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  1. Anti-circumvention on UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites · · Score: 2

    Information which helps circumvent filters has to be blocked by the filters, for the filters to work. So yeah, thats why lots of other stuff has to be taken out and its why the filters won't work.

    Also there's the other thing about webmail. In my experience a lot of casual porn gets delivered by yahoo mail, etc. So are we going to block webmail now?

  2. Re: They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    500 Newton.

  3. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was anticipated, but the wheels are still expected to survive for the service life of the vehicle.

  4. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    Oh okay 500 newton.

  5. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    The hand cart on apollo 14 used pneumatic tires at 10 psi. It was probably inflated in a vacuum chamber. Though I think Curiosity is fine with the wheels it has.

  6. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    1000kg mass. 300kg weight. Six wheels, each carrying 50kg.

  7. Re:Really? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    But is the sheet aluminum even structural? Maybe the mission will finish with just the ribs which make the wheels rigid, but that may be enough.

  8. Re:They didn't pack a 3D printer? on Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' · · Score: 1

    we can barely make WHEELS that survive going 2 miles per hour there!

    The rover masses 1000kg so there is 50kg of force on every wheel. Thats pretty substancial, about the same pressure as a mountain bike wheel, and mountain bikers lose a lot of tires to rough terrain.

  9. Re:RSA sold you out on Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA · · Score: 4, Funny

    NSA has customers? Surely not the voters.

  10. isn't that the NSA 'secure chat' system? on BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how do you know you can trust this thing?

  11. Re:And so, it begins on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    'Why the hell would anyone running that conspiracy actually do that?'

    Yeah like the flapping US flag in the supposedly faked moon landings. Did they actually bring a fan into the studio? Why didn't it blow all the dust around?

    I have a suspicion that somebody confused US east coast time with GMT or British local time in the instance of the BBC.

  12. Re:And so, it begins on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    The collapse may have been reported early by nearly every media outlet because of messages coming from government to do so, as they were trying to get the media to propogate false information about the buildings collapse for some reason

    That would be an exceptionally dumb thing to do because it would give evidence of fakery directly to the media.

  13. Re:All of the documents on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    bzip2 is a hell of a compression tool.

  14. Re:And so, it begins on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    Why would a conspirator prime the BBC to release information about the damage they were going to do?

  15. Re:They have *worse* to hide? on NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure its Excel, actually.

  16. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    But how would you work it and live long enough to plant the stuff?

  17. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 1

    Or release vague information about their dirty bomb, to create panic. Fortunately, the source would be easy to find if it was used in this way.

  18. Re:old news on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 1

    I've even go so far as to say I'm relatively sure we'll find life on every planetary body in our solar system. Even the moon. It may only be a few microbes in a lot of cases, but I seriously doubt life is nearly as unique as some believe.

    Life on Earth is obvious. Why are other planets different?

  19. Re:old news on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 1

    It's pretty clear Europa probably has some form of life under the ice.

    Got a citation for that? Evidence rather than supposition?

  20. Re:lame name on OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein · · Score: 1

    The world is waking up to the NSA bullshit

    . I am sure the NSA approached DJB about this and I am pretty sure the conversation would have been interesting to hear. I bet the NSA guy walked away shrugging his shoulders asking himself what the hell happened.

  21. Re:Clean, efficient nuclear power ends all this on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 1

    Seriously? How?

  22. Re:Clean, efficient nuclear power ends all this on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 1

    It is practical to transmit electricity directly from the sahara desert to Europe. There are many situations like that but it hardly matters. Oil, coal and uranium will run out eventually.

  23. Re:Clean, efficient nuclear power ends all this on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 4, Insightful

    hydrocarbons

    Provide much less energy than fusion energy from the sun because there is a finite amout of the stuff in the ground. Same for uranium.

  24. Only turbines? on US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry · · Score: 2

    What about all the eagles killed by trucks, trains, cars and high buildings?

  25. Re:I bike a lot on Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider · · Score: 1

    Yeah I do a lot of walking as well. Also I worked for our state road authority for a time, so the architecture and firmware of the city of sort of burned into my brain.