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  1. Re:Holy shield room, Batman! on In Room With No Cell Service, Verizon Works On Future of Mobile · · Score: 1

    No heat? What are you talking about, it must be 250 kelvins in there.

  2. Re:The solution is simple. on Google Cracks Down On Mugshot Blackmail Sites · · Score: 1

    Because everyone's rich enough to afford legal representation after paying for rent, food, clothing, and medicine?

  3. Re:Tornado Resistant on Engineers Design Tornado Proof Home · · Score: 1

    Sure you can make your house tornado-proof, but you have to live in an underground bunker somewhere that's not flood-prone.

  4. Re:Fox removed all their comments on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 2

    Yahoo News's comments are/were the same way.

  5. Re:It was firecrackers on Shots Fired At US Capitol · · Score: 1

    Hirez or STFU. Where's the link?

  6. Re:DO NOT WANT! on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Point of order: Slashdot /is/ a shitty blog. It's just that it has some interesting discussions to keep it alive.

  7. Re:OMG! Ponies! on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Most slashdotters would be able to see unicorns, so it might even be worthwhile.

  8. Re:renewable resource on Congress Reaches Agreement ... On Helium · · Score: 1

    Fuckwit. And then in 100 years (or 500 years, or whatever) after we've used it up, are we going to mine the Sun to get more helium?

    Thanks for illustrating the short-term thinking of your kind.

  9. Re:renewable resource on Congress Reaches Agreement ... On Helium · · Score: 2

    Natural decay only produces so much helium so fast, much like petroleum and coal. It's definitely possible to use up what we've got and then not have enough for what's important.

  10. Re:magnitude of the problem on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    BINGO! ...or is this a drinking game now?

  11. Re:I like an illustration of how bad this is on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Imagine if people stopped the "both parties are just as bad" false equivalence bullshit.

  12. Re:You know this makes America ... on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    ...which tends to collapse regularly.

  13. Re:The Blame Game on U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed · · Score: 1

    Isn't that ironic? The Senate was originally designed to reflect the will of the state legislatures, and now it's the House because of gerrymandering that's controlled by the state legislatures. The common people don't get representatives anymore.

  14. Re:Why Switzerland ? on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    Look, Switzerland has three neighbors with a military worth a damn (if you count Italy) so they don't have a lot of options for realistic wargames.

  15. Re:Countries do this all the time on Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French · · Score: 1

    IIRC it was closer to there being twice as many German as Swiss soldiers, and the Swiss response was "I would tell my men to fire twice!".

    The joke works because the Swiss soldiers (and rifles) were well-known for being accurate.

  16. Re:30 years on on New Unix Implementation Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    There's probably two people who still care about developing Hurd and they must have other projects.

  17. Re:M.E.H. on GNOME 3.10 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, no one is going to take you seriously if you can't even get the basics straight.

    You must be new here.

  18. Re:A good fit on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    That was a deliberate design choice. The '16 is fly-by-wire, which needs computer control /anyway/, so they opted for the increased maneuverability that dynamic instability can give.

  19. Re:Efficient for Risky Missions on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    I don't think TFA said what version of F-16 this was. Might have been an A model, which for all practical purposes is obsolescent.

    The pictured F-16 looks to have the old-style air intake for the F100 engine, fwiw.

  20. Re:AIM-9 is no Air-to-Ground missile on Boeing Turning Old F-16s Into Unmanned Drones · · Score: 1

    AIM-9X has a limited air-ground capability. OP was probably thinking of the AGM-65 Maverick, though.

  21. Re:You're welcome... on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 2

    Air pollution and the relative lack thereof, duh.

  22. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    I would be frankly terrified of what would come from a constitutional convention today.

    Besides, your requirement of using a dead language that a vanishingly small portion of the population can understand is colossally stupid.

  23. Re:Load of crock on Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7 · · Score: 1

    Right, which is why libertarian ideology boils down to social Darwinism.

  24. How about GTK+3 for Win32? on GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland · · Score: 1

    Still no stable binary release of GTK+3 for Win32. Any word on when that's happening?

  25. Re:12.04 is almost obsolete, even for a LTS versio on With XP's End of Life, Munich Will Distribute Ubuntu CDs · · Score: 2

    On the server side. The desktop stuff is supported until April 2015. I've got a 10.04 VM that I keep for old time's sake and the desktop stuff no longer gets updated, but backend stuff does.