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  1. Re:Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    Swatch Ticks!

  2. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    On random channels? or did you miss the part where he does not watch the BBC/ITV/Ch4

    Oh look discovery channel has shark week.... ZOMG! the BBC took it over and is forcing me to watch..... AAAAAAAGH!

  3. Re:OK, TSA, please tell me why... on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I was at DFW recently and ate a steak with a nice sharp Steak knife inside of the security zone.

    TSA security is theater only to keep the panicky low IQ crowd happy.

  4. Re:X-actly on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    "How many such casualties are you prepared to accept? "

    all of them, because if you open the door then all of them plus others on the ground will die. The pilots have far more control than the terrorist with a knife could ever hope for. Inverted flight will spoil his plans quickly. Hell even a rapid decent or simply hitting the airbrakes and decelerating rapidly will make everyone not in their seat fly foreward rapidly and bash their head in.

    As a pilot the first thing I would do is put the plane into an extremely steep dive and hit the air brakes to decelerate rapidly while the co pilot declares an emergency to ATC and we land at the nearest airport.

  5. Re:Obama on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 2

    The war on the american people started on 9/12 IT was started by the Bush administration and the Obama Administration is working hard to continue the war.
    9/11 was used as an excuse to trample on those pesky rights, and the people were stupid and soaked it up. Sadly, most americans are still ragingly stupid and are happy about all the rights that were lost.

  6. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    No they dont. the LARGEST hubs, Dallas/Ft Worth, Minnesota, Ohare, LAX, and JFK do not have this or anything at all like this.

  7. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The TSA only exists because of Low IQ citizens and Politicians. the TSA is not needed at all and is a huge waste of money.

  8. WE have a printer like this.... on Temporal Cloak Erases Data From History · · Score: 1

    The output of the top secret printer feeds into a cross cut shredder and that dumps directly into the incinerator furnace. It is used all the time for extremely high sensitivity documents.

  9. Re:Popular Idea on American Targeted By Digital Spy Tool Sold To Foreign Governments · · Score: 1

    "... STUXNET targets SCADA systems. Unless she running a reactor or dam equipment from her laptop I don't think this has anything to do with STUXNET."

    So I am not allowed to run Uranium Enrichment in my garage? Yet more rights taken from my 2nd amendment!

    Let me guess, they are against my building of an ICBM in my back yard as well.....

  10. He will be replaced soon. on U.S. District Judge: Forced Decryption of Hard Drives Violates Fifth Amendment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A judge that defends the constitution is not desirable to the Republicans or the Democrats. He is an enemy to both parties and will be replaced after this. I think the judge is a hero, but in the USA today, that is career suicide to not let the government trample any and all rights.

  11. Re:Actually from my experience... Better... on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    By divorcing them and then marrying another, or killing the wife they dont like anymore. Which is still legal in some countries.

    Try learning some history.

  12. Actually from my experience... Better... on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First wife was traditional, ended in a horrible train wreck as she was insane.
    Current Wife met via the internet and 11 years later we are still the best of friends and still madly in love with each other.

    From my experience, Meeting a mate IRL is a recipe for failure, you get infatuated with their looks and not their mind first.

  13. Re:GIVE APPLE THE NEEDLE !! on Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    And shipping those books are free? sweet!

  14. This is complete Crap on Pi to Go: Hot Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Project · · Score: 1

    There are several more projects out there that are far better then this, Slashdot now just copying the crap from Hack A Day now?

    https://www.google.com/search?q=raspberry+Pi+laptop&safe=off&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=g5qsUcb7GbT_4AOfh4DwAg&ved=0CFAQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=785

    They used a random enclosure that was laying around, added a function that is not needed for any reason (ATA power shutdown? really, on a 5 watt device?) and simply glued a car monitor to the top.

    Tomorrow on Slashdot, Amazing hack on using peanut butter AND jelly in a sandwich. We cover what sides of the bread you spread it on and the amazing assembly trick to pull this off.

  15. Re: Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    You should get some education in networking in general as I am talking about the T side of the transceiver... or do you think that puppies come out of the other side?

  16. Re:GIVE APPLE THE NEEDLE !! on Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    I know it's trendy to hate apple, but the fault lies at the feet of the extremely greedy publishers.

    An e-book should be MAX 50% the price of the paper book.

  17. Re:10 Gbps copper on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    I run 10,000 Base T up to 300 feet without problems over Cat 6. 200 feet over el-cheapo Cat5e.

    You should learn about how the stuff works.

  18. Re:Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    I could, rent a dark fiber from point to point. buy your own used and out of date 10BaseT Fiber transceivers for almost nothing and I have a solid 10Megabit connection From the Central office to the secondary location. and when we find some single mode 100BaseT used fiber gear for dirt cheap, we will upgrade to that.

    Did you investigate what fiber was available? Terminating fiber ends is trivial nowdays.

  19. Re:Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You are funny.

    If you think telcos will happily abandon 50+ year old wiring and gleefully pull fiber everywhere, you are living in a wierd utopian dream.

    Reality is that Telcos will fight tooth and nail to spend a dime on infrastructure. Copper twisted pair will be around for another 100 years simply because of the extreme greed that american telecommunications companies enjoy. You see, replacing all that with fiber to each home will reduce profits by 25%. and we absolutely can not tolerate reduced profits in any way. American companies will kill babies for increased profits, and have done so in the past.

    The only way to get away from century old copper wire is to regulate the telecommunications industry and force them at gunpoint to start pulling fiber to the home at NO COST TO THE CONSUMER. No "infrastructure recovery fee" or any other added secret fee to the customer, the CEO and the stockholders have to suck it up.

  20. House building is already Open source on British Architects Develop Open-Source Home Building · · Score: 2

    I don't understand their goal as house building is already open source. There are thousands of plans available freely out there and the knowlege is freely gained on how to build or even design a home.

    What is needed is public domain release of designs and systems from highly skilled engineers for very very cheap to build but sturdy and code acceptable homes. release designs for $15,000 homes that can be built from recycled material and will meet the ridiculous building codes in many countries. For example here in the USA you are NOT ALLOWED to build a home that is smaller than 500 sq feet. That is utterly retarded with no basis in anything but trying to keep homes expensive.

    you can raise a family comfortably in 500 sq feet, it's done all the time.

  21. Re:Sounds great.... on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Yup. and hope to hell your hole is at center mass and not off by a little bit or you simply turn all that energy into a rapidly spinning killer asteroid.

  22. Silly Silly "scientist".... on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    A nuke to destroy an asteroid. MAybe a tiny one that will not do much. But a large one a nuke will turn a large meteor into a shotgun blast followed by a large meteor..

    You do a series of nuke impactors to hopefully nudge it, and you need to be doing this when it's still out by mars.

    And we dont have the technology to do this, so it's all just mental masturbation.

  23. Re:And it will never exist. on Space Diving: Iron Man Meets Star Trek Suit In Development · · Score: 2

    Your 2G of deceleration is 2G of thrust, so move your foot and you now have to fight 2G of lateral acceleration. I would love to see any human stop a spin that is caused by lateral thrust in the air from their legs. Zero chance of any human doing anything but be a spectactular splat on the ground after looking like a bottle rocket.

  24. Re:Let's just get this out of the way... on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then explain Dick Cheney... He has to be from out space.

  25. Re:BYOD means I/T loses some control over it on Why Everyone Gets It Wrong About BYOD · · Score: 1

    Key theft is not a problem if the IT department did not hand it out freely and they actually did their jobs.