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  1. Re: China is more capitalistic than the USA on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's just hope that the Chinese never find life on another planet, because the first thing they'll do is eat it!

  2. Nobel peace prize on US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal · · Score: 1

    He got a nobel peace prize for what exactly? Sure presidents start with good intentions, but then find out the whole political system constraints them to a well defined path.

  3. Re: Old news on It's Easy To Hack Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    The 'Italian Job' was the first thing I thought of when I read that as well. It's got to be done, sorry, but "You're only ment to blow the bloody doors off" :-)

  4. Re: Every week there's a new explanation of the hi on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    people need to watch this on TED for the genersl idea of what's involved:-http://www.ted.com/talks/gavin_schmidt_the_emergent_patterns_of_climate_change

  5. Re: Every week there's a new explanation of the hi on Cause of Global Warming 'Hiatus' Found Deep In the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    there are thousands & thousands of scientists who say we are contributing to global warming, and about two who say we aren't. TV news likes to show both sides, so on TV it looks like a 50/50 split. Just keep burying your head in the sand.

  6. Re: god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Completely agree with you. If coal power and gas power keeps going, the CO2 and temperature change is going to kill a lot more birds..... and just about everything else on the planet. Makes you wonder how many dodgy handshakes and stuffed envelopes get exchanged in the background

  7. Re: Livin' in the USA on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously?? In a country where people plea-bargain to get a shorter sentence, even if they know they're innocent because they can't afford a descent lawyer, therefore leaving the real perp to go free and a 'magically solved' crime. A country that rich get off free, and the poor get sentenced. You can't even fly FPV now! No problem here in Europe.

  8. Charge them on Goldman Sachs Demands Google Unsend One of Its E-mails · · Score: 1

    Personally I think Google should be able to charge them for wasting there time. How many people are they expected to employee to wipe up other peoples stupidity.

  9. If it was any other country. on Federal Judge Rules US No-fly List Violates Constitution · · Score: 1

    The US government does behaive like a dictatorship on many occasions. It's easy. Either you have evidence, in which case charge them. Or you don't. I see little difference in a dodgy country that controls it's citizens at will and the US. Next they'll be locking people away for years without even a trial. And make them wear ugly orange suits....... oh.... hang-on......

  10. Detection on MIT Researchers Can Take Your Pulse, Right Through the Walls · · Score: 1

    So now robot killing machines can check to see how agitated they've made you, right before they kill you. Nice.

  11. American presidential campaigns are no different. on New Tech Super PACs Could Tap Into Google Riches · · Score: 1

    How do you think the president became the president? By lobbying and spending millions of dollars. He affects how you live and is still influenced by outside corporations. That's constitutionally fair, right? So another group are operating in the same way. It's part of American life. If th And to those who are going to reply with "but he was elected", well not by me or millions of other people he wasn't. But he still affects us all.

  12. Protest over self drive taxis next on London Black Cabs Threaten Chaos To Stop Uber · · Score: 1

    If they're worried about loosing jobs to an app, wait until they see the self drive taxis that are coming. Taxis are so expensive in London, they deserve to get competition.

  13. Stop landing over the sea. on SpaceX Looking For Help With "Landing" Video · · Score: 1

    Seriously, land in a desert or something similar. Much easier to recover protected data storage units. If you can't hit the landing spot of a massive dessert, theres no way anyones going to let them land on a landing pad.

  14. Re: Nah on Proposed Indicator of Life On Alien Worlds May Be Bogus · · Score: 2

    You've clearly evolved..... in to a muppet. species rarely make thremselves extinct.

  15. Just making it easier for China. on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 1

    Every time a government forces a company to make or create a back door or hand over keys to them, it makes it easier for countries like China to hack the hell out of our companies. Utter stupidity.

  16. Hardware manufacturers need to design it in. on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone? · · Score: 1

    What we really need is a phone / ring combination. i. e. phone only works with the wearer of a ring. No need to use pins, works all the time for every app, quick and convenient.

  17. Re: There may well be life on Europa on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 2

    the fact that water if regularly venting to the surface means that there are likely very thin areas of ice that can be utilised. Even on our planet life exists in very, VERY hot water that until recently we thought that life had no chance there. NASA had spent billions of dollars sending landers to Mars, a dusty boring planet. Once ok. Over and over.... a compete wase of money. Europa = a good chance we could actually find real living life. Way move exciting than Mars could ever be.

  18. He wouldn't be now. on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 1

    He was then, because of the way he was brought up and the time he was living in. I bet he wouldn't be now. These days, science and religion are mutually exclusive. Unless you want to be labelled a 'crack pot'. People didn't know any better then. They do now. Religion has had it's day..... time to grow up and move on.

  19. Re: Driving is a privelege, not a right. on ICE License-Plate Tracking Plan Withdrawn Amid Outcry About Privacy · · Score: 1

    It already happens in the UK. I can't say it's ever bothered me. If you were a criminal, you'd likely have false plates anyway, so it's probably not that useful.

  20. Re: News for Nerds? on Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million · · Score: 2

    I was tempted to flag this, as "unrealistic", or "created by a fantasist" :-) Your right, but if they were agreeable, they wouldn't be politicians. Politicians who probably got there by stabing at least one person in the back.

  21. Re: There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube. on YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels · · Score: 1

    Very unlikely. YouTube is integrated in to most modern media products e.g. TV's, bluray players, consoles etc. On these, these is pretty much no alternative. And for most end users, it works well. And any alternative that exists, is likely to be sued out of existence by copywrite holders for using game content without permission etc. Google are just covering there arse. It's a business, with a product you've been happily using for free for years. If it were owned by Apple, trust me, it'd be way more limited and protective. You'd probably have to wait for months for your videos to be 'approved', before being listed.

  22. USA,..... on Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records · · Score: 4, Insightful

    USA, a country full of control freaks and paranoia.

  23. Re: ya know... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    If man is made in God's image, then what's he doing with a penis. And if god is perfection, how come he made a flawed man. How come every religion sees there own particular God when they have a near death experience. Why, cause it's all made up.

  24. Re: Once upon a time on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    Wow, I just can't understand how people still believe in a god (any god). It's the 21st century! Here in the UK, they expect the church of England (christian) to be dead within a single generation. We grew up. The US still seems to be backward thinking in so many ways. No explanation of other planets, solar system. I can't wait till they find life on another planet. Let's see you text books explain that. #growup

  25. Re: IT IS CALLED BUSINESS !! on Robotic Surgery Complications Going Underreported · · Score: 0

    Yer, it is if your business is located in a cr@p country. If your happy for this stuff to go on, then they obviously use it for your brain surgery.