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fail2fail2ban

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    Comment #12686249

    I don't see us living there for extended missions either. I do see the importance of what we learned and the inventions that came out of the Moon missions that have positively impa…

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    Comment #12686124

    Read your second sentence in the context of the first.

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    Comment #12685929

    > I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?) Thanks, agreed. On…

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    Comment #12685911

    > Sadly the pathogen make up of the Americas made safe exploration an impossibility Indians had no trouble crisscrossing America.

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    Comment #12685875

    Agreed. The Native American Indians knew how great America was.

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    Comment #12685591

    Recover material from asteroids much?

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    Comment #12685573

    Check this fact, see the graph: http://www.cfr.org/defense-budget/trends-us-military-spendin...

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    Comment #12685541

    I'm not degreed so this is just my off the wall thinking but asteroid mining yes, definitely. I still think we need a Moon base, need to show we can run it successfully for around …

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    Comment #12684668

    We aren't close to ready for Mars. We need a base on the moon.

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    Comment #12684611

    It would be in even worse shape if that were the case. Obama and liberals in general assume unicorns will come protect them and that the military is bad. Meanwhile, the ISS is fall…

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    Comment #12672182

    Their newest snapshots looks like they're getting back on track, I wasn't into 1.9. Wishing them the best though.

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    Comment #12671676

    > They did say that Java MC isn't going anywhere. Embrace, extend, extinguish is how it always plays out.

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    Comment #12671661

    I think it was great before mods and quite popular. Notch left and it's not as popular now.

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    Comment #12671630

    You had better back that claim up. I've seen slow Assembly programs; operating close to the hardware is not a guarantee of better performance.

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    Comment #12671609

    You're comparing today's Minecraft with all the bells and whistles to Minetest. The original comment about trying to extend it in C++ compared to Java is perfectly valid. It's why …

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    Comment #12671575

    I remember one of the first VOIP clients (if not the first) PowWow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow_(chat_program)

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    Comment #12665600

    I think mbfg got it right.

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    Comment #12653525

    > enormous scale Add more nodes. Scaling is not difficult.

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    Comment #12653520

    > But ask yourself: how does your browser layout engine and scripting engine work? [But ask yourself: how does your car's engine work?]

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    Comment #12653466

    He's saying every company needs a Sheldon or two; they don't need a company full of Sheldons.

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    Comment #12652859

    That is a wonderful site, so much information, they even had full emulators for favorite old programs and games that run in the browser. (Curse JavaScript for working so well.)

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    Comment #12652830

    I graduated High School that year, I'd done some BASIC programming on an Atari 2600 with a BASIC cartridge. I imagined a consumer computer like the ones on that cover but with seve…

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    Comment #12637635

    I'm liking my Nexus 6 but it feels a bit big at times so I think the trend towards 5 or 5.5 is a good thing. Not sure about the price though, my 6 would have to completely croak be…

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    Comment #12631602

    I like the DOM, basic CSS is fine. The twisted stuff some people do with CSS I'm not fine with but yeah I know. JS isn't going away, what irks me the most is the naivety around try…

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    Comment #12631480

    > We can only consider applications from the US states of Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon, and anywhere in Canada. I'm curious why those states?