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  1. Re:Surprising on China Strangles Tor Ahead of National Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The incarceration rate in Iran is very low - why just this week they executed a man for being gay rather than increase their incarceration rate to a level that might disturb you.

  2. Re:ChAir Force on Behind the Scenes With America's Drone Pilots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a flight sim "game" with real death for someone at the end of the day, not "pretend death and go post my frag score on slashdot". They receive flight hours towards their career gates because the training and experience to perform this mission is specialized and expensive to generate, so that providing a solid incentive path to bring and keep high quality personnel in the career field is important.

  3. Re:Norwegian sell-out for celebrities and stars on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    And the Nobel committee unanimously agreed that Obama has exemplified and personified the approach to world matters that the peace prize is meant to award.

    I notice you carefully avoided the word accomplished in your hosannas.

  4. Re:personally on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    besides WWII, none of them have ever been used in aggression

    Like the John McCain song, there's a few places in the current environment our nukes could, ah, have an impact - but everyone always gets all prissy about it.

  5. Re:Military applications? on Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz · · Score: 1

    How much explosive power can you pack into a bee-sized missile?

    How much venom does a coral snake bite deliver?

  6. Re:robotic honeybees on Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Robotic bee spit ... now with flavor.

  7. Re:Jeez, you don't have to brag about it. on What To Do With a Free Xbox 360 Pro? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone know of any good ways to spend this cash?

    My thoughts intrigue you, and you wish to subscribe to my newsletter ...

  8. Re:Peripheral vision on AMD's DX11 Radeons Can Drive Six 30 Displays · · Score: 1

    Three words: Mine is bigger

  9. Re:That Analogy Falls Apart on Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We can't even let terminal patients die without wasting vast sums to slightly prolong their misery.

    We're all terminal, son.

  10. Re:Serious question on Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit · · Score: 1

    Dude ... I'm all excited because I found my PDP-8 programmer's guide in the attic this morning.

  11. Re:WHERE IS YOUR GLOBAL WARMING NOW??? on Sunspots May Be Different During This Solar Minimum · · Score: 1

    That damned Karl Rove.

  12. Re:Solution? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or you could move to a sales tax instead

    a sales tax does not make the congressman a middleman with sufficient power

  13. Re:ATC... on Can Unmanned Aircraft Mix With Commercial Planes? · · Score: 1

    The ATC system we have is generally only stressed in areas where many aircraft congregate - i.e. hubs such as Atlanta, etc. Unmanned aircraft are used from completely different locations. Once airborne in a noncongested area (i.e. not the Hudson Corrider), unmanned aircraft will be a very small percentage of the traffic, and generally at altitudes well above commercial traffic.

  14. Re:keeps getting better and better on Murdoch Says, "We'll Charge For All Our Sites" · · Score: 1

    I have plenty of reasons to dislike him (and do) since he bought, gutted and dismissed nearly everyone at a place I worked for just so he could have another shell company.

    Since a shell company can be had pretty cheap straight up, I'd guess that buying your firm and liquidating it was a profitable enterprise for him - when killing a company is more profitable than continuing it, that might tell us something about the quality of their work relative to their competition.

  15. Re:Its mostly invisible to human eye on Expedition To Explore an Alaska-Sized Plastic "Island" · · Score: 1

    While there may be occasional large pollutants its not like something your bound to spot on the horizon

    I recommend we nuke it from orbit ... just to be sure.

  16. Re:Yeah, a great way to revive the economy on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The one advantage our society has is bankruptcy

    ah, but in America the single largest debt the vast majority of Americans will ever hold, their home, is exempt from bankruptcy

  17. Re:Fuck you, this is about EVERYBODY on "Cash For Clunkers" Program Runs Out of Gas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the government could help-out by lowering taxes

    You must be new here. Lowering taxes gives the government less influence over those who vote for them.

  18. Re:Peace on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But that was for luuuuv

  19. Re:What's the point? on New Service Converts Torrents Into PNG Images · · Score: 1

    As for hiding it, I think that's sort of the point behind this scheme.

    What's the point of hiding something you're trying to share with the public?


    Because there's a middleman trying to censor your message (for the children...)

  20. Re:Sure, it's not personal at all on Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" · · Score: 1

    the network equivalent of the "It was my car, but I wasn't driving" defense is "someone haxx0red my (system|network)".

    it seems like an an obvious defense since it's a trivial hack.

  21. Re:Well, now we'll know. on Sunspots Return · · Score: 1

    It's all part of Karl Rove's nefarious plan ...

  22. Tesla Roadster test drive report on New Video of Tesla's Mass-Market Electric Car · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A (wealthy) friend had his delivered recently. Here's my twisty road test report.

    Executive Summary: Oh. My. God.

    Systems Lacking: 4-point harnesses, sufficient handholds for passenger, automated system to maintain directional control during GLOC on launch, earplugs to block whimpering sounds from passenger seat

  23. this is the smell on Mass Arrests of Journalists Follow Iran Elections · · Score: 1

    So this is the smell of "vigorous debate" in the morning.

  24. Yes ... on Google Voice Grabs 1 Million Phone Numbers · · Score: 1

    ... immensely.

  25. Re:Not really thinking???? on NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice · · Score: 1

    as long as they keep that metric vs "standard" thing straight when packing the C-4, we should all be ok ...