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  1. Re:Paper maps and confusing directions? on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 1

    Michael Scott? Is that you??

  2. Re:Thank you, Presidents Reagan and Clinton. on The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Roosevelt abhorred the idea of Public Service Unions, as should we all.

  3. Re:Google on Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory? · · Score: 1

    All this single sign on, integrated sign on, etc. is a nightmare for people who prefer to browse the web without the entire fucking world knowing where you've been and what you've been up to. Ya...I know...porn. But there are many other things you wouldn't want people to be snooping into.

    Your bank or other financial services.
    You medical information or interests.
    What social media you frequent
    etc.

    There's nothing worse than going to some website and seeing, "Hi John Dough!". If I want to log in, I'll log in. Otherwise, mind your own business.

  4. Re:Lucky for Stripe on Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies · · Score: 1

    Fuck, EVERYTHING is "Constitutional" due to the Commerce Clause.

    Dumbest and most destructive interpretation ever made.

  5. Time Warner Cable on YouTube Opens Up 60fps To Everyone · · Score: 1

    Those fuckers can barely keep up with the existing standards. There's no way in hell the neighborhood loop can support this.

  6. Confused Reporter on SpaceShipTwo's Rocket Engine Did Not Cause Fatal Crash · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What the reporter states doesn't make sense.

    If there was a structural failure related to the tail, one would imagine it would be because it was deployed while the vehicle was traveling faster than the design speed for the tail, causing greater than planned aerodynamic stresses. Saying it failed because they were going slower than the normal deployment speed just doesn't make sense. Things break when you overstress them, not when you under-stress them.

    Am I missing something?

  7. Flamefest on US Midterm Elections Discussion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Think of the discussion attached to this post as the place to discuss the election:...

    Yeah...you mean a giant flame fest.

    Sometimes I think the Slashdot editors treat Slashdot like a Fire Ant hill...poke it and watch them all scurry around furiously. I bet the popcorn is popped and the drinks are being poured at Slashdot headquarters right now.

  8. Re:Liberals are Egoistical Maniacs on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's ironic that you accuse Conservatives of wanting to send people to camps when it's the Liberals that actually do it.

  9. Re: Truly disgusting pictures on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 2

    Changing regulations to make oral contraceptives over the counter is not the same as forcing others to pay for them.

  10. The Score on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    Space exploration Deaths:

    NASA: 10+ that I can think off off hand. Not including X-15 test pilots that died.

    Private Industry: 1

  11. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    The Public's Best Interest is none of his concern. The Shareholder's best interests are his concern. Period. End of Story.

  12. Re:Ninety Three Years on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Nuclear Power, whether Fission or Fusion will be able to step in. All that is required is to get past the Luddites.

  13. Ninety Three Years on Imagining the Future History of Climate Change · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We went from:

    Horses to landing on the Moon with decades to spare.

    About 1.8 Billion people to nearly 6 billion. If not for war and corrupt governments, all 6 billion would be well fed.

    From about 20 WPM on the Telegraph to 100 terabits per second (experimental)...unless you are using Microsoft Windows, then it's more like 20 bytes per second.

    Average life expectancy of 46 years to now approaching 80.

    I think we will be able to handle whatever fantasies this guy can dream up...but we still won't have a flying car.

  14. Re:pay money for youtube? on YouTube Considering an Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version · · Score: 1

    I'll *watch* the ads as long as they...

    1. Make their player respect the volume level I set and not jack it up to the maximum for every new video.
    2. Disable those stupid, inane, idiotic, moron bait Popups people can put in the videos that typically say, "Subscribe", or, "Click here for the latest version!" and more often than not, are just plain blank.
    3. Quit "suggesting" shit unrelated to my search. If I search for "Lava Lake", I don't want to see videos of Russian Fails in the list.

    And for fuck sake, ditch the Jimmy Kimmel and Ellen fan club on the home page.

  15. Re:Time for Solidarity? on Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants · · Score: 1

    Just don't train your replacements.

  16. Re:Tell me why I should care. on The Man With the Golden Blood · · Score: 1

    Probably means he will be fucked if he ever needs a transfusion.

  17. Re:really? on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    It just took them until 2014 to write it all down, eh?

    Why would Science publish an article tell us what we already know?

  18. Vacation! on EU Sets Goal To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 40% By 2030 · · Score: 1

    I think vacations in Europe will be cheap a few years from now after their economies crash and the Dollar once again becomes worth more that the local currencies.

  19. Why not quit pretending and just go back to the Automat?

  20. Now, instead of waiting in line behind some idiot with 6 kids who don't know what they want, change their minds and bitch and moan they can't get breakfast a 11:05, I'll have to stand behind said idiot while they try to figure out what buttons to push and their maniac kids running around trashing the place.

    I've seen people spending 5 minutes at the damned all in one soda machines trying to figure out how to get a root beer.

  21. Re:Spoiled much? on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1, Troll

    I bet you still have 640K memory in your computer and use floppy drives.

    Because no one will ever need more than 640K and 128K storage media.

  22. Re: Easily done: on 3D-Printed Gun Earns Man Two Years In Japanese Prison · · Score: 1

    How about a a whole fucking book of citations?

  23. Re:Mohammed is the #1 boys name in England on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    He's just teasing Chris Grayling.

  24. Re:Ahhhh.... on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    "absolution"

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  25. Re: a quick search on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    But...Bolt Action??

    Why the preference for bolt action? Is there some unique requirement that rules out Automatics?