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  1. Re:cheap bastards on Vudu Resets User Passwords After Burglary · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who watches the watchmen.

    I know! That movie is like three hours long.

  2. Re:Disconcerting? on Teachers Know If You've Been E-Reading · · Score: 1

    If only somebody would invent a way to examine the student's level of understanding. Some sort of "test" if you will. You could call it an "examination", or maybe an "exam" for short.

  3. Re:FUD summary as usual on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    You don't. Of course you may have been hit with a much larger dose just now and don't even know it. Some cosmic rays are quite energetic.

  4. Re:Not unexpected on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 2

    I think GP has a firm grasp of special relativity.
    If your "missile" moves at light speed, it hits at the earliest time deployment can be detected. In the reference frame of the target, the moment of firing and the energy hitting are simultaneous.

  5. Re:with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 2

    Never heard of infrared lasers? You need to get out more.

  6. Re:with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Any thoughts on using a smoke bomb between the laser and the target? Think of it as airborne ablative armor.

  7. Re: Good riddance on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    So even at an early age she found a way to make people pay more for less.

    Sounds about right.

  8. Re:Ubuntu naming reset! on Dell Offers Ubuntu Option With Alienware Gaming Desktop · · Score: 1

    Damn. I was waiting for the Xenophobic Xestia release.

  9. Re:I, for one, welcome our new hexapod overlords! on Inside Mantis: a 2-Ton Hexapod Robot With a Linux Brain · · Score: 1

    That's not hate. It is disappointment. We were all expecting for so much more from this.

  10. Re:Horrible video on Inside Mantis: a 2-Ton Hexapod Robot With a Linux Brain · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it is intentional. To hide the fact that it's a slow plodding disappointment.

    So far the video has shown:
    -Walking at a snails pace.
    -Feebly kicking over an oil drum.
    -A huge cloud of smoke at the end which is either a pyrotechnic effect to hide the machine or a side effect of that diesel engine blowing up.

    But hey it runs Linux, or so they say.

  11. Re:Mr. Orth Should Visit Rural America or ... on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 1

    You're island hopping in the Caribbean on a sailboat and you worry about being able to play computer games? Your priorities are clearly very different from mine.

  12. Re:Better answer on Microsoft Creative Director 'Doesn't Get' Always-On DRM Concerns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's the drawback of living in a society. Sometimes you have to suck it up and submit to the majority even if they are dumbasses. The whole agriculture, technological progress, culture and not being eaten by wolves aspect mostly makes up for it however.

  13. Re:What a Scam? on OUYA Console Starts Shipping To Kickstarter Backers · · Score: 1

    If you see yourself as an investor then why did you put money into a project that yields you an ROI of 0.00%?

  14. Re:Great... on OUYA Console Starts Shipping To Kickstarter Backers · · Score: 2

    If it is trivial to you then you can code your own app.

  15. That's the problem in today's society... on Kepler Watches White Dwarf Warp Spacetime · · Score: 1

    Kepler should have stepped in and told the dwarf to stop.
    OTOH "White Dwarf Warp Spacetime" sounds like something the Hulk would say, so perhaps a wise move to stand back and watch.

  16. Re:Just Let It Die on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    But but but, I want to dehumanize my neighbors to the point where I can treat them to shotgun blasts without feeling guilt.

  17. Re:Morgan Freeman reading my obituary? on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 2

    Morgan Freeman will outlive us all.
    God is immortal you know.

  18. Re:That's not the question on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    No Bath Salts are what happened to John McAfee i.e. going nuts and paranoid perhaps to the point of shooting your neighbor. Any connection to consuming shitty stimulants and actual flesh eating was and remains wild and unproven speculation.

  19. Re:no purpose on NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that in Putin's Russia asteroid catches YOU?

  20. Re:If you think it's so trivial on Boston Cops Go Undercover Online To Crack Down on Concerts · · Score: 1

    They left out:

    Yelling at kids to get off your lawn

  21. Re:TWEENS!! on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just because it is put on the news more often these days doesn't mean that it happens more often. In fact in Europe and the US child abduction happens less these days than 20 or 40 years ago. Still not a good idea for kids to to walk off with strangers but not the minefield the media will have you believe.

  22. Re:Totally unworkable on Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Great! we will buy the uranium with all the gold, manganese, lithium and helium3 we will extract from seawater! For all the hype about "extract X from seawater" AFAIK the only things successfully extracted from seawater on an industrial scale are sea salt and water.

  23. Re:Well, so much for 3D printing then on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 1

    You don't own a sewing machine? How do you get your pants to fit?

  24. Re:Plastic stuff? on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Not really. Traditional methods are cheaper if you need 1000 of something. If you need one or ten of something then 3D printing starts to make sense.
    As for the quality of the prints, I remember owning and using a 6 pin dot matrix printer back in the 1980s. That one would never replace real prints. A decade later small laser printers could produce prints that rivaled traditional print jobs.

  25. Re:Wow on Gartner Says 3D Printers Will Cost Less Than $2,000 By 2016 · · Score: 1