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  1. Re:Not the same... on The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Once people got past the US-imposed secrecy on the side-effects, most of the people realized that nobody would want to take responsibility for launching another, unless it was their last resort.

    In the case of a few rare extremists, the definition of "last resort" is just a bit different from the survival (or MAD) that we picture. It's not about their physical survival but their standing in $afterlife.

  2. Re:Not the same... on The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe, but it's not the point.

    The main difference is that only 2 nukes were ever used to kill people, and then the world decided that doing that again would have to be an absolute last resort.
    Drones, on the other hand, are dreamt as a clean way to "do business", and highly likely to get used more and by everybody.

  3. Re:Long-timers leaving... Company shaken on John Carmack Leaves id Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    The feeling is Unreal. It's a Crysis.
    Yes I know these are from other companies, don't go calling me a Heretic.

  4. Long-timers leaving... Company shaken on John Carmack Leaves id Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is ID Doomed?

  5. Re:As a LOTRO player on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amateur!
    I solo'd up to the last level with just one button. Picked up some sweet 'shroom upgrades on the way, that Bowser guy didn't even stand a chance!

  6. Re:Additional comment on Tor Now Comes In a Box · · Score: 1

    Indeed, "Safeplug" just makes me think of "PATRIOT" as one of these words that should make you scrutinize whoever says it.

  7. Re:Another breakthrough technology on Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements · · Score: 1

    You don't understand. This one is using sub-dermal click recognition. It's foolproof.

  8. Re:Well.. on Users Identified Through Typing, Mouse Movements · · Score: 1

    Is that feature in the initial release of the XBone, or in the updates?

  9. Re:ridiculous... on Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian · · Score: 3, Informative

    In China, people want to breathe and see across the street.
    Most have realized that the American way doesn't apply to their density. Individually, they want it, but collectively they are a lot smarter.

    It's gonna get worse for them before it gets better. But they already they kick ass on trains, wind and solar (when the sun can make it to the panels), and their government will do anything that promotes stability. If they keep having these smogs which cause unrest (because the rich have filters), they will look for solutions, and they will invest as much as it takes.

    And we'll still be arguing whether 1% or 3% is worth debating.

  10. Re:not new on Researcher Shows How GPUs Make Terrific Network Monitors · · Score: 1

    They don't "process" it.
    "Processing" is bad, it's like "collecting".

    They don't collect or process, they just "store" it. Nothing to worry about citizen. Move along, now.

  11. Re: please don't on FCC To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes · · Score: 2

    "you see officer, he started fiddling with an electronic device which stores enough power to threaten the aircraft's integrity. We had to stop him"

  12. Re:(preparing to duck my head) on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    We will not fund your Tesla until we have asked 16000 times what happened when it got attacked by a piece of metal, caught on fire, and four people might have died.

  13. Re:Misleading on NHTSA Tells Tesla To Stop Exaggerating Model S Safety Rating · · Score: 1

    This problem wouldn't happen if they had used the magic three-digit trick.

    Check it next time: nearly all commercial studies predicting future numbers of $whatever, regardless of whether it's absolute or percentages, include 3 digits in their numbers.
    It's absolutely absurd to predict anything with that precision 6 months, let alone 5 years into the future, but studies must have told them that it improves the credibility of the result for the average idiot who reads them.
    They (almost) all do it. You won't be able to avoid noticing it now.

  14. Re:They sold out a long time ago on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 1

    I like to use Opera for that exact reason.
    If some private company has its nose in my browser, a small one, who doesn't already have code in almost every website I visit, is quite appealing.

  15. Re:unlike- mutates in host quickly on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    Nah, she got it from Jimmy from the car shop when she traded a brake job for a blowjob.
    Judge Mathis/Judy/whoever, in an unusual crossover, will walk on stage and order her to pay the garage owner for the work.

    Oh, and this

  16. Shall not be infinged... on ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' · · Score: 1

    The Japanese module got a cannon before the US one?

  17. Re:School of Informatics and Computing represent! on Building a (Virtual) Roman Emperor's Villa · · Score: 1

    Over 20 years ago, I saw the 3D model of one of the biggest cathedrals ever built and destroyed.
    It was really cool cutting edge, then.

    It might be news if they had done it a few years ago with with a then-obscure game that everybody would now use to make all kinds of buildings...

  18. Re:unlike- mutates in host quickly on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    "legally"?
    Who cares about "legally"? ...

    Today on "Maury" (cue music): "Are YOU the infecter?"

    (louder music, blurred images of people arguing)
    Belinda slept with both HIV-positive John and HIV-positive Marc!! Never used a condom!
    (Audience: Boo!!)
    After the break, we'll tell you which one is responsible for her infection!
    Or is there another person involved?
    After the break! Stay with us!
    On Maury!
    (cue music)

  19. You don't understand. You have a complete 3D model of a chunk of thigh bone, but you will not be able to create a full visualization of its owner until you can use it to club your detractors.

    Because screens and CAD tools are just confusing to paleontologists, I guess...

  20. Re:This is amazing on New Smart Glasses Allow Nurses To See Veins Through Skin · · Score: 1

    If she's hold a needle with the intent of sticking me, I clearly will not be "happy" to see her.

    Was this technology funded by famous stars who can't find their veins anymore?

  21. Re:thats silly on Ask Slashdot: What's On Your Hardware Lab Bench? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If only I had mod points...

    Trust me on this one, you can spend your days in simulations all you want, but that >100Gb/s board isn't going to work if you can't check your rails and the jitter on your reference clocks.
    If all you do is program other people's boards/systems, and they have enough shelf life already to be certified to work properly, then a scope isn't useful.

    If you want to be near the cutting edge, you shouldn't fly blind.

  22. Re:Mostly... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 1

    Gotta call Poe's Law on this one.

  23. Re:Mostly... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 1

    Are you aware that German and French kids now use the same (translated) history textbooks about WW2 and a good chunk of the XXth century?
    While they might not be perfect, that's a great example of unbiased.

    But since you seem to be suggesting that not knowing anything would be better than a risk of someone twisting the education's content, I just hope you let your kids go to a smarter school than yours. You may now resume watching CNBC or Fox News.

  24. Re:Money again... on Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying · · Score: 2

    There's a name for a system where only the rich get the ear of the politicians...

    > The definition of a liberal is someone who doesn't care what the law is, as long as it is mandatory

    You're responding to someone criticizing a ruling of the SCOTUS, which has force of law and therefore by definition mandatory. Your point?

  25. Re:Mostly... on Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Though it wouldn't hurt many to actually have lengthy and non-propagandist History and Geography lessons.