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  1. Looking forward to exploring the changes... on Slashdot Coming Attractions · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a casual user, I do find that some of these features are less than immediately obvious - is there a beginner's guide to some of these features?

  2. Refining capacity on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    You can have 10 trillion barrels of oil, but if you can only turn 1M / day into gas, that is your limiting factor. (I'm using made up numbers to illustrate a point). I think that has always been more of an issue. Anyways, don't liberals want higher gas prices, to discourage consumption?

  3. Re:One word on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    I think your point is generally correct, but are the banks big speculators in oil & gas?

  4. Re:One word on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 1

    That's his point. Are you familiar with the context that phrase is usually used in?

  5. Re:Big deal on Millions In China Live In Energy Efficient Caves · · Score: 1

    "No women, either!!!"

  6. Re:Double standards AGAIN.... on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 1

    Have you noticed that Israel HAS nukes but hasn't used them, whereas Iran regularly tells people about which nations that they want to wipe from the face of the Earth?

  7. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 0

    Iran has been working on this since before that speech. Nice try to blame us, Mahmoud.

  8. Re:Low Power on Japan's Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Coal? Hamsters on spinning exercise wheels?

  9. Re:Praying for on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    And the arms crossed under breasts.

  10. A good start on Best Practice: Travel Light To China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good to see companies waking up to a very obvious threat. Next will be if they can figure out that sharing IP for a little bit of extra market share over there is NOT a good long term investment.

  11. Re:Simple solution...no more Russian taxis to ISS on Russian Official Implies Foul Play In Mars Probe Failure · · Score: 1

    Thank you. This made my morning.

  12. So, where's it headed? on Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    Anyplace interesting? Did we point it at something specific?

  13. Re:Another term for "nuclear winter" on Public Supports Geo-Engineering · · Score: 1

    Came here to post this. I know it's not the same, but it's still funny to think of that kind of action even being possible.

  14. Not sure how they could stop it... on Blue Coat Denies Its Devices Helping Syrian Gov't · · Score: 2

    In a world where Iran has nuclear centrifuges, Mexican drug lords have military weapons, Columbian drug cartels have submarines, how could Bluecoat stop some reseller from selling something to Syria?

  15. Free as in... on First Billion Dollar Open Source Software Vendor · · Score: 1

    beer?

  16. Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can the prosecution prove that with proper warning, any specific number of lives or amount of property would have been saved? I doubt it.

  17. Re:Hello, Dr Frankenoppenheimer. on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1
    They will get their energy from people.

    There are fields...endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For longest time, I wouldn't belive it...and then I saw the fields with my own eyes.

  18. Re:The Grey Goo Apocalypse on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    This has all happened before, and it will all happen again.

  19. Re:Really? on Starz To Pull Content From Netflix · · Score: 1

    And you know how that this is all Netflix's fault?

  20. Re:They're looking to the future. on Ex-Board Member Says HP Is Committing 'Corporate Suicide' · · Score: 1

    You're half right. Long term thinking is good and should be rewarded. A company losing 1/2 its value doesn't mean that they are guaranteed any long term success though. Still plenty of servers to be sold.

  21. Re:What a stupid summary... on New Mexico Spaceport Nearly Ready For Business · · Score: 1

    Thank you. If there's something that generates economic activity, it will end up helping poor people, too. There are jobs to be had at places like this, including construction, logistics, food services and more. If someone is spending 200K/pop, it's not all going to the parent company, there are expenses related to operations and that's what makes up our economy - people spending money, other people providing services & turning a profit.

  22. Re:On my Christmas list on Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc · · Score: 1

    You'll need a good reader though, to reconstitute yourself after the next Big Bang.

  23. Re:Not Piracy on Aaron Swartz Indicted in Attempted Piracy of Four Million Documents · · Score: 2

    Also he's apparently not a reddit co-founder.

  24. Re:Cable too please! on SCOTUS Rules Incumbent Telcos Must Share Network Access At Cost · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My thought on local cable was that you should do a bit like electricity deregulation - have one company that runs the fiber to the house, which requires the massive money investment. They lease out usage to TV, internet or whoever at regulated rates. Have wide open competition for content providers - what you want, you pay for, and nothing else.

  25. Re:So What? on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 2

    This has to be considering that someone has the password file. Even if a remote system responded immediately, there is lag for the transmission. Also the local host isn't doing the computation, the remote host is, in that case. The GPU or local CPU is only doing the computations if you have the password to compare against.
    I don't know if I wrote that clearly. In other words, if I try to log on to an NT server, and type the password "abc" then the remote server is doing the hashing, not my local CPU or GPU.