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  1. Re:People pay for music? on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    DON'T BE EVIL.

    Kill Google Now - before you are forced into their self-driving cars, and legally required to use their thermostat.

    SHARE AND ENJOY!

  2. WORDS THAT DESTROYED THE WORLD on Chinese Gov't Reveals Microsoft's Secret List of Android-Killer Patents · · Score: 2

    "We Own Ideas".

  3. Re:Duh on Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth · · Score: 2

    It WAS 1979....

  4. Re:Duh on Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth · · Score: 1

    I know how they do this!

    First, get a bald chick from India, and that fat drunk girl, who replaced the annoying blonde on "Cheers"...

    Then, amplify the sound of a garage-door spring being struck by a rubber mallet. It helps if you have an octave pedal, to shift this down.

    You can take the rest from here.

  5. Re: Interesting article on Dinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm-blooded Nor Cold-Blooded · · Score: 1

    I think that Dinosaurs were magical trees, fueled by the energy of the stars and filled with aetheric pitch or sap, that responded to the vibratory symphonies described by the planetary epicycles.

    It is said that the largest dinosaurs had two brains - one in the head and another near the tail, like a fireman driving a ladder truck. This is nonsense. Dinosaurs know nothing of firemen, even if one factors their trans-dimensional aspect into consideration. This is because the creatures never had two brains, or even one brain to speak of. The cranium of a dinosaur contains only timecube, all the way down.

  6. Re: The Goldilocks Institute on Dinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm-blooded Nor Cold-Blooded · · Score: 1

    Neither warm nor cold, bird nor reptile.

    I think that Dinosaurs were magical trees, fueled by the energy of the stars and filled with aetheric pitch or sap, that responded to the vibratory symphonies described by the planetary epicycles.

    It is said that the largest dinosaurs had two brains - one in the head and another near the tail, like a fireman driving a ladder truck. This is nonsense. Dinosaurs know nothing of firemen, even if one factors their trans-dimensional aspect into consideration. This is because the creatures never had two brains, or even one brain to speak of. The cranium of a dinosaur contains only timecube, all the way down.

  7. I Think That Alan Turing Himself on The Profoundly Weird, Gender-Specific Roots of the Turing Test · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    May have been an expert at pretending to be a woman.

    Of course, not in the league of J. Edgar Hoover...

  8. Re:Garbage on Study: Male Facial Development Evolved To Take Punches · · Score: 1

    Evolution of Garbage? That we were designed by natural selection to take a punch to the face is the obvious conclusion to be drawn from the evidence. See exhibit:
    https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1398/99/1398991263829.jpg

  9. Mavis Beacon Get Yo Freak On on Ask Slashdot: A 'Mavis Beacon' For Teaching Smartphone and Tablet Typing? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Las' I hear? She livin' in a lesbian relationship with Betty Crocker.

  10. Re:talk about terrorists on German Authorities Lack Evidence To Prosecute Anyone For NSA Spying · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    US prosecutes Chinese Generals and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commanders on the slimmest, "guilt by implication and association" pretexts.

    Bless the Germans, for having principles and integrity - unlike the Amerikan rogue state.

    General Alexander and Michael Hayden are off the hook. Now, they face only the hellish void of their own souls.

  11. Re:just because on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 1

    libsnowden is on hold because the author was detained by the NSA.

    I think they just want to loosen his algorithm and get him to drop his entropy.

  12. Re:just because on Become a Linux Kernel Hacker and Write Your Own Module · · Score: 0

    Will this proposed kernel module auto-genrate Edward Snowden stories for the Slashdot frontpage, with a POST through the kHTTPd?

    Will these stories swap links with OTHER stories on the Slashdot frontpage?

    What about Firehose?

  13. Re:Almost... on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 1

    I'm saying we have ENTIRELY TOO MUCH unfettered capitalism, which is blindingly obvious to any non-libertardian. Your fantasy world is just that: a fantasy.

    Yeah? You're just trying to stop visionaries from colonizing other planets, and living forever in the company of advanced beings like Peter Thiel and Sergey Brin. Democracy is just so much "Harrison Bergeron" to these Ubermensch.

  14. Re:The Empire never ended on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 1

    BLACK IRON PRISON

    The theophany of the pink beam/Zebra/VALIS.

    All true.

  15. Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Facebook's unique proposition is that it can be both "un-Islamic" and "un-American" at the same time, doing the same thing.

  16. Re:This is gonna be good! on Steve Ballmer In Talks To Buy Los Angeles Clippers · · Score: -1, Troll

    Jews buying blacks, just like 1830's.

  17. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Except, you know. The GeeBee R-series racer!

    Well. I guess that actually proves the adage. The GeeBee was constantly on the verge of uncontrollability.

  18. Re:On that note on Should We Eat Invasive Species? · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to honey-glazed, Africanized bees.

  19. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Speeds and sizes are a bit different... ;-)

  20. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    The Royal Air Force was launching Sopwith Camels from airships during WWI.

    That is SO Oswald Bastable, "Warlords of the Air"...

  21. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Which I guess is why, supercharger and all, it's original role went to P-38's, at the altitudes Mustangs couldn't cut it. Same enormous Allison - twin.

  22. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    It was the US who did this - not the Germans. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWoEQRl8dCs

  23. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    It makes a lot of sense. They had experience with docking aircraft. It used to be done with dirigibles in WWI.

    Not in WWI! In the 1930's. The Macon and Akron were giant LTA craft, with internal hangars. They dropped Curtis Sparrowhawk biplanes from a hook on a trapeze, and hauled 'em back the same.

    That's the HUGE hangar in Mountain View CA, next to the Google campus at Moffet. It held the Macon.

  24. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    They gave P-39 to the "Commies" they wanted to Atom Bomb, 5 years later.

    Oceania has always been at war wit Eurasia.

    You see, the reasons were pantomime money games - then and now.

    But the Aircobra! I'd forgotten! Mid-engine, with a cannon through the propeller shaft... Very interesting. If I recall, there were "Hugo Gernsback" type ideas to build dirigible aircraft carriers, with P-39s that would exit from a ramp, in the air... This was in the 30's, when Bell had a prototype, and LTA wasn't yet a disparaged idea. Way crazy.

  25. Re:Stupid on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 4, Informative

    DH Comet? It also had a real problem with birdstrike...

    Having the engines in-line with wing-plane was aerodynamic, but limited turbine diametre while increasing risk in event of failures.

    But agreed. Beautiful and elegant plane - far advanced over Yank planes from Lockheed and Boeing. The oval-window variant was especially so. I flew on BOAC Comet 4's as a child. They don't make 'em like this now...