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  1. Space Police on Pentagon Sets Tone For Future Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Nice to see they are rolling back to just being space police and the delivery arm of the military.

  2. Re:Dinosaurs? on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 4, Funny

    We will know the real distance when the bang gets here, as long as someone remembered to count when they saw the bang.

  3. Re:Damn it! on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Sketches? on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is like vampires and canals on Mars?

  5. Bam! on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 3, Funny

    Emeril sure gets around.

  6. Re:Was it smart? on Giant Archaeological Trove Found Via Google Earth · · Score: 1

    To post this on the web? Potential for grave robbers is incredible in that area. And those may be extremely interesting from an archeological point of view.

    Beloved knows how to drive a bulldozer and I know how to be cute and distracting. Private antiquities auctions, here we come!

  7. Re:Exploits? on Hack Chrome, Win $20,000 · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit confused by the article. They use so many buzzwords I'm not sure what they're looking for when they say "hack".

    1 vulnerability to escape a sandbox, 1 vulnerability to exploit a bug in chrome, but to what end? Hijacking someone's session data?

    Golf may be involved. Perhaps a taxi driver golfing, with a driver.

  8. Slashdot wins on Hack Chrome, Win $20,000 · · Score: 1

    I presume it would be easier on Windows anyway so who cares?

    My Chrome on Win7 looks all funny in the new Slashdot.

  9. Re:Cheers for Egyptians Everywhere! on Egypt Coming Back On the 'net · · Score: 1

    I'll hold off cheering until AFTER they install a democ government.

    but for some reason, I suspect it will be a muslim-based one. in which case, we are now WORSE off.

    change - for change sake - does not always get us what we were hoping for.

    I'll hold off cheering until I see WHO is going to run that country.

    I am cheering this event and only this event thankyouverymuch.

  10. Cheers for Egyptians Everywhere! on Egypt Coming Back On the 'net · · Score: 0

    Egyptians and their fans too, of course.

  11. Re:A Straw Vote! on More Trouble Expected When Egypt Comes Back Online · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Try that one against the Muslim Brotherhood/CAIR after they take over Egypt. If you think the government there was "mean" before, you just watch and see what a *mean* version of Iran is like. They don't beast you with routers and the AK-47 bullets are metal, not rubber.

  12. Re:Long on Rhetoric on Firewalls Make DDoS Attacks Worse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Short on specifics.

    So I did not miss anything by not RTFA?

  13. Re:Google results still much more accurate on Google Would Beat Bing At Jeopardy, Says Wolfram · · Score: 0

    I switched from Alta Vista to Google when I was a kid and never switched back.

  14. Re:Get over it on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    And I am not a guy.

  15. Re:Get over it on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    I am from Richmond, VA.

  16. Re:So much for "Don't be evil" on Connecticut AG Opts For Street View Settlement, Without Seeing the Data · · Score: 1

    If someone is shouting-out, "I'm going to check my email...... next I'm surfing over to pay my bank bills... and now I'm visiting playboy.com," such that everyone within a radius of 1 block can hear it

    That doesn't make the listener an "evil" person.

    That is precisely the point. Securing it would be a good step too. Suing a company for "hearing" broadcasts is just dumb.

  17. Re:sigh on FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped · · Score: 0

    My comment above was supposed to have this in it (and did in preview):

    Excellent comparison. Cases like the one you cite haunt us today and get lost in the noise of his more publicized atrocities, like the internment of American citizens based solely on ethnicity.

  18. Re:sigh on FCC Wants Net Neutrality Suits Stopped · · Score: 0

    >>>will it mater next week? month? year?

    Probably.

    In the 1930s the Fuhrer Roosevelt* ordered a farmer to "grow half as much wheat" as part of his rationing plan (which also led to rampant food shortages). The farmer said it's HIS land for HIS personal consumption by himself and his family, and he can grow whatever the hell he wants to grow on HIS property.

    The Supreme Court heard the case circa 1940 and decided the farmer is merely a Serf of the State, and has no right to decide what he wants to grow because it "affects" interstate commerce even if the wheat never leaves the farmer's Home.

    That decision has haunted us for 70+ years and given the government virtually unlimited control to regulate our households. - How much energy we use, whether or not our water is drugged, what kind of low-flow toilet we buy (and which requires two flushes), and so on. THIS decision regarding whether the FCC can regulate private websites streaming over private cables into private homes is just as far-reaching.

    The precedent could easily be used by a future FCC lawyer to argue they not only have the right to regulate the Private Internet, but also Private Cable TV and censor what is transmitted (i.e. goodbye FOX/MSNBC because they are too political, and goodbye swearing/nudity in movies or HBO).

    *

    Excellent comparison. He did so many things back then that we would be outraged with now, like internment of Americans based on ethnicity, that cases like the one you cite get lost in the noise. However, the SCOTUS item you cite still haunts us today.
    *
    The other thing Fuhrer Roosevelt did was to jail people who dared say, "This war is wrong. We should not be involved," and to imprison 1 million Americans simply because they had grandparents who were japanese or german. (Thereby violating all 10 rights codified in the Bill of Rights.) Yes. I hate that guy.

  19. Re:So does Cuba on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    No, I just call 126918 the user id, and 35044590 the comment id =P But yes, if you must know, any UID below a million seems weird to me in combination with such a stupid comment. (would you call that comment "not stupid", by the way? ^^)... which means *I* would be fine to make it, but all you guys should be held up to higher standards. (haha)

    No, I found it stupid but did not need a qualifier ;)

  20. Re:So does Cuba on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    that's not the user id, that's the comment id ^^

    So you call #126918 low? Okay, a few digits lower than mine, but still.

  21. Re:Get over it on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    Sorry, not all of us are chinese, so it is news for us!

    I am not Chinese either, but non-Asians confuse me as being Chinese all of the time! Some Asians too, but not many.

  22. Re:So does Cuba on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    You call #35044590 low? I bow to your #35045980 superiority ;)

  23. Re:Really? on China Blocks 'Egypt' On Twitter-Like Site · · Score: 0

    The Chinese govt gets nervous anytime any dictatorship is under attack.

    Guilty conscience pricks the mind.

    I think they are only fussy about the ones they are involved with. In this case, the Muslim Brotherhood waiting for the current unpleasantness to blow over.

  24. Re:Can Pluto be a galaxy? on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Pluto's not a planet, maybe it's a galaxy!

    Not swirly enough, but I like your thought :)

  25. Stop that! on What Exactly Is a Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Galaxies are social constructs.

    That is how I lost my beloved Pluto! Now you people want to take away my pretty, swirly Galaxies! Wait, this one could go my way if I get a consensus on "swirly." I can concede pretty, but I am standing firm on swirly.