bait cover article for TIME once in the 70's any day.