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  1. Re:Cracks in the foundation...? on Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown · · Score: 0

    The soil test pylon in berlin that Hitler made would take a 12.0 earthquake without a crack. It's still there and they have no idea how to get rid of it, it's slowly sinking into the ground and will not stop until it hits bedrock.

  2. Re:Fukushima Residents and Farmers Disagree on Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Bikini Atoll still has warning bouys 100 miles out all the way around it.

  3. Re:Above optimal? on Ask Slashdot: Good Metrics For a Small IT Team? · · Score: 1

    Optimal = raises and praise. Management tends to discourage that. therefore the result will be "needs improvement"

  4. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    The bitch cant afford insurance but she can afford a smartphone and the plan to go with it. Nice.

  5. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    The problem is light rail is needed between cities. even smaller cities as there is no work in the small cities anymore. so they need to build light rail in the highway medians. I just solved the land problem.

    Instead we waste money on other crap. The bailout we gave the richest of the rich, 7.7 trillion dollars, would have put a metric buttload of jobs in existance as america builds a light passenger rail system connecting JUST major cities.

    Instead we protect the rich's money with the poor's money.

    And yes we gave the banks 7.7 trillion. the Fed secretly gave the banks a 7 trillion 0% interest no payback loans without telling congress or anyone. add in the 700 billion bailout we all knew about. and you get 7.7 trillion.

  6. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    "How is that system going to handle several hundred (possibly several thousand) people waiting in line to hop on for their morning/evening commute home? How long are people going to be stuck waiting in line for their turn during these rushes? Add to this the fact that large metro areas that two of our largest metro areas (New York and Chicago) have some real nasty winters. So factor in the cost of very large enclosed & heated areas for people to stand around and wait their turn to hop into one of these things (and the cost of acquiring the real estate to build said areas)."

    ASK chicago, their elevated train has worked longer than you have been alive in weather that most people would consider arctic.

    And chicago has a far larger population than 90% of the united states (90% of American cities, only 4 cities have more population), so if it works there, it will work everywhere.

  7. Re:Probably not what it seems on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Bicyclists can do a lighter one.

    http://deltacycle.com/Airzound-Bike-Horn I have one on my bicycle. has the same effect, make people pee themselves.

  8. Re:Why do scientists make these statements? on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cthulhu... his farts of death! They existed 400,000 years ago.

  9. Re:Methane emissions not tied to modern warming on Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So why not tap it and burn it off? it's a shallow sea cant they drill and start sucking?

  10. Re:So what is an "app"? on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 1

    "Apple devices have a premium price"

    REally? so then why do most android phones cost MORE than the $99.00 iphone? Yes I can buy a $499 iphone, but it's not the only choice.

    and yes I know I can get low end free android phones. but most of the ones that people want cost $99 or more.

  11. Re:Rich Users on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 0

    Sorry that you are not clever enough to make an iphone look and act different. It took me 15 minutes to make mine look so different that people dont believe it's an iphone.

  12. As someone who has written an app for both.... on Why Developers Still Prefer iOS To Android · · Score: 0

    Android is neat but an absolute pain in the arse to write for. It's a mess.

    IOS on the other hand is really easy. Apple put a lot of work in the SDK. I WISH that someone would clean up Android so that I could have as easy of a time writing for android.

    i also wish that apple was not butt-headded and let someone come up with a unifying system to write once and compile for both platforms. Honestly, it's silly that I have to maintain two separate codebases for a single program.

  13. Re:Probably not what it seems on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Yup...

    http://www.twistedthrottle.com/trade/productview/2137/

    I have TWO of those both set up to be aimed to the side. when I lay on the brake to swerve I can nail the horn button and watch them almost jump out of the car as they think they are cutting off a semi truck and about to die.

  14. Re:Probably not what it seems on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MY solution to that has been two 140db airhorns on my bike. Twice I have scared the crap out of a lady texting so badly that her phone went out the window.

  15. Re:Cell jammer on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    So the solution is to run a EMP device that fires an EMP every 2 seconds and drive a car with a mechanical ignition system. Smoke the idiots on the highway's car ECM and their cellphone. Plus I think I'll get to work faster the next few days after as a lot of cars will not be on the road.

    This is turning out to be a great idea.

  16. Re:Another security theater excess... on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    "People follow closely in rush hour traffic and it's reckless driving."

    Fixed that for you, tailgaiting is highly dangerous and puts other peoples lives in danger. people that do it are simply evil.

  17. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    "Same goes for talking on the cellphone without a handset."

    I prefer Bluetooth hands free to the handset that is built into every cellphone except for watch phones.

  18. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Like the low IQ moron this morning texting that kissed the guard rail and then bounced across 4 lanes of traffic. and ended up against the other guard rail. The loser never put his stupid phone down as I could see the glow of the freaking screen the entire time 4 cars back.

  19. Re:Obligatory conclusion on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 0

    You look more like Ron Chartreuse.
     

  20. Re:multitasking on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And less than 50% of the drivers can actually DRIVE SAFELY. A majority of the drivers on the road are idiots and morons that think tailgaiting is safe, speeding is safe in heavily congested areas, and they all believe they are freaking experts at driving. Most are incapable of driving and less than 30% know how to control a car in a spin or slide.

    Let's start there, make it more difficult to get your license and keep it.

  21. Re:Take valuables with you. on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    OR better, a grenade in the purse with a 10 foot fishing line attached to you. let them take the purse, and you go the other way to get behind a car. BOOM!.

    you don't get the purse back but at least the world is less one scumbag. When the cops show up, tell them he threatened you with the grenade to give him your purse. be sure to get rid of the fishing line.

    There needs to be a lot more vigilantism in the United states.

  22. Re:Take valuables with you. on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    you haven't replaced a window recently. $350.00 for a side window on most cars. it's cheaper for windshield replacement becausethey dont have to spend 2 hours tearing apart the door.

  23. Re:Take valuables with you. on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    BMW 725i windows break as easy as a hundai window. No thief tries to pick the lock.

  24. Re:you can track your laptops on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 1

    Most pawn shops do. as soon as the perp drops it off for the $50.00 the pawn shop wipes them with a illegitimate os install and puts it on display. Just go into one to check. I know the ones around here do this.

    Pawn shops are all scumbags and should be made illegal or forced to hold all items for 30 days and report to the cops details about it, the sale, and the person that turned it on to the police. For some reason the police let them operate as a front to the thieves.

  25. Re:you can track your laptops on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes it is. Dell laptop "Bios lojack" is as easy to defeat as wiping the NVRAM settings. Been there done that. Watched a BIOS update reset it on a Dell Studio.