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  1. This isn't nearly supercillious enough on Software-Defined Radio For $11 · · Score: 1

    You should of course have used LMGTFY. Let me show you.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=software+defined+radio

  2. So.... They are tracking you realtime... on Google Maps Directions Adds Real-Time Traffic Estimates · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, I'll be turning that on.

  3. Actually, what you need is a neighbourhood on Ask Slashdot: A Cheap, DIY Home Security and Surveillance System? · · Score: 1

    or community.

    1. You got a gun.. At home so the next burglar can get it as well as the rest of your stuff when you're both out at work again?
    2. Dog, what do you do, leave it tied up at home all day alone? Dogs are pack animals it'll end up insane.
    3. You will get burgled again, just after the insurance pays out. You're now on a list which'll get passed around.
    4. Upgrade your doors & windows. Those are the holes they'll be trying to get through.

    Your cheapest security system are neighbours who also have an interest in not being burgled.

  4. The poor are being taxed to pay for the panels on Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It? · · Score: 2

    Taxed through inflation, income, sales taxes to pay wealthier people to put panels on their roofs. It's generally morally sickening, but no more sickening than the rest of the corruption.

    I didn't see anyone complaining that the tax breaks to those who bought hybrids were bad because the poor still couldn't afford hybrids.

    That's purely because you are incapable of using Google.

    e.g.
    http://97.65.137.56/202194/ron-paul-right-again-electric-car-subsidies-transferring-wealth-from-the-poor-to-the-rich

  5. it isn just't games on New SimCity To Require Constant Internet Connection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what "the cloud" is all about. Why let people pay you once to own something when they can pay you forever to rent it?

  6. It's not as though US executives don't hand over on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 2

    Processes, secrets, entire facilities wholesale to China.

  7. The ultimate 12 gauge on Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and AI · · Score: 1
  8. The word "Free" is superfluous on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 1

    Apps eat your smartphone battery.

    And.. Who knew? We all thought it was the multicore faries.

  9. Applies to software development too on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    Why use something that already exists when you can re-invent the wheel.
     

  10. I don't think dragging a lab around is practical. on 'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To Stop Diabetes In Its Tracks · · Score: 2

    sure they are experimenting with small implantable devices but they are not real labs. The general purpose discrimination power of a modern medical lab is phenomenal, small implanted device, not so much.

  11. Don't listen on Ask Slashdot: Getting Feedback On Programming? · · Score: -1, Troll

    This guy clearly has no idea how software development works in the real world.

  12. WTF on TVShack Creator's US Extradition Approved · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem is the UK government.

    Extradited for copyright infringement? Looks like both governments are "pwned". I know, lets make them bigger, that'll solve the problem.

  13. So you are favour harvesting babies organs! on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 1

    the act of creating the new person, and why would you create one new person (who, depending on the severity of the former brain damage, may have no skills and/or memories) when you can harvest some organs and preserve the lives of several already existing people?

    Wow spectacularly sick way of looking at the world. You will go far.

  14. Re:I have an organ donor card... on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 0

    There is no way in hell that I'll ever be "me" again.

    How do you know what treatments will become available tomorrow?

  15. Welcome to the real world on Nuclear Disaster In Japan Could Have Been Mitigated, Say Industry Insiders · · Score: 1

    If you look back through history you find out that the greatest threat is from our the leaders. Which is pretty much the point of the constitution.

  16. The decision to go to war has already been made on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 2

    They are only negotiating the dates and times. Before or after the election.

  17. Nope on Iran War Clock Set At Ten Minutes To Midnight · · Score: 1

    Didn't we just learn this lesson?

    LOL

  18. 2 week train ride up to space. on Startram — Maglev Train To Low Earth Orbit · · Score: 0

    Yeah! Looking forward to it. I take it there are baths/showers en-suite?

  19. Shouldn't they all be in a database? on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    Turning a server name into a way to store information about the server is problematic. Hardware, location, role etc should all be recorded independently of the name in a rdbms which everyone who needs it has access.

  20. Re:A main figure, a leader! A Spark! on Book Review: Occupy World Street · · Score: 1

    The truth is that politicians on any side don't (and never have) work for you. They work for the people who pay them. They are pimps who sell their constituents favours.

  21. Re:Why these ideas will not gain traction on Book Review: Occupy World Street · · Score: 1, Funny

    Economics is too big and too complicated to be able to pin the blame or the credit on politicians.

    But wait, it's really simple: Y = C + I + G + (X â' M)

    Paul Krugman says so.

    Y'know what. If politicians take the credit as their egos insist they do, they get to take the blame too.

  22. A main figure, a leader! A Spark! on Book Review: Occupy World Street · · Score: 1

    Ghandi, Jesus, Buddha etc.

    Eh. Wait... That didn't work. I know. Lets try it again and see if it works this time!

    No what it needs is for people to understand the truth rather than the fantasy being sold to them by the mainstream media and start acting in their own self interest. Understand exactly how things really work and why the vested interests want them that way.

    That will only happen as the shit hits the fan btw.

  23. No riots. Dancing with the stars is on! on Book Review: Occupy World Street · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/1007/
    Sustainable is already boring.

    Infinite debt and economic collapse for the win!

  24. Re:And yet the market is disappointed on Apple Unveils New iPad · · Score: 1

    Mmm with bubbles too!

  25. Re:Just like the robot in "Red Planet" on DARPA-Funded 'Cheetah' Breaks Speed Record For Legged Robots · · Score: 1

    F=ma

    i.e. No they won't.

    HTH