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  1. Re:Robots on US Navy Developing App-Summoned Robotic Helicopter · · Score: 1

    It is a whole lot harder to hack mark one eyeballs remotely.

    Don't underestimate the power of microwaves.

  2. Re:What?! Give them more money? on How To Get Developers To Document Code · · Score: 1

    Give them less money (if they don't do docs)

  3. Re:NK? on Is the Canadian Arctic the Future of Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    perhaps they do exploit it, just keep the information black-out

  4. In Soviet Russia on Is the Canadian Arctic the Future of Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia astronomers were sent to Arctic to labor camps, you insensitive clod

  5. Re:Wrong Relationship on Afghanistan Biometric Data Given To US · · Score: 1

    exactly. Even UK and most of other NATO countries were kindly requested to submit the fingerprints of their citizens; of course without getting such a data on US citizens.

    Viva Brazil, who dared to have symmetry in treating US citizens just as US treats theirs

  6. Re:What happened to the constitution? on TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway · · Score: 1

    What happened to the constitution?

    check here

  7. Re:Free and open internet in China? on China Says Its Internet Policies Are Open and Clear · · Score: 1

    more open than in France, where you cannot discuss illegal actions by police anymore

  8. Re:sue on Robot Workforce Threatens Education-Intensive Jobs · · Score: 1

    As I originate from the country where vodka is traditional booze, I could only suggest that there is huge difference between grain vodkas, potato and corn. Corn here is perceived as ok to produce a technical spirit but few ppl would choose to drink it. Potato vodkas are generally cheaper but worse (in taste .. and results).

    Speaking of "dumb bunch", I praise your belief in the pureness of distillation fractions. There is huge taste difference between "rectified spirit" and vodka. If you don't feel it - just dilute the rectified spirit and enjoy it (many people do). Directly after having such drink move to a shot of Wyborowa/Smirnoff/Absolut ... and feel the difference.

    As prices of vodka are concerned, probably everywhere in developed nations governments implemented huge taxation + excise tax (+ border duties in case of imports).

  9. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 0

    +1, outbreak of common sense

  10. Re:wrong calculation on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 0

    And what about people using $20 inhalers repaying to the rest of the world for global damage caused by ozone depletion?

  11. Re:wrong calculation on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1

    dear AC, you're wrong.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion

    A single chlorine atom would keep on destroying ozone (thus a catalyst) for up to two years (the time scale for transport back down to the troposphere) were it not for reactions that remove them from this cycle by forming reservoir species such as hydrogen chloride (HCl) and chlorine nitrate (ClONO2). On a per atom basis, bromine is even more efficient than chlorine at destroying ozone, but there is much less bromine in the atmosphere at present. As a result, both chlorine and bromine contribute significantly to the overall ozone depletion. Laboratory studies have shown that fluorine and iodine atoms participate in analogous catalytic cycles. However, in the Earth's stratosphere, fluorine atoms react rapidly with water and methane to form strongly bound HF, while organic molecules which contain iodine react so rapidly in the lower atmosphere that they do not reach the stratosphere in significant quantities. Furthermore, a single chlorine atom is able to react with 100,000 ozone molecules.

  12. wrong calculation on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: -1, Troll

    in the "$20 epinephrine inhalers sold by online retailers" the cost of environment is not included. Add cost of repairing ozone layer and it will probably surpass the threefold.

  13. Re:Norton Disk Doctor on Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? · · Score: 1

    start with having a few drives from different manufacturers. Try installing late NEC + TEAC + Samsung. Quite often a diskette would be full of bad sectors in one drive and quite readable in another.

    This could save you a lot of "recovery" effort.

  14. Re:Noooooo!!!! on Samsung May Try To Block Next iPhone In Europe Too · · Score: 1

    yes!

    This way my iphone 4 remains relevant longer than expected :-)

  15. Re:Hello, Dr Frankenoppenheimer. on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    "you, human, give me some tungsten or I will hurt your family and yourself"

  16. Re:The Grey Goo Apocalypse on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    I've still got my Palm T3, but yes, they are not common enough to become a threat.

  17. Re:Should be a good seller among the Slashdot crow on Book Review: Metasploit The Penetration Tester's Guide · · Score: 1

    he is not likely to replicate (the problem)

  18. my favorite museum item on Dinosaur Feathers Found In Amber · · Score: 1

    amber with mummified spider's lung

  19. Re:HP and nV must feel great on Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO · · Score: 0

    judging by their recent activity, HP still did not get over that fart

  20. Re:Two links to one article on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Protection on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next on Fox News:
    "My CPU overheated while I watched porn. Wanted to add some nitrogen and that's how I lost my John Thomas"

  22. money back? on Two Rambus Patents Invalidated By USPTO · · Score: 2

    So ... do Nvidia and HP get their money back? How does US legal system solve such situations?

  23. Re:Be patient on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 1

    Oh, common, ex-chancellor Schroeder thought about his financial future for several years and secured his financial future with Gasprom.

  24. Re:Fun new game kids! on Delivering Medicine By UAV · · Score: 1

    surprise: anthrax

  25. Re:Only 27 more years until public domain on The Copyright Nightmare of 'I Have a Dream' · · Score: 1

    I heard rumours that some stakeholders (studios, xxIA's) would like to have a perpetual copyright. And, knowing how US politics worked so far, this may happen. And you guys at US are very efficient in imposing this stuff to the rest of the world :-(