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  1. Won't work because of drivers on Google Fights Back Against Android Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    Your vanilla Android is just that - no drivers for vendor-specific hardware. I'd rather keep the crappy vendor Android if it means I can still use the accelerometer and camera, and power management works.

  2. Re:The one big new item of information on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    Also gun-type bombs don't have safety features to keep them from going off accidentally. This is why Little Boy wasn't fully assembled until Enola Gay was in the air, lest it suffer engine failure (common on B-29s), crash, and flatten all of Tinian.

  3. Re:It's a Little Boy gun-type bomb on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 1

    It's traditional.

  4. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    Greed! Greed is good!

  5. MOD PARENT UP on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /nt

  6. Re:not so easy for North Korea and Pakistan on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 0

    It's pretty hard to get an implosion-style bomb right.

  7. It's a Little Boy gun-type bomb on Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    which are a rather simple design; among other things, they don't have any safety features.

    Broadly, what you need is two correctly sized-and-shaped chunks of enriched uranium with enough U-235 to cause a chain reaction, a smoothbore gun barrel (IIRC Little Boy used one of 6" diameter), and some gunpowder in silk bags to drive one piece of uranium into the other. There are a few other parts to this, such as the tamper and the fuze, but the toughest part should be obtaining enough enriched uranium.

    Certainly the featured bomb is not a fully-working model. It'll be a reproduction with inert material standing in for the U-235, no gunpowder, and an inert fuze.

  8. Re:20 years seems excessive on Google Faces Privacy Audits For Next 20 Years · · Score: 0

    Well, that's precisely it: it's unfair to single out Google for such an unbelievably long time.

    Then, too, who watches the watchers?

  9. 20 years seems excessive on Google Faces Privacy Audits For Next 20 Years · · Score: 0

    Five years and then a checkup now and again, sure, but 20 years is /forever/, even in the non-technical space.

  10. Re:FCC is not giving them alway on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    TEABAGGER SPOTTED.

  11. Re:Firmware upgrade on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    RTFA. You can't alter the router or you'll have to give it back.

  12. Re:The old days of McAfee's "secure" FTP site on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 1

    What leads you to believe that?

  13. The old days of McAfee's "secure" FTP site on McAfee's Website Full of Security Holes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Back about ten years ago, you used to be able to log into McAfee's FTP server and download their latest for-pay products. IIRC the username was something like "mcafee" and the password was "321". My former boss was a warez puppy and I gather this was commonly known on the scene.

  14. Re:The cheapest way is Boot Camp on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    >Car analogy:

    Kill yourself.

  15. The cheapest way is Boot Camp on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    However, you'll be stuck with 32-bit Windows unless you remaster your Windows 7 disc to use the EFI boot files from a 32-bit version, and even if you do that it's a pain to install the drivers because you can't do it automatically.

    If you're not wanting to mess with it, I'd check the usual review sites. Avoid Sony like the plague, and remember that you get what you pay for.

  16. Re:Easy fix? on Google Delays General Release of Honeycomb Source · · Score: 1

    How you define a tablet versus a phone?

  17. Re:Firefox/IE patches released,Comodo incident rep on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 1

    They released 4.0 RC2 (which probably became 4.0) a few days ago, and its changelog said that it blacklisted certain SSL certs. Bet that was these.

  18. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    Well, no. Trannies have differences that are orthogonal from whom they love:

    One loves people with the same genital equipment.
    The other thinks of themself as having an identity at odds with said genital equipment. One could conceivably be biologically female, have a male identity, yet still love women (or men), and if your identity is different from your equipment, that's fixable by sex-change surgery.

  19. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    Think about that for just half a second. Do you honestly think that a person would choose to be gay when they're generally looked upon as second-class citizens, or in more benighted areas as people who could be killed just because? Really?

    And just because nobody's found teh g4yz0rs gene(s) yet doesn't mean they don't exist.

    I suggest you re-evaluate.

  20. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    Don't be retarded. Your habit of using Sparc has nothing to do with innate qualities of yourself, and saying they're somehow equivalent makes me think me you're one of those people who think being gay is a choice.

    Also, Gandhi.

  21. Re:"It's my religion" does not mean it's not bigot on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    This. Your right to disapprove of someone's choices that only affect that person ends at disapproval.

  22. Re:mixed feelings and abstract hate. on Apple Removes Gay Cure App From App Store · · Score: 1

    It /is/ hostile. It's based on the premise that being gay is somehow wrong, and that gays are implicitly wrong-by-being.

  23. Re:If true... on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    OMG THE UNIVERSE IS A BOTTLE!

  24. Re:No Repeats? on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 2

    In school we were taught that they weren't life, exactly, because they couldn't reproduce themselves, but IIRC there was a minority position that they were life nonetheless.

  25. Re:No Repeats? on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 0

    You miss Bush Jr. that much?