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  1. Can't believe nobody's posted this yet on The Man Who Created the Pencil Eraser and How Patents Have Changed · · Score: 1

    How appropriate is it that a guy named Hymen invented something with a phallic shape?

  2. Re:Jupiter Juno Probe is solar on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    I know you're joking, but they've probably got the wrong isotope of Pu. Pu-238 is used for RTGs and Pu-239 for reactors and bombs.

  3. Re:Jupiter Juno Probe is solar on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    In a rare case of something getting done, Congress voted to let NASA make some more RTG-grade plutonium earlier this year.

  4. Re:What's powering Voyager? on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 2

    You'd be wrong. Voyager's power source is radiothermal. Past... not sure, Jupiter's orbit? there's not enough sunlight for photovoltaics to work effectively.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

  5. Re:Thanks Obama! on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    You got Poe'd.

  6. Re:Lets give him Obama's Nobel Prize on Snowden Nominated For Freedom of Thought Prize · · Score: 1

    More precisely, I think that peace prize was given to American for kicking out the Republicans.

  7. Re:way overblown on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 1

    In fact, I don't. I had three computers out of a couple hundred that barfed on SP2 when we finally rolled it out (over a year later, fwiw), and those were fixed with a repair install.

  8. Re:way overblown on Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because there's a vocal bunch on Slashdot who get excited by a chance to hate on things, especially [Microsoft|Google|Sony|the government].

  9. If I were 20 I would have signed up on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 1

    If I was 20 and single again, I'd do it. But I'm 34 and have family responsibilities, so that's impossible.

  10. Re:Every piece ever? on New Musopen Campaign Wants To "Set Chopin Free" · · Score: 1

    That was a, AH SAY, that was a /joke/, son. Chopin list, shopping list... well, ok, more of a weak pun.

  11. Suborbital just isn't that hard on Suborbital Spaceflight Picks Up Speed · · Score: 1

    KSP tells us that all you need for a suborbital flight is a fuel tank, a medium-sized liquid-fuel engine, and a fear-crazed Kerbal. What's the hold-up?

  12. Re:So it has come to this on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ACLU doesn't defend 2nd Amendment cases because their resources are limited and the NRA is there & well-funded for just that purpose. IMO that's eminently sensible.

  13. Re:Diminishing returns on Schneier: We Need To Relearn How To Accept Risk · · Score: 1

    It's my understanding that for Jews, the 10 Commandments are ten among 613.

    http://www.jewfaq.org/10.htm

  14. Re:TPB has been delivering this for years. on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    Your reply is content-free ignorant chest thumping, and deeply stupid besides.

  15. Re:TPB has been delivering this for years. on Amazon Finally Bundles Ebooks With Printed Books · · Score: 1

    Watch out, people, we've got a badass here. I'm sure you'd find some other excuse for pirating books even if they were DRM-free.

    Nice attempt to claim the moral high ground when it's clear you don't have any morals.

  16. Re:Sound fixes are more extensive FANTASTIC on Linux 3.11 Released · · Score: 1

    And then swear next month when the Arch devs make another major change that breaks your system if you forget to read the front page first for things that must be changed manually before running pacman.

    No thanks, it's much easier to compile my own kernel on a Debian-descended distro.

  17. Re:and the all time hoax continues... on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 1

    Wake up sheeple!

  18. Re:Still want it? on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why, if you're investigating a scientific theory, would you both considering what Al Gore or the Koch Brothers had to say?

    Because it's not about science for the denialists, it's about tribalism and primate dominance.

  19. Re:Pythonista on For Education, Why TI-83 > iPad · · Score: 1

    They did the IDE themselves. That's worth something.

  20. Re:counterargument: on Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Private Business Will Not Open the Space Frontier · · Score: 1

    It's a lot more fun/far easier for too many people to work themselves up into a frothy outrage than it is to read/listen and understand what the other guy's really trying to say.

    This is a common failure mode of the lazy, stupid, and self-absorbed.

  21. Re:Let's Not Forget ... on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Because Al Gore.

    It's the same fuckwits who screamed hysterically about Nancy Pelosi when she was Speaker. Same technique as Orwell's 2-minute Hate.

  22. Re:The rest of the criticism remains valid on Gore's Staff Says He Was Misquoted On Hexametric Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    Sigh, another denier (not a skeptic, mind) to killfile.

  23. Re:Wonder why the dislike of sunlight on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 2

    That's probably Texas's reflexive dislike of government regulations.

  24. Re:You should fire manamgment on Goldman Suspends 4 Senior Tech Specialists After Trading Glitch · · Score: 1

    Always mount a scratch monkey.

  25. Re:ctrl+o on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean he worked around the official unstable API and was surprised when it broke?

    Unpossible!