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  1. Re:Launched *Themselves*??? on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 1

    They thought they were escape capsules. So they did.

  2. Re:Good timing for this suggestion NOT! on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 1

    Ukraine already has a used nuke on its soil, it's called Chernobyl. Understandably, they don't want another one.

  3. Re:It's amazing on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but her sister was worse.

  4. Re:Dear Lord, what has happened to Slashdot?! on Saturn's F Ring Is Now Three Times As Wide As During the Voyager Flybys · · Score: 2

    The fact that you recognised both sci-fi references is also of note.

    I find that the more we learn about Saturn's rings (and is thus applicable to all planets with rings and shepherd moons) the greater the fascination that such structures aren't just a bunch of small rocks orbiting a planet but have behaviour that is of interest to chaos and complexity mathematicians that can only lead to greater understanding of the dynamics of such systems.

    (Is this the kind of comment you were hoping for?)

  5. Re:Since when did Microsoft become a EU company on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Ireland (which owns the servers the data is stored on) is headquartered and incorporated in Ireland and thus subject to Ireland's laws. QE fucking D back at you.

  6. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    If you think possession of child pornography is legal in Ireland then I've got a bridge for you to buy. I'll make you buy it twice for bringing in a "think of the children" flawed argument in a ridiculous attempt to bolster your position.

  7. Re:And, worst of alll.. on This 'SimCity 4' Region With 107 Million People Took Eight Months of Planning · · Score: 2

    Complete with troopers. You don't want to fall in love with one of them...

  8. Re: timothy = fail on Death Valley's Sailing Stones Caught In the Act · · Score: 1

    As distinct from the usual rocks inaction.

    I'll get me coat...

  9. Re:The Lonely Assassins on Death Valley's Sailing Stones Caught In the Act · · Score: 1

    Maybe something wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey about insects not living very long in the first place so there's no point using all that energy sending them back in time to live to death. Or it's a sentience thing.

    Either way, I most certainly can kill a stone. I can smash it to bits with a hammer. Maybe even a *rock* hammer. I don't see anything coming back to life after it has been shattered into tiny pieces apart from a T1000 / Crichton and Aeryn.

  10. Re:What's a reboot? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    While there were at least 12 Zathrases, all were played by Tim Choate...

  11. Re: And so it begins... on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 3, Informative

    The CGI was groundbreaking and a great deal more than just "backdrops". Every ship, planet, piece of debris, weapons fire as well as the interior of various parts of the station was made on *Amigas* with zero model shots. When they had enough money for a small render farm they could create large space battles in real time.

    They kept the details secret even though big names like ILM and Paramount wanted to know how the hell they did it with so little equipment and a shoestring budget (we didn't see the battle of Wolf 359, only the aftermath and even that was a few years later because it was too expensive to make). They released old methods to the big studios on a seasonal basis: Mars Attacks used Season 2 quality, ST:Voyager used Season 4.

    Yes, the effects look dated. Because they are. But no one else could do what they did 20 years ago.

  12. Re:So 60% positive ? on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    There are at least 280,000 people who would think you're full of shit. This minimum number is confirmed in TFA.

  13. Re:While we're at it on The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension · · Score: 1

    Microsoft supports 64 dimensions in VB(Script) arrays, which should be enough for anybody.

  14. Re:11% fuel efficiency improvement on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 1, Informative

    They do. Compare a European car with a US one. Faster with smaller, more fuel efficient engines.

  15. Re:Question for someone with Legal? on No RIF'd Employees Need Apply For Microsoft External Staff Jobs For 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Not the point. That would be not entering into a new contract with that person. This is about altering the current contract (possibly after you've left). Pray they don't alter it further.

  16. Re:Oddballs... on Fossils of Cambrian Predator Preserved With Brain Impressions · · Score: 2

    The reason it is difficult to match up is normally because that entire phylum got wiped out in any of the mass extinctions so there isn't anything to match up to; nothing evolved further because they were all dead. That there are similarities to extant creatures is coincidence.

    We know that hundreds of phyla were wiped out. We don't know for sure how many as we only have fossil records to go on. There could have been thousands.

  17. Re:Will this affect overseas profits tax evasion? on Obama Administration Says the World's Servers Are Ours · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything in that where a non-US citizen has to supply financial data, only that US citizens do through agreements with the country they reside in. Your wife to be can legally tell the US government to go fuck itself.

    Joint accounts are a different thing, of course.

  18. Re:Also available for UK, Canada, France ... on Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill · · Score: 1

    Except that there's a bunch of edits that to pushed that have nothing to do with politics. Like one for a dance movie.

    So while it's good to see the positive spinning, it's also good to see the time wasting on the taxpayers dollar.

  19. Re:Ewww... on Texas Town Turns To Treated Sewage For Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Except they mix it with lake water *after* filtering it, so you've got different shit in it now.

  20. Re:National security on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 2

    And that bullshit about powering on electronics if you're flying to the States? That just got broadened to *all* flights *anywhere*. I knew it was coming, I just didn't expect it within 3 fucking days...

  21. Re:"Don't be ridiculous." --Balki on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    She was never in when I called. Popular girl, that Jenny.

  22. What physical perfection? That's the point of the singularity, to take the mental perfection and put it in a body that is capable of lifting 30 pounds. If not more.

  23. Re:Made of Led? on New Class of Stars Are Totally Metal, Says Astrophysicist · · Score: 2

    Lemmy.

  24. Wrong symbol on Cambridge Team Breaks Superconductor World Record · · Score: 1

    Boron is B, Barium is Ba...

  25. Re:We Have to Start Thinking Around Them on Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules · · Score: 1

    That's a whole new aspect to contention ratio when you can't hear Irving Berlin's "Always" because they don't have enough phonographs / copies free...