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  1. Re:There will always be a need... on Ask Slashdot: What's the Future of Desktop Applications? · · Score: 1

    Didn't the courts recently decide that there is No Expectation Of Privacy on mobile devices ?

    I do a lot of Audio Visual work on my computer. Wouldn't be easy or convenient on a web application.

  2. Re:Misleading on SpaceX Launch Postponed · · Score: 1

    UPDATE: Today’s launch was scrubbed for today due to weather, the next opportunity for a launch will be tomorrow at 4:10 PM ET, weather permitting.

  3. Re:cameras for everyone! on Why the Final Moments Inside a Cockpit Are Heard But Not Seen · · Score: 2

    But, what if they put chewing gum over the camera lens ?

  4. Re:Ricochet network from way back. on Cellphone Start-Ups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I would, If I wanted to talk while driving on the interstate . . .

  5. Re:Too much spinning on Five Glorious Years of Sun Images In a Four-Minute Video · · Score: 1

    Well . . . The Sun does rotate fully every 11 days . . .

  6. Re:Rocking the moon... on Earth's Libration Visualized For the First Time Above the Moon's Far Side · · Score: 1

    The Labia as seen from the moon . . .

  7. Re:without the need for doping on Graphene: Reversible Method of Magnetic Doping Paves Way For Semiconductor Use · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to buy a pencil that will stick to my fridge without having to glue a magnet to it.

    You gave me an idea for Magnetic Erasers

  8. Re:Publicly funded.... on 10 New Rosetta Images Reveal Comet 67P In All Its Glory · · Score: 1

    Images fresh out of the camera
    http://rosetta.jpl.nasa.gov/

  9. Re: I don't get it on High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain · · Score: 1

    I'm going to start a company that provides the M&M's for Van Halen concerts

  10. Re:I agree on Behind the Scenes With the Star Trek Fan Reboot · · Score: 1

    It's cool that everytime the actors move, they pull down their shirt to neaten it up . . . just like in the original series.

  11. Re:The back slapping on this mission... on Orion Capsule Safely Recovered, Complete With 12-Year-Old Computer Guts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    . At least then the Saturn V launch rocket was being tested as well.

    The early Apollo test missions were on a Saturn 1B

  12. Re:No problem if it runs Niggerbuntu on Hawking Warns Strong AI Could Threaten Humanity · · Score: 2

    /. doesn't have a "Report this comment" feature when its truly needed.

    What is that little flag on the righthand side of every post ?

  13. Re:Longer charge times on After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest · · Score: 1

    There is some power being used by some of the systems even when the lander is in standby mode

  14. Re:the dire equations on After Four Days, Philae Team Gets to Rest · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that they don't know where the lander is.

  15. Re:Oh no on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 0

    It wasn't a car analogy so there was no meaning . . .

  16. Re:Colonoscopy on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 2

    How can you tell difference between a Male microbe and a Female microbe ?
    Pull down it's jeans .. .. ..

  17. Re:Excellent! on Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms · · Score: 1

    Realtime attacks as they happen
    http://map.ipviking.com/

  18. Re:And? on Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying · · Score: 2

    Go to SugarString.com for sugarcoated news

  19. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    So, the pope is saying that God Created Evolution . . .

  20. Re:Orbital on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the news conference they said that the rocket lost upward momentum at 12 seconds and the Range Safety Officer pressed the destruct button at 20 seconds

  21. Re:Flawless Countdown on Antares Rocket Explodes On Launch · · Score: 2

    Did he say FIVE or FIRE ?

  22. Re:Real reason on Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic · · Score: 0

    Hungary is hungry for a hungry tax collector . . .

  23. Re:Telescopes and camping or night-tours on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What is that up there . . .
    http://www.stellarium.org/

  24. Re:Spoiler on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 1

    Elevator traffic. At some point you reach an elevator event horizon where adding a new floor on top means losing one or more floors at the bottom due to needing more elevators to move people to those new floors.

    You could make the tower into the Anchor Point for a Space Elevator.

  25. Re:Spoiler on Sci-Fi Authors and Scientists Predict an Optimistic Future · · Score: 1

    Or pneumatic elevators, 2 tubes go up and 2 tubes go down.