Now if Deadpool had a cameo in the movie; he would totally know who Kurt Russel is.

Please, if Donald Trump can sublimate his need to push red buttons on one that only delivers soda (as opposed to global apocalypse) lets just let that one slide and not make a big deal out of it.

I’d love to call up and just start right into: “We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own....”

If you’re going to Hoax; hoax like a pro.  

What’s unclear from the article is the level of brickery involved here. If this software does something like scramble the boot-loader on the devices processor; it’s a pretty permanent brick. If his software just deletes the application code, and could be reversed by re-flashing the instruction set onto the processor,…

I agree, and where a tool like BrickerBot should be used is during a devices external review process. If companies, like Gizmodo, printed a review of some new webcam that included a note that ‘BrickerBot was able to brick this device’ it should be a death knell for that product.

In related news:

I don’t see how any case regarding a piece of software’s security vulnerabilities could last longer than 60 minutes or so. The plaintiffs should be able to un-box a brand new Windows machine, install the software, get a message through the publicly running version of the Confide app and take screen shot and/or view…

That’s not how collisions work. For it to go into a higher orbit, it needs to gain a lot of kinetic energy; which means a mass has to hit it traveling in the same direction at at much higher velocity. It would literally have to get hit by a rocket on its way up for that to happen.

(as someone who works on Cubesats) they are actually required to decay relatively quickly, 5 years to be exact. We’ve actually added self deploying plastic sails to our Cubesats to ensure that they have enough friction to self de-orbit within the required time.

The motor he used is a C6-7, which means that the average thrust is about 6N and the delay should be 7 seconds. I’ll be honest though, I didn’t see a separation charge fire; and I’m not sure that the slower burning section at the back is actually the delay grain. I think they might have removed both those elements…

In a world where there is no such thing as a flight that takes longer than ~18 hours, you would think there is no such thing as a location that takes weeks to get to, but there still is.

Spoken like a true non-californian.

So are electric cars; but the prices are always declining when technologies are undergoing development, right?

Diesel? My money is actually on CNG. A diesel generator is great for delivering constant power, but it’s not the right technology to charge a battery. I’m expecting to see that battery charged by some kind of high efficiency gas turbine engine running off CNG (or maybe other fuels). It would always run right at the…

Problem is, batteries are heavy. You put in a ‘serious battery upgrade’ you add some serious weight and reduce the top speed. I’m not saying it wouldn’t just add an interesting strategic element to the sport when trying to find the sweet spot between range and top speed.

Good point, has anyone checked to see if “Holocaust Center” is actually a duress code?

Even if United was absolutely opposed to sending the pilots in a car for some valid reasons; what’s to stop them from offering to send a passenger in a car (instead of a putting them in a hotel) and give that passenger something to compensate them for the the extra time? Why didn’t they offer $3,200 in flight vouchers…

Because no one ‘of importance’ is capable of understanding an argument with the subtlety of “I want cameras to record police; and I want a public policy in place to protect police from abusing those cameras.”

The scene where Han Solo is walking backward saying “I think I’ll just go home and have celery” deserved a closer look. I’m fairly sure its from the point at 1:47:07 where Solo approaches Kylo while saying “Snoke is using you for your power.” They played it backward to make him back away instead, and then they put in…