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  1. almost all the important features on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    all they need to do is figure out how to make wings, engines, pilots, and weaponry attach to the cardboard box they spray-painted silver and put the Ayatollah's picture on, and they got 'em a plane.

    peacefully runs on uranium, too, I'm sure.

  2. the real conspiracy: killing on-air TV on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 0

    there isn't spectrum left to turn back, unless stations sell out and go black.

    you want more spectrum, go raid the spectrum hog. 99.4 percent of airwave spectrum in the US is held by the government, and way far and away most of that by the military.

  3. tilt the machine and put in another quarter on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    seriously, folks, dump the game and replay.

  4. can target discrimination win? on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    imagine Nut Korea shoots off 43 Rong Dong missles, 16 Ding Dong noisemakers, and is fuelling six nukes. the Rong Dongs will get halfway to nowhere and hit the water. the Ding Dongs spark and arc and in the end do nothing. the nukes would be the real threat after the radars clear on the Aegis cruisers.

    if you get a look at any weapon, it will have definite characteristics that are generally repeated with every shot. it is moderately well known that repeatable data can be programmed for recall, and since the US seems to be around semi-announced tests with snooperships, we should have some target discrimination rules in the missle system on the Aegis.

    if something gets close enough to the ship to be thought a threat, it will be taken out. that should leave a hold full of Standard missles for the nuclear missles.

    I'm still not digging a bomb shelter.

  5. tell that to Seymour Cray on Spintronics Used To Create 3D Microchip · · Score: 4, Informative

    the 1-X had several layers of chips stacked under the epoxy in the ALU section. had a guy in a class who worked in chippewa falls show me a naked chip, pretty cool.

    the technique has been around a while, and chip on chip with one reaching over the divide to another stack has been around for quite a while, too. called "dead bug" assembly.

    sputtering has been around since the planar transistor, and before that, in putting the active layer on vacuum tube cathodes.

  6. this is trying to drive the huns from the homeland on Time Warner Boosts Broadband Customer Speed — But Only Near Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    TW is trying to underprice Google in hopes of driving them from the market. classic reaction. I have heard from a local telco exec that their strategy if somebody overlays the fiber and service they run to homes with, they will undercut whatever competitive price by a buck for a year beyond what the other guys do, and will knock on every single door in the area with installation within 2 hours.

  7. I lock mine down to avoid the MafIAA on Free Wi-Fi: the Movement To Give Away Your Internet For the Good of Humanity · · Score: 1

    one person downloads a tagged file over my system, I can lose my house and retirement. sorry, folks, ain't gonna happen, that port stays locked.

  8. the slope of the slide may flatten on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 0

    but the outcome is just postponed. at best.

  9. oh, One. More. Thing. on RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work · · Score: 1

    our wrist Blackberry now comes with a full-sized 101-key keyboard with trackpad. Nobody else can make that claim.

  10. insert ayatollah joke here on Iran Says It Sent Monkey Into Space and Back · · Score: 1

    oh, wait, it isn't a joke any more. how did 700 AD look from up there?

  11. negatory, cut them back, hard on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you want to educate the next generation of IT workers in the US and have them stay here for their lives, adding to the economy, start cutting back on H1Bs now. it's just an excuse to in-shore cheaper help and shoo them away before they start complaining.

  12. Defcon II or jawbone? on North Korea Announces 3rd Nuclear Test, Anti-US Aims · · Score: 1

    personally, I'd load up the bunker-busters, get the Aegis cruisers out in the western Pacific, and overfly Nut Korea every half hour anybody starts scuttling around the missle fields there, fly over and dig until you find sanity.

  13. IPv6 core, IPv4 edge, thanks vendors on UK ISPs Respond To the Dangers of Using Carrier Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the big providers in the US, and many of the rest, are IPv6 enabled in the core. but edge equipment at the subscriber is not up to the task, so NAT IPv4 is how it's done here. virtually all of the DSL modems are MD'd (manufacturer discontinued) IPv4, so it makes sense.

  14. just wait until the hack on the "Smart Grid" on The One Sided Cyber War · · Score: 1

    which has as many holes as Swiss cheese. that would be a natural for the Talibani, Islam's TEA Party, because we'd all be back to 700 AD in a flash.

  15. they're following Atari to the pot of gold. on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 2
  16. ain't failing business sucky? on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    you have to sell off the good performers, because the rest of the operation is discounted to pennies on the dollar if you pull in a shylock banker on the sly to value it. so the slide gets steeper.

  17. context counts on Facebook Banter More Memorable Than Lines From Recent Books · · Score: 1

    put a line like "OMG does my boss suck! happy hour LOL!!!" on facebook between two cute cat pictures, and it's going to be remembered longer than "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well." more fun and less likely to be a test afterwards. and most likely, your boss has also been on your case and you have not been fearful of insane kings with big-ass swords.

  18. three suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools For Dealing With Glare Sensitivity? · · Score: 1

    (1) wear a basball cap down over your eyebrows.

    (2) stand on the desk and take out all but one fluorescent light tube,.

    (3) see the eye doctor, and get tested fully for cataracts. operate if necessary.

    I have had to follow those steps in that order. if you can't see the road with oncoming traffic at night, make that eye appointment today.

  19. proof high-capacity Li batteries are dangerous on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 1

    this energy density is not safe for flight, folks. you can't get out and wait at the side of the road for the fire to stop, like you can if your hybrid car starts arcing and smoking.

  20. "inaccuracies in user data" on Instagram Loses Almost Half Its Daily Users In a Month · · Score: 1

    meaning the 50% of users they have left were always fake, perhaps?

  21. eh? CBS/Columbia was her record label on CNET Parent CBS Blocks Review and Award To Dish Over Legal Dispute · · Score: 1

    and I hear they got along well in the line at the bank.

  22. Freedom of the Press on CNET Parent CBS Blocks Review and Award To Dish Over Legal Dispute · · Score: 1

    the guy who owns the press has lots of freedom in how they use it. it has been ever thus.

  23. doesn't do a damn thing about "bin 6" on Norway Tax Auditors Want To Open Source Cash Registers To Combat Fraud · · Score: 2

    being, of course, the pocket of the clerk at the register.

  24. I smell alterior motives... on All New Homes In China Must Have Fiber Optic Internet Connections · · Score: 4, Funny

    you can choose from Red Army #3 ISP, or Domestic Security Glorious Revolution ISP #1, or Internal Enforcement ISP #7...

  25. Chinese copy of Hanford Reservation? on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    no cooling for reactors, so if it is, it's the processing site only.