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  1. Re:batteries... on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 2, Informative

    or, more accurately, when they are in the earth's shadow (not that common in high orbits, but regular for anything in LEO)

  2. Re:Who is it for? on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 1

    and if this was sci-fi you would have a point... but when it comes to physics I would like at least some kind of qualifications to ensure that the author isn't just blowing smoke up peoples backside (while taking their money).

  3. Re:Who is it for? on Super Principia Mathematica · · Score: 1

    that was exactly what I was wondering... what, precisly is so shocking about a scientist who has faith? That only describes the VAST majority of professional and armchair scientists I know (yes, anacdotal... bite me :P )

  4. Re:Maybe someone should tell them... on NASA Looks At Railgun-Like Rocket Launcher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    so basically the trick is to fall down and miss?

  5. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 2, Insightful

    my point was that the whole "it's exercise" thing is kinda lost when looked at the big picture. Yes, getting out and moving is good for you, breathing in coal dust for 12h a day for 20 years.... kinda offsets any perks you get from the exercise.

  6. Re:Huh? on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    ya, go down into that coal mine and get some fresh air!

  7. Re:Wait, what? on European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA · · Score: 5, Funny

    quick! to the Liberation-mobile!

  8. Re:How is it... on HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle · · Score: 1

    but those rules are as an HP employee, what about when you are no longer employed by HP?

  9. Re:How is it... on HP Sues Hurd For Joining Oracle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    cause the guys at the top are the ones making that decision, and would never dream of putting something like that in that may one day limit their ability to make millions.

  10. Re:WD40 on AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do · · Score: 1, Informative

    simple nail polish remover will do the job extremely well.

  11. Re:Wait a second... on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    the kind of support they get when they are giving themselves a raise.

  12. Re:Buy one get one? on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ok, but who watches cspan?

  13. Re:Buy one get one? on NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research · · Score: 5, Insightful

    they need to get rid of that "agree to filibuster" thing they have going on.... if you want to tie things up for hours and hours, then by gum you should have to work at it and ACTUALLY tie things up for hours and hours, not just say "can we agree that we are going to filibuster this so we can all go home and go fishin'?"

  14. Re:Wait... on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 1

    captchas?

  15. Re:Wait... on PR Firm Settles With FTC On Fake Game Reviews · · Score: 3, Insightful

    volume... can you create hundreds, make sure none get taken down, repost the ones that do... day in and day out AND get your next game made?

  16. Re:So much for... on Legal Threat Demands Techdirt Shut Down · · Score: 2, Insightful

    or try and bring home some Japanese manga with any girly bits in them on anyone who isnt obviously 110 years old.

  17. Re:What about the trojans? on Video Showing Half a Million Asteroid Discoveries · · Score: 1

    size of the planets as well as greater interferience from other nearby bodies reducing the stability of the lagrange points.

  18. Re:So Then... on GPS Tracking Without a Warrant Declared Legal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    no no no, those are govt property... attach it to their personal veheicles.

  19. Re:Only Priuses? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    sorry, I should have mentioned.. where I live, pedestrians have the right of way, always. It is the drivers job to ensure that they have full control of their car and are able to stop.

  20. Re:Only Priuses? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    1) buy a mirror.
    2) get bigger glasses
    3) learn what fuzzy shape is a car for your specific vision problem
    4) when in doubt, look twice, if the grey blob is gaining on you, odds are it is a car.

    I bike, I have glasses, I've NEVER had a probem telling what grey blob is a car, and what is not.

  21. Re:Only Priuses? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    maybe it is just me, but wouldn't it be easier to just teach drivers to watch the hell out for pedestrians?

    oh right, my bad, in this world no one can be bothered to look out for themselves or anyone else... we need to pay $150 for an extra to make our nice, quiet car contribute to the already horrific noise polution.

  22. Re:Lower Sperm Counts! on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    well, the most common reason while a male wouldn't have a gap there is due to being overweight.

    and yes, let's all get on that, because there is nothing worse in this world then to be thought of as gay. *eyerolls* I thought most schools blocked /. these days.

  23. Re:Lower Sperm Counts! on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    it has to do with fat distribution. Males tend to carry their fat in their belly, females in their hips, thighs, chest and butt. The fat on the thighs is not just on the outside, but also between the legs which causes there to be less room about 2-4" below the crotch, right where the top of the seat horn usually is. For a healthy weight female (IE: not one of those freakish supermodel types), their thighs will usually tough, or almost touch at this point, whereas a healthy weight male will have an inch or two seperating that point.

  24. Re:Confusing and Fallacious Comparisons on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 1

    no, but those who want an ebook NEED to get it from one of those putting ads in, those who want text messaging NEED to sign up with a cellphone carrier who decides the prices for them. When you only have such a small number of providers, if you want a service/product, then you have to pay whatever cost they are so generous to let you have. This is doubly so for products with buy-in costs or contracts.

    Why drop your prices when no one is going to break contracts / pay the upfront costs? Why not just charge what everyone else is charging and make more money. I've looked at cell plans in my area, for the services I want the market diferentiation is less than $1 per month and the plans are all, virtually, identical. Were the "free market" teet that so many people here claim to suckle at actually work, there would be some plans offering more minutes at the cost of fewer texts, more data at the cost of minutes etc... there would be actual choices to be made. But as it is, I can get X minutes from carrier A, B or C for within $1 of each other (after fees), the only difference being the chime tone made when my phone starts up and the forign accent of the help desk person I eventually reach after 20 min in voicemail hell.

    Markets with few providers, such as ebooks, do not follow free market rules, never have.

  25. Re:I didn't know on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    then you have no way to back up your claim that you have never lost a potential job due to online action.