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  1. Re:why not a simple rocket on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Because with paintball pellets we will have to put some goggles or a mask on the asteroid.

  2. Re:Probability and magnitude are both relevant on Paintball Pellets As a Tool To Deflect Asteroids · · Score: 1

    ya know its really too bad you posted as AC, I would have bumped this one up.

  3. Re:three words, one hyphen: on Why Can't Industry Design an Affordable Hearing Aid? · · Score: 1

    The same reason college tuition has gone up during a massive recession- government assistance drives up that cost. Hell, my university is practically a branch of the government.

    In this case, concerning the hearing aids, its Medicare.

    Greed ( whatever that is ) is insufficient to drive up costs in a free market.

  4. Re:Unstable? on Black Hole's "Point of No Return" Found · · Score: 1

    Depends on the size of the hole. There does not have to be a large gravitational gradient at the event horizon.

    Black holes don't create gravity.

  5. At last... on A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic · · Score: 1

    a use for one of those Sun Micro data centers in shipping containers!!

    "To deliver computing power to where its needed."

    Stupid, stupid stupid. The whole point to to avoid the tyranny of location and move the data, not the computer.

  6. In Soviet Russia on Why Worms In the Toilet Might Be a Good Idea · · Score: 1

    ... worm poop on YOU!

  7. In Soviet Russia on Scientists Invent Electronics That Dissolve In the Body · · Score: 1

    ... electronics melt YOU!

  8. In Soviet Russia on .xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine · · Score: 2

    ... porn finds YOU!

  9. Carriers... for now. on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 1

    This probably highlights the emphasis on "way-over-the-horizon" technologies like Prompt Global Strike.

    I presume that something like PGS would be used to to take out the carrier killers. So that the carrier air groups(s) can move in and take the sky whilst mitigating the risk of becoming a billion dollar reef.

  10. Re:Get the child a ball or a bicycle on Ask Slashdot: Best Computer For a 7-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    I second this motion. If it helps -think of a bicycle as a rideable "rotation multiplier".

    Barring an apocalyptic event, of course, a seven year old is going to get plenty of exposure to computation.

  11. Re:My educated opinion. on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    The fact that your logic suggests that astronauts don't watch space documentaries tells me that you are about as much a Mathematician as I am a Physicist.

    I know I shouldn't encourage the aspergers crowd, but I cannot help myself.

    Care to try again?

  12. My educated opinion. on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Im a Physicist* and I find these results quite interesting.

    * I'm not really a Physicist, but I do watch the Discovery Channel a lot and I read, like, half of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe.

  13. Re:Video?!? on Florida Researchers Create Shortest Light Pulse Ever Recorded · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...buffering...

  14. Re:Copying keys with a camera on Should We Print Guns? Cody R. Wilson Says "Yes" (Video) · · Score: 1

    No, you drug your target at a party and when he passes out you make an imprint of the key in a spoon full of hot wax. Later, back at your lair, you have your trustworthy sidekick file a copy of the key out by hand.

    Dont you watch movies??

  15. Re:2 pounds in zero-gravity? on Microthrusters For Small Satellites · · Score: 2

    $7.23

  16. I, for one on Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident · · Score: 1

    welcome our low deductible overlords!

  17. Re:Priorities on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 1

    Facebook?

    Does Facebook offer a status of "Drowned" or "Waterlogged", "Dying from blunt force trauma"?

  18. Priorities on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A Cat 5 impacts the East Coast and we are worried that Facebook or Amazon might be down?

  19. Our Overlords on 400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year · · Score: 2

    are greatly displeased at this development.

    Without most of the public distracted by sports, sitcoms and stories of young doctors/lawyers/policemen in love they are likely to find time to think and question their place in life, politics, etc.

    We cant have people doing that, it'll fuck up the economy.

  20. Re:Slashdot Grab Bag on World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany · · Score: 1

    Ah! yes I overlooked the lovable, ubiquitous /. pedantry, good catch my man.

    Al least you have a sense of humor, fuck.

  21. Slashdot Grab Bag on World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Does it run Linux?
    2) I for one, would like to welcome our new register constrained overlord.
    3) Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
    4) In Soviet Russia supercomputer run YOU!
    5) There is no God, I reject your fairytales.

  22. Re:Safe trip? on Sally Ride Takes Her Final Flight · · Score: 1

    At last I found you O Great Philosopher!

    Might I be so bold as to suggest you elaborate on your philosophy- but this time use the very effective technique of explaining it as a Car Analogy?

    for example: "life is like car... when its out of gas.... it dont go anymore.... and thats it."

  23. Re:The question paints the asker in a pretty light on Ask Slashdot: Old Dogs vs. New Technology? · · Score: 1

    Never occurred to me....

  24. Re:One small caveat on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    Dr. Freud, please call your office, Dr. Freud...

  25. Re:Several problems on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you NUTS - MADs itchy-trigger-fingered little brother.