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  1. Re:its not a computer. on The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends which definition you want to go with. I think these days most people would go with "an electronic device for storing and processing data," which this is not.

    That said, it's actual name is still the "E6-B Flight Computer."

  2. Nah on Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's not and say we did.

  3. Finally he gets it on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    and all I would do is muck everything up.

    Better 16 years late then never, I guess...

  4. How are these the same thing? on Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying (techspot.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yahoo became the latest company promising to alert users who it suspected were being targeted by state-sponsored attacks

    Google had previously assured their users that they would be warned of any potential government spying

    UK ministers want to make it a criminal offense for tech firms to warn users of requests for access to their communication data

    The first two situations involve the government going after the companies' users without notifying the companies

    The last situation involves the government issuing a request to the company for information.

    Seem like two different things to me.

  5. The Hellschreiber is a communications device which has no idea whatsoever what the message actually is.

    So just like a telephone, or a fax machine, or a TV...

  6. Re:Ok, what I make of it on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone agrees they are mentally ill and need help, but you can't force help on them unless they are violent.

    I wonder if you could replace "force help on them" with "get the money to help them."

  7. Re:Circumstances surrounding his death disturbing on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If there's anything we could reconstruct out of the fragments, he probably suffered torture at the hand of police.

    I think about the most we can say right now is that he probably wasn't in a rational state of mind.

  8. Re:Whoa on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    So all the race baiting about police brutality and how nobody believed him because he was white (and not a "n*gger" - his words) leading to a massively publicized suicide-note-rant-against-the-police on his twitter, that was actually covered on a similar website to this one, was legit?

    What do you mean by "legit"? Are you asking if he actually said it, or are you asking if what he said was a resaonable description of actual events?

  9. Re:42 year old dies and nobody asks why? on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Car accident, drug overdose, heart attack, or ???

    ??? = none of your business?

  10. Re:Cleaner? on Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    I couldn't see anything in the article about how these are any "cleaner" than any other kind of fuel cell.

    I'm guessing that the new compounds used are "cleaner" to produce than the old ones, but that is just a guess.

  11. Obligatory Abstruse Goose on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As somebody who sits in front of a computer most of the day...

    http://abstrusegoose.com/354

    This one was horrifyingly accurate when I first found it.

  12. Medieval slide trumpet predates the potentiometer.

    Medieval Slide Trumpet? I know they opened for Pink Floyd in '76 but I didn't think they went back that far.

  13. Re:what's wrong with real mules? on Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So a deaf horse. Sheesh. I gotta do all the thinkin' round here?

  14. Air Soft gun? Track your vision? on Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game (hothardware.com) · · Score: -1

    The Rail Gun uses fast rotation technology to track your vision based on where you're pointing your Air Soft gun.

    What does that mean? Either it's tracking your vision or it's tracking the gun. Which is it?

    Also... what the heck is an Air Soft gun?

  15. Re:Medical technology pace on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 1

    so that the maximum human lifespan would exceed 120 years?

    It already has. Just the once, admittedly, but that's how maximums work.

  16. Re:Do you ever wish on Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question · · Score: 1

    Can I still has iPlayer?

  17. Re:2 things... on Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA (wusa9.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary specifies radius, not area.

  18. Re:First "Is this planet earth" legitimate questio on Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is there another planet, space body, orbital object that has phone collection?

    I can't definitively answer that in the negative. Can you?

  19. Well on The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned (redbull.com) · · Score: 1

    Konami shut down a similar project not long ago – one which had the involvement of original Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter

    Hayter's haters gonna hate.

  20. Re:Coursera, Andrew Ng on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's excellent (took it twice).

    If it was that good, you'd've only had to take it once!

    Ba-dum-pum-pum.

  21. Re:Paper on Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores · · Score: 1

    Because, in addition to the myriad other reasons people have already given you, not everyone in the world has an e-reader. Or the internet. Or electrical power.

  22. Re:Categorically WILL NOT disable AdBlocker ... on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck would you fiucking bother? Fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

  23. Re:Fuck Forbes on Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content · · Score: 1

    Link works with Addblock+ just fine, me thinks you never even tried to click on the link.

    Or maybe he doesn't use Adblock+.

  24. According to a story in Forbes

    Naaaaah.

    PS It's the same article you linked to just a few days ago.

  25. Not turbine powered, minimally functional on Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard

    Maybe you should have looked up what a turbine is before using the word in your headline just because it sounds kinda cool and engineery.

    As for "functional," well... that's in no way an understatement. Of any kind.

    And the ad, jeez... you won't see anything this pretentious unless it's to sell perfume. "Freedom...!" Yeah, freedom to wobble about uncertainly on a massive slab ("not much bigger than a skateboard" - bollocks!) of plastic, continually staring down at your feet in sheer panic, from the looks of things.

    It's probably deafening, as well.