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  1. Re: In other words.. on Tuesday Was Microsoft's Last Non-Cumulative Patch (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Win 95 OSR2 has USB support.
    It was only the retail versions that lacked it.

  2. Re: As Bob Dylan Sang on Raspberry Pi Passes 10M Sales Mark (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No. You must be thinking of Blueberry Hill. By Chubby Checker.

  3. Re:Beautiful by the numbers launch / deploy / land on SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The shuttle sonic booms could be very loud at times. They would often set off car alarms in the area.

  4. Re: Scientists in Iceland on Scientists In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Stone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So are you saying that Iceland is effectively a Beowulf cluster of people?

    Because that's oddly appropriate in a number of ways.

  5. But was it as good as "Chopper Dave"?

  6. Being nuclear powered doesn't help with pressure resistance.

  7. Re: Piss off FAA! on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, but in your scenario your rights to the airspace end at your property line. So what happens when your neighbor is flying above his property? Are you going to try to claim that airspace as yours as well?

  8. Re: What latency overhead? on $40 Hardware Is Enough To Hack $28,000 Police Drones From 2km Away (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Are you kidding? Most non-hobby flight controllers are already running multi-core or even multiprocessor systems. The power draw for the processor is very small compared to that of the motors.

  9. Re: The original on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    If it was burned into your brain I am surprise you didn't realize it was "Warren Robinett"

  10. Shhhh!! You want us to get sued laddie?

  11. Porn. They are full of porn. on Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Mostly featuring green-skinned Orion slave girls, with the occasional Tellarite orgy thrown in.

  12. Re: Amazon needs a new CEO. on Drone Crashes, Missing Champion Skier By Inches (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) The dog. It will have to come out of his daily allowance of kibbles and bits. I am not sure what the current value of kibble is but as I understand it is 8 bits to the dollar.

    2) The child. The smart ones will not run into spinning propellers. The strong ones may survive. Basically this will serve to weed out the weak and stupid children, leading to a golden age for mankind.

    3) Such an event will cause Amazon to lose money instead of make a profit. Jeff Bezos will point out that during the dot com boom, many people were investing in companies that were losing money because that is a sign they are growing. Amazon then receives record investment money and their stock price soars.

    4) I would imagine that the teenager would then high five his friends, repeatedly say "that was awesome" and eventually find some other distraction.

    5) Who cares? Tesla coils are awesome!

    6) Allowing Amazon to come into the low value area, buy up all the homes to build a new distribution center and begin offering "Amazon Super Prime" services to the rich people in the next county, including 1 hour delivery by person. They will use the newly homeless people in the poor county as their labor supply.

    7) Hopefully he is welding a Tesla Coil because that would be awesome.

      8) Now I have a drone and a Tesla Coil! How awesome is that?

  13. Re: Wrong? on Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, failing to pay on time is probably a condition covered in the contract and therefor not a breach of contract. My guess is that they have clauses that allow them to charge late fees and interest on past due balances. There is likely an upper limit on how long that continues before it is a breach of contract, but I am certain there is a time period where the contract would still be in effect. And it sounds like she posted everyone who was late on bills.

  14. Re: allow it to spin, duh on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not "indistinguishable" from gravity. The coriolis force, among other things, ensures that.

    But it does solve a lot of problems that are caused by a lack of gravity.

  15. Re: Organic compounds in space on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    If one bottle of Jack Daniels is like 500 bottles of wine to you, then you, sir, are someone who most definitely can not hold their Jack.

  16. Re: Big news, but not unprecedented on NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that private aircraft are not required to file a flight plan in a great many situations. I fly out of a commercial airport in my 172 and don't have to file flight plans.

  17. Re:This must be a hoax on UCF Researchers Perform World's First Automated Mass-Crowd Count (ucf.edu) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The event where people were protesting for Catalunyan independence was chosen specifically because there a very low likelihood of anyone name "Chad" being part of the protest.

    Floridians only have trouble counting when there are excessive Chad's hanging about.

  18. Re:So the taxes were collected from salaries inste on Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax (gu.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    The salaries are paid first, then profit is taxed.

    Salaries are not part of profit.

  19. Re:No on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but who would want Master Chief going around blowing the crap out of your million acre estate all the time?

  20. The dust storm vs the MAV launch doesn't make sens on What Ridley Scott Has To Say About the Science In "The Martian" · · Score: 1

    Quit reading now if you don't want spoilers....

    At the beginning the dust storm was strong enough to tear apart antennas, tip over the MAV, and send objects flying through the air.

    But at the end, the MAV could use a piece of fabric to cover open panels because the atmosphere is so thin there is very little aerodynamic forces on the craft. (As compared to a launch on earth).

    If the thin atmosphere reduces wind forces At the end why didn't it in the beginning?

  21. Re: The Science In a SciFi movie... on What Ridley Scott Has To Say About the Science In "The Martian" · · Score: 2

    Hard sci-fi vs soft sci-fi.

    This is one of those. Star Wars is the other.

  22. Re: Not sure if smart or retarded on Blizzard Bans 100,000 Cheaters In Massive "World of Warcraft" Ban Spree · · Score: 1

    Blizzard now has a system where you can trade in-game gold for playing time. Since that was just implemented in the past couple months, I would wager that this mass ban is related to that.

    Now the bots and gold farmers may have a direct impact on Blizzard's revenue.

  23. Re: It was an app on a WORK-Issued Phone! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    Dude. I am pretty sure that if you "pee in a coupe owned by the boss" you are getting your ass fired.

    If you were to pee in my car I would fire you.

  24. Re:ST only needed transparent aluminum for... on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 0

    Fail. Turn in your geek card now.

    They used Plexiglas to build the container for the whales aboard the ship - not transparent aluminum.

    They gave the manager of Plexicorp the formula for transparent aluminum in trade for the Plexiglas.

  25. Re:Best Solution on Audi Creates "Fuel of the Future" Using Just Carbon Dioxide and Water · · Score: 4, Funny

    My God man. If you were to do that, you would have a car that not only would drive forever, but it would generate more energy that it used.

    Clearly that would cause the car to never be able to stop, and always continue increasing in velocity.

    Your vision ends with a world covered in cars that driving all around forever, asymptotically approaching the speed of light.

    Is that really the world we want to live in?