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  1. Re:What good is aid going to do on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 1

    No. You don't give a fuck about anyone else and you project that onto everyone else to make yourself feel ok about it.

  2. Re:3000 carriers on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 0

    Wow. This is the dumbest comment in a thread full of dumb comments. Congrats.

  3. Re:Worse than it seems. on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 2

    That's the World Health Organization's current estimate of fatalities if more containment is not done immediately.

    They're not exactly "armchair".

  4. Re:What good is aid going to do on Obama Presses Leaders To Speed Ebola Response · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sure. Because our black democrat President couldn't possibly be trying to actually help people. It must be part of a secret campaign to enact Sharia law and Communism.

  5. "Dr. David Saltzberg makes sure the show gets its science science right."

    Now if Slashdot could just find editors that get their posts posts right, that would be impressive.

  6. Re:and also should be worth mentioning on Commander Keen: Keen Dreams Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Commander Keen started its development life as a proposed PC port of Super Mario 3.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software#History

  7. Re:Urban Fetch on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I immediately though of Kozmo.com.

  8. Re:Quiz on Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor · · Score: 1

    It's amusing to see you guys spazzing out over a bullshit post in /r/darknetmarket that's being reported as news.

  9. Re:Fahrenheit? WTHolyF? on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 1

    All Imperial units are great for real world human-scale measurements. That's what they were designed for. Metric units are obviously much better for scientific use, but the units are mostly too big for day to day stuff.

  10. Re:MUNOBWCCBISFA on Congress Can't Make Asteroid Mining Legal (But It's Trying, Anyway) · · Score: 2

    This one is pretty good, though. Way better than the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act.

  11. Re:Fahrenheit? WTHolyF? on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 0

    Celsius is arbitrary too. There is nothing inherently connecting temperature and water.

    Kelvin is the only scale based on something fundamental.

  12. Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? on Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the correct answer. Northwest Nevada is currently an economic wasteland. The plan is to make it a central hub of the US battery design and manufacturing industry. That applies to a lot more industries than just electric cars. If that plan works, any tax revenue they give up in the short term will be more than made up in the long term.

  13. Re:Helium? on WD Announces 8TB, 10TB Helium Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    You have a weird definition of "easy".

    Or are you talking about extracting it from natural gas wells?

  14. Re:A watch? on Moto 360 Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    to the point where the phones themselves are too big to hold in one hand or put in a pocket.

    You must have really small hands and pockets. The Galaxy S5 is a big phone and I don't have either problem.

  15. Re:Proper motivation on Google To Build Quantum Information Processors · · Score: 1

    If everyone had that attitude, we would still be huddled around fires cooking animals that we killed with spears.

  16. Re:QUESTION? on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    That has no bearing on my post. Right now, they are actively trying to kill Americans and other Westerners en masse. We can either let them, or do something about it first.

    Maybe you're willing to sacrifice the lives of your family and friends for the sins of politicians who have been dead for 50 years. I'm not.

  17. Re:CTO ? Really ? on White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO · · Score: 3, Informative

    God dammit. I hate not being able to edit posts. Let's try that again-

    That position doesn't report to the President. It's under the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. "CTO" is just a catchy name some consultant thought up, although it is a hell of a lot shorter than the alternatives.

  18. Re:CTO ? Really ? on White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO · · Score: 1

    That position doesn't report to the President. It's under the Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, under that Director. "CTO" is just a catchy name some consultant thought up, although it is a hell of a lot shorter than the alternatives.

  19. Re:QUESTION? on Could Tech Have Stopped ISIS From Using Our Own Heavy Weapons Against Us? · · Score: 1

    ISIS has been very clear about their desire to attack America and the West. Waiting for them to kill a ton of people before doing anything is a poor strategy.

  20. Re:stopping who? on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 4, Informative

    The 1958 treaty fell apart for a variety of reasons, The 1963 version was a success.

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

    In the early 90s, Ukraine didn't *want* the nukes that the Soviet Union had put there. Maintaining a nuclear arsenal requires a bunch of money that they didn't have.

  22. Re:stopping who? on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those things have absolutely nothing in common with what we're talking about.

    The only similar agreement was the nuclear test ban. When you test a nuclear bomb, it creates an earthquake that everyone can detect. A hypersonic shockwave is easily detectable by satellites.

    The deterrent to breaking this treaty is that you would definitely get caught.

  23. Re:Ban on testing would give tech only to cheaters on The Argument For a Hypersonic Missile Testing Ban · · Score: 2

    Testing a hypersonic missile is easily observable. They *could* defy the treaty, but we would definitely know about it.

  24. Re:Proper motivation on Google To Build Quantum Information Processors · · Score: 2

    "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"

    -Isaac Newton

  25. Re:Chip and PIN on Banks Report Credit Card Breach At Home Depot · · Score: 1

    The deadline to switch is in 13 months. That kind of massive national transition is not easy or fast.

    After next October, businesses will be able to use the old swipe and sign terminals, but they will be liable for any fraud instead of the credit card company. Obviously nobody wants that liability.