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If you've got physical access to the machine in the cage you can do anything you want, which includes bypassing BIOS and Bootloader passwords in about 5 minutes. That assumes you h…

It's not a 84K airplane it's a 30k car + (84 - 30)K airplane. I bought a vary nice car even though I only drive ~5K miles a year. I could sell my car and add an extra ~800-1000$ a …

Your ignoring the obvious case where someone got a patent for an obvious solution. The US patent office has long ignored that test and billions have been wasted as a direct result …

IMO a reasonable test is: If a patent can be used to sue one company it may be patentable. If it can be used to sue 100 companies working on separate products it's probably obvious…

Or it uses replaceable nozzles which also solves that problem. Anyway, welding robots have been in use for a long time so I expect the basic mechanics to have already been worked o…

Past performance is no indication of future performance. Looking back, buying Microsoft in 2000 with a P/E of 60 was a stupid thing to do. But, that says nothing about buying it to…

Talking about Math as a single subject is like talking about Sports. Chess, Boxing, Baseball, Snowboarding, Curling, and Luge may have some things in common. However, suggesting th…

You missed an important part of that: "Facebook’s closest competitor is Yahoo’s network of sites, which claimed 10.1% of the market. Google, which is still relatively new to the di…

I brought it up because people actually believe it. As you noticed both resolution and time are important limitations. You don't get to arbitrarily examine things at any resolution…

Science is based on evidence NOT reasoning. Thinking about problems don't provide new information. It's the same basic fallacy as assuming a really really powerful AI could deduce …

Yea, I was thinking of the whole DC sniper thing. There was a similar indecent at an army base (fort hood), but the random nature of the targets and the length of time between atta…

I have no idea how you can measure such things, but several serial killers have terrorized large areas for fairly long periods of time. 9/11 may have been dramatic, but it was over…

Meaningful amounts of Mater + antimatter produces extreme amounts of radiation, and takes ridiculous amounts of energy to produce. To put things into perspective, 1kg (~2.2lb) of a…

The general assumption with SSD is you have both a SSD and a traditional HDD. As long as you only have program and temp files on a SSD it's loss can have fairly minimal impact. Esp…

Just a FYI. I have personally read a lot of negative things about soy heavy diets. Not that I know what I am talking about, but if you do eat a lot of soy it's worth looking into. …

Look, all metrics can be gamed. Take an existing project find all the places that link to each section of code and you have some idea how reusable things are. Tell people your doin…

What your missing is the concept that RGB colors are based not around the physical property's of light but the eyes ability to detect light using Rods and cones. In the real world …

Once you get into the world networks with multiple OC192 connections all it takes is a little math to show Verizon still makes money from most heavy users. The marginal cost of you…

Which would be rewarded in your situation, building 30 really simple pages by hand or spending 1/2 that much time to code something which generated those pages automatically? Once …

International trade tends to drift to the most stable currency's which is why things are moving the the EURO. Then again the EU is the worlds largest economy so there could be some…

The government breaks up monopolies to lower prices. The government builds new roads to lower transportation costs. NASA spent a less than 1 shuttle mission worth of funding to res…

"Pretty sure the highway system does an excellent job already." Have you even been in heavy Traffic congestion? The Texas Transportation Institute estimated that, in 2000, the 75 l…

NASA cost 4.4% of Fed Budget in 1966, that's a LOT of roads. In 2008 it's 0.6% of Fed Budget which is still a lot of roads. But more importantly: The NASA budget is larger than the…