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  1. supposedly on F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base · · Score: 1

    with gps attached.

  2. Re:Automation and unemployment on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1
  3. 1,800 in the USA? on OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud · · Score: 0

    even the KKK has more twitter presence.

  4. american bandstand theory on Why Dissonant Music Sounds 'Wrong' · · Score: 2

    it has a good beat, and it's easy to dance to (not).

  5. Re:What are they using this data for? on Pols Blur Line Between Data Mining, Cyberstalking · · Score: 0

    Obama Mines YOU! well, nobody said it so far.

  6. Re:Whats the point ? on Making Driverless Cars Safer · · Score: 1

    drivers (passengers) need to go to hospitals to have tests. d or p need to go to government offices to get passports. the Actual Human HAS To Show Up for some things. or...a lot of things....depending upon here you are. so...'take the driver out of the vehicle'...= stay put.

  7. Re:That's not even pocket change for either of the on The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet $30 Million On Quantum Computing Company · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Too much turnover? on Ask Slashdot: Best Incentives For IT Workers? · · Score: 1

    just as education is not training, incentives are not motivation. motivation is internal. incentives are attempts to uncover that. when someone does something for money, that's a good start.

  9. Re:reflects well on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    success in one field (for Linus and Mitt) doesn't translate into viability with another.

  10. Re:no on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 2

    selfish/lazy/etc., parents that BOTH work? kinda hard on us working-class stiffs aren't you?

  11. Re:Positive thing on 3D Printing On a Microscopic Scale · · Score: 2

    print a BIG briefcase for the suitcase nuke you just printed.

  12. Re:I Guess This Is What Happens When I Don't Watch on The Case Against DNA · · Score: 1

    also, lack of DNA evidence doesn't exonerate.

  13. Re:working with them.... on Why Professors Love (and Loathe) Technology · · Score: 1

    Moore's Law. if you are 20-something, you are toast next year. make way.

  14. easier on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 1

    Inconstant Moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconstant_Moon ursula l guinn called it most depressing.

  15. Re:War isn't one of the classic causes of Apocalyp on How Technology Might Avert an Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT! (and technology cures what ails ya)

  16. Re:Stanislaw Lem on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    All o' 'em. eveR single one.

  17. Re:They Didn't Pull This Kind of Muscle on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 2, Informative

    kinda/sorta like Waco without the wackos.

  18. Re:50% is still not that much on Cat Parasite May Increase Risk of Suicide In Humans · · Score: 1

    "old age be like": like this. avoid predators/cure polio. old age is relative.

  19. Re:disinformation all the time on Feds Plan 'Fog of Disinformation' To Track Information Leaks · · Score: 1

    Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink. Earl Long Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/whisper.html#aDdBKTeRF7pytwOE.99

  20. Re:Shemagh/Keffiyeh. on Slashdot Asks: Beating the Summer Heat? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AC lowers the humidity so my books don't mildew. AC lowers the temperature so my dogs don't die. AC is better in a lot of ways.

  21. Re:They will not like the needed solutions on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 1

    this is the USA. roundabouts don't work good (well): http://www.wral.com/traffic/story/11173856/ Raleigh NC has given up. tried it. fail.

  22. Re:Tweaks to the cultural problem on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "forcing cars out" means people and money go away.

  23. pay to play, essentially on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Watch TV In 2012? · · Score: 1

    sports/ LIVE. since i watch TV for sports exclusively, i pay CTV to handle that. sports and sports alone. me and sports. squish.

  24. Larry Niven quote on Vein Grown From Her Own Stem Cells Saves 10-Year-Old · · Score: 2, Interesting

    here's your sign: A criminal's pirated body can save a dozen lives. There is now no valid argument against capital punishment for any given crime; for all such argument seeks to prove that killing a man does society no good.

  25. Re:Translation on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 0