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  1. Re:Killing me in my sleep? on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. That sucker is NOISY.

    Cool aerobatics though.

    First: make it work
    Second: make it quiet.
    Works for me. If these people don't have a military contract, the they're doing it wrong...or...they have the intestinal fortitude to tell them to FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!

  2. is it an oxymoron or an anachronism on Afghan Government Turns To Iran For Internet · · Score: 1

    Just think high speed data transfers, GB/s speeds, fiber optics leaping into the 21st century, and yet, their women are still stuck in the 12th century. They only seem good for one use only, god...er I mean allah help them if they produce more girls than boys. Backward countries that want, no demand equality with the rest of the world as long as it doesn't include gender. What an idea!

  3. Re:Who wants to bet that the largest client will b on Honda's Exoskeletons Help You Walk Like Asimo · · Score: 1

    The military. I for one don't welcome our new robot overlords.

    These contraptions are nothing more than proof of concept. The military as well as police and rescue will be the largest sector to purchase man amplification rigs. Read the book Starship Troopers by Heinlein. This is where it's headed.
    Firefighters and rescue workers can bring the equipment with them, jaws of life, fire retardant, medical supplies, stretcher and be able to move in relative safety.
    The videos showed two different versions of walking machines, yet how many people realize that they are separate components that work together?

  4. Re:Engineers vs. Politicians on Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe is because Engineers have a more technical & logical mind and once they set their sights on a goal are more likely to finish it ?

    I don't think any Politicians/Lawyers would be able to do the same. They will just stage a theatrical act out of which they can escape untouched or just switch sides.

    It's getting deep around here. The reason "terrorists" are engineers stems from the fact that they are educated. The requirements of advanced education is the ability to perform critical thinking, understand integrated mechanisms (whether physical or psychological), be able to move through iterations in a logical manner.
    Even though these "terrorists" may plan attacks, so do educated governments. The true terrorist will manipulate the un-educated masses to advance their causes while "they", the educated, remain behind the scenes to do more damage. How many Islamic women are there, truly educated within the borders of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia?
    Religion and governments do not want an educated populace. The un-washed masses of ignorance are more controllable.

    Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

    Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

    Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. John Adams

    The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. Claiborne Pell (1918 - )

    Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)

    If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok

  5. Re:really? on Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' · · Score: 1

    Their next pamphlets will be titled "Warning Parents! Ceiling Kitty Is Watching Your Family Masturbate!" and "Are Your Kids Getting Rickrolled?"

    Here's my .response

  6. who? on Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users · · Score: 1

    I am uncle ernie, fiddlin' about, fiddlin' about.

  7. which is it? on Dell's 'Dual Personality' Laptop · · Score: 1

    Dell's dual personality laptop. Is it a piece of shit or a piece of crap?

  8. Re:WOAH WOAH WOAH on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    or the fact that we're ALL immigrants Speak for yourself, paleface!

    The first DHS

  9. Re:More importantly on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Depends on the kind of logic..

    Logic, going wrong, with confidence.

  10. citizenship on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Congratulations, welcome to OUR nightmare.
    How do you say "tax audit" in Suomi?

  11. Re:Finally on Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide · · Score: 1

    De Beers will be funding NASA from now on!

    On the contrary. I think this will blow the de Beers cartel wide open, assuming that a FTL mining vessel could be equipped.

    There's one way to find out.

    De Beers, has it been registered?

  12. Re:Ok you've got my attention on EFF Says 'Stop Using Haystack' · · Score: 1

    All my foes are spelling or grammar Nazis.

    All my foes are spelling AND grammar Nazis
    There, fixed that for you.

  13. Re:Solved: Use a spam filter and get 99.9% accurac on US Gov't Makes a Mess of Classifying Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    You can do this automagically with a spam filter, with an accuracy around 99.9%

    Was it a spam filter that delayed the Japanese declaration of war, ten days before Pearl Harbor?
    Programs as well as filters are only as good as the people using them. Infallible? Not likely.

  14. right IS wrong on US Gov't Makes a Mess of Classifying Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    It states right on the Social Security card that it is NOT to be used for identification, but for all intents and purposes, it is.
    The reason for security classifications is to protect the guilty.
    Politicians who are "in bed" with the oil companies, big pharma, the banksters, utilities, lobbyists, special interest groups. The biggest lie stands as a testament to this truth.
    Why else would the videos of what really happened at the Pentagram have not been seen by anyone outside the "elite"?
    Questions about Cheney and his participation in the utilities fiasco have never been exposed, however, viewing the documentary,Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room may illustrate the repercussions of such a meeting.
    The true level of corruption in government will probably never be known unless and/or until the "old guard" have been replaced by honest people. Now, before any of you sheeple start saying any of your lobotomized rantings about conspiracies, BAA, wake up!
    Has all of the tarp money been accounted for?
    Why is a private bankster system profiting from US government borrowing when the US government could borrow from itself interest free.
    The US government IS an employee of the sovereign people of these united states of America, yet these employee never take unannounced drug and alcohol tests, never ASK for a pay raise, don't seem to be in the health care system they want to shove down OUR throats, can't seem to BALANCE the budget, finalizeTERM LIMITS.
    WAKE...UP people!

