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  1. Re:Fine, if on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    That, and in the event of a crash, you don't get a face-full of debris

  2. Re:I love Microsoft on Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics · · Score: 1

    The rest of the time, it's just one mediocre release of Windows and Office after another.

    Yet without them, MS wouldn't have the money to do the research ;)

  3. Re:This isn't scaremongering. on Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry · · Score: 1

    United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland, probably, given Britain = England & Wales (in a manner of speaking anyway).

  4. Re:will it help? on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    And money for that one person to fund making their idea a reality.

  5. Re:Is it really the Leidenfrost effect? on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    Don't stop, and tread lightly. Otherwise the coals might stick to your feet.

  6. Re:Annoying header graphics on The First Particle Physics Evidence of Physics Beyond the Standard Model? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly the same, it's just the file is C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

  7. Re:Safety vs Law on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    Nowhere did the guy post what the speed limit was.

  8. Re:Safety vs Law on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    And what if the driver doing 45 pulled in front of the one doing 90, leaving less than a second for the latter to react?

    And before you say that's stupid, I've had to swerve to avoid a big accident caused by someone doing half my speed pulling out in front of me on a motorway. Luckily I had enough time to react.

  9. Re:Left or Right? on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    I don't know what regulations may apply when it leaves the factory, but some combination of years of wear, a sticky cable, and larger than factory tires put on and that easily goes out the window.

    As would the road-worthiness certification.

  10. Re:Left or Right? on Google's Driverless Cars Capable of Exceeding Speed Limit · · Score: 1

    So how will a driverless car know that the roads are wet or icy before a loss of traction occurs.

    Same way 'normal' cars know when the road conditions change: stability control systems. Where fitted, obviously.

  11. Re:Snowden is a traitor on Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah, I see the NSA is here :)

  12. Re:They're all evil. Really evil. on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    It's impossible to make something as complex as a consumer oriented OS without any bugs at all.

    It certainly is

    At which point your argument loses all value. Clearly you've never written a line of code in your life.

  13. Re:There have been attempts before on How Bird Flocks Resemble Liquid Helium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out the T-Rex actually barked like a Yorkshire terrier?

  14. Re:Surprise! on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    Looking at the raw figures in the report, the count is up from 130 to... 133. That's an increase of 2.3%. Even extrapolated to a full year, it's a 5.6% rise.

  15. Re:If you had taken part in "welcome back"... on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    I don't have any green pieces of paper, but I can get blue, orange and purple pieces. There's even the lesser-spotted red piece; I've seen one twice in my life, so I know they exist

  16. Re:Nintendo on Sony Agrees To $17.75m Settlement For 2011 PSN Attack · · Score: 1

    Nintendo has a huge userbase. It's just only 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of them can actually be bothered to go through the pain of the Nintendo Network.

  17. Re:And the question of the day is... on Could Google's Test of Hiding Complete URLs In Chrome Become a Standard? · · Score: 1

    For developers?

  18. Re:Good for devs. on The New 'One Microsoft' Is Finally Poised For the Future · · Score: 1

    WCF is built on .NET. Silverlight is built on .NET. WinRT has a full .NET layer.

    .NET is dead the same way the Sun is made of ice.

  19. Re:"Free" Windows on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 1

    The thing they call Windows Phone 8 doesn't have windows

    And Macintoshes don't have waterproof coats. And it doesn't matter - it's the power of the brand that matters.

  20. Re:Gee, so only a year of screaming on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If MS disappeared overnight, someone else would take its place. All that would happen is one devil being replaced by another.

  21. Re:Rubio was doing so well on Tesla's Fight With Car Dealers Could Help Decide the Next Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    Raspberry

  22. Re:Not enough foot room in smaller vehicles on Is the Tesla Model S Pedal Placement A Safety Hazard? · · Score: 1

    I considered it a design flaw.

    Just because you didn't think about taking your boots off doesn't make a small footwell a design flaw.

  23. Re:The danger of commonality on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is indoctrination, pure and simple

    Basic literacy and numeracy is indoctrination now? I think your tinfoil hat's a little tight.

  24. Re:Google's Aura on Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome · · Score: 2

    QT with LGPL could be used freely by google...

    People on Slashdot keep saying this, but corporate lawyers see "GPL" in "LGPL" and flat out say "no way."

    Maybe those corporations should hire actual lawyers instead of corporate lawyers.

  25. Re:Makes sense on Valve Open Sources Their DirectX To OpenGL Layer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only it was MIT-licensed so people could club together and add support for the rest of Dx9 (and 10 and 11 while they're at it)...