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  1. Re:Business Model on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    You should work in advertising.

  2. Passwords in clear text? on Former Facebook Employee Questions the Social Media Life · · Score: 2
    From TFA (Page 2, 2'nd paragraph.):

    In one exchange, she noticed the man’s password, “Ilovejason,” and was startled by the painful irony.

    If she could see a users password, doesn't that mean that FB stores passwords in clear text? Or at least did so a few years ago. Is there any other explanation?

  3. Re:Probably lost the sale, too! on Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard · · Score: 1

    The word you're looking for: Fanatic. (Sorry to say this, dotancohen).

  4. Re:Sigh on Taliban Offer Question-and-Answer Service Online · · Score: 1

    4. Why does Islam prohibit the consumption of pork? Does the holy Q'uran consider that cannibalism?

    The general rule is basically that only herbivores may be eaten. Not that bad an idea if you consider the larger risk of diseases and parasites as well as the energy gone to waste if there are additional steps in the food chain.

    Chickens are omnivores, just like pigs. The other day I saw a chicken eat a dead mouse (in a TV program where some English guy investigates behavior and intelligence of farm animals).

  5. Re:Uhg... on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    Silly. U2's and SR71's were made redundant by satellites many decades ago. And would you prefer that the Iranians had a captured pilot along with their captured plane? OTOH if they're using UAVs, they're probably doing something that they can't do from a satellite.

  6. Re:No on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From TFA:
    "The plutonium was in an oxide form about one-tenth of a millimeter in diameter contained in fuel capsule, which itself was inside a graphite and ceramic fuel cask." - Leonard Dudzinski, a NASA program executive.

    Is this another example of a NASA guy who doesn't understand metric units, or is the plutonium RTG really just a sphere not much wider than a hair?

  7. Re:Only "troubled" if you're not Lockheed Martin on The F-35 Story · · Score: 1

    The F-35 is a strike fighter. Its job is to blow up various ground targets, and it does this better than the F-22. Again, that is its mission and what it was built to do.

    And yet the F-35 is supposed to replace the F-16 on the export market. So many of America's allies are supposed to use this extremely expensive, dedicated bomber/strike-aircraft, as their primary self defense/air defense assert?

  8. Re:Agree on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    If the illegal drugs were legalized, you could grow cocain, opium and weed in your garden or greenhouse. And you could probably hire some redneck wizzkid to make meth-amphetamine for you. My point is that the drugs would be extremely cheap to produce in bulk (and users could make their own), and therefore there wouldn't be much money in trading them. Your ruthless drug lords would go bankrupt.

  9. Re:inevitably on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    Here's a direct link to the actual codes, from TFA.

  10. Re:Wait for it... on Online Parody Cartoon Targeted For Prosecution · · Score: 1

    How many people actually believed that WMDs were the anything other than an excuse for starting that war? Back in 2003, most of those who were against the war certainly wasn't buying the WMD story. And I'm pretty sure that most of those who were in favor of the war, wanted it regardless of whether Saddam had a few WMD toys or not.

    I've always thought that the WMD story was an excuse that nobody actually believed in. (To clarify: In 2003 some people may have believed that Saddam had a few WMDs, but nobody believed that those weapons were the real reason we invaded.)

  11. Re:PHK wide of the mark on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    I think that the point TFA is trying to make is, that the world would be a better place, if the NULL terminated C-string didn't exist.

    Personally, I agree with that sentiment. Because a lot of people, including me, are sloppy, lazy coders...

    Also, I think that PHK distinctly says that he doesn't blame anyone for the giant one-byte mistake.

  12. Re:wow, thats nuts on Court Allows Webcam Spying On Rental Laptops · · Score: 2

    I've never understood why there isn't a LED that indicates whether the camera is on, on every laptop computer. It's not like there's any shortage of LED's on the average laptop.

  13. Re:Mixed Feelings on Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    The Slashdot thread is long dead now, but I can still reply to you:

    Yes, but Kepler is a relatively small and cheap telescope that's scheduled to die later next year. And it hasn't found anything really interesting yet (interesting in the context of an ET biology discovery).

