Comment Re:A couple vent holes would let the gas escape (Score 1) 213

by Rub1cnt on Friday July 09, 2010 @09:51AM (#32850106) Attached to: AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City

That opens a Whole new can of worms for prank ideas...

Comment Re:Bedlam... (Score 1) 384

by Rub1cnt on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:16PM (#26418093) Attached to: State Dept E-mail Crash After "Reply-All" Storm

see Wierd Al's "it's all about the pentiums" for my reaction to this comment. :)

Comment Re:ultimate reason for the astronauts death (Score 1, Offtopic) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @01:51PM (#26282201) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Given a choice between professionally built and amateur built, I leave you with one nugget of wisdom: Noah's ark was built by Amateurs, The Titanic was built by professionals.

Comment Re:Sugar-coated death notice (Score 1) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @12:30PM (#26281097) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Astris Semper Fidelis.

Comment Re:Crew were incapacitated "within seconds" (Score 1) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @12:23PM (#26281021) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Kind of chilling...the Columbia crew's wake up song on one of the days was Hotel California. This kind of gives new meaning to "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave." *raises glass*

Comment Re:Put the people in a "black box"! (Score 1) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @12:17PM (#26280921) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

I still say we need to reactivate the Saturn 5s. We've got several models that may or may not work..the Smithsonian still has the plans...so let's reverse engineer the rocket, update it a bit and launch the thing into space. For those of you who say we can't reenginer the Saturn 5, let me point out the fact that Chrysler has been doing just this with their car models for the last 5 years. Put Chrysler's engineers in charge of the reemergence of the S5, and we're golden. For the guidance system, we use Microsoft's engineers, they steal a comparable guidance system and "tweak it" then sell at the government standard price.

Comment Re:ultimate reason for the astronauts death (Score 1) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @12:00PM (#26280659) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Amen Brother. :)

Comment Re:dumbification (Score 1) 223

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @11:59AM (#26280631) Attached to: NASA Releases Columbia Crew Survival Report

Sorry, but I gotta do the Obligatory quote, and I do apologize to the NASA folks that I'm about to tick off: Rockhound: Hey Harry. Harry Stamper: What? Rockhound: You realize we're sitting on 45,000 pounds of fuel, one nuclear warhead and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder? Makes you feel good doesn't it? Harry: Yeah, Rock.

Comment Re:Dual religion is accepted? (Score 1) 844

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @11:05AM (#26145261) Attached to: If Programming Languages Were Religions

Tonight and the garden: GEEK THUNDERDOME. A three round, no holds barred cage match between the Visual basic developers and the Java developers. Only one language will take it!! Whos syntax will reign supreme?! Find out all about it on SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!

Comment Re:Smalltalk (Score 1) 844

by Rub1cnt on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @11:01AM (#26145197) Attached to: If Programming Languages Were Religions

Smalltalk is an art, not a religion. :)

Comment Re:A criminal offense? (Score 1) 601

by Rub1cnt on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @10:05AM (#26131927) Attached to: Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President

"They were stopping everyone driving on that particular stretch of sidewalk...."

Comment Re:Hypothetical, what if a terrorist got the pair (Score 2, Insightful) 601

by Rub1cnt on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @10:01AM (#26131899) Attached to: Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President

believe me, if you don't like the present situation, remember, it gets worse as you go up the chain of replacements. You've got a person who can strategically do the least harm atm, let's keep it that way..

Comment Re:The point was... (Score 1) 601

by Rub1cnt on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:59AM (#26131877) Attached to: Barack Obama Is One Step Closer To Being President

Time to buy stock in Reynolds and a lifetime supply of tinfoil. I'm selling tinfoil hats, $50.00 apeice, today only.

Submission + - Australia cracked US combat aircraft codes (news.com.au)

Submitted by SpamSlapper on Thursday September 20, 2007 @03:20AM

SpamSlapper writes: FORMER defence minister Kim Beazley has told how Australia cracked top-secret American combat aircraft codes to enable the shooting down of enemy aircraft in the 1980s. The radar on Australia's Hornets could not identify most potentially hostile aircraft in the region, but dispite many requests, the codes were not provided, so "In the end we spied on them and we extracted the codes ourselves". The Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.

Jobs' Next Fight — Dealing With iPhone Hackers 341

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @01:34PM from the or-you-could-just-open-it-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With Steve Jobs' recent announcement of his intention to fight off the independent iPhone developers, the question worth asking is: How will Apple try to defeat the hackers: Software updates, or lawsuits? Will Apple risk losing its most frequently (ab)used legal tool, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in order to try and punish the developers of the iPhone unlocking tools? This CNET article explores the legal issues involved in this, which make it perfectly legal to reverse engineer your own iPhone, but illegal to share your circumventing source code with others."