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  1. Re:What Kind of Huntin' Are We Talkin' About Here? on Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So they're going down the same road as AT&T ?

  2. Re:beating the commies to the moon on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1
    honestly, I thought I clicked "Preview", not "Submit"...

    And how does that research goes now? Why new startups are generally not focusing on such approach?

    Look, it depends on many things which we don't have yet. Current material science must progress further, for starters (and remember where it was 50 years ago...). If we had waited for all that pieces to come into place, we would still not reach orbit.

    And that's exactly what NACA ^W NASA should be doing, the research .
    Once they've figured out how to do stuff, they should pass that knowledge off to the private sector as patents and contract back to them for services. I would suggest looking at the Delta program for an example. (But not being in the industry, I can't evaluate whether that is a good model or not).

  3. Re:beating the commies to the moon on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    And how does that research goes now? Why new startups are generally not focusing on such approach?

    Look, it depends on many things which we don't have yet. Current material science must progress further, for starters (and remember where it was 50 years ago...). If we had waited for all that pieces to come into place, we would still not reach orbit.

  4. Re:Interesting question would be, on Russia Doubles Price For Launching US Astronauts · · Score: 1

    While surfing in may have a bit more panache, I'd rather arrive in style

  5. Re:Why do photos of guns cause stress? on Look At Sick People To Give Your Immune System a Boost · · Score: 1

    Oh, and guns DO NOT kill people.... it's the person holding the gun that kills people.

    sometimes, dogs shoot their owners.
    just sayin...

  6. curses, foiled again... on Making Closed Software Act Like It's Open · · Score: 1

    Wait -- are you saying that any malware I write to steal people's paypal accounts with this architecture may not be portable?


    Why's that "Submit" button look funny?...

  7. BAH! on iPad Review · · Score: 1

    More blatant disinformation from the MKHOSTESS cabal, I see. It is a well-known fact that Twinkies are an artificial lifeform first developed in the 1930's. Twinkies digest mold.

  8. Re:Apollo Cancelation on Astronaut Careers May Stall Without the Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Hell, some of the ones they did send into space had the strange stuff

  9. Re:Not nuclear on Tsunami Warning From Space? · · Score: 1

    Actually the reason the word " nucular " is so terrifying is that it shows that our leaders, who potentially could lunch a nuclear strike, are idiots.


    And don't these people have weather radios?

  10. goddammit google! on Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome · · Score: 2, Funny

    what part of "don't be evil" do you not understand?!!!

  11. Re:Lol? Sif it will happen. on Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban? · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that clip wasn't someone expressing their genuine emotions (note, I intentionally did not use the word thoughts)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Jackson
    Or maybe you're just trolling.

  12. goddamn, can't seperate the trolls from the gnomes on Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban? · · Score: 1
  13. LOOK! Over there! A DAMN DIRTY WHIG! on Will Australia Follow China's Google Ban? · · Score: 1

    That woman was Saturday Night Live alumna Victoria Jackson. Made me wonder if she wasn't intentionally trolling Fox in some sort of lame attempt at guerrilla comedy to resuscitate her non-existent career.


    It's kind of sad that our country has that large a group of people dumb enough that their well-founded ire can be so crassly misdirected like that.

  14. read the writing on the wall on New Software For Employers To Monitor Facebook · · Score: 1

    Of course, that being SGI around 1999/2000, the people who got canned over BA were just a few months ahead of most of the rest of the company, but you take my meaning.

    So the inference we should draw is that any company that squanders effort on such misguided snooping is mere months away from going down the crapper? Good to know, good to know...

  15. that'd be COOOL!!! on How Do You Land a Nuke-Powered Mini-Cooper On Mars? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd like to see somebody do a skycrane entrance in a Mini Cooper on Earth. Maybe in the next James Bond?

  16. Re:If you have Windows XP, you got a copy of Bob on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 3, Informative

    No mod points today, so thank you. That was interesting, amusing and brief.

  17. Re:it failed because it's bullshit technology on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bob's just a ripoff of Magic Cap. Once again, Microsoft with embrace, extend, extinguish.

  18. Re:Book was FANTASTIC - movie was not so much on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    You're just full of Thetans. If you were clear, you'd be able to appreciate it for the masterpiece it is.

    Hell, this whole thread's just crawling with Thetans. My E-meter's ticking just from me reading this hateful crap.

  19. Re:most people arent wired for math on BC Prof Suggests Young Children Need Less Formal Math, Not More · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You'd never get the subject "critical thinking" past the Texas State Educumacashun Schoolbook Board.

  20. it's a floor polish and a dessert topping on Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter · · Score: 1

    Google is your friend, citizen.
    Google just wants to make you happy.

  21. Re:wtf? on How the TSA Plans On Inspecting Your Monkey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    obviously, service monkeys are important for people physically incapable of flinging their own poo.

  22. Re:Murder! on Facebook Leads To Increase In STDs in Britain · · Score: 1

    McDonald's, Burger King, Little Debbie, Smith & Wesson, Altria, Frito-Lay and Jimmy Dean Foods would be a good start.

  23. five nines ? on YouTube Is Down · · Score: 1

    previously on slashdot:
    Hardware: Google Wants To Be Your Electricity Meter on Thursday March 25, @07:57AM

    ah well, doesn't matter if I have electricty, youtube is down!

  24. Re:It's Just A Table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1

    Damn, you got me excited there for a moment. I was hoping you were going to be the first guy to craft two kilo-gonal dice from plutonium and tickle the dragon's tail... hmmmm.... is that a 1 in a million roll for a save or a 1 in a million roll for criticality?!!!

  25. Re:It's Just A Table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn you slashdot! Cut that crap out!
    http://crystalcaste.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=CC&Category_Code=XS
    http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/04/the_10_most_shameful_rpg_dice.php

    Wouldn't meteorite, steel or iron be affected by magnetic fields? Or is it assumed anyone this obsessive is honest to a fault?