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  1. Re:Owwww on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    If that's directed to me, I was.

  2. Re:Owwww on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 2

    Exactly, this exercise was 10 years ago.
    Anybody think that it wasn't studied and countermeasures developed?

  3. Owwww on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea, a 5 inch with flechette rounds.
    Wonder how that fiberglass speedboat will hold up?

  4. The Most Important Question Is: on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 1

    Where does cold beer fit into all this healthy eating discussion?

  5. Re:How to live in denial. on PR Firm Unwisely Tangles With Penny Arcade · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ever heard of imports, and people shipping overseas as gifts? Nah, probably not. Get back under your bridge, troll.

    Paul, is that you?

  6. Re:This might not be good on Apple Buys Israeli Flash Manufacturer · · Score: 1

    Now we know the real reason for the purchase.

  7. Re:What about Google driverless car? on Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive · · Score: 2

    I ride a motorcycle almost daily and use the theory that EVERYONE in a vehicle is out to kill me.
    This forces you to focus your attention not just the cars but the person driving it.
    Plus being able to out brake, out accelerate, and fit through fairly small openings has kept me alive for 30+ years on a bike. Of course, I could get killed on it going home from work tonight.

  8. Re:Way to Go Universal! on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Don't you think just the news of a lawsuit will help get it out to the great unwashed?

  9. Way to Go Universal! on YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ah, Universal ever heard of the Streisand Effect?
    I'm sure Megaupload can explain it to you.

  10. Re:Ha! on Bluetooth Keyboards With a 10-Year Charge Promised · · Score: 1

    That brings to mind the first TV remote that my family had. (This was around '65)
    The remote used 2 or 3 tuning forks for on-off, channel change, and volume. You could just hit it on the floor to get lots of strange responses from the TV!
    Can't remember the brand tho, maybe RCA?

  11. I've Seen 'Em on What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Asus makes a good one. on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    Know what you mean about the LEDs.
    Had to put tape over them, at night, could see them lighting up the den down the hall.

  13. Re:ASUS RT-16N / DD-WRT on Ask Slashdot: Best Flash-Friendly Router To Replace Aging WRT54GS? · · Score: 1

    Had a Asus RT-16n with Tomato for over a year with only power outages for downtime.
    Like the other poster said, go to http://tomatousb.org/ for all the latest info.

  14. Re:Hammer Search. on MC Hammer Launches a Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Break it down now

  15. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I was thinking that one of the dead girls family members might want to give it a try.

  16. Re:Propaganda or Bad reporting? on UK Man Jailed For Being a Jerk On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Someone should have just broken ALL of his fingers.

    This would have been much more of a deterrent than a few weeks i the slammer.

  17. Re:Hmmm. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Helicopters got mine.

  18. Re:So what does this mean? on Mars Rover Begins "Whole New Mission" · · Score: 1

    I watched it and , , I mean what could go wrong?

  19. Re:This goes far deeper than you think on Solar Company Folds After $0.5B In Subsidies · · Score: 1

    You are exactly right about that.
    Just give this little article a look. . . . http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/01/bankrupt-solar-company-with-fed-backing-has-cozy-ties-to-obama-admin/

    "Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser, a key Obama backer who raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidentâ(TM)s election campaign, is one of Solyndraâ(TM)s primary investors. Kaiser himself donated $53,500 to Obamaâ(TM)s 2008 election campaign, split between the DSCC and Obama For America. Kaiser also made several visits to the White House and appeared at some White House events next to Obama officials.

    Campaign finance records show Kaiser and Solyndra executives and board members donated $87,050 total to Obamaâ(TM)s election campaign.

    And now, just two years after securing a half-billion-dollar federal loan, Solyndra has said that it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy."

  20. Re:One small step for man on Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech · · Score: 1

    So, it's more important that people think about what they say before they say it, than having the freedom to able to make stupid statements?
    This guy is having to live the consequences of his speech. But his right to say them outweighs our nonexistent right not to hear them.

    BTW, it is very necessary to protect our rights under any kind of government.

  21. Re:One small step for man on Online Call To Shoot President Ruled Free Speech · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is precisely the type of speech that the
    Constitution protects.
    It's not a matter of whether you think that the statement is rude, crude, or socially unacceptable.
    In my opinion freedom of speech is the most basic right written into the Bill of Rights

    Take a look at Hitchens trying to explain it. ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Hg-Y7MugU

  22. Re:ha on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 2

    Our avionics guy. He's got PLENTY of time.
    Both of the floppy planes are BAE 125s (British built from the early 80's)
    Everything else uses memory cards with data downloaded from Jepps.

  23. Big Deal on Has LHC Seen a Hint of the Higgs? · · Score: 1

    I've seen the Higgs.
    He's a little old bald Englishman.

  24. Re:ha on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We have several planes, jets I might add, that use floppies to update nav databases. That's a lot of floppies every 2 weeks.
    We could get the CD upgrade but Honeywell wants 12 grand for each aircraft.

  25. Re:and in the usa you pay up to $0.25 per text for on Spam Text Prematurely Blows Up Suicide Bomber · · Score: 1

    Russian intelligence has traced the message they send to trigger the bombs.

    "HEADS UP! :)"

    Thought it was:
    "FIRE IN THE HOLE!"