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  1. Re:This is proof on How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Idiots shouldn't use email. They'll click on any link

    An "education" link from Goatse U will fix 'em.

  2. Re:I'm here too early! on How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Compromise: "phacking"

  3. The hackers created them with with two Bitly accounts in their control, but forgot to set those accounts to private

    A state-sponsered hack group wouldn't make that mistake, would they? Maybe Trump is right and it's just a 400-pound dude in his mom's basement.

  4. Gonna be a blast! on Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    I invented the TV Note 7.

    It will be released July 4th.

  5. Re:Live by the media hype die by the media hype. on Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not so much "the media", but that readers solicitously enjoy hearing about pompous rich farts being waffled by their wayward robot toys.

    It reminds me of McDonald's failed attempts at selling health-food: nobody wants it; buyers want Big Macs and fries.

    (And no, I don't mean this kind of Big Mac)

  6. Well, you should have given your father a ride.

  7. with that approach, you should expect only the lowest quality software engineers, as anyone worth a shit will do something else where they won't get prosecuted.

    go into politics

  8. In space, nobody can hear your cluelessness.

  9. Less PC's, more phones on China Overtakes the US in iOS App Store Revenue (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese are heavier users of smartphones because there are relatively fewer desktop computers there. For whatever reason, perhaps the cost, or space, they use smartphones instead of desktops.

  10. Re:But . . . on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    which include high quality satellite imagery specifically labeled as including sites in North Korea.

    Where did you get this claim?

  11. Re:As much as I dislike Trump ... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    She never used a State email account.

    No no no. You are still not gettin' it. The regular State Dept. office email system was NOT designed for classified info. There was a different system for sending and receiving classified info. It's not "email". It doesn't use email standards.

    the FBI found that thousands of the records destroyed were plainly State-related work correspondence,

    I don't think was "thousands". You are exaggerating. Some categorized as "personal" indeed turned out not the be personal, or mixed. However, there's no evidence it was intentional; for they were bland messages (at least those they were able to recover or re-construct).

    Comey said there seemed to be a pattern to those mis-categorized: one would have to read the entire message to see they were work related such that he speculated H's lawyers probably read just the first few lines or just the title to categorize them as work vs. personal.

    There is plenty of evidence of slop (by H and/or her lawyers), but so far NONE of intentional coverup or intentional false statements.

  12. Re:Crazy "Curiosity" Landing worked.. Schiaparelli on Schiaparelli Mars Probe's Parachute 'Jettisoned Too Early', Whereabouts Still Unknown (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Rube Goldberg called NASA and wanted Curiosity's landing mechanism back.

    When I first saw all the steps involved, the WTF light on my forehead was flashing red. I was surprised it actually worked and had mentally prepared for a failure just before it landed. Good thing I didn't go to a betting site.

    Curiosity's landing system was partly a test of "hovering" technology that will allow finer-tuned positioning in the future so that rovers don't waste time and wear roving in boring areas to get to the "good stuff".

  13. because the ground came up and interrupted it

    So it wasn't properly grounded.

  14. The Matrix's fault, Mars slipped on Schiaparelli Mars Probe's Parachute 'Jettisoned Too Early', Whereabouts Still Unknown (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be a problem with the Matrix

  15. Maybe a little accountability for you "coding is an art" folks would be a good thing?

    Maybe if the industry valued real issues over eye-candy and buzzwords.

  16. essentially what happened to Mars Polar Lander? Incorrect sensory interpretation

    The name confused the math team; they accidentally used polar coordinates.

  17. Re:Disappointed with the Press Conference on Schiaparelli Mars Probe's Parachute 'Jettisoned Too Early', Whereabouts Still Unknown (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It is possible that they wanted to have completed some kind of analysis to determine exactly what happened before they started talking about it.

    This is Murica, we guess quickly, and talk out of our ass.

  18. Re:trumporg.com? on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    He couldn't decide between getting an .org or a .com domain, so he took trumporg.com?

    His little fingers mis-typed "trumporn.com"

  19. Re:As much as I dislike Trump ... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    We don't know if she conducted "all" correspondence through her own server. We don't have stats about her usage of the secret system (which is typically NOT called email). You are GUESSING.

    and when ultimately subpoenaed for that information, she set about destroying federal records.

    That's spin. You know it.

  20. Re:As much as I dislike Trump ... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It depends whether one is looking to the future or the past. If we focus on the future, then it appears Trump is ALSO sloppy with IT.

    With email being key to the campaign, it should have crossed his mind many times to make sure his own server house was in order by hiring top security inspectors to verify.

    Hillary can perhaps legitimately claim nobody asked, checked, or reminded her about the issue in the course of her work. Trump can't.

  21. Re:As much as I dislike Trump ... on Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There's no evidence using an outside service was outright against policy. The written S.D. policy allegedly said one has to formally get permission to do it, and that's where she went wrong.

  22. their smart phones, which are apparently appallingly awful

    Their batteries leeco all over you.

  23. Now explain how [human pilots] would have prevented a thruster failure

    Chewing gum over the leak.

  24. Soviets had a lander survive for 14.5 seconds after touch down.

    I'm not sure I'd label the Soviet lander "successful". It only sent atmospheric data back, and nothing decode-able about the surface itself reached Earth.

    There were known dust-storms in the area. One theory is the wind swept up the parachute, still attached to the lander, and pulled it over so that it's antenna no longer pointed in the right direction.

    Another theory at the time was that Mars had a kind of quicksand that swallowed probes. In case the same thing happened to the Viking landers, NASA had them automatically send a photo of a foot-pad back immediately after landing rather than the typical to-the-horizon scene photo.

    In the very first photo, you can see dust fogging out the left side (it was slow-scan) because it hadn't settled yet from the retro rockets.

    (Although the quicksand theory is probably wrong, later rovers did indeed have problems getting stuck in sand/dust.)

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

  25. Trade-off [Re:Really?] on ESA Lander's Signal Cut Out Just Before It Was Supposed To Land on Mars (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe on Apollo 11 a human had to take over on the landing.

    If I'm not mistaking, it could have attempted to land on its own even if the astronauts had not intervened. They could have left it on autopilot. Whether it would have been successful is another thing.

    Neil was avoiding a boulder field. But it's possible the landing could have still been successful even it if had landed among boulders. Obviously its highly risky, though.

    There was a giant rock near Viking 1's landing site on Mars that would have toppled the craft had it landed on it. It lucked out. Viking 2 did land on a foot-sized rock and the craft was titled. But that had only a minor impact on the mission.

    And since unmanned probes are cheaper, you can afford more losses (including lower national embarrassment). Thus, while humans are better at handling contingencies, they are also protecting more expensive hardware.

    (It's possible to put boulder avoidance tech on auto-landing systems, but that does add to the cost.)