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  1. Re:The marketing guys are good on NASA Green-lights $16.5M To Advance Future Jets · · Score: 1

    Well, I ain't going to switch until they get up to 50 blades at least. If you were to go with the latect computer technology, would you prefer a measly 5 core processor, or would you prefer a 50 core one? The next version of Windows will probably need at least that many just to boot, and a lot more if you want to run the maximum limit of three programs at a time.

    For those needing a car analagy, would you prefer to drive a 5 cylinder car, or a 50 cylinder one?

  2. Re:tv tax? on Britain's Oldest Working Television For Sale · · Score: 1

    Yes, and you'll also need to buy a tube based converter box to be able to watch HD content.

  3. Re:Background, please? on Britain's Oldest Working Television For Sale · · Score: 1

    What is a "television" in the first place?

    What's needed is a definition of the word. Taking the word apart, into tele and vision, and comparing with known words should get us close. A telescope is something used to watch the neighbors have sex. A scope is used to see distant targets, so the tele part must be the bit about sex. So we can guess that the vision part of the word must make the definition sex vision. Fairly descriptive of what that box is usually used for.

  4. Re:The VCR? No on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 1

    The printing press was the cause of such things as the Wickedd Bible. Using the superior technology that existed before the printing press, such a thing could never have occurred. We should return to the previous tried and true technology!

    Don't you want to be protected by the RIAA from such terrible attrocities as this?

  5. Imagine on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    Imagine what would happen if the moon were made of cocaine. We would already have extremely cheap spacecraft making daily trips to the moon and back, carrying tons of moon rocks. It wouldn't take long for our satellite to disappear from our skies into our noses.

  6. Re:Encourage a black market -- help terrorists. on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    By having these drug laws, we provide incentive for criminals to circumvent them.

    By having these murder laws, we provide incentive for criminals to circumvent them. Just think of how much money we would save by legalizing murder. It costs several million dollars from the time you catch a murderer till you execute them. Just think how much a state could save by just making murder legal. You could even make income by requiring them to buy a tag, like they do with deer hunters. In summary, add another "+1" to the long list of negatives stemming from our War on murderers.

  7. Re:What's funny is on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Right and legal drugs don't have an underground market.

    Ummm... Tobacco, alcohol are legal drugs, but there is plenty of black market for both.

  8. Re:They found the Huge Bison, eh? on LHC, CERN Has Found the Hugs Boson · · Score: 1

    For now, all we have is a Nivin Bison, a bison ring around a star, which has been infested by Microsoft drones, so it isn't safe to go there any more.

  9. Can I patent this? on Robert Bunsen, Open Source Pioneer? · · Score: 1

    Can I patent this abuse of a thumb drive?

  10. Re:Fire on Robert Bunsen, Open Source Pioneer? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm going to apply for a patent for "fire, on the internet,"

    Let the flamewar begin. I'll sue you all for patent abuse!

  11. Re:Perhaps tangential, but a worry nevertheless... on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    Thus far, no model airplanes have been used in any terrorist attack (long distance or otherwise). If we are to worry about model airplane terrorist attacks, then we are no longer able to prioritize and are fearful to the point of collapse.

    Maybe we should require a crotch grope before each launch of an RC airplane. It's supposed to stop terrorists in airplanes, so shouldn't it work for RC pilots too?

  12. Re:Perhaps tangential, but a worry nevertheless... on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    at what point will a model airplane be considered an ITAR "munition"?

    When it holds a redneck in a cowboy suit waiting to ride a nuke down?

  13. Re:What if it's your own drone? on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    The guy did almost nothing other than a powerpoint presentation

    Ahh, a PHB type. Don't they usually get top billing anyway?

  14. Re:I had one of these when I was a kid! on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    Acquire a gumstix and mate this with cell-based internet connectivity, stream control on one account, video on another. Maybe add another channel for weapons deployent.

      All problems solved. This isn't the rocket science you think it is.

    - Dan.

    Then discover that the network coverage is missing over that one area you just flew through. So much for those $$$'s that just crashed into that CIA listening post.

  15. Re:Woot! on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 1

    Now that's what I call a good start! just 63 million to go!

    Didn't Carson get in trouble when McDonalds had around that many hamburgers sold? Something about them having used up one cow?

  16. Re:MySpace lost over ten million users ? on MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month · · Score: 1

    Have you checked under the sofa cushions? That's where I find a lot of lost things. Many that should have stayed lost, unfortunately.

  17. Re:I had one of these when I was a kid! on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    Nuclear bomb with a cowboy to ride it down while swinging his hat around, standard equipment on RC's since WWII.

  18. Re:Wow ... on Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones · · Score: 1

    If no-one uses the article links, than how do web pages get "slashdotted"?

    They do it themselves. "Let's check to see if we're slashdotted yet...", repeat...

  19. Re:Just took phone out of my pants pocket. on Mobile Phone May Rot Your Bones · · Score: 1

    I've got my Droid on my hip, and while I haven't moved it, the holster suddenly feels rather heavy.

    These aren't the Droid's you're looking for...

  20. Re:Sure. Don't be paranoid! on Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? · · Score: 1

    The IP address can appear on these records in many ways that don't ever involve your hardware even being used. These include numerous hardware and software intractions.

    For example, hardware wise, someone could temporarily disconnect your modem and plug in their own (at any point between your home and the dslam). Done at the right time, you would probably never notice it. They could also sneak into your house and plus in a small wifi router, in order to steal your internet connection.

    Software, what if your ISP doesn't handle daylight savings properly. That gives the "bad guy" an hour of IP usage that could appear to be you. Then there are numerous IP spoofing methods available. And, breaking into the ISP and changing data there is not impossible.

    Then, there is the possibility of someone just finding an open wifi port into your network.

    They should first need to prove that your hands were on they keyboard before being able to charge you. If someone placed a cardboard copy of your license plate on a car used in a bank robbery, should you be charged with the crime? If not, then why should you be charged when someone does the same thing with your IP address?

  21. Re:Uh on 100% Libre, Trisquel 4.5 STS 'Slaine' Released · · Score: 1

    Review? Summary? Announcement? Who cares what it is, as long as we get 20% more slurm!

  22. Exec perk on MS Removes HTTPS From Hotmail For Troubled Nations · · Score: 1

    Microsoft execs are just making sure that a large supply of "donated" organs are available whenever they need them.

  23. Re:Uh on 100% Libre, Trisquel 4.5 STS 'Slaine' Released · · Score: 1

    Is there some reason that reviews on slashdot like this never reveal what the product is? It's always something like "Slarpfest now improved with 20% more slurm!" WHY SHOULD WE CARE!

  24. Re:1) Garden Hose 2) Your House 3) Big magnet on Ask Slashdot: What Gadgets Would You Use For Hunting Meteorites? · · Score: 1

    However, it works better if you don't have shingles

    Well, I've got a rash, but I don't thinkit's shingles. Does that count?

  25. Are you there on Limewire Being Sued For 75 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Is that you, Darl McBride?