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  1. Re:This isn't the Future I was promised. on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 1

    "Where are the reliable rockets coming and going like London buses?"

    Those are the ones which don't find their way into the news.

  2. Re:This is so stupid it's beyond belief on Beware the Internet · · Score: 1

    "So you want to suppress the internet because of cyber-warfare? How about suppressing cars because there are car accidents? Or suppressing humanity because humans get diseases?"

    Or suppressing firearms because there are criminals.

  3. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

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  4. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    You obviously don't understand it. There certainly is the capability for key revocation. The question is how that will work administratively.

  5. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    How is revocation handled?

  6. Drats, foiled again... on Flaws In ZRTPCPP Library, Used In Secure Phone Apps · · Score: 2

    Now the NSA will have to go to Plan B.

  7. Re: It aint done left this galaxy yet ? on Voyager 1 Finds Unexpected Wrinkles At the Edge Of the Solar System · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not the Milky Way. Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

  8. Re: For the sake of saving time, on Snowden: NSA Spying On EU Diplomats and Administrators · · Score: 1

    Santa is just a dyslexic satan.

  9. Re:AltaVista on Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death · · Score: 1

    Ever tried dogpile.com?

  10. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're definition of "logic" differs from common sense. The Constitution wasn't written to be subject to interpretation by arcane legal rules, but by citizens.

    The SC has ruled that people aren't citizens because of the color of their skin (Dred Scott), that corporations are (Citizens United), and that personal crops are interstate commerce (Wickard v. Filburn). None of which stand up to plain reading or common sense.

    The Supremes are in contempt of simple logic and common sense. They're illogical - as political as the Legislative and Executive.

    The SC is the biggest flaw in our system - it should have consisted of a rotating chamber of state justices to provide a true "check and balance." The Feds deciding what the Feds can do is ludicrous.

  11. Re:Hello on Wall Street To Hold Quantum Dawn 2, Cyber-Attack Drill · · Score: 1

    "Would you like to play a game?"

    Indeed.

    The stock market isn't that much different than Las Vegas. They'd have you think it's all about owning fractional value of companies, but like fiat currency, it's more about faith than fact. It's like legalized betting, nudge nudge wink wink.

    The main difference is that the stock market has an air of respectability. But in Las Vegas, you know the odds, and they change them less often. On Wall St., the line is just more complex. In both cases, the odds are against the small player.

  12. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    "And this post winds a kewpie doll."

    WTF is that suppose to mean? Kewpie dolls weren't mechanical. If anything, it might mean something akin to "pissing against the wind."

  13. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 1

    You're under the mistaken assumption that SC rulings follow any sort of logic. They can say "red is green," and it's the law. And they have.

  14. Re:Now there's a petition on whitehouse.gov... on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 2

    "It doesn't really matter since the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction anyway."

    Because selling cars manufactured in another state isn't interstate commerce? Hell, growing your own vegetables for your own consumption has been ruled to be interstate commerce.

  15. Re:Pay no attention on NSA Releases Secret Pre-History of Computers · · Score: 1

    The Fahrenheit 451 effect, no doubt.

  16. Re:Next year's news... on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 2
    Really? If you're going to make claims, you should substantiate them. A very brief amount of research (as simple as clicking on one of the links in the article) would show that there is a real concern, such as this statment:

    good engineering projects for students, but of little use otherwise--and possible, in large numbers, an orbital debris nuisance.

    or you might even find, with a simple Google search, that CubeSat collisions have already occurred.

    Or, you can simply go on blindly putting your foot in your mouth, criticizing comments on subjects you know nothing about.

  17. Re:Next year's news... on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 1

    According the the actual CubeSat specs, the design requirement allows them to stay in orbit up to 25 years after end-of-mission. The OP was pointing to a single, specific example, which doesn't apply in general.

  18. Re:why replace once you have the screwdriver? on iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" · · Score: 1

    Looks the same as these ones.

  19. Re:Great on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 1

    That's only a single, specific, example. The CubeSat design specification allows an orbital decay lifetime, after the end of mission, of up to 25 years.

  20. Re:Next year's news... on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If 10-15 years is "relatively quickly," yes. The majority of satellites are in LEO, and it's where there is the most concern about space junk.

  21. Next year's news... on CubeSats Spurring Satellite Revolution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The popularity of cubesats has caused a great increase in "space junk," which increases the threat to satellites which support critical infrastructure.

  22. Re:why replace once you have the screwdriver? on iFixit Giving Away 1,776 "iPhone Liberation Kits" · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Amateurtip:

    I have pentalobe drivers from my father that are older than I am. They are not uncommon in older high end cameras where you need tiny screws that don't strip when you breath on them hard...
    Oh, and my local Ace Hardware carries a pentalobe driver set...

    Come back when you known the difference between Apple's proprietary pentalobe head, and whatever you're confusing it with.

  23. Re:Significant figures on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 1

    He was confused by the megadollar/mebidollar conversion.

  24. Re:here's a good start: on Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a zero sum game. Obama gives the cold-shoulder to civil rights by blowing hot air.

  25. Re:Context is everything on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, that was the story W. R. Hearst used to sell his crusade against "marihuana." Actually, he had great investments in forest land as a source of paper pulp for his newspapers. Hearst thought that hemp threatened those investments.