Posts by Brandon 2

Insta-what?

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

is it worth it?

This definitely shrinks the viewing window for astronomers, but it doesn't eliminate it. Once the low earth orbit satellites are in the shadow of the earth, they really won't be a problem. The question in my head, is it worth it? I mean, do we actually care if terrestrial astronomers' views are obstructed by an extra hour or two each night, in exchange for the whole planet has access to megabit internet? Seems like a fair trade to me, and I'm one of those guys that loves taking astro-photos and time lapses on eq mounts which nearly cost me my marriage. Then again, my livelihood is not based on making up fanciful stories about planets revolving around stars we'll never resolve on more than 1 pixel...because, you know, because diffraction limits and all that.

re-usable

Even if the falcon 9 is only re-usable 5x, that's still 5x more than the SLS. There will be no competition on cost. SLS will always cost WAAAAY more.

pro-what?

At work, I don't are about anyone's sexual orientation. It's none of my business. My religious beliefs, are none of anyone else's business. What any of us do in our bedrooms, is none of anyone else's business. Why am I forced to change my language because someone declares their sexual-anything? Why aren't they forced to change their appearance because it offends me? It's equally logical, in that it's all completely illogical. I'll just do what I've always done and just treat people the way I'd like to be treated, with a bit of kindness and empathy, and go on about my day, blissfully ignorant to all the new gender pronouns. If you get stark raving apeshit crazy mad because I say he instead of she, you have a problem, not me. I care that you're angry, not that you're sexual identity is... whatever the hell you want it to be.

I feel like this story's title is a missed opportunity. Something along the lines of Poking Privates Punishment Proliferated Per Privacy Pushers... I'm not very good at this, but theReg usually is.

300 large...

Wants his cake and all that... so he accepts the settlement, but wants more now? Should have told them where to stick it the first time...

what about

What about radioactive decay? Sure, one can readily know the average, but what any particular isotope decays into is still unpredictable. Similarly, if you create a truly rand string of numbers, randomly chosen from 1-10, you will also know the average over time. Thus a random string correlated to radioactive decay should be possible.

Privacy

Privacy and Facebook in the same sentence? What a joke.

Not the KKK weather man...

This reminds me, I need to put AI on my resume...

If AI is so smart that it can establish trends describing how racism, sexism, etc change in our language, then it can predict them into the future, and whatever that data is being used for should account for that. The racist forecaster...

lol

Corporations and politicians alike have one thing in mind at all times, their bottom dollar. They don't give a rat's ass about you, me or any individual citizen or right we so barely maintain. That goes for Google, FCC, Trump, Obama, insert company / politician here. They don't care about you, they just want your vote or your dollar (which is really the same thing).

Corelation =/= causation... especially where the stock market is concerned.

No Dana..

... only Zuul

People get their information and "truths" from unreliable, social networking sources... Has this not been going on for centuries? E.G. "fan death".

From across the pond

Wait, can I, as an IT consultant that does 90% of my work remotely, set up a corporation in Ireland, move there, and only pay 12.5% tax? Because with just an LLC in 'Murica, I pay 50%, right off the top (35% income tax and 15% "self-employment tax" which is FICA and other crap)... there are ways to mitigate some of that... like form an s-corp and pay about 1/2 your income in dividends... that gets you to around 35% of your money going to income tax, without ruffling the IRS's feathers too much. But still, 12.5% is WAAAAY better... then again, you guys have VAT... bleh.

SMH

So these rioters wanted their guy elected, and now that they're not getting that, they're throwing a fit? And they want to tell me how to live my life? I'm no Trump fan, but the irony is thick!

On par

Government program costs 10x original estimate... sounds about right. For some reason I'm less upset about NASA using / wasting tax dollars than the rest of DC's brain farts.

bend over...

... grab your ankles... I don't walk around naked in the street, because my genitals are private. I don't want MS collecting data on what I'm doing on my computer... not because what I'm doing is illegal... it's JUST PRIVATE! And I value that. I sincerely hope that update has not installed, and I will not be updating Win7 in the near future. I wish Adobe CC worked on linux... i'd never touch windows ever again.

ummmm...

lost me when particles and energy became "information"... which is somehow lost in a black hole? Uh... ok...

oh the humanity!

I wonder how many Kerbals died in the development of this proposal.

I'm not saying it's aliens...

... but some pockets may have been lined with space bucks...

???

Why is it so hard for people to admit they simply don't know? Oh yeah, big grant money isn't given if all your research shows no correlation... no no... you have to tell a convincing story for those big contracts... and if you don't follow through... you don't get another one. So yeah, I can see the motivation to "cook the books" or interpret data in a way that gets you paid. There is HUGE money in global warming, and whether you "believe" or "deny" it, you should acknowledge that and the possible motivations for people to write and say what they say. I'm a skeptic, and I follow the money when science gets fuzzy... hasn't failed me yet.

Does anyone believe this?

Surely this is satire... "Hi, this is the FBI. You have a virus. Just hand over the password and we'll gladly take care of it for you." RRRIIIIIGGGHTTT... who falls for that? My grandmother doesn't even click on those emails... (anymore)