    In my opinion, attempts to find biological life on a planet outside our solar system. Is much more important than all the other research that NASA does. The robot cars that drive around on Mars are cute, and the pictures that the Cassini–Huygens send back from Saturn are pretty. But a space telescope finding ET life (even if it's just some spectral lines that has to be interpreted by astronomists), would shake the world. So my point is: huge, complicated, difficult, expensive space telescopes, should be the main focus of NASA's efforts. (my 2 cents, anyway. does 2 cents help?)

  14. Re:Mixed Feelings on Congress Dumps James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 1

    But imagine if JWST had spotted biological life on an Earth like planet 15 light years away. That would have been one of the most important discoveries in the history of mankind. All the other things NASA does pales by comparison.

  15. Re:That new CEO... on Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance · · Score: 1

    Why, in the name of Jeebus and Thor, did Nokia decide to make this creepy Microsoft executive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop their new CEO? It makes no sense!

  16. Re:What's not to like? on Hacking Neighbor Pleads Guilty On Death Threats and Porn · · Score: 1

    a quote: "'I feel confident that we have put a significant dent into drug distribution on our streets,' said Springfield Police Chief Robert Williams in a press release."

    His name is Wiggum, not Williams. And the first name is Clancy.

  17. Re:Sh..... on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 1

    Paperwork is important, I guess. But encryption should be more important to the air force generals.

    Both the Japanese and the Germans got their asses handed to them in WW2, because they assumed that their crypto was good enough.

    As I said. Weak encryption is better than no encryption at all. The Air force has had more than 10 years since Bosnia. When will they be ready to put some encryption on their video signals, for the benefit of the soldiers and marines on the ground?

  18. Re:Sh..... on $26 of Software Defeats American Military · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are the military so goddam stupid? They have been transmitting video unencrypted ever since the Bosnia conflict. And apperantly they're still happily going on making same mistake as Joe Sixpack, setting up his new home wireless router.

    Don't they understand that even the weakest simplest encryption, is 1000 times better than none at all?

  19. Re:Bitter on Mozilla Exec Urges Switch From Google To Bing · · Score: 1

    Of cause. If Firefox hadn't arrived, 99% of all users would still be browsing with IE6.

    Wouldn't you be bitter? If you had done something really great with a small company. And now learns that a huge giant, that was previously you friend, has decided to out compete you?

  20. Re:the real threat will be government intervention on The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I would say that BBC, and other European state financed outlets, are depraved pits of political correctness and fake neutral bias. Masters of dishonest crap journalism.

    The only honest TV journalist I know of, is Jon Steward. And he's not a journalist...

  21. Re:pathetic on Microsoft Holding 'Screw Google' Meetings In DC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google is no better than Microsoft, they just have a PR firm that has managed the nerd-cred more effectively.

    That is simply wrong.

    1: MS have a long history of abusing their monopoly. Google haven't.

    2: You can easily switch away from the Google stuff that you use. You can not easily switch away from your MS stuff.

    Okay, Google may be an evil corporation, but they haven't done anything obviously evil yet. I think...

  22. Re:Colony Collapse Disorder on Gardeners Told to Give Exhausted Bees an Energy Drink · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Tell him to stop stealing honey from the poor bees. They say that honey contains lots of stuff that's good for people's health. Well it's perfect for bee's health! They have depended on it for millions of years. I don't understand how beekeepers can think they can replace it with a sterile sugar/water mixture, without seriously compromising the health and constitution of the hive.

    In short: The beekeepers are, at the very least, part of the CCD problem. Not just victims.

  23. Re:Cosmic omens... on Experts Puzzled By Bright Spot On Venus · · Score: 1

    Well it is a rather strange coincidence, that the bright spot on Venus and the scar on Jupiter both appeared on 19 July.

  24. Re:Bats are not linked. on Radar Could Save Bats From Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    That's exactly how brightly colored toxic jungle frogs have taught predators not to eat them. By killing off the stupid and the unlucky until they understand, that the bright colors mean "stay TF away from me".

  25. Re:2 reasons why software gets bigger. on Can "Page's Law" Be Broken? · · Score: 1

    Computer power is like money: Whenever there's more available people will find something to spend it on.