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  1. 4D on Stardust Mission Makes First-Ever Return To Comet · · Score: 1

    So they're going to have a 4D map of the comet.... Cool!

  2. Re:"Long live the Fighters!" on IT Turf Wars: the Most Common Feuds In Tech · · Score: 2

    God I remember back in high school when i discovered the Net Send command.

  3. Re:Why they "thought they could skirt" on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    You have a physical presence in the state you pay sales tax.

    Because consumers don't buy anything at an Amazon warehouse?

    Well Maybe Texas should charge UPS too. I mean the goods went through their warehouse too, right?

  4. Re:DCA - Dichloroacetate (NOT Dichloroacetic acid) on Cancer Resembles Life 1 Billion Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Do you even know what a mitochondrion does?

    They give you force powers, Duh!

  5. Authenticator on Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah,

    What i really don't get is how my Wow account is more secure then my back account.
    http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/8561_product.jpg

  6. Re:Hmm on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    Why do you need to land it? just crashing it in a specific spot should work.

  7. Re:Units on Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border · · Score: 1

    Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system. -P.J. O'Rourke

  8. Re:Well, I can see the tradeoffs. on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia Following her commissioning, Nautilus remained dockside for further construction and testing. At 11 a.m. on 17 January 1955 she put to sea for the first time and signaled her historic message: "Underway on nuclear power."

  9. Re:no? on Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion? · · Score: 0

    Most certainly no. If someone thinks I'm wrong, then the remedy is obvious. Have the machine reviewed by a lot of people. If Stephen Hawking, Phil Plait, and Paris Hilton all say it works, then I'll believe it too.

    Paris Hilton???!?!?!!!?

  10. Re:Well, I can see the tradeoffs. on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    So, the first use of nuclear power plants was in submarines.

    The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant came on-line about 6 months before the nautilus was launched.

  11. Re:heat generated would dissipate into the ocean on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    And? The heat for every nuclear plant dissipates into a nearby body of water, and they all flow into the sea. There's no other way to efficiently move that much waste heat.

    Then why do they have cooling towers?

  12. Re:Done before on Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games · · Score: 1

    You can download Game Consoles now?

  13. Re:Fallout... on Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Withholding that info would actually be the height of journalistic integrity.

    War is peace.

  14. Re:Eeep! on North Magnetic Pole Racing Toward Siberia · · Score: 1

    a fast-moving magnetic pole screws up the UK's Ordinance Survey maps, which are magnetic north aligned.)

    This sounds really dumb, The British pretty much wrote the book on geodesy.

  15. Re:It's the idea of the future! on Australia's Outback Could Get Web Via TV Antenna · · Score: 1

    But I don't know how to juggle.

  16. Porn! on Chinese DNS Tampering a Real Threat To Outsiders · · Score: 1

    NOO!!!

    I don't want some red china man stealing all my porn!
    They might start Blurring it on the fly!!!

  17. Re:Quality, not quantity on Aging Reversed In Mice · · Score: 1

    LoL, Population Controls...

    What is this communist china? I live in a country where people try to ban contraceptives and bomb abortion clinics?
    You really think anybody would consider this?

    The problem is everybody wants everyone else to stop reproducing first.

  18. Re:Why on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are you real asking why is theft illegal?

  19. Re:Wake up, people. on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good. And before we judge if that seems too harsh a punishment, I would ask if anyone knows what the Chinese government would do to an American engineer who did the same thing to a Chinese company.

    8 years

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/04/chinese-court-sentences-geologist-tortured-state-security-agents-years-jail-1624851947/

  20. Dumb Question on LHC Scientists Create and Capture Antimatter · · Score: 1

    How do you trap a neutral antiparticle?

  21. Re:What is next? on Emergency Broadcast System Coming To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    so is drinking while being a passenger /s

    Not in Louisiana

  22. Re:Quit voting for big government/higher taxes on US Marshals Saved 35,000 Full Body Scans · · Score: 1

    "But MY problems are different, and the candidates that I vote for are special and wouldn't do THAT.

    RON PAUL 2012!!

  23. Re:Isn't this going to get expensive? on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 1

    What is in CS5 that you would use that wasn't in CS2?

    I really think I could do 98% of my image work in 5.5, Which i would still happily use over gimpshop.

  24. Re:Isn't this going to get expensive? on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 1

    Photoshop elements can be found for around $50. or you can buy an out of date version, Cs2 is about $125 on ebay, I'd provide a link if slashdot supported copy paste on chrome. And industry specific software costs us from $25,000 to $900,000 per seat.

  25. This makes sense. on Sex Drugs and Texting · · Score: 1

    This one chick I dated always communicated via text, and she was a beast in the sack, This other chick always actually made voice calls and she was a prude.