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by iwwr 13y ago
This is great, thanks for the link.
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by iwwr 13y ago
Looks like NASA may be dragged into it kicking and screaming. It may be time to change some people at the top. There's no point having this kind of a mission if leadership doesn't believe in it.
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by iwwr 13y ago
By "they" who kicked him out, who do you mean?
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by iwwr 13y ago
Soon enough you will not own the car you buy, but just a license to use it in limited ways.
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by iwwr 13y ago
Do you have a link to the actual paper? Do you have a math relationship between time and CMB temperature? Interested to know how long this early era of habitability lasted (not mentioned in the article).
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by iwwr 13y ago
That's also insufficient over the long term since coins are lost as a proportion of the total per unit of time.
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by iwwr 13y ago
The inflation rate over time will actually tend to zero, since each additional 5bn coins represents a smaller proportion of the total amount. A constant quantity over time translates into a decreasing rate of inflation.
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by iwwr 13y ago
The problem is there is no way to know for sure the government isn't keeping all the data needed to generate keys. To make the process secure, you'd need a protocol where people get to generate their own keys (open source implemen
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by iwwr 13y ago
The penalties are just too large and so very few are risking going to trial. Also, if prosecutors were actually forced to prosecute every case in court, it would either block the criminal justice system, or force politicians to drastically
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by iwwr 13y ago
They also receive substantial amounts of international aid and profit from endeavours like Kaesong. In the grand scheme of things, the petty revenue from tourism doesn't matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong
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by iwwr 13y ago
What happened to "A compromised machine can never be trusted again"?
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by iwwr 13y ago
This will merely make trolls create shell companies for each individual lawsuit. If a shell loses a lawsuit (i.e. patent found invalid), the winner can just pick up a lot of nothing.
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by iwwr 13y ago
It is, but the limit is your ability to cram it all that in a single rocket. It's why the James Webb needs foldable mirrors (JWST is made of small mirrors stuck together basically). There have been a few proposals for in-space interfer
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by iwwr 13y ago
This is the only instruction on how to run the examples: "The examples are deployable via fastcgi." A more hand-holdey approach may be appreciated.
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by iwwr 13y ago
>Not very intelligent for an intelligence agency, missing something so close to home -- literally within their own walls. If they can't figure out what people they vetted and hired, why would anyone expect them to do better with so
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by iwwr 13y ago
Bug-based backdoors offer full deniability as part of an ass-covering strategy. All software has bugs, all software therefore has backdoors.
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by iwwr 13y ago
It should absolutely be in the interest of companies to reward security researchers who find flaws in their systems. Otherwise, they will be screwed by the less scrupulous.
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by iwwr 13y ago
There is no 'they' in this picture, nor a thing that can be personified (i.e. an asshole). It's just a currently broken set of institutions. There's no reason to be angry at institutions, only persons. Direct that anger
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by iwwr 13y ago
So are there legitimate paid articles on wikipedia? Meaning, someone getting paid to write about some (non-spam, non-marketing) topic like how some open source developers get paid.
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by iwwr 13y ago
Free trade agreements aren't. Really. If they were free-trade, they wouldn't need thousands of pages of legalese. What it is is "managed trade", an agreement essentially made to benefit certain large corporations (as you
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by iwwr 13y ago
What if a company is deliberately lying (with a wink and a nod) about being under a warrant when in fact it's not? It's not illegal to lie. Would that force the government to prosecute you for breach of a non-existent warrant? If
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by iwwr 13y ago
Intellectual Ventures is now the bitter pill tech giants have to swallow to maintain their intellectual monopolies. With legislation that makes trolling impossible, but still maintains the legal privileges, large companies will have their c
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NASA shoots lasers at the Moon to [potentially] create interplanetary internet(wired.com)
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by iwwr 13y ago
So are they aiming for the consumer market or the business one? There could be a (limited) use case for cheaper spare plastic parts, so long as you have a 3d scanner handy as well.
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by iwwr 13y ago
"For example Somalia has long claimed that ships going through the Suez canal are passing through their territory" Don't you mean the Bab el Mandeb strait?
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by iwwr 13y ago
It's more about bacteria getting antibiotic resistence in animals and those get eventually passed to humans. Antibiotics are pretty much a non-renewable resource, the more they're used, the lesser their effectiveness. Using them o
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by iwwr 13y ago
Merely getting to orbit Mercury is more energy-expensive than leaving the solar system altogether, then landing in a high-gravity environment and without an atmosphere. Mercury is not easy to get to.
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by iwwr 13y ago
Space-based solar may work in powering space probes that are too far from the sun. An array of solar concentrators could beam down just enough solar power downrange to make the exploration of the Kuiper belt and inner Oort cloud worthwhile
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by iwwr 13y ago
The question is, bridge to what?
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by iwwr 13y ago
There is no entitlement to it, but we're not talking of a free market. Adobe has a legal privilege to punish retailers who may undercut them via "parallel import" and it's a crime to circumvent DRM. Without those legal p

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