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  1. Re:Terraforming Mars? on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be one hell of a very long and boring ski run. Olympus Mons has a very gradual incline, about 5 degrees.

    "I wonder how long it would take to get from bottom to top to bottom again."

    Longer then your lift ticket was good for.

  2. Re:The answer. on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought the idea was that either they had their own incarnations of the resurrection/redemption story, or that they were not as wicked thus would not have killed the Christ so Earth was chosen and the redemption was universal.

    I kinda like the 2nd one. We were chosen because we were special.... just not in a good way.

  3. Re:This is basic planetary physics.. on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Any link to that theory? I was pretty sure the accepted theory on Olympus Mons is it built up over time due to the fact that plate tectonics stopped and it was stuck over a magma hot spot.

  4. Re: Oh great on Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh, I'm looking at a sheet of paper from dell outlining my line of credit. I have never once paid for a Dell delivery via COD or Bank Check. I send them a PO and they send me equipment. Later on someone in Accounts Payable starts paying the bill. I usually have the equipment in service before the first check goes out. Granted I don't have 26 years of business with them just a measly 17.

  5. Re:Why not just lock down the radio portion? on ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHA.

  6. slashdotted on Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think we done broke it.

  7. Re:Now here is why it may be relevant to you on Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows · · Score: 1

    Adobe uses a scratch drive. You can make the scratch drive a ram drive. This ain't news to them.

  8. Re:Oh good, more contention. on Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Except this is for the U-NII 1 and 3 bands in the 5Ghz spectrum. Channels 52 - 140 should be untouched.

  9. Re:The movie was good because the book was short. on Review: The Martian · · Score: 1

    "In the book, he has to spell out messages in rocks on the ground that the orbiters can photograph because there isn't enough space in his vehicle to haul the old rover landing platform around."

    Did you even read the book????
    He did not communicate with rocks because he couldn't fit the pathfinder in the rover with him, he fried it leaning the modified drill against the rover.

    "- but the book is definitely worth a read." - Then I suggest you actually read it.

  10. Re:Saw it last night in 3D on Review: The Martian · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about the RTG? I am pretty sure they only emit alpha radiation, I mean as long as the casing does not break I don't think it could harm you in the slightest.

  11. Re:What makes someone a Troll? on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    Fashion has no IP?? That's news to me. I am pretty sure every piece of clothing you see on the catwalk is protected by a design patent.

  12. Re:Excellent on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 2

    Your answer is in your post.

    "In a city... Filled with hookers."

  13. Re:Nobody ever called my mother-in-law a hipster on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Most people need aphone, and since they have a phone most people don't need a watch. The iWatch is a status symbol and that is it.

  14. Re:That's what Nokia, Moto, and Microsoft said on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    >how the hell did Tesla jump start into an already saturated market?

    By constantly losing money. When Tesla can make a profit then we can say they have successfully entered the market.

  15. Re:Tesla not on that list? on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 1

    Pontiac? You mean the company that made this in 1968 http://preview.netcarshow.com/...

    They were a GM brand from their beginning in 1926 so I gotta wonder why you include them.

  16. Re:Satan on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure he runs BSD.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

  17. Where is Apple in all this. on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Apple should start to get worried when their trademark is being used as a generic term for tablets, That is how you lose your trademark.

  18. Re:Who the fuck can remember all those stupid name on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Umm this is the NFL we are talking about, the are the epitome of the " advertisment spewing sock puppet".

  19. DDR4 on Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor · · Score: 1

    Broadwell lacks ddr4 support. That is as good a reason as any to let the line die. DDR4 is out now and no one wants their flagship model to be relying on last years tech.

  20. Re:Intent to interfere should be infringement on Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames · · Score: 1

    Don't trademarks require a declaration of use? I mean you can't just get a trademark and not use it, it's not like a patent.

  21. Re:What photos and videos? on A Powerful 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Chile's Coast · · Score: 1

    Yep, it just took me to google maps off the Chilean coast.

  22. Re:Well... on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    Because the EU is acting all sorts of "moderately tolerant" right now.

  23. Re:As if it matters on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    >'Informed voters' just vote for the one who lies best

    No informed voters vote for the one with the same letter after there name. They are informed in as such that they know what party they belong to.

  24. Re: Mobile banking? on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure it is, I am given a blank ballot, there is no identifier on it that links back to me, I mark it with a marker and send it through the scanner. My vote is counted, I have been marked as voted in the polls, but no one can tell which ballot is mine. Sounds pretty anonymous to me.

  25. Re:Mobile banking? on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 1

    more like 1986, I have used the Sequoia Optech types in every election. You draw a line to mark your ballot and then they get scanned in something that looks like a large dog carrier. Simple, effective, anonymous, and it leaves a (large) paper trail.

    We have reliable and effective ways to cast our votes, whats the big rush to switch to e-voting that we are willing to risk using such flawed devices. I mean has anyone put out an e-voting machine that hasn't had major issues? And my god the ones used had to be chosen by a committee of severely retarded sloths. I mean come on, someone thought the AVS WINVote was appropriate for use in a government election, hell that thing isn't appropriate for prom king/queen elections.

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/meet-the-e-voting-machine-so-easy-to-hack-it-will-take-your-breath-away/