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  1. Re:Maybe not extinction... on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    use solar power to mix nitrogen from air and the h2o sea water, to get nh3 ammonia for free, which can be burned like normal petrol in current engines for eternity.

  2. Re:No privacy on Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied On a Whole City · · Score: 1

    You forgot the swat team tazering a baby, because it did not comply with shut up orders.

  3. Re:Problem with releasing an underpowered console on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    Dont be a cheap ass, its only 10hrs wages, go buy one. Its not like its $4000.

  4. i like keeping both ps3/ps4 on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    Dont care about running ps3 games on a ps4, i have a ps3 for that, and its updated to 500gig too. So wth PS+ and the free games, theres loads of games for ps3, ps4 days are early, so patience, its not even been 6 months.

  5. Hey Yankee, the world beats you again on Titanfall Dev Claims Xbox One Doesn't Need DX12 To Improve Performance · · Score: 1

    The rest of the planet got 576p, sucks to be you at 480p.

  6. ever heard of solar panels on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 1

    Either find them on highways, or peoples houses.
    Or make a hand powered generator , or wind powered generator.

    Preserving the highest hitech of the day, and keeping whats left working is damn important.

    Next step.... find your way to the nearest Intel fab plant, if theres any place to settle down its a place like that full of tech.

  7. Re:And the attempt to duplicate their efforts resu on Commenters To Dropbox CEO: Houston, We Have a Problem · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What i dont like is late comers to companies that get IPO, and then these get millions, ahead of the hardworking coders who started there from day 0.

    I dont mind her there, but if the company IPOs for billions, she should not get a cent, as I cannot see anything she can contribute that would add to the book value or earnings values. /*

  8. The replace the crap XP box with ESX on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 0

    Throw in an esx i7 server with 32gig ram, and you can dozens of linuxs with dozens of XPs, and a few Win8s, all together in one, one XP per person.

    Gee, its so flipping easy!

    Setup a virtual network, with a linux firewall protecting the XP boxes in a subnet.

  9. Re:Viva La XP! on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    well, my esx vmware can emulate 10000 BBC micros.

  10. Re:Viva La XP! on Meet the Diehards Who Refuse To Move On From Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Yes its cool, winXP boots faster and uses less ram than WindowsMobile, or Android.

    Hell, even a stripped down XPembedded can boot up under 64meg ram. Feel 10x snappier faster than any tablet.

    Now write a new shell/desktop that looks like a tablet win8/android launcher ported to Win32/XP. And you could have a fast sleek Win8 style tablet, that runs fast on crap specs slow atom tablet, uses less than 1gig Flash Storage, and has a huge library of software.

    Hell, just run XBMC with a theme that looks like win8 on it.

  11. alcahol has no effect when on lsd/shrooms on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 1

    You can drink when high, but you will not feel it, or the lsd effect nullifies it, but when the lsd wears off, then you feel drunk.
    Also because of this, drinking is dangerous to your body, and system in high amounts, yet LSD is safer at the cellular level.

  12. same as booze being illegal in saudi arabia on First LSD Test In 40 Years Reveal Drug Helps Terminal Patients Prepare For Death · · Score: 1

    Oh get over it. LSD is no different in being illegal but in paper only.

    Just as liquor is illegal in Saudi Arabia, yes they are nut jobs for making it so, but no different to the
    west making LSD illegal too.

    Live a little try it.

  13. Re:Why get mad? on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    step 1, turn on camera record.
    step 2, pretend to answer cell, placing handset on ear
    step 3, turn side ways so the camera points at the people u want recorded.''

    Now you can record by stealth, or turn on record, place phone in empty beer glass.

  14. Re:Simple solution on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    idiot, every ones phone can record data

  15. but bars have security cameras on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    The owner has a camera running, then what.

  16. every bar has security cameras on Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass · · Score: 1

    but the owner has 12 security HD cameras, search for them using wifi

  17. Or put the HD into Read only mode on Is Whitelisting the Answer To the Rise In Data Breaches? · · Score: 1

    Windows can be made to boot of DVD or read only media.

    Now to also make %TEMP% with no execute allowed.

  18. tv cards for pcs are cheap , $10 fleabay on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    Get a usb stick of ebay to watch tv.

    You cheap ass.

    And you can hack the drivers to turn the stick into a SDR to receive all signals in raw from 54mhz to 1.2ghz and apply your own A-D converters and descramblers to listen to any signals of any type.

    Go look it up!

    SDR usb tv stick

  19. Haha in australia we can stream it , HAHA on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    6 live streams in AU

    http://tenplay.com.au/sport/so...

    No restrictions.

    The IOC awarded broadcast rights to the 2014 Winter Olympics to Network Ten for AUD$20 million;

    Only double what bigbrother costed. HA

    NBC got ripped.

  20. OTA broadcast IS STREAMING on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    And what is the difference between OTA broadcast, and IP4 multicast streaming over adsl ?

    Nothing.

    But stupid bald 60year old execs and lawyers know jack.

  21. terminate all old people on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    All the old farts over 60yo need zero voting rights.

    They had their day, free stuff, they dont deserve to vote, because they have had their life and dont need to contribute to the voting future that needs to be controlled by us younger smarter new generations.

    Stupid govt silver heads, utter dumb asses.

  22. ask the cia on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    They should just ask the cia for the drugs, the CIA is the biggest importer you know.

  23. Re:Forget not Hanlon's shaving gear on U.S. Border Patrol Drone Goes Down, Rest of Fleet Grounded · · Score: 1

    And what idiot writes software that says, yep, I will allow engine off command, in the middle of flight, with out a tripple confirmation sequence as a fail safe.

    $18 million of rip off , probably cost the company $120k to build, with $50k salaries. Nice profit.

    DUDE, buy a 2nd hand gulf air jet for $2m, retrofit it with a laptop + sat link remote control = drone on the cheap with range of 9000 miles.

  24. law sucks, so break it on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 0

    If the cop says a snail was doing 200kph, the judge would believe it, even if the snail had 50000000 witnesses and NSA survailance to prove it was doing 5m/hr.

    Screw you LEOs. You have no respect in the publics eye.

  25. we'll just shop lift more on Safeway Suspends Worker For Sci-Fi Parody of His Firing · · Score: 1

    by eating grapes and anything inside the shop, like bagging a bag of expensive nuts, and eating them while shopping, then by the time you get to the counter, bag empty, haha!

    Can of redbull while shopping, yum, free too.