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  1. Re:Amazing on Shatner and Wheaton Narrate Mars Rover's Landing Sequence · · Score: 4, Informative

    No solar power on this rover. It uses a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.

  2. Re:Utterly useless design on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    What's way better is to keep a stack of porno mags next to it in the closet. That'll keep them busy and they'll forget about the safe.

  3. Re:If only... on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    The magnets are given to children as toys. The risk there is pretty high. It's not like there's an epidemic of three-year-olds opening locked gun safes.

  4. Re:As a father on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    I have bear spray I carry when backpacking. At home I keep it very near my bed and it's the first thing I grab if I think anything's going down. I've had people break into my garage in the middle of the night so I wouldn't be surprised if they tried the house.

  5. Re:Maybe it's just me on Windows 8 Graphics: Microsoft Has Hardware-Accelerated Everything · · Score: 1

    You need to see the thumbnails when you're organizing the content. Duh.

  6. Re:Adverse reactions? on Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back · · Score: 3, Informative

    His lessons are too slow. It's like getting a lesson from Grandpa Simpson. He only teaches one tiny basic concept per video and it takes him at least five minutes to get there and another five repeating, and repeating, and repeating. I can't watch more than half a video before I can't take it anymore.

  7. Re:For all those non-important signups on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    The computer doesn't ever know that it's YOU. You have a friend over for beers, show them a YouTube clip, go to the bathroom, and he or she takes a peek at your Gmail password. Then they go home, sign in and monitor all of your emails until you change the password. All this without any effort at all because the software makes it sooooo easy and fast by default.

  8. Re:For all those non-important signups on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    Let's not make it as easy as three mouse clicks. People can break into my house too but I at least have a door and a lock there, even if it isn't Fort Knox.

  9. Re:For all those non-important signups on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    Google Chrome is a good example of why this is a bad idea. Go into the settings page of your Chrome browser and it'll show you in plaintext all of your stored website passwords. Anyone using your browser can quickly have a peek.

  10. It Doesn't Work on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    I've tried Open ID through Google to sign in to Slashdot but can't get it to work.

  11. Free Stuff on US Regaining Manufacturing Might With Robots and 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    Well, you can pirate the designs for the stuff you want to make but the ink, or powdered solids and bonding solution in this case, will be as expensive as unicorn tears.

  12. Re:Use a Lupo engine on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    I have a 2007 Altima. I LOVE the full size spare.

  13. Re:easy answer. on A Million-Year Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Digital != electronic

  14. Re:Breaking News on DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stories aren't broken on Slashdot. We wait for one or preferably several news articles are written, people have a chance to actually read them (I know, not exactly reality), and then we can discuss them intelligently.

  15. Re:good in theory, bad in practice on Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    I think it's more like bad in theory, worse in practice.

  16. Roger Wilco on Pentagon's In-Orbit Satellite Recycling Program Moving Forward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe this will spur enough public interest to bring back the Space Quest series.

  17. Re:Other organ damage? on Injected Proteins Protect Mice From Lethal Radiation Dose · · Score: 1

    The neutrons do indirect damage. They are captured by the nuclei of non-radioactive isotopes, turning them into radioactive isotopes. After exposure you're radioactive and there's not a thing you can do about it other than wait out the storm and see if you survive after the shorter half-life isotopes have decayed.

  18. Re:Bahahahahaha! on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    I meant to say the answer to the question in the summary, not your post. Sorry. So I'm saying it's not a serious question and that YES open-source desktops are losing. Now, what's the best marinade for a penguin?

  19. Re:Bahahahahaha! on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    I swear there are a significant number of people here who think the answer is a flat out NO. And the rest of us are looking around at each other wondering if we should leave before we end up with a pet penguin to take care of.

  20. Are open-source desktops losing? on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1, Troll

    You guys really do live in basement caves with little to no grasp of reality.

  21. Re:NFC and hacking on New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna · · Score: 0

    I'm quite good at "holding it in a special way to get it to work".

  22. NFC and hacking on New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna · · Score: 0

    So this is why Apple is backing off on their claims of virus immunity. NFC is a big target.

  23. Re:WTF? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many companies already do this. It's to track work crews for things like utility repairs, on-site troubleshooting, etc. It helps with scheduling and knowing who's close by when the next call comes in. There are plenty of 3rd party software packages that do this but when Google gets into the mix suddenly it's all 1984.

  24. Huh? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What kind of crap argument is that in the summary? Live tracking the CEO of Google because you're upset about your stocks. Genius.

  25. Re:...overkill...? on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    Well if you want 10+ channels of sound I just can't see it being popular enough among consumers that they'd go through the extra effort of releasing movies this way. Same can be said for high resolution. Many people would like movies released in higher detail than 1080p but that's what you're stuck with.