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Comment Capability Based Security (Score 1) 291

Capability Based Security lets a user decide what resources a program is to be allowed to access at run-time. Unlike Windows, Linux, Mac, it doesn't automatically just trust programs with everything on your system.

This will eventually (10-15 years from now) allow for computers to be actually secure, assuming the NSA doesn't backdoor them.

Everyone seems to think it's snake-oil, hand waving, or just a dumb idea... so I figured I'd post it here.

Comment This has been feasible since the 1960s (Score 1) 212

The Orion project was to be the successor to Apollo, once we got done playing around with toy rockets. Imagine being able to launch 1300 TONS of cargo to Interstellar space. The technology was worked out in the 1960s, the engines were tested at full power, we just lacked the political will to do it.

With modern materials, we could do a better job now, and a launch would only result in the fallout equivalent of a single 10 Megaton bomb. Considering the stream of badness coming our way from Fukushima, this isn't really a bad trade off.

Comment Re:The spent fuel pool disaster clock is ticking (Score 1) 92

That's only the #4 pool, and there are others that will go if there is a "gamma shine" event.... it could be worse than that. The article mentions that they believe 1/2 of Japan would be uninhabitable after that.

There's plenty of scare to go around in Fukushima, without any mongering

Comment False flag #2 (Score 1) 222

The US tried this false flag a few months ago, and the UN found out it was the US supplying the poison gas to the "rebels".... now that's calmed down and they are trying again.

As for the US staying out of the Middle East, we can't do that, because it would cause the fall of the Petrodollar, and we'd all be at least 50% poorer, overnight, if not worse off. (Hopefully avoiding the fate of the Weimar republic).

Comment Re:A common misconception (Score 1) 130

Actually, we could do it. Here's a video of a prototype using high explosives to see if the concept would work at all. It turns out it's fairly self correcting for alignment, etc. The nuclear physics is well understood, and the launch of a 4000 ton vehicle (with 1300 tons of cargo!) would result in the equivalent fallout of a single 10 megaton H bomb.

It's time to send a few hundred volunteers to the Moon, Mars, and wherever else they want to go.

Comment Congress wants FCC to TAX US Innovation to Death (Score 1) 127

What Congress really wants is to strip away the possibility that some new innovation might happen within our borders, and bring jobs back into the country. This would result in real economic growth, and reduce the excuses to give Trillions away to their banker buddies as the Country swirls down the drain.

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