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  1. Steal it?!?! Just buy it! on How To Steal a Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    It would be cheaper to buy it from the US as salvage. Have you seen that crappy old rustbucket lately? Sure they put a new coat of paint on it, but I wouldn't risk my life flying in that thing. Might make a cool ground-based home though.

  2. You'll do just fine. on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry about it. Really, if you're not really good at the current .NET stuff, don't sweat it.

    I recently had to install Windows from scratch on some brand new dell laptops. I try to keep the amount of cruft low, but I was defeated when I found out that the drivers for the motion sensor, a little sensor that tells the hard drive that the laptop is falling and parks the head, required a 400+ MB install of the .NET framework. Then the wireless network drivers required a different version of the .net framework. To top it off, the video drivers required even ANOTHER version of the .NET framework! JUST TO GET BASIC OS FUNCTIONALITY!

    Don't worry... You're apparently not the only one who can't understand .NET.....

  3. Re:Flawed assumptions. on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Who says they have to realize anything? Maybe the aliens are a bacteria, or fungus. They could still construct a structure around a star. Bees make pretty good builders... They could be insects.

  4. wait! on Boeing Proposes Using Gas Clouds To Bring Down Orbital Debris · · Score: 1

    Newton claims prior art.

  5. Re:So code it already? on Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work · · Score: 1

    If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?

  6. Re:CT scan - Brilliant! on For Obama, Jobs, and Zuckerberg, Boring Is Productive · · Score: 1

    Brialliant! Get a CT scan while deciding what to wear, or what to eat for breakfast. This will help scientists determine which part of your brain to remove!

  7. Re:Correlation != Causation on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Outside temperatures, sun exposure and gender may trigger glaucoma"

    Oh my GOD! *I* have a gender... I wonder if I'm at risk...

  8. Re:I think I may know the problem... on Why Ultrabooks Are Falling Well Short of Intel's Targets · · Score: 1

    And they also seem to have the stupid chicklet keyboard. I suppose it was designed to save weight, but it really just makes me say "Why?". The keyboards on the ordinary laptops were just fine, and most people have grown accustomed to the key spacing. Now, it's all different.

  9. Re:the message is clear: MAKE IT !!! on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but can you *LEASE* them?

  10. Re:Can Apple survive and/or flourish w/o Steve Job on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    Ask Tim Cook.

  11. Comparison on The Explosive Growth of 3D Printing · · Score: 2

    The 3D printer of today is a lot like the VCR. It has elements of robotics, complex control circuitry, and some even have an onboard LCD interface. But with all that technological brilliance, it's WHAT IT DOES that matters the most.

  12. Re:Only in science? on Sexism In Science · · Score: 1

    And if boys don't have the real thing in front of them they're going to learn by what they find elsewhere (television, movies, older boys) which tends to have negative consequences.

    Or worse: Women!

  13. Re:Must past this test on California Legalizes Self Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    There is another solution to your scenario: The auto-car could apply the brakes. EVERYONE LIVES!

  14. What?!?! on Sweet Times For Cows As Gummy Worms Replace Corn Feed · · Score: 1

    Ruminant animals such as cattle can safely ingest a wide variety of feedstuffs that chickens and hogs can't.

    Wait a minute.... HOGS eat GARBAGE. I remember seeing a documentary on our local "Mall of America" where all the waste food from the food courts and restaurants were fed to local pigs. It was ALL Kinds of leftover food: Meat, bread, veggies, even champagne! All the workers had to do was to pull out all the burger wrappers and plastic cups.

  15. There is another answer.... on BioWare Founders Announce Retirement · · Score: 1

    So be it. The cycle continues.

  16. Re:Tubes Eaten Away on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    So they're using fusion to make cookies now? That's cool!

    Sorry, I didn't read the article, I didn't read the summary, and I just skimmed your post.

  17. Re:Energy Independence on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    But then the terrorists would win.

  18. Re:I know nothing of physics, but... on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 1

    If not that, I hope it leads to a delicious summertime snack that is cheap and clean.

  19. Why stop there? on YouTube Refuses To Remove Anti-Islamic Film Clip · · Score: 2

    In fact, restrict those regions from seeing *ANY* video on youtube. No insults to Muhamed, and no cats on invisible bicycles. They obviously have no capacity for happiness anyway.

  20. Re:Huh? What? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    US Currency *ALREADY* has a serial number on each bill. Certainly modern OCR software is accurate enough to read that. Why do we even NEED a QR code?

  21. Like Carl Sagan says: on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    "If you wish to make an OS from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

  22. I don't think they're all up yet. on Aramco Says Networks Back Online, No Results From Investigation Yet · · Score: 1

    I have clients that need to send email to aramco.com, and none of their SMTP servers are accepting a connection. Maybe they overreacted, and blacklisted the entire planet....

  23. Re:Why cardboard? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Take On Stand-Up Desks? · · Score: 1

    When you say metal, the first thing I think of is to use a file cabinet for a desk. However, have you ever banged your knee against one of those file cabinet handles? OWWW!!!

  24. Re:Which is more likely on FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec · · Score: 1

    Whoa there Nellie! The data was released by AntiSec, not Anonymous.

    Anonymous has been in the news so much, I'm sure you just got a little confused.

  25. Re:I always recommend "Code" on Book Review: Think Like a Programmer · · Score: 1

    Is learning how logic gates and shift registers in the very low level of the hardware going to help you understand how to inherit a class in higher level programming language? Sure, understanding how a computer works is important if you want to code, but that level of detail might only be useful if you were writing in assembly. Everything is obfuscated now.