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  1. Re:It just doesn't work on How Would Driver-less Cars Change Motoring? · · Score: 2

    um... you can do that already if you take the bus. >.>

  2. Re:Skype? on FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now · · Score: 2

    You should of seen the look on Alice's face when Bob left with Eve.

  3. Re:Skype? on FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites — Now · · Score: 1

    Throw a key party?

  4. Re:42U - Go Big or Go Home on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I say get a real rack with wheels, When you move you can take it with you.

  5. Re:Mac's don't get malware on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Wow I just tried this, Why haven't I heard this one before?

  6. Re:Many possibilities on Mercedes Can Now Update Car Software Remotely · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, you mean security through obscurity doesn't work?

  7. Re:Looks a bit like Powerpoint. on Microsoft Demos Metro UI For Enterprise Apps · · Score: 0

    M$ Technical: I'm telling you we can't put Windows 7 on the tablet. ARM just isn't powerful enough
    M$ Marketing: What about bringing windows phone 7 to the PC?
    M$ Technical: Well I guess we could, But wh...
    M$ Marketing: Excellent we launch in 6 months, better start coding.

  8. Re:Too Bad on Nomad Planets: Stepping Stones To Interstellar Space? · · Score: 1

    the other 40% do not.

    This is what I call Natural Selection.

  9. Re:Too Bad on Nomad Planets: Stepping Stones To Interstellar Space? · · Score: 1

    Are you dumb?

    1. Constant acceleration isn't exactly a new concept. Relativity takes into account the limit of how fast you go but that's to an outside observer, But not from the standing point of a moving reference frame. The problems are how to carry enough fuel, and What a spec of dust will do when you impact it at .5c.

    2. You really need to retake high school physics. You are being flung off the planet, The centripetal force of the earth is about .033915 m/s^2, You don't feel it because it is opposed by gravity. Standard Gravity is about 9.80665. but most experiments, Will yield a value of about 9.79 something(At least around here)

  10. Re:Nomad Planets = Space Vehicles for Aliens? on Nomad Planets: Stepping Stones To Interstellar Space? · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't hitting them, It's course correction due to unexpected gravity sources. Even a small error can be compounded over large distances.

  11. Re:Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA · · Score: 1

    pfft... you don't have a failover router, What type of geek are you?

  12. Re:Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

    I tried it and it didn't work. I tried it more than once and it still didn't work.



    Ahh but that's because you didn't do it in a starbucks.... on the summer equinox...
  13. What? on Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why on earth would anyone want to help pay down those ass-holes debt?

  14. Re:Somewhere in the engineering process on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    Who needs bombs, Just climb to max altitude and do a nose dive from 50,000ft.

  15. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 0

    Listen, if you think you can represent yourself in court, your probably not a real journalist.

  16. Re: beard on Russian Scientists Say They'll Clone a Mammoth Within 5 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah.... and the longer I do systems administration on Microsoft Windows based networks, the more of my hair turns gray. No beard though....



    I would think that would make one bald.
  17. Re:...no, really. on Sub-$100 Android 4.0 Tablet Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    My G2X has a ffc...

  18. Re:Impressive on 4 Wave Gliders Begin Their Autonomous Pacific Crossing Attempt · · Score: 1

    It's not pi*d, It's (Tau * R)
    Jeez yah old geezer

  19. Re:Police Ssurveillance on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Jurisdiction, The GPS Tracker can follow you to Mexico, The Police tail probably can't.

    Also, an officer can't tell if you are out of town, staying at a friends house, or just parked in the garage.

  20. Re:Ignorance out in full force again... on Minor Quakes In the UK Likely Caused By Fracking · · Score: 2

    /Geologist who works for a major oil company.
    So you're obviously a non-biased source.</quote>

    So who am I to believe, The guy who spent 10 years getting his masters, or the guy who just spent 2 hours watching a movie?

    It really is basic Geology, Ask someone from the USGS if you really want an unbias source. Seriously give them a call.

    For example, The Marcellus Shale, ranges from a depth of 3000-7000 feet. The thing is Freshwater usually only goes down a few hundred feet. According to the DNCR the brine freshwater contact ranges from 200-1000 feet. http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/es3.pdf.

    So You would at the very least need a 2000ft fault, But in more realistic cases you'd have to have a migration path of about 4000-5000ft.

    What's scary is more along the lines of the drilling company fucking up and not casing the well right or something and the gas traveling up the well bore and into the water table. Of course this would be a major fuck up(Think Macondo).

  21. Re:...the dock. on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    ^This^

    I think the windows key > search for a program > click is fairly intuitive though, a major improvement on the Windows key + R approach I used in the past.

  22. Re:[sigh] on Amazon Folds In California Sales Tax Deal · · Score: 1

    Would you prefer it texas style, where we there are no ballot measures?

  23. Re:Don't be too sure about that... on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Tunguska had about 500 times the kinetic energy of an impact this would have.

    Did you even read the wiki page you linked?

    "A stony meteoroid of about 10 metres (30 ft) in diameter can produce an explosion of around 20 kilotons, similar to that of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and data released by the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program indicate that such explosions occur high in the upper atmosphere more than once a year. Tunguska-like megaton-range events are much rarer. Eugene Shoemaker estimated that such events occur about once every 300 years.[29][30]"

  24. Re:China, don't get ahead of yourself. on Chinese Want To Capture an Asteroid · · Score: 0

    um... It's only 10M wide. Even if it hit, who cares, The amount of damage is likely to be about on the scale of replacing a barn or two.

  25. Re:For just... on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    Not on Mah Lake