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  1. Proper interview on One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots · · Score: 4, Funny

    When asked for a comment, the robot replied "'tis but a scratch"

  2. Re:Woo! Sequester! on NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 · · Score: 1

    It was designed and advertised as "stupid unbearable cuts" to force both parties to negotiate. Until they decided that only the air traffic controllers needed to be exempt so they could get home on time after failing to negotiate.
    Smaller government, regardless of how. That's the official platform of some candidates.

  3. Re:NASA could get a crap load more funding on NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 · · Score: 1

    We can give most of the NSA money to NASA, because the Snowden leaks have made every company and responsible person aware of the need to secure their data better.
    So any goals of the counter-terrorism side of the NSA have been 95% achieved already.

    They can keep some cash for foreign spying, that's their job. But stop wasting money listening to Angela, she's clear enough about everything she wants, any time she talks in public.

  4. Re:Steal that Wallet on The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet · · Score: 1

    Right, because we need the government to find news ways to lose another $100M.

  5. Re:Thanks, California taxpayers! on Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars · · Score: 1

    We get it back on taxes every (small) Tesla employee pays, every local supplier, and even the sandwich shop down the street.

  6. Re:Yeah right? on Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU · · Score: 1

    You forgot to mention deep pipelines, out-of-order execution, cache hits and misses, interrupts, multitasking...

    Yeah, I don't believe that one on regular PCs (and I don't think they'll bother to come break my keys to prove me wrong), and I'd like to see the amount of testing required for it to work on single-threaded single-core in-order non-cached micros, if they can find one.

  7. Re:Probably a good thing on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    Like the 2005 democrats did ?
    History, it's not just a word.

  8. Re:Translation on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    Someone on ./ did call it yesterday. he was only wrong in that he said "next week"

  9. Re:That's great on Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC · · Score: 1

    I'm looking forward to lugging my desktop and 37-incher so I can compile where I'm needed?

    Did you mean I have to use one of the beautiful tablets that so many websites are broken on?

  10. Re:RLCs = more danger on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    In my experience, they don't have to.
    When I was in Chicago, the yellows didn't have to be shortened for me to see someone getting flashed almost every day.
    In France, they used to put a big sign on the highway "watch out, radar coming", and they still pulled in over $100M every year. That must not have been enough, they are removing the signs, and putting another radar in front of some to warn you that you're going too fast and about to get caught. Wanna bet if the revenue if going to drop?

    Yes, some jurisdictions will tinker with the parameters to make more cash. But the radars (red light or speed) are already fully paid for in a few short months because nothing short of a cop in the car is going to prevent some idiots from getting caught.

  11. Re:Advantages of DEWs on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 1

    I have to ask: according to current US policy, where is NOT an "active warzone"?

  12. Re:Advantages of DEWs on Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test · · Score: 2

    Yes but that random airliner doesn't have wings designed to resist laser cutting.

    What? You mean I have to check behind the target just in case? That's against SOP.

  13. Re:US propaganda machine behind Hollywood moon lan on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 1

    Fat Kim just sent a "satellite" up for propaganda, not at all to test an ICBM.
    "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes", right?

    At least India and China are physically close enough that you can believe their moon/mars expeditions are mostly for propaganda.

  14. ZedBoard on Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? · · Score: 1

    Meh, that Spartan 6 isn't supported in the much-better Vivado tools.
    I can't think of a better price-perf ratio than the ZedBoard for this kind of designs.

    Of course, if price isn't an issue, a Xilinx VC7222 (8x 28G transceivers plus a few dozen 13G ones) is better bragging rights than a quad-SLI setup...

  15. Re:US propaganda machine behind Hollywood moon lan on Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander · · Score: 2

    The space race about using the populations' egos to justify spending immense resources on improving military space technology.

    The US has since made it very clear that whoever controls the skies controls the battlefield (unless it's insurgents in urban areas). Space is just a sky above the sky, and controlling that was believed to be the key to beating the other guy, when ICBMs were in their infancy.

  16. Re:I did exactly the oppposite on Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber · · Score: 2

    The frogs and fish who just received a new home would like to thank you for the beautification of the bottom of their pond...

    Do you actually believe that they didn't just throw your spool away the second they were told it was worthless? You're littering by proxy.

  17. Re:Aluminium on Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars · · Score: 1

    People laugh about the old French guys in ugly green suits who are paid to declare the proper spelling of French words, but it turns out their are saving people a lot of time...

  18. Re:Arrest To Death in 4 Days for J.S. Thaek on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 3

    I guess my sarcasm didn't show. I should have put "obvious" between quotes. We are talking about a son and grandson of dictators.

    I am actually against both the death penalty and life without parole, but I do recognize that in the rare exceptions of some truly over-the-top crimes where the defendant is very proud of his guilt, it should be both available and a whole lot quicker.
    A lot of the innocence project's work was on crimes where I do believe the death penalty should be applicable. The US system is broken. There's a reason why so many states have banned the death penalty.

  19. Re:Arrest To Death in 4 Days for J.S. Thaek on North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet · · Score: 2

    The moment guilt is obvious, what's the point of spending 15 years on death row and cost millions in tax dollars?

  20. signals by laser from Alpha Centauri on NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Latency of 9 years for a round-trip, and there I thought that calling the helpdesk was slow...

  21. Re:Coffee Joulies in a mug on Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug · · Score: 1

    You're already getting phase change. How greedy are you?

    I'll take mine with some of these pallets generating too much heat at Fukushima.
    Not hot enough for industrial power production? Ship it here, I would save some gas.

  22. Another Hubble story on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 2

    Can you remind me why a 12th aircraft carrier is a better use of taxpayer money than a bunch of space telescopes?

  23. "Wi-Fi operating from satellites" on JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't even get my laptop to connect from the corner of the garden. That's some serious WiFi power!

  24. Re:Youtube? on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bots need to catch up on their favorite shows too, you insensitive clod!

  25. Re:cut peak-hour electricity use by 2 percent on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    The topic had changed to doing the same with a laptop.