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  1. Re:Just as with the Occupy movement and Wikileaks: on DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political · · Score: 1

    It is so prevalent, it's already bearing a name: it is called the iron triangle

  2. Re:Sort of interesting, but... on The Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation · · Score: 1

    Or, shall we see another case of the famous Slashdot Double Standard?

    Why not, is it forbidden? I'm looking to Washington DC and I don't see a Single Standard, even if US may benefit from having one (e.g. consider the Constitution, how many "standard" interpretation it does have?).

  3. Re:Orwell would be proud on U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus · · Score: 1

    American innovation hinges on creativity

    so let's do everything we can to stifle it.

    Why do you hate Orwell so much?

  4. Re:It is all that America has left on U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus · · Score: 2

    You can't make a Hollywood blockbuster in China or India or South Africa, you can't outsource new music to India...

    You reckon?

  5. Re:Addie the Atom Says... on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 2

    when the evil space aliens come we need more than just 1000 nukes to blow up their giant space ships

    Seriously though... (grin)... for evil aliens, we know Slim Whitman is enough (unless RIAA sends a C&D/DMCA take down letter). The only use for them would be to hit asteroids, with no space shuttles and Bruce Willis close to the retirement, they are useless.

  6. Re:Nothing To Worry About on Six of Hanford's Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly · · Score: 1

    ...but for now officials are trying just to stop the leaking from the corroded tanks.

    I'll stop worrying when the officials will literally try themselves to stop the leaking (and, of course... video clip or it didn't happen)

  7. Re:I have another idea on Open Source Emoji Project Wants Money For Icons · · Score: 2

    F**king emoticons.

    On the other hand, if you'd paid money for them to do this project, then you'd have more expressive emoticons than * to represent your abject fear and loathing of this whole emoticon nonsense.

    Fat chance with /.'s UNICODE support - I lost hopes to see it in this life.

  8. Re:Is this a serious OS? on Minix 3.2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    END

  9. Will outside of the research community read the publications?

    Even if it's hard for you to believe it, the answer is positive (and I'm not doing it for monetary profit either)

  10. Why within a year and not immediately on White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research · · Score: 1

    Why within a year and not immediately? (just don't dare give me the "national security" BS! If it would be of "classified nature", then it wouldn't be published in a journal that provides the paper for anyone willing to pay 30 bucks or so).

  11. Re:[NOT]Cool! on France Plans 20-Billion Euro National Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_highways_in_the_United_States

    As per usual the Slashdot socialist class gets everything wrong.

    Excerpts from the "commie" past of US (i.e a more sane US):

    Brooklyn Bridge

    Route 66

    Golden Gate Bridge

    Hoover dam

    Moon landing

  12. Re:Car to Car Spectrum is needed. on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Yeah OK, I'm still holding my breath for IPv6...

    Maybe paradoxically, methinks self-driven cars has chances to speed the adoption of IPv6 in the context of "the internet of things".
    (you know? the internet where there's a site called "bonnetface"... and "honker", and google-drive+)

  13. Re:Car to Car Spectrum is needed. on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Not only that but you could read a book while been driven to work.

    FTFY. (I couldn't: motion sickness. Out of boredom, I'll drive the car instead of being driven; therefore the car makers' holy grail is of no consequence to me).

  14. Re:Show me the money on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    broadcasting rate and position and intent?

    who's intent?

  15. Re:needed because? on Carmakers Oppose Opening Up 5GHZ Spectrum Space For Unlicensed Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    the "oh just use wireless" mentality really bugs me.

    Let me quote an aphorism launched by a well-known personality about 4 years ago:

    Everything is better with bluetooth

  16. Re:Open internet in NK on North Korea To Enable Mobile Internet Access — For Visitors Only · · Score: 1

    Open internet

    Who said open internet in NK? TFS talks about super-titious ... err.. let me copy/paste... surreptitious (here you go) access, does that sound as open bare to you?

  17. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Wow, will those panels really last 20-30 years on a roof? I'm picturing myself spending a lot of time up on the roof soldering replacement panels in!

    To be sincere, I don't know. Note they are actually "modules" (no longer individual panels to be soldered together) so they actually might.
    In Australia, without aberrant custom taxes, the "installation industry" really took off. The price is about $1.5-$1.6/W installed on your roof and dropping... the 25y warranty was offered to me by the installer (and most probably backed by the manufacturer).

    Here's an insight on what a mature "installation industry" has to do with the prices.

    And here's a site that seems to offer reasonable prices with the added advantage you can actually ask them about warranty conditions.

  18. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Percentage of wages supported my point of "didn't need to sacrifice my first born". I mean, everybody knows buying a tire factory in India is the way of tomorrow in term of ROI (wink) but who can afford it?

    Ahhh, but you CAN still invest your money in an Indian tire factory via equities and bonds. That's why ROI for the panels is so important. If I'm tying up my capital for 15 years, I want to be sure it all works out! I have the money for an install, but right now it is sitting in equities earning over 10%... now, I don't expect to get that kind of return consistently, but I need to know what I'm up against.

    I see you are not risk adverse. Tell you what: if you can get around custom taxes (or have them at decent level), maybe you can try to import the panels for your own use (instead of for resale) and arrange for a local installer to put them up and running... maybe even get some rebates from feds or whoever.

  19. Re:Bow down on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 1

    Oh, I thought you meant just whacking mosquitos that land on you with a pencil. A use, while not as cool as using it in space, is effective none the less.

    ;) Yeap... even more effective for astronauts in space... I'm yet to see an astronaut in space armed with a pencil and still be bitten by a malaria carrying mosquito

  20. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    I'm not the one who mentioned your wage! :) Thanks for the more concrete numbers... ROI is far more useful than percent of your wage.

    Percentage of wages supported my point of "didn't need to sacrifice my first born". I mean, everybody knows buying a tire factory in India is the way of tomorrow in term of ROI (wink) but who can afford it?

    That's an amazing drop in price. Just 3 years ago ROI was around 15-20 years in my area (PA) unless you were lucky enough to get the big government incentives.

    Unfortunately, for you it still is. I know now why.

  21. Re:This is cool and all, but... on Quadrocopters Throwing and Catching an Inverted Pendulum · · Score: 1

    Because they'll try balancing a human next.

  22. Re:Why is it called an inverted pendulum? on Quadrocopters Throwing and Catching an Inverted Pendulum · · Score: 3, Informative
  23. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Source - Me, I had a 6kw system installed last fall, to the tune of about $31,000 - pretax rebate.

    Ah, I know now why the US citizens pay through their noses maybe 4-6 times more than the selling price including transport by fast courier... their govt needs taxes! (that's bonkers. A family that pays less on power bills will have more money to spend on something else)

  24. Re:Support a second controller on Official: Playstation 4 Will Play Used Games · · Score: 2

    Case in point: Where are the PC fighting games other than Street Fighter IV?

    Take your hands off my keyboard, I'm flying solo.

    Trying to be more serious... maybe MMO...G-es killed them?

  25. Re:Cool idea, but never happen... on NASA's Basement Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Source - Me, I had a 6kw system installed last fall, to the tune of about $31,000 - pretax rebate.

    Wadda? (Never mind, Americans must be nuts)

    Cheers, mates! Down here, the beer actually have taste, women glow, men chunder (used to plunder, but no more) and the PV-es are a bargain You'd better take cover.