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  1. Re:Oops, I killed it again... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the dodos. Or the dinosaurs. Or soon the whales. I say death to mosqitos.

    Despite your ordering, I'm fairly sure man had nothing to do with the demise of the dinos.

  2. Re:Only terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords? on NSO Has Been Selling a Smartphone-Surveilling Malware For Six Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I didn't think this had anything specifically to do with jewishness or israel itself. That just happens to be where these guys are. They could be in the US, Russia, China or even fucking North Korea and it wouldn't change the implications too much.

  3. How is using this software not illegal under the CFAA?

    Ha, like they give a shit what's legal.

  4. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    He is right though. You have your name at the top, and you have a signature part at the bottom, yet you write in -jcr everytime. Why not just put that in your sig? Not that I give a shit but it is pointless.

  5. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 2

    The only thing the TSA gorillas are achieving is to make tourists stop visiting the US.

    Yeah. I used to really wanna go. Now? No fucking way. Definitely not on a holiday out of my own pocket, maybe for work if I got paid extra. Not just because of the TSA but a whole bunch of reasons.

  6. Re:Scarecrow on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Exactly. This and the lock on cockpit door is all that was needed.

    ...was all that German guy needed to keep the other pilot out while he casually crashed into a mountain. Is that the lock you mean?

  7. Informative, really? I thought the solution to that problem was to close the fucking cockpit door during flight?

    Yeah but then that other guy used that to crash his jet into a mountain so.......

  8. Re:Here's an idea... on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't like it, don't fly. The sense of entitlement among Slashdot users is ridiculous. Take an Amtrak, a bus, or drive.

    Yeah, next time I go from here in Honolulu to the mainland I'll take Amtrak. Brilliant concept.

    Get a boat?

  9. Go back to reasonable searches and stop being shit scared of everyone. Now, where do I get my cheque?

  10. Re:Only terrorists, kidnappers and drug lords? on NSO Has Been Selling a Smartphone-Surveilling Malware For Six Years (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Israel is always in trouble, they have three highly aggressive neighbors who don't seem they think they have the right to exist (because they're jewish I think is the main reason) and everyone else expects them to play nice and get along.

  11. I'm safe. I have a windows phone and nothing fucking works on it and hardly any other fucker has one (because they're shit). It's quite nice in the security through obscurity boat now that it's been abandoned by the mac people.

  12. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it's not and google can sort everyone else.

  13. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, you make good points and I'm not trying to argue with you. I initially responded to the guy suggesting everywhere but the us is a special elite club, not suggesting one was better than other. I still stand by metric is easier to work with regardless what it's based on. If you're happy doing conversions all roads then more power to you.

  14. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point, well made.

  15. Re:Failure on the *pad* not the rocket on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    But it's unfortunate that this is being reported as a failure of the SpaceX Rocket, while the malfunction was apparently in the pad.

    You're kidding, right? When SpaceX reported "an anomaly on the pad", they just meant the rocket had an issue leading to its explosion while it was standing on the pad waiting to fire.

    The anomaly probably was the explosion.

  16. Re:It blew up Facebook's $200M satellite with it on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well I guess Fuckerberg was right after all, Facebook isn't a media company...not with their $200 million toy blown to pieces scattered across Cape Canaveral anyway!

    I guess we'll just have to wait on internet.org, it isn't as if there's an alternative available already after all.

    Or they'll just collect the insurance, get another one built and try again later.

  17. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Metric is better for one simple reason. Forget what it's based on, everything is based on something arbitrary to other things. The reason it's better is its easy. 100 cm in a m. 1000m in a km. 1000ml in a litre etc etc. We still a few imperial units for things in the UK but I couldn't tell you how many feet in a yard or yards in a mile. I know 12 inches in a foot but i don't think its 12 feet in a yard definitely not 12 yards in a mile etc. How many pounds in an ounce in a stone? Sure I could easily look it up or carry around a reference book but it's just simpler and better to just know from the c,m,k or whatever your're splitting your thing into.

    It's also not being constantly revised. A kilogram is the weight of one litre of water, I'm not sure what the length is based on but probably not what you said. But I do know a 1mx1mx1m box will hold 1000l so that's probably relevant somehow. That's the other good thing. They all relate to each other.

    If the world switches to a new standard it will be because it's easier and simpler to use, not because of what it's based on. You stick with imperial and sing it's praises all you want, no skin of mine or anyone else noses but while everyone is getting on with it you'll be converting.

  18. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that means nothing to me. What is it in terms of football fields?

    Is that metric or imperial football?

  19. Re:Unit conversion not needed on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    or did you want this to be a special elite club for those who have reached metric ascendancy.

    You mean everyone except America and two other shit countries? That special elite club?

  20. Re:Real ET signals most likely to be faint on SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A very strong signal reduces the probability it is ET, it increases the huge amounts of energy needed to create it. A real signal probably would be very faint.

    Why would they even bother when they can just come and make some patterns in a field somewhere?

  21. Re:equivalence on SETI's 'Strong Signal' Came From Earth (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So what does probable mean?

  22. Re:At last! on Tiny Particle Blows Hole In European Satellite's Solar Panel (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone found that screw we lost in space!

    But who put the screw in the Tuna?

  23. Re:If the singularity doesn't happen... on Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects (carnegiescience.edu) · · Score: 1

    And yes, the world is basically the US at this point, despite what the anti-US idiots think.

    Very much no, despite what the US idiots think.

  24. Ireland should hurry up and Brexit.

    Nah, they'll have to do an ISIS (Ireland Says It's Shit)

  25. The first round is for the dog, the other 10 are for the dog's owner. Haven't had to shoot one yet, but any day now . . . .

    Is that because you know any decent dog owner is going to be all over you if you even think about drawing on their dog, god help you if they have a gun aswell.

    Or is your plan to shoot a dog once, (does it matter if you kill it?) then go find the owner who is probably not with the dog in your ideal scenario so you can then murder them in cold blood by shooting them ten times?