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  1. Re:More like a ultralight helicopter on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    The AIR model costs $28000 in a self-assembly kit.
    Still, that is suprisingly cheap.

  2. Re:Practical on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 1

    It says 60mph in the vice article. And depending on your workplace you could perhaps refill the jetpack before you fly back home.
    Even if we're conservative with our fuel use that still let us live some ~15 kilometer from work and reach it with little concern for traffic and roads, in ~10-15 minutes only! Now weather is a different matter. As is fuel use... and maintenance requirements.

    For $100k, if it's easy to fly and safe I could see it become quite common. Once they get the range up a bit more along with less noise it could be a must have.

  3. Re:Could somebody... on The First 'Practical' Jetpack May Be On Sale In Two Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a ducted fanpack not a jetpack.
    Not to be mistaken for a ducted fannypack.

  4. Re:How many knew that it was a global release? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 1

    Not everyone even have that ancient deprecated technology we call TV.
    Also, public channels usually mean you spend 25% of the time suffrering through advertisements.

  5. Re:Not what you need for sports! on OmniCam360 Camera Cluster Lets You Choose the Viewing Angle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This would be great for porn

  6. Re:Not what you need for sports! on OmniCam360 Camera Cluster Lets You Choose the Viewing Angle · · Score: 1

    I don't give a shit about sports, but this thing takes the perfect footage for viewing with the oculus rift

  7. Re:He's right, of course. on Bill Gates Promotes Vaccine Projects, Swipes At Google · · Score: 2

    A private and cheap spacelaunch firm is something overrated? What?

  8. Re:These numbers are not the true numbers on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 3, Funny

    The dark lord is touching the world, and he's doing it through photocopy machines.

    I would've expected printers or those cheap ISP-provided routers to be his preferred way of evildoing, though I guess even he/it couldn't get those to work properly.

  9. Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli on Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds · · Score: 1

    Well... were they terrorists or not?

  10. Re:Heard this one before on Scientists Demonstrate Ultra-Fast Magnetite Electrical Switch · · Score: 1

    I'm talking about the non-silicon THz frequency transistors that are promised every now and then, obviously the normal iterative approach is a valid approach for improvments, but it doens't lead to breakthrough paradigm shifts.

  11. Heard this one before on Scientists Demonstrate Ultra-Fast Magnetite Electrical Switch · · Score: 0

    Is this actually relevant for end-user electronics? Or is it yet another of those wonderful promising potential fast-switching techs that are announced every few months(since 1980 or so) yet never pan out to anything practical.

  12. Re:Why yes, I would. on Would You Let a Robot Stick You With a Needle? · · Score: 1

    Yes well, clearly a robot is preferable as they've yet to kill and maim as many people as humans have.

  13. Re:probably... on Russian Rocket Proton-M Crashes At Launch · · Score: 1

    I'm quite certain they have some escape vehicles for events like that, not for satellites but for cosmonauts.

  14. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Who cares about that, what matters is that our political leaders can finally become intelligent people!

  15. Re:head transplant, or body transplant? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    In this case they're not in any demand of replacement cells. They're only cutting the axons, and then try to glue them back together. Unforuntately it's easier to splice your hair back after a haircut than fusing axons correctly.

  16. Re:So much for... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 2

    >pretty much everybody would be jailed at one point or another.
    I think that's the point, you're supposed to be so inhibited and shitscared of everything that you don't dare to do anything but follow the approved guidelines.

  17. Re:We're making this all up anyway on Boston Marathon Bomber Charged With Using 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 3, Funny

    They want the WMD charges to stick, because then they can retroactively justify the Iraq war as there totally were WMDs all over the place there.

  18. Re:Who wants booth babes, I want Booth studs :3 on Are Booth Babes Going Away? (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I read an anecdotal story about a girl that used to be hired as a booth babe and got neat money from it. Used to, because the feminazis destroyed her job opporuntities.

    What happened with womens rights really, It's a voluntary job after all and it apparently pays well?

  19. Re:go work for drone manufacturer on Ask Slashdot: Exploiting 'Engineering And ...' On a Resume? · · Score: 0

    "Exploiting Engineering and Women"

    I have to remember this for my resume

  20. Re:Excellent initiative ! on Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not a capital offense to critique the government in china. Though sure, you might get locked away and all that stuff.

    But at least they are openly authoritarian. Unlike the US where you are supposed to have all these right but in the end you can still be locked away and all that stuff for arbirary reasons. Or bombed by drones, or assassinated by the CIA.

    When it comes to replicating that authentic 1984 feeling, the US is far in lead with the twisting of language and concepts and covertly doing the opposite of what is stated. Lets see.

    Perpetual warfare: check
    Removing your rights in the name of preserving them in doublespeak fashion: check
    Doing its best to achive universal surveillance: check
    Demonizing the enemies while presenting self as bastion of glorious freedom and prosperity, while false flagging, assassinating and shitting everything up: check
    And so on.

  21. Re:Innocent until blogged about on Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference · · Score: 1

    Oh come now. The poor guy clearly just mistintepreted the meaning of penetration testing!

  22. Re:Another arms race? on Fear of Thinking War Machines May Push U.S. To Exascale · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How ironic, our fear of skynet will lead to us building it pre-emptively.

  23. Re:How does it compare? on Research Reveals Low Exposure of Excellent Work By Female Scientists · · Score: 1

    The title says the exposure is low, not that it doesn't happen. So clearly, they need to hire a professional photographer to ensure it all comes out well exposed to prevent this waste of assets of biology.

  24. Re:If you do the math... on Pirate Bay Founder Sentenced To Jail · · Score: 1

    I don't think they are allowed to serialize his supposed crimes in such a manner. All known crimes are supposed to be subject to one trial and one sentence, to prevent the legal system from indefinitely keeping someone locked up by partitioning the crimes and re-charing them when they're out indefinitely.

    Then again, it wouldn't be the first time the law is bypassed to fight the great evil that digital piracy apparently is.

  25. Re:A conspiracy... on 2 Men Accused of Trying To Make X-Ray Weapon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you seriously expect something refined from a KKK member? Their sole existence seems to be oriented towards being used for parody.