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  1. Re:Yes, but can they make the surface sticky? on Giant Balloons Could Solve Space Junk Problem · · Score: 1

    Because when the space junk is a bolt traveling at 10km/s relative to you, sticky doesn't quite cut it.

  2. Re:Sucks to be poor on The Verizon Wireless HTC Eris 'Silent Call Bug' · · Score: 2, Funny

    My mom used to hope that I wouldn't ever come back.

  3. Re:If Opera implemented other things right,I'd use on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    So you're prepared to criticize Opera for their (allegedly) poor quality Mac port but aren't prepared to actually file a bug report or make any attempt to bring your dissatisfaction to their attention? Hell, you could have filed a bug report with Opera in less time then it took you to complain about it on Slashdot.

  4. Re:Wow. Just... WOW! on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since you clearly want that thing in an enclosed box (I prefer my TVs to be of the less then lethal variety) It would seem to make sense to make that box a vacuum or at least low pressure, they were making some pretty massive CRTs right at the end of that tech so I imagine that this wouldn't be a problem. Ultimately thought I think that this just isn't practical and probably never will be, it doesn't scale very well, 60 fps would likely shatter the mirror, in most applications nobody would actually care to sit at the back and frankly it's a big spinning mirror in the middle of your office or living room.

  5. Re:walled garden version for the rest of us? on Turning Attackers' Tools Against Them · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Microsoft would gladly make a walled garden OS for EVERYONE to use if they thought they could get away with it.

  6. Re:Dear Mr. Berners-Lee, on Berners-Lee Pushes Linked Data In MIT Course · · Score: 2, Informative

    You mean a lot of libraries in the states use it. Rest of the world is quite happy with the Dewey decimal system.

  7. Re:What a feat! on Solar-Powered Ultralight To Try 24-Hour Flight · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How about a radio relay? Or weather monitoring? Hell those are the 2 blindingly obvious ones that I can think of in 30 seconds I`m sure anybody here could list off a dozen uses for these with a few minutes work.

  8. Re:Cool on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    Theres a write up on it here. Compare to your vehicles fuel consumption and draw your own conclusions.

  9. Re:Cool on Hong Kong Company Develops Solar-Powered Lightbulb · · Score: 3, Informative

    It does, they found that requiring daytime running lights increased fuel consumption by something like 5%, not a lot but when you're counting pennies.

  10. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is your o, a, b and l keys broken? I'm assuming not since you seemed to use them elsewhere in your post without difficulty. So why the problem spelling 'probably'? In the era of high speed internet access and multimedia rich web content bytes are cheap. Don't feel that you are doing anybody a favor by heavily condensing words, especially when you seem to have no problem using other equally long words.

  11. Re:That's not ballast. on "Argonaut" Octopus Sucks Air Into Shell As Ballast · · Score: 1

    Well to be accurate it does need to continue to expend energy since it's at an unstable equilibrium. (to low and it will keep sinking, to high and it will float to the surface) But the energy required is far less then what it takes to reach that depth in the first place, or to maintain that depth if it didn't have the air bubble.

  12. Re:Dear ACLU on Taiwanese Researchers Plug RFIDs As Disaster Recovery Aids · · Score: 1

    I wasn't arguing for tracking, I was arguing against it by pointing out that animals we may be, but tracked like them we should not.

  13. Re:Dear ACLU on Taiwanese Researchers Plug RFIDs As Disaster Recovery Aids · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that doesn't mean we have to tracked like them. Furthermore nobody likes a pedantic asshole I would suggest you strive to not be one.

  14. Re:COTS = COST on US Air Force To Suffer From PS3 Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    But those are expensive, defeating the purpose of using PS3s in the first place. They could have gone to IBM and bulk ordered a pile of CELL equipped blade servers but its cheaper to buy the PS3 which Sony, like every other console manufacturer, sells below cost and make up the difference with game sales.

  15. Re:Yay ignorance. on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Is this pornography, or a clothing sales company?

    I dunno, give me 10 minutes and I'll tell you.

  16. Re:Bingo on State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!! Heeeeheeheeeehee! Whooeee, that just made me laugh.

  17. Re:good on IE Market Share Falls To Historic Low · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget bookmarks, god fucking help you if a user loses their bookmarks, they will bring the wrath of god down on you and everyone else around them.

  18. Re:They need something to do on FAA Says No More Minesweeper Or Solitaire In Cockpit · · Score: 1

    That and your doing 485 MPH, you're not going to see the bird until its whipping past (or into) the cockpit windscreen.

  19. Re:True Story on Leonard Nimoy Retires From Star Trek · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Cool story bro

  20. Re:Some black guy... on Googling the Trail of a Serial Rapist · · Score: 1

    Well she was being raped at the time, so perhaps we can give her a pass on not having an exact recollection of his height and other physical attributes.

  21. Re:IANAL, but... on Ubisoft DRM Problems Remain Unsolved · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My guess is that class action law suits require very little effort from 99% of the people involved, they simply have to say that they were in some way harmed and then get to collect their reward. Small claims court means you actually have to work and put effort in even if it's not alot. As well know on Slashdot everyone wants the world to be fixed, so long as somebody else does it.

  22. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 1

    Your on idiot on both counts, preventative care on both yourself and your car is a far cheaper alternative to trying to fix once its broke. I guess rather then get an oil change once every 3 months you jsut wait for your cars engine to literally fall to pieces? Just like I assume that rather then going for a checkup once a year (or every 6 months) you just wait for the heart attack/stroke to happen and deal with it then? With an attitude like that one can only hope that you'll be dead before you have a chance to reproduce.

  23. Re:15-stories? on SpaceX Conducts First On-Pad Test-Fire of Falcon 9 · · Score: 1

    Might be a problem if you live on the 17th floor.

  24. Re:So, what next? on Herschel Space Observatory Finds Precursors of Life In Orion · · Score: 1

    Yeah, more likely NASA will get their feet and meters mixed up again and the probe will spectacularly crash on the planet.
    In the process of crashing it will probably also wipe out a budding otter civilization.

  25. Re:Possibly another reason on Vivek Kundra On US Government Inefficiency · · Score: 1

    Its the sad reality that many employees first impression of a union is "Great now my company can't fire me" unfortunately the second impression, "Damn my company can't fire my fuckwad co-worker either", doesn't arrive till it's far to late. Been there, done that, had the argument. Also hilariously enough the 2 places that I've ever been fired from were both unionized.