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  1. Re:No they don't on Chinese Scientists Plan Solar Power Station In Space · · Score: 1

    For the same reason water boils in your microwave so efficiently.

  2. Re:No they don't on Chinese Scientists Plan Solar Power Station In Space · · Score: 1

    How do they defend themselves against Englishmen armed with bananas?

  3. Re:And what good would it do? on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 2

    Want to prevent someone from trying to commit suicide?

    Do things that increase the chances of survival/failure. It is the one thing we are afraid of when trying to commit suicide, that we might survive the attempt. It is the one thing that stopped me. What if I survive this?

    The video camera might help with that, by alerting ground controllers that something is wrong and taking over the plane remotely, unlocking the door, whatever.

  4. Re:Arbitrary on UK Chancellor Confirms Introduction of 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    Everyone will take a piece of the pie... until there is no more pie.

  5. Re:Unicomp Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Probably needs a holiday at the beach, and it will be right as rain.

  6. Re:Unicomp Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Google keyboard o-rings.
    Does not make the keyboard totally silent, but it is a big improvement.

  7. Re:Unicomp Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They don't die, the connector becomes obsolete.

  8. Re:Ergo! on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    Probably because they don't want to pay licensing for the sticker that says "POSIX Inside"

  9. Re:Does not work on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 1

    The stuff I use is slightly frosted if it is not stuck to something directly, and there is enough of an air gap to keep it frosted.

    Scotch "Invisible" tape, ironically.

  10. Re:Duct tape on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use regular cellophane tape. It is opaque enough to destroy the image, clear enough not to be exactly sure why. Looks like a heavy smudge of grease/oil, like you touched it while eating fries or something.

  11. First... on Obama Administration Wants More Legal Power To Disrupt Botnets · · Score: 2

    they came for the Botnets.

  12. Re:Thank you, Terry.. it was an awesome ride with on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 1

    I have restarted Colour of Magic myself...

  13. Re:Conversation went roughly like... on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 1

    This is the genius of Watson....

    it is negotiating deals for us now.

  14. Re:IBM Mints Money on IBM Reported To Be Developing Blockchain-Based Currency Transaction System · · Score: 1

    All your base belong to us...

    FWIW, I have not heard any of this internally.

  15. Re:I've read them all on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 2

    Oh I don't know... many seem to have their head up their ass...

  16. Re:Thank you, Terry.. it was an awesome ride with on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    “And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. "There’s no justice.”
    Death sighed. No, he said,...THERE IS JUST ME.

    WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

    The Reaper Man- Terry Pratchett

    Got to get past the silly filter.

  17. Re:Death on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 2

    Ahem...

    On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony.

    Came out same year as Colour of Magic, which does contain Death as a main character as full disclosure.

  18. Re:Death on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 1

    CATS, CATS ARE NICE.

  19. Re:Clinton followed a Presidential trend... on Clinton Regrets, But Defends, Use of Family Email Server · · Score: 4, Informative

    What she can't avoid is the memo's she sent out to her own staffers that detailed using private email for public business is a no no.

    She even forced out an ambassador in 2012 in part for doing what she did:

    http://thefederalist.com/2015/...

    The inspector general’s report specifically noted that Gration violated State Department policy by using a private, unsanctioned e-mail service for official business. In its executive summary listing its key judgments against the U.S. ambassador to Kenya who served under Hillary Clinton, the inspector general stated that Gration’s decision to willfully violate departmental information security policies highlighted Gration’s “reluctance to accept clear-cut U.S. Government decisions.” The report claimed that this reluctance to obey governmental security policies was the former ambassador’s “greatest weakness.”

    So did she wrongfully remove the ambassador, or did she hold him to a standard she knew she was violating herself?

  20. I sense a Dr. Strangelove reboot in the making...

  21. I am going to fork it. on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 4, Funny

    and develop R22 as a replacement.

  22. Re:Clippy == Picky on What Would Minecraft 2 Look Like Under Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Clippy will come back as a Creeper.

  23. Didn't catch that difference, much more significant if she was using email service going over the public internet... holy crap, just post them in the local bar restroom wall why don't you?

    It was not Gmail, but from "hacked" emails (probably intercepted) it was a "private" email domain.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  24. Re:Why now? on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They didn't care. It is a pretty wide spread practice in this administration:

    Lisa Jackson- EPA
    Kathleen Sebelius - HHS
    Seth Harris - Department of Labor.
    and more

    The AP covered it in 2013, it is not like we didn't know, we just did not pay attention.

    http://bigstory.ap.org/article...
     

  25. Re:file transfer on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 1

    Yep, did that for a system still running windows 3.1!