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  1. Re:Reasonable on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 1

    you don't get it. No one at NASA or Lockheed Martin or Boeing or ATK have demonstrated human spaceflight to orbit either.

  2. Re:I've lost faith in government contractors. on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 1

    no actually NASA decides what it wants and then finds someone to build it. NASA does it wrong.

  3. Re:Elon Musk's Rebuttal on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 1

    that isn't spinning, you just don't know what you are talking about. he simply spoke with explicit detail.

    NASA has to pay for the escape system, then tell SpaceX how to build it, and then qualify it as man-rated. NASA has not done this, so it is not man-rated. BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXIST

  4. Re:probably a bad idea on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 1

    no, what I was getting at is that you are wrong

  5. Re:probably a bad idea on Panel Warns NASA On Commercial Astronaut Transport · · Score: 2, Insightful

    for some reason astronaut Dr. Leroy Chiao thinks differently "Soyuz has a very special place in my heart. It is a robust, capable spacecraft and launcher. It has the best-demonstrated safety record of any manned spacecraft. And, it just feels hearty."

    why could that be

  6. opensolaris on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1

    people should be told before it disappears, that opensolaris is the desktop distribution of solaris, based on open solaris code. like an ubuntu clone, only with solaris. it is maintained basically entirely by sun. what will happen is that since oracle doesn't care about a desktop os, the desktop os part of that initiative will be flushed. and the solaris os migration from the old solaris code to new opensolaris code and build systems and such will probably be accelerated.

    oracle wants sun because sun has everything oracle needs to provide service top to bottom. all of the official releases from both companies, and the internal memo, speak of this. they all mention solaris and "open" java. none of them mention opensolaris.

    they also don't mention workstation machines, virtualbox desktop virtualization, and whatever else sun does that oracle doesn't care about.

    so anyway, RIP opensolaris. people at sun worked hard for years now bringing it up to standards set by linux desktop distros.

  7. Re:Was diablo 2 actually dark? on New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness · · Score: 1

    you are dead wrong about brightness and color being mutually exclusive. It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that.

  8. Re:Screw blackness on New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness · · Score: 1

    you are dead wrong about quake and doom3 being ugly because they are dark.

    diablo 1 and 2 have good art design, that is why they are attractive. quake and doom 3 do not have good art design, that is why they are not attractive.

    there are attractive dark games, and you are dead wrong suggesting that dark makes something ugly.

  9. Re:Screw blackness on New Diablo 3 Images; Design Wins Over Darkness · · Score: 1

    now try comparing diablo II to diablo III and it will seem gritty and dark again.

  10. Re:Natural Selection on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Reality isn't so simple. The cost to start a new project based on an existing code base can be enormous! And if the code isn't reused, there is no guarantee that something better will eventually be created. It's like saying that the totally free market will eventually take care of everything and life will be great. Reality isn't like that, and it certainly isn't so simple.

  11. Re:Two things seem to have affected MozFo: on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    The Mozilla Foundation was established in July 2003 as a California not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the public benefit.

    Mozilla hit the money when some smart kids there made a browser that beat everyone at the browser game. Since Google paid them off they have been trying to monetize with the fury of a true greedy corporation.

  12. Re:Wait, what?! 5 million bucks a year?! on Thunderbird in Crisis? · · Score: 1

    rofl. You bring up bandwidth! That is like implying that Microsoft's air conditioning bill cuts into their revenue. Stop typing.

    Mozilla has money coming out of its ears, and it wants more.

  13. Plenty of buttons on YOPY Arrives · · Score: 1

    Nice keyboard. Are Linux fans taking design cues from the Atari Jaguar?

  14. Gone! on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    Nullsoft took it down. That was quick. Bring on the mirrors for source and binary.

  15. Re:What no LibTomMath for bignum RSA? on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Telling Slashdotters won't help.

    Here, tell the WASTE folks instead: http://forums.winamp.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid= 154

  16. Re:Fastest card in existance? on 120+ GeForce FX Reviews Collected · · Score: 1

    No. The add-in video card market is driven by Nvidia and ATI, Gamer card, CAD card, or otherwise.

    3dlabs is barely holding on to their tiny niche. While CAD cards need to do different things than gamer cards, this is basically how it works: Nvidia/ATI build the best cards they can. Then they tweak them and triple the price for the CAD market.

  17. Re:A lot of curiosity on iTunes Music Store sells 275,000 Tracks in 18 Hours · · Score: 1

    Is that right? Got a government link to verify that?

  18. Re:Dupe! on The Unix-Haters Handbook Online · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because it makes it obvious that Slashdot is a journalistic cesspool of a website filled with the most elite trolls and zealots the Internet has ever seen.

  19. This is getting out of hand. on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fucking Slashdot should clue in already and stop DOS'ing website owners. It's not funny anymore, it's pathetic.

  20. Nice journalism here once again... on Sun May Use Opteron Chips · · Score: 1

    'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'

    Nice correction made by the submitter. Did he even read it? Did timothy even read it? Doesn't seem so...

  21. HAHAHA you're delusional. on Ellison: Linux Will Soon Decimate MS Windows · · Score: 1

    You actually believe that? Maybe you could give a timeframe. I could see that happening in 10-20 years, maybe. After a nuclear winter in California.

    It's possible, of course, but plausable? Not quite, at least not in the short term.

  22. I mean Farscape, of course. on Farscape Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    Sleep good, type bad!

  23. Great... on Farscape Finale Tonight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goodbye Family Guy, goodbye Firefly, goodbye Firefly...

    Hello Hot or Not TV show and American Idol...

    bah

  24. Yeah, and... on Doom 3 Alpha Leaked · · Score: 1

    There is just as much evidence to support that "log" as being the truth as there is to support this "log" which I just retrieved from IRC:

    I am the QUEEEEEN OF FRANCE!!!!

    Translation: both are probably fake.

  25. Nothing... on Beautiful Case Modding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's actually a mediocre mod at best. The most impressive thing is what he did to his monitor.

    I don't know of any great pictures off by heart, so here are two random links:

    http://www.coolcasemods.com/gallery.php?p=50
    ht tp://www.taconuts.org/casegal/2001/08/25/page1.p hp