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  1. Since it's composed of ice something from the center, (water) ejected leaving a cavity and the 2 halves "pinched" and extruded a ridge.

  2. That's nice on Guardian and WaPo Receive Pulitzers For Snowden Coverage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What did Snowden get?

  3. Re:Laugh on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1
  4. Laugh on Will This Flying Car Get Crowdfunded? · · Score: 1

    No one needs a flying car, that's why it's still fantasy and these jag offs want you to pay for the next few years of high life for them.

  5. What if on Private Keys Stolen Within Hours From Heartbleed OpenSSL Site · · Score: 1

    What if the NSA has hacked sites like sourceforge, github, or whatever, what if they were able to compromise code on all these sites by gaining root level access or through another method.

    What if nothing can be trusted?

  6. Apple is crap on Apple's Spotty Record of Giving Back To the Tech Industry · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That there are still fanbois for this duplicitous corp is amazing, look at their record and how could you support them?

  7. Re:No on Can Web-Based Protests Be a Force for Change? · · Score: 1

    getting rid of lobbyist

  8. No on Can Web-Based Protests Be a Force for Change? · · Score: 1

    They can be ignored as can email campaigns, the things we should be focused ob is term limits recalling "citizens united" and getting rid of lobbyist.

  9. Re:This seems plausable on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 1

    But this presents an interesting challenge, how do you evade someone that has control of the network? Is it possible?

  10. Video on $250K Reward Offered In California Power Grid Attack · · Score: 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    I read a discussion online that taking out key substations in the LA asre3a would collapse the grid, it's amazing just how vulnerable we really are.

    Imagine LA with no power for 2 weeks.

  11. It's started on NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections · · Score: 1

    I sated before that between now and a future of robots, there will be people outfitted with Glass like attachments for their jobs, no longer needing any education or even an understanding of the local language (thanks to an icon based language that will be the Worlds first true language everyone knows).
    Simply take a human, attach Glass and let the computer tell them what to do and what to look for. A humans natural dexterity makes them a cheap extension of an AI, so before the robots comes the "controlled human".

    What else are you going to do with 8 or 9 billion humans and no jobs? Fight wars?

  12. Re:If you make this a proof of God... on Mathematical Proof That the Cosmos Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing · · Score: 1

    Depends on your definition of God.

  13. that the Big Bang was result of quantum fluctuations in which the universe came into existence from nothing.

    If there was "nothing" what was fluctuating?

  14. Welp on Michael Bloomberg: You Can't Teach a Coal Miner To Code · · Score: 1

    I don't care for Bloomberg but he is correct, I asked a question here a while back and no one answered, most likely because it sounded absurd.

    "Have you ever seen anyone start coding successfully at 40 or at 50?"

    No one answered that question, which is an answer in its self.

  15. WHy would he do it? on Stephen Colbert To Be Letterman's Successor · · Score: 1

    It's a step down IMO.

  16. Hmmm on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    PFsense VRT rules (paid version) already updated, I'm sure every maintained IDS has been updated for this.

  17. My new book on A Bid To Take 3D Printing Mainstream · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How To Get Rich Off of Kickstarter Without Delivering.

  18. It's a niche on A Bid To Take 3D Printing Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Most people can't even bother with making coffee from scratch, what makes anyone think they want to deal with calibration, software, consumables, and other aspects of 3D printing.

  19. Huh on Should Microsoft Give Kids Programmable Versions of Office? · · Score: 1

    Since when did programming become so critical a skill for children?

  20. The videographer added that there had been a similar incident when the drone was flown earlier in the day."

    You knew the drone could be interfered with or "hacked" but you went ahead and flew it again endangering people and in fact injuring someone.

    Congrats you're going to get sued.

  21. Re:I Dropped Out on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    You do.

  22. More atune to greater things on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 2

    I was never religious, being on the Internet and having access to so much knowledge made me less so but it had the effect of making me think, in a truer sense, that there is "more".
    Not a personalized anthropomorphic God, but something.

  23. Laugh on Facebook and Google's Race To Zero · · Score: 1

    I can't be anything but cynical when Facebook is the only access, in fact it's a crime IMO.

  24. Laugh on Why No One Trusts Facebook To Power the Future · · Score: 1

    Then stop using it morons.

  25. Additional question on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    Just how "compromised" is Mozilla and the Firefox browser?