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  1. Re:Panic! on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 1

    Comparing a single engine jet fighter to a multi engine passenger jet. Yeah!

  2. Re:Panic! on Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone · · Score: 2

    Drones are mostly made out of solid plastic, except for the battery and the motors. I'm not saying the turbine fans would be perfect after swallowing one but I'm pretty sure it would be no worse than a bird-strike.

  3. Re:I wonder who bought him on UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea · · Score: 1

    I think that shoe manufacturers must shoulder the responsibility for these leaks. Because it's pretty obvious that the perpetrators use shoes when they move about. And since this "crime" is committed on the backbone of shoe use, obviously those who make shoes must ensure that people who wear their shoes don't use them while breaking the law!

  4. Re:What if... on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kind of like the way Donald Trump is being run by that furry thing on his head?

  5. Re:Rollout in 2030 on How the Rollout of 5G Will Change Everything · · Score: 2

    kitty porn of course

  6. Well Europe on Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's been said before. "F-ck the EU..."

  7. I'm shocked on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Hands up who is surprised by this? Anyone?

    I'm sure a little careful digging in their TOS/EULA and you'll see that you already agreed to give all your secrets to them.

  8. Great on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Not content with fucking up Hewlett Packard she wants to fuck up the entire country as well.

  9. Re:Next step - Semiconductors on ISS's 3-D Printer Creates Its First Object In Space · · Score: 1

    I think you don't know what welfare is. The space program(s) are government money being spent on engineers and experts in all sorts of fields who work hard and come up with creative solutions to unusual problems. This gets them experience. It also benefits humanity as a whole because those engineers then go on to use their experience in other things they do in life.

    Welfare is paying lazy people to sit around and continue being lazy.

  10. Re:Next step - Semiconductors on ISS's 3-D Printer Creates Its First Object In Space · · Score: 2

    I think the argument is that if you need a critical replacement for which you have to wait 6 months for until the next launch, it's better to print one and have it right away even if it costs 10 times as much.

  11. Tethers on NASA To Deploy Four Spacecraft To Study Magnetic Reconnection · · Score: 1

    Considering the terrible back luck all space agencies seem to have had with deploying tethers (getting stuck, snapping, etc) - they plan on deploying 4 per satellite? I hope there are contingency plans or someone really thought long and hard about possible failure modes and engineered around them.

  12. Re:If it helps: on Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives · · Score: 1

    open source? You'd better re-read your TOS. It belongs to Facebook now, most certainly not open source.

  13. No thanks on The Schizophrenic Programmer Who Built an OS To Talk To God · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to try this. What if "god" suddenly decides to erase all my data?

  14. Not a new idea - new to commercial rockets on Elon Musk Talks "X-Wing" Fins For Reusable Rockets, Seafaring Spaceport Drones · · Score: 2

    I've seen these already in use on bombs and other ordnance from several factions.

  15. Misleading on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    I really doubt they promise "no more broken iPhones" when the video admits they only prevent 80% of breaks. That still leaves 1 in 5 broken.

  16. Amazing on Ukraine's IT Brigade Supports the Troops · · Score: 2

    Can't feed their army or pay the pensions of their citizens but they managed to get $300mln for this. I wonder if this $300 mln was at all voluntary or simply taken from their bank accounts.

  17. Re:Now Apple will announce a round monitor on Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Except emptying their wallets even more on the latest version of (the same) garbage next year!

  18. Re: Squarer is better. on Eizo Debuts Monitor With 1:1 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    Most hardware stores sell plastic ties and velcro ties that you can use to keep your cables nice and neat...I know for a fact that Office Depot does.

  19. Re:So... on Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Of which the lawyers will still get $50 million...

  20. Re:VW Bug on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Hackable Car? · · Score: 1

    My dad says in the early models you had to crack the window to get the door closed because it was so hermetically sealed air pressure wouldn't let you slam the door.

  21. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    Ah ok, so if something happened say 20 years ago - the cause of it now is not the same cause as it was back then. Meaning that your global warming "trend" has nothing to do with today's situation, if I follow your "logic". Or where do you draw the line? 100 year old data is ok but 101 year old is not? Why is 150 years ago relevant and 40,000 years ago not?

  22. Like hydrogen. It's not like it's going to be a manned balloon after all. So what if one blows up once in a while - fireworks = added bonus!

  23. Re:We've been doing it for a long time on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    Venus would be better. I would be very confident in the man who could cool down Venus. Plus it has a real atmosphere, far denser than Earth. So it should be easy, right?

  24. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    Dude, we're playing checkers.

  25. Re:Global warming is bunk anyway. on Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate · · Score: 1

    It takes a while for sheep to be trained to bleat something else.