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  1. Re:Not unprecedented on How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle · · Score: 1

    Well, the Lexington is moored permanently on the Texas coast, so I guess that can't be my problem...

  2. Re: on Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed · · Score: 1

    In other news, the same surveyors found that 63% of people interviewed thought slashdot was worth reading.

  3. Re:Bullshit on Statistical Analysis of Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you are correct on this one. All administrations are so corrupt I could just puke.

  4. Re:Bullshit on Statistical Analysis of Terrorism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    BS on you. The mathematicians gave a statistical analysis for a specific purpose. The brokerage managers miss-used it, and were told by their own people that they were applying it to something they should not. They went ahead and crashed the whole thing anyways. No fault to the mathematicians. Just the fault of a bunch of managers and bean counters, probably at best with a MA in business.
    Losers.
    Oh, wait, many of them got big bonuses and promotions. Some of them work for Obama. I guess they aren't losers, after all.

  5. escape velocity = mach 33 on Navy Tests Mach 8 Electromagnetic Railgun · · Score: 1

    low orbit velocity = mach 24

  6. Re:Real vigilantes do not on Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized · · Score: 1

    Oops. Doh...

  7. Re:Real vigilantes do not on Wikileaks DDoS Attacker Arrested, Equipment Seized · · Score: 2

    not idiot, mentally challenged. like anyone posting or written about on /.
    oh, wait a minute....

  8. No, carbon emissions did not fall on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall Worldwide In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Total air carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide levels fell. Those levels are carbon emissions - carbon consumption.
    Carbon consumption is done by green plants, primarily trees, and bodies of water, primarily the ocean.
            The ocean is getting overloaded.
            Forests are getting cut down without re-planting in the third world.

    Carbon emissions are primarily done by man-made processes and volcanoes. The big man-made processes are:
            concrete (it emits a lot while curing), which is increasing, especially in China
            burning of forests / jungles
            coal / gas / oil burning

    So your interpretation that carbon emissions are falling is probably true, but from the above, it does not make sense.

  9. Re:OS/2 on The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows · · Score: 1

    Actually, Windows 0.9 and OS/2 0.9 were simultaneous.

  10. Re:This is just embarrassing. on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    Actually, the cost of the seat is very high because of the enormous usage rate they have. The military is really full of sh*t, and those seats get similar mileage as a congressional jet.

  11. Re:This is just embarrassing. on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    Dude. If they took good care o the missiles, they would do it with our tax dollars. Have you seen what the air force spends on a toilet seat? Can you imagine what they would charge for a wash and wax?
    Seriously. the last time they took some missiles offline, they had techs from outer space fly in in their flying saucers to do the job. Do you know what the mileage charges alone were for that little boondoggle?

  12. Re:awesome on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    Actually, I am glad Clinton (slick Willy, not the Clinton-In-Charge, Hillary) could not push the red button. I can just see him accidentally push it while he was in the middle of a ... uh... nevermnd

  13. Re:Time to take the men out of the loop ... on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 1

    Yeh. Let the Cyberdyne supercomputer decide...

  14. Re:Midichloreans! on The Effect of Internal Bacteria On the Human Body · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure that when you said thetans you violated Scientology DRM, copyrights, patents, trademarks, and a whole lot of other things. Unfortunately, they will have to kill you. See you later...

  15. Re:I have an idea to stop the need for anti-biotic on Animal Farms Are Pumping Up Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Actually, corn-fed cows have much better tasting steak.

  16. Facebook is back up! on Facebook Is Down · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yay...

  17. Re:Killing me in my sleep? on U. Penn Super Quadcopter Learns New Tricks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, it does not need to be a killer. With a camera, gps, and a targeting laser, it can zoom in, acquire a target, zoom up out of range, and let a remote site fire a missile up to kill targeted item.

    Scary.

  18. Re:say what again? on September Is Cyborg Month · · Score: 1

    We NEVER Celebrate anything the news media says.

  19. Re:Diversification on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Civilization will not fail due to the scientific advances. It will fail due to our ignorant abuses of the scientific advances. BIG difference.
    Scientific advances do not act. For example, scientific advances do not pull the trigger. People pull the trigger. People pollute. People build defective nuclear reactors. People refuse to clean up after themselves. People refuse to replant trees. People over-fish the waters. People shit in their own back yards.
    We have political pollution, educational pollution, informational pollution, news pollution...

    We are a plague of two-legged rats, swarming over the face of the earth, carrying fleas of pestilence, destroying almost everything we touch.

  20. Re:They're KINDA right on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    The Earth is pretty much at the center of the ignorant universe. Witness the witless presidents we elect, for example.
    That is why we cannot detect any intelligent life around here. They are far, far away from the center of all ignorance.

  21. Re:It's really a moot question on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Actually, it has not been possible to construct a earth-centered model of the universe since before Galileo or Copernicus, because at that time they knew about the supposedly retrograde planetary motions caused by the attempts / failures of their models.

  22. Re:It's really a moot question on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Um, actually, the center of the universe IS a fixed, unmoving, immovable point. We just are not there.

  23. Re:Website Design for Crazy People on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume that they escaped? They could still be inside.
    Or, for that mater, they could just be government employees (Maybe retired). Similar levels of ignorance and incompetence.

  24. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    Actually, in Soviet Union, the government orders the earth to circle the sun.
    So when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Earth went back to being the center of the universe...

  25. Re:Spurious survey results? on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    That is only true of the small percentage of people who wereangry when called, were uneducated, or were asshats, like you.