"The Russians have always understood that a space station is nothing more than a prototype of an interplanetary spaceship."

Given the fact that Russia has never managed to even get an unmanned probe working successfully on Mars -- much less even gotten a manned mission to orbit the Moon -- maybe they should realize that the "prototypes" they've been building for over 40 years haven't been too successful.

Oh, and oil just crashed... have fun paying for all that with your Putin Pictures -- uh, I mean "rubles".

Thank non-existent diety that NASA is currently run by Atheist/Islamic bootlickers then!

I mean, NASA is so much more capable today after we implemented the anti-religion tests compared to those dark-ages of the 1960s!

I mean, can you believe that one of those primitive cave men EVEN READ FROM THE BIBLE without being decapitated ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... )

Now, it would be just fine with use brave, completely even-handed and rational Atheists if he had read from the HOLY Q'U'R'A'N' (Obama Ackbar! ISIS is misunderstood!) but the Bible? That's sacrelige!

We are SO much better off with today's NASA than that relic from the '60's! Don't let that evil Ted Cruz take us back to the DARK AGES!

After all, apocalyptic Global Warming made exclusively by evil white racist Republicans -- oh but I repeat myself --- is a proven scientific fact and anyone who disagrees is just an infidel -- uh I mean "right wing religious extremist denier scum".

Why waste government money studying Settled Science (TM)?

This is just a dupe of a story from 1860 with a few minor details changed. Here's the original:

"The Luxury of a Bottomless Bucket of Labor For Georgia Plantation Owners"

The Cotton Plantations across Georgia have a luxury that most Oligarchs could only dream of â" access to about 2,800,000 slaves and a private labor ownership that they an always count on. The private labor configuration allows the perk of not focusing on wages. "Our local overseers even take some pleasure in telling pesky northern labor representatives, 'If you can beat free, then I'm willing to listen.' That tends to shut down most conversations," writes Slave Management Specialist Curt Carver, who explains how the free labor is now becoming an educational equalizer across the South. In 1861, Georgia school districts are expected to have a 33-fold increase in free labor available to them through selective breeding. "This will help to flatten the state. No more haves or have-nots in terms of labor going into the cotton fields."

All that was shown here is that AMD's *OpenGL* drivers on Linux aren't too far off from AMD's *OpenGL* performance on Windows.

Considering that AMD's OpenGL Implementation on Windows is kind of a joke compared to D3D, and considering that AMD is now even dumping D3D in favor of its proprietary* Mantle platform, this article basically proved that AMD's Windows OpenGL support is also lacking badly.

* Before anyone says Mantle is "open": AMD's executives promised an SDK published by the end of 2014... didn't happen. AMD has made zero efforts to make Mantle work on any OS other than Windows... hell, while DX11 ain't an open standard at least I can go online and get docs on how to write a program using DX11 and make it work on Windows... you can't even do that with Mantle!

Good, then I'm sure you'll be the first to debunk the accuracy of the anecdotal "evidence" for 2014 being the hottest year EVAR that is linked at the very end of this post.... oh wait I forgot:
1. Does weather make Global Warming sound real and/or scary? WEATHER == CLIMATE
2. No to question 1? WEATHER == RANDOM EVENT STFU DENIALIST NON-BELIEVER.

Vinyl sounds so WARM!

You know what else sounds warm?
The screams of hipsters after you light them on fire with their organic-wax candles (and some gasoline).

Do the "science deniers" include the IPCC that spent thousands and thousands of tons of CO2 putting together reasons for why the pause is actually all part of their increasingly inaccurate models?

Hipster "invents" the reflow oven and blogs about the "invention" in amazement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

No, by definition he's right: It's tough to overwrite a READ ONLY MEMORY . Of course, the firmware in the Mac isn't actually stored in a true ROM but in an EEPROM or some other solid-state memory that can be overwritten. So the article is incorrect or misleading to call that chip a ROM.

" In fact, multiple vendors have predicted that LPDDR4 clock speeds will actually outpace standard DDR4, with a higher amount of total bandwidth potentially delivered to tablets and smartphones than conventional PCs will see."

I doubt it since you could just adapt the LPDDR4 memory for use in a desktop if you have half a brain. Furthermore, since since sub-watt level powersavings aren't really critical on a desktop, if these chips are actually that good then they can be opened up to run faster at a higher power envelope that's still reasonable for a desktop.

In that case, give up: They own your Linux kernel and you don't even know it. You might as well go with a closed-source backdoored solution since maybe they have a harder time patching it so the backdoor is less reliable.

If the NSA can sneak in with some nearly undetectable hack to the SS7 protocol 20 years before cellphones even become widespread, you stand absolutely no chance of securing a complex open source project where code commits happen fast & loose.

Hell, the legitimate kernel developers who know they have introduced a kernel-panic inducing bug because it's causing loud & obvious crashes still can't track down the exact source after at least two major kernel releases!

Since you assign God-like powers to the NSA, give up now because nothing is secure. They slice through any encryption with a pocket calculator. They've kidnapped you and implanted mind-recording devices in your head and then wiped your memory! You live in an episode of the Prisoner but without the trippy 60's music!

Uh.. the whole point of transport layer encryption is that you assume an attacker can record your communication and the encryption prevents the attacker from figuring out the real contents of the communication.

If you know for a fact that no unauthorized party can actually tap to your communication channel.. you don't even have to bother with the encryption in the first place.

The rest of the issue is due to the fact that the SS7 protocol is a byzantinely complex and very very old standard going way WAY back before data security was taken into account.

For all the people saying this is some intentional backdoor... if the NSA really were that smart to sneak this into a design-by-committee standard where hundreds of engineers spent years niggling over details, then you might as well give up now because you just said they are smart enough to insert backdoors into the Linux kernel or any other complex open source project too and they'll get away with it for decades before they get caught.

So what your saying is that if we took all the illegal -- uh "undocumented" immigrants from third-world countries that Obama lets in and dump them into the socialist paradise of Cuba that America's healthcare statistics will look massively better than Cuba's.

Oh, and that infant mortality statistic is complete B.S. In Cuba, they just let the premature babies die and it never counts as a live birth to mess up the statistics. In the U.S. they bend over backwards to save babies but since they aren't always successful, the statistics get skewed.

Proof: http://www.nationalreview.com/...