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  1. Re:Seriously????? on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    Whoops, apparently there's a problem, I intended to comment on another article. Sorry!

  2. Seriously????? on Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will · · Score: 1

    Ok, in a country that is smaller than some PARKS we have in the US, HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW your own cousins?

  3. Re:Don't be in a rush on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    I concur, wait for a WOOT-OFF! You'll get everything you need there. Even the security system.

  4. You can not. on Ask Slashdot: How To Gently Keep Management From Wrecking a Project? · · Score: 1

    The damage has already been done to the project, there is no resurrecting it. You are done, it is over. Sorry to say it. But once you get a textbook MBA into the matter, it is over and there is no Resurrection for project. You will do well in your further endeavors, however this one has reached it's conclusion.

  5. Re:Yes I do, thanks for asking on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    Oh you don't know how right you are. VERY well thought comment.

  6. Yeah well apparently not seriously enough. on RIM CEO Says Company 'Seriously' Considered Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Goodbye RIM, no one will remember you in 3 years.

  7. Re:Why should the US remain in charge? on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Ok *HERE* is the real problem with that (I will spuriously term that as) "logic". Those "other" countries are predominately run by either dictatorships (where is the logic in a dictatorship?), socialist agendas, or completely egregiously corrupt governments. *THAT* very fact alone should be enough to argue that the current governance is adequate.

  8. THE very best way to screw things up. on US Resists UN Push For Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    If you really want to kill the internet, then by all means put it in the control of the UN. Show me any any project (thatis supposedly successful) that is run by the UN and I will show you corruption, extortion, and gang mentality. I would wager that I could also show you almost every other form of blasphemous egregious violation of human rights and offenses to freedom and democracy.

  9. Small bank safes probably have this issue as well. on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 2

    I have watched the video and (full disclosure) I have worked within the banking industry. I know for a fact that safes with solenoid unlocking devices are widely used. Either with a biometric or electronic numeric keypad method of unlocking. I also know that as one of the persons (formerly) responsible testing these devices, that this attack vector never occurred to me. And I'm talking about the picking up and dropping of it, primarily. Mostly because the safes in question are several hundred pounds and had to be delivered to my testing area on a forklift. And partly because if I did so the people of the floor beneath me would have freaked out and I would have had a talking to by my boss. But I'll bet you anything that you could lift up a corner of one of the small bank safes and drop it the same way. I would be surprised if that *DID NOT* work. Mostly considering that the companies that make those safes are as equally negligent in testing as the ones in the Forbes article.

  10. Re:Yes I do, thanks for asking on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    HERE HERE! I too am a tall guy with big hands. I personally rebelled verbally against the tiny, dinky, toy-ish phone fad. I'm happy to see it lose steam and the market finally get some semblance of sanity. I like a touchscreen AND a keyboard. And I like a decent size touchscreen. Let's see more!

  11. Un-freakin' believable! on Massachusetts Plans To Keep Track of Where Your Car Has Been · · Score: 1

    I've got $50 that says they get some corrupt corporate stooge judge to rule this as completely legal.

  12. Fission not Fusion on AMD Llano APU Review - Slow CPU, Fast GPU · · Score: 1

    Ok I *may* not have understood exactly everything from the article, however it appears to me that this is really boron/carbon/beryllium fission not not fusion. Anyone else pick up on that? Or do I have it wrong?

  13. This doesn't sound (pardon the pun) that difficult on One-Way Sound Walls Proven Possible · · Score: 0

    Ok so if you can turn a flat surface into a speaker, which has been done. And you can cancel out the sound of a room to the outside using the same technique, which has been done. Why couldn't you just put a microphone on both sides of the surface and only cancel out the sound from one direction?

  14. Re:Yes he did it! on Geohot Denies Involvement In PSN Hack Attack · · Score: 1

    I think you mean MSNBC.

  15. Re:Let's start a POOL! on Geohot Denies Involvement In PSN Hack Attack · · Score: 1

    Oh now that's just wrong.

  16. Obligatory /. response top 5 on Geohot Denies Involvement In PSN Hack Attack · · Score: 2

    In regards to the perpetrator of the PSN attack.

    1. The Master Control Program, who does he calculate he is??!
    2. Sorry I put the new X-Files Collector edition BluRay in and it went crazy.
    3. I for one welcome our new PSN overlords.
    4. Still think Skynet isn't real??
    5. The W.O.P.R. was running another simulation.

  17. Let's start a POOL! on Geohot Denies Involvement In PSN Hack Attack · · Score: 1

    Let's start a pool and take bets on who the perpetrator is. I'll take Iran (just because it's a longshot) and the US government (just for the conspiracy factor).

  18. FUD. on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    Pure, unadulterated FUD. Plain and simple. Honestly is there anyone in the world that isn't smarter than a marketing person?

  19. Kevlar is no longer used in bulletproof vests. on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    Kevlar was superceded about 10 years ago with spectra, and now spectra has become antiquated by another (stronger) fiber the name of which escapes me.

  20. Re:Go robotic... on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    And if that magnet is a neodymium iron boron kind, that would scare the heck out of me.

  21. Re:Go robotic... on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    Actually this is one of the ideas we are throwing around. iRobot actually makes a military robot that can handle any terrain. I'm thinking of attaching the coil from a metal detector to it, then programming it to automatically drive a grid pattern on its own. Then coordinating the data onto a map so that you get a color gradient map of the ferrous metal densities on that map. Then you'd know where the higher concentration of ferrous metals are and probably a better chance at finding a meteorite.

  22. Re:Improved metal detector array on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    Actually we've already discussed fabricating a fiberglass/resin boom arm for the truck. I'm just in concept design at the moment.

  23. Re:How about that new automated night sky watcher on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    Yes I thought of that as soon as the article hit. However there are less than 10 camera sites at this time, and all of them are on the east coast. None in the midwest or west. I've seen mention of a different (but similar) system in the southwest, but I've been unable to hunt down what it's called and who runs it.

  24. Quashing the "Freedom of Movement" clause? on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this impinge on the the whole "Freedom of Movement" clause in the U.S. Constitution? Remember the path to socialism isn't made in one step, but rather the gradual erosion of rights.

  25. Re:OH FOR F* SAKES! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    UUUUUGGGhhhh. It already hurts bad enough, do you have to kick a guy when he's down? ;-)