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Comment Re:What an idiot (Score 1) 180

by Thud457 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @04:24PM (#48878893) Attached to: Silk Road Journal Found On Ulbricht's Laptop: "Everyone Knows Too Much"

ob. Bloom County

Comment Re:And we are back to them again... (Score 2) 60

by Thud457 on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:40PM (#48876769) Attached to: The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge

USB is just a reimplementation of Atari SIO on steroids.

Comment Re: Verifying a message vs. its contents (Score 1) 480

by PetiePooo on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @01:28PM (#48857327) Attached to: How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting

So the boss came to you with the offer, and you, being the weasel that you are, accepted. Conversely, he didn't go to the guy in the next cubicle, so he knows nothing about this, right? That's a messed up place to work. The guy in the next cubicle should find a place that's not full of weasels and let you and your boss dig your own holes.
Not to mention that it's a good opportunity to strengthen whistleblower protections so that you can roll on your weasel boss without fear of retribution and loss of job/position...

Comment much more popular (Score 1) 66

by Thud457 on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:24PM (#48834221) Attached to: 'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind

the "beer me!" app to ask people close to the fridge to bring you a beer. because you're busy and stuff.

Comment hey, are you gonna blow that up? can I have it? (Score 2) 248

by Thud457 on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:47PM (#48833117) Attached to: SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released

So they only blew up the rocket.

Hey, their competitors would have just thrown it away anyway...

Comment Avenue Q on line three... (Score 1) 44

by Thud457 on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:02AM (#48819437) Attached to: China Lays More Fiber, Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet

China Lays More Cable , Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet

there, FTFY...
BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW

Comment Second Amendment approved! (Score 1) 38

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:04PM (#48805665) Attached to: Talk to the World Through Ubi -- and Use Gestures, Too (Video)

Now with 100% more gorilla arm!

Comment maximum CP, too (Score 2) 69

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:26PM (#48804759) Attached to: The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space

Every great work of literature ever, even those not yet written, now in an compact, easy to carry form :
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Comment a valid justification for Man in space (Score 1) 152

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:08PM (#48803965) Attached to: Chinese Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around the Moon

Ah, but robots can't stand on the veranda of the space station Freedom and piss on every single one of you cowering groundhogs at the same time.
a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- Robert Browning

Comment Re:Verifying a message vs. its contents (Score 2) 480

by PetiePooo on Monday January 12, 2015 @04:04PM (#48796217) Attached to: How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting

As your employer, I'm still going to need to see that full ID. Remember, you are an At Will Employee.

As your federal government, I'm investigating claims that you are asking for your employee's voting IDs. Remember, you are subject to the laws of the federal government, and the fine for this particular infraction will surely put you out of business.

Comment Tommy Westphall says "hi" (Score 1) 34

by Thud457 on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:40PM (#48777759) Attached to: Forget Stuxnet: Banking Trojans Attacking Power Plants

Patty the daytime hooker FTW!

Comment spraying sulphur in the air you say? (Score 1) 319

by Thud457 on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:32PM (#48768835) Attached to: How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate?

I just modified my local micro-climate.
mmmm, chili for lunch....

also, ib4 "chemtrails!" and "HAARP!"

Comment V.I.N.C.E.N.T. didn't need legs! (Score 1) 58

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @06:17PM (#48750045) Attached to: NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade

What's a space-robot need freakin' legs for?
Piece of junk, throw 'im in a Black Hole!

NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade 58

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @05:48PM from the safety-mechanism-to-prevent-it-from-killing-all-humans dept.

BarbaraHudson writes: Robonaut 2, now in orbit on board the International Space Station, has run into problems with the software controlling its new legs. From the article: "The machine ran into a few technical errors. According to NASA, the ground teams deployed Robonaut's software and received telemetry from the robot, but were unable to obtain the correct commands for the leg movement, which are vital to performing every day tasks aboard the International Space Station. Ground teams have begun assessing how to move forward with this issue, though it is unclear if they currently have a fix in mind."

Space Policy Guru John Logsdon Has Good News and Bad News On NASA Funding 78

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @12:02PM from the can-you-spare-a-dime? dept.

MarkWhittington writes According to a story in Medium, Dr. John Logsdon, considered the dean of space policy, addressed a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. The author of a book on President Kennedy's decision to go to the moon and an upcoming book on President Nixon's post-Apollo space policy decisions had some good news and some bad news about NASA funding. The good news is that funding for the space agency is not likely to be slashed below its current $18 billion a year. The bad news is that it is not likely to go up much beyond that. If Logsdon is correct, static NASA funding will mean that beyond low Earth orbit human space exploration will remain an unrealistic aspiration. American astronauts will not return to the moon, not to mention go to Mars, in the foreseeable future.

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