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  1. You Call Filter Bubbles, "Censorship" on The Rise of Filter Bubbles · · Score: 1

    I call them, "Mediocrity."

  2. ...Aquarius underwater... on NASA's Underwater Training Facility · · Score: 1

    Brought to you by the Redundancy Department of Redundancy.

  3. What's the 'Band' Width? on Syrians Using Donkeys Instead of DSL After Gov't Shuts Down Internet · · Score: 1

    How much data is 'carried' via this 'Hoof-Net'?

  4. Yuri Readers Rejoice! on Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store · · Score: 1

    I guess I can still get Yuri from our Amazonian overlords?

  5. When I Think of SEAL Team 6 on Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' · · Score: 1

    I don't think of some mickey mouse group of people; just a thought.

  6. Re:And then... on Ford Uses Google For a New Type of Smart Car · · Score: 1

    If Ford had teamed up with Facebook, they could have called the car the, "Smart Ass"; just a thought...

  7. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    Gopher?

  8. Re:WebGL was always a bad idea on WebGL Poses New Security Problems · · Score: 1

    In the fullness of time, WebGL will handle the security stuff. Maybe for those who bathe in Silver-Lite, they will ask questions like, "why?"

  9. Why Not Harvest It? on Ugly Truth of Space Junk · · Score: 1

    Getting mass out of the gravity well is still expensive. Why not use a form of Solar Laser to move the junk to an L-Zone then build a drone operated Test-Bed in the L-Zone to recycle the mass. This would make a boring Science Fiction story, but the commercial applications? Maybe AAA for spent Satellites?

  10. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 1

    in FTP one can obtain a list of files to download by typing the command DIR. HTML of any flavour is never considered.

  11. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 2

    I kind of figured that web sites were shielded by the first amendment. Since when did a person need a web site to download, FTP has been around longer than WWW.

  12. Re:Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 2

    the request for help kind of sounds like someone's high school term paper that's due in two weeks...

  13. Finally, Something One Can Use Windows For on Triple Monitor Gaming: Dual GPU GeForce Vs. Radeon · · Score: 1

    I RTFA, it was a very nice soft sell of how one could still use windows. Having three monitors hanging off my Ubuntu 11.04 laptop causes the girls to stop and ask easy to answer questions about usage.

  14. What If Its A Software Bug? on Endeavour Launch Delayed For At Least 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    Then I'd say NASA has the right man at the right time to quickly repair it.

  15. For Sale GPS Device on GPS Maker TomTom Submits Your Speed Data To Police · · Score: 1

    TomTom GPS unit, excellent condition, easy to use. Cheap! Will trade for a comparable Other GPS unit.

  16. Re:Space Race v2.0 on China Plans Space Station By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Given the overall Chinese Aviation Creativity, it might kind of cool to see Sky Lab 2.0

  17. Re:No you idiot, wrong genere on Japanese Robots Await Call To Action · · Score: 1

    A lot of people's personal items are still in tack, but under a lot of debris. I think it might be a nice gesture if a couple of extra robots were built so as to help clean up in the cities that were affected by the earthquake. And I know that supporters of Skynet aren't going to appreciate this; but after the cities are cleaned up, maybe some of those T1000's could be hired to do things like collect the garbage, maintain the parks; and the one thing I think ALL Japanese people would appreciate, "answer tourist's dumb questions; repeatedly."

  18. How About Someplace Closer? on The Space Station As a Simulated Mars Mission? · · Score: 1

    Lets say, oh, I don't know, like maybe the Moon?

  19. Re:Newton's on Using Neutrons To Precisely Test Newton's Law of Gravity · · Score: 1

    FTFA, the use of a "piezoelectric resonator" allowed a Neutron to be influenced by Earth's gravity. Could the same concept be applied to more complex atoms?

  20. Re:acronym fail? on DARPA's New Hi-Tech Telescope · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't Curved Charged Coupled Peripheral make more sense?

  21. Re:Do as we say, not as we do!! on China Calls Out US On Internet Freedom · · Score: 0

    Tiennemen Square is China's government response to us.

  22. Re:Physics on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    People use to say the same about breaking the Sound Barrier, space travel apparently has the same arguments that air travel use to have; I'm not surprised.

  23. Re:Fusion Power Time? on Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged · · Score: 1

    solar, wind, thermal are all good sources. but sometimes the sun, wind, and drill bit is not enough. H3 is not radio active, and is relatively portable. I believe that watching one's thyroid gland stop functioning because of radiation poisoning could ruin an otherwise beautiful day.

  24. Re:Fusion Power Time? on Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged · · Score: 1

    the sun and the moon are the two largest objects in earth's sky. the moon is the object that is not as bright.

  25. Re:Last words... on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Past primitive human culture's ability to survive, after meeting in some way, an advanced culture when it takes its first crap, is pretty dismal. I can not help but think what it would be like for Leif Erikson vs. Princess Cruise Lines at the port of Port of Akureyri, Iceland, what the outcome would be.

    "What's in your wallet?" - Capital One, 2009