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  1. Re:It's 2013 on Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander · · Score: 1

    It's not really the camera, it's the transmission method. Looks like SSTV.

  2. Re:Precisely on Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what "archive" means.

  3. Re:Odd coincidence... on Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think we're just fine if everything is converted to bits and we remember that there is no guarantee that a set of bits might not be damaged or lost.

    Just like books - there's no guarantee those won't fall victim to water damage, or fire, etc. You have to take care of it, and guard against the applicable failure modes. With digital data this is just as possible, but the techniques are as different as the failure modes.

  4. Re:Concerning... on Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades · · Score: 2

    Just because it was sitting around in a library is no guarantee anything would have happened with it.

  5. Re:Musk's Hubris... on Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure · · Score: 1

    True, but if the charger was overheating, you would expect the performance characteristics to change.

  6. Re:Oily rags on Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure · · Score: 1

    That video isn't a very good example. He keeps moving the camera around, and it seems whenever it moves back out so you can see the whole rag pile, it appears to have been disturbed while it was not visible.

  7. Re:Oily rags on Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure · · Score: 1

    In the electrical outlet's enclosure? That's an odd place to put them...

  8. Re:Musk's Hubris... on Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure · · Score: 1

    Once again we have RANDOM_DUMBASS attempting to claim Teslas are akin to flashpaper and explode if you look at the wrong, in spite of strong empirical evidence of just the opposite.

  9. Re:Musk's Hubris... on Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure · · Score: 1

    Looking at the scene after the fact really only tells you that there was a fire at the interface between the building and the car.

    The wall outlet doesn't have sensor logs to show it was or was not hot, the Tesla charger apparently does.

  10. Re:don't connect everything to the internet! on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1

    They have MSRs that cipher track data in the reader firmware. There's no excuse for them to not have it deployed.

  11. Re:In other words ... on Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog · · Score: 1

    Proximity and changing pH, I'd imagine.

  12. Re:On purpose? on Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm really - I mean really, uncomfortable with the thought of Microsoft planning this kind of thing 12 years in advance...

  13. Re:Advantages of DEWs on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 2

    Also, you don't have projectiles flying off past the target if you miss or pass-through. If there's a friendly base, city etc beyond the drone, you most probably don't want to light it up with bullets or missiles.

  14. Re:Reverse Santa? on Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... and the pitcher is $RANDOM_MALL_SANTA.

  15. Re:Now, if... on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 1

    Or just have them bind to localhost, if you have software locally that requires them (for some reason). Done that way... if you can get to them, you already own the machine.

  16. Re:It's just like JavaScript or NoSQL. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    It's not really the camera - just like the US landing - the live picture looked like crap, but the images captured directly and brought back on film were fantastic.

    It's the transmission bandwidth - that you have to share with telemetry. Also recall that you don't have a 4ghz CPU core up there to nicely digitize it with an efficient codec - it's hard to cool things up there.

  17. Re:It's just like JavaScript or NoSQL. on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    So you're trying to tell us that a military from 1910 would have automatic rifles, functional tanks, current-generation aircraft, advanced radar (and stealth), nuclear warheads, and launch vehicles that can put payloads on the moon safely?

  18. Re:Now, if... on Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed. You can have my public key. What are you going to do with it, grant me access to things? THE HORROR!

  19. Re:PDroid on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    Even with root, the phone will prompt you every time an app wants super user access.

    Nope. That is entirely up to the 'su' binary on your device. On mine, rooting simply meant I was able to alter things. It wasn't until I replaced the 'su' binary that I was able to effectively run things superuser, and the replacement binary (chainfire's supersu, incidentally) does the prompting.

  20. Re:PDroid on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    This, most likely... though it can't seem to back up Play applications that you've paid for (AFAIK there's encryption involved)

    ADB (debugger, part of the SDK) also has backup/restore functionality - though I've never used it personally so I don't know if it's actually usable without already being rooted.

  21. Re:really ? on Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional · · Score: 1

    It's not Google's responsibility. If the app wasn't written by a chinese fly-by-night, it would handle the null data return and properly admonish the user, etc.

  22. Re:Wait, what? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 2

    Yes. But they seem hell-bent on not doing it.

  23. Re:what? on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Indeed. There is zero reason this needs to be legislated.

    This is just congress fucking off instead of doing what they are supposed to be doing, again.

  24. Re:Soo, it's gonna crash now or no? on Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Ah, it was one of those "ecard" line drawings of a child on a stool with a dunce cap. It was captioned "There are stupid questions."

  25. Re:Preview ? on Game Preview: Hearthstone · · Score: 1

    Indeed. So it's not generally available. Hence what you got here was a preview.