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  1. Re:Godspeed, Endeavour. on Endeavour Launch Now Slated For Monday · · Score: 1

    I remember hearing an interview with an astronaut regarding the end of the shuttle program, and he was amazed at how these complex and flexible machines were 50 years before their time.

    However that is also the problem... They were over-engineered and used too much new tech with no clear objective or familiarity with the demands of the hardware. Basically they lept forward when they would have been better off taking measured steps.

  2. Re:Not that I'm interested in the following... oka on Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store · · Score: 3

    Proving once again that ignorance of proper terminology leads to stupidity.

  3. Re:Couldn't you define it in the summary? on Amazon Removes Yaoi Manga Titles From Kindle Store · · Score: 5, Funny

    And remove the joy of discovery when you google the term? Why for...

  4. Re:No legitimate use on Cellphones Get Government Chips For Disaster Alert · · Score: 1

    You mention Japan, and couldn't figure out a proper example of legitimate use?

    Just to point out how shortsighted you are; tsunami warnings and seconds-before-earthquake-strikes warnings. (I've gotten a few magnitude 6 warnings after the Touhoku quake, before they all downgraded due to being false positives information)

  5. Re:Floor plans... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1, Troll

    The issue with unilaterally deciding that military action against a location deep within a peaceful country is legal and justified, you create a situation where terrorism would also by extension also be legal and justified.

    Basically what separates the attacks against WTC and the attack against the Abbottabad compound is one of scale.

  6. Re:Monster expensive? on Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T. · · Score: 2

    You're underestimating the impact on quality due to imperial units... Just look at the Mars prove that crashed due to ignoring the obvious benefits of SI based data channels.

  7. Re:Shoveling dirt on News Corp. Looking To Sell MySpace · · Score: 1

    MySpace has always been shit... And except for lol-privacy-panic crowd FaceBook actually has a pretty damn decent service. Ever notice how uncluttered the site is?

  8. Fear of commoditization ruined Nokia on Nokia Outsources Symbian OS Work · · Score: 2

    Really sad to see that Nokia didn't have the confidence in their hardware design and manufacture skill to give Android a chance. They never were in a position to build a proper platform for the current generation of smartphones, so instead they sold their soul to MicroSoft for scraps.

    Seriously, if you dismiss the future due to low margin of commodity platforms you better have something amazing to sell, like Apple does.

  9. Re:wtf is roguelike? on Roguelikes: the Misnamed Genre · · Score: 0

    When there's a summary mentioning Tetris or Pacman, do you also then want a brief definition of what those games are about?

  10. Re:A better idea on Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill · · Score: 1

    You're like the guy who get's stingy on buying a GPS unit for his new $100.000 boat that he had to take up a loan to pay for. Sure it's an additional couple of hundred bucks, but when you've just borrowed the cost equivalent of a house then something useful (and possibly lifesaving) that costs almost nothing is _NOT_ wasted money.

  11. Re:Save the horse whip makers! on Jesse Jackson, Jr. Pins US Job Losses On iPad · · Score: 1

    Horse whip makers were saved by the rise in BDSM.

  12. Re:Income Tax vs Sales Tax on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    So you instead support a system where the rich pay no taxes on income nor do they pay taxes on their consumption?

  13. Re:Surprised? on Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping · · Score: 1

    Of course the Republicans didn't spend more the past two years, they weren't in power! (Having the house doesn't count, as that's more of a stalemate)

    Sometimes I get quite amazed at how stupid people in the US really are.

  14. Re:Japanese whispers on Japan Raises Nuclear Plant Crisis Severity To 7 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except one blew lots of plutonium and other fun stuff into the atmosphere, while the other has released mostly radioactive iodine and cesium.

  15. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    Uhm... Did you miss the Cold War?

    Eastern and Western Europe is nor a strict geographic divide, it's an economic and historical one. The Nordic countries are part of Western Europe.

  16. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    WTF?... You're an idiot...

    Unless of course you don't include Scandinavia and Finland in 'Western Europe'. Those countries that are pretty much the model of the social democratic principle. UK only my ass.

  17. Re:Fastest slashdot story ever! on 7.4-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Japan; Tsunami Alert Issued · · Score: 0

    Dizzy? Were you perhaps riding on a roller-coaster while this happened?

    A little shaking is all we got down here in the Tokyo area.

  18. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 4, Insightful

    WTF?... What a fucking low standard we should hold 16 year old's to these days?

    Makes me feel old beyond my years to say that I attended multiple birthdays of 'old people' and managed to look like I was sharing the same reality.

  19. Re:This video is NOT from 1974 on A Multitasking GUI, Circa 1982 · · Score: 1

    Cause he doesn't know Japanese I guess... They clearly talk about the past in the video, so the poster was just stupid. It's an educational video about computer history.

  20. Re:Gravitational hole in the Indian Ocean? on Earth's Gravitational Shape In Detail · · Score: 1

    Oh please... Don't give the nutjobs any more ideas.

  21. Re:8 hour backup on Nuclear Risk Expert: Fukushima Fuel May Be Leaking · · Score: 1

    Incompatible power connectors...

  22. Re:In Soviet Russia on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Short-term destructive thinking is Democracy!

  23. Re:MIT invents everything on Artificial Leaf Could Provide Cheap Energy · · Score: 2

    "Only invention here is a new catalyst"?

    I would not be so quick to downplay the significance of finding a _CHEAP_ catalyst, when platinum was what was used before. That's pretty damn significant if it means mass-produced wafers costs plummet.

  24. Re:Calibration? on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah... Hysterical people now get better emergency aid than those of us who manage to remain calm in stressful situations?

  25. Re:Not Good on Japan Reluctant To Disclose Drone Footage of Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Actually... PM Naoto Kan (a physicist by education) was furious with TEPCO for keeping too positive a spin on their reporting to him, to the point where he refused their request to evacuate all workers and told them to keep working until they died.