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  1. Re:government privatized on Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash · · Score: 1

    A free market allows for competition. You're not allowed to compete with the government.

  2. Black Hornet is White on Handheld Black Hornet Nano Drones Issued To UK Soldiers · · Score: 2

    If they're going to call it a Black Hornet why not make it black?

  3. Re:Here's an idea ... on France Proposes a Tax On Personal Information Collection · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that you point out the views on capitalism. Voltaire's Letters Concerning the English Nation remarked on this same sentiment. That was back in 1733, and it seems that has never changed.

  4. Re:Gift books on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    I prefer this method. The book isn't helping anyone by sitting on a shelf.

  5. Re:Neither new nor interesting on Maybe the FAA Gadget Ban On Liftoff and Landing Isn't So Bad · · Score: 1

    There used to be a day when you could even smoke on the plane. Ever watch Pan Am?!

  6. Too many Coronas on Sun Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    I sometimes have mass ejections as well if I drink too many Coronas. :D

  7. $60 million a year business on New Cable Designed To Deter Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that stealing copper is a $60 million a year business.

  8. Ace Hardware on Space Is (Not) the Place, Says Professor · · Score: 1

    Ace is the place!

  9. Center on Inside Las Vegas' Biggest Data Centre · · Score: 2

    I know people like to be culturally diverse and all, but if it is in American English, it's spelled CENTER!

  10. MIDI foot controllers on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    I've done this with MIDI foot controllers before. If you count the fact that many MIDI devices also have USB interfaces, then this has been done before.

  11. Re:Given how specialized the use case scenarios ar on AMD Betting Future On the GPGPU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As can Postgresql using pgopencl.

  12. Antihumor on Antihelium Discovered By STAR · · Score: 1

    'After antihelium the next stable antimatter nucleus would be antilithium'

    Then we can have deep voices and even worse mood swings.

  13. Re:Not the same thing on How Watchmen Killed 'R'-rated Fantasy Movies · · Score: 1

    I strongly suspect the real issue is there aren't enough people with taste similar to yours to make the types of movies you want to see financially viable.

    Sadly, the other part of this issue is that it costs so much to produce these films that they have to get funding from major studios who care about demographics.

  14. Costs on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Stop charging $40 for your shitty porno and maybe people will care.
    New Hollywood movies don't even cost that much on blu-ray.

  15. Transparent floor? on Airbus Planning Transparent Planes · · Score: 1

    Unless they make transparent cargo, this is useless.

  16. Congrats IBM! on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    You managed to optimize your SQL query.

    When I optimize my queries, why don't I get press releases?!

  17. One beep for yes on "Vegetative State" Patients Can Communicate · · Score: 1

    Two beeps for stop bothering me, I'm sleeping!

  18. Simpsons did it. on Doom-Like Video Surveillance For Ports In Development · · Score: 1

    This is nothing really new or novel. I remember seeing something like this being covered on tv like 5 years ago. In fact here are some examples.

    http://vgtc.org/wpmu/3dui09/2009/03/17/egocentric-navigation-for-video-surveillance-in-3d-virtual-environments/
    http://www.feelingsoftware.com/

  19. No pictures on Programmable Quantum Computer Created · · Score: 1

    makes this a worthless article. How do we even know it exists? There were no pictures!

  20. Damn right! on Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because of this, I will continue to not wash my hands, ever.

  21. Reducing delays? on Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space · · Score: 1

    Satalite based communications always had a decent delay.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access

    "Factoring in other normal delays from network sources gives a typical one-way connection latency of 500–700 ms from the user to the ISP, or about 1,000–1,400 milliseconds latency for the total Round Trip Time (RTT) back to the user. "

  22. Social Inequality in Action on Pittsburgh To Tax Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What about the 40 year old guy who works full time and goes to classes in the evening? Is he not paying his fair share by being an otherwise typical citizen of Pittsburgh? I see quite a few people that fit the scenario where I go, which has only increased due to the economy. So the county sheriff that wants a justice degree to get a pay raise has to pay the city an extra $400 to do so? What about the single mom that barely has time to go to school between raising a kid and working two jobs? She's now paying her fair share? This is social inequality in action.

  23. Re:Where is 1.5? on Ten Features To Love About Android 1.5 · · Score: 1

    Same here. I still haven't received mine.

  24. Emailahol?! on Emailaholics Reveal Their Habits · · Score: 1

    I know that many people can get addicted to Chocolahol, but I wasn't aware of there being a substance called Emailahol.

    Aside from that, there a many harder substances, such as Twitterhol, and Textahol. Perhaps, Emailahol is a gateway addiction to worse habbits?

    On that note, stop adding "aholic" as a suffix to things to describe addiction. We don't call nicotine addicts, Nicoholics! Nor, do we call heroin addicts, heroinaholics.

  25. Luck of the draw on Apple Reconsiders, Approves NIN iPhone App · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the application review process works much like tech support.
    Sometimes you get a helpful individual, and sometimes you get a total jerk.
    I'm guessing it's not a collective decision by Apple, but an individual or a few people that just happened to have that opinion of the app.
    That would certainly explain how the app approval process appears to be very arbitrary.