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  1. Re:Where do I sign up? on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 2

    I have a job. I simply have no faith that SS will be around by my retirement and would rather not throw my money away.

  2. Where do I sign up? on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 2

    23 year old mechanical engineer here, where do I sign out of Social Security?

  3. Re:Well done on Russia Launches Delayed Radiotelescope · · Score: 2

    Russia never stopped being a leader in astronautics. But nicely done slipping your agenda in on a compliment.

  4. Damn the English Language on Russia Launches Delayed Radiotelescope · · Score: 1

    I read that as:

    Russian (adj) launches (noun) delayed (verb) radiotelescope (noun)

    instead of

    Russia (noun) launches (verb) delayed (adj) radiotelescope (noun)

    My brain inserting one little letter can change so much!

  5. Re:But how will it be monetized? on Space Station To Get HD Streaming Video Camera · · Score: 2

    The ISS makes almost 16 orbits per day.

  6. Re:So where's Michio Kaku? on NASA's Next Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    I have respect for Dr. Drew. He created a completely new format for helping people. They were comfortable calling a late night radio show anonymously but were embarrassed to see a doctor.

  7. Re:Micro-transactions on EVE Online Players Rage, Protest Over Microtransactions · · Score: 1

    I think because they are making so much money from microtransactions- that they made the game itself free. You still have to pay for the items.

  8. Re:Use find -atime command on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    WTF kind of rule is that? Surely nothing in said boxes could ever be given to charity instead of thrown away! /sarcasm

  9. Re:I uploaded ... on Google Launches Search By Image · · Score: 1

    Mine brought up topography of Iraq.

  10. Re:Really lost? I wonder. on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose just letting one "fall" off? Are you suggesting that one of the crew repel up the cargo to somehow release the pins to a container, and then what? Have the captain create a large enough list for it to fall off?

    Are you serious?

  11. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 2

    It is a drop in the bucket.

    You have a poor argument to begin with because as vehicles become safer, drivers in general are more comfortable and feel safer to the point that they drive more recklessly thus defeating the advantages of fancy brake and steering systems. The only easily viable way of actually protecting drivers from themselves on average would be to have race car quality roll cages.

  12. Re:Okay... on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    That was good until I realized you created the account from scratch just for that post.

  13. Re:Okay... on Hackers Expose 26,000 Sex Website Passwords · · Score: 1

    Awesome!

  14. Re:legal != ethical on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    Maybe you are right. There probably is no perfect ethical system in place.

    Hypothetically, if this were a religion issue, or a race issue, or any issue with blatantly segmented groups- how can it be ethical to make a decision regarding one group, without having to make a similar decision for all groups?

    The example that comes to mind is back when there was an uproar about showing a cartoon Muhammad on the air and the possible repercussions. There was a southpark episode all about it. If you agree to censorship demands from one group, can you comfortably ignore the other groups? or do you continue to agree to further censorship demands because everyone can get away with it and demands it now?

    Maybe I am getting far from the original point- is freedom of speech and censorship an ethics issue?

  15. Re:Aim Higher on A Plea For Game Devs To Aim Higher · · Score: 1

    You aim lower at the sternum for a headshot.

  16. Re:legal != ethical on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    When you make an ethical stance on one item- you have to make any ethical stance on all items. Because if you don't, it isn't a fair process and is no longer ethical. OTOH, if you only make decisions based on what is legal or illegal, then you are letting your clients make the ethical decisions for themselves- the way it should be.

  17. Re:Verizon does enable tethering on Advocacy Group Files FCC Complaint Over Verizon Tethering Ban · · Score: 1

    Wrong. When you get a smartphone at Verizon, the 30 dollar "unlimited" data plan is required.

  18. Re:For a school superintendant on School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison · · Score: 1

    It's strange, but after enough time spent on the internet, I just parse through sentences like this without blinking now. Upon second glance I notice the errors- but ordinarily when I read, I am reading for comprehension and extraction- not grammar. Or it could be all the time I spend in a second language- that I am constantly simply trying to comprehend and not validate grammar.

  19. Re:and if you use maglev bearings on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    Essentially, the Earth's rotation will put a net torque on the disc since it is parallel to the ground. It will affect the disc either negatively or positively depending on it's direction of spin.

  20. Re:and if you use maglev bearings on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The discs do appear to be parallel to the ground so keep in mind that depending on which way they are spinning and which hemisphere they are in, the Coriolis effect will either help or hurt them.

  21. Re:3 degree change on Carbon Emissions Reached Record High In 2010 · · Score: 1

    Your solution is to increase the entropy in the environment even more? Wtf?

  22. Re:paging competent editors... on New Feather In SpaceShipTwo's Cap · · Score: 1

    It's kinda their job to know things...

  23. Re:The Ukrainian complaints are utterly ridiculous on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Maybe I just misremembered from my Russian culture- my mistake.

  24. Re:The Ukrainian complaints are utterly ridiculous on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Regionally, where Ilya Muromets came from is known today as the Ukraine. I think that is their point.

  25. Re:USPO on Malaysian Government Offers Free E-mail To All Citizens · · Score: 2

    The second MIB movie makes much more sense now. Thanks!