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  1. Re:man is not needed on Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights · · Score: 1

    A quadrocopter can fly without a man on top

    What if the point of this product is, as it appears to be, to provide transport for a man?

  2. Re:Limit this to a few months + mandatory debriefi on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, lucky there's that test that can tell you with a fair degree accuracy who can handle sifting through images of graphic violence/torture/abuse, and who can't.

    Oh wait, my mistake, there isn't.

    Only if they are weak and had no business there in the first place.

    I think there's a case for calling that a fairly twisted meaning of the word "weak."

  3. Re:Caught in the act? on Astronomers Watch Star Devouring Planet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spectra or it didn't happen.

  4. Re:I highly doubt on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Congratulations! Your post has been selected as the perfect example of why you shouldn't start a post in the Subject line, or if you must, why you should at least start the comment itself with an ellipsis and a lower case letter.

    The contract with Google forced the guy to stay there for a whole year.

  5. Re:Limit this to a few months + mandatory debriefi on The Worst Job At Google: a Year of Watching Terrible Things On the Internet · · Score: 1

    In those cases the police get up and personal with what is going on, sometimes for months on end, the children and the offenders. They get involved. This is why they are effected.

    That makes it sound like you don't think the ones who only have to trawl through the graphic evidence of abuse for hours every day are affected.

  6. Meteorites? on Mirrors Finished For James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 2

    What are the chances of a mirror getting hit by a micro (or not so micro) meteorite out there? Pretty slim, obviously, or they wouldn't bother, but seeing that animation makes it look pretty unprotected.

  7. 120 mph on the "straightaways"? on Stanford's Self Driving Car Tops 120mph On Racetrack · · Score: 2

    topping 120 miles per hour on straightaways

    Enquiring minds want to know how fast it took the bendaroonies.

  8. Re:Sounds like a plan! on German Government Wants Google To Pay For the Right To Link To News Sites · · Score: 1

    Although we do have a senator that thinks women secrete something when they get raped to prevent pregnancy, so we have our share of complete idiots as well.

    He's only a congressman. I'm sure they'd never let anyone that batshit crazy be a senator, right?

  9. Re:still the fastest guns in the west on Preview of Synaptics's Next Generation Input Devices · · Score: 1

    And I find a graphics tablet to be faster and more accurate than a mouse. What's your point? Touchpads and touchscreens were nevert meant to usurp mice. They're meant to be a more convenient alternative for certain situations.

  10. Re:stop bringing up the bullshit argument! on Ex-Marine Detained For Facebook Posts Deemed "Terrorist in Nature" · · Score: 1

    Yes, you CAN yell fire in a crowded theatre. It is perfectly legal. Look it up - there's a whole wikipedia page about it.

    If only there were some way you could share the location of that page with us, some sort of "link"...

    Furthermore, it is my reasoned opinion that it's fine

    It's my reasoned opinion that it's not. How about standing up and firing blanks at the crowd with an automatic weapon? Hah, look at those stupid idiots, trampling each other without waiting around to see if they're really in danger.

  11. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? · · Score: 2

    But you won't stop the spam.

    The idea (not that it's a particularly brilliant one) isn't to inconvenience spammers or to stop them spamming - it's designed to stop users being spammed. Think of it like putting all the mimes in the world on a remote island - they can carry on doing their thing but none of us have to put up with it.

    Hmm. Excuse me, I have some extraordinarily silent renditions to arrange.

  12. Kindle touch video? on State Dept. Cancels $16.5M Kindle Contract · · Score: 1

    Does the Kindle Touch play video out of the box?

  13. Re:128gb??? on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    I don't care about SSD.

    Plenty of people do.

    In my opinion, 128gb or even 256gb is not sufficient.

    There, FTFY. I've got a 60gb SSD (soon to be upgraded to 120gb, but mainly because the write speed on that one is 5x faster) which is perfectly sufficient for me.

  14. Re:Terrible keyboard layout on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    They changed the keyboard layout.
    It's different now, they moved page up/page down to the bottom right, and changed up the others that go in the top right corner.

    For a laptop who's main appeal is the keyboard, I don't understand why they changed it into something different.

    There, FTFY.

  15. Context? on Indian Gov't Bans Bulk SMS, Investigating Social Media · · Score: 1

    allegedly due to the threatening messages

    Sorry, what threatening message?

    Following mass exodus of people belonging to north-east states India

    Okay, I appreciate that the submitter's first language is possibly not English, but what the hell do the editors actually do around here?

  16. Hooray for meaningless "facts"! on Microthrusters For Small Satellites · · Score: 1

    But in zero-gravity space, this tiny force would be enough to propel a two-pound satellite.

    Or a one-pound satellite. Or a ten-pound satellite. Or a hundred-kilogram satellite. Or a planet.

  17. Re:Evolution IS a Theory, just like Gravity. on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    there's no denying that it's real.

    Except sadly there is, if you're happy to stick your fingers in your ears and ignore all the evidence that doesn't support the stories were fed as a child, and are at the same time blissfully unaware of your ridiculous position.

  18. Oh, yeah, wow on Flexible Robot Can Change Colors · · Score: 1

    I can change colour too, if I carry a bucket of paint with me and stop to dip my head in it.

  19. Parsing on How Plagiarism Helped Win the American Revolution · · Score: 1

    Although today the stigma of lifting passages

    First guess: 19th century name for "elevator"
    Second guess: stirring paragraphs
    Third guess after reading headline: plagiarism

  20. Re:In less than 20 years... on Researchers Find 'Mind-Control' Gaming Headsets Can Leak Users' Secrets · · Score: 1
    Yeah, and we were all supposed to have flying cars "in 20 years" in the 70s and robot housemaids "in 20 years" in the 50s.

    Trying to find citation.

    I think you misspelled "sound-bite given to tabloid journalist by excitable academic."

  21. Re:Intact human brain? on Exceptionally Preserved 2,600-Year-Old Brain Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    If that doesn't scream mid-season replacement, I don't know what does!

  22. Re:Too many distros == confused users. on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 1

    Or slightly more abstractly, http://xkcd.com/1095/

    No sooner would two distros merge than reasons would be found to fork them back into two, or more.

    It's a blessing and a curse.

  23. Re:At first I thought the Judge was biased on Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case · · Score: 1

    That doesn't make it any less ridiculous.

  24. Submitter writes weirdly headlines on Cyber Attack Knocks Offline Saudi Aramco · · Score: 1

    That is all.

  25. Re:Rubbish on Advance Warning System For Solar Flares Hinges On Surprising Hypothesis · · Score: 1
    Oh, the arrogance of the AC.

    Nothing can effect the rate of decay of radioactive materials

    Uh huh. Want to bet your imaginary physics degree on that?

    Just observing a particle (as I understand it; I may have it wrong) is enough to change its decay rate.