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  1. Re:Where's MegaLeaks? on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 2

    Isn't it time for someone to simply leak every bit of every document they can get their hands on?

    That guy is in jail already.

  2. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    It'd bee a lot cheaper just to use a carnival ride, there are plenty of them that put people at zero g's. Heck, it might even be cheaper just to go to an amusement park. When there one could also use the Gravitron to get some heavy g-force experience.

  3. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    No, that's the vomit comet, it has a two jet engines but uses a parabolic flight path to achieve free fall. I believe that what the guy was describing is more like Indoor skydiving.

  4. Re:I used to work for Geek Squad.. on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Typically delays are put in processes because something else that it depends on needs to run first and I'd guess that it wasn't marketing that asked for it. Likely you didn't need the 'extra time' for any of your uses, but if you did...

  5. Re:Data centers on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 1

    There were tornadoes in NE MD just a few years ago, maybe you forgot. More importantly, that inlet at the bottom of Ocean City, MD was created by the Chesapeake Potomac Hurricane in 1933. You should have never been under the impression that Maryland has some sort of 'free pass'.

  6. Re:No worries here... on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 1

    I'm no weatherman but it seems to me that in addition to flood stage rain event a strong late summer hurricane passing over the U.S. could easily spin off tornadoes. Either of those events usually cause some worries, even to the mighty mid-westerners.

    But who the hell cares, what's next?

    "No worries here in Australia, mate, for that to reach me, it'd have to be a bloody [and imaginary] category 500"
    +1 Insightful (or more maybe)

  7. Oddly everyone can tell you how not to get a girl on Why Nobody Wants You On OKCupid · · Score: 2

    After all my time spent in online dating this looks like everything that I know, but what I'm really interested in is 'what works'. I'm guessing that the reality is that 'winning' submissions as often exhibited one or more of these mistakes, yet still were acted on. To me, based on what I might call my 'successes', it's timing more than anything.

  8. There's gold in them thar hills. on RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that there has to be a lot of very exploitable mineral wealth on the moon. Not the least of which is water, and the ability to grow low gravity crops. Our gravity well is very expensive to climb. Lunar launches could be made using nuclear engines. Space tourism begins with a service plaza on the moon.

  9. Re:The whole space program is private anyway on SpaceX Given Approval For ISS Mission · · Score: 1

    The question is, who is going to make the seventh manned landing.

    I'll bet that SpaceX will be doing it.

  10. Re:Just Protecting Him From Himself on Essex Police Arrest Man Over Blackberry Water Fight Plan · · Score: 2

    OMG, so we're like doing that now? And it's being modded up?

    The end days are here indeed.

  11. Re:Looting on Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go · · Score: 1

    I suspect that squads deployed with this thing might be slightly larger to account for the requirement of 'protecting' a mobile base while projecting force into a place otherwise inaccessible to it. While the might not need to tell it exactly where to go most of the time, someone will always need to attend to it, and even though it looks nimble, it certainly won't go in many places which are otherwise accessible to the squad.

    It's use will need to be carefully considered, but as our soldiers have modern armor, electronics, and batteries, as well as the 'old favorites' of food, weapons, and ammo, I'm sure that it would be a relief to off load some of it. A larger more stable platform is likely to stay in communication, but it's also more of a target (or perhaps the best thing to hide behind). If they build pack bots that are better at keeping up, such robots could be ubiquitous.

    Seems to be a good line of tech to explore both for military and civilian uses, I hope that it works out well.

  12. Re:In other words on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 1

    Although Linux is usable there are several sacrifices that you have to make.

    What kind of sacrifice? goat? or would a chicken do. However, I'm pretty sure that the fine print in a Windows license makes claims on one's first born child.

  13. Re:Seriously, making excuses? on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 1

    The reports I have seen indicate that nationwide there were significantly more absentee ballots not counted than the difference between the national vote count for Al Gore and George W. Bush.

    What reports?

    To the best of my knowledge, no authority in this country shovels unopened absentee ballots into the trash, even when 'they won't count'. Sure they won't do a recount in many condions, so the number might not be 'perfect' but that's not the same thing as wholesale dismissal of ballots. I'm not sure where one would gather such misinformation other than the reactionary media.

  14. Re:This just proves on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 1

    Why do reactionaries think that they are so clever when implying corruption without proof?

  15. Re:This just proves on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 0

    Republican success money raising and voter turnout is clearly a winning strategy, and then you wonder why so many Democrats are eager to take the money and issues? Wow.

  16. Re:Stop me if I'm wrong but... on Getting the Latest Rover To Mars · · Score: 1

    .I give 20 to 1 against the thing

    Ok, I'll take you up on that bet, can you cover a $100 wager? Just remember, that'd be $2,000 from you if you lose.

  17. Re:Scaaam.... on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Huh? When Barbara Steisand pushed the legal motion which made that meme, she was looking for privacy and instead found more public exposure. Do you think that detractors of Bitcoin fear exposure?

  18. Re:Goes to prove the point . . . on Gates: Not Much To Show For $5B Spent On Education · · Score: 2

    Two words: teacher's unions.

    The reactionary media have done such a good job at smearing 'teachers unions' that right wingers will use that very name as reference to a belief structure claiming that America is better off with teachers who live in poverty. Without unions, there would not be a blue collar middle class.

  19. Re:Wow. Those are realistic. on Get Your Own Action Figure (In Japan) · · Score: 1

    Even the japanese dolls the other person linked do not look as real as these doll faces.

    That's because they don't use a 3-D map of a real human being for those dolls, yet.

  20. Re:Why? on Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Battery Firmware Hack · · Score: 1
    It's not like it's a router with a default password, it's a battery wired into the laptop. The fact that it even has a username and password is likely only an unneeded part of the stable code the firmware is based on. Would you expect that every laptop would be shipped with a different default password for it's BATTERY?

    Why would a device whose purpose is to provide electrical supply have to have firmware

    Now you're just trying to re-engineer the battery, what would make you think that you can? While it might seem to be a requirement, simply having a snarky know-it-all attitude doesn't quite make one an engineer.

  21. Re:Planet on NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto · · Score: 1

    Seeing that the declaration that Pluto wasn't a planet was a failure on it's part (not intentionally, I'm sure) to meet a good standard for a planet (as designed by astrophysics), the 'flip of the coin' idea must be presented by someone who still hold out hope that Pluto would attain the status it once had. Do not let his attempt at subterfuge confuse you; instead of 'solving the craziness' he's only attempting to extending it for another chance at winning.

  22. Re:Surface on iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket · · Score: 1

    Agreed, I've owned iPhones since the first one and love it, but this fawning tale is a little too loose with it's presentation of facts. It surprised me on CNN.com but to see it on Slashdot, well, that's just sad.

  23. How many even know that 4G is? on 34% of iPhone Owners Think the 4 Is 4G · · Score: 1

    How many even know what 4G is? or that Apple isn't yet using that standard.

  24. Re:It's funny... on News of the World Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims · · Score: 1
    Actually, the private eye who actually did the crime is in jail already.

    ...and people wonder why nobody trusts big business or the government anymore...

    Yea, some people in government and big business twist facts and logic to suit their purpose, just like you. The only difference is that people listen to them, does that make you jealous?

  25. Re:When do the investigations here start? on News of the World Investigation Expanded to 9/11 Victims · · Score: 2

    Have you even seen an FNC broadcast? It's talking points and wire reports all day with commentary all night. No 'room' for investigative reports.