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  1. Re:And in the winter... on Aussies Could Use Elephants To Fight Invasive Species · · Score: 2

    Yes there is that problem.

  2. Re:Asteroid Mining on NASA Studying Solar Powered "Space Tugboat" · · Score: 1

    Smelt them on Eros, or build an induction catapult on Eros to process the metals somewhere else. But my bet is on building the processing plant in low earth orbit, flying it to a near earth asteriod and producing metal products on site.

  3. Re:SEP on NASA Studying Solar Powered "Space Tugboat" · · Score: 1

    It will run on a single torch battery. My indifference has paid off, as usual.

  4. Re:Possible app... on Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    But is it a memory, or a response to the trigger? Is the memory real, or was it planted earlier?

    Its the same with any other storage system. The information is what it is.

  5. Re:Possible app... on Computer Program Reconstructs Heard Words From Brain Scans · · Score: 1

    I think it could be used to directly extract information from people's brains. Why bother asking when you use rsync?

  6. Re:It's just more Romney pandering. on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um yeah maybe, I know what TANSTAFFL means but that was in 1970 and the world is a bit different now. If Iranian forces on the moon lobbed a rock at NYC the US would obliterate Tehran before the rock was half way here. The throwing rocks scenario worked because the lunar rebbels were outcasts with no relatives back home.

    Additionally I reckon the US retains a military capability to operate on the lunar surface and in low lunar orbit, even if this capability does not add up to the ability to create a civilian presence there.

    The lessons from Apollo were learned and the technology was relatively simple. I doubt enemy forces could dig themselves in fast enough to survive bomardment from Earth and retain the capability to fight back.

  7. Re:Apollo on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    Kennedy had a huge cold war defence budget to spend, and was genuinely afraid of a soviet foothold on the moon. That won't happen again unless Iran changes course and develops a manned space program.

  8. Re:This cricket has been detained by ICE on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    Which is why I'll be 'throwing away' my vote on a third party again. Remember, it's only throwing away your vote until enough people do it. Then we can be free.

    You should be pushing hard for preferential voting.

  9. Re:It's just more Romney pandering. on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 2

    I don't see a republican president moving money from the bottom row to the top row. More likely it will be more money pumped into the military to fund gulf war v3.0.0

  10. Re:This could be amazing for the disabled on Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors · · Score: 1

    Its probably just like the long range one works from 1.8 to 3 metres and the short range one works from 0.2 to 0.5 metres.

  11. Re:This could be amazing for the disabled on Some Windows 8 Laptops May Come With Built-In Kinect Sensors · · Score: 1

    Kinect's recommendations were something like "at least 1.8m from sensor"

    Maybe its a different sensor.

  12. He speaks truth on Deathmatch On Mars: an Interview With Warren Ellis · · Score: 1

    Shuttle was such a crocked piece of shit that it couldn’t reliably go more than two hundred miles up. And sometimes exploded trying even that.

  13. Re:Raspberry Pi Colo! on XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I mean, I could tell you I have a room full of little arm computers to rent to you but in fact they are just virtual machines and you won't know the difference. Same performance for you and less cost for me.

  14. Re:I like the old ones on Turning the Hayden Planetarium Into a Giant Videogame · · Score: 1

    The new video projector makes it easy to project arbitary images on to the screen. This breaks the planetarium metaphor and makes the experience less immersive. Immersion was an important part of the experience planetarium experience for me. The only presentation I went to in the new planetarium included a normal video for about 50% of the show. That video could have been shown on a normal flat screen.

  15. Re:Raspberry Pi Colo! on XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    How is that better than renting a VM?

  16. Re:Hrrm on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Web servers are vulnerable because they run server side code, often uploaded with vulnerable content management systems, etc.

  17. Re:Impressive hardware on XBMC Running On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Yeah the funniest for me is a brand new land rover with all the mod cons inside. NIce seats. Video and sound system. And a snorkel attached to the engine air intake so it can draw air from the level of the roof. A friend of mine has a picture of him doing to that in a real four wheel drive, but the interior is actually submersible, ie, no expensive electronics.

  18. I like the old ones on Turning the Hayden Planetarium Into a Giant Videogame · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The planetarium in Melbourne used to have a mechanical projector which rotated in the middle of the room to move the image across the ceiling. It was fantastic to watch and I used to drop in there just to watch the machinery. The new planetarium is just a big electronic projector and the stars aren't pinpoints anymore. They are out of focus spots. And now there is all sorts of stuff projected on to the ceiling, when what you are supposed to be looking at is the sky. They should just give up and build a normal cinema. Its not a planetarium any more.

  19. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1

    You must be thinking of Apollo 12.

  20. Facts on Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Forget PR on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 2

    Sure so thats why it should have a setting. In home airspace it has one behaviour. In other places, different behaviour.

  22. Re:Forget PR on Air Force Says Iran Didn't Down Drone · · Score: 2

    It seems strange that a UAV would be designed to perform a soft landing when its communications are degrading. Wouldn't it be more secure to spear in under those circumstances? And maybe blow itself up in the process.

  23. Re:Savages on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it is bizarre that Iran apparently has people who track the authors of software used to host pornography and associates it with their residency status and availability for arrest in Iran.

  24. Re:In other words, on Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran · · Score: 1

    Nowhere near as remote, inaccessible and dangerous as Antarctica.

  25. Re:Jailbreak for Windows? huh? on Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released · · Score: 1

    They mean the external system you need to jailbreak the iOS system.