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  1. I thought it was dead on Secretive X-37B Military Space Plane Could Land On Tuesday · · Score: 2

    I thought it was dead, and the Air Force just didn't say anything to mess with people and make them think about what it was up to.

  2. Re:Porn needs Javascript on Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration · · Score: 1

    IIRC their argument was something along the lines of very few people were actually completely disabling JS, and a lot of them later complained that the internet wasn't working because they disabled JS. Also, NoScript is a very popular addon, which gives control over what scripts are actually allowed to run. So they switched JS back on for everyone without telling anyone and moved the option to about:config.
     
    Their argument made sense, people who want to control JS were already using NoScript, and the web is getting more and more unusable with no JS. The only problem I had was the re-enabled JS and didn't actually tell the end user they did it, although I think someone who intentionally disabled it would realize it very quickly.

  3. Re: That depends upon the writer. on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Bomb pumped lasers.

  4. Re:OpenID on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Students' Passwords Secure? · · Score: 1

    On the other hand they are kids so now would be a good time to teach them good habits such as password security.

  5. Re:Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous did fine on Kickstarter's Problem: You Have To Make the Game Before You Ask For Money · · Score: 1

    Star Citizen started elsewhere then did a Kickstarter, they had a nice very CGI trailer for the game.
     
    IIRC Elite basically had some concept art and not too much else

  6. Re:Easy solution on When Scientists Give Up · · Score: 1

    I've heard that Breast Cancer works well.

  7. Re:Well, we really should be at that stage by now. on To Really Cut Emissions, We Need Electric Buses, Not Just Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    The Savannah was a terrible example. It was basically half cruise ship half cargo ship.
     
    If you want a cargo ship build a cargo ship.

  8. Re:Anecdotal verification on Coffee Naps Better For Alertness Than Coffee Or Naps Alone · · Score: 1

    I was able to do this for a while and it was amazing. I would drink coffee and then sleep in a carpool for 20ish minutes, and was ready to go all day.

  9. Re:mdsolar again on Princeton Nuclear Fusion Reactor Will Run Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think you forgot to change accounts before posting.

  10. Re:How do you say... on Robotic Suit Gives Shipyard Workers Super Strength · · Score: 2

    Does that literal translation to actually carry the same weight as the as the English word?

  11. Re:Angry Proliferation Game on China Confirms New Generation of ICBM · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Little to early to say but so far it looks like removing nuclear capability isn't really working out too well for Ukraine.

  12. Re:Here's an idea! on Nintendo Posts Yet Another Loss, Despite Mario Kart 8 · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember shovel ware being a huge problem for the Wii.

  13. Re:Seems strange. on Neanderthals Ate Their Veggies · · Score: 1

    Should be simple if someone brings up old shit just call it coproliths

  14. Re:I don't understand how this is a "record" on Fabien Cousteau Takes Plunge To Beat Grandfather's Underwater Record · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that a crew headed to mars will have much more communication with the outside world than the crew of a boomer does.

  15. Re:Nintendo should on Nintendo Could Base Comeback On Improving Peoples' Health · · Score: 1

    Nah, they can and should keep their consoles but what they should do is have an emulator for their handhelds on the console and make the entire handheld library available.

  16. Re:Embryonic ability on Acid Bath Offers Easy Path To Stem Cells · · Score: 2

    One thing that I've noticed is that people who are against embryonic stem cell research are aware that there are "adult" stem cells, and people who are for embryonic stem cell research don't seem to be aware of the existence of "adult" stem cells. I know it is selection bias, but it is amusing and sad that people I wouldn't expect to have that knowledge do and the people I would expect to have it don't.

  17. Re:They should upgrade the warning ... on Man In Tesla Model S Fire Explains What Happened · · Score: 1

    Actually there are 3/19000

  18. Jurassic Park on Elon Musk's New Hologram Project Invites 'Iron Man' Comparisons · · Score: 2

    Just get an Oculus Rift and you've got the VR setup they used in Jurassic Park. Almost as good but a whole lot cheaper.

  19. Re:Just like the PS3 on Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter · · Score: 1

    MS got around all this by releasing the 360 and then publicly executing the original Xbox in front of us as a warning.

  20. What are you talking about on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    That movie was a Saturday morning cartoon and was all about beating the shit out of monsters and it delivered

  21. Re:The time has come to move forward on The Air Force's Love For Fighter Pilots Is Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    F18 costs $29-$57M depending on options while the Predator B is $16.9M, from wiki

  22. Re:Pluto is Latin on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    Sol is Roman as well

  23. Re:Characters are created to suffer on The Plight of Star Wars Droids · · Score: 1

    R2 and 3P0 weren't sentient but some droids were most notably the IG88 series.

  24. Not actually a car on New Company Set To Resurrect the Aptera · · Score: 1

    In the US three wheeled vehicles are legally classified as motorcycles. Helmet laws by state. There is another company that makes a motorized tricycle that is working on getting the helmet laws changed.

  25. Re:I brewed beer for a couple of years on Linux is an Obvious Choice for Automating the Beer-Brewing Process (Video) · · Score: 1

    Fermentation temperature control, get an old fridge put a thermometer probe inside your bucket so you know the internal temp of your wort and have the computer adjust the fridge temp to keep your wort at the proper temp.