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Comment get over it (Score 1) 202

by Thud457 (#48385311) Attached to: Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes
If they can, they will.
It's like melamine in you baby food.
Don't give me no shuck about "legal", "constitutional" or "moral".
Just assume if it's technically possible, somebody is doing it, and act accordingly.

I know you're hiding somewhere with your damsons and prunes. Well I'm ready for you. I've wired meself up to 200 tons of gelignite, and if any one of you so much as makes a move we'll all go up together! Right, right. I warned you. That's it...

-- NOTE -- the quote was satire, relevant to the arms race you've created, NSA
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Thanks To the Private Space Industry, Things Are Looking Up For Space City USA 47

Posted by samzenpus from the not-dead-yet dept.
gallifreyan99 writes When the shuttle program was ended, and manned space exploration was put on hold, the people of Titusville, Florida were left in big trouble. "Just 20 miles northwest of Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it used to have a proud nickname: Space City USA. The dizzying boom of the 1950s and '60s helped create myriad jobs by giving work to nearby aerospace companies. Unfortunately, the past 15 years have seen everything dry up By December 2010, Titusville had one of the America's highest unemployment rates, 13.8 percent." But even though there's been plenty of bad news recently, the city hopes that the private space industry can save it from destruction.
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Life Insurance Restrictions For Space Tourists 68

Posted by Soulskill from the lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-uninsured dept.
RockDoctor writes: Reuters reports that there are changes afoot for life insurance contracts, which will require additional premiums for "space tourists." While not likely to be a disabling issue for the industry — the statistics for astronauts dying in flight are not that bad — it is an issue that people considering such a jaunt will need to address. Obviously this has been brought to the fore by the unfortunate crash of the Virgin Galactic craft under test. Relatedly, an article at IEEE Spectrum explains why SpaceShipTwo's rocket fuel wasn't the cause of the accident.

Comment someone set us up the fish (Score 1) 28

by Thud457 (#48320643) Attached to: Pacific Northwest Lab's Sensor-Packed Fish Gauges Hydropower Facilities
Great, this is like the worst parts of "Runaway" and "Leonard Part 6". We're looking at weapons-grade dumph here. We'll need to recall Leonard Parker to defeat Dr. Charles Luther's evil plot to h@xx0r the robot fish to kill us all.
Dammit ScyFy, you better send me my royalties on this!

Comment purple squirrels are nonsense (Score 1) 574

by Thud457 (#48309247) Attached to: The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said
Purple squirrels don't occur in nature. And a prime indicator that the person speaking is not a member in good standing of the reality-based community.

never saw a Purple squirrel ,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one

apologies to Gelett Burgess.

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple squirrel"â"
I'm Sorry, now, I wrote it;
But I can tell you Anyhow
I'll Kill you if you Quote it!

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