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  1. Re:Protesters on Developing Nuclear Power Plant Tech For the Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    Dumb Question time:

    Would a real controlled fission reaction work or mars? How about the moon?

  2. Re:This just reminds me of... on Protecting a Laptop From Sophisticated Attacks · · Score: 2

    I must be new here, I thought it was traditional to at least RTFS, if not RTFA.

    Your not the new one.... someone needs to tell Soulskill the obligatory XKCD belongs in the comments not the summary.

    Jeez, taco's gone for one day and posters start slacking.

  3. Re:We're not shaking in our boots. on Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets · · Score: 4, Informative

    As a Texan, I consider New York to be part of New England, They're all yanks to me.

  4. Re:Greatest algorithms of all time on When Algorithms Control the World · · Score: 1

    You should probably add "Fast inverse square root" to that list. IMHO

  5. Re:Fail? on NASA Discovers 7th Closest Star · · Score: 1

    IDK, if you had a vasmir pushing at .1G for a year, you would be going about ~.1c, in that case you could be there in 20 years. I think this would be semi-reasonable.

  6. Re:Still not a sport, try as you may.. on Sports Bars Changing Channels For Video Gamers · · Score: 1

    Regardless, this baseball game needs some new maps instead of these boring re-textures.



    Funny, Baseball is probably one of the only major sport to have any variability in the field. My park even has a hill in center field.
  7. Re:No on Can We Fix SSL Certification? · · Score: 1

    Actually, that is a good idea.

    The articles aren't really discussing absolute trust, they are talking about only one aspect of SSL -- identification.

    A root CA doesn't tell me "you can trust example.com", it tells me that example.com really is example.com. The root CA supposedly put the effort in to making sure the domain owner provided supporting documentation to prove they are who they say they are.

    This is analogous to what States do in requiring proving identity before issuing a driver's licenses. Or, as Federal Governments do before issuing passports.

    We trust the governments with this function now. I don't see what the big issue is in trusting them with the digital version.



    Wow that makes perfect since, and yet I still find somehow to completely disagree.
  8. HTML5 just works in chrome on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    Yeah so I've been playing with HTML5 lately, Chrome handles about everything I've thrown at it yet. When I take my site to firefox or IE9 it just falls apart, Somehow I don't consider this a problem. for me the big thing is being able to use the tag. This is just so much easier then doing some sort of jquery it's not even funny.

    Take a look at this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5)

  9. Re:Of course on Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil · · Score: 2

    um.... working from home is fine, but how do you expect to get food to the grocer?

  10. Re:I hereby name this breakthrough in human evolut on The Epidemic of Digital Distraction · · Score: 2

    I prefer ADHD

  11. Re:Heat Sink on Limits On Growth of Energy Use and Economies · · Score: 1

    A CoolerMaster and a well-aimed Vornado can fix anything.

    Never underestimate the cooling potential of a box fan and an open case.

  12. Re:Why was the above wrong guess marked informativ on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 1

    There are several solutions available currently that offer 1" or better absolute accuracy off of GPS signals.

    That doesn't help where you can't get GPS - which is what this thing is for in the first place! It's for indoors, undergound etc.

    This solution instead requires accurate local time references

    No it doesn't. If the article gave you that incorrect impression there is another on the website of Australia's ABC Science Show from a program several months ago.

    This uses local transmitters at high power to allow them to operate in less advantageous terrain.

    Such as underground where GPS signals do not go!

    Because I get lost walking from oneside of the bomb shelter to the other all the time.

  13. So they reinvented LORAN? on Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect · · Score: 2

    so they reinvented 1950's tech

  14. Re:SO on The Uncanny Valley Explained · · Score: 1

    But the real question is: would you have come up with a less lame excuse for building a realistic robot in your own image (using the university's money and labs) ?

    I'm sure there are better usage of college funds

    http://clas.asu.edu/node/10122

  15. Re:What's the difference? on China Mandates Wi-Fi Hotspot Traffic Monitoring · · Score: 1

    : American Exceptionalism

    I really despise this term. every time I hear it I think "Radical Nationalism"

  16. Marc Emery? on Peter Adekeye Freed, Judge Outraged At Cisco's Involvement · · Score: 2

    Wow, and to think I had lost faith in the Canadian extradition process.

  17. Re:headdesk* on Scientists Make Biochem "Brain" From DNA Strands · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The artificial neurons of this network can take incomplete inputs, interact with each other, and come up with a complete conclusion.

    So they've managed to create a republican using only a few brain cells...

    Well, it's not that impressive considering republicans can do it without any brain cells

  18. Re:Go with tried and true on Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? · · Score: 1

    No Cost consideration? 2 Servers with Raid 7 Arrays/Servers using enterprise drives of course. LTO 5 Stacker With Weekly Iron Mountain Pickups. This is the same setup I would suggest for my clients for Seismic Data. I'd be happy to set it up for you for $125k. Depending on your opinions and general level paranoia, we can discuss online backups, the pricey part always seems to be fat pipe.

  19. Re:From the department of... on Internet Use Found To Affect Memory · · Score: 1

    Ha, reminds me of what my prof said about interrupts. Your going to have to memorize them for this test. Then just forget them, becuase if if you need to know one you can just google it.

  20. Re:What? on McCain Asks For Committee On Wikileaks, Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Because some times the UN is our puppet. I think that McCain generally likes the UN, more so than other Republicans, although I could be way off on this one.

    Sometimes? We have veto power.

  21. Re:Solution. on James Webb Space Telescope Closer To the Axe · · Score: 1

    It's all about the spin, you see it's a spy sat with night vision.

  22. Important questions: on Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device · · Score: 1

    We’ve created a memory device with the physical properties of Jell-O

    Yes, yes but which does it work better with: rum or vodka?

  23. Re:Just that pesky Constitution on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    Except that's obviously not true. If the right to life can not be taken away by man's laws, how do you justify the death penalty? If the right to liberty can not be taken away by man's laws, how do you justify imprisonment? Obviously the enumerated rights can be taken away, via due process, when it is deemed in the interest of society to do so.

    I don't think you understand.... The DoI protects your rights more then you think

    that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

    Protecting these rights is why the constitution was written in the first place. The threat of a 2nd declaration of independence is what keeps the government in check.

  24. Re:Just that pesky Constitution on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 1

    > last time I read the document, it began with "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT". *Self-evident*...

    Read it again. That line is not in the US constitution, it's in the declaration of independence. The sentiment definitely informs all of the founding documents, but it's far from a legally-binding portion of the highest law of the US.

    But it also says that the rights are inalienable, and endowed by our creator. i.e. can't be taken away by man's laws.

  25. Re:Classic! on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 2, Informative

    This maybe offtopic, But this guy also introduced legislation to legalize online poker.