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  1. Coming Chinese real estate crash? on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Japan had plans to build crazy "arcologies" like this in the late '80s-early '90s, just before their real estate market cratered hard.

  2. Re:And it takes 100 days to fix a clock? on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 1

    Much like the exhaust headers on an engine! Get a 4-2-1 equal length time manifold and you'll really be clockin'!

  3. Re:it's going to fail on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes if they'd only split their Communist Party into red and blue teams with minor ideological differences, and give lip service to the people's needs while clearly indicating that they give no fucks through their actions, they could be brought up to US standards of freedom and democracy.

  4. Re:...and device runtime with stay the same on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It may finally be enough to overpower "range anxiety."

    Or on the other hand, to make cars lighter and/or cheaper. I considered EV-swapping my sports car late last year but went with another ICE because of the expense and weight. I figured I only needed 30 miles range, but it still would have added about 500lbs to the car and the battery alone would have been over $10k.

  5. Re:...and device runtime with stay the same on New All-Solid Sulfur Based Battery Outperforms Lithium Ion · · Score: 1

    That won't be a bad thing for smartphones (I say that once you can go maybe 18 hours of average use between charges, that's enough), laptops could use more power though and electric cars sure as shit won't be wasting any of it.

  6. Re:Manager biodiesel on Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives? · · Score: 1

    And it's worth about a bajillion carbon credits!

  7. Re:SO COOL on Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately · · Score: 1

    Aw man I was really hoping the paste problem had been overcome :-(

    Still I'd consider something more invasive if it were useful and futureproof enough.

  8. SO COOL on Quadcopter Guided By Thought — Accurately · · Score: 1

    Really gotta get myself an EEG headset sometime...I wonder what other signals it could be tuned to pick up? What happens if you think about moving a nonexistant limb, would anything happen? That could free up your hands and feet and let you control other things with your mind.

  9. Re:Before blaming the evil right for this ruling.. on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    To most people on both sides, "civil rights" is nothing more than a cudgel usable by the losers in an election with which to bash the other side.

  10. Re:Before blaming the evil right for this ruling.. on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    Wow, is that what they teach you about liberals on Fox News?

  11. Re:Tell me it's a source of strength for my... on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 1

    Damn you...I don't think this will work on the Japanese but it would sure as hell work on the Chinese, opening up a huge new market for whale meat.

    From what I've heard whale meat doesn't taste that good. It has the texture of beef and a muted liver taste.

  12. FUMES on NASA Wants To Test 3-D Printing Aboard ISS · · Score: 1

    Mind the toxic fumes.

  13. Re:How? on WY Teen Cut From Science Fair For Entering Too Many · · Score: 2

    Some lighthouses in Russia are powered by RITEGs about the size of a large fridge...good luck collecting enough nuclear material to build such a thing though.

  14. Re:Here's one person who doesn't support them on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 3, Informative

    You may be unaware of this but libertarians have solutions for all of this - 4x4s and mud trails instead of roads, dudes with guns instead of defense, open pits of burning garbage, DIY sewage systems and surgical masks instead of sanitation.

  15. Re:Why wouldn't the people support them? on Google Maps Used To Find Tax Cheats · · Score: 2

    I don't know how a person could come to believe this without becoming a violent revolutionary soon afterwards. If you honestly want to starve your government to death and go through the bloody transition to a new one, why not take a shot at seeing it happen within your lifetime rather than "suffering" your whole life for the supposed good of future generations?

  16. This one uses grandpa's guitars. It's for pussies...and grandpas.

  17. Yo dawg I heard you like asteroids on Big Asteroid (With Its Own Moon) To Have Closest Approach With Earth Today · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I put an asteroid on your asteroid, so you can watch a flyby while you're watchin' a flyby!

  18. Re:someone's spying on you on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    Skype and many apps that poll for USB devices (like the app that reflashes my N900, and the one that reflashes my Race Capture Pro) will cause the USB camera to turn on. Also coming out of suspend mode will do it on some laptops running Linux.

    But if it's not usual or repeatable it's probably malware.

  19. Re:Ah, the wikihouse - interesting but *so* expens on British Architects Develop Open-Source Home Building · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I might try building one as a shed, wish I saw that before I bought a second cheapo hardware store shed a while ago. Has the 12x8 stretch gone beyond the concept stage?

  20. Re:Hunting for science! on Scientists Recover Wooly Mammoth Blood · · Score: 3, Informative

    Addendum: Whoops, it's GoDaddy founder and former CEO Bob Parsons who hunts elephants for fun.

  21. Re:Hunting for science! on Scientists Recover Wooly Mammoth Blood · · Score: 2

    but how much do you think someone might bid to be the first person in 10,000 years to hunt and kill a woolly mammoth? $20M? $50M?

    I don't know, let's ask GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner what number he's writing on that cheque right now.

  22. Re:Backpedaling doesn't make you look better.... on PayPal Reviewing Qualifying Age For Vulnerability Rewards · · Score: 1

    Came here to say this. "Reported by another researcher" could be a very handy boilerplate response if there's no list of found vulnerabilities. They could even post a hash of a vulnerability's description until they fix it.

  23. Dad's old Atari on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    When the disk drive broke I started messing around with BASIC.

  24. Not quite Jurassic Park... on Researchers Regenerate 400-Year-Old Frozen Plants · · Score: 1

    ...but Little Ice Age Garden is a decent consolation prize.

  25. Re:Great bonus... have fun collecting on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 1

    Their missiles and drones do get used...but yeah those fighters and ships are all for the theoretical WW2-style WW3. A Eurofighter was used to escort down a plane recently.