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  1. Re:2% is nothing on NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget · · Score: 2

    The A-10s were cheap to build..back in the 70s. Keeping the A-10 program running in the 21st century actually costs $700M per year.

  2. Re:Can someone explain to me on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 1

    To nipick, it's actually just under 1.5M atmospheres.

  3. Re:Doping? on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 2

    That's not a pun.

  4. Re:"second screen" innovation on The PlayStation Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    I love the old saying "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

  5. Re:ha fucking ha on Iranian Hackers Compromised Airlines, Critical Infrastructure Companies · · Score: 1

    You think that cyber-warfare started with Stuxnet? That's funny.

  6. Re:Converts gas cars to electric? on Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) · · Score: 1

    Electric vehicle range is very dependent on weight and drag. So you can certainly convert heavy, boxy cars. And a larger vehicle will give you more room for batteries. But the performance will not be good.

    A common conversion is using a small pickup truck, which is cheap and light, and then filling the bed with batteries. Obviously you need a cap over the back.

  7. Re:Deathtrap on Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) · · Score: 1

    Because if it's "green" and "for the environment" you can crucify puppies and nobody will blink.

    I've been to a few dozen electric vehicle club meetings in two cities. Maybe one or two people are big environmentalists. Three or four people are hardcore "off grid" guys that don't want to be dependent on refined gasoline. The vast majority are nerds who like building cool stuff.

  8. Re:Girls, girls, girls... on Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights · · Score: 1

    Your common sense has no place among these dumbass women hating neckbeards.

  9. Re:Few of us have inside and outside legal counsel on Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of files that I'm legally allowed to access but you aren't.

    Sure. And nobody sends DMCA takedown requests for those files.

  10. Re:Ross Perot is awesome! on How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap · · Score: 2

    It's a common belief, but it's not true. In exit polls, when Perot voters were asked who they would have voted for if Perot wasn't on the ballot, they were split nearly 50/50.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1992#Analysis

  11. Re:If it helps: on Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives · · Score: 1

    How? I've been on Facebook for years and haven't seen anything like that.

    The only thing my friends can do is tag me in pictures, which can be easily disabled or individually untagged.

  12. Re:If it helps: on Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives · · Score: 1

    How can Facebook get personal information that you don't voluntarily share with it?

  13. Re:Few of us have inside and outside legal counsel on Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" · · Score: 2

    What's happening here is that Kim is making a statement for the record, which is actually a lie, and it's being amplified and rebroadcast by the masses of asses, like slashdot editors.

    Of course it's a lie. Megaupload's entire business plan was based on a perceived loophole in the DMCA takedown process that didn't exist.

    If two users uploaded the same file to Megaupload, they stored it on their servers once and provided different links to those two users. If a movie studio filed a DMCA takedown notice and provided one of those links, Megaupload would disable just the link mentioned and leave any other links to that file active. The DMCA says that once you're aware that a file is infringing, you have to stop distributing that file. You can disagree with the DMCA as a law and a treaty, but it does not take a lawyer to realize that Megaupload was blatantly violating it.

    The thing that really got Megaupload in trouble was incentivizing piracy. They had an affiliate program that would pay people cash if the files they uploaded were downloaded a lot. Which gets more downloads, Dr. Who fan fiction or a copy of the latest X-Men movie? Management was completely aware of what was going on because they discuss it in emails. By paying people to upload pirated material, that's a conspiracy.

  14. Re: Where do you fill up? on Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla? · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind, being able to fuel up at home in an electric car means you'll save significant time not driving out of your way to get to fueling stations.

    I've driven a Nissan Leaf for about a year and a half now. Never having to stop at a gas station is amazing.

    I don't understand how in the world these big companies are betting huge on Hydrogen. It just makes no sense.

  15. Re:Well of course on LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants · · Score: 1

    There is evidence that Smoot-Hawley Tariff at least made the Great Depression worse.

    Something we all should have learned from Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  16. Re:Never happen on The EU Has a Plan To Break Up Google · · Score: 1

    Oh look, someone on Slashdot who has absolutely no knowledge of economics, but thinks they do. You hardly ever see that.

  17. Re: I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stre on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 1

    Citation?

  18. Re:I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stree on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 1

    Once you retire from public office any money you have left over becomes yours.

    Who told you that? You should probably stop listening to people who are lying to you.

  19. Re:I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stree on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And, given his dislike for America

    I've seen this from various nutballs like yourself and I'm curious. Why do you think he ran for President? Because he was actively trying to sabotage the country? With what motive?

  20. Re:I bet Infosys and Tata are dancing in the stree on Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would Obama care about lobbyist money? As of two weeks ago, he's been freed of all political consequences to any of his actions. He can finally do what he thinks is right.

  21. Re:Sounds reasonable on Swedish Court Refuses To Revoke Julian Assange's Arrest Warrant · · Score: 2

    If the USA had really wanted Assange, the easy way to have gotten him would have been to extradite him from the UK while he was living there freely.

    Your completely obvious logic has no place here. On Slashdot, everything has to be a vast shadowy conspiracy.

  22. Re:But the case hasn't even started! on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    This is the real answer. And more specifically, they don't trust their employees with access to thousands of dollars of cash.

  23. Re:Why not use Verizon as your ISP as well on More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon · · Score: 2

    If you want to get your message out to social media get a friend in a less repressive country to post on your behalf.

    You don't see any problems with that plan?

  24. Re:Not smart on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 4, Informative

    they got Slik Road 1.0 the site but not anything like a customer registry or order history.

    That's not true. The FBI had full admin access to Silk Road 1.0 for several months before they shut it down. People around the world were arrested.

    Most of the Google results are this new 2.0 arrest. Here are some articles about sellers from SR1.0 getting arrested.

    http://www.law360.com/articles/479177/8-more-silk-road-arrests-reported-in-us-europe
    http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/silk-road-merchant-arrested-over-sale-drugs-guns-cash-n35691
    http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-09-05/news/bs-md-silk-road-sentencing-20140905_1_dread-pirate-roberts-ross-william-ulbricht-jacob-theodore-george-iv

    There's another reason why selling drugs online is a bad idea. After SR1.0 got shut down, there were a bunch of forum posts from people who had been fronted large amounts of drugs to sell online. The drugs had been sent out, and then the resulting bitcoins got seized by the Feds. Now they owed very unpleasant people huge amounts of money that they didn't have.

  25. Not smart on Silk Road 2.0 Seized By FBI, Alleged Founder Arrested In San Francisco · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who is still using these sites after all of the Silk Road 1.0 arrests? You have to be pretty dumb to risk your freedom on some stranger's computer security skills.