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  1. Re:Seawater? on Billionaire Teams Up With NASA To Mine the Moon · · Score: 1

    They're not even rare on the Earth.

  2. Seems to me on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    the biggest crimes happen in the police department and wherever "power" happens like City Hall, etc..
    Put THOSE places full of CCTVs FIRST, since I'm PAYING for that anyways.
    I'll bet we can reduce far more crimes that way.

    Show me it works with YOU first.

    Assholes.

  3. OK thanks on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    Never heard of him, but the BAnQ in Montreal is ordering Carbide Tipped Pens, and I reserved it! Heheh, I'm #1 on the list.

  4. Re:Well, then I guess on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 1

    Don't buy any furniture at IKEA either...

    http://www.economist.com/node/...

  5. Well, then I guess on UK Gov't Asks: Is 10 Years In Jail the Answer To Online Pirates? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the "property" holders won't mind paying taxes on the property? Right? Like you and me?

    Oh, it's different for them.

  6. Re:Israel got a lot of heat for much lesser offens on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 1

    " I'd certainly rather return to Dominican Republic, then go to Canadian prison (in winter!). "

    Then you don't know very much about the DR. Once you leave the hotel compound, it's quite violent and corrupt.

  7. Yes, "reputation" on Facebook Rant Lands US Man In UAE Jail · · Score: 2

    Because in the last few years, we've seen what "reputation" really means. Bill Cosby, Lance Armstrong, Jian Ghomeshi, Colonel Williams, the list goes on.

    But we must protect "reputation", because that's less expensive than, you know, actually being good or worthwhile.

  8. Re:Better get the service manual, then on Mars Curiosity Rover Experiences Short Circuit, Will Be Stationary For Days · · Score: 1

    OK, thanks.

    Yeah, so it's a bit more complex than just a power supply sequencer and simple "power good" monitor? It's actually recording "telemetry" off its own power supply continuously, then they correlate the data later?

    But can they turn off a power supply and take a resistance reading, for example? Or how about varying the voltage while monitoring the current?

  9. Better get the service manual, then on Mars Curiosity Rover Experiences Short Circuit, Will Be Stationary For Days · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Like this

    http://www.amazon.com/NASA-Mar...

    I'm curious myself about Curiosity, any way to get the hardware schematics for this thing? Like the real thing, not just a block diagram. How does it detect a short circuit? Just too much current sensed on this power rail = short? Or is there something more being done to analyze the kind of fault?

  10. Re:Boy you know you're old on Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12 · · Score: 1

    So a few weeks of reading random shit, throwing together some snippets of code that I don't actually understand, that's "employable" to you?

    No wonder the economy is in the shitter.

    Companies take one look at a gray hair and the resumé ends up in the shredder, initiative or not.

    You'll see.

  11. Re:Error in the summary on A Versatile and Rugged MIDI Mini-Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    I was stunned too, as much as I'm old and don't understand 95% of the articles here anymore, I was like, "um, isn't that a standard Korg accessory that's been around forever and is the first thing you see walking into any music store on Earth? Maybe even on Pluto?"

  12. Re:Boy you know you're old on Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12 · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahaha1!!!!!1 LOL you think that impresses anyone when hiring????

    Oh my God!!!!

  13. Re:Boy you know you're old on Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12 · · Score: 1

    I've heard the term but knowing what something "is" is quite another thing. This is probably why I can't find a job, I only claim to know things I can actually understand and explain, not the word-bingo that HR triggers on...

  14. Boy you know you're old on Khronos Group Announces Vulkan To Compete Against DirectX 12 · · Score: 2, Funny

    when the only words in that headline you know are "group announces" and "compete against"...

  15. Re:B0ll0cks... on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 1

    yup... But there used to be a time when it was worse
    https://www.senate.gov/artandh...

  16. Re:Politics aside for a moment. on Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email At State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, of the power class. It doesn't have to be politics, a simple engineering company with a dozen workers and a mentally-ill sociopathic boss can have the same behavior.

  17. Re:Just a thought... on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1
  18. Re: science has come to the fork in a yellow wood on Astronomers Find an Old-Looking Galaxy In the Early Universe · · Score: 1

    A yellow wood? Stop peeing on it, I guess?

  19. Re:Brain drain-Meyer will win, no matter what on Marissa Mayer On Turning Around Yahoo · · Score: 2

    "SIlicon Valley"? Pretty sure you just described the vast majority of human history.

  20. Re:is it an engine or a display model? on Researchers Create World's First 3D-Printed Jet Engines · · Score: 1

    Maybe a pulse jet? But I'd think they're even worse, with the white-hot parts...

  21. Re:Too much. on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 2

    Yes but I have to warn you, it seems resistant to sex.

  22. Re:Mountain View on H-1B Visas Proving Lucrative For Engineers, Dev Leads · · Score: 1

    No kidding, Atlanta up there does protest too much it seems.

  23. Re:How do you confirm somebody's gender online? on An Evidence-Based Approach To Online Dating · · Score: 2

    That's why I always start with penis pictures. I'm still single.

  24. Re:Russian steep price on ISS Crew Install Cables For 2017 Arrival of Commercial Capsules · · Score: 1

    Awesome, another one who thinks clearly and sees reality for what it is. How do you avoid depression?

  25. Re:Actually on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an aggressive plan.