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Comment Re:self-flying planes (Score 4, Informative) 270

It was at Jabara airport in Kansas, and the 747 in question was a Dreamlifter which is a heavily modified 747 Boeing uses for cargo hauling it is manufacturing process. It has been determined that the runway in question is long enough for it to take off again, although it seems just barely.

Comment Re:Utter and Complete Bullshit (Score 1) 59

The resulting investigation itself would be enough of a deterrent. Having your equipment seized for examination and possibly interrogated yourself is one hell of an inconvenience, not to mention paying a lawyer. Even if you do end up being let go, it will still cost you time and money, and lots of both.

Comment Re:motives? (Score 1) 285

You seemed to have missed the point. I was proposing that the insider in a hypothetical inside job doesn't care that inputs.io crashes and burns because they just made off with 4100 BTC. As the summary mentions some people could not "panic and pull their coins out" as there were no coins to pull out.

To be clear, I'm not saying that this is what happened, merely floating it as a possibility, given the nature of BTC it wouldn't be hard to pull off.

Comment Power abhors a vacuum. (Score 4, Interesting) 182

Power abhors a vacuum. There will always be a government analog (even if it just your local warlord) wherever you go as long as there are other people. This is also the reason why weakening governments simply allows corporate power grabs, I'm sure there are some who'd love to return to the days of the East India Trading Company private armies and all.

Comment Re:Is there any evidence of real openness? (Score 1) 139

Ah the good old [citation needed] as a cover up for lack of basic research. Allow me point you to the SteamOS announcement page.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Where you will see under the (corny named) header 'Cooperating System' the line.

Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation.

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It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.

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