  15. Re:Hah! on US Gov't Makes a Mess of Classifying Sensitive Data · · Score: 1

    The United States government can't keep secrets secret.

    Sure they can. That's why we are not squawking about real secrets on Slashdot.

    Sure they can't. Wikileaks

  16. Re:Tesla was here on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    George Westinghouse was the one that really fucked Tesla over. It didn't help that Tesla was pretty naive in business.

    I wish some Westinghouse award winner would say "In the name of Nicolai Tesla, I say shove it up your ass! I don't accept awards from a company started by a thief."

    George Westinghouse was the only person to help Tesla. Nikola Tesla himself tore up the contract with Westinghouse (worth millions of dollars) since Westinghouse was being pressured by the banks. Once again the banksters look out for themselves. Read "Nikola Tesla, Man Out Of Time". The real bastards are Carnegie, Rockefeller and the rest of their ilk.
    Power and money are synonymous, follow the money and you will find the power. Even today, with people losing their jobs, their homes, their retirements, their buying power, the politicians, banks, oil companies and utilities are making money hand over fist. Oh, and don't forget the taxpayer funded casino, Wall Street, they're not doing too bad, either.

  17. when there is no heat on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    a 100 watt light bulb can keep a water line from freezing. LED lighting is a piss poor replacement for incandescent. What next, halogen?

  18. Re:It's 1984 all over again on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    When you choose sides in any debate, the need to understand whose really pulling the strings becomes even more important. Politicians from the president on down are definitely in someone's pocket. Why would any politician spend millions on a campaign that only pays a couple of hundreds of thousands in salary? The answer is simple, they are being bought off. The real question is, how does one break the link between corrupt official and corrupting money?

  19. like lies, an even further stretch on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    Since I am a registered voter, are my privacy rights, null and void, anytime, anywhere?

  20. Re:It's 1984 all over again on Judge Allows Subpoenas For Internet Users · · Score: 1

    I think Animal Farm is a much better example of that.

    1984 and Animal Farm are stories, not operations manuals.

  21. why bother? on Patent Office Admits Truth — Things Are a Disaster · · Score: 1

    It's cheaper to whack an inventor than to allow his/her invention to be patented, it's cheaper to buy off an inventor than to allow their invention to be patented. It's most expensive to allow patents that undermine the status quo to go forward. That's why people like Stanley Meyer are disposed of, rather than letting his patent trump the oil companies.
    Yet, companies like Monsanto can patent their abominations like genetically modified corn and cotton which do more damage than non-GMO strains. Cotton has been a disaster in India and the legal issues where GMO corn pollinates non-GMO corn is only the tip of the iceberg.
    The USPTO has become nothing more than a tool for corporate business in "weeding" out (no pun intended) the competition.

  22. finally on Robots Taught to Deceive · · Score: 1

    Finally, finally I say, a replacement for politicians without the free for life medical coverage and automatic pay raises...finally!

  23. obvious on DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network · · Score: 2, Funny

    This looks like a job for Kevin Mitnick...naaah.

  24. Re:It's shit like this on DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network · · Score: 1

    It's shit like this that needs to make it to main stream media. To show how messed up the fear mongering side of the Government really is.

    Exposing the inadequacies of the government will just result in more "National Security" obfuscation. The more holes in security equates in more money to fill those holes. It's only a matter of time until Haliburton gets involved.
    The powers that be have no intention of letting their senior bosses know the truth. They will throw more money at it until some major incident occurs and it airs on "60 Minutes", at which time the incompetence will be swept under the rug. When the issue becomes so tangled with corporate wrangling, senate hearings, an actual loss of security, DHS will just go dark, thereby allowing the matter to be taken up as an internal affair. In the meantime, security hole exploitation will become the raison de guerre.(excuse my french)

  25. Re:Never gonna happen on Major Battle Brewing Between French Gov't and ISPs · · Score: 1

    Getting the French government to surrender? That seems unlikely.

    The only thing the French can host with success is an invasion.
    Food trough water.