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  1. Re:West Antarctica? on West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats only at the South Pole

    Antarctica is BIG

    Bigger than the 48 states

  2. Shouldn't this on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't this be a question for HDD manufacturers and OEM resellers?

  3. Ex Phone on Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just the thing to call your former spouse on

  4. Lead Gen ? on How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does somebody want my lead? I have a few old car batteries, and a UPS that no longer works. Quite a bit of Pb there.
      I would have to pay to take them to the city recycling place.

  5. ICE ? on Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ · · Score: 0

    I thought the ICE was melting due to global warming.

    Fortunately there has been a bit of snow here which has made most of the slick ice that happened with the freezing rain over the weekend have a bit more traction so you can walk on it.
    And theres no highs above freezing in the next 7 days forecast

  6. 120 mile range? on DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How? Is it airborne or something? You are not going to get any straight line reception at that range due to curvature of the earth, even in the plains.

  7. Say on University of Chicago Receives Mystery Indiana Jones Package · · Score: 0

    Do they still make that "Warehiuse 13" program? (I stopped watching the PsyPhi channel
    Thats where it really belongs

  8. Re:"Suicide" mission? on NASA Prepares Probes For Suicide Mission · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Exactly - its not like they are going to go to heaven and get 72 virgins for this martyrdom.

    The 2nd law of robotics (robots must obey humans) trumps the 3rd law (self preservation)

  9. Re:Do you heat your house? on Is It Worth Investing In a High-Efficiency Power Supply? · · Score: 0

    " Heat pumps do in fact put more heat into their hot side than they consume in work. They take heat from a low temperature resivoir and send it to a high temperature resivoir."

    So they work well in heating a house as long as its not cold outside. Probably not so good in a real winter..

  10. Former? on Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well I guess he's not anonymous anymore now they caught him.

  11. Robot City on A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, Rodney Copperbottom will rescue Bigweld, and remove Ratshit and his mother from power...

  12. Doesn't sound like a good place to go on Astronomers Detect and 'Weigh' Very Young Solar System · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The star, called L1527 IRS"

    Not a good destination for interstellar travelers - they already collect taxes there.

  13. Re:How come... on Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't worried about cyclones, but they are worried about hurricanes.
    Cyclones happen in the Pacific, and mostly affect island countries. I remember Cyclone Bola in the eighties.

    The world does not warm evenly, due to the fact we have continents with odd shapes, water currents caused by that exagerate climate change in certain areas.. Maybe even the Gulf Stream could stop causing an ice age.

  14. Re:We don't have any choice on Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk · · Score: 1

    "Thorium is the only thing standing between us and heat death."

    What about Fusion ?

    Thats in the Far future

    There is a working fusion reactor only about 8 minutes away.

  15. Re:New Zealand? Intelligence Agency? on Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court · · Score: 4, Informative

    New Zealand has been the location of terrorist attacks in the past.

    In the '80s a terrorist group based in France called the DGSE blew up the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, killing one of the crew.

    NZ security personal were able to capture 2 of the culprits (alain Marfard amd Dominique Prieux , but the French Governemnt made us give them back,

  16. sell the HQ on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 1

    Congress could sell the Capitol building to aid in reducing the deficit

  17. What about on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    What about the interstate commerce clause in the constitution?

    Anyway this sort of thing will cost jobs in this country - since companies can set up offshore and sell stuff without having to collect US state taxes - especially for non physical goods (mu7sic, videos, software, subscriptions etc.

    If the States need more money, they can increase sate income tax, of have a state lottery (a tax on the mathematically challenged)

  18. There would be a lot of uses for a material that won't melt at high temperatures for example a heat shield for spacecraft reentry, or containment vessel for nuclear reactors

  19. Papers? on Ask Slashdot: Tablets For Papers; Are We There Yet? · · Score: 1

    What sort of papers are we talking about?

    Newspapers? You can already get most respected newspapers in an app, or ebook format.

    Papers please? For keeping official documents on, like an electronic green card - I doubt the red states would accept it yet.

    But the other sort of paper - if your sitting in the bathroom reading on your tablet and you find theres no toilet paper - well i don't think your tablet will do a good job of wiping your arse...

  20. Communicating without the internet on How Syria's Rebels Communicate In the Face of Internet Shutdown · · Score: 4, Interesting

    'rebels have been fighting governments without the aid of internet communications (or indeed any electronic technology) for thousands of years, remember Spartacus? William (Braveheart) Wallace? Bonnie Prince Charlie, George Washington. The rebels didn't even have the telegraph until the war between the states...

  21. To be a speed record on Caltech and UVic Set 339Gbps Internet Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it have to be both ways?

    (Like with land water and air soeed records...

  22. So in 2099 we can look forward to Windows 95

    I think I will wait for the 2102 version

    (of course they will have immortality by then...

  23. Re:OS are not browsers on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    To be fair to Mozilla, they don't charge for their product.

    But it still breaks stuff (add-ons) developed for earlier versions.

  24. Congress on US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws · · Score: 2

    Hasn't Congress got more urgent important stuff to do? Like avoiding this fiscal cliff that everyone is talking about..

  25. I thought the hairdressers on Hairspray Could Help Us Find Advanced Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    went on the B-Ark with the telephone sanitizers etc