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  1. Re:Wrong agency; should have claimed NSA on Man Claims to be In the CIA to Get Out Of Speeding Ticket · · Score: 1

    They'd call a local CSS office, get transferred, and talk to the section chief.

  2. Re:Patentable? on Sony Rumored To Be Debuting Wiimote-Like Controller At E3 · · Score: 1

    There aren't any patent laws against improvement on a device.

  3. Error on YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Has anyone considered the possibility that he was killed by someone other than the Guatemalan president? Like, say, a family member with an axe to grind?

  4. Re:whats worse than telling an unfunny joke? on Rydberg Molecule Created For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Applesauce.

  5. Re:Great idea on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 1

    This frees up farm laborers to attend to other intellectual pursuits, or other tasks which robots are as-yet unable to do. You incorrectly assume that those humans will suddenly stop consuming food if they are not employed in the fields.

  6. Re:Contradiction on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    bobblehead

  7. Re:I actually just tried the Kindle II... on Reading the New York Times On a Kindle 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're forced to create an account and then send pdfs and text files to an email associated with the account for a fee ($0.20 per file or something like that). It's difficult, and Amazon has everything locked down.

  8. Re:Poor productivity on Chinese Version of Wikinews Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  9. Nature on Oil Exploration Leads To Video of a Mysterious Elbowed Squid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn nature, you scary!

  10. Re:Sadly philanthropy isn't profitable. on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 0

    Some people call that socialism, and are very fearful of it.

  11. Re:Better water purification on Inside Dean Kamen's Seceded Island of Geekery · · Score: 1

    They don't filter bacteria or viruses either, and you'll rapidly chew up through the predicted lifetime if you attempt to filter large particles (like, say, dirt or very hard water). They're neat and novel devices, but not terribly practical.

  12. Re:They only want the datacanter on Asian Nations Battle for Google Data Center · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not all Asian nations are intent on suppressing their media, and it is ignorant to think so. $600 million is a lot of money, and developing Asian countries surely need that money injected into their economies.

  13. Re:Release bombs at supersonic speeds? on USAF Launch Supersonic Bomb Firing Technology · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the USAF rarely misses when it's bombing places. As a poster noted, it tends to be the intelligence supplied about the targeted location that's awry.

  14. Re:It's quite OK on US-Made Censorware Used To Oppress Burma · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the sarcasm in GP's post, sir

  15. Re:Would it make a difference in desktop machines? on Hitachi Releases World's Most Energy-Efficient HDD · · Score: 1

    Not if it output the excess amount of power in the form of heat, which seems like what they're doing now.

  16. Re:Every Department of the US has SBIR on NASA Announces 120 Small Research Projects · · Score: 1

    There still are a lot of these. There's always DoD money to go around, you see...

  17. Re:4 Terabytes? on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It'll get used up fast, with the introduction of Blu-Ray and HDTV movies/tv shows.

  18. An improvement to OOo on OpenOffice 2.3 Released · · Score: 0

    It would be most appreciated if OpenOffice was sped up to the point where it doesn't take ten seconds to load up and then periodically halt every couple of minutes on a P4.

  19. Re:Question about ocean levels on Impassable Northwest Passage Open For First Time In History · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but not all the ice in the world sits on the water. The water could also be displaced by going through another route or emptying into another location... like the Indian Ocean.

  20. Re:Conspiracy Theory on Is China's "Great Firewall" a Fraud? · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I don't think being able to use [insert search engine here] to look for web proxies, being able to paste it in a little box in the Options, check a box, and then click Ok is going to create a hacker army.

  21. Re:modern times call for it on G.I. Joe No Longer the Real American Hero? · · Score: 1

    You just had to throw in that comment defending the French, didn't you...

    For shame.

  22. Re:We have 3 options here on Air Force Mistakenly Transports Live Nukes Across America · · Score: 1

    This argument is moot. The nuke requires very specific arming procedures and protocols to be followed before it can be properly detonated. Only thing that's going to happen in a crash (or train accident) is spread some radioactive material into the vicinity. Some warheads have even survived a hard crash intact.

  23. Error on First Look At New Mexico's Space Terminal · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

  24. Re:Why just binary? on IBM Develops Technology That Could Store Data In Atoms · · Score: 1

    Not sure how it works in QM, but it becomes exponentially more difficult to manage and transmit and read when it becomes trinary. There is a lot more accuracy required for an "in between" state, and our hardware would probably need to double in size to handle it.

  25. Re:Summary says most women are men? on Survey Shows More Women Blogging Than Men · · Score: 1

    misogynist.