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Comment Re:Remain Calm! (Score 3, Insightful) 496

I mean, we could always trust the Russians to work in our best interests. Also, they were never sneaky about anything. Always truthful and honest, them Russians.

WTF? What retarded country do you belong to? Russians recently defended a massacre in south Ossetia by a US backed puppet Georgian government.

And Iran only threatened to wipe The West off the map, starting with Israel, with any means at their disposal. And that they could make a nuclear bomb if they wanted to, because it was a right granted to them from Allah.

US and UK are directly responsible for sabotaging a democratic coutry's chosen government. They actually wiped out an entire nation's will to govern itself.

Not to mention that they're playing the North Korean game of "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" / "let's talk" / "we're not talking to you anymore" with the UN. Remember what North Korea has now after a few years of that? Ah, yes, The Bomb.

Brazil got results out of Iran with no more than a week of negotiation. And then USA still kept rattling the sword over the deal. Yeah, that is exactly like North Korea.

And all this in the hands of a fanatic regime, intent on spreading Islam through force, feared and hated even by most other Islamic nations, all the while being one of the most horrible human-rights violators of our time.

China commits far more human rights violations. Guess which one the MSM mentions the most.

But there's nothing to fear. They're not after the bomb. They say they are, but there's nothing to worry about. It's just a nuclear power plant.

Fine, please disarm the only country in history of mankind to have used the nuclear bomb on civilian population, and actually considered using it again during the Korean war.

Submission + - Electronic voting machine hacker arrested in India (indianevm.com)

whatajoke writes: Hari Prasad, a security researcher in India who had demostrated the vulnerability of Electronic voting machines (EVM) used in all elections in India, was arrested by the Police on charges of stealing an electronic voting machine. The election commission of India has maintained that EVM are non hackeable. The election commission had previously provided access to the device to the security researchers for a day and asked for a hack in only that time.

Comment Re:It's just a toy (Score 1) 185

On an N900 with a proper physical keyboard, you're in good shape after several hours of typing.

I have a n900. I can heartily affirm that its keyboard is just made for common lisp + emacs. C/C++ have many special characters for which you have to pop up a virtual keyboard. But common lisp has all needed characters in just the right place in n900's keyboard. Only the quasi quote charater is missing, which is a small tradeoff to make for programming while walking around the house. Offsets the sedentary lifestyle a little.

Submission + - British Army uses laser dazzlers to save lives (wired.co.uk)

Lanxon writes: A laser has become a vital weapon in the British Army's operations in Afghanistan, reports Wired. It doesn't burn its target to a cinder; in fact, its function is saving lives. The Green Laser Optical Warner, or GLOW, made by Thales is used to stop anyone approaching a checkpoint or patrol. Unusually for a weapon, the safety of the target is a key design consideration. Weighing about a kilo, GLOW is a lot chunkier than your average laser pointer, but the effective range of over three hundred metres is more than most laser pointers too.
Google

Submission + - Google & Verizon's Real Net Neutrality Proposa (blogspot.com) 3

langelgjm writes: Announced this afternoon in a joint conference call held by CEOs Eric Schmidt and Ivan Seidenberg, Google and Verizon have released a joint net neutrality proposal in the form of a "suggested legislative framework for consideration by lawmakers." This comes on the heels of last week's assertion (and subsequent denial) that Google and Verizon were close to concluding talks that would permit Verizon to prioritize certain content in exchange for pay. A look at the actual text of the framework shows some positive net neutrality principles, but there is also some more curious content: "Wireless broadband" is singled out for exclusion from most of the agreement, and providers would be permitted to prioritize "additional online services... distinguishable in scope and purpose." Public Knowledge, a watchdog group based in Washington, has criticized the agreement for these provisions.

Submission + - Discovery Threatens Fan Site That It Also Promotes (techdirt.com)

An anonymous reader writes: It seems that the lawyers and the marketing people at The Discovery Channel don't talk to each other much. The marketing people behind the show "The Deadliest Catch" have been supporting a fan community called DeadliestCatchTV.com for a while now. They've regularly sent the site info, free clips, previews and information about the show. On top of that, they link to it from the official site, including it in a list of "fan sites" as a part of the "Discovery Network," and even will frame the site with the show's own dashboard for those who click through. Discovery's lawyers, on the other hand have threatened to sue the site out of existence and have demanded that the owner hand over the domain name — which he is going to do, because he doesn't have the money to fight this. While there may be a trademark issue (which could be easily resolved with a free license), the lawyers are also making the ridiculous argument that posting the videos Discovery sent him to post are copyright infringement. They're also claiming that embedding the official Discovery Channel YouTube videos (which have embedding turned on) is copyright infringement. This is exactly how you turns lots of fans into people who hate your entire channel.
Networking

Submission + - Are new IETF switching, routing specs needed? (networkworld.com)

alphadogg writes: Two high-profile specifications winding their way through the IETF promise to boost data center switching and service provider routing, but advances from Cisco and Juniper Networks raise questions about how much the specs are even needed.

For switching, the IETF is working on Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL), which is intended to overcome limitations of the Spanning Tree protocol in scale and topology reconvergence. For routing, the IETF is investigating the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP), which is designed to improve addressing and load balancing for enterprises working with multiple ISPs.

While these may seem like solutions to long overdue networking problems, they may also be redundant with capabilities already or soon to be on the market. In the case of TRILL, Ethernet switch market leader Cisco will soon be shipping FabricPath for its Nexus 7000 switch that accomplishes the same tasks TRILL is intended to address while providing many more capabilities. And Cisco, the original author of LISP, acknowledges there are other techniques available today that accomplish some of the same goals as LISP. Rival Juniper concurs, enough so that it is holding off on pledging support for LISP — as well as TRILL.

Comment For all those quibbling about lift capacity ... (Score 2, Informative) 973

Check out Project orion
I am sure it can be made even more risk free in terms of radiation spread ( which is already very small), and it absolutely can get us to mars or launch heavy stuff for constructing O'Neil cylinders. And with a large enough space vehicle/station, asteriod belt can practically provide all the material we need for making more orion crafts.

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