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  1. Re:Serves them right! on CareerBuilder Cyberattack Delivers Malware Straight To Employers · · Score: 1

    Well we're all fucked then.

  2. Re:Serves them right! on CareerBuilder Cyberattack Delivers Malware Straight To Employers · · Score: 0

    Or define a common XML schema and don't include a tag to execute arbitrary code.

  3. But what is the cap made of? on NASA Probe Spies Possible Polar Ice Cap On Pluto · · Score: 1

    Most of Pluto is going to be ice. Is the cap solid Nitrogen?

  4. Don't trust Jessie on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 0

    Bad news

  5. And the seventh mas extinction? on Newly Discovered Sixth Extinction Rivals That of the Dinosaurs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Must be now.

  6. No I don't agree on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 2

    The falcon can't throttle down enough to hover before landing so it has to approach the pad at high speed, and high acceleration. While doing this it has to rotate the entire vehicle to control lateral movement. It has to coordinate lateral and vertical acceleration to achieve near zero in all three axes at touchdown, with only one chance to get it right.

    I doubt this can be done without extra thrusters for fine control over velocity and position.

  7. Re:Chinese or Indian Devs? on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 2

    The system I had to deal with: the intranet installed an activex component onto each workstation. The component checked to see if a USB device was mounted and if it was, it refused to connect to the internet. You had to disconnect the USB device, download your file, then reconnect it and copy the file. This was their idea of "security".

  8. Re:Chinese or Indian Devs? on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Korean more likely. Software architectures of theirs I have seen are a mess of hacks and patches.

  9. Re:The big advantage of XOR on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also its implemented directly in the CPU, so both encryption and decryption are very fast.

  10. Re:Apple should be careful. on Swiss Launch of Apple Watch Hit By Patent Issue · · Score: 1

    ...who go on to help develop nuclear weapons.

  11. Because thats clearly what NASA wants to do on Planetary Society Pushes For Mars Orbital Mission Before NASA Landing · · Score: 2

    ISS2 will do a single transit to and from Mars, possibly with time spent in a highly eccentric orbit around Mars, waiting for the return launch window. Russia will have to built their own space station which will presumably be MIR2.

    The second mission may deploy a small vehicle to test aero-braking at Mars, and a landing on one of the moons. Maybe landing on the third mission?

  12. Its like normal web development, but worse on UK Licensing Site Requires MSIE Emulation, But Won't Work With MSIE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Welcome to government procurement.

  13. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    But wasn't this the argument about Hawaii, that it wasn't really a state when Obama was born there, but his mother was a US citizen, etc, etc.

  14. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: -1

    The issue with Obama as it has been stated is that his mother was 18 at his birth and had not lived for five years in the US after she turned 18. So If your mother was under 19 you can't be president. For me, that fucking bogus. An obvious bug, written into the US constitution.

  15. Good old sneakernet on Notel Media Player Helps North Koreans Skirt Censorship · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Saves the day again.

  16. Don't use a nuke to move the asteroid on NASA's ARM Will Take a Boulder From an Asteroid and Put It In Lunar Orbit · · Score: 1

    ...because you can lose your ARM that way.

  17. The solar system consists of Jupiter plus debris on Jupiter Destroyed 'Super-Earths' In Our Early Solar System · · Score: 2

    - Isaac Asimov.

  18. Hardened gear is important on Ebola-Proof Tablet Developed By Google Set For Deployment In Sierra Leone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Until recently I worked for a company which supplied industrial grade computers, including tablets. All the tablets we supplied ran windows. Google need to push hard to break into that market segment and developing a product like this is a good place to start.

  19. Re:it's not ActiveX problem really on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  20. Re:No, wrong on New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function For Mice · · Score: 1

    Another overblown cure. The amyloid plaques are associated with permanent damage (ie. actual neuron loss), so you won't cure anyone by removing all of the plaques. You'd have to regrow neurons, and only certain portions of the brain can do that - even if you did, you'd still have to relearn and get new memories.

    That might be a good thing. We do that all the time and memories lost from the last are not necessarily a bad thing. If you can restore function and record new memories, that would be a huge improvement.

  21. Re:WTF AM I DOING HERE! on New Alzheimer's Treatment Fully Restores Memory Function For Mice · · Score: 1

    Thats what backups are for.

  22. Koreans have weird ideas about security on South Korea Begins To Deprecate ActiveX · · Score: 1

    Working in Korea once I needed to install a package with apt-get but the file came down empty. I asked around and it turns out that to download anything on the corporate network you had to install this active-x component which looks to see if a storage device is connected to USB. If a device is connected the download still won't work, but you can still make a local copy of the file, plug in the USB key, and copy the file that way, which is what we did on a windows box.

    Half measures all over the place.

  23. Leap seconds on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 1

    I have seen this with radar processing chains where different component slew the time at different rates, mostly because of differences in the OS and the time synchronisation software. If one part of the chain suddenly steps its time by a second, downstream components reject its messages.

  24. Hadley Rille? on Giant Lava Tubes Possible On the Moon · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a collapsed lava tube. The lunar surface is pretty heavily pounded so hollow tubes are fairly unlikely, at least accessible ones.

  25. Re:What really happened: on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 2

    All these parts are centrally tracked. Alarms would go off at Boeing.