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Comment Re:Did he take any pieces of the moon with him? (Score 2) 118

The Apollo 11 astronauts did leave behind a small fortune in camera equipment: the Hasselblad cameras used to record the moonwalks. They only brought back the exposed film. This was done to lighten the lunar module, and to compensate for the moon rocks they did in fact bring back.

No, Buzz Aldrin did leave exposed film on the moon, out of retaliation against Neil Armstrong.

Comment Re:On loan??? (Score 0) 118

Past the statute of limitations; he's dead; and I'm sure we can agree that Neil f*ing Armstrong can keep a memento/be forgiven for overlooking a memento or two. And how do you know no one said "shit Neil, keep it if it means so much to you". I know I would have.

I don't think that's what happened.

The original story goes that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first one to walk on the moon, but during the trip, an order from mission control came in that said that Neil Armstrong was supposed to be the first. Buzz Aldrin had been politically outmaneuvered. And Buzz was so upset about that, he retaliated by supposedly 'forgetting' his own camera on the moon. Obviously, most of the shots on that camera were shots of Neil Armstrong, so most of the photographs we have now (except for the video feeds from the lander) are actually pictures of Buzz Aldrin, not Neil Armstrong.

So upon hearing that Buzz Aldrin had accidentally left his camera on the moon, it would certainly make sense that Neil Armstrong would grab something as well. In any case, it would be really cool if Buzz Aldrin had also lied about not bringing the camera back with him, but in his case, it's actually less likely. If I had been Buzz, I would have also left the camera on the moon in the rage of the moment.

Comment Re:Linux version??? (Score 2) 117

Yes, they should support all their products on every platform all the time, no matter how tiny the marketshare, and no matter how tiny the revenue stream, compared to the revenue from their core advertising products.

After all, Google is a non-profit semi-governmental organization that is only designed to do things for the common good in the fairest-seeming possible way. Also, I don't think that the Google employees themselves will mind being pulled off their current Android embedded Linux project, or their Autonomous car project, or their server-side project, to start working on this major piece of critical revenue-generating Google Earth Linux-client infrastructure. Developers are just like sheep. Just push them towards a new different direction each week, and they'll gladly follow that new direction until you tell them otherwise. That's how obedient they are.

Comment Re:Just FYI, it does work. (Score 2) 117

I did a malware scan (3 common engines) on the file and it checks out, the thing works for free.

Well, I'm not touching that one with a ten foot pole.

If you've ever been involved in a property dispute, you'll know how acrimonious they can get.

The way it's worded, it looks like it's bait for the Palestinians or the North Koreans to install.

Comment Re:What about the banks? (Score 2) 57

What about them? They got screwed.

No, they didn't get screwed.

The contract is written in such a way that it is always the merchants that take the financial hit for fraudulent charges, not the banks (even if the merchants themselves did everything correctly on their end).

Also calling the receptionist at a dentist's office "an insider" is misleading. That kind of language was specifically designed for the banks to avoid taking responsibility for the fraud. It was not the dentist's office that was being ripped off, it was Apple. By that novel definition "an insider", there are millions of Apple/Banking insiders in the US alone, from the waitress, the janitor, and the bus boy of every restaurant or little hole in the wall where they serve food, to the regular employee, janitor, intern, and temporary employee of every office building where credit card numbers are taken over the telephone.

I know the use of the word "insider" was introduced by Slashdot itself (either the submitter or the editor), but the word "employee" used in the title of the original ITWorld article leaves a lot to the imagination too, probably for that same reason that if one was to clearly describe what happened, everyone would be assigning blame to the banks and their system, instead of excusing the breach on having an insider employee somewhere (which is very hard to protect against).

Comment Re:oh no (Score 1) 254

They can't even get basic computer use or hacking correct in a $200 million movie. How are they going to accurately represent software programming in a cartoon? The computer will probably beep every time she types like some 90's movie.

This is actually a job for a good Japanese animation/manga studio, not Disney. There is an entire Japanese manga/anime genre for doing that kind of stuff. Hikaru No Go has inspired me to learn the game of go (although, I've only read the manga, I haven't watched the anime itself). Beck has inspired me to learn to play the guitar. Beck is actually a great anime series (that is nothing like the feel-good oversimplified typical American cartoons/animated movies that we know Hollywood and Disney to produce).

And there is this Japanese anime that inspires teenage girls to become fashion models, or them not to become fashion models, I can't recall its exact underlying aim, nor can't I recall the name of the series (it had a pink butterfly as its main symbol), but that anime made me cry even thought as a guy, I'm definitely not part of the target demographics this anime was made for. That was definitely a great anime series as well.

Comment Re:HP & Xerox (Score 1) 271

Run by women, not so great revenue per employee.

What are you talking about? When you freeze salaries, decrease the employee count, cut the company in half and throw away the half that went bad, you better have increased the revenue per each remaining employee at the very least.

Mitt Romney is also very good at increasing the revenue per employee. Does that also mean he's a woman? Or does he have a gender issue?

Comment Re:Two things... (Score 1) 208

I wouldn't blame the University. Sometimes, students are just stupid.

In this particular case, the student was not only stupid, but also super lazy. And this false positive will in no way affect the reputation of the police or the bomb squad. In this case, they reacted the exact right amount (given the suspicious nature of the attachment).

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