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  1. "How Space-Based Solar Power Plants Could Be Built By Robots On the Moon"
    Best headline ever.

  2. Does any one really believe that Edward Snowdens email address is 'Ed_snowden@lavabit.com' ?

  3. In a world where we TRULY have a clandestine nebulous paramilitary think tank spying on every American in an attempt to suppress dissent. And a secret out of country military torture prison where we send such undesirables. The whole "conspiracy theorist nut job" argument kind of goes out the window.

  4. Why haven't we thought of this before? on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 2

    If the State is comfortable issuing a court order to force apple to write code it doesn't want to write and stealing the code it has written. Then why are we wasting so nearly 1.5 trillion in tax payer money on Lockheed Martin. The DOJ could just write a court order that they have to build the F-35 and save us a butt load.

  5. Is it called ad block plus? on MIT Creates Algorithm That Speeds Up Page Load Time By 34% (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have something kinda like that its called No Script.

  6. This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere on Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

  7. Re:In other news... on UK Gov't Launches Anti-Adblocking Initiative, Compares It To Piracy (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    While I find your comment amusing It gives the opposing argument too much credit. It implies that their argument is meritus though hyperbolic. There is absolutely no merit in the argument that content providers will disappear if you block ads. This is the argument made by people who don't remember what the internet was like before it was completely over run by corporate interests. It was awesome! It was fast even at 9600. You got exactly what you asked for and nothing else. There weren't people spying on every thing you did. It was virtually impossible to get any kind of malware from a web site unless you downloaded an executable and ran it. The internet had its origins in the basements of university's for the purpose of the free exchange of information not to sell you shit you don't really need. The ad company's came around later when they discovered how much money there was to be made. Its the same argument that record company's make, clamming that music comes from record company's when in fact it's the other way around.

  8. I don't understand. This McAfee seems to be implying that the NSA might be doing something wrong.

  9. Re:Is that really true? on Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what going on. The "Average" company only has about 20 employes. A comparison of the average salaries of the top 100 company's and the top 100 collage presidents would be a much more informative and scientific result.

  10. When a device comes into a cell it sends out a router solicitation and the tower sends out a router advertisement in response, regardless of the RA interval. With so many devices coming in and out of the cells all the time it wouldn't surprise me if the network was giving out a RA's every 3 seconds. Most routers are configured to give out a RA every 200 seconds by default. I can't imagine an administrator configuring the interval to be every 3 seconds.

  11. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    Relying on GPS alone is a crutch that lets stupid people get by in the world. Fortunately it seems to be killing some of them. I think this is a good thing.

  12. Re:You can get everything you need for free... on Ask Slashdot: Learning Robotics Without Hardware? · · Score: 1

    Old printers are a gold mine for this kind of stuff. you will find gears, motors, encoders, thermistors, slides, belts, sensors, switches, usually a reasonable hackable embedded control system.

  13. Re:Check out the Tom Clancy Plog Generator. on Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Plog? Dumb-ass!

  14. Check out the Tom Clancy Plog Generator. on Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1
  15. An hour of coding what? on Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School (quora.com) · · Score: 1

    Well he gave it a try but he had the damnedest time getting the turtle to move.

  16. Re:Perhaps amend the definition of resonance on Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When you blow into a flute. The harder you blow the louder it gets. Yes that's resonance. It's just the resonance of the bridge. When you tap on a crystal. The harder you tap the larger the electric wave out at the resonance frequency of the crystal. That's how resonators work unstructured energy IN causes a structured response dependent on the resonant property's of the object being acted on. constructive interference is accepted while destructive is rejected. This article is just semantics.

  17. Well if you can turn them off. on Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Clippy show them to me?

  18. I think they have this backwards. on Foam-Eating Worms May Offer Solution To Mounting Waste · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be a much more beneficial project if they found a way to convert CO2 into polystyrene. Creating a parasite that eats houses, boats, marina's and refrigerators in order to dump green house gases into the world seems like a bad idea. Why do we hate plastic so much? If the forest floor is covered with plastic, and the plants are growing around it, so what? Sure plastic has some stuff in it that is mildly toxic but its only released when the plastics break down, which is contrary of the argument of the article which states that it doesn't break down. Granite has been around for billions of years but you don't see any one going all "mad scientist" on the granite epidemic that has for generations plagued rock quarry's. Our prejudice towards plastic is mostly cosmetic.

  19. Sure. So I'm guessing this goes right along side all those American and Korean Android phone models that come with preinstalled malware. In fact I'm pretty sure the term "Android phone" intrinsically implies preinstalled malware and if not there's plenty of it you can install off the play store.

  20. Re:Groklaw Needed More Than Ever on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 1

    MS didn't call it java they called it J++. Got sued any way but not for trademark infringement. They got sued for violating the java license (which they paid for in '96) for incomplete implementation of java virtual machine built into IE, Java applets would crash in IE leading people to conclude that java was a big stinking pile. You had to install the sun java add-on to find out the truth about java. Which was that if you installed the sun java VM you could see that java was launched as a big stinking pile out of the gate.

  21. Really? 4 times? Court ordered data? on Lightning Wipes Storage Disks At Google Data Center · · Score: 1

    Well that what Google gets for building a data center at the top of castle Frankenstein.

  22. Government Conspiracy. on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Oh on! There taking the fluoride out of our drinking water! It's a government conspiracy to reduce oral hygiene in rural areas. This will help prop up the 1% by increasing the wealth disparity. It will also help kill off the poor by allowing more bacteria to grow in the water. not do mention deaths from oral infections. Those bastards won't stop until were all dead!

  23. Does no one remember the Pinto? on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    Ok apparently no one here actually owned a Pinto. The problem wasn't that they would catch fire in a crash. The problem with the Pinto is they would catch fire for no reason at random intervals through out the day.

  24. Scholars. on Ancient Hangover Cure Discovered In Greek Texts · · Score: 1

    Ever wonder if these scholars that translate ancient texts are just making it up as they go along?

  25. nudge. on New Nudge Technology Prods You To Take Action · · Score: 1

    "God damn these electric sex pants!"