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  1. Good Job India! on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Good luck.

  2. Re:Mod racist parent down. on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Its a racist comment. Based on your defensive reply, you know it.

    Being racist isn't OK becasue you were 'just joking'.

  3. Re:0.37% of India's total budget on After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way · · Score: 1

    A Pakistan / India war would not need weapons that enter orbit.
    It would be like Nevada building ICBMs to get to Idaho.

  4. Nothing in the write up is on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 1

    entrapment.

    "In criminal law, entrapment is conduct by a law enforcement agent inducing a person to commit an offense that the person would otherwise have been unlikely to commit"

  5. Re:Maybe won't make any difference on One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 1

    no signal that escape an atmosphere is ever truly lost.
    You just need a big enough antenna to tease out the signal.

    For example. if we wanted to see if any plant withing 100 lights year has sent a tv signal in the lsat 100+ years we would need a micro-antenna ares the size of Rhode Island. And just add more micro antennas for more distance.

  6. Re:Only 22% ? on One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet · · Score: 1

    If space is infinite, but particle position is finite, there is a 100% chance you exist in that state in infinite places.

  7. Re:What's a fuel cell? on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    "What research has suggested that WATER has negative environmental impacts?"
    Home ownership for one. I used to love water, then I bought a home. That shit is sneaky and will destroy your home environment if given half a drip.

    Also:
    I'm pretty sure the water from a store surge could also have an environmental impact.

    You do know that in a real world, there will be other products in the air and not just Oxygen, right? Right?

    Not that any of the other waste is worth worrying about, but it's there.

    "Natural gas is the cheapest fuel"
    depending on how you define cheap.

    Also, he is simply stating the price will rise due to demand. Will it rise higher than current methods?
    And IF so, is it worth paying a but more to produce less CO2?

  8. Re:Wake me up... on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    Because MS tables in the 90's sucked. Their was a strong spike in interest until the landed in hands. They where ugly, had no support, and as it turned out a key infrastructure piece was missing: Easy to load small apps delivered via wireless.

    They have tendency to focus on the great idea, but none of the ancillary pieces. Also, their marketing isn't really that good.

    I still shake my haed over the fact they made their initial Zune brown.
    Here is a turd, you can squirt files with it. In all way it was a superior device, but Ballmar has no design aesthetic.

  9. Re:I Wanted to Put in A Fuel Cell Into My New Hous on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    Should have bought something on some land. Then you could build a 1Mw solar furnace yourself.

  10. Re:Eco Idoits will love this on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    Or use a solar furnaces.

    Of course, if they just built these thing where land is cheap and use a solar furnace to power them we could skip the whole fuel cells.

  11. Re:Eco Idoits will love this on Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon · · Score: 1

    Because you can us solar to generate hydrogen?

  12. Re:Just a few questions . . . on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 1

    It's far better to use a modern fuel seal system that doesn't leak.

  13. Re:this possibly means one of two things.. on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 1

    You mean the deficit that's been gone down by half over the last 6 years? that one?
    Maybe you should make it a personal mission to learn about this stuff instead of just repeat dumbass headlines?

    "Stop being the world's police should allow cuts of ~80%."
    nonsense.

  14. Re:this possibly means one of two things.. on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cutting anything just to cut is stupid. DO you think just random cutting will get rid of pork? It will not, pork is always the last to go.
    What we need is targeted and precise cuts on a project basis.

    But no, lets just leave all our allies dangling, and leave our defense wide open. Cause that's what happens when you just slash and burn.

  15. Re:clemency? on Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden · · Score: 1

    So you have a premise, facts counter the premise is presented, and then you start making shit up to support your initial disproved premise.

    That's some great thinking you got going on there.

  16. Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 2

    Write to HD locally, mail it to yourself.
    If you always have one in transit, you're safe.

  17. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    So it was immoral to be against slavery in the south?

  18. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    People who don't fall into you narrow definition are liars or sociopaths.
    Do you even know what you are saying?

  19. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    So simple minded.
    He is saying there are many situation where life involved more then two people, often wishing to be treated differently.

    IF you first response to an example is to pick apart the example, it's likely you don't know what's going on.

    "Walton leased the space mainly to preempt his competitor from expanding"
    How is that moral?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton

  20. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    "Sigh... boy do I tire of explaining apparently simple concepts.."
    That is what we call irony.
    Read this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule#Criticisms_and_responses_to_criticisms
    then this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality
    then read Kant.

    Your example of morality it flat out wrong.

    "A) it causes no harm"
    irrelevant. It can cause no harm and not be moral, it can cause harm and be moral.

    You seem to be in a tautology
    I can show you example that are moral but violate the golden rule, but you refused to acknowledge them as moral becasue they aren't the golden rule.
    .

  21. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    "would you want some other nation and their government to invade your homeland and blow it 3/4 of the way to shit?"
    that depends. From what?

    I lie how you think people you disagree with are stupid and didn't think about that. They are well aware of the consequences.

  22. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    "Does anyone want someone else to come into their home and level it?
    First off, you raised it from invasion to 'level it'. stop changing the parameters.
    Secondly: If we were invaded by another force, I would like out allies to come and help us, even if it mean fighting in our streets.

    And buy avoiding the veggie question, you prove our point.

  23. Re:permissions on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    " treat every other person the way you want to be treated"
    sigh. I like how you assume everyone want to be treated the same way.
    The idea of morality was shot down over 100 years ago. See Kant, for starters

    No, morality is a lot more complex.

    Maybe you mean reciprocity?

  24. Re:SNOWDEN !! DOUBLE-AGENT ?? on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    So you argument breaks down to an Ad Hom?

    you lose.

    many of us can contain several thoughts. Such as:

    1) The NSA was acting legally.
    2) I don't like the framework that allows that to be legal.
    3) I direct my anger to congress, the people actually responsible.
    4) Snowden and Manning both suffer from over inflated belief that they are important.
    See it's not one or the other.

    "And how about that child sex trafficking by American contractors in Afghanistan? "
    and how does the pertain to this argument?

    "how about those double taps striking first responders, which we call terrorism when someone else does it?"
    You really don't understand the situation at all. But you sit there rage filled with the ability to only think of one group and not be able to think any deeper.

  25. Re:SNOWDEN !! DOUBLE-AGENT ?? on Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support · · Score: 1

    What lawbreaking was revealed? The NSA had permission to do what they where doing. It's congress you need to direct your Ire at, not a legally operating agency.