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  1. Re:"To replace obsolete and aging aircraft platfor on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 1

    If the Israelis were to set up constant patrols over Gaza with them, that little rocket firing business would dry up real fast. Fire a rocket, expect a 30 mike-mike up your ass.

  2. Re:"To replace obsolete and aging aircraft platfor on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The parent is wrong. Nothing has replaced the A-10. The Pentagon tried to kill the Warthog earilier this year until everyone who actually uses them screamed bloody murder.

    This fricken plane is airworthy with half a wing and an engine missing. Could the F-35 do that?

    The Iraqis don't want us to send troops over there to deal with the ISIS business. They have plenty of troops of their own. What they have asked for is some air support. Immagine what a couple of A-10 squadrons would do there..

  3. Re:Teachers... on Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional In California · · Score: 1

    Must have been taught by the LAUSD.

  4. Better skateboard on Not A Hoverboard, but Close (Video) · · Score: 1

    If you are going to blow a lot of money on a skateboard, check out one of these.

  5. Re:Fake Security Gurus on 30-Day Status Update On LibreSSL · · Score: 1

    OneAfterOneByTheStarDoggedMoon,TooQuickForGroanOrSigh.EachTurnedHisFaceWithAGhastlyPang,andCursedMeWithHisEye Very large and very secure, though I wouldn't want to type it 100 times a day....

  6. Re:Stupid? on NYC's 19th-Century Horse Carriages Spawn Weird, Truck-Size Electric Car · · Score: 1

    Playing fetch with my Black Lab is cruel. To me. After a day with her, I feel like I am ready to blow out a rotator cuff or need Tommy John surgery. The damn dog NEVER gets tired. Walking her in the usual fashion is impossible. The only way I can reasonably "walk" her is with a skateboard. Specifically a Landyachtz Evo downhill racer. Riding a skateboard at Black Lab speeds can be terrifying, but one of those bad boys is super stable. Still doesn't tire the dog, though. :)

  7. Re:Is there a way to tell? on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    You could just go to http://www.netcraft.com which has a search function to do just that.  They also have an anti-fishing toolbar which will give very detailed information about a site.  For example:

    Site title     Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters     Date first seen     September 2004
    Site rank     5747     Primary language     English
    Description     Not Present
    Keywords     Not Present
    Network
    Site     http://it.slashdot.org     Netblock Owner     SourceForge, Inc.
    Domain     slashdot.org     Nameserver     ns1.p03.dynect.net
    IP address     216.34.181.48     DNS admin     hostmaster@corp.sourceforge.com
    IPv6 address     Not Present     Reverse DNS     star.slashdot.org
    Domain registrar     pir.org     Nameserver organisation     whois.dyndns.com
    Organisation     Dice Holdings, Inc., New York, 10018, US     Hosting company     Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
    Top Level Domain     Organization entities (.org)     DNS Security Extensions     unknown
    Hosting country      US
    Hosting History
    Netblock owner     IP address     OS     Web server     Last seen Refresh
    SourceForge, Inc. 12150 Meredith Drive Urbandale IA US 50323     216.34.181.48     unknown     Apache/2.2.3 CentOS     13-Dec-2013
    </pre>

  8. Re:This is one thing I love about it on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind dropping one of those electric motors in my Camaro so I could do things like this.

  9. already posted on soylent news on Why US Gov't Retirement Involves a Hole in the Ground Near Pittsburgh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I submitted this to solyentnews.org yesterday. soylentnews is a fork of /. after the beta fiasco. If you hate dice, check it out. No ads or trackers either. My ghostery seems to look lost whenever I go there. :)

  10. Re:Paging Mr. Clancy ... on Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Or how about the entire plot of the much more recent "Command Authority"

  11. Re:Boycott on Designer Seeds Thought To Be Latest Target By Chinese · · Score: 1

    Windows 8, Unity, and now Slashdot Beta. WTF?

  12. Why Hunt Unicorns? on Pwn2own 2014 Set To Hunt Unicorns · · Score: 1

    ... When you can just order it online?

  13. Re:Yes! on Stop Trying To 'Innovate' Keyboards, You're Just Making Them Worse · · Score: 1

    Mine was also made in 1995 and had 19 years of crud on it. Best way to clean them:

    Denture cleaner

    Take the key caps off and soak them overnight in water with a couple of the tablets. When you take them out the keys will be like brand new.

  14. Re:Friggin' supernovas AGAIN. on New Views of Supernova 1987A Reveal Giant Dust Factory · · Score: 1

    I am pretty sure the Spaceballs fleet can handle it.

  15. Re: So I'll ask the one question that really matte on U.S. Waived Laws To Keep F-35 On Track With China-made Parts · · Score: 1

    You mean like obamacare?

  16. Re:lets work on getting folks THERE first on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    We can also send up other useless people such as middle managers, account executives, telephone sanitizers, hairdressers and such. Meanwile the rest of us will lead rich and happy lives, enjoying our new reality programs until we are all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

  17. Re:Electric trucks don't solve the problem on Tesla Planning an Electric Pickup Truck, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    You mean like This? I would love to have that motor in my Camaro.

  18. Re:Wonderful on Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving · · Score: 1

    Just last week a woman crossed over the double yellow line into the oncoming lanes, jump the curb and the sidewalk in front of my nextdoor neighbor's house, took out our mailbox and wrought iron fence, finally wrapping around a tree on the other side of our lawn. They had to cut her out with the jaws of life.

    I don't know how fast she was going but she jumpped the curb at least 200 feet before hitting the tree.

    We got real lucky. I had just left with my daughter a few minutes eariler. My wife was getting ready to take my other daughter. Both of us would have been right in the path of that car.

    I used to ride a motorcycle but no longer do. The drivers around here are absolutely bat-shit insane. I now have a big-assed pickup truck because a trash truck driver decided he needed to back up in a hurry without looking - right over my smaller one. I had slammed it into reverse and floored it to get out of the way but wasn't fast enough. After the impact the trash truck kept going for another 20 feet before stopping. If I hadn't slammed it into reverse, I would have ate the thing.

  19. Re:I'm Watching... on Kepler-78b: The Earth-Like Planet That Shouldn't Exist · · Score: 1

    Or you could get one hell of an orbital slingshot - if you didn't burn up first.

  20. Re:Relevant paragraph on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 1

    After the Police Officer/Lexus crash that really got this going, I remember reading that basically, the main brakes had melted. That klnd of invalidates the whole "pushed the wrong pedal" argrument.

  21. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    Obligatory xkcd:

  22. Re:OT: I'd love to see grocer cards banned on Grocery Store "Smart Shelves" Will Identify Customers, Show Targeted Ads · · Score: 1

    You could also use the local number from Rejection Hotline

  23. Re:Different audience on Ask Slashdot: Can Valve's Steam Machines Compete Against the Xbox One and PS4? · · Score: 1

    If you want to get the best of both Nintendo and Steam, you could just install Mari0.

  24. Re:CRAZY IVAN on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    They do that all the time here in DC too, except it usually in 50mph traffic instead at an intersection. I'll have to remember that...

  25. Re:I like an illustration of how bad this is on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering).

    This practice is well established among both Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes they even cooperate, so that a Republican has a nice safe district, while the parts that would have normally been in his district now make up an equally safe district for the Democrat. You pat my back, I'll pat yours. All you have to do is follow the money.

    Anyone who thinks either party gives a shit about regular people or America is clueless. They are all in it for themselves. SSDP, same shit, different party

    Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often, and for the same reasons. Next time when you vote, vote for the first person that isn't a Democrat or Republican. An remember to change them too when they get shitty.