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  1. Re:The Uniball on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    I tried a Uniball once and my experience was like spraying ink with a firehose, no matter what paper I used with it. I finally found a paper that didn't bleed whatever ink they're using, but I ended up with puddles that took forever to dry as a result.

    But, maybe it's just a matter of perspective, or maybe I got a defective bunch or something.

  2. Paper, too on Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen · · Score: 1

    You need to consider the paper you are using as well.

    Ink bleeds because of the paper, not the pen. The ball doesn't start rolling because of the paper (and lack of friction between it and the ball), not the pen.

    Paper does make a difference.

  3. Man, who designed that thing? on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 4, Funny

    A piece of FOAM can rip through the wing, killing everyone on board and completely destroying the shuttle.

    A piece of inflatable vinyl tarp can damage the vertical stab by simply falling onto it.

    Damn... I'd hate to see what would happen if someone scowled at it harshly.

  4. Re:Of all the places that got a shuttle, on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 2

    I don't know why you assumed I would have some clever rebuttal. You bring up a good point. Government policy is dictated by a slim popular majority in most cases, and that's a huge problem we have - it's really "tyranny of the middle," since the "independent" swing voters are really who decide our elections.

    The point I was agreeing with was that there are some places that, solely due to their political and financial clout, get preferential treatment from government in the placement of educational and enrichment resources. The red states also happen to be the poor states, and without millions of dollars to throw at politicians, they will always simply be kicked to the curb when politicians are handing out perks like decommissioned shuttles.

    I don't know why you would automatically go off and assume I'm trying to participate in some petty squabble, or why you would give some random stranger on the Internet who was trying to have a conversation about something such a poor attitude.

  5. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    Well, this accident happened because he did not follow proper lockout/tagout procedures, and didn't wear the prescribed PPE for the work he was doing. I would be amazed if he still had a job after that, because he should have been fired immediately for what happened.

  6. Re:SO what!!! on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It costs $24 _per person_ just to get in to the Intrepid Museum. I do not know if they charge a rider for the shuttle tour.

    Keep in mind, every single museum exhibit at this place was paid for with money borrowed on behalf of the taxpayer. Now the taxpayer is paying again for the privilege of laying eyes on what what built using loans their great grandchildren never consented to, but nonetheless will be paying back under threat of force.

  7. Re:Of all the places that got a shuttle, on Hurricane Sandy Damages Space Shuttle Enterprise · · Score: 0, Troll

    I couldn't agree more. Western and Southern states are seriously underrepresented when it comes to things like this. It's always the wealthy blue states that get treats like retired shuttles and the best museums. ... and we wonder why education in red states is so lacking in comparison. They never get educational resources like this to inspire learning.

  8. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    Those breakers should have been locked out/tagged out prior to commencement of work. That they were not locked out is a pretty grievous violation.

    Was your co-worker even wearing NFPA 70 PPE?

  9. What Were Mozilla's Actual Damages? on Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought... of course it won't stop big government from using it as an excuse to take a handful out of a deep pocket.

  10. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 1

    Manhattaners wouldn't know good coffee if they scalded their crotches with it. I know, I used to be one.

    No need to waste good coffee on them! :p

  11. That's it. I'm installing a new perimeter. on Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Time to dig a moat around my entire property and fill it with angry, half-starved alligators.

  12. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 3, Funny

    But, you see, without the Internet, it will be impossible to get all of those less essential services back up and running! After all, how is anyone going to obtain official updates from the Administration if they cannot access ready.gov, since that is apparently the only place to get them?

    So, let's make sure you have the priorities straight in your head:

    1) Internet
    2) Power
    3) Facebook Access
    4) Starbucks
    5) Running Water and Sewer

  13. Influencing the Elections on Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool · · Score: 1

    The data Google has on my district is woefully inaccurate.

    It lists the same election as multiple different elections. For example, there's a State House 2, and a State House 002 ballot listed, with the challenger appearing on one, and the incumbent AND challenger on the other.

    Then it has "Auditor," and "County Auditor." Same office, incumbent on one, petitioner on the other.

    Google has some work to do. I sent them these issues so hopefully they will address them, but I kinda doubt it.

  14. Re:USA Land of Crime on Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the rest of the world, people generally live under oppressive regimes who don't think twice about breaking their own laws to obtain or manufacture evidence to convict people they perceive as enemies of the State.

    In the USA, the rights of the individual are protected unlike anywhere else in the world. Your attitude indicates you have never lived under a free system, because if you had, your own opinion would be repugnant to you.

    I would rather see 100 guilty men go free than see one innocent person convicted, and that is precisely the way our system is designed - to place the importance of preserving an innocent man's freedom above the importance of taking away a guilty man's freedom.

  15. The short answer to the question. on Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? · · Score: 1

    Physics.

  16. Who remembers Freezy Freakies? on Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Now coming to a road near you!

  17. I can hear Mickey Mouse now on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    "Lucas, *I* am your father!"

  18. Re:Meet the new boss on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 0

    Yes, it's also a straightforward way to void the warranty on the device (as I found out the hard way when my compass went batshit and just started spinning in circles and they wouldn't replace it).

  19. Meet the new boss on Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Same as the old boss..

    First of all, to call the Nexus truly open is farcical at best. Nexus devices are not open. They come boot loader locked, no root access, and no factory image restore. That is not open. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

    Whether it's the carrier or google is irrelevant. You are still computing according to someone else's direction, and not your own, with only very limited access to use the hardware you have purchased in a way they see fit.

  20. The CPU is not the bottleneck anymore. on 48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    9 women can't have a baby in a month. All the data being processed by those 48 cores still has to pass through the same vagina to get to RAM or Flash.

    Until each core in a multicore platform has its own private RAM interface, to its own private RAM, the point of diminishing returns will remain at some number of cores that is much smaller than 48.

  21. Re:NFS? sshfs? on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    I would say little to none.

  22. Re:77c/GB? I can live with that on Intel 335 Series SSD Equipped With 20-nm NAND · · Score: 1

    Not at 77c/GB it won't.

  23. Write Endurance on Intel 335 Series SSD Equipped With 20-nm NAND · · Score: 1

    Awesome, so now we're down to what, nine erasures before it's cooked?

  24. Re:Nexus 10 is DOA, too on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 1

    You're supposed to rest it on your palm or use your fingers as a tripod. You're not supposed to put your fingers on the screen to hold it. That's just silly.

    An acceptable alternative is to use an Apple-approved sleeve or case that allows the mini to be held properly.

    Fingers on the screen? You're holding it wrong.

  25. Re:too big on Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you want a phone with a small screen, just get an iPhone.