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  1. Re:Good luck with that on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    I'm sure their clone will be almost as good as mine, but probably not actually as good.

    That's pretty arrogant, considering Iran has it's own drone program for at least 5 years. (Hezbollah used them in the 2006 war.)

    "On March 16, 2009, US forces in Iraq reported they shot down, using an F-16 warplane, an Iranian Ababil 3 drone on February 25, 2009 that had been flying through Iraqi airspace for "almost an hour and 10 minutes." "

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghods_Ababil

  2. Link to the referenced story on Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone · · Score: 5, Interesting
  3. Re:No, that is not how it works on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    My guess is that people are having less children, so they spend less on education, healthcare, and childcare. Also, if people go without healthcare because it's too expensive, its weight gets lower in CPI.

  4. Re:Microsoft and open source on Windows 8 Store Will Allow Open Source Apps · · Score: 1

    Well this toy supports inline Latex equations. (OoLatex) Can you tell the same about Word?

  5. Re:computing power scales exponentially on World's First Programmable Quantum Photonic Chip · · Score: 1

    We could make mighty fast logical reasoners, text search would become even faster etc.

  6. Re:No, that is not how it works on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    Not really, housing, education, healthcare, childcare became much more expensive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A (lecture by Elizabeth Warren, professor of business law)

  7. Re:Trickle down? on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 2

    Facebook is not worthless but it's overpriced. (Look and their price/earning ratio.)

  8. Re:No bubble here. on Facebook Could Spawn Thousands of Milionaires · · Score: 1

    Monopoly in social networks. Not so much monopoly in market research.

  9. Re:Talk about missing the point. on Why We Need More Programming Languages · · Score: 0

    What really matters is:
    - libraries
    - good IDE with autocompletion (sorry, an Emacs mode won't cut it)
    - cost of training

    Java/C# has these. FP languages don't.

  10. Cat litter on NASA Missing Hundreds of Moon Rocks · · Score: 2

    I'm just hoping they won't end in a litterbox.

  11. Re:multiple window support on Silverlight 5 Released · · Score: 1

    And Java WebStart, and Flash.

  12. Re:What happened to Russia? on Twitter Bots Drown Out Anti-Kremlin Tweets · · Score: 1

    In Europe socialist has a different meaning.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_republic

  13. Re:Congrats, Iran, but really it's NBD on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 1

    These model airplanes cost 10-30 million dollars.

  14. Re:Too bad on Bill Gates To Help China Build Traveling Wave Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    It's also in use in medicine factories. (Interfacing PLCs and whatnot.)

  15. Re:PC analogy on EFF Asks To Make Jailbreaking Legal For All Devices · · Score: 1

    Also, they always tried to sell Playstations as general purpose devices, as that way they had to pay less tax in Europe.

  16. Re:Like Global Climate Change ? on Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the computers don't tell what to do about it.

  17. Re:No, the bits will get wet! on Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    You're right, however you can still use it for storing backups.

  18. Re:What if it turned out the other way? on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    Wow, you did learn everything about nuclear engineering from action movies?

  19. Re:What if it turned out the other way? on Greenpeace Breaks Into French Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    How long will the area unsuitable for agriculture? What about economic damage?

  20. Re:The End of USPS on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 1

    Imagine a situation where the cost to buy something from Amazon was dependent on your distance from an Amazon distribution centre; Amazon's business would quickly fall apart as they would be undercut by a hundred local competitors.

    Oh, the horror!

  21. Re:So what? on Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer? · · Score: 1

    Hey, are you some cheapskate luser? /sarcasm

  22. Re:"Digital HD medium" on Fate Saves Workprint of Manos: The Hands of Fate · · Score: 1

    Probably not, but GP was definitely talking out of his ass.

  23. Re:Rich People Dont Need Credit Cards on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure whether the same distinction applies in Europe. I see no reason why debit should be exempt from fraud protection. In my country (Hungary) barely anyone uses credit cards.

  24. Re:The Commodore 128 could run at 2MHz on 30 Years of the BBC Micro · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately there were very few programs that could use that, as it was a different CPU than the C64. (It had two CPUs for backwards compatibility with the C64, I used mine mostly in C64 mode.)

  25. Re:I dont see any issues with them. on Anonymous Threatens Robin Hood Attacks Against Banks · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's debt liability, however the bank still increased the amount of cash flowing in the system, therefore it causes inflation until the debts are paid back.