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  1. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever considered that you might be a bigot?

    When you lump an entire group of people up, then take behaviors of a small number of them to be behaviors of the whole group, you are the one who is delusional, not them.

  2. To be fair, the highway does terminate in Transylvania, they probably had a hell of a turnover with Dracula eating all their workers.

    In reality though, look at the path the highway takes, it goes across the whole country, which as far as I understand is quite mountainous. The particular section that they worked on is not indicated as to the difficulty though, and the Carpathian mountain section is said to be the most difficult, which apparently they didn't work on.

  3. Oh yes, and shit on foreign nationals a bit more (fun fact: we've not been responsible for a single security incident ever).

    Oh yeah, foreign nationals never exfiltrate information to their home countries... Perhaps you should take your head out of a book, and maybe read some current events, as yes, they do, and are the largest source of leaks. There is a reason that The Big Bang Theory made a joke out of one of the characters dating a woman who defected to North Korea and was only interested in the rocket fuel formula he was working on. It is quite common for foreign nationals to try to steal trade secrets and export them home to North Korea, China, India, and likely other countries. It is easier to steal research than to pay to do the research, so there is a large incentive.

  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    At least link to the sound for the noobs :)

  5. Re: Wrong about that. Wrong about everything? on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    All I can say about that is that people who truely follow Jesus should be loving and accepting, not pricks telling others how to live their lives. My Ex's family was much like the former, they kicked their daughter out of their house when she got pregnant and removed all support from her. This is now something Jesus would have advocated, he after all forgave everyone for their sins, never judging.

  6. Re:Wrong about that. Wrong about everything? on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Galileo was asked to write a paper giving the evidence for both viewpoints, he instead decided to insult the pope by making a fool use his words in the paper instead. That is hardly not supporting science, it is trying to get Galileo to use the scientific method and give evidence to support his claim instead of just saying it is right.

    Perhaps it would be better if you read the whole story before making the church out to be anti science.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system.[8] He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism due to the absence of an observed stellar parallax.[8] The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, and they concluded that it could only be supported as a possibility, not as an established fact.[8][9] Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point.[8] He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.[10][11] It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.[12][13]

    The church asked him to support his position with observation and facts, he decided instead to attack the pope, who was his supporter and friend, which caused him to remove his support and instead the morons in the inquisition were able to bring their case against him. The church attempted to be reasonable with him, and asked him to follow the scientific method of providing evidence for your claims, and instead he used insults against the very same people who were reasonable to him.

    As for the evangelicals, who the hell cares what they think, they broke off from the protestants, who broke off from Catholicism because of a womanizer king, they are hardly the original authority that the Roman Catholic Church can claim through succession.

  7. https://www.twitter.com/robots...

    They disallow all. As for why, it may be technical, or it could be to prevent abuse, who knows.

  8. Re:Why are these Brazilians even having children?! on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    That is quite the image...thank you.

  9. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Then choose a different site. You are supposed to go to the doctor once per year, and all the med plans I have had made those visits free to encourage you to go. According to the pets site of WebMD, you should at least take them once a year for their shots:
    http://pets.webmd.com/features...

    Is that a better source of information for you?

  10. Re: Europe on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you read up the line of comments leading to this one, you will find this comment:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    Each channel in the 800 Mhz band is 2 Mhz. On top of that, the data bandwidth is affected by the carrier frequency, the lower the frequency, the less data you can push through. It makes no sense to try and say that because 800 Mhz is using 20 Mhz of bandwidth just like 2.4 Ghz, it should be able to pass the same amount of data. They are at different frequency bands, so of course it is going to pass les data, on the order of 1/3 the data, on top of that, each channel is only 2 Mhz, not 20, so it can only pass so much data in that channel.

    Now, you may get near the similar data rates from 900 Mhz with 20 Mhz channels, but they are different things, and for different purposes. Plus, 900 Mhz being a little over 1/3 the bandwidth of 2.4 Ghz, it is not going to push over 1/3 of the maximum 2.4 Ghz can push. You might get more data from the reduction of retransmits though.

  11. Re:Exocise this word on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is implying that Alpha Centauri B is gravitationally bound to Sol.

  12. Re:Wrong about that. Wrong about everything? on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Except Catholics created the first universities, and have always supported science. Perhaps you should read up on history a bit more before bashing a whole religion (even if the religion is Islam).

  13. Re:The first thing I think of on Alpha Centauri Turns Out Not To Have a Planet After All. At Least, Not Yet (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    This one was detected with doppler shift, not dimming.

  14. Re:Meh. on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    I find it especially ironic that none of the recent shootings that made the news would have been stopped by his changes if they happened first thing on his swearing in.

    He wants to stop the gun show vulnerability to the system, but that doesn't stop a broken background check system that allowed Dylann Roof to buy a handgun. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
    He went through the background check, but because the database being used sucks, he didn't get flagged.

    The changes wouldn't have stopped Adam Lanza from shooting up Sandy Hook, the guns he used were legally owned by his mother and were available to him.

    I do enjoy the irony in Obama calling for gun control while being surrounded by a private army though. Especially in that all the gun control possible hasn't slowed the crime rate in the city he used to work in of Chicago, or where I am from, Baltimore.

  15. Re:Meh. on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    How is that ironic? She paid into the system, why shouldn't she receive the benefits? I pay social security and medicare taxes, and I expect that when I retire I will use those benefits, this does not indicate however that I agree with the system, as I could easily invest the money in my 401k and come out way ahead of SS.

  16. Re:Infernal Revenue Service on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    However, if Capone hadn't been taken down by the tax evasion, they would have had proof of his illegal activities, it is a catch-22.

  17. Re:And duct tape will do it all on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just speaking about its original use, the standard duct tape everyone uses used to be used for ductwork, however, better tape has appeared, and duct tape is no longer used for that purpose. My house was built in 1973, I can't say I would be surprised to find duct tape on the ductwork, but I have not found any there.

  18. Re:Is this really the best Slashdot can offer us?! on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Stories end up on the front page based on user's votes. If you read the firehose and upvote topics you think should be front page material, those stories make it to the front page (when enough people upvote them).

    No story will ever make it to the front page if it isn't submitted. You really need to start there if you think topics need to be discussed here.

  19. Re:pcworld = crap on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I see all kinds of technical mistakes in the comments around here...

    You must be reading APK posts.

  20. Re:It's just nature's way... on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Please stop anthropomorphizing.

    They hate it when you do that.

  21. Re:Why are these Brazilians even having children?! on Brazil Cautions Women To Avoid Pregnancy Over Zika Virus Outbreak (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus the women are smoking hot, so I can see how it is hard to say no to them when they throw themselves at you.

  22. Hmm, I'd date a wookiee...

  23. Re:And duct tape will do it all on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Duct tape is a type of tape specifically made for ductwork it is grey in color. Duck tape was used to waterproof ammo cases and was green in color

    http://www.octanecreative.com/...

    There have been better tapes invented for duct work, the current tape is shiny.

  24. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    http://healthypets.mercola.com...

    The common wisdom is twice a year. If you don't care if the cat suddenly drops dead from preventable illness, then you don't have to take them unless they have issues.

  25. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends how much the cost of one of these incidents is. I am pretty sure in one incident my parents lose at least $500 worth of food, but they have a full sized upright freezer full of food in the basement that never seemed to shut right.

    For me, no it wouldn't make sense, as I only ever have around $50 worth of food in my fridge. So it all depends on usage.