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  1. Re:Am I doing it wrong? on Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked · · Score: 1

    First, it requires constant focused attention because there is no tactile feedback.
    Second, I type too often in various languages (spoken or technical) and have to disable all help and autocorrection, not because they're bad at English, but because they're wasting my time correcting stuff that they can't understand.

    Therefore, I will keep using a slide-out keyboard for as long as they are available, because for all-important-me it's massively more efficient.

  2. Re:It's time to fork the human species on The Human Body May Not Be Cut Out For Space · · Score: 1

    You sound desperate to apply for the humanity-advancing feat of having sex in microgravity.
    "it's the start of the next great human evolution! now where are the girls?"

    Sadly for you, the sex can stay on the ground for Gen 1. We only need to shoot-em up at some point during gestation.

  3. Re:RIGHT ON!!!! on Slashdot PT Cruiser Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Draws crowds... who then run away when they see the new layout, saving them the realization that they can't understand half the headlines, let alone TFS, TFA, or any of the acronyms...

    (not very low emissions, the PT cruiser has dreadful mileage for its size)

  4. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2

    (I'll take the AC bait)
    Cynically? Yes.

    Now you have everyone talking about a two-state solution, whether it's to push it forward or torpedo it.
    Considering that many of these people used to deny the other's right to even exist or live nearby, and that talking to them would get you shot (at best), it's pretty impressive progress.

  5. Re:You wouldn't download a car. on New 3D Printer Can Print With Carbon Fiber · · Score: 1

    How far are we from that Gallardo actually firing up and going around the track?

    Until that point, you might as well get the die-cast one, it takes less space in the living room.

  6. Re:Carbon footprints on Historical Carbon Emissions From Dragons In Middle Earth · · Score: 2

    There's also that thing about massive deforestation, and the amount of methane coming of giant beasts, both alive and decomposing.

    What's the carbon footprint of that massive wedding anyway? Kings are really a climate nuisance!

  7. I don't get it... on Developer Loses Single-Letter Twitter Handle Through Extortion · · Score: 1

    Can anyone explain what the finality of stealing @N by force is?

    Who's going to follow it, buy it or use it when everyone knows that it was stolen by a hacker?
    it's not a Ferrari that you can still drive, it's a bloody account to post links online, controlled by a company who can suspend it at will until an investigation is complete!

  8. Re:Liar, liar pants on fire! on Rovio Denies Knowledge of NSA Access, Angry Birds Website Defaced Anyway · · Score: 1

    Can we take it one more step and get a free government supported by ads?
    Don't get me started on how it might give private companies a way in, or somehow make things less efficient to make room for more ads.

  9. Re:Very funny. on Journal of Cosmology Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, the fact that it was filmed on location is the only plausible explanation for its budget.

  10. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you don't understand the Olso peace accords, and how Arafat shaking hands with a jew and setting up an official Palestinian office was a major peace achievement, you need better teachers.

  11. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 2

    4 people/orgs got a Nobel Peace Prize for "not being Bush": Carter, IAEA, IPCC and Obama.

    If Obama does get the anti-congress to finish normalizing relations with Cuba and Iran before the end of his term, and does pull out of Afghanistan (after completing the Iraq withdrawal), it will partially offset the realpolitik of blowing up random people. Not enough to deserve the prize outright, but at least a few major peace achievements, and better than most presidents.

  12. Pacific, or Arizona ? on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a shame that San Diego is now so huge that there isn't a single spot to land between the pacific and Arizona...

  13. Re:More competition on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    I've driven 130Mph in a 4-banger minivan on a public highway. Multiple times.
    Give me a racecar at 140 and I may fall asleep ... oh wait, the minivan was comfortable, not the racecar, and the latter doesn't have the radio either.

    180Mph would be entertaining for 5 minutes, but the only thing makes it a race is that they have to deal with other drivers being in the way.
    Still f___ing boring to watch though...

  14. Re:I'd go the other way in all sports on Smart Racquets Could Transform Tennis · · Score: 2

    I've got one simple rule to make F1 fun again:
      - Start grid is reverse of championship order (random for ties)

    Because what's boring is that the guy with the best car starts first, leads the whole way, and wins, and the second fastest car starts second, follows, and gets on the podium.
    Make them fight for every spot! I'll watch!

  15. Re:easier solution on Smart Racquets Could Transform Tennis · · Score: 1

    But if only robots are playing, all that collected data will be useless to the NSA...

  16. Re:Race car on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 1

    Check the recent LeMans results. You'll learn something.

  17. Re:Series hybrids on Nissan Unveils 88 Pound 400-HP Race Car Engine · · Score: 2

    You mean something a bit like this?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

  18. Re:Smurftastic! on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While that's a bit of an exaggeration since NSA is only collecting (once the data comes up/who cares where the hammer falls down/it's not my department/says NSA von braun), it fits in a more worrisome pattern.

    There was never a doubt in the European's mind that waterboarding is torture, because that's what was used by the Reich on the resistance. When you add a KGB/Stasi-on-steroids NSA, that makes for a nasty vibe.

  19. Re:So what. on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, but it's only in the last couple decades that they've been able to regroup all the data from all the forms of communication attached to every single user.
    The scale of the task used to keep people focused on potential targets. Now it's about having everything on everyone, because nobody ever got fired for having too much data when shit happens.

  20. Re:So what. on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 2

    But but... Hollywood keeps telling me I have 59 seconds before they can complete the trace?

  21. Re:Angry Birds on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 2

    I approve the part about the pigs being the target.

  22. Re:Smurftastic! on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 0

    Jawohl mein herr, ein fery efficient program.
    Vi hafe ways of knowing vat you fink! Trust us, vi only hafe the best interest of the nation in mind...

  23. Re:The size of a small car on World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled · · Score: 1

    No no no no no no... If wealthy people can get it, then you WILL benefit. It's the law, I believe. That's why we all work hard at enabling them to hoard more.

  24. Re:The size of a small car on World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled · · Score: 1

    It will trickle down...

  25. Re:The Count on World's First Multi-Color, Multi-Polymer 3D Printer Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll announce you can buy them with bitcoins next.
    And they Run Linux, but under GPLv3, using Nvidia hardware, on the cloud.