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  1. Re:It's not just NASA on Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but they embrace and control risk better than any other society.

  2. Re:Interesting stuff on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    What were the Su-30's first 4 generations of stealth?

  3. Re:Dangerous Thinking on India's First Stealth Fighter To Fly In 4 Months · · Score: 1

    The Soviet Union is gone and the US continues to build it successful line of carriers. Sounds like the American Super-Men may be Masters of the Universe.

  4. Re:Deeply Skeptical of Iranian Cries for Help on Iran Moves To End "Facebook Revolution" · · Score: 1

    Thankfully, the UN has no forces and did not help the Afghans. Had both been true, 10s of millions would been brutally massacred and both Afghanistan and Pakistan would be solidly controlled by a nuclear equipped Taliban.

    Luckily for all humanity, NATO is in Afghanistan and fighting the Taliban.

  5. Re:Huh. on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Monster is a morality judgment that you can't universally define. So those most willing to apply violence constructs the moral framework, defining Monster, etc. Some will always disagree and they'll be dealt with.

    As long as people run a government, there will be corruption. The best you can do is minimize it.

  6. Re:An unfair fight is the point of war on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 1

    Sure, If they surrender, lock them up in a place like Gitmo until 'the war is over' which could be a _very_ long time when dealing with terrorists.

  7. Re:Scumbags on Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There are no rules to war. If you're losing and about to be extinguished, everything's fair game.

  8. Re:Corporate culture on Shell Ditches Wind, Solar, and Hydro · · Score: 1

    Telling indeed. You're advocating a reduction in lifestyle, logically leading to de-industrialization.

  9. Re:Wait a minute...I thought... on EFF Launches Surveillance Self-Defense Site · · Score: 1

    Obama's looking for internal threats to his administration, Bush was looking for external threats to the country. Same monitoring apparatus, different purpose.

  10. Re:I didn't know Feinstein was a Republican.... on Senator Diane Feinstein Trying to Kill Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Washington voted out the Senate Majority leader Tom Foley in '94.

  11. Re:Mystery Pits on Oldest Weapons-grade Plutonium Found In Dump · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    500,000 Iraqi children could have been saved had Saddam adhered to UN resolutions. But that's not his style. No, dead children was his best weapon against the west and people of your persuasion eat it up. So America topples the man at a terrible loss of over 4000 service men and women (people better than anyone on Slashdot) and it's bloody murder and evil imperialism.

  12. Re:Quick! on Obama Picks RIAA's Favorite Lawyer For Top DoJ Post · · Score: 1

    How can you vote for a man with no related experience for President, then complain when he appoints people with NO experience to posts in his administration?

  13. Get a big LCD TV display with low resolution. on Configuring a Windows PC For a Senior Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Not a Dell 30" with 2500x1600 (whatever), but one of those 27" 720P LCD TVs with 1336x900 (whatever) resolution. Then set the DPI to 120. The size is fantastic for those old eyes and the fuzzys are gone 'cause you're running at native resolution. A nice crisp and huge display. My Dad plays solitaire a bunch and the cards are almost full size on the screen.

    It's a bit more expensive than your typical el-cheapo Hung-Lo 19" LCD but will make the computing experience tolerable, if not pleasurable.

  14. Re:Reality Check on Virtual Peace Sim Game Based On America's Army · · Score: 1

    And dozens of B-52s loaded for bear just outside their borders.

  15. Re:the short answer on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Funny, the same is true for the Marine Corps.

  16. Re:Why would you expect Core 3? on Intel Core I7 Launched, Nehalem and X58 Tested · · Score: 1

    The next name in the progression would actually be:

    Core2 Duo Turbo Pro Gold Elite

  17. Re:Define "Winning" on Discuss the US Presidential Election & the War · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't there be a bloodbath if the US left S. Korea? Or committed to not defend Taiwan? Israel? Europe? Sounds like a long term US presence in Iraq would be a good thing for the world community and especially Iraq themselves.

  18. Re:Captchas are no longer good enough on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    Dude, use the above form to critique anti-spam ideas.

  19. Re:John McCain on blogs on McCain Releases Technology Platform · · Score: 1

    If only Obama could get people to vote for him too. How does he convince Iran to disarm when he can't convince more than %45 of Americans to vote for him?

  20. Hateful Democrats... on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lot of real people are in a world of hurt with these high gas prices. America simply announcing there will be plenty of oil by its commitment to drill will drop prices over night. But Pelosi's summer vacation and politics trump the less advantaged. Par for the course for Democrats.

    Headline: Nancy Pelosi is trying to save the world: Women and minorities hardest hit.

  21. Re:Ok I understand the problems of our current set on GENI To Replace Internet, Gets $12M Funding · · Score: 1

    Maybe 3x defense spending. I'd call Social Security and Medicaid welfare and they're over 1.1 Trillion alone. Then there's another 1 Trillion that goes to who knows what...

  22. Re:I guess "need" is for each of us to decide on Is Cheap Video Surveillance Possible? · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness the 'Robbers were fleeing out the window.' The media was right, they were choir boys after all.

    What would your reaction be to two armed men in your house at night. What if your family was sleeping there?

  23. Re:I wonder on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Spoken like someone who's just entered high school.

    The last people anyone wants to talk to about ad-hoc projects is IT. An employee has a need, they fill it with a reasonable tool. Per the GP post, the initial requirements were simple and the solution sufficient. No IT department needed. As the utility of the system increased, so did the requirements, and so must the solution space expand requiring IT assistance. IT should then be eager to help and congratulatory on the success of the solution to date.

    It's impossible to divine the future requirements of any system, or even it's success. That's why we iterate.

  24. Re:Anyone else hate idiots like this? on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    Wow, them are fighten' words there. Good thing you can safely hide behind the internet.

  25. Re:The foundation is a joke on Google Goes Green · · Score: 1

    Actually, a portion of the aid from the US Government came from Gate's taxes so that can be added to Gate's total too.