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  1. Re:Probe on Meet the Very First Rover To Land On Mars · · Score: 1

    Mars 3 was the complete mission, PrOP-M was the rover to be deployed by the lander (ala Pathfinder)

  2. Re:Would it be possible... on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or am I missing something?

    How about the entire point of this feature, which is basically server side malware screening.

  3. Re:memories of Hubble on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 3, Informative

    hubble was polished fine. It warped when it got to zero g...

    No it wasn't, it's well known that the mirror was ground incorrectly due to the measurement instrument being 1.3mm out

  4. Re:Free (as in beer)? on Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs · · Score: 2

    A licensed copy of windows is bit-for-bit identical to the unlicensed one and offers no improvement other than some vague (false) sense of moral correctness.

    Well, don't forget not having to faff around cracking Windows activation.

  5. Re:Whats the point? on Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs · · Score: 2

    The point is apparently using the OEM version on your own PC wasn't technically legal, now it is.

  6. Re:Microsoft finally gets it on Windows 8 Gets Personal Use License For Homebuilt PCs · · Score: 2

    If I choose to run Windows as my primary OS I want the full monty, not something stripped down, and you just know MS has stripped SOMETHING out

    Like the box and manual? That was the difference between the retail and OEM versions of Windows, and from the article it seems like this new PULSB release is just the OEM release by another name, as most system builders (if not using their work's volume licence key anyway ;) probably bought the OEM version this makes a lot of sense.

  7. Libertarian dream on Hacked BitCoin Exchange Sued By Customers · · Score: 1

    I guess this proves bitcoin's libertarian credentials, you've got about as much chance of getting stolen bitcoins back as you do getting stolen gold that you hid under your bed back...

  8. Oversized asteroid? on No Bomb Powerful Enough To Destroy an On-Rushing Asteroid, Sorry Bruce Willis · · Score: 1

    An asteroid 1000km across? That's larger than Ceres, the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt!

    Wouldn't it be more realistic to do the calculation for, say, a 10km asteroid like the Chicxulub impact?

  9. You won't find much in Antarctica on Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort · · Score: 1

    You won't find any frozen dino remains in Antarctica, at the time of the dinosaurs' extinction it still had a tropical climate, and only iced over after the opening of the drake passage 23 million years ago.

  10. I'm sure the government has easier ways on Open Millions of Hotel Rooms With Arduino · · Score: 1

    If true it's a pretty poor show by Onity, but I'm sure governments have had plenty of success simply forcing, tricking or bribing the hotel desk or cleaning staff into opening the rooms for them. I'm pretty sure that all the US government would have to do is turn up with a warrant and be given access to any room they like regardless of the type of lock used.

  11. Portal in the classroom? on Valve Unveils Steam For Schools, Portal In the Classroom · · Score: 1

    Portal in the classroom? Now that's one education game that doesn't disappoint at every turn!

    You have died of Thermal Discouragement Beam.

  12. Just like Nokia? on New Modeling Algorithms Bring More Detail to Google Earth's 3-D World · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, just like Nokia's 3D maps? Or are Nokia's maps hand modelled?

  13. Re:WTF on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    No it's still a very specific shape, even tho the exact port and hinge configuration isn't covered you'd need to recreate the exact bevel, lip, body shape and corner radius for it to be covered by this patent. If you did make an ultrabook with the same curved top and bottom sections, same body shape and proportions etc. then it would look exactly like a macbook air and they'd be right to sue over it.

  14. Re:Don't kill the messenger on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 1

    No it's still a very specific shape, even tho the exact port and hinge configuration isn't covered you'd need to recreate the exact bevel, lip, body shape and corner radius for it to be covered by this patent. If you did make an ultrabook with the same curved top and bottom sections, same body shape and proportions etc. then it bloody well would look exactly like a macbook air and they'd be right to sue over it.

  15. Re:Don't kill the messenger on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The summary is complete bullshit, this patent is a design patent, a very narrow patent on the exact look of the macbook air, not a broad patent on a "wedge shaped laptops".

  16. Re:WTF on Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops · · Score: 3, Informative

    A wedge shape for a laptop is just an idea. How can this be patented?

    It can't, the summary is complete bullshit. The patent is a design patent, a very narrow patent on the exact look of the macbook air, not a broad patent on a "wedge shaped laptops".

  17. Re:Wait, what? on Hubble To Use the Moon To View Transit of Venus · · Score: 1

    I think they mean "the sun is too close [a star] for its optics [to handle the light intensity]"

  18. Re:Sun's too close, but not the moon? on Hubble To Use the Moon To View Transit of Venus · · Score: 1

    I think they meant "the sun is too close [a star] for its optics [to handle the light intensity]"

  19. Re:Feedback is important on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 4, Informative

    FYI they belly-flopped the plane, the nose was actually pointing up the whole time they were falling.

  20. Re:Good! on Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wait, you were in an office not lit with horrible fluorescent strip lighting?

  21. Where is this malware anyway? The browser cache? on One In Five Macs Holds Malware — For Windows · · Score: 1

    I still can't decipher where exactly this malware is on OSX, I suppose it's just sitting harmlessly in the browser's cache?

  22. Re:Only 550 billion particles? on First Full Observable-Universe Simulation · · Score: 1

    As another comparison an average grain of salt contains around 1.2x10^18 atoms verses this simulation's 5.5x10^11 particles. (source)

  23. Re:Bad title on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 2

    Real writers re-write to avoid the problem: "Feds shut down narcotics store that had been a TOR user".

    Or even the more catchy "Feds shut down Tor-based narcotics store"

  24. Re:What a load of BS! on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 2

    They keep the air pressure in ISS higher than they do on an airliner. Pressure in ISS is equivalent to sea level pressure while an airliner is only pressurised to the equivalent of 8,000 ft.

  25. Makes no sense to me on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't think of any reason to do this (other than an elaborate April fools), to make these servers available to the internet they will need to either connect to ground infrastructure somewhere directly or rely on a wireless service provider (cellular or satellite).

    If they're relying on a wireless internet provider they could just shut access to the servers off, if it's connected to ground infrastructure (which would of course need to go through 3rd party internet providers as well) then access can just be cut off from there instead. They may as well, if using miniature low cost servers, just create small self powered self contained servers that can be hidden at multiple locations.

    Or, are they suggested that to access The Pirate Bay you will now need your own dish antenna to contact the server drones directly? :)