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  1. Contamination risk in both directions is too high. A thorough automated or heavily quarantined survey of Mars' possible life will be needed before humans land. We have to be pretty damned sure there's no life on Mars before we risk ruining what's there. That's a lot of digging and sifting and lab work, possibly costing more than a human mission itself.

  2. Google used to have the slogan "Don't be evil". They did away with it (or watered it down). They are becoming the New Microsoft.

  3. Re:I can haz my own cloud on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We have a guy like that here--hides everything for job security. The coffee maker is also a server. When bleep happens, we use names much more colorful than "Betty".

  4. Re:Local cloud on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Also known as a regular server.

    But it has synergized separation of cloud docker containers so you can de-synchronize when your docker containers need decontained hypervisors re-docked and revirtualized. And, you can blockchain your deep-learning for an ambient UX experience.

    In other words, it's buzzwordified so they can charge more.

  5. here are enough variables and unknowns in these methods to easily have a "whoops...

    Researchers do have practice with similar reconstruction techniques. In the linked case there are multiple projections of the same target with varying degrees of distortion, which narrows the range of possible of mistakes. Any proposed lens model used on such has to account for multiple (distorted) copies of the same object.

    Thus, they can re-use the model on single-copy distortions with some degree of confidence.

  6. Re:Vuja De on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's "check" here across the pond. E-check?, Cloud-check?, MS-Check? Oh sh8t!

  7. Re:My local cloud: on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Right click folder. Click "share".

    I accidentally clicked "share" on my Android and got NO feedback about what just happened. As far as I know, there's now a public Google site with all my phone shit on it.

    Google has already been "leaky" with anything I did on or near Google. My call-answer avatar is a gargoyle that I once used as an icon but never approved as an avatar. Not a good look for job hunting. When I explain it, they say, "We'll, we only hire people who can figure out Google Sharing." I guess I deserve it. I'll call the guy who got my job and ask him how to scrub my avatar.

  8. Vuja De on Microsoft To Offer Local Version of Azure Cloud Service (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    1981: "It's a PC, it's like a mainframe on your desktop."

    1995: "It's an Application Server, it's like a PC on a mainframe."

    2011: "Cloud: it's like an Application Server on a mainframe."

    2017: "Local Cloud: it's like a mainframe on your Application Server."

    2025: "It's a Metatizer, it's like an X on a Y, where YOU define what an X and Y is. Good luck figuring it out; we can't. Oh, and thanks for the check!"

  9. Re: In other words... on Trump Administration Officially Delays 'Startup Visa' Rule (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    the so called 'green card' which are actually pink nowadays...

    Now they get two pink slips: one on the way in, and another when T boots 'em out.

  10. Re: In other words... on Trump Administration Officially Delays 'Startup Visa' Rule (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    Obama waited until he was 7.95 years through his 8 year term to enact it...

    It's perhaps a strategy to sneak it past a Congress intent on obstructing him, as it doesn't give them time to react, such as create a specific law against it. If the future new Congress and/or Executive is favorable to it, then it has a reasonable stance of staying. He probably thought or hoped H would win.

  11. Re:Soon they will realize ... on New Sharpened Images From Hubble Telescope Contradict Post-Big Bang Theories (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    We'll end up waving to ourselves.

  12. I'm a little skeptical on New Sharpened Images From Hubble Telescope Contradict Post-Big Bang Theories (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    The light spots look a little too clean and consistent to me. There's a lot of stretching of an already resolution-stretched area. To come out that clean is not realistic.

  13. Re:What a great idea on Silicon Valley's Latest Desperate Housing Idea: On A Landfill (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    "Make the poor people live on top of trash. If they complain, we'll give them cake."

  14. Bigly invention on Researchers Have Developed A Battery-Free Mobile Phone (hothardware.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I invented one also. You wear this big orange toupee, and rub the phone against it generate static electricity for power. It comes with a red cap to store the phone under. It's a big seller in the Rust Belt for some reason.

  15. Why? on John McAfee Can Finally Use His Own Name Again (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 2

    McAfee the product sucks bigly. He should change his name to avoid association.

  16. Re: Thank you Trump! on White House Could Use AT&T/Time Warner Deal As 'Leverage' Against CNN (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I meant more about vetting messages, not so much about equipment.

  17. Re:Economics of Suppression [Re:Factory is a "Pred on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Now what the real essence of creepyness is the willingness to knowingly violate someone's boundaries.

    "Knowingly" is not necessarily clear to the other side. People often send mixed signals, even if there is an attraction. A good many social "transactions" are not clear cut.

  18. The problems with FOX has been focused on for a very long time now.

    Not by most conservatives. They denied or ignored it.

  19. The topic and context is the current economy, not what may happen down the road. As far as the economic benefits of deregulation and tax-cuts-for-the-rich, that's typical red/blue "culture war" debate territory that would probably go on forever if we delve into here.

    Actually, I'm for tax cuts to businesses, BUT only if offset by either tax increases for rich individuals, and/or shrinking the military. Otherwise, the deficit grows.

  20. Obama was SO BAD for the economy

    I have no idea what you are talking about.

    The mortgage crash created a financial hole that was as big or bigger than the 1929 hole in proportion. We could have easily entered a "Hoover spiral" if Hoover-like austerity were followed, which seems to be what the Republicans wanted. Austerity didn't help UK.

    And the USA recovered faster than ALL* nations that faced notable bank problems. Based in his peers of the time, Obama gets an A+. The crash hit the entire world hard. Remember, the financial crash itself happened under Bush.

    * There may be a tiny no-name nation that I missed, but I'm including all the non-trivial nations with notable bank problems. Sorry Nation of Monaco with only 40k people, I didn't mean to offend you.

  21. I don't know what you are looking at, but I checked again and it's still consistent with my original description. If it "returns to the usual pattern" (curve) there will be a "spike" at the point of return.

  22. Re:The worst part on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are grass blades, not kids. Mow the damned thing!

  23. That's a bad habit on Ask Slashdot: Are We Living In the Golden Age of Bailing? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Bailing is for losers and flakes. People should be responsible and never just g

  24. Re:Everyone who was around for the 80s is laughing on Reality Bytes: A Highflying Tech Entrepreneur Crashes Back To Earth (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Fear fuels the Wall Industrial Complex.

  25. Well, I do agree that the US over-meddles. But voters generally seem okay with that, as the Syrian airfield bombing shows. The candidates merely reflect that, and thus I find it hard to "blame" just the candidates. If you want to change it, you'll have to change voter thinking.