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  1. Yet another reason to scorn social media on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    but hey... it is easy to get brag posts of my erstwhile "friends" vacations - so why not.

  2. Startup, startdown on Aereo Shutting Down Boston Office · · Score: 1

    This is the way of things. I am sure the execs will not be hurting. The employees? Go find another job, you,

  3. Move away from people on Ask Slashdot: Minimizing Oil and Gas Dependency In a Central European City? · · Score: 3, Informative

    When they are sitting in the cold dark and see your lights, you have scant minutes before they kick down your door.

  4. Sweet! on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could use $11,000.

    Too bad I have no clue who was sending those threats.

  5. Kansas City - not the best market to look at on Gigabit Internet Connections Make Property Values Rise · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Do the study in a real housing market like DC or NYC or San Fran - then we'll see if the theory holds water.

    Some backwater with a 2.7% rise in values is definitely not worth the time to even research.

  6. Space isnt happening until it turns a profit on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    Argue it all you want, but funding is the most critical fuel that any space ship burns.

  7. Re:Well past the time on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    fourth powered test is pretty close to being the first

  8. Re:Huge setback on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 1

    yeah but there are still blimps

  9. Re:Thanks for making my point on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 2

    I worked on space rated instruments at NASA Goddard for a while, and talked to a very old dude who claims to have seen this happen once in his very long career.

  10. Re:She's.. on Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer · · Score: 1

    I believe TFA said the point of deleting in that fashion *was* to be obvious,

  11. Prisons are now in your hand on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Sold by Apple and Samsung.

    Who cares where the body is if they have captured the mind?

  12. I suppose making it look like candy... on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    ...was too difficult?

  13. Spies are spying on Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany · · Score: 1

    You don't say.

  14. Re:More feminist bullshit on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    >> Do you think the reactions 'round here would be different if it had been a woman harassing a guy?

    Clearly you haven't been hanging around this site for very long.

  15. Re:Ahh, but karma on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Dying before being brought to justice only means you got away with it.

  16. Re:Humans won't be humans on mars on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    Like all viruses, we will mutate as we infect different hosts.

  17. Why bother? on Elon Musk: We Must Put a Million People On Mars To Safeguard Humanity · · Score: 1

    Well just F up that planet too.

    The concept of treating planets as disposable vessels for humans to be sucked dry and then we move on basically makes us a cancer.

  18. Re:Feet and inches on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    It is simply so that they don't have to print two boxes, and they sell more TV's in the US.

  19. Re:The best quote from the article on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Maybe it is just a supposition that closed minded persons generally don't come to the best/most appropriate conclusions.

  20. Re:After working missile defense for years... on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, it is hard to say about that. Ship to ship combat in space would probably be carried out by drones. The fragile meat bags inside would never survive the acceleration.

    I sat in a radar site in Hawaii at PMRF staring at a screen during the tests I supported. A target missile was launched from a pad a few miles away (you sure as hell could hear and feel THAT!) and the intercepting ship (as in a US Navy guided missile cruiser, not a space ship) was a couple of hundred miles away. The launches I witnessed... in under a second the target was through the clouds and five seconds later was gone leaving just a trail. The interceptor makes the target look like an old lady trying to out sprint Usain Bolt (I am told it would be supersonic before it leaves the launch tube on the ship... but I never saw a ship launch but every sailor I talked to who did said it was very impressive for the brief moment they got to experience it - from inside the ship.)

    Other than that there was nothing to see. The intercept itself was over the horizon, so it had to be "viewed" from an aircraft.

  21. Re:There Ain't No Stealth In Space on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    Project Rho is a crap shoot for what it gets right and what it gets wrong.

  22. After working missile defense for years... on The Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...I can tell you another thing about space battles: you don't see anything aside from a few tracks on a computer screen. If you have a telescope pointed in the right direction at the exact right time you see a very unimpressive and quick flash.

    The ranges, timing, and velocities involved are far too great for human perception.

  23. Re:Answers on The Minecraft Parent · · Score: 1

    What is the XBox 360 version written in?

  24. Re:Yep on The Minecraft Parent · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever called your parents realists.

  25. I guess FalseCrypt was taken on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 2

    CipherShed indeed.