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  1. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 0

    China has been exempted in all the "carbon tax" treaties, like the Kyoto one. They shouldn't have anything to worry about.

  2. Re:Lost Channels on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 0

    Where I'm at, we got nothing from this. Apparently it is being blamed on the "mountains", so if you have mountains, expect to be destroyed when the zombie apocalypse starts.

  3. Re:Failures, what a surprise... on Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System · · Score: 0

    French invasion, immediately followed by the French surrender.

  4. Re:this is very old news. on NASA Creates Super-Black Carbon Nanotube Coating · · Score: 1

    Just your normal slashdot news cycle. 3 years is a fairly short cycle, because of all the editorial work and verification that they do.

  5. Re:If it's IKG and therefore no use to the restaur on Biofuel Thieves Steal Restaurant Grease · · Score: 0

    If a restaurant has a choice between you requiring them to pay for grease removal, and a rival company paying them for the grease, I'm betting that they will choose the more profitable option every time.

  6. Does it fly? on One-Molecule Nanocar Takes a Test Drive · · Score: 0

    I'm still waiting for my flying car, so does this thing fly?

  7. Statistics on Ballistic Clipboard Holds Papers, Stops Bullets · · Score: 1

    Ok, so how likely is this thing to be used?

    What previous data do we have? How many police clipboards are hit by bullets in any given year? How many non-police clipboards?

    What is the likelihood that someone will be able to position his clipboard to the proper position when someone is shooting at him? Test it by having one of the developers hold one up while someone else randomly shoots at him, and see how many of the bullets he can stop.

  8. Simplest methhod on Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? · · Score: 0

    Just attach your Windows machine to the internet. Someone will probably install this feature automatically for you, along with thousands of others. And you won't have to lift a finger. You will get automatic email processing software, beowulf features, anatomically correct photos, keyboard monitoring, credit card reporting, and thousands of other useful features. 5 minutes it all it takes.

  9. Re:Hmm... I'm waiting for the stories on OLPC Project To Air-Drop Laptops · · Score: 0

    (WKRP) But I thought they could fly!

  10. Re:Who has an active space program? on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 1

    Probably China. Obama sold them NASA for a bag of magic beans that are supposed to allow him to increase the tax rates. However, when he planted them all that grew were massive debt weeds. So, now he's trying to buy another bag of seeds from them.

  11. Re:I have to say... on Asteroid Passes Closer To Earth Than the Moon on Nov 8 · · Score: 0

    How do you know it won't hit the moon? It ought to be able to break off chunks large enough to destroy civilization as they rain down on the Earth. That should be awesome to watch!

  12. How does it compare on Open Source Eclipse Celebrates 10th Birthday · · Score: 0

    But, how does it compare to the size of Turbo Pascal?

  13. Re:Hahahahaha on New Mac OS Trojan Produces BitCoins · · Score: 0

    Hahahaha shows what you know.

    You're just mad because you didn't make a few million from them like my company did.

    Didn't you mean of instead of from? Is this article about you?

  14. Re:Fire on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 0

    Making the cost of recovering documents higher is actually a good way to protect your documents. The more it costs them to make an attempt at reading them, the less likely they will even try. Would you bother to try to de-shred a document if it cost you $1000 to try, and the information was worth $50?

    You can think of shredding as a form of encryption. If it costs a large amount of money, and a large amount of time, to read your documents, then they are less likely to bother with your documents and move on to someone else.

    You can't achieve 100% destruction of the documents, but every step you go through makes them that much more secure.

  15. Alternate green power on Samsung's Solar-Powered Internet School · · Score: 0

    They should build an Earthquake-Powered internet school. there's a LOT of energy available from a single earthquake. Just look at the amount of power it would require to bring down large numbers of buildings using conventional technology, as is done during a single quake. So what if the classes can only in session during an earthquake, we're talking about green energy here. The solar powered school can be brought down by a little bit of bad weather, so ut's not perfect either.

  16. Aliens on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: -1

    Are we really going to be wiped out by aliens if Global Warming persists. as NASA insists?

    Can we just buy carbon credits from Al Gore to avoid this because then ... then ... then Al Gore can afford to heat his swimming pools?

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/19/aliens-could-attack-earth-to-end-global-warming-nasa-scientist-claims/

  17. Re:ARM on Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC · · Score: -1

    What part of "Personal Computer" specifies that it must be Intel-86 compatible? I believe that the Commodore-64 was advertised as a personal computer, as was the Kaypro and the Osborne.

  18. Re:Sincerity? on $529M DOE Loan Spawns $97K Made-in-Finland Cars · · Score: -1

    Something else is going on here. Maybe the classic Obama flaw of giving money for a worthwhile endeavor that doesn't have enough strings attached for when it succeeds, not just if it fails.

    If you look into the company, you'll find out that the owners are big Obama contributors, so this "loan" is just his way of paying them back, so they can contribute even more money back to him. It's called money laundering when some lesser person does it.

  19. Re:An anonymous reader trolls Slashdot. on Ask Slashdot: Radiation Detection For Tokyo Resident? · · Score: 0

    Just collect spiders, and have them bite your minions. Then you throw them at a wall, and see if they stick. If they do, you better get rid of them, because their newly awakened "spider sense" will alert them to your negative tendencies towards them.

  20. Re:How do you make the mistake on Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Levitation · · Score: -1

    And /., where are you editors?

    Apparently they are camping out on Wall Street, complaining about stolen laptops.

  21. Obviously on Analysis of Galaxy Spin Reveals Universe Might Be Left-Handed · · Score: -1

    It's because of Global Warming! We must immediately shut down all carbon producing operations, or the aliens that NASA is warning us about will come and kill us all for causing all the galaxies to spin in the wrong directions.

  22. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: -1

    It should be called "Happy Fun Ball", then people won't taunt it.

  23. Colossus on AOL Creates Fully Automated Data Center · · Score: -1

    Are they going to call it "The Forbin Project"?

  24. Re:Reserves isn't the only reason... on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: -1

    Because you can go from excellent karma to terrible in that one single post. You say something someone doesn't like, and they will wipe out your karma. Quote something Obama or Gore said that shows they're idiots, and blam, you're dead.

    Guess why my karma is so bad right now?

  25. Re:Reserves isn't the only reason... on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: -1

    What about the tens of thousands of jobs that we could use in our economy, right now - or the fact that energy prices are climbing precisely when Americans are suffering through the toughest economic times since the 1920s?

    Obama has decided that all investments in Oil industries will go to foreign countries. After funding their development, we can then buy from them at inflated prices. However, American oil production is to be halted, in every possible way. Brazil is receiving billions of dollars from Obama to fund their offshore drilling, but in the US, offshore drilling is banned.

    His investments in "Green" energy seems to be limited to those who have made campaign contributions to him. If Obama was so worried about greenhouse gases, then why does he fly to/from his vacation in separate jets from his wife, leaving less than an hour apart? If he is worried about American jobs, then why does he buy two bag-ass buses from Canada for his reelection campaign? If he's worried about drug cartels, then why does he sell them machine guns at cut rate prices?