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  1. Re:Stupid metric system on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 2

    That doesn't mean they're better.

    Standardization and a logically defined system with strict rules does mean SI is better.

  2. Re:Stupid metric system on 2 Galileo Satellites Launched To Wrong Orbit · · Score: 2

    Spare the moronic excuses.

    You do not need tools at every mm value.

    0 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of water, 100 the boiling point. How much more intuitive does it need to be?

    Are you too stupid to use numbers from 0 to 100 with centimeters? Is "50 centimeters" too much for your head?

    The scales aren't "off". There's nothing to be off! A scale is not better because it maps to a few arbitrary values nicely.

    A scale is worse if you have different rules for different units. How many inches in a mile? I'd have to think about it or memorize it. How many centimeters in a kilometer? Shift the decimal seperator 5 orders of magnitude to the right.

  3. Re:Reputation on Oregon Sues Oracle For "Abysmal" Healthcare Website · · Score: 1

    Well, a log scale odometer would certainly help preserve resale value.

  4. Re:straight from the OMFG NO dept on "MythBusters" Drops Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci · · Score: 1

    ...before it took an abrupt dive with the last episode of Season 2. Fortunately, it did recover.

  5. Re:more rules.... on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    You guys just love to complain.

    By your logic, bank robbers have the right to complain that they're not allowed to rob banks.

    Your complaint is only slightly less absurd.

  6. Re:so 1h every 10 day per citizen on New EU Rules Will Limit Vacuum Cleaners To 1600W · · Score: 1

    I'm sure some commitee somewhere determined that past 1600W, there were diminishing returns.

    The point is probably to turn it from a pissing match over who has more power into a pissing match over who has the most plusses after their A on the energy efficiency label.

  7. Re:Odd material selection on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the thing weighs a ton.

  8. Re:How many years could he be charged with? on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 1

    Well, as much as the guy is a sleazebag, there is no real proof. That's why they want to ask questions before arresting him (or not, if his story convinces them the accusations are bullshit).

  9. Re:How many years could he be charged with? on WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" · · Score: 1

    Just what we need, arrest first and ask questions later. Should they also shoot people first and ask questions later?

  10. Doesn't work (obviously) on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    Concrete example:

    The Airliners.net forums are paid if you want to post something. Still plenty of trolls to go around.

  11. Re:Good that this applies to from: and not the bod on Gmail Now Rejects Emails With Misleading Combinations of Unicode Characters · · Score: 1

    They're reason enough for me to almost believe whoever designed ASCII was a genius.

  12. Re:No wonder MSFT stock is up on Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces · · Score: 1

    You're either misinformed or just plain stupid. I'll assume the former.

    Non-Pro Surfaces are indeed closer to Android tablets and iPads. They are also priced accordingly (though not race-to-the-bottom prices, like what Android is going through).

    Surface Pros are Ultrabooks crammed into tablets. They run circles around anything that runs Android or iOS. They are thus priced like Ultrabooks.

  13. Re:No wonder MSFT stock is up on Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces · · Score: 1, Informative

    So, exactly the same as iPads or Android tablets.

  14. Re:+1 for this Post on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 2

    I can only recommend them. They do have a few teething issues when new, but everything other than the RT-AC87U is working fine now.

    I can personally recommend the RT-N66U, RT-AC66U or RT-AC68U.

  15. Re:The canonical best household router is on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    All RT-N66U/W (it's just a different chassis color) revisions work with pretty much any firmware out there. The stock firmware and its forks already 95% of everything you might want, too.

  16. Re: +1 for this Post on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The RT-N66U/RT-N66W is an excellent deal right now. Absolute best 802.11n router out there. Its sucessors, the RT-AC66U and RT-AC68U, are also very good.

    And yes, all of them are as open as you can realistically get.

  17. Re:CLEAN, SAFE, on San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Dismantling Will Cost $4.4 Billion, Take 20 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a sort of logical fallacy.

    They believe that because not all objectives were met, the whole thing was a complete failure.

  18. Re:really? So Hamas is now a tech war machine? on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 0

    a) There is no real doubt.
    b) There's the little matter of the rockets being fired...

  19. Re:This isn't new on Fooling a Mercedes Into Autonomous Driving With a Soda Can · · Score: 1

    Who's to say they're not actually alive? At least a brick will never threaten to hurt you and, in fact, cannot speak.

  20. Re:From Finland on Nokia Buys a Chunk of Panasonic · · Score: 1

    Not sure if trolling or just really stupid...

  21. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    You really are a moron.

    By quoting him as they did, they offered his view as that of an authority. The words attributed to him (which you so kindly quoted) are equivalent to "kill all Jews".
    Thus, they are in effect saying "kill all Jews".

    If you can't get this inside your skull, maybe you should start by removing it from your ass.

  22. Re:Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    I thought it was clear that I was talking about the scam itself, not the setup.

    In any case, I did not know how the method works - I do not work as a cashier/salesman and I do not work at a bank.

  23. Re:Wow ... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 2

    The summary does not make it clear whether the stores' POS systems interacted with the banks' systems.

  24. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You don't get it, do you?

    Leaving your pitiful strawman response aside, the point is as follows:

    You cannot pretend to not incite genocide if you're quoting a guy who IS inciting genocide.

    While quoting does not always imply that the author agrees, in this particular case it does. By quoting a prophet, who by definition speaks God's word, they are effectively saying "Do what he says!", even if they don't make a clear statement agreeing with him.

    If you quote something and do not argue against it, you are siding with the quoted material.

  25. Re: This might actually kill more than the bombs on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 2

    Of course it's a war crime to use schools, hospitals, places of worship and similar public places as weapons stores or launching sites.