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Comment Re:spectrum (Score 3, Informative) 52

Yes, that galaxy is indeed blueshifted. Who told you that "all the stars" are redshifted? When you look at the night sky, you'll see about the same number of blueshifted as redshifted stars, since the vast majority of them are in our own galaxy and we're all just revolving around the center. And the galaxies in our immediate vicinity are kind of clumping together, not expanding. When you look at objects outside our local cluster of galaxies, yes, those do all appear redshifted. The further they are, the more redshifted they appear. And that indeeds indicates that the universe is expanding. But in our local neighbourhood, there's plenty of blueshifted stuff.

Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Insightful) 64

Exactly, if you can reset your account password by "talking to a human", all the Fed has to do is talk to that same human.

This is just because they probably had too many Apple users call them with "I lost my password, can you reset it? Recovery key? What's that?".

Since there are probably ten times as many of those, compared to the number of people who actually care about security, it makes sense for them to dumb down the system. Keeps the majority of their users happy. And the Fed, to boot.

Comment Re:Bad sportmanship, or lawyers? (Score 2) 107

How can someone prohibit someone from using one of their products in a particular, non-commercial way (a private test flight)? If I wanted to cross the channel with a dozen kitchen blenders and a really long extension cord, surely that's my decision? Siemens can say that the motor is not designed to be flown over water, and then, if a crash occurs, they can say "see, we told you it wasn't fit for that purpose, we take no responsibility". But preventing the flight from taking place? What allows them to do that?

Comment That's not what the blockchain is for (Score 5, Interesting) 46

The blockchain is already close to 40 GB in size, and now people want to store all sorts of other data (or metadata) in it. I can see this getting out of hand rather quickly.

Miners won't be able to store the entire chain anymore, so only a few archival nodes will still have it. Just how secure and accessible will your metadata be then?

Comment Re:Google-fu (Score 3, Interesting) 424

The plus doesn't work very well anymore, half the result pages simply don't contain the word. They seem to use this as an indication that that word is slightly more important but not actually required. Which can be quite infuriating when you are searching for a specific site you know contains that word.

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