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  1. Apple Pay For the UK on Apple Pay For the UK · · Score: 1

    Yes, they could - In a similar way to Bain Capital (Nitts old company) did business.

    Then they could sell off Northern Ireland to Eire, and Scotland to BP , and Wales to the Japanese

    ???

    Profit

  2. Dec 25th on Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jesus Christ was not born on December 25th
    It just happens to be a day that mopst western Christians celebrate His birth.

    Like USians celebrate Washingtons birthday on a monday

    And some in the commonwealth celebrate the Queen's birthday on the 1st monday in June, and others on the 2nd monday in June, her actual birthday is April 21 which has significance to another Religion

  3. Re:That's revolutionary on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 2

    They can't be carbon sinks - everyone knows that wood floats

  4. You can also eat fresh strawberries and go swimming on Xmas day

  5. I think its gonna be a long long time on New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mars aint the kind of place to raise your kids

  6. Re: Shut it down on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 1

    Energy

    We can't keep using stored solar energy (fossil fuels) for much longer without making the planet uninhabitable. There is too much resistance to nuclear fission, and we don't seem to be bothering to exploit stored nuclear fission energy (geothermal). Even if we put up solar panels everywhere on this planet it wouldnt be enough, so we are either going to have to go out and put solar collectors in space, or develop our own fussion generators (which may need He3 that may be found on the moon, or in the long run collected form the atmosphere of the gas giants.

  7. What version of Android does it run?

  8. FFS just keep the Warthog on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The A10 is the best ground support aircraft ever made

  9. There is a set of speeds and driving conditions on Tesla Roadster Update Extends Range · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "There is a set of speeds and driving conditions where we can confidently drive the Roadster 3.0 over 400 miles"

    42 mph , downhill with a tail wind...

  10. Re: on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 1

    Ur could be:
                    You Are
                    Your
                      An acient city in the Sumarian region of the middle east
                      University of Rochester (New York, not MN)

    Might be something to do with bears too (Ursa)
     

  11. Why not a gull on DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk · · Score: 1

    Why not have a drone that flies like a seagull, after all they are more common, and would be less likely to be noticed.

    (and still deadly if you have enough of them (The Birds)

  12. Re:3 gig of ram? on Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review · · Score: 1

    " Is this 2010?"

    No, but its not even 2061 yet, let alone 3001

    A distinguished but elderly scientist once wrote that petabyte storage devices would be enough for 3001

  13. Malicious code can cause computers to crash on Many DDR3 Modules Vulnerable To Bit Rot By a Simple Program · · Score: 2

    Of course if you can get the target computer to run certain code, you can completely wipe all the RAM, but wheres the fun in that huh..

  14. Re:And USA has become an official OLIGARCHY. on The World Is Not Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Define recent

    Many countries that the US invaded, were first invaded by somebody else. For example France was invaded by Germany before the US got into the war.

  15. -but- on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    I get the Mpls Star-Tribune via Kindle subscription, and usually read it on my phone.
    Quite often articles in said journal are messed up when I read them, with all the long words coming out hyp-hen-ated.

  16. Re:oblig Simpson's joke on TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords · · Score: 2

    I look forward to the movie "Bears on a Plane"

  17. It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals on GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals · · Score: 4, Funny

    But its keeping a close eye on the humourous ones.

  18. Re:Plastic socket wrench? on NASA 'Emails' a Socket Wrench To the ISS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe, but don't forget its hard to exert much torque when you're in zero G

    Anyway the ISS is one of the few places where a 3d printer is justified.

  19. Does this mean on Massive Volcanic Eruptions Accompanied Dinosaur Extinction · · Score: 1

    That we don't have to worry about asteroids any more?

  20. Re:Scandalgate! on Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' · · Score: 1

    And I would like people to stop calling charity events that last 24 hours [activity]-athon
    The plain of Marathon is a place in Greece, athon is not a suffix meaning an endurance event.

  21. Misleading Headline on Satellite Captures Glowing Plants From Space · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Sounds like the start of The Andromeda Strain

  22. A watch is not clothing on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    you still have to pay the sales tax.

  23. The Auto industry obviously

  24. Re:Time to build a picorocket, then. on Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget · · Score: 1

    "If only it was a bit easier to put 1g into orbit..."

    Pico is 10^-12 so if a normal satellite is 10,000 Kg then a picosatellite would be only 10 micrograms
    While it might not take much energy to accelerate that to orbital speed in a vacuum, its not going to be easy to get it out of the atmoshere.
    Its also not going to have much in the way of sensors on it.

  25. First one there on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    I was taught in school that Robert Peary of the US was the first one that got there, doesn't that give USA a claim