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  1. Dear Congress.... on NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis · · Score: 1

    Stop being assholes and spending all our money on a useless war. give 5% of the military budget to NASA and they will have more than enough to get us a new launch system and have money to spare.

    I am sick of spending every dollar to put our soldiers in harms way for other countries political agendas. Screw them, Screw them all. Let's spend it on science and the American people. OR, require the senators to have their children and grand children on the front line in full danger. You vote for war, then your legacy is the first to die.

  2. Re:Does everything need to be smart? on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    " It is the ONLY reason there is a land line at my house these days."
    no, just order and have installed the GSM radio module and get rid of the home phone line. the $250 for the module and additional $3.99 a month pays for it's self in 5 months of paying for a land line.

  3. Re:Flaw? on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    You mean like a gas fire? because a fire that is burning your home or it's contents will produce smoke.

  4. Re:Super bad idea to disable wave feature arbitrar on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    Or don't put it in your kitchen. 99% of the homes do not have a fire alarm in the kitchen. the proper place it to put them on the ceiling in the bedroom above the door if you have bedroom doors closed at night, otherwise they belong outside the sleeping area near the bedroom doors.

    http://www.nfpa.org/safety-inf...

  5. Suprise! on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 2

    horribly overpriced toy is not a good fire alarm. A standard fire alarm is very very simple FOR A REASON, it has an incredibly high reliability.

  6. Re:Local content? on The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind of a Mess · · Score: 2

    Get 2 boxes. 1 for netflix and Hulu plus, and an XBMC for local content. all existing players are utter crap compared to an XBMC box. Or better yet, upgrade that bluray player with something that has the NEtflix and Hulu apps on it if you have tech ADHD and cant stand having more than one device.

  7. Re:So... on The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind of a Mess · · Score: 2

    Nope. unless they are AppleTV2's. then sell them for a profit and buy 2 apple TV3's and still have $90 left over.

  8. Re:Gee, so only a year of screaming on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 1

    Because they are morons and charging for it.

    Make Windows 8.1 100% free and adoption will skyrocket, they would have had a larger user base and had a lot easier time forcing the tiles crap down everyone's throat as the tolerance to it would have been a lot better. If it's Free, people bitch less and tolerate more, Look at Ubuntu... Still using the stupid Unity.

  9. Re:As they should... on China Cracks Down On Bitcoin, Cuts Off Exchanges' Bank Access · · Score: 2

    Dont have to, because the miner will die of old age before they get any significant bitcoin amounts now.

    Maybe 3 years ago you could mine and make money, not anymore.

  10. Re:WTF? on NYU Group Says Its Scheme Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible · · Score: 3, Funny

    Plus the monkeys smell better.

  11. Re:Universities should have no patents on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    The rich dead guy's estate who's name is on the building the equipment resides in.

  12. Answer... on Amazon's Fire TV: Is It Worth Game Developers' Time? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Short answer: no.

    Long answer: Nooooooooooooooooooooo.

    Honestly, if they are not writing for Ouya, they will not write for this.

  13. Re:Kind of states the problem with electric. No no on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Which is more than what you hear of a modern civic. as those dont emit a "tone" but that is not a quiet car, my father in laws caddilac CTS is so silent you have to look at the gauges to see if it is running.

  14. Re:Kind of states the problem with electric. No no on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    So the blind are also deaf? electric cars make a LOT of noise on their own. The tires alone are 50% of all car's noise. It is wierd that my 2007 civic is quieter than the neighbors Leaf.

  15. The editor being dumb. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I would have dubbed a harley without a muffler over it.

  16. Yup, Damn CTO is too cheap to get us a pair of bonded OC48's

  17. Re:Warning Shot on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    And the world right now is all peace and love?

  18. Re:Warning Shot on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Seriously? The US does not even control its inner cities. Have you been in Detroit, in Trenton, etc. lately? "

    If you dont think this is intentional then you are nuts. they know that these cities are out of control cesspools, and it is intentional they are still that way. We have the resources to clean them up and restore order easily, but you don't have a easily controlled scared populace when you do that. DC is a cesspool because it is more effective to have an element of fear to point at to help shove things down the public's throats. Like the PATRIOT act for example.

  19. Re:Warning Shot on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 2

    I suggest you read up how WW-I was started over nothing.

  20. Re:JUNK. on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 1

    I love how people like you dont ever follow the links you suggest.

    All of the lightning connector failures were early models that had a SOLDER ISSUE on the board. I have had USB connectors have the same fail.

    Come on back when you have a REAL link showing an engineering failure of Lightining.

    MicroUSB is KNOWN to be a very weak connector. anyone that has a clue in the industry admits this. to the point that industry leaders are releasing modified versions that are high durability http://www.smk.co.jp/news/pres... by redesigning them.

    But that is NOT the standard, the standard for micro USB is very delicate, anyone that has ANY experience in electronics knows this and freely admits this.

  21. Re:I thought it was for predators... on Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Zebras Have Stripes · · Score: -1

    Nope, it seems that predators are not a threat to zebras, and it's all about flies.

    I cant wait for the next "science" article here on slashdot.

  22. Re:Wear the tin foil hat on Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done? · · Score: 1

    Then do not go to those websites, no reason to use a website that was built by some kid that does not understand basics of webdesign. It's like the 00's and the stupid 100% flash sites that were a bane of the internet. Built by noobs that had no training at all in webdesign.

  23. Re:Oh, it's on SyFy? on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 2

    Do you know anything at all beyond his name?
    I suggest you look up his blog and read because you seem to not know anything at all about what you are talking about.

  24. Re:Oh, it's on SyFy? on Wil Wheaton Announces New TV Show · · Score: 2

    Yes he is not even that. Wil does more "nerdy" in the last month than this idiot has ever done in his life. 3d Printing, tech, etc... There is a reason why Wil stopped posting here and left, the Clueless Asshole to real nerd voice ratio topped hard to the asshole side. Our "Ambassador Nerd" here is a fake nerd that has never actually done anything at all, has no skills, has no talents, and is just a loudmouth that actually knows nothing at all about Wil or even what people think of him let alone what NERDS think of him.

    I have ran into Wil on Arduino forums, and most of the 3d printing forums, I also used to see him on the prop-making forums.

  25. Re:Duh on Interviews: J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    That is funny, there is less than 4000 user accounts on soylent. The CmdrTaco fan club has more members.