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  1. Re:Aluminum on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 1

    You'd think sometime since 1942, they'd have brought thought tech to market.

  2. Re:Batten down on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 1

    A couple extra guy wires might have helped.

  3. Memorial to Hurricane Sandy on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 1

    The variable in question being the widely known (but little mentioned) fact that New York would get a devastating Hurricane at some time in the future.
    Still true.

  4. Perfect storm. on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 1

    If a large storm went north along the coast without actually going over land, would it not continue gathering energy?
    "How high's the water, Mama?"

  5. Re:sCOend Psot on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    Some posts are worth repeating. Perhaps not this one.

  6. Re:Who cares? on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    None of my hardware wants Windows 8. YMMV

  7. Embrace and extend. on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    Compliance forthcoming.

  8. Re:Kuru Toga on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    I got a job once by doing that. I had about three hours classroom experience, and asked the shop teacher for hot tips on my way to the interview. The guy saw me conspicuously rotating my pencil between strokes and it fooled him into thinking I knew what to do at a drafting table. It turned out that with my picayune tendencies I was naturally suited.

  9. Re:As it was before on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 1

    ... if you can charge from anywhere, how can you be billed? That is what will permanently stop this type of technology.

    Exactly. ... the problem is that the profiteers are doing it wrong.

    J.P. Morgan figured he'd stick with the General Electric/Westinghouse business model and eschew the more efficient new technology, as it would not provide the market needed for his copper business.

  10. Re:No it isn't on Wireless Power Over Distance: Just a Parlor Trick? · · Score: 2

    I thought the resonating magnetic field solved the efficiency problem for Tesla.
    These guys aren't charging the planet at the right frequency.

  11. D'oh! on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    Actually, you were correct and I wasn't.

    This causes no end of frustration on an almost daily basis at work...

    Others were falsely linking the A with the B, and I went ahead and bollixed them up 'cause they were 9s.

  12. Re:Inanity on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    All pedantry aside, the "Guardian" (...Reminds me of "To Protect and Serve", brilliant connotation!) is an unarmed(?) model of the "MQ-1B".

  13. Re:Protected by Law on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    Anyone reading your list can see that the Police Protective Guild or some SuperPAC will ensure that our Fearless Leaders will close all the pertinent loopholes in the law so as to felonize any civilian uses.

  14. A good thing on More Drones Set To Use US Air Space · · Score: 1

    Drones brought democracy to Afghanistan, what's not to like?

  15. Re:Already ahead of them on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    If the health care professionals I have inquired of are at all credible, then the flu I get every time I go to get immunized is caused by contact with the vectors standing in line. (My credulity is rather strained in this regard.) Hand washing is not always enough. Perhaps a mask next time?

  16. Re:So what ? on China Blocks NYT Over Critical Article · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The banning of Iranian Press TV is ethical and justified

    The only way you can believe that is if you think banning Fox News is ethical and justified.
    Like peas in a pod, both equally hilarious.

  17. Re:NSA cares on China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns · · Score: 1

    It's pretty hard getting the right firmware installed by Chinese designers.

  18. Re:70% on Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output · · Score: 2

    It sounds more like we should consider developing production facilities beyond that 10% to me.

  19. Re: Winning! on Chinese Rare Earths Producer Suspends Output · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's promoting healthy development of his stock's price.

  20. Re:How about idle?? on AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws? · · Score: 1

    We only use incandescent heaters for illumination in the studio. Stratocaster pickups hum plenty already.

  21. Re:Wattage costs on AMD FX-8350 Review: Does Piledriver Fix Bulldozer's Flaws? · · Score: 1

    More heat equals louder fans. and more dust on the vents.
    The limosine tax imposed by our ISP overlords is a couple orders of magnitude more painful.

  22. Re:Misleading summary on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    The BBC reports that the agency head concurs.

    Mr Maiani, a physicist, said the Serious Risks Commission could not work "in such difficult conditions".

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20039769

  23. Re:Let them watch television. on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 1

    I use the favorites button on my browser, so I don't have to remember anything. If I want to be bold, I can open up the home pages of all my news sites at once.
    An outlier like myself means nothing to these corporations, OTOH, and hardly anybody seems willfully informed by the web anyway.

  24. Re:The Iphone 6 do it yourself kit on Foxconn Thinks the iPhone 5 Is a Pain · · Score: 1

    I still treasure the ancient memory of opening up a Sony Walkman. Some machines aren't meant to be touched by human hands.

  25. Re:Sadly the Moon Landing was not included on The History of Lying With Images · · Score: 1

    I thought the special effects were most amazing when Commander David Scott dropped the feather and the hammer.
    That fooled everyone.