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  1. Re:Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's exactly what it is, since they don't have the throttle authority to burn lower, longer.

    With that approach profile, they're aiming to have dV hit zero the same exact instant that the rocket settles into a 1g static load on its landing gear - same as if it was just sitting on the ground.

    There's a good reason it's called a suicide burn.

  2. Re: Larger landing area on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Armadillo Aerospace had their own prototype hovering-gimballing single engine rocket, and Carmack was heavily involved in development of the logic and systems that made that possible.

  3. Re:Simcity? Does it go after my Simcity files? on New Crypto-Ransomware Encrypts Video Game Files · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but compared to what EA did to the game, it causes hundreds of dollars in improvement.

  4. Millions of dollars in research. on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Defeated by a $59 Dremel tool that completely removes the metal from that area of the frame...

  5. Every box IS a dev kit on Will Every Xbox Be a Dev Kit? · · Score: 2

    XB1 devkit functionality is in software, not hardware. And part of that is account access to parts of MS Corpnet that allow correct devkit functionality. We have to have the correct authorized user account and sandbox entered for devkit functions to work correctly.

    Our devkits at MGS are stock retail kits that are pulled off the line and loaded with in house SDKs.

    I have no idea what the plan is, if any, to roll that out widespread. I'm just a polygon slinger.

  6. Re:Counter-productive on DMCA Exemption Campaign Would Let Fans Run Abandoned Games · · Score: 1

    Unconstitutional laws are not laws, and it's not especially hard to mount a whole variety of solid constitutional challenges to the DMCA.

    What's difficult is for individuals to do so with standing, since their opponent in the manner ends up needing to be either a media company, with a multi-million dollar warchest, or the federal government, with a bottomless one. Both those scenarios are very good at preventing the rightful party from winning.

  7. I remember back when Google used to not be evil. on Google Explains Why WebView Vulnerability Will Go Unpatched On Android 4.3 · · Score: 0

    (sigh).

  8. My authorizaton code is... on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    EA - TM - E.

  9. Re: Don't mess with my jetset lifestyle on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    Please explain how I take a train, bus, or car from Seattle to London. .... ...metrovite myopia strikes again.

  10. Re: Beautifully steam-punky on Quake On an Oscilloscope · · Score: 1

    It's actually not that far off from what MIT was doing with early millimeter wave radar in WWI, in some ways.

    This is also just begging to be polished up some and used for a practical effect in a sci-fi movie.

  11. Re: That study used data from Finland's Winter War on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes. The data was showing that a traumatic emotional event for a pregnant mother was literally causing neurological effects in the developing fetus.

  12. That study used data from Finland's Winter War... on Study Explains Why Women Miscarry More Males During Tough Times · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...and one of the other things it found was that pregnant women who found out their loved ones were killed during the Winter War and Continuation War were more likely to have children who exhibited certain psychological conditions and behavioral pathologies.

  13. Life grows within the womb of these Legos... on A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body · · Score: 1

    Life that has never seen the surface of the Earth.

  14. Re: Who fucking wrote this? on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee would say otherwise.

    There is risk in setting foot in the unknown. Sometimes that risk is death, because the reward is so precious when we finally learn how to walk there.

    You need to step out of your ivory tower of academia - or at least stop naysaying those brave enough o blaze the trail for you so you can avoid the danger.

  15. Re:AI did it on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 1

    No, it will be the soda machine.

    It will always give you lemon-lime instead of orange.

  16. Re: Battletech IRL on Robot SmackDowns Wants To Bring Robot Death Matches To an Arena Near You · · Score: 1

    BattleTech is so awesome, there's actually a core canon novel that addresses that concern about the Solaris arenas. It's called "assumption of risk".

    Short version: if you know something can kill you, and you do it anyway because you want to, if you die, it's your fault.

  17. Re:Just don't eat animals, period. on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Except humans are obligate omnivores. *Some* members can survive in a subsistence mode on vegetable matter, but others cannot and many cannot do so long term in a healthy manner.

    Any zoology grad student can point at our tooth layout and explain to you exactly why animals develop that incisor / eyetooth / bicuspid / molar order, and it's not for chewing leaves. It's there because our bodies, by and large, have a dietary requirement - driven by nutritional and physiological requirements - to tear and consume animal proteins. There is simply no getting around it.

  18. Re:Anything that can be caught or farmed... on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    Technically, humans can be caught and farmed. You might want to refine your group parameter constraints a little.

  19. Re:No eating of species capable of tool use. on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 2

    Misunderstand. Don't eat octopus. Uses tools. Also, aquatic lineage raises risk of being distant cousin. Bad for family gatherings.

  20. No eating of species capable of tool use. on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Simple rule. Never broke it.

    ...Would have liked to put wasabi garnish on the seashells.

  21. Can't let anybody but the NSA have the GOOD toys.. on CEO of Spyware Maker Arrested For Enabling Stalkers · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not an arrest for enabling stalking. It's an arrest for enabling *unapproved* stalking.

  22. Re: This is huge on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Significant portions of what gets counted as "edible" in other nations as meal units would not pass food safety and public health regulations in America.

    We throw away a lot of food, yes. A significant chunk of that is precautionary for sanitary and regulatory reasons, and that is not a bad thing.

  23. "Rawshark"... on Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...sounds like a reference to that exact accented pronunciation of Rorschach's name in Watchmen (the original graphic novel, when Veidt calls the police to tip them off).

    That can't be a coincidence.

  24. There is no way this could work for me when I play on Predictive Modeling To Increase Responsivity of Streamed Games · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nobody can predict when I will suddenly chase a mammoth with a fork while buck naked.

    Nobody.

  25. Re:For loops are illegal on Point-and-Shoot: TrackingPoint's New Linux-Controlled AR-15s · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yup. They should expect a visit from the ATF's jackboot squad any midnight now. Hope their loved ones and bank accounts are safely hidden, and they have a lawyer on retainer to help suppress the planted extra evidence that gets miraculously "found" during the raid.