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  1. Re:Since when did a phaser VAPORIZE its target? on It Takes 2.99 Gigajoules To Vaporize a Human Body · · Score: 1

    It's one louder

  2. Re:Barely related question on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 1

    Range walk!

  3. Didn't work with the Thinkpad on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    This was going to be the next big thing back when it came out on the Thinkpad. Never really took root.

  4. Re:Barely related question on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 1

    Also, the turret turns. It doesn't always face the same direction you are driving.

  5. Re:Barely related question on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 1

    It would get in the way of the machine guns. You don't want to shoot something that is right in front of you.

  6. Re:Barely related question on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Depends on what you are doing. Driving a tank in a sleet storm at 2 am on a track that can barely be called a road is not fun. Tanks churn up mud and dust, and you get covered with it. Everything on the tank ends up like sandpaper. You constantly bang into hard metal objects. It wears you out. Very dangerous too. My driver drove under a tree we didn't see one night. My only warning was the .50 cal hitting the branches. I ducked, but lost my goggles. Went by there the next day, the goggles were on a branch that would have taken my head off. Overall, when the weather is nice, and you are cruising over open terrain, yes it is fun.

  7. Remember him from an Army incedent on Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was driving my tank off a range, when a squirrel ran out in front of us. We weren't going fast, so it took us a while to catch it. It zigzagged back and forth, and finally ran off the trail. At the last second, it dove back under our track. We then warned everyone to watch out for suicidal squirrels.

  8. Re:USB charging on Research Shows E-Cigs Might Be As Good For Quitting As Nicotine Patches · · Score: 1

    Beowolf would die of cancer.

  9. USB charging on Research Shows E-Cigs Might Be As Good For Quitting As Nicotine Patches · · Score: 2

    I just find it strange when people recharge them in the USB port of their laptop.

  10. First on Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Had to do it after http://xkcd.com/1258/

  11. Re:It's not just China.. on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1

    In northern states, we call people from New England Yankees. Which is strange, since the New York has a baseball team called the Yankees, and they are not from New England.

  12. Re:It's not just China.. on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: -1

    But, the US isn't England.

  13. Cool launch on Unmanned NASA Rocket Lifts Off From Wallops Island, On Way To Moon · · Score: 1

    I watched the launch from PA. Very good show. Impressive stage separations.

  14. Sounds like Starship Troopers on Wanted: Special-Ops Battle Suit With Cooling, Computers, Radios, and Sensors · · Score: 1

    The book, not the movies.

  15. Stock in Key Lime Pie on Android 4.4 Named 'KitKat' · · Score: 1

    Crashes upon hearing the news.

  16. Thought is said "Romulan" on Romanian Science In Freefall · · Score: 1

    I would have blamed Kirk for that, but I guess not.

  17. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Read the book sometime. By Daniel Bell, 1973.

  18. Re:Essentially makes texting illegal all the time on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    I think this makes everything illegal that may in some way impact drivers.

  19. Ban distracting radio commercials on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    Ones with honking horns or police sirens are quite dangerous.

  20. Re:It's New Jersey on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    They also don't let you pump your own gas. If they did, you might try to do it while driving, and we can't have that.

  21. Re:How does that Nobel Peace Prize on US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered · · Score: 1

    Poorly worded comment, but yes, I think that the Nobel committee is kicking itself for giving him the peace prize before he even did anything.

  22. Very dangerous on NASA Visualizes Asteroid Grab Mission · · Score: 0

    It has taken billions of years for the Earth to clear its orbit, and all remaining are in relatively safe orbits. Changing an orbit can have devastating consequences if they get it wrong.

  23. Re:And a Tim Horton's by 2035! on International Effort Could Put First Canadian On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Mmmmm... Tim Bits!

  24. Re:Still missing an option.. on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry, but Windows 8 looks more like Windows 1 than 3.1. Windows 1 was useless, since there were no applications. Sound familiar?

  25. Re:Not only first Canadian. First human on the moo on International Effort Could Put First Canadian On the Moon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Best argument that the Moon landings were real. Nixon couldn't cover up Watergate, how was he to get every nation on Earth to help cover up fake Moon landings? Don't you think a Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden type would have let the cat out of the bag? Don't you think the Soviet Union would have blown the cover? Get real.