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  1. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    I'd suggest trying to vote for someone who would agree with you once he was in office but Obama was probably your best hope & he disagrees with you too. You're sure to be disappointed by everyone who sees the world as it is & not how you want it to be.

  2. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    You know, the world is a much more violent place than you think it is with your grammar school principles. Why don't you ask The Nobel peace prize winner Obama -- you do remember him right? The guy who was supposed to right all the wrongs in the universe & bring the USG back from the dark side... Oh yeah, he disagrees with you too.

  3. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ah, and your point is that non US citizens who are admittedly waging a war against all who do not accept their narrow creed as the one and only truth, should be accorded every advantage the US constitution gives to it's citizens & then some. You go ahead & shower them with love, like Obama wanted to do before entering office & realizing that for the safety of US citizens in general that some people are better off dead.

    I hear they're recruiting in northern Mali, why not hop on a jet/bus/camel so you can enliven their evenings with your wit.

  4. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 0

    What, you didn't notice that Ben Laden was living with his wives & children? Were the numerous instances of AQ using children as shields or as human bombs so subtle that they escaped your notice? Or that Hamas/Hezbollah have been shown to regularly place their rocket launchers & weapons stocks beneath schools? When the CIA began to use drones in Yemen, did it escape you that the AQ cadres moved only when accompanied by their families? Is it that you do not pay attention or that you feel that these tactics are justifiable or even righteous?

    What rights do you think that you are surrendering when the USA refuses to let terrorists hide behind women/children? Is it that you too want to hide behind your children as you prepare bombs to send to mine? Could you please show me where that right is stated in the US constitution? I seem to have missed it.

  5. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: -1, Troll

    So according to you, absolutely no drone action should be taken against terrorists who do not hesitate to kill our children because they purposefully surround themselves with theirs? No wonder the terrorists describe the west as weak...

  6. Re:Time to recurse on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    In step 2 you are just suspending emacs, not running it actively. Trivial. You might as well just run emacs, ^Z, vim, ^Z, ...

  7. Re:waiting for ed on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Did Satan sell Evil to Bill Gates?

    No, BG embraced & extended evil but left extinguishing it to the chair thrower...

  8. Re:VIM can be run in emacs without the extension on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Access to emacs-lisp & emacs macros are the reasons why hardcore VIM users are interested in an emacs VIM mode. You get the latter by running vim inside emacs term, but not the former.

  9. Re:Um, why? on Evil, Almost Full Vim Implementation In Emacs, Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    thank you for the 105 fingered image, lol.

    I've always regretted not keeping the Lisp Machine keyboard I used 25 years ago: Shift-Control-Alt-Meta-Super-Hyper-X...

  10. Re:Problem with egos really on CNN Replicates John Broder's Drive In the Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Others have already chimed in that the 10 degree difference never makes more than a 5% difference in battery performance. Broder's declarations are waaay off from what everyone else has been experiencing in the Tesla. It certainly looks to me likes the biggest failing is Broder's credibility.

  11. Re:Israel is almost completely desalination provid on NASA: Huge Freshwater Loss In the Middle East · · Score: 1

    The submitter "dstates" has presented the results of study as being essentially Israel vs the rest of the region. This is coming from his bias & not the study itself as the video is centered on the Tigris/Euphates basin (Turkey/Syria/Iraq) where the loss of water reserves is much more severe.

    Because you see, a Palestinian suffering from thirst is apparently somehow worse than an Iraqi...

  12. Re:Geeks, get to work. on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 1

    Metro is unfinished. Too many things that we need to do can only me done in the desktop. Surface pro being touch oriented just exposes this even more.

  13. Re:And replace it with what? on New Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited On Windows and OS X · · Score: 1

    Flash animations go away when you remove flash, use flashblock or soon just use Firefox.

    I couldn't care less what games are built with flash. I value not getting hacked by blocking flash more than any minor value flash provides. Adobe has proven themselves unable to provide the level of security I need to leave it on my machines.

  14. Re:Over a year ago, I complained to the FCC on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    This is the same IMEI that the carriers refuse to use to shut down the market in stolen phones, right? Funny that US carriers use the IMEI to justify added charges but refuse to use them to stop thieves...

  15. Re:Confirmation from NORAD... on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    NORAD could not possibly confirm. This was a sounding rocket with a payload sent 120km up & pretty much straight down again, not an ICBM or orbital shot.

  16. What, did someone invent Scrith ? Without scrith, the Ringworld is not feasable.

  17. Re:"Hazardous" as in "menace to public health"? on Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears · · Score: 1

    You're mistaken on two levels: first off the problem is not in "the irradiated parts" & secondly those parts are generally massive enough to make "easy" replacement difficult.

    The problem is in certifying that the building is solid enough to withstand a major seismic event or something similar, not anything to do with radiation. Reinforcing the rusted girders will be sufficient.

  18. Re:"Secret" as in "well signposted"? on Secret UK Uranium Components Plant Closed Over Safety Fears · · Score: 2

    Given that the problems are planned to be fixed within months in this highly regulated sector where everything takes longer, the problem isn't as bad as the nuclear boogey man crowd are trying to make it appear to be.

  19. Re:Awesome on Nokia To Release Lumia Case Design Files For 3D Printers · · Score: 1

    Meh, I don't see having a 3D model as being revolutionary.

    Given the poor physical adaptation of materials available for 3D printers & the fact that use of sintered metals would likely diminish the phones reception, anything you could 3D print would be less robust/functional than the original.

    OK, it may be neat, but useful?

  20. Re:What touch laptops mean on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    You'll already have a trackpad & possibly a trackpoint so why leave fingerprints on your screen? Touch screens on ultrabooks have clearly failed if all they are used for is to scroll/close windows.

  21. Re:What touch laptops mean on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    You clearly have not tried to use one of these for more than a few minutes. To keep lifting your arm up to continually point & drag screen elements is tiring enough for the term gorilla arm to be coined to describe it.

  22. Re:What touch laptops mean on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    Not according to the majority of people who have used (& then returned) them. Yes, I've used one. No, I didn't find the fingerprints useful & much like David Pogue, I do not have gorilla arms.

  23. Re:What touch laptops mean on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1

    C) only 2% of the cases where a touch ultra book is more useful than a tablet or a non-touch laptop are insufficient to constitute more than a negligible market.

  24. What touch laptops mean on Touchscreen Laptops, Whether You Like Them Or Not · · Score: 1, Informative

    For this consumer & everyone I influence it means that thes laptops will not be bought. Touch & vertical screens do not go together.

  25. Re:nonsensical allegations on EU Antitrust Chief: Google "Diverting Traffic" & Will Be Forced To Change · · Score: 1

    You really need to pay more attention to what the EU has been saying. The EU has already admitted to being against google being able to promote other google services through the search site. Full stop, no qualifiers. Thus the EU doesn't care whether or not the secondary sites are the best match to the search terms, google returning their own services is being presented as being an abuse in and of itself.