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  1. Re:Don't worry, they're Canadians on Satellite Glitch Leaves Northern Canada In the (Internet) Dark · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but if multiple satellites point at the sun then it still gets interference.

  2. Re:C&C Server on Android Malware Using Blog As C&C Server · · Score: 2

    What if they completed the hand of nod?

  3. Re:Cheating on NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft · · Score: 1

    on less than one gallon of fuel or electric equivalent

    This is obviously neglecting the energy required for the initial charge of the batteries. A jet would fare much better if you didn't count the fuel in it's tank when it took off.

  4. Re:don't fuck with the people who handle your food on Judge Rules Boss's "Firing Contest" Created a Hostile Work Environment · · Score: 1

    What, are you going to get a food std or something? :P

  5. Re:Sure on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 2

    Heh, but new bridges don't have to worry about backwards compatibility. :P

  6. Re:Pushing to look at alternatives, really? on Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves · · Score: 2

    Post - gress - skwull. Ain't that hard :P . At least they didn't name it after some obscure dodecasyllabic Aztec god.

  7. Re:The GPL and Linux rock! on Linus' Lessons On Software Dev Management · · Score: 1

    Summed up in short: lol cats will be around for a very, very, very long time

  8. Re:Yes or No on IBM Seeks Patent On Retailer-Rigged Driving Routes · · Score: 1

    Well if your OS is a browser . . . :P

  9. Re:First post! on Facebook Timeline Shows Who Has Unfriended You · · Score: 1

    Actually, I would be the first, but it was a complex number so it didn't count. Next time I'll stick to ordered fields, I suppose.

  10. Re:A real problem? on Swedish Daycare Tracks Kids With GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Actually, not anymore. The FDA has recently announced that Swedes are toxic if ingested or inhaled, with an LD50 of 1.3 and 8.9 respectively.

  11. Re:government idiots on EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    IIRC, CFCs were mostly notorious for their longevity in terms of causing damage. Whereas there exist active [carbon|water|etc] cycles for ICE emissions.

    But that's a minor point anyways. The big points are:
    A) The environmental scientists, EPA, and co are much much much more knowledgeable than us slashdot plebs, so armchair internet criticism is kinda weak to say in the least.
    B) In reality, issues with pollution are a "death by 1000 cuts" kind of thing. So any one cut [ie source] is probably "insignificant", but they still need to be dealt with. If only to keep the "death by 1000 cuts" from happening. Think tragedy of the commons, stuff like that.

  12. Re:Couldn't I just do this with a RAM cache? on OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to cache your RAM to an SSD? :P

  13. Re:Automated job killing on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 2

    Oh, and no love for the robots that risk their lives in place of the soldiers? Jerk.

  14. Re:tried the qbasic interpreter on Client-side Web REPL For 15+ Languages · · Score: 1

    qbasic runs in windows too.

  15. Re:Uses Protons... on New Transistor Could Let Chips Interface With Living Systems · · Score: 1

    Hah, protons are so 3 minutes ago. I'm waiting for one that uses neutrons.

  16. Re:Tax planning and rich people on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    That's false, even from a basic economics approach. Tax is a burden that's shared between suppliers and consumers and proportioned based on supply and demand elasticity.

  17. Re:Gibberish - wrapped up as geekspeak on Type Safety Coming To DB Queries · · Score: 1

    Maybe because this isn't an elevator, and I'll be damned if I'm sharing my precious coffee with anybody. :D

  18. Re:1 Infinite Loop on Critic Pans Apple's New Campus As a Retrograde Cocoon · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Take, for instance, the rational numbers and real numbers. Rational numbers are countable infinite, while reals are uncountable infinite. Uncountable infinite sets tend to be larger than countable sets by a factor of about 3-4, although it's gone down a little bit recently since the recession.

  19. Re:Offensive on Turnitin's Different Messages To Students, Teachers · · Score: 1

    Okay, pretend it says:

    "It's so simple a c programmer could do it" :D

  20. Re:750,000 hours MTBF. on 3TB Hard Drive Round Up · · Score: 1

    If you don't use it during that time, it will* :D

    *(Though I do remember somebody saying that extreme amounts of time between use will actually cause harm to the disk the next time it's used)

  21. Re:What, what. on Interview With the Creator of Ruby · · Score: 1

    Github?

  22. Re:and after reading the articles.... on Kernel.org Attackers Didn't Know What They Had · · Score: 1

    The point with ken's trick was that it's possible to throw in changes that are not *persistent* in the source code.

  23. Re:but... on Mac OS X Lion LDAP Vulnerability Emerges · · Score: 1

    lol, I'm a mac user but even I'll never claim that they're the most secure OS. IIRC Apple has an even more horrible track record of addressing bugs than MS.

    Of course, the best (and hardest to achieve) security comes from smart vigilant system admin and smart users. The best operating systems can do is to make their work easier and not undercut their efforts (with serious vulnerabilities, autoplay, weak permissions, etc).

  24. Re:What is with this... on LHC Data Continues To Disagree With Supersymmetry · · Score: 1

    There's something deeply disturbed in how nature works.

  25. Re:real imaginary numbers on Imaging the Molecular Orbitals of Pentacene · · Score: 0

    I find the whole matter irrational.