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  1. Is This Article A Test Question For Middle School? on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1

    If a Bomb explodes and removes 60 feet of concrete, how many bombs does it take to remove 1000 feet of concrete? Extra credit for saying out loud, "Diplomacy?"

  2. Re:Sure, if you're rich on Building the Bionic Man · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking of a new line of prosthetics, referred to as "Johnson's"

  3. Re:Sure, if you're rich on Building the Bionic Man · · Score: 1

    If the U.S. government is going to take over a process that is a simple data base consisting of patient data, and medical procedures; then wouldn't prosthetics be just another procedure for a patient? Given that prosthetics follow a standard formula as applied to the patient requirement, wouldn't an automated factory that builds the replacement part be the next level in the solution chain? Pardon the pun, but as the "kinks" are worked out, prosthetics with recovery therapies would then be handled on an out patient basics. Who needs a Billionaire Ego to lord over this?

  4. Re:Uhm... on Hijacked Web Traffic For Sale · · Score: 1

    All Hail the Gang of Three, "greasemonkey, adblock, and noscript!"

  5. Re:Earth gets hit with X2 all the time on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 1

    It's probably simple chemistry/physics, but with the increased energy from the sun, would that cause an increased elevation of pollutants floating around? The result being an increased height, and less dense pollution?

  6. Re:Solar maximum on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which would YOU rather read about, Solar Flares going nowhere, or the results of another Republican Debate?

  7. Re:Bllody Cool on Friday's Solar Flare Twice As Energetic As Monday's; Earth Safe · · Score: 1

    Responding to an AC? Your intentions are good, but are casted like pearls.

    But consider, it might be useful if the Pentagon increased its spending on forward bases like on Titan, Mars, and Pluto? Because every morning we wake up, is one morning the Sun hasn't flatulated on Earth; yet.

  8. Re:*Sigh* There's no drama. on Stanford Online Courses Delayed; More Time To Sign Up · · Score: 1

    I wish him well. My wife is a teacher, I see teachers come and go all the time. It's a loss when good teachers leave, one gets the feeling of a negative impact on the future.

  9. Re:Where do I sign up? on Stanford Online Courses Delayed; More Time To Sign Up · · Score: 1

    Given that one is reading /. And one cannot find out where the signup web page is? Then I think the answer to the first question gets zero points?

  10. Re:*Sigh* There's no drama. on Stanford Online Courses Delayed; More Time To Sign Up · · Score: 1

    I guess when teaching becomes a job, then leaving Stanford makes sense? Another thing, he couldn't do his pet project on the side?

  11. Re:Likely nothing to do with Thrun on Stanford Online Courses Delayed; More Time To Sign Up · · Score: 1

    I think translating it to Braille was maybe more time consuming than was scheduled for.

  12. Re:I Find Myself Concerned on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    "Money is the Mother's Milk of Politics" - Unknown

    What I find troublesome, is that all the evidence says you're more right, than wrong.

  13. Re:Canadian Space Program on High School Students Send Lego Man 24 Kilometers High · · Score: 2

    "God Speed Lego Man?", nope, doesn't have the same feeling. But cool work. I guess the next step is a "Second Stage" attached to the balloon? Maybe to collect some space debris?

  14. I Find Myself Concerned on MPAA-Dodd Investigation Petition Reaches Goal · · Score: 1

    When all it takes for a law to pass is to bribe some Washington Insider, who's constituents were never informed of the action. And those that will be affected, are never informed. That to me, is bribery.

  15. Just A Comment About Using Concrete on Printing a Home: The Case For Contour Crafting · · Score: 1

    Do not ignore the Steel Re-Bar. One only has to ask the children of Sichuan, and the Haitian's what they think of it. Building Codes can be obstructive, but the problem is, is that they are written in blood.

  16. Re:"Freedom" on Will Secure Boot Cripple Linux Compatibility? · · Score: 1

    From my perspective, m$ historic QA on this topic is usually flexible. I plan to buy the tablet, stick a USB up its, "port," and run linux; life is good.

    "Come Bell, I have something to show you." - the Beast

  17. Re:One Has to Ask on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    How can it be shown to the judges of the Supreme Court that granting businesses the right to interact with politics is the same as allowing one person to have more than one vote?

  18. One Has to Ask on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do About SOPA and PIPA? · · Score: 1

    What does SOPA-sponsor Lamar Smith (R-TX) profit from this closed minded attack on the 1st Amendment? I think an investigation into this issue would be, telling. And when all is said, and done; disclosing to the public that information on this "For Profit" congressman might begin a trend.

  19. Re:It's not open source, but here it goes on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    SilverLight is your solution? This explanation is going to take about 3 beers. m$ doesn't even support it on its browser. As for being an IDE, I was thinking of Eclipse, which is what Aptana, and Bluefish call, "Daddy."

  20. Re:And did they answer? on RSA Chief: Last Year's Breach Has Silver Lining · · Score: 2

    Is it spin? Or smoke?

  21. Re:Slight bit different. The fire dept burned down on RSA Chief: Last Year's Breach Has Silver Lining · · Score: 2

    And in a unrelated news event, The farmer has started communicating to neighboring farm's about closing the barn doors after the live stock in the barn had left.

  22. Re:What is next, Iran asking for extraditions ? on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Please! Please, don't give Iran any ideas. The world already knows the Koch Brothers use "Pledges" to hold, and retard economic growth. If Iran figures out it's cheaper to bribe a congressman that to spit at it; there will be a new addition to the "governmental fruit cake mix" that's already running this place.

  23. Re:How much longer until... on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    You might want to check your phone bill. You've been paying for Ma and Pa Kettle out in the middle of no-where the right to have access to a phone line. And your auto insurance? try driving around with out it. And clothes, make a statement, don't wear any.

    And while we're on the topic of bloated industries. Why do we need to subsidize billionaire egos when a cloud configuration could handle the medical forms, medical data, medical communications, and university research results? Talk about unfunny grinning show offs being given the responsibility to help us.

  24. Re:that will tieup the courts and jury trials on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    I'm still confused about this legal rendition. The planet has human predators routinely imposing their sociopathic form of genocide, and U.S. Law Enforcement is going after a Movie Copy?!

    Mister gMan, while your on the job preventing chaos, there's a fruit truck out back, it's missing a grape.

  25. Re:the answer is yes on Do Companies Punish Workers Who Take Vacations? · · Score: 1

    There are those who are afraid, and there are those who think their job is just short term. I've found that by giving a 90 day notice of an upcoming vacation tends to make the more nervous bosses less so. I follow up every 30 days stating in my email, that on such and such a date I'll be taking some time off. Because of doing business this way, I have gotten many, "hello, and welcome back's" from the bosses above me. I think that some folks take it personally that sometimes when a person isn't back, that that person quit. A person that is well liked in the company that just quits causes their X-Boss to look like a jerk. So the reaction by the X-Boss is to be a jerk. I've noticed that it's only the very naive minion, and those that get the biggest share of money that sometimes enjoy a little to much their lack of humanity.