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Comment Re:RIM never heard of due diligence ? (Score 1) 95

Interesting how these things show up or not depending on how they are handled.

OS9 was the unix like OS released by Motorola in 1979. Built to a tightly coupled OS to the Motorola 6809 processor. Great CPU (mostly 16 bit pretending to be 8) and great OS with a breakthrough version of BASIC that was called BASIC09 and was way beyond what you would expect. You didn't have to use GOTO. You had labels. And lots more.

I assumed Apple bought the name since it suddenly (from my limited perspective) disappeared from the original OS9 world.

And everyone that counts thinks OS9 is Apple.

And I understand.

Comment Re:Dead or alive. Doesn't matter. (Score 1) 2166

If you and all the other head in the sand Democrats don't think our side kills people have never dealt with union members up close and personal.

The media just doesn't report it the same.

Or for that matter looked at cheating in elections, which we Dems are experts at, to my dismay. i.e. IL, NY, etc.

And I am NOT a Republican, I just don't have my head in the sand.

Space

Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time 31

sciencehabit writes "Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust, however, they found boulders near the object with dust moving away from them."

Comment Re:try lying (Score 1) 555

God you are an ignorant twit! How did you ever find slashdot?

In case you don't read the context you post in, which seems quite likely, it's highly probable that someone who does this will end up in jail, because they will be "willfully negligent" when they are part of a breach.

Comment Re:I'd hope so. (Score 1) 171

Yup

Anyone complaining about this has what we in Garage Logic commonly call a "Moron Chip Problem". In other words, your Moron Chip is broken.

This piece of your personal logic array attempts to keep you from making stupid mistakes. If it's broken you are probably SOL.

tom

Comment The difference between a Scientist and an Engineer (Score 1) 1136

A scientist has a vested interest in his results being accepted.

An engineer has a vested interested (I can be sued!) that the answer is actually correct.

That's the difference here.

Think about it. Please.

Ok, you lefties already KNOW THE ANSWER.

And so do you on the right.

One of you may be wrong, and the other needs to learn a LOT of science.

I have to say, you are both amusing, but only very very occasionally. Mostly you are incredibly embarrassing examples of humans.

Quit being so polarized, and start speaking politely to each other.

Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score 2, Informative) 1136

I won't do the work for you, but for the first claim search theregister.co.uk for NASA and global warming. I don't remember the exact search, but it's not hard to find there. They have before and after graphs that NASA fudged, and both were available at the time from NASA. Dumb on NASA's part

For the second claim, if you missed the news last year, search for "climategate".

Comment Re:Science or Religion? (Score 0, Troll) 1136

Religion from the scientists.

NASA got caught faking data 2 or 3 years ago by theregister. The Brit experts then get caught admitting they fake data last year.

Everyone publishing used those 2 as the ultimate source of their data. The data currently published cannot be trusted. None of it. Chuck it all, and prove it with fresh uncontaminated numbers, if you can find them. Then I'll believe it. Maybe.

Privacy

Submission + - Germany plans to email trojans (bbc.co.uk)

speardane writes: The BBC is reporting that the German authorities are planning to send emails containing trojan horses to suspected terrorists. This is apparently supported by the German chancellor despite protests.

Apparently "the spyware would be used only in a few cases and for a limited time".

It seems to me that this is even more stupid than Sony.

Perhaps the Greman authorities have never heard of emails being forwarded...

Perhaps criminals and terrorists (no I didn't say hackers) won't re-use the weapons the German government have given them...

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