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  1. Re:Republicans know there constituency... on GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Dem Student Loan Bill · · Score: 2

    Ive been hearing republicans spouting that tired line since I was a child. The reality is that i havent been paying any higher taxes with Obama in office than I did with Bush.

    And since the housing bubble/CDO explosion took place under the last Republican's watch, and he only had the decency to warn the American public shortly before he was out of office, it is going to be a long time before I want another Republican in charge.

  2. Re:near unlimited range thanks to in-air refueling on America's Next Bomber: Unmanned, Unlimited Range, Aimed At China · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension is a bit lacking. He said a sub can reach 600 miles from the coast. That implies one of two things, 1. That subs can only get 600 miles from the coast, which is nonsensical given the range of cruise missiles, or 2. That subs can get to coast and from there reach 600miles inland with their cruise missiles.

    I'll give you a hint, it is the second one.

  3. Re:I've always wondered why we're so "smart" on Did a Genome Copying Mistake Lead To Human Intelligence? · · Score: 2

    What is so curious to me is that terrestrial life basically had a reset 65 million years ago to a state hundreds of millions of years ago, just with substitution of small, rodentlike mammals instead of small mammal-like reptiles or small dinosaurs.

    I would have expected the intelligence specialty to have appeared before now, possible to greater extent, barring some biological reason preventing reptiles or dinosaurs from having complex abstract thinking.

  4. Re:No. on Some USAF Pilots Refuse To Fly F-22 Raptor · · Score: 1

    Right now? Not much of anybody. LMC developed the plane as cost-plus, but its biggest failure has been the cut in numbers, running up costs and diverting attention away to the F35(also having its numbers cut).

  5. Re:Right... on Nokia Faces Class-Action Suit Over Windows Phone Deal · · Score: 1

    Since when do shareholders care about the company? Tunnel vision for short term share price gains are all they care about, at best. At worst, they are shorting.

  6. l2history on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    This is a repost of the beginnings of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Just with Poland and the Czech Republic instead of Turkey.

  7. Re:Google has lowered itself to patent proxy wars on German Court Grants Motorola Xbox and Windows 7 Sales Ban · · Score: 2

    In what world do you live in that publishing proprietary information on the internet doesn't get you fired? Google isn't in the habit of firing employees on a whim, so while might have thought he had approval, he clearly didn't from the people that mattered.

    As for M$'s "research", most of it involes solving problems they created, or trying to clone Google's technologies. This is largely why you don't see any innovation coming out of their R&D, just Microsoft branded rehashes of existing and better things.

  8. Re:Homerolled crypto on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    11 years later, some are calling them stupid, but given the state of the United States, their plans seemes to have worked perfectly. Homogenizing religious people as stupid or ignorant seems like a pretty dangerous thing to do.

  9. Re:The real question: on German Authorities Find Al Qaeda Plans Disguised In Porn · · Score: 2

    When terrorists that follow sharia law are trading and carrying sharia contraband and an obvious vector for stego, it isn't difficult to make the next mental step.

  10. Re:Do it right on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Many places in the U.S. can't have basements due to high water tables (most of Florida, along the Mississippi). Your solution is geographically limited at best.

  11. Re:Patent office is the problem here on Congress Asks Patent Office To Consider Secret Patents · · Score: 1

    As to fix 1, clearly you've never read or seen a patent before. There is nothing obvious in the legalese and obscure terminology used to describe potential inventions. It isnt as easy as waving your hands at a document to determine originality. Besides that, there is the Columbus egg problem.

    A typical patent, where i work costs somewhere around twenty thousand dollars to file when legal fees are taken into account. Pennies for ACME Corp, but a lot for average Joe patent troll.

  12. Re:I remember how this ends... on NVIDIA Unveils Dual-GPU Powered GeForce GTX 690 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a slashvertisement, nothing revolutionary is being reported here. Theyve been making double cards like this since at least the GX2 steps in the line, and maybe before.

  13. Re:Guns are don't kill people on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 2

    Well who really is to blame? The banks for taking advantage of vehicles that were seen as revolutionary and safe, hedge funds for generating extreme demand for said vehicles despite their safety going beyond common sense once the market grew, the credit reporting companies that kept the insurers credit ratings despite being undercapitalized to fulfill the insured debt obligations, or the government administration that saw the rise of the derivatives market amd subsequent housing bubble but chose to not interfere with something so obviously and radically different until they were almost out of office and simply announced impending doom of the collapse?

    The real tradgedy is that the banks were bailed out at all, and instead of propping them up to save the economy, they were given loans at rates so low they could screw the economy over even more by killing credit and investing in treasury bonds.

  14. Re:Damage is already done on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 2

    You do realize that UF isn't a local college or a highschool? When I was applying for schools, it was in competition for being in the ranks of the "public Ivy Leagues" with UVA. Your anecdotes aren't relevant.

    The CS program isn't going away (the program is accredited, not the department), it was just going under different management to reduce overhead costs.

  15. Re:Damage is already done on Univ. of Florida Announces Plan To Save CS Department · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not? A CS degree is almost the same as a math degree, and most good schools group it either with the math department or the engineering department (though, typically this is not a good idea, since CPEs/EEs look down on CS).

    They are simply doing what everyone else does already. UF is a good school in general, not one to simply wave away because of department restructuring.

    I'm a VT grad, btw. No bias for or against UF.

  16. Re:Gaia theory is bullshit, pure quackery on 'Gaia' Scientist Admits Mispredicting Rate of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.

    Grasslands/forests, oxygen-rich atmosphere, most Carribean/Indonesian Islands are all examples, off the top of my head, of results of how evolution favors organisms that destabilise, then manipulate their environment to suit themselves or their own kind.

  17. Re:I hope not, but my money is on overhyped. on Startup Claims C-code To SoC In 8-16 Weeks · · Score: 1

    Looks like it lacks the byte->char conversion (he did say ascii, and what's the point if the result is garbage ops?).

  18. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    In our information age, who cares how many there are? As long as there are GPS's with listings of reasonably close-by stations(idk, every tens of miles on the highway?), which there already are, the gas/electric station on every block becomes obsolete.

  19. Crap Video on Electronic Glitch Artwork Made by 'Weirdos Within the Weirdos' (Video) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd much rather see their "art" than listen to them blabber on for 7 minutes.

  20. Re:We've probably gone farther on Voyager and the Coming Great Hiatus In Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Evolution? In any case, nothing about the Nazi persecution of the Jews involved religion. There might have been religious people in the ranks, but religion was not a part of fascism.

  21. Re:Video Streaming on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 1

    I recall Europe having worse caps than the US, and in Asia (really, only Japan and I've heard SK), high bandwidth internet is only available in a handful of major cities and in no way represents the norm.

    The rest are just gilded road rumors.

  22. Re:collusion? on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 1

    Except they obviously can't offer unlimited data to only people not using their landline internet, and capping those that use both. Neither is there a financial reason when they can simply charge overage fees/higher prices for high usage plans.

    That explains the current model and doesn't include any sort of collusion.

  23. Re:Eat More Cow! Spreading of Fear ? on Scientists Say Spread of Schmallenberg Virus Is 'Warning To Europe' · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is, you want us to be vegetables instead?

    Or fruits?

    Fruity vegetables?

    You are what you eat, stop living off nuts.

  24. Re:Common knowledge? on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Article summarised: "Thinking about what you write produces better results than not."

  25. Common knowledge? on Documentation As a Bug-Finding Tool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought everyone knew that documentation describes what you intended code to do, rather than what it actually does.