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  1. Re:UA 571-C sentry guns on Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and AI · · Score: 1

    I reckon Lockheed Martin could sell this exact device for ten million dollars.

  2. more than 70 controlled blasts on Massive Construction Effort Begins For World's Largest Telescope · · Score: 4, Funny

    And here's me thinking they were going to blow stuff up at random in the hope a telescope would come out of it.

  3. Re:Pub? Where? What? on Hobbit Pub Saved By Actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen · · Score: 2

    Yes they should have driven.

  4. Re:Why so much core? on Mystery Rising Within Mercury · · Score: 1

    Its a pretty obvious theory, especially when you consider the prevailing origin theories for the moon. But the more I think about it the harder it seems. Its like skinning an egg. Most of the mass blown off the earth in the impact which formed the moon must have fallen right back. So who could an impact have neatly skinned the core of Mercury? It would have either taken a big chunk of the core (and where is it now?) or left much more crust on the planet.

  5. Why so much core? on Mystery Rising Within Mercury · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Makes me wonder if Mercury was once the core of a much larger planet, and rhe mantle got knocked off in an impact.

  6. Re:Senate on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 1

    OTH he would make a great celebrity candidate for the greens and with their organisation behind him, Assange might have a good chance of getting in.

  7. Re:Sentate? on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 2

    For the lulz if nothing else.

  8. Re:Go Assange! on Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate · · Score: 5, Funny

    He already has them.

  9. Mass production on South Korean Scientists Prepare To Clone Wooly Mammoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Knowing the Koreans they will be turning out a million units a year starting in 2014.

  10. Re:You don't say on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Armie Hammer

    I bet they booked him twice for it too.

  11. blob-bot on Amoeboid Robot Moves Autonomously Without Centralized Brain · · Score: 1

    The ideal sexbot to replace my significant other.

  12. Re:Never use a connection which can be traced to y on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 1

    I mean they want to scoop up some people who are associated with Anonymous so they start with this guy Sabu who already has a record and they push him into creating a new, smaller organisation and recruiting people to join it. Then Sabu builds LulzSec to the point where they do a few operations, all the time feeding evidence to the FBI. Once the FBI have enough information the arrests start. It all comes down to the order or operations. Did the FBI start working with Sabu before or after LulzSec started up?

  13. Re:Never use a connection which can be traced to y on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 0

    Makes me wonder if LulzSec was the creation of the FBI.

  14. Re:Never use a connection which can be traced to y on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 1

    All good points and far better than working from their home ADSL lines which is what LulzSec were apparently doing. I hadn't considered using a directional antenna but that would certainly make you harder to find.

  15. Re:This is what happens when... on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 1

    They got caught because they had a publicity department. They wanted the public to know what was going on. I don't think it is that hard to live a double life as long as you want to keep an aspect of your life secret.

  16. Never use a connection which can be traced to you on Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail of Clues Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remember that kids. Its not only servers which log connections. Routers can do it as well. Don't do it from McDonalds because they use CCTV. Steal a connection but try not to leave DNA and only use any given connection once. Don't use a car which can be traced to you either. Don't associate with other hackers because they are probably spies. Don't promote your activities on twitter etc because that makes it too fucking easy for the police to come and get you.

    Also in the summary its supposed to be "plain sight", not "plain site". They are two different words.

  17. I have a windows 3.1 tablet computer on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 3, Informative

    I bought it from a second hand dealer around 2001. It was operated with a stylus and came loaded with software which might be used by a telecomunications service person. It was basically a windows 3.1 laptop with a touch sensitive screen.

  18. Re:Facebook only listens if you're famous, apparen on George Takei Helps Facebook Troubleshoot MySQL · · Score: 1

    Sulu would have fixed the bug himself and used his sword to cut the head off the person who created it.

  19. Re:cool, but...? on AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon · · Score: 1

    Why does it matter that it's the lead developer of DragonflyBSD?

    As a kernel developer he works on code which manipulates CPUs at a low level. Thats why he found the bug.

  20. Environment on Why Did It Take So Long To Invent the Wheel? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But also the wheel needed an application. While people lived in small villages, there wasn't much of a need to move things over large enough distances to require vehicles. And when things were moved across the countryside, there may not have been surfaces for wheels. Most of us could build a wheel and axle to use on a modern road, but how about building one for a narrow, muddy track through the forest?

  21. Re:Seems simple enough to me on Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? · · Score: 1

    Electric cars like Tesla cars and launch vehicles like SpaceX launch vehicles definitely did not exist before Elon Musk. I don't see why he should not retire on Mars.

  22. Re:Accuracy and mass... on Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? · · Score: 1

    If your rover identifies a target for sample return it could be used to simply mark the spot. The radio transciever could be used as a transponder to guide the lander. If the rover can grab the target then it could load the sample return capsule.

  23. Re:Seems simple enough to me on Could Curiosity Rover Moonlight As Part of a Sample Return Mission? · · Score: 1

    grand delusions of this bag of hot air?

    He gets stuff done. When did you start an electric car company and a launch vehicle company?

  24. Re:Too early, wrong server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    When an anti-unity flamefest is expected, yes.

    Thanks for the laugh BTW.

  25. Re:AND it's no longer relevant. on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released · · Score: 2

    Its distros all the way down.