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  1. 3D printing very old on How 3D Printer Maker Aleph Objects Pushes the Open Source Envelope · · Score: 2

    I used to be in CADD/CAM, 3D printing and other means of extruding 3D objects under control of computer is more than two decades old. nothing new with these recent cheap printers other than cheap price, and there are cooler techs that allow you to make objects out of *gasp* real metal! some work with powders as feedstock, others solutions......but the point is this is old, old hat other than now hobbyists on a budget get to play at the very shallow end of the pool (which is fine)

  2. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    not "advocating" just stating fact

    you are confused. maybe you refer to "polling by the KIIS (a sociology institute), which found only 36% wanted to join Russia?

    so what, in 2008 polling by Razumkov Center found 63% wanted to join Russia.

    Let's stick with hard facts and real voting.

    Why do you propagate U.S./Obama administration propaganda? maybe your viewpoint would cause suffering if adopted

  3. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    hahaha, where did you get that made up statistic, 60% of Crimea are ethnic Russians, look it up

  4. Re:Physical Access = owned on Remote ATM Attack Uses SMS To Dispense Cash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or you could cut the ATM open at the point where the cashbox is installed

    to say this attack is "just not interesting" is an understatement

  5. Re:Seems like a fine line on Jimmy Wales To 'Holistic Healers': Prove Your Claims the Old-Fashioned Way · · Score: 1

    my pressure cooker can change the molecular arrangement of solid water

  6. Re:Only in theorectical physics... on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    symmetry breaking is a big part of many models.

  7. Re:Laughable that some still say hunting is a spor on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    you suppose farm animals get a nicer deal? you eat their meat, right?

    it can be a sport, animal is just a target not a participant.

      hunting with weaponry is and has been natural for humans and their ancestors for over a million years, get over it.

  8. Re:Evidence that media cycle is useless on French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris · · Score: 1

    you're confused

    the maintenance system only sent brief messages not designed to be tracked every 30 minutes.

    there is no continuous tracking of most commercial jet aircraft

    As for your nonsense about "missile across planet to target cell phone", no, hellfire missiles with range of all of 8 km were used....local assets necessary, not applicable in any way shape or form to problem of plane missing over open sea.

  9. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 0

    stop with the smoke and sidetracks, you're ignoring the fact most Crimeans are Russian and want to be back in Russia.

    It's a done deal, get over it

  10. Re:Only in theorectical physics... on Last Week's Announcement About Gravitational Waves and Inflation May Be Wrong · · Score: 1

    no, there are many models of the early universe with their own internal rules. Experiments and observations are being used to support those most likely to be useful. None of these models are built of things randomly chosen from a hat as you seem to imply.

    I'd guess you've never formally studied cosmology or field theories.

  11. Re:Far more likely on Titanium-Headed Golf Clubs Create Brush Fire Hazard In California · · Score: 1

    and also smoke cigars

    I'm pretty sure you just nailed what really is causing the fires. cigarettes and/or cigars.

  12. Re:Sadly, no. on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    and millions were devastated by the loss of this homepage as OP said? I'm in IT and I never saw anyone use that out of thousands of people over last decade. Heck google web pages exist, the whiner can make his very own custom home page, or a hundred of them.

  13. Re:I dont get it on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    no, silly analogy.

    You can't have a military where half the troops want to be on the other side and so join it. Let's get it straight, Crimea is mostly Russians anyway. most of them wanted to rejoin Russia. Half of Ukraine's troops in Crimea wanted to and did rejoin Russia.

    Not our problem and anything else would make most the people of Crimea unhappy. so why compare it to some abused spouse, it's more like imprisoned woman gets reunited with her family.

    Sure, Russia and Putin were douchebags (Russia is governed by three mafia) the way they went about it. oh well, the world is a tough place

  14. Re:Corrected title - that's Ukraine's land. on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 1

    oh, the opinion and vote of most Crimeans (who are ethnic Russian) doesn't matter?

  15. Re:Great Headline on French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris · · Score: 1

    quite possibly, but that becomes very easy over open sea far from land. over most land it becomes damn near impossible

  16. Re:still around? on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: 1

    aw, some twitter twat moderators got butthurt

    they think facebook and twitter are news sources, ha

  17. Re:OMG! on Russians Take Ukraine's Last Land Base In Crimea · · Score: 3, Insightful

    please, the Russian's and other european countries were doing such things long before the USA existed, just substitute older methods of communication for your "network infrastructure" phrase

  18. Re:still around? on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: 0

    no, real news aggregators exist and are superior, twitter ones are far too disorganized

  19. still around? on Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies · · Score: -1, Troll

    people still use that twitter shit?, it's just twits tweeting to twats

  20. Re:Not even close to the worst. on It Was the Worst Industrial Disaster In US History, and We Learned Nothing · · Score: 1

    it would, they would (and will, in other countries) just become nuclear energy barons. they make money, not oil

  21. Re:Evidence that media cycle is useless on French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris · · Score: 5, Interesting

    historically, the "without a trace" missing aircraft were much smaller, couple cases with 90 passenger the biggest I can find. so this is someone newsworthy just due to size of craft.

    but it is amusing to see how people think all aircraft everywhere are continually "tracked by radar" (see, this website does that!), and they wonder why it takes days to go to a place where satellites have spotted debris

    they've been trained by TV entertainment to think all problems can be resolved in one hour less commercials.

  22. Re:Not a functional tool. on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    you're very confused

    even your normal machinists cnc milling machine can't grind glass lenses, that's done by different means. to put it simply, putting blank on rotating table, and then making many passes with rotating abrasive head where the amount of time spent in each area of the lens is varied. for a convex lens, more time spent around the edges. at times, the size of grit on the rotating abrasive head is made smaller and smaller

  23. Re:Great Headline on French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yes, with the state of the art in 2014, entire commercial jets can disappear without a trace and might never be found

  24. calipers, ha! on Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure · · Score: 1

    the tolerances on cheap 3D printers are abysmal for attempts at precise parts or machinery, 0.1 - 0.4 mm (four to sixteen one-thousandths of inch)

    as aside, even in the realm of hobby cnc milling machines, it's always amusing to see the claims made in forums by clueless geeks for their rigs of their tenths of a thousandth of inch repeatable accuracy......no pal, more like 5 thousandths slop or more...

  25. Re:Trivially accomplished on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 4, Funny

    for those who wonder how Stallman could flounder around for 35+ years and not produce a viable OS, look no further than his "editor"