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

    Except for the unobtanium that you'll be constructing the balloons out of.

    I was thinking about something like this.

    http://www.liquidmetal.com/

    Twice the strength of titanium and is able to be molded like plastic. I thought I remember them saying that they were able to produce finished products that are accurate down to the micron, but I don't see that on their site anymore.

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

    How about a tension-leg platform that is made to be lighter than air by large rigid balloons that contain a vacuum?

    That way no unobtainium is needed. Just have to figure out how to deal with the very high winds in the upper atmosphere.

  3. Re:Forgotten Lesson of WWII on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    The Panzer and Tiger, however, were built in small numbers because they were complex machines.

    Germany was 10 years ahead of the USA technologically. But, Germany wasn't able to build to the quantity needed to fight an industrial giant like the USA, especially while we were bombing their industrial capacity to zero (and losing 60% of our aircraft to do it).

    The use of slave labor also compromised Germany's ability to produce their tanks. The slave labor would routinely sabotage the tanks they were working on.

  4. Re:I'm not really understanding... on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    AFAIK in the business of aircraft maintenance and repair you fuck up once and you are no longer in that business.

    It is not tolerable to learn from your mistakes when a mistake can lead to the death of hundreds.

  5. Re:Fair Use? on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    He's not generating profit from this.

    Wouldn't it be great if that was a legitimate excuse?

    But that is not a legitimate excuse. Just because he is failing to make money off of the use of the song that does not mean that he should not be compensating the artist for use of the song.

    Legally that is.

    Yes, I pirate, that is why I said it would be great if it was a legitimate excuse.

  6. Re:Slashdot won't report this on When Viruses Infect Worms · · Score: 1

    I've seen it implemented elsewhere. Not hard for spammers to get past, but my assumption is that you break the script and he'll lay off until he has some other bullshit to preach about and then he'll do a new script.

    If the block on a certain combination of key words is only up for a few days it would do its job without too many problems.

  7. Lets try this on Sinclair ZX81 Made Out of Lego · · Score: 1

    Ok, if enough of us go to options and remove the offending editor we might be able to send a message.

  8. Re:Is this news? on Shmoocon Demo Shows Easy, Wireless Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is news in that this has now been brought up to the credit card companies in a manner which cannot be easily ignored.

  9. Re:There are flaws alright. on Flaw In YouTube Takedown Process Exposed · · Score: 2

    And they will explain to their shareholders that it is the cost of doing business and then the shareholders will reward the CEO with $50 million for explaining it to them and $100 million to lobby to have it illegal to sue them in small claims court.

    The amount of money involved is so ridiculous that you cannot nickel and dime them to death, you have to cut off their stream of revenue, not just drain it.

  10. Re:oh shit! on When Viruses Infect Worms · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, how about when a known virus infects an unknown worm? That should help the AV program to recognize the worm as undesirable.

  11. Re:Slashdot won't report this on When Viruses Infect Worms · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Naw, I bet it's a script, makes replying useless. /. should tag a few parts of the spam so that when posted it receives an error and doesn't successfully post. Even if they just put the restriction in temporarily it should still have the appropriate effect. I'm rather surprised they haven't done that yet.

  12. Re:So. It begins. on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    It most probably is a copy of the list that used to be on attrition.org , was unable to find attrition's original list, didn't look all that hard though.

  13. Re:So. It begins. on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 3, Informative

    List of supposed trigger words as of @ 2005

    http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm

  14. Re:Really? on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    I know right, all they hire are elite intellectuals.

  15. Duplication of efforts? on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    The FBI and other three letter acronyms have been using programs for years that monitor the internet.

    Echelon, carnivore, et all. Why do they need a whole new system just to include social networking sites?

  16. Re:the flipside of reliability on Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    There was a bare minimum that this rover had to be engineered for. That bare minimum to make sure it worked at all is what also allowed it to last as long as it has.

    This rover landed via airbags and experienced some tremendous g-forces. The rover had to be designed to survive that, just the ability to scoot around after that in a low gravity environment was cake compared to the landing.

    So if they had designed this to just barely hit the 90 day limit then it might not have survived at all.

  17. Re:Best: stop using Symantec and MS-Windows produc on Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere · · Score: 1

    When dealing with STDs, which are you more likely to catch one from, the cheap whore house with asian girls in slavery, or the Playboy mansion.

    Herpes is pervasive in the adult entertainment industry so you are likely to get one from either choice, but yes you are more likely to get a deadly STD from the the whore house than from the bunnies.

  18. Re:Best: stop using Symantec and MS-Windows produc on Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere · · Score: 1

    Did you even read what you linked to? The link doesn't even come close to backing up your point

    I did, it does. First sentence even.

    But as long as you're not a complete idiot,

    My point was simply that it is not immune, nothing more.

  19. Re:must set up perminant presence by combo? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    Wow! Um, hmmm.

    No way in hell can you do that on the moon if you can't even do it on earth.

    A minor investment in asteroid mining? Minor? It would take trillions for us to get to the point that we can even begin to mine asteroids. And much more than that to start to be able to rely on it, and even more for it to be profitable.

    Then you want to have a self sustainable hydroponic farm on the moon? Where a day is 29.5 days, so we are talking about nights that take around two weeks so solar is out, you'll need a nuclear reactor for it. At least until self sustainable fusion is developed, which hey they said 20 years ago it would only take 25 years to develop so we might have it ready by the time we think about making a moon base.

    People complain about space nutters on this website, I tend to think they are blowing things out of proportion, but perhaps they were just reading your posts.

  20. Re:must set up perminant presence by combo? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    humans in general) have to set up a permanent presence on the Moon, Lagrange Points, etc. if we ever want to make sure our eggs are not just in 1 basket

    If it is not self sustainable then it won't matter, and we are no where close to making a self sustainable environment even here on Earth where it would be easy in comparison.

  21. Re:Best: stop using Symantec and MS-Windows produc on Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere · · Score: 2
  22. Re:Or better idea, since Google won't... on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 1

    So your solution is to pay the people responsible?

  23. Direct Link on The Web's Worst Privacy Policy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a direct link to the privacy policy.

    http://skipity.com/privacy

  24. Re:Lets kill them on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 1

    There currently are no negative consequences for their actions which is why this behavior has continued, once there are consequences though you won't have to go though the trouble of killing their families.

    Take out a couple high profile heads, such as Chris Dodd, and their replacements will think twice about what they are doing.

    Don't be an idiot like that asshole who flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin. Killing minions will not only not change a thing, but will just piss off the general public against you.

  25. Re:Lets kill them on Canadian SOPA Could Target YouTube · · Score: 2

    Although I am truly all for this idea, you are aiming low. Cut the friggin head off by going for Chris Dodd directly, although the lobbyists are scum, they are following orders. Take out the person giving the orders and you neutralize the lobbyists.

    Of course whomever would be crazy enough to do this would spend the rest of their life in jail.

    I only suggest this because the law not only has no effect on these people, they can buy any law they want. Since the law is ineffective society needs needs other means to deal with this issue.