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  1. Multiple tether points in space? on Space Elevators Face Wobble Problem · · Score: 1

    IANASEE (...Space Elevator Engineer). But it would seem that the solution to this particular issue would be multiple end-points in space. It would dampen the wobble, and also provide a degree of redundancy...

  2. Re:Won't be the first time a religion did this. on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If not, the whole thing is a scam.
    And if so?

    It'll still be a scam, just a conventional, accepted and well-integrated one.

    Scientologists are loons for sure, but let's not differentiate their own brand of crazy from all the others.

    As Douglas Adams said- 'Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?'.
  3. Re:Credibility??? on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 1

    Windows stability
    America's corporate ethics
    Carrot Top's quiet dignity
    You have it the other way around- I was listing 'unquestionables' as ironic support for the concept of 'Scientology's credibility'.

    You have gone for non-ironic non-sequiturs. Unless you believe the whole Xenu-Nuked mountains-thetans shebang....
  4. Beard... on Firefox 4 Will Push Edges of Browser Definition · · Score: 4, Funny

    From his picture in TFA, Chris Beard, VP of Labs for Mozilla, has no beard, despite his high-up position within the open source movement.

    Does open source play by ZZ-top rules now?

  5. Credibility??? on Scientology's Credibility Questioned Over Video Channel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Scientology's Credibility...
    (Splutter!) That got me.... Also questioned this week-

    Bears' woodland sanitary habits
    Pope's Nazi youth
    Apple enthusiasts' devotion....
  6. Re:Its true.. on Mainstream Media Finally Catching On To How News Propagates · · Score: 2, Funny

    >I get all my news from slashdot!

    Me too, I ignore all the other tech sites, and pick up an inaccurate rendering here.

    About 3 days later....

  7. Yes, but do they run.... on Large Hadron Collider Sparks 'Doomsday' Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Linacs?

    Clearly they do, and clearly they don't (look closely). A shame, and for me more worrisome than theoretical black hole doom...

  8. Re:Copyright? Maybe not, but maybe trademark? on Blizzard Sues Creator of WoW Bot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At most it might infringe upon the terms and conditions of WoW. But that would need to be taken up with the users, not the author.

    Just another example of a company aiming its litigation at the wrong target.

  9. Re:More expensive? Why? on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 1

    I bet you'll have to switch it off during take off/landing.

    Jesus, they can't even stand you shutting the fucking window blind whenever the pilot has to actually do some work.

  10. Re:More expensive? Why? on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 1

    They are £1 earphones, sold for £5, and you can only use them on planes!

    I mean, the nuts are pretty cheap, they're still more costly than their terrestrial analog.

    About the nuts though- you don't get the fart smell when you open them, because your olfactory bulb is already saturated with the ass-gas of your fellow travelers. Bonus.

  11. Re:More expensive? Why? on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 1

    First off, why would it have to be more expensive.
    Can you think of anything on a plane that isn't more expensive?
  12. Re:Fist fights at 30,000 feet. on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    >I once had the displeasure of sitting on a plane on the tarmac for two hours....

    It will be much worse when the plane is up and flying. Changes in pressure, plus the engine noise, are going to make hearing the tinny little speaker in mobile (since this is the UK) phones very difficult. And when hearing goes, shouting follows. Joy.

  13. Re:More expensive? Why? on Cell Phones To Be Allowed On UK Planes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >What if I use my cell phone and the plane is still on the ground?

    from the summary....

    >Airlines will be allowed to activate base stations in the plane's tail after takeoff...

  14. Re:Isn't the information per photon arbitrary? on Hyper-Entangled Photons — 'Superdense' Coding Gets Denser · · Score: 1

    but I guarantee it's quantized by at at least radius-of-universe / planck-length
    Aw shucks. And there we were thinking that we might be able to transmit a large amount of info...
  15. Re:You are Freaken Arrogant! on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    Cheers. I've snagged the first, and that will keep me busy for a while....

  16. Re:Not good enough on Patriot Act Haunts Google Service · · Score: 1, Insightful

    'Mark you out?' The fact of the matter is, everything we transmit outside of the firewall is subject to surveillance these days. And most companies have no clue how much of their data is crossing the firewall every day.
    I was simply saying that boycotting something most people do raises a question mark against you as surely as more obvious, 'incriminating' behaviour. At least, it would if I was in charge.
  17. Re:Not just Canada... on Patriot Act Haunts Google Service · · Score: 0

    I'm in the UK too- the merest mention of 'national security' is enough to render your rights under the Data Protection Act null and void.

    You didn't think it would be that easy?

  18. Re:Bologna. on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    Familiarity with the original? He's a famous guy.

  19. Not good enough on Patriot Act Haunts Google Service · · Score: 5, Funny

    Spurning these services will mark you out for further surveillance straight away.

    Have they never read Crime and Punishment?

  20. Re:Bologna. on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    >Does that technical ability come with the lack of restraint so frequently displayed by virtuoso musicians? If so, then a definite no to your question.

    I know what you're getting at. But why would any artist willfully handicap themselves? It's like a painter deliberately restricting themselves to a small proportion of the available colours.

  21. Re:You are Freaken Arrogant! on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    I didn't know we'd gotten anywhere close to determining the marginality or otherwise of experience over whatever they call nurture nowadays. Clearly I am out of touch. Can you point me to any studies showing what you describe?

  22. WARNING! on Hyper-Entangled Photons — 'Superdense' Coding Gets Denser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The above link will shred your windows boxen, mod down a lot!

  23. Re:woot on University of Penn. Recommends Against Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    And I appreciate your calling it to the collective attention. He might be a liar, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day (that's still plenty of wrong, sure).

  24. Re:You are Freaken Arrogant! on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    So art is necessarily about...
    Not necessarily. That's why I said: 'at least by one definition'.
  25. Re:Bologna. on Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student? · · Score: 1

    You don't think that Radiohead, with Rush's fingers, would be able to better-articulate their artistic vision?

    I do.