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Comment Re:what is interesting is not that it won (Score 1) 591

I'm thinking that the missing link in his logic is that if the State decides not to 'establish' an exchange, then the Federal exchange is tacitly authorized to be the 'established' exchange of the State.

Of course, that's stated absolutely nowhere in the text of the law, but that's probably the link.

Comment Re:This is not news... (Score 1) 328

It is, in no way, okay or acceptable.

Best case:
"We're releasing a new version that fixes MANY NASTY EXPLOITED SECURITY HOLES and by the way fucks around with your browser settings. If you don't install it, you get constant nagging to update, and if you do install it, you'd better pay attention or we will install a bunch of shit you don't want."

More likely case:
"We're releasing a new version that fixes MANY NASTY EXPLOITED SECURITY HOLES and by the way fucks around with your browser settings. If you don't install it, you get constant nagging to update, and if you do install it, we install a bunch of horseshit shovelware that there is no chance to prevent."

Fuck that bullshit. Java is quickly becoming the next flash - a framework of yesteryear that has outlived it's usefulness.

Comment Re:Assholes ... (Score 1) 328

Vibrant?

What the fuck does that even mean?

Just because Sun put in the first round of crapware doesn't make Oracle completely absolved - they could have changed it to opt-in rather than opt-out, or removed it entirely. And they're definitely not helping by making my browser more "vibrant and advanced" by jerking with my search settings to use an engine I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO USE.

Comment Re:Wow ... (Score 4, Insightful) 289

This one is completely on Samsung.

There is nothing stopping them from getting WHQL certification of their OEM drivers and submitting them to Microsoft. If their drivers are written properly (with proper hardware identification strings for PCI / USB / ACPI devices) then they will apply before generic drivers, and this isn't even a problem.

Funny how we don't hear about this from Acer / Dell / HP / Lenovo / etc...

Comment Re:why is Eric snowden an expert on security (Score 4, Informative) 196

Why is it that when the government does something that he doesn't like, it's "big government run amok" but when it's something that I don't like, I'm "an America hater"?

What would the Founding Fathers, which most conservatives uphold to be the absolute pinnacle of what our government should strive to be, say about the NSA's data collection on it's own citizens? I personally think they made it perfectly clear in the 4th Amendment, but that's just me.

Comment Re:Why bother with installed capacity? (Score 1) 259

Reprocessing isn't limited by weapons treaties - it's just a political hot potato because reprocessing of nuclear fuel is damn close to extracting plutonium for weapons creation. So the countries that have nuclear weapons and know how to do this aren't big on building reprocessing plants, lest they get repurposed.

The physics, though, were worked out in the 1940s during the Manhattan Project.

Comment Re:Just a flyby of Pluto... (Score 1) 66

Or, they could have greatly increased the mass of the probe to include reaction mass and a thruster to slow down and capture into orbit... but that would have then required a far bigger lifter to get it off Earth to begin with, etc.

Plus you're doing it all on automation because Pluto is ~5.4 light-hours away...

Comment Re:well isn't that special (Score 2) 66

What makes me laugh is the context of Kennedy's remark there - one of "the other things" is referring to a previous sentence in the speech where he's asking why Rice plays Texas in college football, knowing that they will be creamed every year.

Context:

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

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