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  1. Re:Wierd headline on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    Satellite radio. Subscription based ad-free music streaming to my ear drums. Just because standard tv is that way doesn't mean it's the right way or even it way it should be.

  2. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    it's like listing complaints against your neighbor as a) throwing grenades through your window and, b) not returning the garden hose you lent him.

    Both can result in me pursuing legal action of some sort, so I guess those do equate too.

  3. Re: Wait, dolphins? on Military Dolphins Discover 1800s Torpedo · · Score: 5, Informative

    They operate as part of the US Navy Marine Mammal Program In the early days of the program, various marine mammal species were considered including: killer whales, pilot whales, belugas (white whales), Steller sea lions, grey seals and fur seals. Other animals were used in various studies pertaining to locating personnel from downed aircraft and creating effective shark deterrents to protect them until they could be rescued.

  4. Re: Choice of average on Why US Mileage Ratings Are So Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    I forgot then when different cars determine their miles per gallon, the size of a gallon (the denominator) is what changes, not the miles that it can go.

  5. Re:The Navy? on The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    The thought behind the weld was simple. He asked experts if their sons were on board would they rather have a gasket design function 100% guaranteed or have a weld there to back it. The result was both, the belt and suspenders approach. Yes it makes it more difficult. Yes you have to reweld. But like he said, it's our sons, I'd prefer we had some redundancy. As far as surface vessels go, who knows, we may go back to nuke powered destroyers loaded up with electronic weapons.

  6. Re:The Navy? on The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    USS NAUTILUS, the first nuke powered naval vessel and Rickover's dream, pulled into port in February 1957 to be refueled. The refueling was complete by Mid-April 1957. Source

  7. Re:The Navy? on The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants · · Score: 1

    VIRGINIA CLASS Submarines have a life of the ship core. 33 years, no refueling.

  8. Re:The Navy? on The Rise of Small Nuclear Plants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because a huge carrier is so hard to see, I have to listen for it.

  9. Re:I estimate on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    no he just screwed up the conversion to metric....

  10. Re:Pi - I win on International Longest Tweet Contest Seeks Entries · · Score: 1

    Fail.

    "A number that is ten greater than the largest number which is expressible in the English language using no more than 140 letters or numbers."

    If you're only better by 1, you didn't try hard enough.

  11. Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 2, Funny

    You'll see him about the same time you see Jesus' Brother Bob

  12. Re:WHAT! on Entergy Admits 2005 Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    The difference being that the Tritium in luminous devices is contained

    Until I trip on the ice in front of a big box store, break the watch open and sue the both the manufacturer of the watch for using Tritium and the big box store for having unsafe practices in regards to ice that could cause both personal injury and environmental concerns in the form of Tritium leaks. The irony of course being that nuclear power plants (which produce tritium as a by product) and big box stores are both things that most Americans don't want in their back yard.

    The tritium at Vermont Yankee was contained as well... until it wasn't anymore. But I do agree that they should have to clean it up and pay the price. The generl public does need more confidence in nuclear.

  13. Re:No, that won't do on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    You mean Graving Dock 3, the Jimmy Carter, part of the wall collapsing, and subsequently having initial float-off moved up to the next day, regardless of the fact that equipment was still on the bottom of the dock. But close enough.

  14. Re:No, that won't do on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, grab some EB Green. There's got to be at least one ex-Electric Boat employee working at Vermont Yankee with some laying around at home.

  15. Re:Schrodinger's Auto-Focus on Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed · · Score: 1

    But was it curiosity that killed the cat or was it already dead?

  16. Re:When Signed/Unsigned Strikes on Bizarre Droid Auto-Focus Bug Revealed · · Score: 1

    But Justin Long is Apple signed. Once you're apple signed you're not allowed to work on any non apple hardware. Therefore I can assure you we will not be waiting a justin long.

  17. Re:AAA's new market on NASA To Try Powering Mars Rover "Spirit" Out of Sand Trap · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Must have been hard to come up with that one.

    Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 14, @05:08AM from the calls-to-onstar-have-gone-unanswered dept.

  18. Re:paper in your wallet on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Really? I couldn't see it. this is what i saw

    Really? That works? My password is ********.

  19. Re:Bias exists for a reason on Going Head To Head With Genius On Playlists · · Score: 1

    Let's try an example. Kings of Leon is enjoying some pretty good success right now with songs from their most recent album reaching the top 5 of Billbaord, Hot 100, and other charts. But the band formed in 1999. For for the better part of a decade they were only "good" to a small number as you put it. But then how did they suddenly jump out of relative obscurity to the top of mainstream charts?

  20. Re:Unauthorized on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As is the common theme is monopoly suits, it depends on what you define the market as. If the market is hardware that can legally run Mac OS X, then Apple most certainly does have a monopoly. Besides, I said monopolistic tendencies, inferring that it COULD become a problem.

    How much money will you make on sales of your hardware/software that prints "hello world" and how much will you make by suing everyone that infringes on your copyrighted software running on non approved hardware as they write their first code that prints "hello world"? I'm interested in your business model.

  21. Re:Unauthorized on Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yet if MS tried the same tactic of requiring MS branded hardware, the whole world would cry foul. Sounds like monopolistic tendencies in the EULA.

  22. Re:Say what? on Wait For Windows 7 SP1, Support Firm Warns Users · · Score: 1

    I thought this was a bash Microsoft thread, not a bash Google thread. Must have missed something.

  23. Re:Use for town on EPA To Buy Small Town In Kansas · · Score: 1

    So you want to bring The Hunger Games to a town near you, instead of a theater near you? I like it.

  24. Re:UH? on Will Google and Android Kill Standalone GPS? · · Score: 1, Informative

    You're referring to this. It's a reality and available now.

  25. Re:Gmail is not ready. on Los Angeles Goes Google Apps With Microsoft Cash · · Score: 1

    Wow, what did we ever do without email? Yes, now it is used for a great many things, but have you really forgotten how to get someone to sign-off on a procedure without an email being involved? You'd think nothing ever got done pre-interwebs. My work (government contractor) is currently on week 3 with no internet connection, and yet it's business as usual. You're foolish to think a couple hours of downtime for your email server is that catastrophic.