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  1. Re:Who names those ships? on Northwest Passage Exploration Ship Found · · Score: -1

    HMS Terror sounds like a typical name for a warship.
    and as for Erebus, well nobody had even heard of that Antarctic volcano until flight 901 hit it in 1979

  2. Re:Ugh on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 3, Funny

    The actual cards would be those 80 column things that the ancient languages were stored (and inpuy) on.

  3. Re:Confusing summary - here's my version on $10 Bet Brings Researchers Closer to Industrial Scale Graphene Production · · Score: 1

    " taking two metre wide, three metre long sheets of monatomically thin graphene and making hammocks out of them."

    Because existing materials aren't strong enough to make a hammock that can support the average american?

  4. Re:Pet Peeve on Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that nearly all the places that can be dammed have been dammed already. .

  5. Re:11 days is "weeks"? on After Weeks of Delay, SpaceX Falcon Launches Communications Satellite Payload · · Score: 1

    "Maybe my math is off, but in my book 11 days does not make "weeks""

    A week is 7 days. 11 days is about 1.57 weeks

    More than one is plural.

  6. Re:Lets use Anthropo-sedatives instead .. on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    "Honestly, the idea of passing out and waking up at the destination would be appealing (to me anyway)."

    I am sure its possible, but you'll have to pay extra for the drinks

    Of course there is the risk that if the plane does have an emergency you are less likely to be one of the survivors.

  7. Re:Responsible Agency Enforcing Law on FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters · · Score: 1

    "Can a drone go on fishing expeditions,"

    I would think they would scare away the fish. And in the winter how are they going to cut holes in the ice?

    " running up and down looking through windows?"

    You could always run Linux

  8. Re:prior art on Two Explorers Descend Into An Active Volcano, and Live to Tell About It · · Score: 1

    Even before that, professor lidenbrock and his nephew Axel descended into Mt Snaeffells in Iceland

  9. Misleading on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 2

    "It will pass just below satellites in geostationary orbit, and above New Zealand "

    Geostationary orbit is around the equator, NZ is 40 to 45 degrees south or so.

  10. Quick, capture it on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 1

    if its going to be that close :)

    BTW how big its it? The size of a house can vary a lot, and are we talking spuare feet, length, or mass

    NZ houses aren't as big in area as american houses, and mostly made of wood, so they are not as heavy eithere.

  11. I don't drink coffee

  12. Not to mention on Egypt's Oldest Pyramid Is Being Destroyed By Its Own Restoration Team · · Score: -1

    Increasing erosion due to acid rain and global warming

  13. Re:Mistake #1 on Oregon Suing Oracle Over Obamacare Site, But Still Needs Oracle's Help · · Score: 1

    "Pin and paper with filing cabinets. Old tech, but cheaper and it works."

    Do you mean pen and paper?

    Anyway while it might work for keeping records, its hard to do a website that way.

  14. warehouse on Out of the Warehouse: Climate Researchers Rescue Long-Lost Satellite Images · · Score: 5, Funny

    is this from Warehouse 13?

  15. First US Appeals Court on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 1

    "the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit."

    So is itt the first court or the second court?

  16. Tonga on AMD Releases New Tonga GPU, Lowers 8-core CPU To $229 · · Score: 4, Funny

    King Tupou VI wants royalties

  17. Watch out for on Saturn's F Ring Is Now Three Times As Wide As During the Voyager Flybys · · Score: 1

    The Fithp are coming

  18. Dr Yui on Yahoo Stops New Development On YUI · · Score: 1

    Yeo, I thought he was the doctor that was the traitor in the Atreides camp because the Harkonnens had his wife hostage.

  19. Re:Maybe it would be good if the Ayatollah wins? on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Arab spring in Iran? Maybe?"

    Very unlikely since the Iranians are not Arabs - they're Persians

  20. Paleo ? on DNA Reveals History of Vanished "Paleo-Eskimos" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    4000 years ago isn't that ancient. The clovis people were around in the americas 12,000 years ago

  21. Re:Not surprising on California DMV Told Google Cars Still Need Steering Wheels · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "I agree, having a manual break should be required as a bare minimum."

    A manual brake would be even more useful, along with a kill switch for the engine.

  22. Re:Cash? on Amazon To Buy Twitch For $970 Million · · Score: 1

    I am sure they (Twitch) would rather have 9,700 hundred dollar bills than 100 billion Amazon "coins"

  23. Spherical Torus on Princeton Nuclear Fusion Reactor Will Run Again · · Score: 0

    Spherical Torus? Is that some sort of shape that has 4 or more (spatial) dimensions?

  24. Re: It would be really nice.... on News Corp Australia Doesn't Want You To Look Closely At Their Financials · · Score: 2

    "It wouldn't be that obvious. What would happen is It wouldn't be that obvious. What would happen is dome government department

    is this dome government department located near Chesters Mill ?

  25. Re:But on Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake? · · Score: 1

    In an active seismic zone, you have virtually mo warning of an earthquake.

    In Minnesota, there is plenty of time to get to the basement if there is a tornado warning, and 6 months notice of oncoming -20F temperatures