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  1. Far far too soon. on Pulse Detonation Engines: The Future of Aviation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Our materials technology currently lags too far behind current levels of commercial flight tech. As long as "metal fatigue" can be used as an explanation or even part of an explanation for something going wrong in any field of human endeavour we should all be keeping our feet firmly on the ground.

  2. Boy am I behind the times... on Chemical Element 110 To Be Named · · Score: 1

    110 already? What did they end up naming 107, 108 & 109? I gave up after UNQuotable, UNPrintable and UNHelpfull...

  3. Re:Unspecified? on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 1

    Eww! SCO Spit!

  4. This is a good thing... on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anything that reduces the US Military's finances, stability and general flexibility/readiness without actually spilling blood can only be good.

  5. Re:wow on Judge Decides X-Men Aren't Human · · Score: 1

    Ah, b ut the fans in question want them to be classified as dolls.

  6. Re:You Expected Better? on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 1

    Actually, the young teen market is the biggest in the SMS area in Ireland at least, followed by business communications. Teens here have been persuaded by the advertising that its cool to have thumb muscles like an elehants leg.

  7. Re:'Bout time someone noticed this on SMS Messaging Unreliable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're charged for _recieved_ messages? I assume this carrier has some really great selling point to counteract this?

  8. Re:Start your own company on What Should I Do With My Life? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True story. Try instead the sort of CEO who arrives into a company he doesn't care about, who's products are incomprehensible to him, who got the CEO position because his college buddy is a VC. This CEO then proceeds to stab the company founder in the back, and (as far as we can tell) deliberately run the company into the ground, finally declaring the entirity of development redundant and dismissing them from the company as such, keeping jobs only for the other college buddies he brought into the company at 5 times the highest developers salary. Company still (just about) exists and will continue to do so until the cash reserve is dried up from paying the parasites salaries. Living on my savings now, looking for work. CEO who was in the company less than 1 year, and his cronies are living off the company capital that the fired developers and backstabbed previous management built up for the previous 8 years in order to extend our market area into the states.

  9. Re:What's the cutoff? on New Moon of Jupiter Discovered · · Score: 1

    Try saying that after being hit with it. Its so very humanocentrically egotistical to call something 3km across small while being 0.002 km across (measured the long way).

  10. Re:Space Salvage Rights on Astra 1K Communications Satellite now Space Junk · · Score: 1

    I suspect the issue of "ownership" really ends with the outer patrol limits of legal enforcement.
    The deciding factor and important question would actually be "Who controls it?" which would presumably the fixers who would rip out the present control module and replace it with their own.