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  1. Re:My question is.. on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Becoming airborne is not a requisite of a body with a lower coefficient of drag.

    Design a car with a body of an airplane and you will get great fuel efficiency, the only problem is convincing people to drive it.

  2. Still only 20 minutes on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    n principle, the Puffin can cruise at 240 kilometers per hour and dash at more than 480 kph.

    With current state-of-the-art batteries, it has a range of just 80 kilometers if cruising,

    That's a flight time of (80km/(480km/hr)) = 20 minutes. Less than impressive even if they actually were to produce it.

    Although that is a problem they seem to have solved by making it with batteries which don't exist yet.

  3. Re:"No flight ceiling" on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was my personal favorite quote.

    It has no flight ceiling... so it could go up to about 9,150 meters

  4. Re:Slashdot did it first on Half of Google News Users Browse But Don't Click · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nrly hlf of ggl nws usrs dnt click thru to articles. News sites upset. Only 10% of usrs wllng to pay. Click Here for full article. ($10)

  5. Re:Need a better robotic arm on Options Dwindling For Mars Spirit Rover · · Score: 1

    Assuming the dirt behind the rover is not also soft?

  6. Re:As impressively as each other?! WTF?! on Google Switching To EXT4 Filesystem · · Score: 0

    A giant robot running through town you say? Well a monster of that size could only be defeated by an even equally big monster!

  7. Re:Helium on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Helium-3 != Helium-4

    Helium-3 is a rare isotope of Helium on the earth. It has promise for an alternative nuclear fusion fuel as well as whatever else scientists like to do with rare isotopes.

  8. Re:First Day Schedule Released on Sony, IMAX, Discovery To Launch 3D TV Network · · Score: 1

    3D infomercials. Everything is shown on one plane as close as possible to the viewer.

  9. Re:North, South and Reversal on North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux · · Score: 1

    it assumes the generator to stop operating, which I find unlikely, and start again of its own accord, which smacks of a planetary "and then a miracle occurs"

    No, I remember when this happened last time. We had to drive a giant drill to the center of the earth and then start the core spinning again with a nuclear bomb, there were lases. I don't remember much, but this definitely already happened once. I'm sure they could go back one more time.

  10. Re:Fern Gully in Space on Anti-Technology Themes in James Cameron's Avatar · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed Dances with Smurfs

  11. Re:Hmm on Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex · · Score: 1

    This is the reason *I* went to college.

    You too!?

  12. Re:I thought it was mostly about the scam stuff... on Facebook Mafiosi Go To the Mattresses vs. Zynga · · Score: 4, Funny

    Me? Never played any of them, don't plan to. Company's evil, and the wisest thing to do would be for everyone to stay away until they disintegrate.

    Keep up the good work. It won't be long before they listen to our demands!

  13. Re:Pfff. We live off an ECONOMY, not some ecosyste on 94 New Species Described By CA Academy of Sciences · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am a programmer, and I am a big fan of the "need to know" basis. If I am curious I like to learn how things work, but when I am working efficiently I just assume functions and libraries will do exactly what they claim to, and write my code based off of that.

    Living in cities has enabled us to abstract the bare necessities. Since we do not need to worry about where our food comes from, or how it is made; just that it will be there when we need it, we can focus ourselves more intensely on other subjects, increasing the net productivity of society as a whole. Granted in the event of a natural disaster of epic proportions most of the society would die off due to lack of basic survival skills. It is a gamble.

  14. Re:Easy money to be made? on FASTRA II Puts 13 GPUs In a Desktop Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    ASUS.

    I didn't even RTFA, i just WTFV

  15. Re:You said 'it' on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wanted to post it 10 times in a row, but slashdot has a filter on too much repetition... who knew?

  16. Re:some of the usage is ridiculous on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    They redefine Unlimited to mean Unlimited use, as opposed to pay by the minute or pay by the hour. Unlimited access, not unlimited data. Under their terms you can have unlimited access to the bandwidth, but if you go over a certain amount of data they charge overages.

  17. Re:some of the usage is ridiculous on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 1

    Although, Unlimited does mean Unlimited, Unlimited* means Unlimited*. Read the fine print.

  18. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 3, Funny

    The reliability of Wikipedia articles is considered by most to be uncertain, as sources find that many errors are produced by editors who clean-up articles. Most errors go undetected for long periods of time. [1]

  19. That proves it. on Scientists Confirm Fast is Best for Band-Aid Removal · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A study at Queensland's James Cook University used 65 medical students who removed Band-Aids either quickly or slowly, and ranked their pain reaction from zero to 10.

  20. Re:Proposed Anti-Anti-Piracy Advertisement on Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Ideas on How Do I Keep My Privacy While Using Google? · · Score: 1

    1. It randomizes search terms instead of following believable search patterns. Example 'search stream': Shoes, virus protection, Hannah Montana, flamethrower "do it yourself", Hawaii, spark plugs, military surplus, speaker system, Exhaust Flame Thrower Kits... It's pretty easy to see what's real and what's fake.

    Trivial... Fake searches have been highlighted.

  22. Re:Because? on GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project · · Score: 1

    Samsung

    Televisions Samsung

    Samsung Group

    Samsung Digital Camera

    Samsung Mobile USA

    Samsung Electro-Mechanics

    All Samsung phones

    Samsung GVI Security

    SAMSUNGs Digital World

    Samsung Electronics ODD

  23. Re:Age and quality. on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 1

    You think there might be an achievement for posting here? Interesting.

  24. Re:infinite? on "Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan · · Score: 2, Funny

    if you allow arbitrary separation then the number of combinations is infinite.

    +3 Interesting? Really?

    It could only have been worse if it was Informative.

  25. Re:Half a game? on Pirates as a Marketplace · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but with a pirated copy of the game I wouldn't even think of going online, much less buying additional content through my pirated copy revealing my identity. I think that other pirates will have the same state of mind. Even if they might think the DLC is worth the $5 they'll just pirate it to be safe.