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  1. Re:And the speculation was completely off on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 2

    The fact that to deliver the same development and certification process costs $1.6 billion less for SpaceX over Boeing is also interesting.

    We won't really know this is true until it happens. I have high hopes for SpaceX - specifically I hope they can do much more with less. Either way though, this is a big win for everyone!

  2. Re:I hate to be this guy... on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Unfortunately that cash can't magically feed and hydrate all the starving children in Africa or wherever your tears fall for.

    If it could, you'd have a point. Unfortunately (for your point) it can't.

  3. Re:Parallax. on Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos · · Score: 1

    Yea, all sorts of amazing things that Android phones have had since 2011?

  4. Re:International Copyright on Quickflix Wants Netflix To Drop Australian VPN Users · · Score: 1

    You realize the distillation of that answer is the same? Licensing and greed.

    Licensing is the direct cause, but greed is the reason there were exclusivity agreements to begin with.

  5. Re:But what about... on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    What? Never heard of centerfire primers doing that. They have to be crushed or heated?

  6. Re:911 was down for us Friday night on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why this is really an argument to be getting into. I'm going to throw the blame on Apple for this one for not using a dedicated swap partition.

    It's hard to use up too much space for swap to work, when the space set aside for swap is literally impossible to use for other purposes.

  7. Re:911 was down for us Friday night on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    The point is that you're dangerously toeing the line. Running out of disk space doesn't cause very graceful failures. Even a 5% "buffer" of free space is enough. I realize these are client machines and not servers, but still. You don't need pagerduty or whatever waking your ass up to deal with it, but you should be dealing with it instead of believing it to be a non-problem.

  8. Re:hopeful on KDevelop 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 0

    Apparently you missed 95% of my sentence. Here it is, again.

    I'm hopeful the next era you let us turn off that fucking cashew without jumping through 30 flaming hoops.

    without jumping through 30 flaming hoops.

    If they had put a checkbox somewhere to tell the whole workspaces thing to fuck off and be a normal desktop, I wouldn't have had an issue with it.

  9. Re:hopeful on KDevelop 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The scary thing is I don't know if you're being silly or serious.

  10. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Ah, is it? Never had one myself. I saw it on the upper and lower, and presumed that meant something like all the other bits rather than branding.

  11. Re:Easy to contain on US Scientists Predict Long Battle Against Ebola · · Score: 1

    That's the fun part about so many infections...

    The more people with the virus, the more chances for mutations per given unit of time. The more chances for mutations, the higher the chance of a nasty mutation arising.

  12. hopeful on KDevelop 4.7.0 Released · · Score: -1

    I'm hopeful the next era you let us turn off that fucking cashew without jumping through 30 flaming hoops.

  13. Re:But what about... on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Stop cleaning the barrel and watch what happens.

  14. Re:But what about... on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Breaking into someone's domicile or brandishing a deadly weapon shouldn't have an undo button.

  15. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    ... also known as "Glocks."

  16. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Depending on the gun, those might stop it from functioning anyway! (sometimes catastrophically)

  17. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 0

    You've a non-zero chance of being impaled with a sword falling from the sky (one could fall out of an aircraft that has one in it's cargo, or fall from a highrise) - but I'd think saying "yet" here would sound incredibly silly.

  18. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    It doesn't, but it would (presuming it functions) prevent them from shooting up the place with it.

  19. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    That man was stupid at several levels.

    Even if it was unloaded, you can still cause injury - what does he think the cap is, a unicorn fart?

  20. Re: Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    The fun part of #3 would be keeping it clean enough to function reliably.

  21. Re: Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Use the wrong extinguisher on a stovetop oil fire, or an electrical fire, and get back to us when (if) you get out of the hospital, and tell us how not dangerous using an extinguisher incorrectly can be.

  22. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Proper locks prevent that already. Mine encloses the trigger and pins prevent the trigger from being moved - what's neat about this is you don't have to disassemble anything to put it on / take it off.

    You could even store it loaded and locked if you wanted to only be semi-stupid - the lock won't work if it's chambered (trigger sits forward more when cocked, and the pins would prevent that - you'd shoot it by trying). Unlocking is fast - insert key, twist, pull.

    It literally takes me longer to unzip the bag, remove the rifle, and open the scope covers.

  23. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 2

    Indeed, having the right to own something doesn't remove your responsibility should your stupid use of the right kill someone or break something.

  24. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I understand how someone who crams a pistol in their waistband is a "responsible gun owner."

    A "responsible gun owner" is going to have a proper holster for the purpose - which would prevent accidental discharges by preventing access to the trigger (by fingers, or snagging on stuff).

  25. Re:Won't work on Technological Solution For Texting While Driving Struggles For Traction · · Score: 1

    I already do that because it's the most convenient place to put it... whoops!

    Somehow I manage to avoid the temptation to text, surf the web, or watch youtube while I drive, though. I guess that makes me the special one?