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  1. Tracking meteorites makes no sense... on NASA Inspector General Lobs Big Rocks At Agency's Asteroid Hunting Program · · Score: 3, Informative

    since they have already impacted the Earth and done their damage. You want to track meteoroids which are still in space and may be susceptible to intervention.

  2. Re:No on Distinguishing Encrypted Data From Random Data? · · Score: 1

    "the presence of random files on the system could be incriminating"

    That's why I like Truecrypt's ( http://www.truecrypt.org/ ) approach:
    "... there is practically no plausible explanation for the existence of a file containing solely random data. However, plausible deniability can still be achieved with a file-hosted TrueCrypt volume (container) by creating a hidden volume within it."

    Basically, you create a hidden volume inside your encrypted data. If you are compelled to reveal the contents of the encrypted data, you so so. What is revealed are some possibly sensitive files but not the data that you are most concerned with. The really sensitive data is in a hidden volume which you can plausibly deny exists. After all, you gave up the password to the encrypted file - any residual random data in the file is just an artifact of the encryption process (you can plausibly assert) when, in fact, it actually contains another hidden volume with the real goods.

  3. The acceleration is good ... on Rocket Science on Two Wheels · · Score: 1

    but 60mph is not the top speed for a bicycle. Currently the speed record for an HPV (Human Powered Vehicle - i.e. no rockets) is 81.00mph or 130.36kph.

    http://www.recumbents.com/wisil/records/fastest_ev er.htm

  4. Re:ThinkFree Office on Google Declares War on Microsoft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thinkfree office has exactly the same service...
    http://www.thinkfree.org/


    Yeah, try the link. All the page says is "Upgrade in process..... ".

    Sure you save your documents on their server for free, but what good is that when you can only access them when Thinkfree is operational. At least when I store my documents on my own hardware I can, if I choose to, ensure that the data is available to me regardless of problems I may have with any particular piece of hardware or while I upgrade any particular component.

  5. Re:"Controversial treatise"? Says who? on Google's Library Up and Running · · Score: 1

    Using "controversial" to describe Origin of Species is like using "long" to describe Don Quixote - you are simply not capturing what is important about it.

    As parent implies, if this we were living in the late 1800s then, sure, "controversial" would be a fair adjective. But today, after having had 150 years to think about it, adjectives such as "influential", "seminal" or even just "brilliant" are far more apt.

    As Daniel Dennett has written: "Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone has ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of Newton and Einstein and everyone else."