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  1. Re:Cobol is self-documenting on The Pentagon's Seven Million Lines of Cobol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well the source code is usually fairly legible, but at 7 million lines the spaghetti factor is likely pretty high.

  2. Re:Bullshit on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 1

    With a depleted battery pack it gets 168 mpg, which is pretty good.

  3. Re:Not going to available in USA on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 1

    Because it has a top speed of 99mph, it has to obey all the passenger car safety requirements. If they use some software to limit the speed to 25mph, they can sell it USA as a Lowspeed vehicle.

    It would make more sense to me to remove one of the rear wheels and enter the US market under motorcycle regulations.

  4. Re:One problem on Volkswagen Concept Car Averages 262 MPG · · Score: 1

    My racing slicks hydroplane at 120MPH (a fair bit more speed than I'd be comfortable with on a bicycle), so you can't be talking about wet traction.

  5. Re:As if on US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms · · Score: 1

    Don't worry their is still time for them to find your profile on Ashley Maddison.

  6. Re:If they remove the crime rings on US Spies Have "Security Agreements" With Foreign Telecoms · · Score: 1

    then they cut their own throat buy losig funding. Image if weed bacame legal, the DEA would lose 10'0's of millions in funding and someone's bonuses would disapear.

    I doubt that would happen, fighting cocain, meth and heroin would easily suck up an extra quarter billion.

  7. Re:This Is Considered News?? on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 1

    If the pilots were wearing night-vision goggles the combination of the goggles having peak sensitivity in the red or near IR and the automatic gain circuits, green or blue lasers would be reduced to minor annoyance rahter than a hazzard.

  8. Re:Not geek news... on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    Considering how much of the geek community resides near SFO (and flies SFO), it's perfectly justified. I can't think of anywhere with a greater concentration of slashdotters.

    Boston, Austin, Ann Arbor, Seattle all would surprise you.

  9. Re:FUD on Space Traffic May Be Creating More Clouds · · Score: 0

    Well if it was refuted by the whackaloons at skepticalScience, then it's obviously true.

  10. Re:Now taking bets... on French Gov't Runs Vast Electronic Spying Operation of Its Own · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's all on how you define look at. When a machine sucks up a meassage, scans it for keywords, especially in Arabic or Farsi, then records the headers without human intervention, has it been looked at?

  11. Re:Being run by an ex-Microsoft manager... on Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft To Become CEO At Zynga · · Score: 2

    Maybe he'll actually be able to raise the standards of ethics and customer relations at Zynga. After all, starting so much closer to their level than the average executive will make it easier for the business culture there to relate to him.

    I'd settle for just finding that lost pony's home.

  12. Re:Seems a bit low... on Number of Federal Wiretaps Rose 71 Percent In 2012 · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Seems a bit low... on Number of Federal Wiretaps Rose 71 Percent In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Why not just Email me a 100 MB of /dev/random?

  14. Re:Hyperbole, anyone? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    How do you know they are tiny? Giant Scale RC Aircraft have wingspans of 84 inches (2.1 m) or larger. I've seen some planes that were physicaly large enough tp carry a person, like a Monster Scale: 87% Pitts Python weighing over 300 lbs (136kg) and powered by a 650cc engine. It's not unusual for giant Scale models of bombers to have operational bombays and drop model bombs durring flights.
    With the history of Germany, it's easy to imagine some bad-actors getting their hands on a case of hand grenades, or digging up some UXO (UneXploded Ordinace) out on a military impact area, or even our good ol' friends RPG7, I'm sure a few of those could be dug up in what used to be East Germany.

  15. Re:imho biofuels are stil "bad". on A Different Approach To Making Alternative Fuels Practical · · Score: 1

    They will not be using the raw oil, but converting it to biodiesel through a process known as transesterification. Biodiesel burns much cleaner than Petrodiesel.

  16. Re:Didn't need to be the NSA on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 1

    Why do you think this is anything like spying? When you send a postal mail, the address and return address is public information, it has to be to properly route the letter; in an Email the same applies to the headers. When you send a post card, not only are the addresses public, so is anything you write on the post card, likewise or email. If you want privacy and anonymity, you want encryption and TOR.

  17. Re:Dogma, Apples, & Oranges on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 1

    A 68-year-old bachelor with a net worth of U$ 40 billion isn't motivated by money; He's motivated by legacy and quite possibly a strong contrarian streak. Ellison will turn Lanai into "the first economically viable 100%-green community." if only because everyone else gives such concepts lipservice, but are too impotent to even try to bring them into reality.

  18. Re:impossible on Larry Ellison Rejuvenating Hawaii's Sixth-Largest Island (Which He Owns) · · Score: 2

    It's not the difference between civil rights and individual rights, it's the difference between Civil Rights and Natural Rights. Natural rights are rights that exist due to the fact that you exist, they are often called "God Given Rights" by the Theists. Civil Rights on the other hand are Government Given Rights and what Government gives, tyhe Government can take away

  19. Re:Prior art on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 1

    The historic Roman concrete is 10% or less lime (CaO), the Portland cement we use today is 61-67% lime, I assume that lime is a significant catalyst in re-bar corrosion so Roman style cement should be more forgiving towards re-bar.

  20. Re:Republicans should "go for it" on Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried · · Score: 1

    . These views include disbelief in climate change and skepticism science in general

    Well lets see what the scientists have to say,

    LIVERMORE, Calif. -- In order to separate human-caused global warming from the "noise" of purely natural climate fluctuations, temperature records must be at least 17 years long, according to climate scientists. ...
    The research team is made up of Santer and Livermore colleagues Charles Doutriaux, Peter Caldwell, Peter Gleckler, Detelina Ivanova, and Karl Taylor, and includes collaborators from Remote Sensing Systems, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado, the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.K. Meteorology Office Hadley Centre, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Separating signal and noise in climate warming

    so if your saying you follow the science then Dr. Ben Santer’s 17-year test: "if there is no warming for 17 years, the models are wrong." applies and there has been no statistically significant warming for 17 years and 4 months, so unless your one of the "anti-scientist" republicans, there is no climate change due to human activity.

  21. Re:Not actually a car on New Company Set To Resurrect the Aptera · · Score: 1

    You don't have to wear a helmet in an Aptera because it has an enclosed cabin.

  22. Re:India? Robots in the front line? on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    The Iraq-Kuwait War was in 1990, The eviction of Iraq from Kuwait was accomplished by a broad intenational coalition, the so-called second Gulf War was really a continuation of the first gulf war, but even giving you that one this past decade; I'm wondering about your plural wars. Could you be confusing the NATO action in Lybia with an American war?

  23. Re:Robots... on India To Develop Military Robots For Warfare · · Score: 1

    How about ABC Warriors? Why would you need more than The Mek-nificent Seven.

  24. Re:Rank? on Why Chinese Hacking Is Only Part of the U.S. Security Problem · · Score: 1

    . . .U.S. Air Force cyber security researcher. . .

    So, is Captain Obvious and actual captain?

    No he's an Air Force civilian worker, probably a GS13

  25. Re:Nudity is sinful. on In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites · · Score: 2

    I'm intreged by this pagan concept call HELL.