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  1. Re:Frist post :( on James Gosling Report of Reno Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Saw a different pic of the head-less cockpit here from a different angle - you can see it better if you enlarge the pic. Did not see the missing trim tab though, the angle is wrong for that.

  2. Re:Frist post :( on James Gosling Report of Reno Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Fortunately for you there are other websites on the internet besides youtube.

  3. Re:Sounds like a lot of folks should see jail time on GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, I think the ability to readily believe what other people tell you exists contrary to all reason and evidence to the contrary tends to predispose people to being asshats.

  4. Quick on 6.6 Magnitude Earthquake Off the Coast of Japan · · Score: 1

    Arrest the geologists!

  5. Re:Sounds like a lot of folks should see jail time on GPS Tracking of State Worker Raises Privacy Issues · · Score: 1

    Usually atheist/agnostic "asshats" are the ones who are extremely tolerant. I invite you to actually research this topic, but I know you won't. Better to do what the guy in the funny/shiny clothes says some ancient bad sci-fi anthology says.

  6. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    I'm not a metallurgist but I think that print head would have to get pretty nifty to be able to deposit steel one layer at a time but with the same qualities as traditional steel. Making that stuff correctly is tricky business and if done wrong it will just shatter under very small stresses. I'm not saying it can't be done, I just can't imagine how it could be done. Plastic is one thing, but steel is another kettle of fish.

  7. Re:Which is worse on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1

    Live by the sword, die by the sword.

    I prefer to live by the ULONG.

  8. Re:Which is worse on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1, Troll

    In the meantime, the Martian south polar ice cap continues to recede year after year, proving that human pollution is the cause of planetary warming on Mars. If only we hadn't sent those rovers.

  9. Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 2

    and they even suggested the people to get back at their own homes after some earthquakes had previously happened in such zones, even destroying some buildings.

    And if they had warned people to stay away and the next earthquake had happened in say, 50 years (very short for geological time), what then? Sued for spreading alarm among the population?

  10. Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 2

    Yup. Coming soon, doctors will be charged for failing to bring the dead back to life. Way to step back a whole 1000 years or more. The geologists at worst might be negligent and need a reprimand from their professional college at best. But manslaughter? OK, how about charging the government too, because after all they clearly hired incompetent geologists.

  11. Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... on Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week · · Score: 1

    This is Italy.

  12. Re:lack of real-world experience on Printing a Building · · Score: 1

    Yup. Concrete can take a beating when you compress it - like in a column. Come and push on that column laterally and watch the whole thing come falling down. It doesn't shear so well. Not an engineer but I've built a few things...

  13. Re:Would you download a car? on Printing a Building · · Score: 2

    But the cartridge with the materials will cost you $150,000. I guess that's the whole point, actually.

  14. Re:Troll business model. on ToS Violations No Longer a Crime (On Their Own) · · Score: 2

    That's ok I have a "Terms of Service" too. By accepting this my cash for purchase or license of your goods and services, you waive your rights to your apply customary Terms of Service agreement. This is clearly posted on my website.

  15. Re:Communications failure? on Soyuz Capsule Return Marred By Mystery Communications Blackout · · Score: 2

    Although arguably they make better trolls.

  16. America on Obama To Sign 'America Invents Act of 2011' Today · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Invents a better way to screw Americans.

  17. Finally on British Schoolkids To Be Taught Computer Coding · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will find a use for all of those BBC micros that have been lying around for 25 years.

  18. Re:Awesome... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 2

    The obvious solution is to avoid changing OS. Why would you want to? There's no good reason to upgrade and several good reasons to not upgrade. It's a simple decision. As for tablets - no one has noticed that this is all about vendor lock-in?

  19. Re:Worthless. on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    Enterprise is still glued to Windows XP

  20. Re:Well... on Microsoft: No Windows 8 ARM Support For x86 Apps · · Score: 1

    We're talking about tablets here, battery life is a big concern

    Why? Oh yeah because you want to ask your device to do something that it's not designed for. Market won't tolerate a bigger battery because then that adds weight/size problems. But you want to give the illusion of being able to do more, while actually doing less. If your computing needs are so intensive then there's a whole category of device that already exists called a "laptop" that will give you both the horsepower and battery life you want.

    This is basically a case of "I want my cake and I want to eat it too", except you can't defy the laws of physics. Only thing you can do is tell people you are giving with your left hand, while you take away with your right. At the end of the day you end up with an expensive machine that does less for the money - ahh but it's small and shiny and has a touch screen!

  21. Great on Intel Experimental Processor Runs On Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Now botnets can really run 24/7 when people never sleep or shut down their machines to save electricity!

  22. Uh oh on US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It · · Score: 1

    Somebody just made the no fly list!

    Regards, The Stupid Agency

  23. Wrong business plan on Ask Slashdot: Low-Cost Tools To Track Employees' Web Use? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You should be asking about low cost politicians.

  24. Re:They don't do self-replication on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 2

    Worker bees can reproduce, except that this ability is suppressed by pheromones produced by an active, mature queen. But where do you think new queens come from?

  25. Re:This is no news. on Researcher Builds Life-Like Cells Made of Metal · · Score: 1

    And since the "true theory of physics" will never be found because it only exists in Goedel's mind, matter will never be spiritualized.