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  1. Re:Why the hype? on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 2

    WE cant buy bullets right now, so most people are hanging around in trees with machetes waiting for trespassers.

  2. Re:Why the hype? on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1

    They are, they developed a mechanizim to fling themselves at over 400 miles per hour when the fungus mat detects someone with their mouth open. They also will aim for large nostrils and eye sockets.

  3. Re:News for the USA. on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 1

    If you want all us "furriners" to leave...

    he said FURRIES not furriners....

  4. Re:so dont eat them on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's called Darwinism and it is a good thing.

  5. so dont eat them on The Death Cap Mushroom Is Spreading Across the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Honestly, who is picking up random shrooms and eating them?

  6. Re:Yet they've had airline phones for years on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    you can make all the cellphone calls you want while over the middle of the atlantic.

  7. Re:I'm confused on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    "It's right there, in that article that governs federal power to regulate nuisances. "

    so when is congress going to ban congress?

  8. Re:Whose phone is banned? on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    Yes! some whiskey in their apple juice 30 minutes before boarding presses the mute button for about 2 hours.

  9. Re:nobodies phone is banned on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 1

    I do it on jets twice a year me and the other 20 people all showed up at the hangar, we drank beer while waiting for the pilot, boarded, and took off
    Embraer E170 or a E175 with nice couches and awesome huge leather seats. Cockpit door was open the entire time as well. You can easily fly without dealing with the silly commercial airline rules or being violated by the TSA.

  10. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I dont think so because people that point lasers at aircraft have an IQ that is below 90 and pretty much incapable of coming up with a remote control let alone understand how a mirror works.

  11. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Use smaller shaped explosives, I'm not recommending 1000 pound bunker busters. Jeesh, what kind of madman are you?

  12. Re:In the military... on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 1

    Yes it would, they were attempting to use skype.

  13. As long as that "my own time" is during work hours and I am being paid for it.

    If employers want to start being assholes, employees need to start being bigger assholes back.

  14. Re:So..... on FBI: $10,000 Reward For Info On Anyone Who Points a Laser At an Aircraft · · Score: 2

    Laser seeking high explosive missiles that are auto launched from the aircraft. Kills some of these idiots and word will get out.

  15. In the military... on What Are the Weirdest Places You've Spotted Linux? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was stationed at a small base just outside roswell and we were dispatched to investigate an aircraft crash site. when we arrived these little grey guys were running all over the place waiving their arms about, when I looked inside the strange sausage shaped craft there was a computer teriminal running that I had no idea what it was until 1992 when I first saw linux.

    Those little guys were running linux. I think they were put in a government protection program and one of them was shipped off to Finland.

  16. Re:This is what you get.... on Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers · · Score: 1

    This is a fault of management.

  17. Re:This is what you get.... on Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers · · Score: 1

    only if your IT is staffed with "geek squad" level of MCSE bottom barrel people.

    Most competent IT departments hate that Sharepoint crap with a passion, it goes hand in hand with how worthless Exchange is.

  18. Re:False parallel on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I pulled over and stop a LOT on a boat. What do you think fishermen do? they pull over and stop almost constantly.

    And if you are in a boat on a large lake and your engine quits? you grab the radio and call the coast guard for a tow. Last I checked your only option for an aircraft is crashing. Granted I only boat on tiny lakes like Lake michigan and Lake superior. Two lakes that in November make ocean captains cry on the floor like babies.

    Even the north sea is a pussy compared to superior in november.

  19. Re:It's a simple case of cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately I am married and I need something that is a bit more refined than that. which drops me in the $68,000 or more category for a 60+ year old aircraft that will need the wings replaced or a major engine service in the next 300-400 hours. Sadly the FAA here doesnt allow cool little cheap planes like you fly. the only aircraft you can buy now that is even remotely like that is either experimental and severely limit you, or 60 to 100 years old and is expensive to keep flying.

  20. There are good reasons.... on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    I have a recreational pilots license, it's expired as I need to get a medical re cert and I haven't been in the left seat for years. But even a used to hell and back 1960's Cessna costs as much as a frigging house. Then you have airports charging ungodly expensive parking fees just to leave your plane sitting in some grass.

    I cant even hope to ever afford even a tiny trainer that is less than 60 years old. THIS is what is wrong with aviation. only the ultra rich or the old retired fart can afford an aircraft.

  21. This is what you get.... on Hackers Penetrate Top Medical Device Makers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you think of IT as that annoying office of geeks you have to tolerate in the company.

    They are your first line of defense, when they ask for something you GIVE IT TO THEM.

  22. Re:As Simple As Possible, No Simpler on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    "for $i in ( 1..100 )"
    not enough information in that to be useable.

    for $i in ( 1..100+ ) is more accurate, that way you can specify increment or decrement.

  23. Noobs bitching..... on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 2

    If you really dont like how many things you have to use for programming then switch to a simpler language.

    Assembly has the smallest command set there is. Start there.

  24. Re:Will Never Work on California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    the second it connects to itunes to get activated, brick it. so unless they reverse engineer iOS they cant do crap. and that is less than 0.0015% of all thefts, 99.9% of the thefts are druggies stealing phones to get cash for their next fix. and even a simple system that bricks the phone or blacklists it's ESN will foil the large majority of thefts.

    I used to be heavy in the cellphone hacking scene and while you hear boasting of it, you never see a "unblacklist" a phone trick working.

  25. Already exists, tell apple to stop being dicks. on California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Apple has ALWAYS had the ability to make a stolen phone useless, they choose not to. Cellphone carriers have ALWAYS had the ability to blacklist a phone's ESN, but they shine hard when you ask them to do it.

    It's because a stolen phone = more revenue for them.