The few (two) times I’ve met people who think we didn’t go to the moon, I talk about the lunar laser ranging retroreflector array, which is essentially a set of corner reflectors that Neil and Buzz placed on the lunar surface. Multiple observatories we’re able the then point lasers at that spot, and get the beam…

I suggest a early 2010s BMW 330i or 335i. It’s not the *cheapest* beamer, it’s a nice drive, and there are plenty of 2013-2014 models for sale for under $30k, even as low as $20k.

Wow, must suck still being a virgin, I guess? You'll find someone eventually, don't worry. Or maybe not, with that twisted view of sex...

“Thou shalt not kill” is basically one of the two or three of those 10 commandments that isn’t pretty ridiculous.

Yeah, the picture didn't match my comment. Ciaran Hinds is also great, but I really liked Harris in The Expanse.

No shout-out for the mini-series? It’s obviously partly/mostly fictional, but Jared Harris is always awesome.

“... growing association with illicit activity”.

Combine oscillating rational constants?  Why, I hardly know you!  :-P

Yeah, coefficients are ok. But an exponent, now, that would've been something!

Hhaha, you get a star for this!

“an AI-driven non-factoring-based encryption technology that relies on rapid oscillations of numbers that are rational math constants at very high speed.”

It took so very, very long for human-type intelligence (eg, self-aware, reflective, abstract and so on) to evolve the first time, I feel like even if humans wiped themselves off the face of the Earth (which seems possible), or abandoned Earth for whatever reason, that it could be hundreds of millions of years before…

“They eat different things than we do”

He's got some weird fetish / bone-to-pick with California, it sounds like. And probably he's a Trumpanzee but trying to hide that fact...

No, what it says right there in the article is that he was okay with leaving the regulations intact if he could strip California of its status to take revenge on the automakers that sided with California. Stop trying to twist around the words to make them say what you wish they would.

That's not calling a spade a spade. This is: the Trump administration is a shitshow with a side of malice. The only reason Trump proposed any changes to the regulations is because they were enacted under Obama (that's the malice), but Trump's gross incompetence, and that of his chosen staff/underlings, couldn't even…

I still think one of the best protections against ransomware - in addition to malicious-software scanning, antivirus, etc - is a good cloud-backup solution. Apps like CloudBerry (and others) have free versions, and the cloud storage is cheap. The apps can continuously monitor for changed/added files, or be run on a…

Of all the audiences to try to bamboozle with bullsh*t, BlackHat is pretty close to the worst choice. "Time AI" , lol

How time flies. I briefly met Tia and Tamera when they were teens (I think), in 2001, in Egypt (I think that the was trip where we said hi to them). Now they’re moms, and sharing breast milk. Lol.

“Gun violence in Australia hasn’t dropped since the ban.”